In the western part of Taocheng County, Niumu Mountain, Xiayang Township.
Busy spring plowing begins in a peaceful small village. Like Fengshan, this isolated village is famous for its poverty. Except for some trees here that are worth some money, there is no way to get three kilograms of grain from the top of the mountain.
Every year, the people eat some grain, and then add some wild vegetables from the mountains. Over the past thousands of years, there have not been many floods and droughts. The locals are hungry and have no more lofty ideals, but they live in peace and contentment.
The environment of Niumu Mountain is like a fairyland in Taimu. There are melons, fruits and wild berries all year round, and there are countless wild animals in the mountain forests. Most of the wild forests are still in an undeveloped state, and wolves can often be heard in the mountains and forests. Howling and roaring.
If you want to live in seclusion to avoid disaster, this is really a rare place to go.
Tianhushan Village is a small village in the countryside of Xiayang, with a population of only two hundred. Excluding the old, weak, women and children, the labor force is only close to a hundred.
Baozheng's surname is You. This surname is rare. It is said that in the Five Dynasties, the surname Shen was changed to You in order to avoid Wang Shenzhi's taboo. Most of the You clan people have lived in Fujian for generations, but there are only a few, and Xiayang Township is one of them. A small settlement.
There is no atmosphere without a small number of people. The small place of Tianhu Mountain Village has had many people coming to have their ideas since ancient times. However, because the location is too remote, a small number of outsiders have blended in, allowing local men to find wives. It provides convenience for the breeding of population.
Just after the sting, You Baozheng had been busy in the fields for many days. These days were a bit strange. A group of outsiders suddenly came to the quiet mountain village.
These outsiders speak with strong Northern accents, and only one or two of them speak with the local accent of Qingyuan County.
When these people came to the mountains, they didn't do business or anything else, they just wandered around in the mountains. You Baozheng didn't pay attention on the first day. After three or five days, many villagers came. He said that a large number of uninvited guests came to the village. Jing wandered around the mountain, asking them questions and getting no answers, fearing that they were coming to rob the tomb!
The person who spoke was a young man in the village named Youda. The three brothers in the family were all just waiting to die. They lived to be in their forties and did not even get a wife. They just wandered around the village all day long. Those tongue-tied women are fine.
The visitors were none other than Liang Chuan, who led the team himself, as well as Yelu Chongguang, Cao Buxiu and others.
Liangchuan's goal is Taocheng County's coal resources!
During the Song Dynasty, this mine had not yet been discovered. In fact, it was not until the reform and opening up that the precious resources here became known to the world!
The coal in Taocheng County is not ordinary coal. It is said to be smokeless white coal, and its reserves are huge. It is one of the rare rich minerals in Fujian Road.
Taocheng has had no other industries except growing lychees and mandarin oranges since ancient times, and the living standards of the people have always been very low. However, after the Tianhushan coal mine was dug out, the per capita income here has skyrocketed.
It was said in the local textbooks in elementary school that there are only two things in Yongchun, limestone and coal!
Liang Chuan firmly remembered this information. After going to work, he often encountered many tank trucks carrying lime to Xinghua. At first, Liang Chuan thought these were oil tank trucks, but later he realized that it turned out that cement and lime were also transported by such trucks!
The source of these cement and lime is Taocheng County!
Now Shenji camp has endless refined iron, but what it lacks is fuel. We can't collect charcoal every day to make iron. In that case
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The cost is too high!
Liang Chuan's first goal is to dig out the coal mine in Xiayang Township! Everyone in the world knows that only Shanxi in the north has more coal mines. No one has found such a thing in other places yet!
Liang Chuan can be regarded as going in the opposite direction and going to Fujian Road to mine, unless his brain is broken! There were several mines in the Song Dynasty, but none of them were on Fujian Road!
When You Da saw Liang Chuan and his party looking for treasure in the village, he immediately told Mr. Bao Zheng this important information as if he wanted to take credit.
Upon hearing this, Mr. Baozheng gave Youda a slap in the face and cursed: "I said, Youda, are you crazy about money? I think you only want to rob tombs! Why don't you just urinate?" Let me open your ancestral graves. Counting up to 18 generations in our Tianhu Mountain Village, who is not a poor pauper? If you have money, you will not give it to the living and take it to the cemetery. Which ancestor is so wicked? ?”
If You Da had been beaten before, he would have been beaten, and he would have forgotten all about it after sleeping. But this time, strangers came, and he thought that if they really came to rob the tomb, the first one would lead them to You Da. The ancestral graves of the Baozheng family were dug up, and he had to personally lead the way!
People are so mean, they will sell their homes completely if they can't bear the slightest grievance.
You Da ran into the mountains to find Liang Chuan. The group was very resistant to this person who took the initiative to contact him. Such people often have bad intentions!
A group of people are looking for traces of coal in the mountains.
Cao Buxiu looked at the vast mountains and said to Liang Chuan: "To find coal, you must first look for ore. Coal in the south is often accompanied by kaolin, or limestone. Once you dig out kaolin, there will be coal underneath!"
The method to find kaolin clay is very simple, just like robbing a tomb, use a Luoyang shovel to dig out the soil from the ground!
But you don’t just dig into the mountains when you see a piece of land.
Coal is generally concentrated in basins within mountains.
It is best to have hills on both sides. This is after the extrusion of small-area plates by ancient geological processes. The remains of plants and animals were deposited and formed in these areas, and finally rich media deposits could be formed.
Tianhushan Township happens to be located in the small basin plain of Xiayang Township. Only this kind of place can allow people to live together.
Another characteristic of places with many coal mines is that there are very few local water sources.
Coal mines are inversely proportional to water resources. If there were plenty of water resources, coal would have disappeared long ago after years of erosion.
Tianhu Mountain Village has a characteristic since ancient times that the wells here cannot produce water, so the villagers here have to go to the mountains several miles away to get water for daily use.
As for why, none of them went deep into it, and even with their knowledge, they couldn't figure out the reason.
As soon as Cao Buxiu arrived at Tianhu Mountain Village, he dug a Luoyang shovel into the ground a few times, and then looked at the local wells, and he knew that there must be a rich matchmaking mine here!
But what shocked him even more was why Liang Chuan knew that there were coal mines in Taocheng County without looking or looking. This was not ordinary information. If the imperial court had known about this news, they would have sent people to mine here long ago!
He guessed that Liang Chuan knew someone from Weiyuan Tower in Quanzhou Prefecture, so he had some gossip. As for why the government didn't mine, firstly, it required a lot of money to open a mine. Secondly, once the mine was opened, there might not be sales, and it was a business. In the prosperous south, the demand for coal is not as prosperous as the iron and steel industry.
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North, so the mine was put on hold.
Seeing that Liang Chuan didn't explain the reason, it was not convenient for him to ask.
You Da boldly followed Liang Chuan and his party, just to find out. If these people were really tomb robbers, he would go to the village to report them. If not, I am most familiar with Tianhu Mountain Village. If I can lead the way or something, I might be able to get some rewards!
Liang Chuan felt even more uncomfortable when he looked at You Da's popular face. He was afraid that this man would spoil the food, so before You Da could say anything, he gave him a few pennies to pay off You Da!
You Da took a few pennies and felt as hot as an ant on a pot. He thought that these people must be hiding something from him. He inadvertently bumped into the long shovel that Cao Buxiu was holding, although he didn't eat it. Pork, but he also knew that that thing must be a tool for digging into the ground to explore the situation!
I'll beg you, is he going to make a meritorious deed?
Upon seeing this, You Da wanted to take the opportunity to extort a sum of money, and immediately shouted to Liang Chuan: "Are you people here to rob the tomb?"
These words confused Liang Chuan and his party. They didn't know that they could steal the goods by the way. However, Cao Buxiu stood up with a polite face. He did not dare to say that he was looking for minerals. Stealing the imperial minerals was He's going to jail, and he's quite judgmental!
In this line of work, they have been misunderstood and wronged many times before, and their ancestors have many coping methods passed down!
"The eldest brother seems to be a local. To be honest, we are sent here by the state government. I heard in the state that the living conditions of the people in this village are very difficult. They have to walk several miles to get water. Several of them My parents couldn't bear it, so they asked us to come and help dig wells and water for your village!"
The official in the state!
The biggest official You Da has ever seen in his life is You Baozheng from their village. He is a domineering person. He will plant the fattest land in the village for the beautiful daughter-in-law of whose family he is planting. And his father is Baozheng. His son will still be Baozheng in the future!
Now here comes the official from the state. Looking at the attire of this group of people, they all look alike. They all have shiny faces and are wearing silk clothes. At first glance, they are not ordinary people. If they are tomb robbers, they can wear such high-end clothes. ?
"Are you really not grave robbers?"
Since he was bumped into, Liang Chuan simply said something direct: "The reason why I came here is to inform Li Zheng on your side. Even if it doesn't work, I have to say hello to Bao Zheng. But when our identities are revealed, what about you guys? People have to be busy entertaining people, and it will inevitably cost you money again..."
Liang Chuan chuckled and said, "I don't think you are from a wealthy family like this. If I embarrass you, I'm afraid of being blamed by the higher authorities. Instead of doing this, why don't I just come and handle the tasks in the state!"
You Da only listened to half of what he said, and ran towards the village, shouting as he ran: "Someone is coming from Mr. Bao Zheng, someone is coming from Mr. Bao Zheng!"
There was a commotion in the village. You Da usually liked to join in the fun. What did he discover?
You Baozheng also heard You Da's call, and frowned, thinking that they, who were in a remote rural area, were just afraid that some officials would come from above, and for no other reason than that these officials would be like locusts when they came, either to blackmail or to extort money. ! It’s better not to come!
Otherwise, what’s so great about their little village that’s worth coming down here!
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