God-level Consort of the Tang Dynasty

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"Of course, Master Changsun is indeed very courageous. Since this is the case, I will definitely settle this matter perfectly and give an explanation to His Majesty and the people of the world..." Du He said with a smile.

A difficult matter was solved in this way, Li Er was very happy, and couldn't help but praise Du He a few words.

Du He quickly sent [-] yuan to the Sikong Mansion, and obtained the title deed of the Beast King Mountain Coal Mine from Changsun Wuji. Afterwards, Changsun Chong called people from the Anti-Du He Alliance to the Zuixian Tower to discuss, indirectly expressing What His Majesty Li Er meant was to sell all the coal mines to Du He, and the price was determined by Du He. If someone is unwilling, then they can solve their own coal mine affairs. The time is only three days, and if they cannot be resolved within three days, all Distributed to Lingnan.

Now, no one dared to say no, so they sold the coal mines to Du He one after another.

There are a total of fifteen coal mines in size, and Du He only spent a thousand guan.

So far, all the coal mines around Chang'an belong to the Dream Group.

The scale of this merger is huge.

It can be said to be one of the relatively large historical events in the seventh year of Zhenguan. First, Du He annexed the coal mine by order. Secondly, the annexation of the coal mine was not for making money, but to solve the livelihood problems of the people in front of him. Naturally, I will remember it.

Yuchi Baolin was the mine manager of Lantian Coal Mine and took charge of [-] coal mines at once, which was quite large in scale.

In the afternoon of the same day, Du He gathered more than 20 briquettes produced by Beastmaster Mountain and other coal mines outside Yongning Gate, piled them up into a mountain, and invited the people of Chang'an City to visit the gate of the city and smash the briquettes.Because these briquettes must be the same as the briquettes produced by Lantian Coal Mine. First, the quality is too poor. When burning, there is not only thick smoke, but also a pungent smell. If two briquettes are piled together, the height of one briquette is lost.

Therefore, Du He ordered that all these briquettes be destroyed, and the people should not be harmed, that is, those who had bought this kind of briquettes before could go to the Lantian coal yard to exchange them for free one-on-one.

In this way, Du He became famous again, and his reputation among the common people rose rapidly. When everyone praised Du He, they couldn't help scolding the unscrupulous businessman of the Changsun family.

Afterwards, Duhe reassessed the [-] merged coal mines, and temporarily closed nine of them, because these nine coal mines are all deep mines, not to mention the difficulty of mining. With the technology of this era, mining is very risky , so it must be shut down.

Since then, there have been eight coal mines in normal operation.

Knowing that his son was in charge of so many coal mines, Yuchi Gong couldn't stop laughing from ear to ear all day, and he no longer obstructed Yuchi Baolin and Yuan Xiu's matter, but instead urged Yuchi Baolin to act quickly to make a big grandson Come out and play.

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Beastmaster Mountain.

I don't know when this name was handed down, and no one can explore the process.

At this moment, Du He is leading Yuchi Baolin, Mu Zongsi and others in the deep mountains behind the coal mine.

The mountain was blocked by heavy snow, but along the way, holes had been opened in many places.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Du He and his party came to a deeper mountain.

Yuchi Baolin introduced: "The land we bought from the Changsun's family is actually not that big. The place we are standing on and the surrounding mountains belong to the Changsun's family."

Du He chewed the dry food in his mouth and asked, "Are you sure?"

Mu Zongsi nodded excitedly: "Master, I'm sure, there are too many iron mines buried below... From the depths of the Beast King Mountain Coal Mine to here, there are iron mines for about twelve miles."

hiss!

Everyone present gasped.

At a distance of more than ten miles, there are rich iron ore buried underground, which means that if it is mined, Dream Group will not be short of iron in the future.

Every man's eyes became hot.

Du He was calm, and said: "This matter is highly confidential. If anyone tells it, don't blame me for taking him to Lantian to dig coal for 30 years... It is a good thing that the iron ore reserves are abundant, but according to the According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, all iron must be controlled by the government, so once the news is leaked, not only will we not get any benefits, but we may even get into trouble..."

Everyone nodded cautiously.

Fortunately, apart from Yuchi Baolin and Mu Zongsi, the others present were Fang Fang's confidantes. Du He was not worried that someone would leak the news.

"Also," Du He paused, and continued, "Although there are many iron mines in the Beast King Mountain Coal Mine, most of the iron mines are still on the land of Changsun's family, and this land must be bought."

Zhang Jian said: "That's not easy. Give the eldest grandson's family seven or eight thousand guan, or not. This is all wasteland. It's useless for the eldest grandson's family to keep it in our hands. Why don't we sell it to us?"

Du He raised his hand and stopped him, saying, "Don't say anything about this matter. If Changsun Wuji finds something is wrong, he will send someone to investigate. Wouldn't it be to expose the truth? This young master still needs to think about it. , smooth out all traces, and now return to Dream Group."

"Yes!"

Everyone acted quickly.

Soon, all the traces of everyone's activities were wiped away.

Everyone quickly disappeared into the deep mountains.

Back at Dream Group, Du He didn't even have time to eat, so he took the iron ore dug out from the depths of Beastmaster Mountain by Mu Zongsi and others to the R&D center and handed it to Yuan Tiangang himself.

The most indispensable thing in the current research and development center is the craftsman who makes iron.

After a short time, the results came out.

"Get rich, get rich..."

"Get rich..."

Yuan Tiangang was so excited that he was like an eight-year-old child meeting the New Year. He rushed to Du He, dancing and dancing.

Du He was speechless for a while.

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Yuan Tiangang rushed in front of Du He, holding a piece of pig iron in his hand, and said excitedly: "We have made a fortune, Du He, look, this is the iron smelted from the iron ore dug from the Beast King Mountain. The quality of the iron we bought from the imperial court was even better!"

Lao Yuan has always been very calm, with the momentum of a mountain collapsed and not chaotic.

But now holding that ugly piece of iron, he was as excited as a child.

Before Du He could speak, Yuan Tiangang began to say again: "I heard from Yuchi boy that the coal reserves in the Beast King Mountain are not large, and it may be hollowed out in a year. Just right, we can build an iron mine there to make iron. , if the storage capacity is large, Dream Group will not need to buy iron from outside in the future, or even the help of the court..."

Yuan Tiangang's eyes lit up, as if a huge iron mine had been built.

Du He smiled and asked, "Old Yuan, what will happen if we let others know that we have an iron mine?"

"I'm sure I'll be jealous!"

"What if the court knows?"

Yuan Tiangang's eyes widened at once, and after a while, he suddenly realized and said: "The imperial court has a rule that salt and iron are monopolized. We can make iron quietly, but we can only help the imperial court make wedding dresses. All the iron will be handed over to you at that time." The imperial court... Could it be that such a good iron ore will be confiscated by the imperial court?"

Du He pondered and said: "That's right, that's the reason. So, my young master is very conflicted now. Do you think I should keep the iron ore for private use, or report the iron ore to His Majesty in exchange for a credit?" ?”

As he spoke, he looked at Yuan Tiangang without blinking.

Not far away, Lu Bu suddenly stepped forward and blocked Yuan Tiangang's retreat.

Xu Zhengdao jumped in from outside the wall, seemingly walking, but he was holding a dagger in his hand.

Standing on the cedar branch, Cheng Yiyue seemed to be one with the pine tree.