Fan Rong is going crazy too!

The little prince actually said that the troubled times are coming, and he is going to train people in secret and prepare for the crisis!

this!

In fact, he also vaguely felt that the world might be in chaos.

Because of the severe drought in the northwest, there are more and more refugees, and the food prices there have begun to grow rapidly.

As the prices of grain grow rapidly, the people can't afford to eat. In the end, they are so hungry that they can't help but rebel. That's very likely.

However, he never thought of rebelling himself and using madness to drive madness!

well.

What the little prince said makes sense!

In troubled times, you are not crazy than others. In front of others, you are the lamb to be slaughtered.

It seems that I can only gamble with the little prince, otherwise, when the troubled times come, everyone will be over.

He stood there with shocked face and pondered for a while, then he nodded slowly and said, "Prince, what you said makes sense. No, I can only accompany you for a while. What should I do?"

Zhu Qizhe pondered and said, "The rest is not urgent. Now, the most important thing is weapons. Only people are there, but no weapons, that's fake. I'm going to find some coal mines and iron ore in Daba Mountain to dig myself, smelting iron by myself, and use it to build weapons. Problem, Li Wanxiong has been looking for people for a few days, but he hasn't found coal mines and iron ore. Boss, do you know anyone who can prospect?"

When Fan Rong heard this, he shook his head slightly and said, "Prince, don't think about the prospecting people. Those are specially trained by the Ministry of Works. This imperial court has strictly controlled it, so it is impossible for them to help others prospect. Moreover, over the years, the Ministry of Works organized these people to plow the entire Ming Dynasty many times. They have basically discovered the mines that are easy to detect, and it is difficult for them to detect the rest."

ah?

Zhu Qizhuo couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, "What should I do?"

Fan Rong frowned and pondered for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "Perhaps, we can take charge of official coal mines and iron mines to mine!"

I'll take care of the official coal mines and iron ore mining?

Looking for death!

Don’t this tell the court that we are going to rebel?

Zhuqizhu said a little incredible: "We have conducted official coal mines and iron ore mining. Wouldn't this rebellion be exposed?"

Fan Rong shook his head slightly and said, "This shouldn't be. My friend used to be a specialist in mines, and then refining and selling private iron. He said that as long as the eunuchs in the mine were given enough money, they wouldn't care how much you mine or what you did. As long as you can pay a little bit of mine every month for them to hand in the business, they would be fine. However, the eunuchs in the mines were so greedy that they could roughly estimate how much mine you could open every month. They would have to earn at least 90% of the money they earned from mining! Therefore, many people couldn't do it anymore, and my friend was trapped because of this, and almost all the coal mines and iron ore in Nanyang were abandoned."

Damn it!

Zhu Qizhuo couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this: "Are these eunuchs in the mine monitoring department so dark?"

Fan Rong sighed slightly and said, "Oh, I don't know much about this. I've heard from my close friend. He was so miserable. He spent all his life hard work."

this!

what to do?

If you don’t have any weapons, you’re just a fucking rebellion!

Zhu Qizhuo gritted his teeth and said, "Brother-in-law, what is your friend named? Do you think he is reliable?"

Fan Rong recalled with a little recollection: "His name is Huang Weixian, and he is so irrelevant, but he is not lucky. If he didn't do private business, he wouldn't have suffered such a miserable fate."

Zhu Qizhuo gritted his teeth and asked again: "Brother-in-law, do you think if I invite him to join us for the Jingnan period, will he dare?"

Fan Rong said without hesitation: "He dares, he is much more courageous than me. He dares to do private iron business. Why don't he dare to rebel? In our opinion, doing this is not much different from rebellion."

That's good, Zhu Qizhi said decisively: "Where are others now? Can you invite him here?"

Fan Rong nodded and said, "The others are in Neixiang. If the prince wants to see him, I will go there in person. It will probably take more than an hour to go back and forth."

Of course, if this person is seen, he will not be able to get iron. Without iron, he will not be able to build weapons. If he rebelled against the enemy, that would be a joke.

More than an hour later, in the study, Fan Rongling, a slightly down-and-out man, walked in with great utmost care.

After the two sides met, Zhu Qizhua said directly: "Shopkeeper Huang, I heard that you have done a private business."

Huang Weixian didn't care at all, because when he came, Fan Rong had hinted at him.

He said calmly, "Yes, Prince, the villain has been for two years."

Zhu Qizhuo continued to ask, "I heard that those eunuchs who monitor mines are very greedy. They have to earn at least 90% of the money they earn from mining, which is true or false."

Huang Weixian said with a little indignation: "These eunuchs are all crazy people. They are crazy when they make money. What is the profit of 90% of the people? They have even more amazing things. Even if no one starts a mine, they can still make a lot of money. For example, scrape the land. Anyone who lives near the official mine, whether it is landlords, gentry or ordinary people, must pay land taxes to him. Otherwise, he will say that there is a mine under your land and will strip your house!"

Damn it, so dark!

Zhu Qizhuo said a little scared: "How much does it cost to pack a coal mine and iron mine?"

Huang Weixian said as if it were a family, "If the coal mine is cheaper, it should be almost the same as 10,000 taels a month. Iron ore is so expensive. If you don't pay 40,000 to 50,000 taels a month, don't even think about it."

ah!

Zhu Qizhuo couldn't help but say strikingly: "It takes so much silver to buy a coal mine and an iron mine. How much silver did these mine supervisors make?"

Huang Weixian said angrily: "The mining prison in one mansion is greedy for one million taels a year, which is less. I heard that Li Feng, a mining prison in Guangdong, was investigated because of the backstage. Do you know how many of them are found?"

Zhu Qizhu couldn't help but curiously said, "How many?"

Huang Weixian stretched out his right hand and exaggeratedly said: "It is said to be more than 50 million taels!"

I'm so fainted, more than 50 million taels!

Zhu Qizhuo said in a daze: "A mining supervisor can be greedy for so much! He was found out, wouldn't the emperor have made a fortune? The total taxes in the Ming Dynasty seem to be less than five million taels yet?"

Huang Weixian shook his head and sighed, "Oh, what's the money the emperor has made? Ninety-five percent of the eunuchs who investigated Li Feng, and it is said that less than five million taels were handed over."

Damn, these eunuchs are crazyer than the other!

Now it’s a big trouble. Five or sixty thousand taels a month, it’s not enough to put all the money to sell private salt in!

Now the potatoes and sweet potatoes have not yet disappeared. At least half a year, you have to wait for income. In other words, in the past six months, you have to pay the deposited money every month.

Now, the total deposit of his bank is only about 100,000 taels. If he has posted it, what will he spend in the past six months?

Zhu Qizhu couldn't help but frown and ponder.

What to do?

He thought for a while, but he didn't come up with any way to make money quickly.

He could only ask first: "What is the name of the mining supervisor in Nanyang? Where are the people now?"

Huang Weixian said without hesitation: "Our Nanyang mining supervisor is called Liang Zhong. Now it is in Xixia County in the north, because there is an iron ore there."

Xixia County?

This is the impression of Zhuqiu, because Xixia County is only forty or fifty miles away from Zhejiang and Sichuan, and it happened to be northwest of Zhejiang and Sichuan. When he was walking around the mountains with his people, he saw Xixia County from afar.

So close?

Have it!

A crazy and bold idea suddenly popped up.

As he thought about it, a strange smile even appeared on his face, which scared Fan Rong and Huang Weixian.

What is he thinking?

Of course I want to do these mining supervisors!

These dead eunuchs have nothing to do with them.

You should know that before the Wanli Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty ranked first in the world in terms of gold, silver, copper, iron and coal mines, and other countries in the world combined, and the Ming Dynasty did not have as many as the Ming Dynasty.

However, after the Wanli Dynasty, the output of various minerals plummeted, and even the output of silver and iron was worse than that of a small Japan.

The output of gold and silver has shrunk severely, and the impact is only on the economy. The output of copper and iron plummeted. What should we use to build weapons?

You should know that during the Tianqi period, in order to rob a little scrap copper from the palace to build his own tomb, Wei Zhongxian made a fuss and killed Wan Feng, the doctor of the Ministry of Works responsible for building the Taichang Emperor's Mausoleum. It can be seen how much copper was missing in the Ming Dynasty at that time!

For the sake of their own selfish interests, these mining supervisors have dug up the foundation of the Ming Dynasty!

You guys are greedy, are you?

good.

I will make you greedy enough!

He smiled gloomy for a while before asking, "We just go over and stuff money to others, right?"

Huang Weixian nodded quickly and said, "Yes, if you stuff the money to him, we can take people to mine iron and coal mines."

Zhu Qizhuo asked again: "You should know how to smel iron, right?"

Huang Weixian said without hesitation: "This villain will, of course, and the iron-smelting stoves are ready-made. If the prince really wants to smelify iron, it would be okay for the villain to send it to the prince."

I'm so damn, I can't smelify iron, so you have to do it.

This person knew as soon as he dealt with him, he was definitely a trustworthy person.

Zhu Qizhua pondered for a moment, then nodded slowly and said, "Well, as long as you follow me well, money will be indispensable. Don't worry, I will not let you suffer any losses."
Chapter completed!