Author: Fat Bird Goes First

The prefect immediately understood what his daughter meant.

The Yanping Guards failed to suppress the rebellion, and they messed up. So the price of inviting the Changning Guards to go out should be the Yanping Guards.

At this time, if Changning Guard can clean up this mess and prevent things from spreading to the top, it will be the best result for Yanping Guard.

As soon as he thought of this, Magistrate Fang immediately asked his men to contact the commander of Yanping Guards.

Commander Yu also had a headache. Three hundred households were wiped out. This matter must not be put on the scale. Once it is put on the scale, it will weigh a thousand pounds.

According to an official document from the Ministry of War a few days ago, Yu Dayou lost a military officer and more than 30 officers and soldiers in Ningbo, and he, the deputy commander-in-chief of Zhejiang, was deprived of his official post.

Commander Yu caused the loss of 300 people here. Why not just send them directly to the capital in a prison car for questioning?

Mine Superintendent Hu is a member of the palace. He is now surrounded by mining thieves. If something happens to Eunuch Hu, the matter will not be suppressed.

The top priority is to rescue Eunuch Hu.

At this time, the messenger from the prefect's Yamen came over, and Commander Yu was overjoyed after hearing the prefect's method.

If the Changning Guard can exterminate the Black Mountain Bandits, they must have combat effectiveness.

Although it hurts a lot to promise benefits, it is better than losing one’s position and being dismissed!

Commander Yu thought for a while and immediately called his youngest son Yu Zongyuan and asked him to go to Changning Guard in person to discuss sending troops with Su Ze.

Commander Yu is not reluctant to give up the money. As long as the mining bandits can be put down and the death of three hundred families can be suppressed, the matter can be considered solved.

These days were really bad for the Yu family. Commander Yu thought of the Mine Supervisor Hu. If he had not provoked him and skipped work, he would not have caused such a disaster! Commander Yu started cursing Hu the Mine Supervisor at home again.

Mine Supervisor Hu, who was cursed by Commander Yu, was busy in the room at this time.

Eunuch Hu, who was cursed by everyone as a dog eunuch, actually kept a low profile when he arrived in Yanping Mansion. He did not live in Nanping City, but built a house on the edge of the mining area and lived near the mining area.

The mining area was surrounded. Eunuch Hu dispersed his family wealth, recruited some miners, and finally kept the mining thieves out.

But now he can't get out. Eunuch Hu also knows the combat effectiveness and loyalty of his miners. It's okay to let them guard the defense, but it's a bit difficult to let them break out. So Eunuch Hu simply lay down and waited for Yanping behind closed doors.

The prefecture and county came to the rescue.

Eunuch Hu was busy at this time. He put a piece of blue ore into a mortar, smashed it, and then used a grinding pestle to grind it into fine sand.

Eunuch Hu carefully poured the blue sand powder into the white porcelain bottle, and then poured in water.

This set of flying water method can remove the sediment, filter it again, and wait until it settles tomorrow to get the blue powder.

Eunuch Hu was originally an eunuch from the weaving and dyeing house, but he turned out to be an insignificant little eunuch.

Later, the emperor wanted to open a mine, and I don't know which nobleman recommended it, so Eunuch Hu was sent to Nanping and became a mine supervisor.

From an outsider's perspective, this eunuch Hu could be said to have received a promotion and a raise in salary, and got a good job.

But in fact, Leng Nuan knew it. Eunuch Hu only discovered this unfortunate job after he took office happily.

Why is it an unlucky job? The silver mine that Eunuch Hu came to mine had already been mined in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The emperor didn't know where to find a map of Kantu, and found out that there was a silver mine here. The Ministry of Industry submitted a booklet many times, begging the emperor not to open the mine.

The reason given by the Ministry of Industry is also very simple. This mine stopped operating in the late Southern Song Dynasty, which means that the mine has almost been mined, and if we continue to dig, we will not be able to dig out anything.

The emperor didn't listen.

After Eunuch Hu arrived, he discovered that although there were still minerals in the veins, these mines were relatively deep and difficult to mine and dangerous. However, for the emperor's mission, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and mine.

As a result, Eunuch Hu spent 10,000 taels of silver on mining in Nanping for five years, but in the end he only dug out 7,000 taels of silver.

During this period, Eunuch Hu was sprayed miserably!

Fujian Dao was involved in the incident and he embezzled money. How pitiful is it. Eunuch Hu's account book was clean and clear. He had dug out 7,000 taels of silver in five years of mining. There was really no corruption at all.

The Ministry of Industry said that he wasted money from mining, so Eunuch Hu could only attach the account book again. Thanks to his honesty and prudence, the 10,000 taels of money from mining were really spent on what should be used.

The palace and the imperial court sent people to investigate, and Eunuch Hu gave a lot of his savings as bribes, and then the real situation was sent to the emperor's desk.

Oh my God, there really isn't much silver in this mine!

In this way, Eunuch Hu guarded the "fat" Que'er for five years. Everyone in the palace knew that this job was a trap, and no one was willing to take over the job.

The emperor also knew that he did not listen to the dissuasion of the Ministry of Industry and engaged in this loss-making business, but he also refused to remove the mine supervisor.

The courtiers would bring up the mine supervisor's affairs every now and then and blast him. Eunuch Hu had been blasted over the years. Forget it, eunuchs were just traitors anyway.

Eunuch Hu simply ignored everyone and hid in the mine supervisor to amuse himself.

Eunuch Hu's hobby is to study pigments and dyes. He came from a weaving and dyeing factory, and he became very interested in the various ores in the mountains.

In addition to his love for pigments, Eunuch Hu also liked to study minerals. He discovered that various minerals had different shapes. He collected many types of minerals and even drew mineral deposit maps for the mines in the mountains.

As for why the mining pirates rebelled, Eunuch Hu was also a mute and took Coptis chinensis.

He has been mining in the mountains for five years. He is not very kind to the miners, but he is not very harsh either.

But in government-run mines, the treatment is just like this.

This brings us to another thing that caused Eunuch Hu to be impeached by the officials of the Ministry of Education, that is, the government-run mines suffered losses every year, but the mining thieves hiding in the mountains made a fortune.

Ever since Eunuch Hu started mining in Nanping, Deng Mao has been digging privately in the mountains. Over the years, the official mine has been increasingly losing money, but private mining has become increasingly rampant.

Eunuch Hu also thought of measures to prevent the miners from escaping into the mountains, but the treatment in the official pit was the same, and he could not improve the miners' treatment.

However, on the side of Ke Dao Yan Guan, Eunuch Hu pushed too hard, causing the miners to fall into rebellion.

At first, Eunuch Hu would come to the book to defend himself, but over time he simply gave up. Whatever you say is what you say. Whoever replaces this poor job as the emperor is Ai Lai. Compared with this job, the job of guarding the mausoleum is considered easy!

Now that Deng Mao has turned against him, Eunuch Hu is completely lying down. If he hadn't been caught by Deng Mao, at worst, he would have gone up the mountain to become a mining robber?

Anyway, I am a person with no roots, and my six roots are pure and carefree. I might earn more as a mining thief than as a mine supervising eunuch.

Over there in Nanping County, Yu Zongyuan received an errand from his father, Commander Yu. Commander Yu spent a lot of money this time and sent fifty trusted servants to escort Yu Zongyuan to Changning Guard to discuss and request Changning Guard to send troops.

Things to calm down.

Commander Yu also confessed to his son that this time the Yanping Guards were willing to spend their capital, whether it was the shops in the county, other properties of the Yanping Guards, or the farms outside the Yanping Guards City, as long as they could put down the mining thieves.

If there is chaos, you can cede it to Changning Guards.

Following his father's instructions, Yu Zongyuan quickly rode out of the city, bypassing the road cut off by the mining pirates, and arrived at Changning Guard.

"Brother Su! Save me!"

Yu Zongyuan said these opening words again. Sitting in the back compartment of the family temple, Su Ze looked helplessly at his number one angel investor.

"Brother Yu, our Changning Guard is a coastal guard station. It is not our duty to suppress the local area."

Su Ze first resorted to the art of playing hard to get and put Ning Wei in a difficult position.

Yu Zongyuan is also a straight person, he said directly:

"Brother Su, your Chang Ning Guards can even wipe out the Black Mountain bandits, so what trouble does a mere mine bandit have?"

"Furthermore, according to the soldiers who came back from Yanping Guard, Deng Mao's mine thieves included bandits who were good at using Japanese swords. I'm afraid they may have colluded with the Japanese pirates and infiltrated them. It is also the responsibility of the Changning Guard to quell the Japanese."

"My father said it! If we can put down the miners, the Yanping Guards should be rewarded!"

Su Ze was also dumbfounded. He had never seen Mr. Yu negotiating like this. He showed his bargaining chip right away. He was just a fat sheep.

If you don't slaughter the fat sheep that are delivered to your door like this, it would really be unworthy of Zongyuan's title as an angel investor.

Yu Zongyuan simply gave the answer: "Brother Su, my father also said that you can choose from Yanpingwei's properties! The farms outside the city are also fine, as long as the mining pirates can be suppressed!"

Just pick? Are there such good things?

Then I thought about it, Yanpingwei lost three hundred households due to the mining pirate rebellion. If this matter really got serious, the Yu family would definitely not be able to afford it.

For the sake of the Yu family's wealth, it doesn't matter if you give up an estate.

Su Ze's eyes lit up. He thought for a while and said, "Can the Fire Bureau outside the city also be used?"

Yu Zongyuan was stunned, and he said hesitantly: "This Yaohuo Bureau is not the private property of our Yu family, it is the property of Yanpingwei. It is not easy to grant it privately."

Seeing that Su Ze was silent, Yu Zongyuan quickly said: "However, although the Yaohuo Bureau cannot sell it privately, the pharmaceutical equipment and contracted craftsmen in the Yaohuo Bureau can be given to Changning Wei!"

Yu Zongyuan knows the Yaohuo Bureau best. He is also working as an errand for the Yanpingwei Yaohuo Bureau, and he also knows the current situation of the Yanpingwei Yaohuo Bureau.

Since the death of Xu Shisheng, the household clerk, the Yu family's drug smuggling channels have been completely cut off.

Now that Ma Baihu has stopped the Fireworks Bureau, the newly produced firewood cannot be sold, and it is too dangerous to pile it up in the warehouse. It is simply a hot potato.

When he heard that Su Ze wanted the medicine fire bureau, Yu Zongyuan was actually happy in his heart. He also felt that this was a suitable deal.

Su Ze felt that he had made a huge profit. What Changning Wei lacked most was skilled craftsmen. There were many processes involved in producing gunpowder, and Su Ze was also planning to improve the gunpowder. These craftsmen were what he needed most.

As for production equipment, I have blacksmith and carpenter skills anyway, but if I have ready-made ones, I can put them into production as soon as possible.

The most important thing is channels. You need channels to buy saltpeter and sulfur. Now you have a stable supply channel.

After the negotiation was settled, Su Ze immediately said: "I will discuss it with Baihu and I will give Brother Yu a reply later."

In fact, if Yu Zongyuan does not come, Changning Guard is also preparing to send troops.

Mining pirates have blocked the access between Changningwei and Nanping County, and there are suspected Japanese pirates among them. If it really spreads, it will also be a major hidden danger to the security behind Changningwei.

Now that the mining banditry has not become a problem, Su Ze is also preparing to take action at this time to put down the chaos of the mining banditry.
To be continued...