After saying that, Fan Li explained to him why she gave him a large number of gold ingots during the two meetings.

"I discovered a gold mine somewhere in Tianfu County!"

As soon as these words came out, Huang Zhang's expression changed immediately.

"Gold mine?"

Fan Li nodded, lay down on the chair as if resigned to his fate, and began to preach to him:

"That's right! Our Fan family runs a very complex business in Wucheng. We have inns, wine shops, and mountain goods and groceries. Not long ago, the barbarians hadn't invaded yet. Uncle Wen heard that there was a rare mountain product at Ermei Mountain.

, he wants to try his luck and see if he can find this kind of wild product to improve the reputation of Jixiang Chamber of Commerce."

What Fan Li said had nothing to do with gold mining, but Huang Zhang did not interrupt him and let him continue.

"Uncle Wen arrived at the back of Ermei Mountain. It had been raining for several days in the mountains. He had been looking for a long time but could not see such a wild beast. Just when he was about to come back, the road collapsed and the carriage fell into a ditch. Uncle Wen

He fell in with the carriage and injured his hand. When he came out of the river, he didn't find a little yellow mud in the wound. Uncle Wen didn't pay attention to it at the time. He found out when he came back to bandage the wound.

, that yellow mud is mixed with a little gold sand!"

Speaking of this, Fan Li looked excited. It could be seen that he must have been even more excited when he discovered this golden sand.

"Later, Uncle Wen and I rushed to the ditch in Ermei Mountain and searched for a long time. Sure enough, we found a lot of gold sand! Uncle Wen has lived for decades and concluded at a glance that there is a gold mine here! The gold ingot given to His Highness is

It was refined from the gold ore panned there."

After Huang Zhang listened, he glanced at Sunu. Before he could say anything, Sunu took out a map from his arms. This was the map of Sunan mountains and rivers that Huang Zhang bought from Fan Li.

Now all of Huang Zhang's maps are kept on Sunu's body. When he got the map, Sunu's body temperature was on it, but Huang Zhang didn't pay attention to this. He immediately started looking for Ermei Mountain on the map.

"Your Highness, there is no need to look for it. Ermei Mountain is not marked on the map. It is just a small mountain in the northeastern mountains of Tianfu County. Its location is relatively hidden, so no one has ever discovered it."

After hearing Fan Li's words, Huang Zhang put the map away and returned it to Su Nu.

He looked at Fan Li. What happened at the gold mine just now was enough to kill Fan Li's entire family.

According to the laws of Su State, private individuals are not allowed to mine metal mines. If someone dares to mine privately, they will be punished according to the preciousness of the mineral. Iron ore will be imprisoned for more than twenty years at the least, and execution will be the most severe. Copper ore will have the whole family exiled, and silver ore will be directly punished.

Beheading, gold ore, and beheading everyone in the family. In serious cases, three tribes may even be annihilated.

Now that Fan Li has secretly hid the gold mine and has not reported it, he should be questioned and executed according to the laws of Su State.

But Huang Zhang knew that since Fan Li dared to tell him about beheading, he must have his own plan.

"Tell me what the conditions are!" Huang Zhang said.

Hearing Huang Zhang's words, Fan Li's attitude immediately made a 180-degree turn! Before, there was a strong sense of sadness, but now he looked happy, exhaling loudly, and kept patting his chest.

, as if he was surviving a disaster.

"I knew I made the right bet!" Fan Li said happily.

The reason why he dared to tell Huang Zhang about the whole family being executed was because he was betting that even if Huang Zhang knew his secret, he would not do anything to him. On the contrary, he might even cooperate with Huang Zhang.

Sure enough, when he saw that Huang Zhang did not leave angrily but instead asked about his conditions, he knew that he had made the right bet: Huang Zhang was short of money!

"Don't be too happy too early. If I'm not satisfied, I'll still act in accordance with the law!" Huang Zhang said with a cold face.

But at this moment, Fan Li didn't take these words seriously, and said hurriedly: "That's right, Your Highness, please rest assured, Your Highness will definitely be satisfied with this condition!"

"explain!"

"Private mining of gold ore is illegal, but if the gold mine is mined for the construction of Linjiang City in the name of His Highness, this is not considered private mining, so it is not illegal in theory. When the gold mine is refined, the income will be

, Your Highness Nine, I will divide it into one share, what do you think?"

10%? Fan Li is equivalent to losing money and avoiding disaster. Although this 10% is not necessarily less, the gap is too big.

Huang Zhang shook his head directly. When Huang Zhang shook his head, Fan Li's face immediately turned ugly.

"Your Highness, you are wrong. You can't let my hard work go in vain. The labor and material costs of up and down are quite expensive, so you can't make no profit at all, right?"

I saw Huang Zhang holding out three fingers.

"Three-seven, I'm seven, you're three!"

As soon as these words came out, Fan Li jumped up.

When he said Yijiu before, his heart ached so much, but he had no choice but to know Huang Zhang's methods. If he really had to be ruthless, he wouldn't even want this Chengdu, but now, Huang Zhang directly gave him 30%!

Thirty percent! What is the concept? This 30% gold income is enough for the Fan family and Jixiang Chamber of Commerce to extend their influence to the entire Su country and even neighboring countries.

Fan Li wished she could kowtow to Huang Zhang on the ground, and finally all her words would turn into a single word of thanks.

I saw Fan Li bowing deeply towards Huang Zhang. This bow was for him and the Fan family.

"No, speaking of it, I have to thank you. Your gift has solved my urgent need! Now I don't have to worry about the shortage of funds."

After Huang Zhang finished speaking, Fan Li suddenly touched the back of his head in embarrassment.

"Your Highness, this... there is... such a small problem!"

"Um?"

"It's through Ermei Mountain that we have to cross Wucheng!"

As soon as this was said, the meaning was obvious. They had just discussed how to divide it, but in order to actually ship the goods, Wucheng had to be captured.

In other words, Huang Zhang’s current problems are still unresolved.

At this time, Huang Zhang's face turned dark.

The girl beside her had a serious look on her face. She had already guessed that Huang Zhang must be anxious about funds, but she just kept silent. The words just now directly exposed his embarrassment.

"Otherwise, I can help you with whatever funds your Highness needs," Fan Li said.

"If you were the No. 1 Chamber of Commerce in Wucheng, you could say this, but with your current strength, it would be difficult to pay for a dock in advance. Don't even think about the rest. You can't afford it."

Fan Li felt quite embarrassed when she said this.

Indeed, the Jixiang Chamber of Commerce is not large in scale and it is difficult to strongly support Huang Zhang.

"You had concerns about this before, why didn't you tell me?" Sunu suddenly said.

Huang Zhang smiled when he heard Su Nu speak. Fortunately, Hu Yi'er didn't follow, otherwise the embarrassment would have been huge.

"I can handle these things by myself. It makes no sense for another person to work hard!"

"Idiot!" Sunu suddenly scolded: "Why are you so tired alone? I can help you!"

Huang Zhang doesn't want to put pressure on the people closest to him, whether it's Hu Yi'er or his niece, one is the maid who has been accompanying him, and the other is the sister he cares about. He has the responsibility and obligation to protect them.

Huang Zhang smiled bitterly and said: "Help me? How can you help?"


Chapter completed!