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.
In fact, the chaos in the mining industry lasted from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and intensified especially after Wanli introduced the mining tax.
Among them were many miners who really couldn't survive and rebelled against the Ming court. However, mining bandits like Deng Mao, who gathered refugees to dig mines privately, were essentially similar to the Black Mountain bandits. They were bandits who gathered to cause trouble.
In particular, leaders of mining pirates like Deng Mao are often local tycoons. They gather miners to dominate the mountains and become kings, and use money to bribe officials to do illegal things.
Although Deng Mao claimed to be a descendant of Deng Maoqi, in fact he was a wanted criminal who had committed a crime in Nanping City. After escaping into the mountains, he began to secretly dig silver mines. After he made a fortune, he gathered miners.
Originally, there were several gangs of mining thieves in the mountains near Nanping. Because of his ruthlessness, Deng Mao merged the other gangs and became the largest mining bandit leader in Nanping.
When the year is bad, mining bandits, like the Black Bandits, will descend from the mountains and attack villages to steal food.
After hearing what Su Ze said, Lin Mojun also said: "Then we will send troops tomorrow?"
Su Ze nodded and said: "Without further delay, Deng Mao has just defeated the officers and soldiers. It is the time for the arrogant soldiers. At this time, they will definitely take the initiative to fight. It is a good time to wipe them out in one fell swoop!"
Another big reason why these mining thieves are difficult to eradicate is that they will crawl into the mountains if the situation is not right.
But this time Deng Mao defeated the Yanping Guards and was just when he was satisfied. This was a good time to gather together and annihilate them.
Lin Mojun nodded, and Su Ze added: "Baihu, you can bring two Folan cannons with you this time to test the power of the artillery."
After seeing the power of the Fo Lang machine gun, Lin Mojun nodded in agreement.
Early the next morning, the bell of Baihu Station rang to gather the soldiers, plus the newly trained cannon team.
The guard station contributed two more cattle. Su Ze hitched the cattle to a gun cart, pulled two Franco machine guns, and took the Portuguese gunner with him, dragging the cannon shells towards the mine.
While walking, Su Ze talked with the gunner and said, "Can the Folan cannon also be loaded with shotguns?"
The gunner replied honestly: "Of course shotguns are the most effective at close range. The canisters carried this time are filled with shotguns."
The biggest advantage of the Franco machine gun's main-and-sub-tube structure is its rapid loading and fast firing speed.
The sub-tube can be loaded with explosives and shells first. When firing, you only need to disassemble the sub-tube and replace it with a new one before firing again.
This time Su Ze brought ten loaded sub-cannons with him in order to test the lethality of the Folan cannon in actual combat.
Sure enough, when the army appeared near the mine, Deng Mao, who had just won a great victory, immediately gathered the mine thieves and killed them from the mountain.
Su Ze saw from a distance a dozen warriors dressed as Japanese warriors, holding Japanese swords and rushing to the forefront.
Sure enough, there is collusion with Japanese pirates!
The two artillery carriages have been fixed. The wooden artillery carriage does not have spring shock-absorbing parts, so Su Ze filled it with soil and compacted it to reduce the anti-shock force.
The gunner loaded the barrel and pointed the black muzzle at the Japanese pirates who were rushing over. Su Ze waved his hand: "Fire!"
1. There is no explanation for why the government-owned enterprises are losing money and the private-owned enterprises are making money.
2. In fact, from a modern financial perspective, it is a good thing to open a mine for 10,000 yuan, dig out 7,000 yuan, and increase GDP, but the emperor would not calculate it that way.
3. The mine supervisors in Jiajingnian and the mine supervisors in Wanli are not the same kind. The mine supervisors in Wanli are really bastards.
4. Jiajing still restricted eunuchs. During the Jiajing period, the guarding eunuchs were abolished. The reason is simple. Taoist officials can still suppress civil servants, and the use of civil servants is definitely better than the use of eunuchs. Wanli's use of eunuchs cannot suppress civil servants.
5. Correction to the previous article, it is a bolt-action rifle, not a flintlock gun