Chapter 127 He Wants Our Northland Mineral Vein Exploration Map
Ergouzi sent a group of workers to the Ministry of Works. After leaving the Ministry of Works, he met two people.
On the shabby southern street, these two men wearing bamboo hats blocked Ergouzi on the street and said in a suppressed accent:
"It is said that King Xiao Li has sealed off all the mineral veins in the North and does not allow anyone to secretly mine the mines in the North. Prince Li's palace is so rich, and you are working for Princess Xiao Li. What's the matter? She doesn't give you any benefits?"
Er Gouzi lowered his head and glanced at the cloth on his body, then looked at the two men opposite him with a smile.
"Before I met the empress, I was just a poor beggar. After meeting the empress, I can now wear coarse clothes and am satisfied."
"Bah, you ignorant thing, you are satisfied with such a cloth. It seems that you should change your master."
Man A wearing a bamboo hat handed Er Gouzi a banknote.
"Open your eyes wide and look, what is this? This is a hundred taels of silver notes!"
Er Gouzi's eyes widened as expected. He looked at the bank note in front of him, reached out and took it with a flattering expression, and said with a smile:
"Oh, how embarrassing is this? Is this for villains?"
As soon as I got the one hundred taels of silver notes, the man in a bamboo hat opposite me took the banknotes back.
The man said to Ergouzi with disdain,
"It seems that your little Princess Li is very stingy. You bitch has never even seen a hundred taels."
"As long as you can do something for our master, not just a hundred taels, but a thousand taels or ten thousand taels, our master can give it to you."
Ergouzi stared at the one hundred taels of silver note, grinning.
"Your Majesty, please tell me that as long as you have money to reward the villain, you can let the villain kill people and set fire to it, and the villain is willing to do it."
Er Gouzi's expression of a person who is eager to see money is vividly interpreted by Er Gouzi.
It also made the two men wearing bamboo hats across from me even more disgusted.
They threw the banknotes to Ergouzi and ordered:
"Now, tell us the whereabouts of Princess Xiao Li one by one."
Ergouzi immediately lowered his hands, picked up some unimportant things, and told them the truth and lies.
Then I heard the two men opposite ask:
"Can you get the mine exploration map of King Xiao Li?"
"This, this... I have to go back and plan carefully."
Ergouzi put on a hesitant face and made a gesture of counting money towards the two men opposite.
The two men cursed and threw Er Gouzi a fifty-tael silver note.
"Go and get the mineral vein exploration map for us. When it is done, we will give you a thousand taels of silver notes."
After saying that, the man wearing a bamboo hat left, leaving Er Gouzi standing there with one hundred and fifty taels of silver notes in his arms, overjoyed.
He turned his back and handed the one hundred and fifty taels of silver to Hua Jin.
When Hua Jin heard the arrival of these two banknotes, before she could say anything, Lian'er behind her started laughing and scolding,
"Is my brother worth only one thousand one hundred and fifty taels? Now he helps us as a broker for the Ministry of Industry in the North, and he earns more than that every month."
The Ministry of Works wanted to build the Northland-South Line, which required a large number of workers to do hard work. Ergouzi took the poor man to the Ministry of Works and received a small "introduction fee" for each person he introduced.
This little bit of introduction fee is not much, but Ergouzi can't stand the number of people he introduces. He brings a large group of poor men to the construction site every day.
As a result, the introduction fees kept rising. After one month, the introduction fees alone amounted to several thousand taels of silver.
Not to mention he also looks after a pig factory.
It is said that the people in the North are now tired of eating pork, so the princess intends to enrich the people's dining tables in the North and build multiple large-scale chicken farms.
The order has been given to the Ministry of Industry to produce the design drawings.
The matter of recruiting workers was also left to Ergouzi.
By then, Ergouzi will earn more in a month.
The two men who wanted to bribe Er Gouzi gave Er Gouzi one hundred and fifty taels of silver, hoping that Er Gouzi would steal the mineral exploration map of the Northland for them.
That's really a joke.
"Who sent these two people? Have you checked?"
Hua Jin was playing with two banknotes in her hand, with a smile on her face, but her eyes were very cold.
Ergouzi, who was standing opposite her, held up his hands.
"I'll tell you, I've already sent someone to check. These two people have the emblem of Sun Guogong's mansion on them."
After these two people "bribed" Ergouzi, they were targeted by the beggar gang on the southern line. The beggar gang penetrated into every aspect and every nook and cranny of the North City.
Before the two of them returned to the inn where they were staying, their luggage and clothes were searched by the inn's waiter.
Hua Jin narrowed her phoenix eyes slightly,
"It turns out to be Sun Guogong's man. He wants the mineral exploration map of our northern land!"
Lian'er Qi said:
"What a beautiful thought. The prince has just closed down a group of illegally mined mines. He immediately sent people to lobby my brother to steal the mine exploration map. This is digging into the roots of our Prince Li's family."
Hua Jin in the chair didn't say anything, just playing with the small denomination banknotes in his hand.
Ergouzi handed over his hand,
"Mother, Sun Guogong is very ambitious. What he wants is the entire mineral vein exploration map, not just one or two small mineral veins. His evil intentions must be guarded against."
This Sun Guogong's appetite is so big that people have to doubt his purpose.
You should know that the mines on the mineral vein exploration map include all the mineral veins discovered so far, whether they are gold, silver or jade mines, mined or not mined, will be marked on the exploration map.
Once someone gets this exploration map, they will open a plug-in map in the dark, and it will be clear where the treasure chest is.
So Sun Guogong wants this thing, which shows that he is very ambitious.
"First give him a fake exploration map to stabilize him."
Hua Jin ordered Er Gouzi and said:
"As soon as King Qi was captured, an ambitious Duke Sun appeared. It seems that the water in Guqi Prefecture is not shallow."
"Let's go and see King Qi."
Hua Jin got up and walked to the place where King Qi was imprisoned.
She imprisoned King Qi behind the military camp in a small city that had just been built.
Originally, the southern line was full of deserted suburbs, so Hua Jin drew a circle near the Earth Temple and asked the Ministry of Works to build it. Now, a new city has been built out of the circle she drew casually.
The King of Qi was imprisoned in a courtyard in the new city.
When Hua Jin went in, he was yelling and cursing inside.
"Hua Jin, you bitch, this king is your Uncle Qi, how dare you beat me and lock me up, Hua Jin..."
When he saw a woman in red clothes pushing open the courtyard door and coming in, King Qi's cursing mouth suddenly closed, and his eyes were full of surprise.
In this world, there is actually a woman more beautiful than Hongxiu.
"Who are you?"
King Qi looked at Hua Jin with a squinted look. Could this woman be the apology given to him by that bitch Hua Jin?
Also, for what Hua Jin did to him, not to mention giving him one beauty, even giving him ten beauties could not make up for the mistakes she made.
The King of Qi secretly resented that Hua Jin thought he would give him a beauty to relieve his boredom, so wouldn't he be angry?
When he goes out, he must write a memorial and ask his father to order the execution of that bitch Hua Jin.
After entering the door, Hua Jin frowned slightly when facing King Qi's anxious eyes.
"Uncle Prince Qi, why are you here?"
She found a chair farthest from King Qi and sat down, looking at King Qi with a smile.
King Qi was stunned for a moment, then took a closer look at Hua Jin. The desire in his heart was restless. He had not touched a woman for many days.
"Who are you? Why do you call me Uncle Wang?"
"I am none other than Princess Li, Hua Jin."
Hua Jin was still sitting, without saluting, and looked at King Qi.
His expression changed for a moment, he was a beautiful woman, but she turned out to be the bitch he hated so much.
Immediately, King Qi flicked his sleeves, snorted, pointed at Hua Jin and scolded:
"You still have the nerve to come see me. Let me go out quickly. Otherwise, if this matter is reported to His Majesty, you will be punished by death."