No one knows the number. Li Zhiyun only heard of the existence of nearly a thousand coal mines in his previous life. With the use of modern industrial technology, these coal mines have been mined for nearly decades, not to mention the current productivity.
How many years can it be mined?
The difference is that a group of coal bosses will not be born this time. Moreover, as a strategic resource controlled by the government, coal has long been favored by political parties due to its good iron-making performance, combustion performance, and the new smelting equipment of the Weihe Workshop.
The ministers unanimously believed that coal was a strategically controlled resource, and no one except the emperor was allowed to interfere.
Whoever dares to interfere will have his hand chopped off.
There are currently two coal mines operating in Hedong Road, namely the Shanyang Mine near Shanyang in Shuozhou and the Jiexiu Mine in Fenzhou. The two coal mines are located in different coalfield distribution zones.
Among them, the Shanyang Mine belongs to the Ningwu Coalfield, and the Jiexiu Mine belongs to the Huoxi Coalfield. The coal reserves of these two coalfields are more than 100 million tons. With the current mining power of the Tang Dynasty, there will be no need to consider the problem of "exhausting the lake to fish" within a hundred years.
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In fact, before that, there were several small coal mines operating in Taiyuan, but they were closed down after Li Zhiyun came to the throne. Because the clan members all believed that Taiyuan was the land of Longxing, and they should not abuse the land of Longxing at will, and they should take more care of it.
In addition, coal mining required a lot of slaves, which led to the influx of many prairie people into Taiyuan, and many censors strongly opposed it.
After considering all aspects, Li Zhiyun finally decided to turn around and mine the Jiexiu Mine and Shanyang Mine. Anyway, these two places are poor and lack popularity. Mining local coal mines can bring some development.
The first place Gao Jifu and Zhang Shigui went to was the Jiexiu Mine.
"Chang'an uses briquettes for heating. Although it is extremely sophisticated, it is still seen as being made of this... coal. Therefore, the powerful landowners here are also mining it privately.
Normally, as long as they don't go too far, the court will buy some, but I didn't expect that they would use Tang people as slaves if they couldn't capture the grassland slaves. If it weren't for my covert investigation, I don't know how many people would have disappeared in Hedong Road.
Woolen cloth."
Gao Jifu was riding on a horse and told Zhang Shigui what had happened to him. He seemed very angry.
Zhang Shigui also frowned unconsciously. As the emperor's eagle dog, he knew the emperor's thoughts. That is, he did not treat the foreigners as human beings and treated the Tang people as brothers and sisters. But now these greedy guys despise the emperor so much that they naturally caused him to have a child.
Killing intent.
"Gao Yushi, just go ahead and investigate. If anyone dares to stop you, I will fight a way out for you."
"Okay, with the general's words, I can rest assured."
Jiexiu, Liuhu Village.
Although the village is named Liuhu, it actually has more than six households. It is just rumored that there were only six households in the village when it was first built, so it is called Liuhu Village. The eldest surname in the village is Zhao, and the population is less than a hundred, so it can only be regarded as a small village.
But the sage has said that the temple is small and the wind is strong, but the pond is shallow and there are many bastards.
Although the village is small and there are few people, oppression still exists. As a surname, Zhao Dashan is the largest landowner in the village, and he is also the village chief. In the village, he is a unique existence.
With a little money, Zhao Dashan once bought briquettes, and then he recognized it at a glance as a common thing on Hedong Road. Hearing about its usefulness and economic value, Zhao Dashan had a wrong idea.
He mobilized the villagers in the village to dig coal for him, and he sold it to the court, or secretly experimented with making briquettes, or passed it off as good quality and sold fake briquettes privately.
People who don't have a bad heart can't make money. Zhao Dashan's heart is bad enough, so he made a lot of money in the past two years, built a big yard, and married a concubine with seven or eight rooms. At the same time, he also did shady things in private.
of the slave trade.
He did not dare to think about prairie slaves because they were all registered in the imperial court, so he set his sights on his own people.
First, they are people with the same surname in a village, and then they find human traffickers to buy them, or they trick beggars and others into entering the coal mines.
Generally speaking, the coal mines mined in Liuhu Village are dripping with the blood of sin.
Zhao Dashan stayed at the entrance of the coal mine, watching the villagers transporting the dark coal to and from, and his heart blossomed with joy.
This is all money!
While inspecting the coal mine, he was thinking about whether he should go to Zhao Sun's place in the west of the village tonight to steal some fish or something. Thinking of Zhao Sun's little daughter-in-law who had just married into the village, Zhao Dashan's heart felt hot.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a large group of soldiers and horses suddenly surrounded the village. The leading general rode a tall horse and came to Zhao Dashan.
Sen Bai Hanguang's gun head slowly raised, pointing at Zhao Dashan.
"Are you Zhao Dawei?"
At this moment, Zhao Dashan was already frightened. From the moment the cavalry surrounded the village and blocked the entrance to the coal mine, a series of actions took only a dozen breaths.
Looking at Chi Chi's spear and the cavalry armed to the teeth, Zhao Dashan's legs trembled and his fat face twitched.
As a small landowner who only dared to be arrogant and domineering in the village, he had never seen such a momentum.
"Yes, I am Zhao Dawei." He replied quickly.
"It seems right." Zhang Shigui looked at Gao Jifu who was riding slowly behind him.
Half an hour later, Liuhu Village was controlled, the villagers were rescued, and Zhao Dawei became a prisoner.
At this moment, Zhao Dawei was kneeling in his hall, looking at Gao Jifu and Zhang Shigui in despair. He tried his best to argue that he had not committed any crime, but it was in vain. The villagers had irrefutable proof, and the mined coal mines were even more proof.
"Zhao Dawei, if I were you, what I would be thinking about now would not be how to escape guilt, but how to preserve the bloodline of your Zhao family. You must know that the imperial court clearly stipulates that private mining of coal mines is not allowed, but what about you?
Whether it's mining coal or oppressing villagers, the crime you committed is a serious crime against the Nine Tribes."
"Kill the Nine Tribes?" Zhao Dawei was so frightened that his heart stopped.
Digging one's own land also kills the nine tribes?
"I..." He turned pale with fright and didn't know how to defend himself. Facing the sudden appearance of the Tang Army's cavalry was enough to scare him out of fear.
What kind of existence did the cavalry of the Tang Army have in the eyes of the common people of the Tang Dynasty? In later generations, it was probably that one day, a certain special force suddenly entered the village. Then their leader was still a general, and his title was still the Duke of the country.
In front of civilians, Zhang Shigui's identity is as heavy as a mountain.
Under tremendous pressure, Zhao Dawei had no choice but to plead guilty and confess a lot.
One of them is a channel for human traffickers hidden under Hedong Road, and there is also a gathering point for landowners who mine coal mines privately.
These two pieces of news, no matter which one they were, would cause a huge stir once they were found out. Therefore, Gao Jifu did not dare to neglect, and quickly recorded in detail and made a plan.
"General Zhang, you and I are divided into two groups. I will take my people to Qi County and capture these people. You go to Daizhou and capture those traffickers." Gao Jifu said solemnly.
Zhang Shigui nodded, "I'll give you five hundred people."
"Thank you."
After saying this, Zhang Shigui looked at Zhao Dawei who was lying limply on the ground.
"What should I do with this person?"
Gao Jifu said: "I will use him to sneak into Qi County, find those people, and keep them temporarily, but his family must be controlled."
"Okay, leave it to me."
In Gao Jifu's eyes, Zhao Dawei must die, and so will his family. As for leaving him a bloodline?
Haha, there are so many people named Zhao in Liuhu Village, isn't it enough?