Datang: An eight-year-old master of the bar, he gave everyone a blow at the beginning

Chapter 254
Hedong Road, Zhongzhou, Daning County!

Early the next morning, the [-] guan silver that Princess Changshan transported to Zhongzhou Dudu's Mansion finally arrived in Daning County!

Habayashi Wei, who was in charge of escorting the silver, immediately went to contact Yuchihuan.Yuchihuan sent Cheng Chumo to take over the money!

Since the money belonged to Yuchihuan personally, the [-] strings did not need to be confiscated!
Habayashi Wei told Yu Chihuan that Li Er wanted half of the profit from the soap business.

Yuchihuan fully agreed!
In fact, Yuchihuan himself was going to hand over the soap business to Princess Changshan, and he had no interest in intervening at all.

Yuchihuan's greatest wish is to drive out the Turks and restore peace to the people on the border of the Tang Dynasty.

In order to show his sincerity, Yuchihuan handed over the soap to the Imperial Forest Army this time to transport it back to Chang'an City for sale!

But this time most of the soaps are sulfur soaps, and the rose soap is only 1000 yuan!

Ordinary soap costs 500 yuan!

A total of 500 yuan soap!

But the soaps in front of me alone are worth tens of thousands!

Therefore, the Royal Forest Army did not dare to take it lightly. They were careful when they returned, and took every step of the way!

Yuchihuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but in fact, his cost of making the central soap was less than a hundred taels of silver.

But these soaps can earn at least [-] yuan in operating income, which are basically profits!

This can be said to be a hugely profitable industry!
In order to develop Zhongzhou as soon as possible, Yuchihuan then began to manufacture soap in batches.

But this time, the soap made by Yuchihuan is mainly ordinary soap!
Rose soap needs roses, and Yuchihuan has no roses, so the production of rose soap can only be suspended.

As Princess Changshan transported the [-] guan from selling soap to Zhongzhou, Yuchihuan had more than [-] guan in his hands.

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In the evening, Li Er's imperial decree appointing Chu Suiliang as the governor of Zhongzhou also arrived in Zhongzhou.

Chu Suiliang was very excited with his letter of appointment. From today on, he is an official fourth-rank official of the Tang court!
If he is delegated to local officials, Chu Suiliang can at least serve as the governor of a state, instead of the sixth-rank official position of the county magistrate!
"Thank you, Lieutenant General Yuchi, for your support!"

Chu Suiliang thanked Yuchihuan excitedly.

Yu Chihuan patted Chu Suiliang on the shoulder and said, "Chu Suiliang, you are going to be the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty in the future, so don't be polite to me!"

"Ah...Little Governor Yuchi, you think too highly of the officer, don't you?"

Chu Sui's conscience was shocked, his biggest wish before was to be the governor, the prime minister of the second rank, he didn't even dare to think about it!

Yu Chihuan resolutely said: "Chu Suiliang, don't be polite to me, hurry up!"

"Subordinate to obey!"

Chu Sui still had no way to calm down in his conscience, after all, it was the highest expectation of civil and military officials to be appointed as a marquis and prime minister!
This can be regarded as the ultimate of a minister!

"Chu Suiliang, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier!"

Yu Chihuan painted cakes for Chu Suiliang to satisfy his hunger and said, "In the same way, a county magistrate who doesn't want to be a prime minister is not a good official!"

"Uh... Little Commander Yuchi's words seem to make sense!"

Chu Suiliang was persuaded by Yu Chihuan, and he decided to promote his future official position to prime minister.

For Chu Suiliang, the previous position of governor is already a thing of the past.

Because Chu Suiliang is now the fourth-rank chief governor of the Zhongzhou Governor's Mansion, and is on the same level as the provincial governor!

But because Yuchihuan is the governor of Zhongzhou, Chu Suiliang still overwhelmed the local officials in front of the other governors of Hedong Road!
This is called taking advantage of the situation to suppress people!

Chu Suiliang is now the governor of the Zhongzhou Governor's Mansion, so Yuchihuan can command Chu Suiliang to do things in a legitimate way!
Next, Yuchihuan ordered Chu Suiliang to contact the magistrates of the counties in Zhongzhou, and report all the people's livelihood and public security situation in Zhongzhou to Yuchihuan.

In less than half a day, the county magistrates of Pu County, Yonghe County, Shilou County, Wenquan County, and Xi County in Zhongzhou reported the local situation to Chu Suiliang truthfully!

As for the security and economic situation in Daning County, Chu Suiliang had already reported it to Yuchihuan.

After reading the letters of various county magistrates, Yu Chihuan knew the situation in Zhongzhou well.

"Well, it seems that the biggest advantage of Zhongzhou is the coal mines!"

The data Yuchihuan got was similar to what he predicted.

However, some coal mines developed in later generations have not been developed yet!
This can be said to be a big surprise for Yu Chihuan!
For example, the Bauhinia Mountain Coal Mine, which was greatly developed in later generations, now only some villagers dig coal and go home to cook!
The local county magistrate actually thought it was just a small coal mine with no development value!
Yu Chihuan looked at the letter written by the magistrate of Xi County, dumbfounded!

But this is normal. After all, the level of detection in the Tang Dynasty is not good, and digging is an industry that depends on the sky!
Yuchihuan summarized the coal mining situation in the five counties and confirmed that all the coal mines are open-pit coal mines!
Unlike later generations who need to use explosives to mine, dig out the underground coal mines!
"It's the same as picking up money!"

Yuchihuan sighed, the coal reserves of the Bauhinia Mountains are [-] million tons!
Enough for the people of the entire Tang Dynasty to use for a long time.

"Chu Suiliang, go and get the information on the Bauhinia Mountains!"

This time Yuchihuan decided to develop the coal mines in the Bauhinia Mountains.

"Your officer obeys!" Chu Suiliang immediately took the order and left.

Soon, the detailed information of the Bauhinia Mountains was in front of Yuchihuan.

After reading the information, Yu Chihuan's eyes lit up, because there are not only coal mines near the Bauhinia Mountains, but also limestone for burning cement and lime!

There are also iron mines in Xi County, so Xi County currently has not only coal mines, but also iron-making workshops!
Iron-making workshops are currently the largest source of taxation in Xi County.

And there are three rivers across Xi County, merchant ships can carry coal and steel to leave Xi County for sale!

Yuchihuan has a hundred five-toothed ships in his hand!
It can transport millions of stone goods at one time!

This also includes transporting troops. If it is only carrying cargo, the carrying capacity will be doubled.

"Chu Suiliang, you will take the craftsmen to the Bauhinia Mountains to investigate the direction of the coal mines tomorrow. I want to develop the coal mines in the Bauhinia Mountains!"

Yuchihuan acted swiftly and resolutely, and immediately arranged for Chu Suiliang to arrange the matter.

"Yes!" Chu Suiliang accepted the order without hesitation.

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Early the next morning, Chu Suiliang left Daning County with a hundred soldiers and ten craftsmen and headed for the Bauhinia Mountains in Xi County.

At noon, the group of them finally arrived at the Bauhinia Mountains, and then surveyed the Bauhinia Mountains according to the route drawn by Yuchi Huan. As a result, Chu Suiliang really dug out a large area of ​​open-pit coal!

Surprised and delighted, Chu Suiliang immediately sent the good news to Yuchihuan.

Yuchihuan received a letter from Chu Suiliang that night, and as expected, the Bauhinia Mountains have not yet been developed, and they are all open-pit coal mines, with low mining costs!

At the same time, Liu Rengui, who led the Zhongzhou Navy to suppress the bandits, also returned in triumph!
This time, Liu Rengui not only wiped out all the water bandits in the Yellow River Basin, but also seized gold, silver and jewels worth [-] guan!

But what pleased Yuchihuan the most was that Liu Rengui also captured [-] captives, including [-] water thieves and [-] women and children!

These water thief captives are just used to develop coal mines for labor!

Five thousand women and children can settle down in the land of no man in Zhongzhou, and they will also be famous people in the Tang Dynasty in the future!

The money spent on arranging women and children is spent from the gold, silver and jewelry seized by the water bandits!

(End of this chapter)