Great Tang Southern Emperor

Seeing this, Colonel Qin could only comfort him in a warm voice: "I know that this matter is a bit embarrassing for you, but we have been doing a lot of actions recently, and the money is consuming a lot...you should think of a way."

"You're not embarrassing me, you're asking me to die." Gong Qin didn't appreciate it at all, and said unceremoniously: "You said it lightly, when you touch your lips, it's 5 Ten thousand taels, but how can I have so much time? Now there are more and more slaves in the mine, correspondingly more and more ore is sent every day, and the share is increasing every month. We have now changed from the original Three shifts at four hours have now been shifted to two shifts at six hours, and the furnace is constantly shutting down. Where do I have so much free time to refine silver for you? Once people find out about our business, I will only die Do you know one?"

According to him, this smelter is not only smelting silver ore for Li Zhen, but also other people are using this smelter to play the game of borrowing chickens to lay eggs, and using the smelter's furnace to secretly smelt silver.And those who are in charge of this matter are Gong Qin and Captain Qin. After all, one of them is the director of the factory, and the other is the supreme commander of the army responsible for guarding the smelter. Without the help of the two of them, it is absolutely impossible for others to take silver The mines were sent here.

Chapter 1184 Iwami Silver Mine (3)

Chapter 131 Iwami Silver Mine (3)

"Is there really no way?" Seeing that what he said was not fake, Captain Qin asked again.

"I really have no choice but to increase the number of furnaces, but now there are hundreds of furnaces in the entire smelter, and adding more will be too easy to attract attention." Gong Qin spread his hands and said helplessly: "In fact, this month Maybe even the amount of 3 taels may not be available, not only because of the increase in our smelting capacity, but more importantly because your actions are too extreme, even the fleet transporting coal mines is attacked, our fuel There is a shortage... even our share this month may not be able to be fulfilled, and if you want to increase the amount, don't even think about it."

Captain Qin's face became ugly: "This is too much, don't think that the smelter is in your hands, I don't understand anything... You have the ability to refine silver for others, but you have the guts to refuse Your courage is really big enough for our order?"

Gong Qin was said to be the biggest secret in the center, and his eyes flickered: "What are you talking about? Why can't I understand? When did I refine silver for others? I only refined silver for two families from the beginning to the end. One family is the prince, and one family is you, so where are others?"

"Really?" Qin Xiaowei sneered: "Then who owns the ship that came on time on the third day of each month and left that night? The delivery date set by Li Zhen is in the middle of each month, while the delivery date over there is It’s late, there’s never been a mistake in these years, and it’s never been accurate to one day, I don’t remember any ships coming in the third year of junior high school?”

"You... What nonsense are you talking about? Where is the boat in the third year of junior high school?" Gong Qin's eyes flickered even more, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Hmph, do you really think we are all idiots?" Qin Xiaowei smiled even colder: "I see Yinshan's annual silver production is so large, and there are so many people involved, how can it be concealed? It's just that Everyone who knew helped to cover this cover, because they all wanted to have a hand in it..."

Needless to say, I understand that the Iwami Silver Mine is so big, no matter how strict the guards are, it is impossible to supervise every inch of the land, and as long as you want to intervene in the profits here, what you need to do is very simple, even as simple as You only need to bribe five people.The first is the eunuch who is in charge of the slave camp set up by Li Yusi in the silver mine, the second is the person in charge of the mine, the third is the patrolling general, the fourth is Gong Qin who is in charge of smelting, and finally is responsible for counting the ore officials, and then they can directly intervene in making big money.

Buying off the eunuchs of the Li Yu Division is because the slaves of the silver mines are all dispatched by the Li Yu Division, and the number is limited, so if you want to dig the silver mines, you can only use your own people, and you want to put yourself in the slave camp The eunuchs of the Li Yu Division are a hurdle that cannot be sold, and they need his help in purchasing food supplies and other materials for the slaves, otherwise their people will starve. If there is no Li Yu Division The help of the eunuch is certainly impossible.

It's very simple to bribe the person in charge of the mine. After all, the mine is his territory. If he doesn't bribe him, maybe he will find out the clues in one of the big investigations, and it will be bad at that time.

Not to mention the patrolling generals, they patrol among the mines every day, such things as stealing mines cannot be hidden from their eyes, if they find out and stab them all to Li Zhen, then Li Zhen will definitely investigate here things.

Gong Qin is the director of the smelter, and the wharf is also within his scope of responsibility. If you can't bribe him, let alone smelting the ore on the spot, you can't even transport the silver ore.

The officials in charge of counting the ore in and out are also called statisticians. Their main task is to count the daily in and out of ore, which needs to be recorded—whether it is a formally mined silver mine or a stolen ore. It needs to be transported out by a ground truck, otherwise so much ore, if you rely on human camels alone, you won't be able to transport much even if you are exhausted.

And the track and the level car are in the hands of the statistician. If they didn't turn a blind eye, it would be impossible for these ores to be transported out, or they could only be regarded as regular silver mines. Get through, then no matter how much silver is smelted, no matter how much money is given to the director of the smelter, he will not let you transport the silver away, otherwise the output of ore and silver production will not match, then the smelter will There is only one dead end for the factory manager.

But correspondingly, as long as you bribe these people, then you can safely and boldly make money here. After all, Li Zhenyuan is in Lingnan, and this is the country of Japan. It is impossible to come to see it in person. Even if he comes in person, the accounts or something They were all done, and he couldn't find out where the problem was, and there was nothing he could do about them.

So don't look at Shijian Yinshan, which was discovered by Li Zhen, and secretly took it as his own, but in fact, there are many people and forces who make money in it, especially those big forces, almost all of them are in it Added a foot.

After careful calculation, although the money obtained by these forces here is not as much as Li Zhen, if they add up, it is far more than Li Zhen, especially the people behind Captain Qin, who are even more greedy. The money that was scooped up almost caught up with Li Zhen.

"What do you mean?" Gong Qin's cold sweat started to flow faster. He really didn't expect that such a thing he did so secretly would be discovered by the other party.

"It seems that you still don't give up until you reach the Yellow River." Captain Qin said coldly: "Forget it, I won't talk to you about this, I just came here to inform you, I don't care what method you use, 5 taels, Starting from this month, not a single point is missing... Otherwise, you should know how strong our power is... I don't want to see you in a concrete pier next time."

After finishing speaking, Captain Qin turned around and left the secret room, not giving Gong Qin any face at all...

"You..." Gong Qin sat down on the pile of silver, and his heavy body suddenly hit the hard silver, almost shattering his porpoise bones, but he didn't feel the pain at all, because now his whole heart has been crushed. Contaminated by fear—he knew too well how terrifying the power behind Colonel Qin was. When he was competing for the factory director, he was not the most favorable competitor. In fact, there was a shopkeeper of a commercial bank above him who was even more powerful. qualified for this position.

In fact, he was not at all sure that he would face the shopkeeper. He even thought he might lose. However, just before the two of them eliminated everyone and were about to have an ultimate showdown, Captain Qin asked He came to the door and promised to help him win the position of director of the smelter, but the corresponding requirement was that after he became the director, he had to use the furnace in the factory to help them smelt silver.

At that time, he was really unsure of winning this competition, and he felt that the money smelted by the forces behind Xiaowei Qin would not be much, so he agreed very happily, and then...

Chapter 1185

132 chapter

Then, the shopkeeper got smallpox and died...

Not only he himself died, but also his whole family, from his elderly father to the newly nursed child, all died of smallpox—you must know that after Li Zhen came to Datang, she thought it was the most meaningful The most important thing is to use vaccinia to inoculate smallpox, so that the demon smallpox can no longer threaten the lives of people in Datang, and people in Datang no longer need to talk about smallpox and change their faces.

Because of Li Zhen's efforts, as early as more than ten years ago, Datang had completed the popularization of vaccinia prevention against smallpox. Everyone in the entire Datang, including newborn children, had been inoculated with vaccinia. It stands to reason that there should be no smallpox. Yes, but the shopkeeper not only died of smallpox himself, but also caused the death of his family, which is really unbelievable.

At that time, it was not that no one thought that there was something strange about it, but after careful inspection by the doctor and the doctors, they were surprised to find that their family really died of smallpox. Gong Qin was deeply shocked, because Gong Qin knew very well that this was the forces behind Colonel Qin showing their strength, and at the same time warning him - do things for us honestly, otherwise we can have our family vaccinated People who suffer from smallpox will die from smallpox. Naturally, there are ways to make you die without a burial. Not only you, but your family and friends will disappear from this world.

In fact, several incidents later proved that they had this ability. After taking the position of factory director, it was impossible for Gong Qin not to offend others, especially some of them were Li Zhen's confidantes. They soon discovered that They found out that something was wrong with Gong Qin, and also found out that he was secretly smelting silver for others, which made them very angry.

Someone came to Gong Qin's door to trouble him and questioned him sharply, but not long after he came out, his legs were trampled off by a galloping horse, and he was crushed into a pulp by the following ground truck filled with silver ore. , appalling.

Some people also tried to collect evidence secretly, intending to pass it back to Lingnan and hand it over to Li Zhen, but they accidentally fell into the furnace while checking the furnace. No survival, no place to die.

There were also people who tried to attack Gong Qin directly, planning to strike first and force him to take the initiative to bear his crimes, but before they could do anything, they fell into the water and drowned because of a slip. It was soaked.

And not only were they unlucky, but their family members also lost news—because when the messenger who reported the funeral sent the news back to the deceased’s hometown, they found that the family of the deceased was either completely dead, or all disappeared, and no one could be found anymore.

Since then, Gong Qin has never encountered any troubles again, and he, the factory director, has become more and more stable, but people are forgetful animals. At the beginning, Gong Qin was still concerned about the forces behind Captain Qin Very awesome, every task is completed perfectly, so nothing happened.But after a long time, even with Gong Qin's panic, he couldn't help letting go of his vigilance, especially after the major forces also extended their hands to the silver mines, Gong Qin's income became more and more high-every force wanted If you want to reach out here, Gong Qin is an unavoidable hurdle here, so if there is a force reaching out, you have to give a filial piety and the corresponding shares...

In addition, others are begging him, so every time they meet each other, they will inevitably say a few words of flattery, so gradually, Gong Qin's spirit gradually becomes high, and he gradually forgets the power of the forces behind Xiaowei Qin. Horror, and no longer put them in the eyes.Moreover, this force is really greedy. The monthly silver has gradually increased from 5000 taels to 3 taels, and now it has increased by 5 taels. The number of months may increase. If he asks so much, even if Gong Qin treats himself as a melting pot, how can he smelt so much, unless he doesn't smelt Li Zhen...

If it's just their family stealing mines, let alone 5 taels, even 10 taels, Gong Qin can squeeze out a certain amount of time-after all, the smelting technology of the Iwami Silver Mine Smelter is the best in the world. At the top level, it only takes less than an hour for a ton of silver ore to be poured into the furnace from the moment it is poured into the mold (the rest of the cooling time does not need to take up the time of the furnace).

In other words, if the smelter works in two shifts and can work for twelve hours a day, a furnace can smelt almost ten kilograms of silver a day (calculated as 24 grams of silver per ton, more than nine kilograms can be produced in 16 hours ), that is twenty catties, one catty is 320 taels, that is 600 taels of silver, and one month is 10 taels, that is to say, even if [-] taels of silver is smelted, it only takes ten furnaces to dry for one month. enough.

And the entire smelting plant has hundreds of furnaces, and Gong Qin is the factory manager, so it must be no problem to deploy a few furnaces individually.The problem is that as I said before, there are quite a few people and forces involved in the silver mine, you and me... Each of them has its own furnace in the smelter. It can be said that these furnaces are ordered by themselves at their own expense. Yes, there are no more than twenty melting pots belonging to Li Zhen alone, and the rest are divided among the major forces.

Now that the forces behind Captain Qin want to increase silver production, the only way is to increase the number of their furnaces, but there are only so many furnaces in the entire smelter. If you want to increase yours, you can only occupy Li Zhen's. Furnace—the rest of the families have sprinkled money on Gong Qin. Although it is said that all the families are respectful to him, it is because they have something to ask for him. If there is no such thing, I am afraid that they will be a small Gong Qin doesn't even count as a fart, does he?

It is conceivable that once Gong Qin dares to reduce their silver production, they will be torn apart and make the matter public. Even if there is the force behind Captain Qin to protect him, I am afraid he will It's hard to escape Li Zhen's anger... Of course, the greater possibility is that they will abandon themselves immediately, leaving only themselves to bear Li Zhen's anger, and then the angry Li Zhen kills the whole family to vent their anger.

And even if Li Zhen doesn't do anything, those who have been fooled by him will definitely trouble him. At that time, his end may be even worse than that in Li Zhen's hands - Li Zhen is the prince of the Tang Dynasty after all. , even if he was dealt with, he was directed to play according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, but those forces hidden in the dark did not follow the rules. They would definitely use the cruelest means to deal with him.

Chapter 1186

Chapter 133 You Made a Mistake

Therefore, if you want to increase the silver production of that mysterious force, it is definitely not possible to supplement it with the cakes of other underground forces. The only way is to reduce the holdings of Li Zhen's furnace, and use Li Zhen's cakes to supplement it. But the problem is that over the years, he has often sent letters to Lingnan requesting to increase the number of furnaces, and Lingnan has agreed every time.However, after so many years, although the silver production of the smelter has increased every month, the increased silver production is obviously not proportional to the increase in the furnace. This has already aroused the suspicion of the Lingnan side. The forces behind it are also in Lingnan, if they help cover it up, he would have been exposed long ago.Now, if Li Zhen's holdings of the furnace are still reduced, then the silver output this month will definitely decrease...

We must know that he can hold the fat position of the director of the smelter. In addition to the support of someone behind him, the more important thing is that under his leadership, the monthly silver production is increasing. If there is a reduction in production, absolutely It will attract Lingnan's attention, and then he will definitely send someone to check, then he will really have only a dead end.

But if you just reject Captain Qin's request...

Gong Qin really didn't have the guts. At the beginning, he was indeed a bit presumptuous, and gradually forgot the power behind Captain Qin, but when he recalled their terror, he no longer had the confidence to refuse— ——He is a person who cherishes his life very much. After so many years of painstaking efforts to earn so much money, he has not enjoyed it well. If he just dies like this, then he will never be reconciled, let alone even if he is not afraid If he died, he still had a wife and children in his family, so he didn't want to bring his family into trouble.

"What's the sound..." When Gong Qin was in a daze, he was suddenly awakened by a loud noise outside. Before he could go out to check the situation, a figure in embarrassment rushed in...

"Captain Qin? What's the matter with you?" Gong Qin was shocked, because this embarrassing figure turned out to be Captain Qin who was still arrogant before, but now Captain Qin has no longer acted recklessly just now. He was covered in blood and his breath was weak. If his chest was not heaving slightly, Gong Qin might have regarded him as a dead person.

"Crash!"

Before Gong Qin stood up, the sound of messy footsteps came from far to near, and soon appeared in front of Gong Qin. They were a group of people dressed similar to the Tang military uniform, the only one different from the Tang military uniform. The difference is that their helmets are round, like a small pot, and there is a word 'xian' written on the side temples, and these two characters also explain their identity - gendarmerie.

This is an organization that everyone related to the army fears and fears, because the main role of the military police is to maintain army discipline, ensure the execution of army orders, organize military courts, and sometimes serve as the responsibility of supervising the battle team. The police in the army, worthy of the name, even have more power than the police. They are known as the living hell in the army. Anyone who joins the army, from the lowest private soldier to the commander of the first army, almost no one is not afraid of them.

And Gong Qin was also very afraid of them. The first time he saw the military police, he sat down on the silver again. Not only that, but yellow liquid oozed from his crotch, and the small space in the secret room suddenly burst into tears. Flooded by the stench...

The reason why Gong Qin is so afraid is because the area of ​​the Iwami Silver Mine was taken down by the Bohai Navy Division, and even the marines protecting the Iwami Silver Mine were guarded by [-] Marines from the Bohai Navy Division in batches.Although Li Zhen monopolized it, in order to appease the Bohai Navy District, he also promised to divide [-]% of the silver produced each month to the Bohai Navy District. He also handed over the management rights of the silver mine to the Bohai Navy District—that is to say, the Iwami Silver Mine at this time was a veritable military industry, but Li Zhen took most of the income from this industry, but no matter what These silver mines are all under the name of the Bohai Navy District.