Reborn as Murong Fu: This time I am the protagonist

Seven days later, in Gusu, I went to Shenhe Village.

When Murong Fu returned, he did not take the waterway, but used Qinggong to travel all the way, so the time spent on the return trip was directly reduced by half. Su Xinghe carefully selected the mute servants for him and asked them to follow him. Anyway, with the loyalty of these people, it is impossible to do such a thing as slipping away halfway. If that were the case, there was no need to keep these people. Letting them follow on their own is a small test of their loyalty.

All the things that happened along the way made Murong Fu feel that the time of relying on foresight to get by was probably gone forever. He didn't know what would happen in the future. What is worth celebrating is that my martial arts skills are now enough to protect myself, and I no longer have to look forward or backward or be timid.

The reason why he rushed back in a hurry was simple: there were still two prisoners in the house!

I can't imitate Linghu Chong or Dongfang Bubai and imprison people in the West Lake Water Prison. Although there are a group of experts at home to help watch, and there won't be any trouble, but delaying it for one more day will eventually lead to trouble. In order to avoid long nights and many dreams, it is better to throw these two hot potatoes to others.

Before leaving, he made an agreement with Wu Yazi to take Wang Yuyan to Leigu Mountain in half a year so that he and his grandson could meet each other. In the past six months, he had completed the practice of all thirty-six meridians of Beiming Divine Technique. When the time comes, Wu Yazi will teach him the profound method of Beiming Divine Technique.

Abi and A'zhu were very happy to see Murong Fu return. As for Murong Fu's inference that Murong Bo had killed Ke Baisui, he had now become wary of the two maids to a certain extent, and he just dealt with their enthusiasm indifferently.

"Master Qi, you told me about the purchase of minerals before, and I have already completed it."

In the hall, Deng Baichuan was explaining the affairs of this period to Murong Fu.

Murong Fu glanced at Deng Baichuan approvingly: I have to say that although Deng Baichuan was difficult to control, he was still very efficient in doing things. This kind of person is a person like Cao Cao. If everything is peaceful, he will be Xiao He and Cao Shen. If the building is about to collapse, he will not mind giving you a hard push. How to use it all depends on how capable he is as the contemporary head of the Murong family.

"What's the specific situation?"

So Deng Baichuan explained the specific situation one by one. After hearing this, Murong Fu immediately understood that what Deng Baichuan had captured was a coal mine.

Coal, which is coal in the popular sense, is just that there is no anthracite process in this era, and no sulfur is added to it.

The mine was located in Xunwu and was small in scale, employing only a few dozen people.

If so, it would not be taken down by Deng Baichuan. After all, in this era, heating supplies such as coal and charcoal are basically luxuries. A pound of fine charcoal can be sold for six cents, which is equivalent to two pounds of brown rice. It is said that this is mostly profitable. But the problem is that this is the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, and winter is actually not that cold. Although people in later generations often joke about the winter in the south, for the poor in this era, it will be over if they endure it.

And what about the rich? People care about their lives so much that they would rather spend more money to buy good charcoal than use highly toxic charcoal. Therefore, coal is in a rather embarrassing situation in the south.

Therefore, if you want to sell well, you can only transport the coal to the Bianjing area. This can be very profitable. However, when it comes to Bianjing, the most efficient and low-cost way is water transportation. However, in order to ensure the transportation of grain, only official ships can usually be used on the Bianhe River. If other ships want to go, they have to pay a large toll, and the gain outweighs the loss.

In this case, the mine owner had no choice but to give up.

Deng Baichuan originally didn't want to eat such a useless thing, but he thought that Murong Fu might be planning for the great cause of the Murong family's restoration of the country - after all, charcoal can also be used for weapon forging, although the cost is much higher than firewood.

That was not what Murong Fu was thinking about.

Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general in history, built his Qi family army based on miners, which was famous for future generations and made Japanese pirates frightened.

First, miners were no better than sharecroppers. In this era, an army of yeoman farmers could collapse at the moment of contact with the enemy. But a team of miners can maintain good collaboration and show a stronger will to fight.

As for why there must be such a force? Just think about Zhujiazhuang, which was borrowed food from Liangshan.

The Murong family owns eight thousand hectares of land alone. How many people are thinking about such a family fortune? Otherwise, do you think Shaolin monks practice martial arts just to strengthen their bodies?

No matter what his plans are for the future, he can only feel at ease if he has his own power in his hands. Counting the time, Fang La should still be a child now. But there is no guarantee that a mediocre official like Zhu Meng will not come to Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the future and cause a chaos. It is always good to be prepared for a rainy day.

Murong Fu was very satisfied with Deng Baichuan's performance and let him go after a few instructions.

Then he called brother Yi Dabiao. The two of them were still dressed as plainly as before, and they had not changed at all because of the generous treatment given by the Murong family, which made Murong Fu appreciate it very much.

"Young Master, Xiang Wanghai's 128 men have all been dismissed in accordance with the Master's instructions. The loot accumulated by his rampage in Chuzhou has been notified to the local officials in accordance with the instructions, except for what is needed to disband his troops. Accept it and deposit it into the treasury."

Yi Dabiao reported to Murong Fuhui respectfully.

Next to the two of them stood Wang Jinbao, the former boss of the ship. It was with him that he was able to deal with such a mess.

Murong Fu nodded: "You have done a good job. Now, listen, this is your reward."

"Yi Dabiao, Yi Dayong!"

"My subordinate is here!"

He looked at the iron chains around their waists and said slowly: "The 'Spirit Snake Whip Technique' that you two have practiced, and the advanced 'White Python Whip Technique' in Shi Shui Pavilion. You two can go find it." The packages are different, let him take you to get them."

The two were overjoyed. This reward is much more valuable to martial artists than gold and silver. The two of them have good talents, but due to various reasons they are not allowed to practice advanced techniques and secrets. This gift from Murong Fu will definitely bring their martial arts to a higher level.

The two of them knelt down and said, "I would like to thank you for your gift. From now on, I will destroy you to pieces. I will not give up even if you die!"

Then, the two happily went to find Baotong.

Then Murong Fu looked at the boss of the ship, Wang Jinbao. Just when he was thinking about how to reward him, he saw the other party looking around mysteriously. After confirming that Yi Dabiao and Yi Dabiao were far away, he walked up to Murong Fu, took out a handful of things from his arms, and presented it to Murong Fu like a treasure. complex.

Murong Fu took a closer look and saw that it was a handful of banknotes, all worth one hundred taels each.

Murong Fu was slightly startled: "Guanshi Wang, what does this mean?"

Wang Jinbao chuckled: "Master, you asked me to pay off the property of the Haisha Gang earlier. I only handed over part of it to the government. There are still 20,000 taels left, which I have exchanged for silver notes and are all here."

As if he was afraid that Murong Fu would be blamed, he quickly added: "Master, I am thinking about our Murong family. You gave the money to those corrupt officials in the government. In the end, you gave them an advantage. This money is in your hands." Only then can it play its due role! You are too kind-hearted and always reward others, how can you do this? There will be many places where you can use your money in the future!"

He was talking so much that he was slobbering and dancing, and he looked like an old woman.

Murong Fu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. What kind of living treasure did he bring back?