Because of the coal matter, Li Yin's originally happy mood suddenly turned sour. With the increase of Yizhou's demand for coal, the output of Yizhou's coal mines could no longer meet the needs of Yizhou, so Li Yin moved from Hedong, which is rich in coal production. Dao bought coal, thinking that many of the coal mines there were open-pit coal mines, and mining was very easy. However, because of the distance, the coal mines that Li Yin asked Jin Daqian to buy before were not developed by others, and they were kept there all the time. People took it.
Leaving the sleeping hall, Li Yin arrived at the Yizheng Hall, and after a short while, Jin Daqian rushed over, seeing Li Yin, Jin Daqian stood with his hands down, and said: "Your Highness, you are back, and now the old slave doesn't know what to do. ?”
"My concubine has already mentioned the matter of coal to me, can you tell me exactly what's going on?" Li Yin stood with his hands behind his back, pacing back and forth in the Yizheng Hall.
Jin Daqian wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Your Highness, the day you just left, the merchant ship we bought coal from Hedong Road came back, and it was said that as long as the coal from Hedong Road was sold to Yizhou, it would be too high." Ten times the price, and there were some unknown people mining coal mines on the land we bought before. People from the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce went to stop them, but they were beaten instead. According to people who came back, the one who beat people reported The title of Li Yuanchang, King of Han."
"Han Wang Li Yuanchang?" Li Min's eyes narrowed. Li Yuanchang is Li Min's uncle in name, but Li Yuanchang and Li Ke Li Min's relationship is not good, but is very close to Prince Li Chengqian. At that time, Li Yuanchang confronted Li Ke, Jing Zhaoyi, everywhere, so Li Ke beat Li Yuanchang after a court meeting, and the two were even more at odds with each other ever since.
After thinking for a while, Li Yin said: "I see, you can go about your business."
"Yes, Your Highness!" Jin Daqian withdrew from the Yizheng Hall.
Yizhou imports more and more coal, and the profit of this coal is naturally rising. Coal was not favored before. But it became the egg-laying hen that made money from Li Yin. This naturally attracted the attention of many businessmen, so many people started the coal mining business, and Li Yin also understood this. From the analysis of Jin Daqian's words, the merchants in Hedong Road have unanimously raised the price ten times too high, so there must be someone behind this, and Han Wang Li Yuanchang must not escape the responsibility.
In the next step, Li Yin also plans to produce coal briquettes to provide to the people for daily use, and the demand for coal will be even greater. Coupled with steam engines and steamships, this coal will become the lifeblood of Yizhou's economic development in the short term. He had to deal with it carefully. After all, Hedong Road is thousands of miles away, and his hand cannot be stretched so far.
Leaving the Yizheng Hall, Li Yin went to Su Morer, hoping that her intelligence agency could provide him with more information, but the information he got was basically the same as what he had guessed. However, he confirmed one thing, that is, Li Yuanchang, the King of Han, was indeed manipulating this matter. Those merchants who refused to listen were all bullied by Li Yuanchang through various means, and had to agree to raise the coal price. , was also instructed by Li Yuanchang. Someone will take the risk to steal it.
"Your Highness, what are you going to do next? I don't think this matter is so simple. Li Yuanchang is probably just a clown who was pushed to the front, and those behind the scene are probably the ghosts of those powerful and noble families, because Hedong Road is their territory. ” Su Moer said.
Li Yan nodded, "We don't care about them. The coal stored in Yizhou is enough for Yizhou to use for more than a year. I will not accept their trick and see what tricks they will play."
"It's just that they are exploiting our coal mines recklessly, and we will suffer heavy losses." Su Mo'er worried.
"How much can they mine with manpower for a year, and now 90% of the coal in Hedong Road is exported to Yizhou. I don't believe it. I bought it, and I'm afraid he will sell it. Hmph, too For a while, I will make them lose their money, begging to sell me the coal at a loss." Li Min said with a wicked smile.
Chang’an City, King Han’s Mansion, Li Yuanchang’s face was full of complacency at this time, sitting below him were all well-known merchants from Hedong Road, holding a lot of coal in their hands, these merchants had different expressions at this time, and many of them whispered.
"Everyone, this king of Shu has made too much money from us, and it's time to spit it out now. This coal is something that Yizhou urgently needs. As long as it is in our hands, he will have nothing to do. Buy the coal back at a high price, you listen to me right, you will definitely make a lot of money, and now you only need to mine vigorously." Li Yuanchang looked confident.
"This is true, but everyone knows the character of the King of Shu. It is by no means a disadvantaged temperament. If we offend him so blatantly, how will we do business when we arrive in Yizhou?" A businessman couldn't help but said.
"Treasurer Wang, no matter what you say, it is also from the Wang family in Taiyuan. Why are you so timid? His Highness the King of Han said that this coal is the lifeblood of Yizhou. As long as we jointly control it, the King of Shu will obediently listen to us. Yizhou is his territory, Li Min, but this Hedong Road is not his territory, and he can still bring an army to fight here." Another businessman said.
"The Wang family has a lot of business in Yizhou. Of course, they are afraid of the King of Shu. It's just the treasurer of the king. Now the five surnames and Qiwang are united to support His Highness the Crown Prince. This is all negotiated by everyone. If you are afraid of offending the King of Shu, you are not afraid of offending him." His Royal Highness?"
The only strange voice was silenced, and the joy on Li Yuanchang's face became even stronger, and he said: "Tomorrow, each of your families will send people to mine the coal mine that Li Yin bought before, hum, this Hedong Road is our territory, he Li Yin Dare to enclose the land like this, this time it will embarrass him."
After confirming the information with Su Morer, Li Yin went to Taoyuan. This prospecting team has been in preparation for a year, and now it's time to use it.
After finding Tong Yu, Li Yin began to ask him to arrange prospecting tasks, to discover all the mineral deposits in Bashu on the map. When Jin Daqian found the limestone mine, the prospecting team had already started training. Li Yin bought a lot of equipment from the modern church They used it, and also let them learn a lot of geographical knowledge. The so-called raising soldiers is useful for a thousand days, and now they have finally come in handy.
"Let them explore all the coal mines in the territory of Sichuan first, and then explore iron ore and other mineral deposits in order according to the needs of Taoyuan." The research institute, Li Yin and Tong Yu are explaining the mission to the prospecting team. In front of them is A huge mineral distribution map, Li Yin wrote and drew on the map, and gave them the task of determining each mineral.
Tong Yu looked at the densely packed mine sites on the map, sighed, and said, "Your Highness, don't most of our coal come in from the north? How can we find coal mines in Yizhou on a large scale now?"
Li Yin then told Tong Yu about what he had encountered, and Tong Yu said angrily: "These unscrupulous businessmen are too hateful, the price we gave them is already high enough, and they are still not satisfied. After the coal mines are explored, we mine them ourselves."
smiled, Li Yin said: "This batch of coal mines is to be explored, but it doesn't have to be mined."
"Why?" Tong Yu was suddenly at a loss.
Li Yin smiled sinisterly: "You just need to record the coal mines that have been explored. When the coal mines on the East Road pile up into mountains, I will give them a surprise and let them mine the coal mines for the king for nothing."
Looking at Li Yin's appearance, Tong Yu shuddered, thinking that the King of Han, Li Yuanchang, might just walk away without food.
After assigning the prospecting task, Li Yin returned to the palace. He still had one thing to deal with, and that was the weapons he bought from Charles.
At the entrance of the Hundred Treasures Hall in the palace, wooden boxes of different sizes fell on the door. According to the instructions, they put all these things into the basement of Baibao Hall.
"Your Highness, this." Every time a box was carried into the basement, Li Yin would ask Rongda to draw him a weapon from the box.
This time, what Rongda handed to Li Yin was the Barrett m82a1 sniper rifle, which is also known as the cannon in the game.
As a result, Barrett played around a bit, and Li Yin put Barrett on a bracket on the wall. There were more than 30 different sniper rifles hanging on that wall like clothes, and there was another Automatic rifles, submachine guns, all kinds of pistols, and even general-purpose machine guns. At this time, Baibaodian seems to be more cool than the gun stores in country m.
Looking at the weapons in the room, Li Yin was satisfied, not for killing, but just for collection is also a kind of enjoyment.
After receiving the weapons one by one, and finally hung the last Gru pistol on the wall, Li Yin went to the basement again, rummaged through boxes and chests, and found several boxes of bullets for the Barrett sniper rifle. Barrett's m82a1 shooting training, so that he will become the only sniper in this era, and it will not be a dream for thousands of troops to take the enemy's head.
Everything was packed properly, Rong Da looked at the room full of weapons suspiciously, and said, "Your Highness, what are these things, they look weird."
"Things for killing people." Li Yin took Barrett off the gun rack, held it up and aimed it outside, and this kind of sniper rifle with a range of more than two thousand meters is definitely a nightmare in this era. Ordinary existence, "Li Yuanchang, enough is enough, don't force me to blow your head off with a sniper rifle." Li Yin narrowed his eyes dangerously and muttered.