Wanli Youming

Chapter 383

Chapter 383

Liu Di and other military households in the border town never left their hometown.

And because of this, many border residents began to receive training.

In fact, because of Alta and Gong, the Wanli Dynasty's frontier troubles have been greatly reduced, so many frontier residents no longer know how to use weapons, especially the younger generation, most of them only know how to do business with the Mongols.

Now, the imperial court has begun to train them, which can be regarded as avoiding the decline in armaments caused by the peaceful era.

While training the frontier people, Zheng Luo also began to send people to contact San Niangzi in Mongolia to mine for profit.

Considering that she was getting old and needed money to stabilize her prestige in the Mongolian Ministry, San Niangzi agreed to partner with the Ming court to mine for profit.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun ordered Xu Zhenming, the prime minister of Taipusi, to go to naturalization in the capacity of the right servant of the Ministry of Commerce and the censor of Youqian capital, and plan to open a coal mine.

Zhu Yijun specially named the coal mine to be opened as Huangming Guihua Coal Industry in the imperial decree.

The coal mine was funded by Daming, and the Mongolian nobles such as Sanniangzi took part of the shares on the grounds of guarding the place for the imperial court.

As for the location of the coal mines to be mined, it is natural that the skilled craftsmen sent by Daming will explore them.

Daming's coal mining technology is the most advanced in this era.

According to historical records, craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were able to distinguish whether there was high-quality coal in the area from the soil surface, and they also knew to use the principle that gas is not as heavy as air to remove gas. Even the "Compendium of Materia Medica" has paintings of Ming people lighting coal in caves Undoubtedly, this also shows that the Ming people have been able to remove gas and mine coal with open flames, which is much more advanced than Europe, which could only mine coal in the dark at that time.

Less gossip.

In the end, the Ming court and Sanniangzi and other Mongolian aristocrats decided to mine a large coal mine found near Guihua City, and at the same time build a road from Guihua to Datong. The officials sent by the court Xu Zhenming and Sanniangzi Ai The son is not responsible for his rudeness.

But in this way, Xu Zhenming and Bu He recruited a large number of impoverished Mongolian herdsmen under the leadership of the Ming Dynasty official craftsman to mine and build roads in the mining area, so that these Mongolian herdsmen no longer only rely on grazing for their livelihood.

this day.

The weather is just right.

When San Niangzi came to inspect the mining area, she saw that many Mongolian herdsmen were already working in the mining area, and also because she saw many herdsmen buying tea, salt, cotton cloth, salted fish, jewelry, etc. When picking up the charcoal, he asked Xu Zhenming: "Xu Butang, can these charcoal really sell for a good price?"

"Madam, don't worry, the price of coal in the pass has been rising, so the coal mined will not worry about selling."

Xu Zhenming replied.

Because the third lady was named a first-class loyal wife by Daming after Alda and Gong Gong, so Xu Zhenming called the third lady his wife.

"If you want to come to the court, you won't lie to us."

"After all, the money is paid by the court, we just paid people."

"And the Son of Heaven is not that stupid. He used the vain silver dollars to turn into ore for nothing. It seems that the Han people in the pass have indeed become more and more prosperous under the rule of the Son of Heaven. Otherwise, they would not let the coal Prices keep going up."

At this moment, the third lady laughed and said, and said: "This is very good! I am also a fool, so I can increase my income by mining."

Speaking of this, the third lady said again: "However, the prices of these goods in the customs are really getting cheaper, especially cotton cloth. I took a closer look and found that the wages received by the Mongolians who work in this mining area are actually exchanged for cheaper prices." There used to be a lot more cotton cloth."

"This must also be caused by the emperor's good governance?"

The third lady asked Xu Zhenming.

Xu Zhenming smiled and said: "Ma'am is right. When the country is in prosperity and the emperor is in power, the people of the Li people become richer and richer. After the people of the Li people are richer, the department stores are not worried about sales, so that all kinds of skills have the opportunity to improve. There are already skilled workers in the south of the Yangtze River. One yarn machine can spin dozens of spindles at the same time, so the cotton cloth is naturally cheap, and so are the others.”

"In this, the most important thing is to get the people's wealth. Only by the people's wealth can more department stores flow into ordinary people's homes."

"This is the victory of benefiting the people and benevolent government!"

"No wonder the emperor wants to mine mines to benefit the people."

"I hope that the imperial court can continue to make the world prosperous in this way, so that our Mongolian people can continue to earn money through mining, and then know the courtesy and morality, and stop plundering, and no longer discord between Han and barbarians."

"As for the so-called barbarians in the new rituals who are not as good as the Han, it's nothing. It's understandable that the people of Wanghua are more noble, and those who haven't learned the etiquette should have to do these tiring jobs; otherwise, if they are treated the same as the Han people, then those of us What qualifications do nobles appointed by the Son of Heaven have to be honored among Mongolians? Isn’t it because we nobles know more about etiquette, so we are noble.”

The third lady said with a smile.

Xu Zhenming followed suit and nodded: "It would be great if everyone understands like Madam."

A large number of Mongolian herdsmen who live in poverty have improved their lives a lot because they have worked in mining areas or participated in the construction of the road from Datong to Naturalization, and they no longer have the desire to invade the border.

Therefore, when autumn came and the weather turned cold, when the Chaohua Xiaoju tribe was going to invade and plunder Daming, they found that there were not many Mongolians who were willing to enter the customs with them to plunder.

"How is this going?"

"Bu Jisu, didn't you ask you to bring all your tribe to the south together, and teach him a lesson from the Ming Dynasty?"

"Why are there so few people?!"

Chao Hua saw Bu Jisu, the leader of a Mongolian tribe, appearing with only thirty riders, so he frowned and questioned Bu Jisu.

Pu Jisu looked gloomy and said: "Don't mention it, all the small tribes under me have gone to Guihua San Niangzi to transport coal and pick up coal. Few of them are willing to go to Koubian with me, only my own family are willing."

After hearing this, Chao Hua frowned even tighter: "Transport coal and mine coal?"

"Don't you know, there is a large coal mine opened by the Ming Dynasty in San Niangzi's place, and there are already many Mongolian people begging for a living there, and the horses and sheep are all given to children and women!"

Bu Jisu replied.

Chaohua gritted her teeth for a moment: "What kind of words are these! The Mongolian people favored by my Changshengtian have always either herded or plundered, so there is no reason to work for the Han people!"

"Fried flowers! When to dispatch, didn't they say that they wanted to let the Ming Dynasty know what real dignity is, and to teach the Han people a lesson?"

The rabbit also rode over at this time, and asked because there were not many people around Chaohua.

Chaohua told the rabbit about the situation.

After Tuer heard this, his face turned cold immediately: "From this point of view, we really can only rob other Han people, and we must be careful when we see the border troops of the Ming Dynasty."

As he said that, he pulled out his knife and said, "But even so, we should kill a few more Han people to teach the Ming Dynasty a lesson and let them know that the descendants of our golden family are not for them to judge! "

"That's right!"

"No matter how you say it, it was always me, Meng Yuan, who bullied other Han people. Han people are cowardly and will only compete with the land. But now, they should still let the Ming people know that the brave Meng people who are blessed by me are more noble than other Han people. , not that they are more noble than us!"

After Chaohua also echoed, she drew her sword and rode her horse to the south.

Tu'er and Pu Jisu followed, and Chaohua, Tuer, Pu Jisu, etc. each led dozens of riders to appear outside the side wall, and the wolf smoke ignited.

Seeing this, Chao Hua was shocked, and couldn't help but look at Ba Tu'er: "The Ming army reacted so quickly?"

Because at the beginning of last year, Daming began to build a large number of watchtowers to strengthen communication.

Therefore, a quarter of an hour before that, Jin Yiwei, who was in charge of reporting the news on the closing stage at the border town of Datong, had seen the figure of the cavalry riding the fried flowers with a telescope, and ordered: "Set off the wolf smoke! Send a semaphore and tell the closing stage behind. , there are about five hundred riders coming!"

And the Jinyiwei stationed on the Guantai at the back, it didn't take long to know the information through the semaphore, and began to pass it on to the outside, so that the governor of Datong and other officials and generals knew about the enemy's attack and their arrival before Chaohua and others entered the customs. specific location.

(End of this chapter)