Take the earth to enshrine the gods

Chapter 40 Qingshan Mining
Rely on the mountain to eat the mountain.

Qingshan Town, as the name suggests, more than half of the local people's livelihood is linked to Qingqiu Mountain. Apart from the breeding of spirit beasts and the cultivation of medicinal materials similar to Bianguan Town, the most famous place in the area is the mining industry.

Needless to say, Lingshi Mine is the star industry in Yize County.

The gentry and common people in Qingshan Town also had self-knowledge, knowing that the Lingshi mines were beyond their reach, so they turned their attention to the jade mines scattered all over Qingqiu Mountain.

The jade mentioned here is pure jade, the kind without aura.

The spiritual rain descended, penetrated into the ground and combined with the jade, and gradually became a spiritual stone.Qingqiu Mountain is beautiful and beautiful, and has long been known for its richness in beautiful jade. It is not surprising that it can form a Lingshi mine.

Lingshi mine is often regarded as the semi-raw mine of jade mine.

A gentleman is like jade.

Just like in ancient times on the earth, in Dagan, jade articles are deeply loved by the powerful and gentry, and often become a symbol of status, taste, and even character.

Men, women, young and old, all love it.

Especially those merchants without spiritual roots are obsessed with jade.

And because the spirit stone will shatter into powder after the spirit energy is exhausted, it will make ordinary jade rare and push up the price of jade in disguise.

This is exactly the same as the relationship between spiritual fields and ordinary farmland.

In this way, the Qingqiu Mountain Jade Mine has naturally become a sought-after commodity. People flock to it and exploit it wantonly. A small half of the more than [-] people in Qingshan Town are engaged in jade-related industries.

From jade raw ore mining, to ore cutting and trading, to jade processing, appraisal and sales, a complete jade industry chain has been formed.

Where there are interests, fights are inevitable, and the greater the interests, the more fierce and ruthless the fights will be.

In the early days, jade mining was often carried out on an individual or family basis, and whoever dug it counted. It was very chaotic, and bloody conflicts occurred every day.

And because many of the miners are novices, incidents of mine collapses causing deaths continue to occur.

These are the most chaotic and darkest times.

Later, in order to reduce internal conflicts, the villagers voluntarily united and began to organize the enclosure of land with the village as the unit. Internal division of labor was implemented, and bloodshed and mining accidents became less and less.

Unfortunately, the good times are not long.

When all the mines in Qingqiu Mountain were occupied, bloody conflicts broke out again between the villages because of the mine boundary disputes, and every time the whole village went to battle, more people died.

To this day, fighting still breaks out from time to time.

Just yesterday, before the first lunar month was over, Zhaojiacun and Lijiacun fought again. Five people died and dozens of people were injured.

This incident caused a lot of trouble, and even alarmed Qian Yuan.

Taking this as an excuse, Qian Yuan rushed to Qingshan Town with his personal guards, and handed over all the stalls in the county government to Uncle Zhong.The new policy has just been promulgated, and there will definitely be problems of one kind or another. Qian Yuan is not in a hurry to intervene.

As the Zhang family was suppressed, since the Spring Festival, many officials of the original Zhang faction went to the palace to pay their respects and express their allegiance to Qian Yuan, making the palace crowded.

Qian Yuan was going to stand on the sidelines, just to see which officials were sincerely loyal, which ones were loyal and treacherous, which ones were capable of doing things, and which ones were embroidered pillows.

Only when Qianyuan has the answer in his heart will he take action.

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In the morning, Qingshan Restaurant.

Called by Qian Yuan, Li Zheng from Xiaxia 36 Village, Qingshan Town, and the local gentry from Qingshan Town gathered together to mediate the conflict between Zhao and Li villages.

No one dares not to come under the order of the prince.

It is coming, but everyone is anxious, they are not afraid of the prince, but they are worried that the prince will use this as an excuse to seize their mine.

In the past, no matter whether the villages won or lost the fight with weapons, no matter how many people died, they would not report it to the officials.

Why?

I just don’t want to give the county government a reason to intervene.

If the people don't raise it, the officials don't.

But it happened that the prince came, and he brought a team of people with him.

Some Lizheng had already made up their minds. If the prince dared to take back the jade mine, they would dare to incite the villagers to make trouble.

Cutting off people's wealth is no different from killing people.

Qian Yuan sat at the top and observed the people in the hall. It was amazing that he seemed to be able to see what these people were thinking and what they were worried about.

Of course he would not care about this industry.

But letting the fighting continue is not an option, there will be a big incident one day, there is nothing else in Qingshan Town, but skilled miners are everywhere.

This is what Qianyuan urgently needs, and he cannot die in the fight for nothing.

Qianyuan Dao: "The Qingqiu Mountain jade mine dispute has been going on for a long time. No one can tell who is right and who is wrong. In the final analysis, the mining rights of the jade mine are still not clearly defined."

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All of you are feeling tense, the prince really wants to use a knife when he says this.

Even the three squires from Qingshan Town who were forced to come to participate in the discussion all had serious faces. Could it be that the prince is going to take Qingshan Town under the knife after he has established his prestige in the county government?
That's going to be a big deal.

Want to object, the words come to my mouth, but I can't say them.

Who is this Lord in front of you?

In just three months, the Li family was uprooted and the Zhang family was so suppressed that they could not lift their heads. Both prestige and popular support far surpassed any previous county magistrate.

Going against such a master is courting death.

Even if we don't talk about these things, just the personal guards who came with the prince this time can probably wipe out Qingshan Town.

Who dares to be presumptuous?

"Since the mining rights are not clearly defined, why not integrate all the mines together and set up a mining company, and each village will take shares in proportion to the size of the existing mines, so as to resolve the dispute once and for all?"

company?

Shares?

The Lizhengs, who were still anxious just now, were completely dazed by the new words thrown out by the prince.

Qian Yuan just smiled.

Seeing Xu Chu standing behind him, he took out a stack of papers and distributed them to the Lizheng and the squires present. This is the "Concept on the Establishment of "Qingshan Mining"" written before Qian Yuan came. Ten copies.

In it, Qianyuan explained what a company is, what is a joint-stock system, what is a dividend, what is a joint operation, and so on, using straightforward words as much as possible.

For this, Qianyuan racked his brains a lot. His understanding of these terms basically stayed at the literal meaning. Fortunately, it should be enough to deal with these natives.

The crowd rioted.

Lizheng is all literate, and they are all good people. Without Qian Yuan explaining too much, he can realize the benefits of establishing a joint-stock company.What made them even more happy was that the prince didn't intend to get involved in 【Qingshan Mining】.

Qian Yuan smiled and said: "How about it, what is my proposal?"

"Your Highness is wise!"

The person who spoke was Qian Dayou, a country gentry from Qingshan Town. I heard that he is very prestigious in this town. He was often seen in the mediation of mine disputes in the past.

This time, Qian Dayou was convinced.

Although it is just a thin piece of paper, Qian Dayou can see the prince's skill from it. In the conception, the prince only writes about the distribution of the share quota at the village level. As for the distribution of the villagers' shares, it is up to Lizheng to decide.

In this way, not only Lizheng's power is maintained, but also Lizheng's approval can be obtained more easily, so that the matter can be carried forward smoothly.Otherwise, there will definitely be someone secretly making trouble.

Being in a high position and knowing how to advance and retreat, and knowing how to grasp and release power, this is very remarkable.

"No wonder you can fight Zhang Huairen down." Qian Dayou was really convinced, he was thinking, should he actively implement the three new policies just promulgated by the palace in Qingshan Town next.

"Your Highness is wise!"

The Lizhengs also came back to their senses, and gave each other their flattery without any money.

Yep,
I really don't need money.

Even if some people still have different ideas in their hearts, they are powerless to resist in the face of such a general situation, so they can only nod their heads in agreement.

"That's good. I happen to be free recently, so I'm just going around Qingqiu Mountain."

Qian Dayou took the initiative to invite Ying, "It's rare for the prince to have such a taste, and this old man is willing to be a tour guide."

"That couldn't be better." Qian Yuan smiled.

(End of this chapter)