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Having settled Chiyohime, Chang Ping turned his head around again, and once again lifted the corner of his skirt gracefully with a smile on his face.

"Trouble shopkeeper Cao."

Several Shanxi businessmen greeted them inwardly with great joy, leading the team of reporters, and the group also went straight to the Baoketu Coal Mine, but when they reached the towering gate of the coal mine, Chang Ping subconsciously looked back.

Looking at the small building rising from the ground, Han Xiaomo's big watery eyes were clearly full of nostalgia, and she noticed Chang Ping's eyes, so she lowered her head in panic.

Words can be faked, but this inadvertent expression cannot be faked, unless the chick is already thick and dark to the level of Cao Cao, it seems that there may be something really wrong with this Baoketu coal mine! Looking at it, Chang Ping's heart sank slightly .

Later generations of Baotou first relied on this coal mine to rise. It is no wonder that wealthy Shanxi merchants all started in this place. The mining environment here is indeed excellent.

From a bird's-eye view from the sky, the entire coal mine factory is like a huge egg, surrounded by more than 20 small buildings in an oval shape. Within the area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters, China Construction is the main body of the open-pit coal mine. The power of human beings is really great. Yes, in just a few months from construction to production, the grassland has been lowered by a layer, with a depth of two or three meters. Tens of thousands of workers are busy digging shallow coal mines, and then put them on trolleys, pushing At the side of the conveyor belt, the steam engine drives the wooden conveyor belt pulled by iron chains, and the immature coal is transported to the south door of the factory building one by one. The other part of the workers continues to pick up trolleys and send it to the coal washing machine inside the factory building to wash away the sundries and stones.

Coal is not only used in train steam engines. Nowadays, during the Little Ice Age, these dark industrial golds are also the most important fuel for heating, but the fuel on the grassland is too scarce, and the herdsmen can only rely on cattle on weekdays. Feces and sheep dung are collected and dried in the sun to be used as fuel, which can barely meet the daily cooking needs, and heating in winter is unthinkable.

Now with this Baoketu coal mine and the coal produced here, it is enough to meet the fuel demand of a large number of Ming people who immigrated to the grasslands!

The scene of labor is incomparably spectacular. Standing on the specially constructed glass passage between the board of directors and the senior staff dormitory building, you can see the busy crowd like ants, the roaring huge machines, and the piles of coal mountains. Even a Chiyo who hates the air Ji couldn't help but opened his mouth wide in amazement, looked down, and shook his head in amazement.

"It's amazing!"

When mentioning this, Cao Sanxi couldn't help but feel complacent, and showed off with a smile while holding his fists.

"Even in Shanxi, there are few such large open-pit coal mines. Every year, 66 shi of clean coal can be produced here, which is enough to meet the heating needs of 50 people. Waiting for the railway track to be built here, here will be a town in the future. The group, the ironworks, and the tanneries, all have to get up!"

Looking at the mine below, Cao Sanxi's pupils showed a hint of ambition, his eyes were full of longing, and Chang Ping's heart arose when he heard it.

However, on this cut-off eye, there was a sudden commotion that caused her to turn her head away involuntarily.

Next to the No. [-] production building not far from the board building, the coal miners who were busy at work suddenly started fighting. More than [-] people surrounded and beat several people to the ground, punched and kicked them, and some even dragged them A shovel for shoveling coal came over, and it fell hard on the person. Seeing the commotion, some factory security guards in leather armor hurried up to mediate, but these people did not seem to have much deterrent force, pushing and shoving. Among them, some beating workers seemed to show signs of attacking these security guards.

"Shopkeeper Cao, what's going on?"

Listening to Chang Ping's hasty questioning, the faces of Cao Sanxi and several shareholders also turned ugly, and they managed to put on a smile, and Cao Sanxi smiled to smooth things over.

"Don't blame the editor-in-chief! After all, the people of the orangutan tribe have been naturalized for a short time, and they don't know the rules. It is common for them to have some conflicts with the Han people. I have hired the old scholars in the pass to teach them the rules. Given time, these barbarians will also I will definitely be educated to become an obedient citizen of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Second editors, although this is a place outside of culture, it has a special flavor to enjoy! Especially the local roasted deer is a must! I have already prepared a banquet in the banquet hall downstairs, and all the reporters from the capital are welcome. Follow me down, let's fill my stomach first!"

As soon as he heard that there was something delicious, Chiyohime's big bright eyes immediately lit up like light bulbs, and she nodded her head in a hurry.

"Go and go!"

It's not good to take Cao Sanxi's face off, Chang Ping also nodded with a smile: "If so, I will be the shopkeeper Cao!"

During the exchange of pleasantries, a group of people went downstairs one by one, but this time Changping walked behind, passing by the corridor window, she raised her eyes again and saw that the group of beating workers were fine, they went to the corner to smoke A few workers who were beaten to the point of bleeding were carried out on a stretcher. Although she had never read "Sherlock Holmes", Chang Ping obviously understood the truth that the devil is hidden in the details. Looking at this scene, she was Subconsciously shook his head.

It seems that this magnificent and harmonious Menghan joint factory plan is not as harmonious as it seems on the surface, and there are many undercurrents hidden underneath.

The meal at noon was a feast for the guests and the host. The pure wild roasted deer here really has a special flavor. In the afternoon, Changping is really a set of information about the size of the foreman, the number of Mongolian tribes recruited and so on. About the interview, I asked Cao Sanxi for details, but in the evening, at the reluctance of Chiyoji, Changping stayed here in the evening under the pretext of writing a press release.

Chiyoji really has a big heart, just now she was complaining about the bad air here, and she was not in a hurry to raise her baby, but after a while, this girl was lying on the bed, making kitten-like purring sounds, sleeping The saliva flowed out.

It was next to her bed, but Chang Ping looked around in the corridor outside. Except for the two guards standing guard, there was no one watching, so she still pulled down all the curtains worriedly, and then walked solemnly. Back to the bed.

"Ahh~"

With a stream of crystal-clear saliva, the small bag of hemp walnuts that had been stuffed into his little mouth all day was torn out, and Han Xiaomo finally slapped his little mouth comfortably, which made his little face suffer again. down.

"My lord princess, I really didn't lie to you. It was really that brother who brought the Tartars over and robbed our coal mine. That Fatty Cao is the one who took the lead in arresting us today! You send someone to arrest them It will be clear at the first trial!"

"Please, don't tie me up again!"

Ignoring her request to untie, with a solemn face, Chang Ping asked with a serious face: "I was in the mine today, and I saw two groups of people fighting, one group injured the other group, you know about this what?"

"Fight?"

Han Xiaomo, who obviously asked this question, was confused, but after thinking about it for a while, she suddenly pouted again.

"What kind of fight, it's obviously bullying! The orangutan didn't treat us as human beings at all. It's a big deal to hit people if we disagree with each other. Even if we beat people to death, the government doesn't care."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have traveled all the way to the capital to file a complaint with you!"

Chapter 735. Descendants of Bansheng

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, the eternal truth.

Han Xiaomo and the others have very special backgrounds, they have a unique historical name, Banshengchengmin!

During the Wanli period, the Tumed department was able to develop and develop to the point of rivaling the Ming court. It was inseparable from Han Xiaomo and their ancestors. When Tumed was the strongest, there were more than 30 Bansheng city residents farming in On Tumochuan, the Mongols were provided with military rations and a series of Bansheng cities were built for the Mongols.

However, they cannot be blamed for this. You must know that apart from some of the residents of Bansheng City who were led by the traitors of the White Lotus Sect from Shandong who defected to the past and were willing to be lackeys of other races, the rest were basically border residents who were looted by the Mongols from the Nine Sides. Living in Mongolia is not even as good as slaves, and the exploited have almost nothing.

What is especially heartbreaking for these Bansheng residents is that the mother country of Ming Dynasty does not recognize their identities. Perhaps in order to cover up their shame, it is better to do more than to do less. There is no thought of rescuing them back at all!

Later, the Tumed tribe declined, and the Chahar tribe took control of Tumochuan. The descendants of these Bansheng people were divided among the Mongolian tribes. Han Xiaomo's part was assigned to the Zalut tribe. A slave of the Zarut Ministry.

In the long river of history, the fate of this part of the Han people was gradually annihilated in the mist of history with the conquest and entry of the Qing Dynasty, but in this time and space, there is Mao Jue!

In the battle of Liaohe, the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, which crossed the Central Plains, were completely disintegrated by Mao Jue. They came to help the battle, and the capricious Mongolian tribes returned home. The Zalut tribe was especially hit hard. Tens of thousands of elite riders marched eastward, Those who came back were only two or three thousand, and they brought a whole body of plague. The scorpion master had declined, and taking advantage of the opportunity, Han Xiaomo and the slaves of the previous generation of Han people rebelled. After several blood fights, the Jarut tribe was completely beaten out of Baoketu, and he turned himself into the master.

But then, Shanxi Merchants came back with these damned Zarut tribes in a fair manner!

"So this Baoketu coal mine belongs to us in the first place! These Shanxi people are the same as the Mongolians, they are all robbers!"

Speaking of this, even Han Xiaomo became agitated, her breathing became short of breath, and the hemp rope tied around her body sank into her flesh, her screams were so sharp that even Chiyohime, who slept like a piglet, could Uncomfortably turned over, Chang Ping hurriedly gesticulated with a finger to the small mouth.

"Hush!!!"

Thinking of her own situation, Han Xiaomo stopped abruptly in astonishment.

However, what she said touched Zhu Yuhui greatly. In the capital, Han Xiaomo just told her angrily that the coal mines that belonged to them were robbed by these Shanxi merchants united with the Mongols. She had no way of knowing the history of the blood and tears of the Bansheng slaves. Changping, who lived under the glory of the Ming Empire since childhood, could never have imagined that there was such a tragic group of Ming people living such a life of ups and downs. life.

Putting himself in the position, risking his life to resist, the slave owner who paid the price of blood and let him go out, transformed himself and became the master of this land once again, and he was sent under the fence. Who wouldn't be angry?

But sympathy is all sympathy, Han Xiaomo's words made Chang Ping even more headache, and he rubbed his swollen little head dully.

The situation has become more complicated.

Before coming here, Changping just regarded this case as an ordinary property rights robbery case, involving some power and money transactions between Shanxi merchants and local officials in Shanxi, but it happened in a special place, the first stronghold to appease the Mongols , Baoktu Coal Mine.

And to be honest, even if everything Han Xiaomo said was true, and she, Zhu Yuhui, had found out, she had no intention of avenging them at all. At most, she would arrest a few corrupt officials and make a few Shanxi merchants pay the price. But there is no way to take back the Baoketu Coal Mine, there is no way, this place is too important!If Bauktu’s Zalut tribe set an example, hundreds of thousands of other nomadic tribes scattered on the grasslands will follow this example, and they will come over one after another and become workers, farmers, and townspeople of Ming Dynasty. , the northern border troubles that have not been resolved for thousands of years will be completely resolved in the hands of Mao Jue.

For the sake of the overall situation, Changping can also accept sacrificing the interests of some small coal mine owners.

But now, the core conflict in the Baoketu Coal Mine has become the hatred between these Han people who are the descendants of Bansheng slaves and the slave master Zalut who once bullied them. In the interview with Cao Sanxi in the afternoon, she is a cliché It is clear that the more than 5 workers in the entire Baoketu coal mine are basically composed of "locally recruited Han Chinese" and Jalut Mongols. Think about it, and now factories and mines in Shanxi have sprung up like mushrooms, manpower There was already a shortage, and Baoketu was hundreds of miles away from the pass. If it weren't for the descendants of Bansheng who lived here, how could so many Han people be willing to move here!