I'm playing tricks in Daqin

The guy who rolled out of the carriage, fell bloody, and was unconscious on the spot was called Pang Shan, the eldest son of a huge rich man, who was usually in charge of managing the farm.

The kidnapped woman is called Hong Gu, who is Pang Shan's maidservant. The reason cannot be ascertained for the time being. Hong Gu was imprisoned in a hut with extremely high guards. Ye Chongyang and his wife were worried that they would startle the snake, so they did not save her, but retreated first. Ask for instructions.

The mountains of pig iron alone are enough to show that there is a problem with the huge rich man. After thinking about it, Li Wei decided not to take any action for the time being. Apart from leaving some people to continue to spy on him, he led his people back to the market town and sent people to hold his identity. Pai rushed to Jingnan County City overnight, and ordered Zhuo Fengxing to dispatch an army of about 3000 people to come, and take action after he was ready.

Chapter 432 I'm Getting Rich

Li Wei and others returned to the inn in the market town in the dark, summoned Li Zhao, the secret spy in black who was lurking in the market town overnight, and asked him to retrieve all the information he knew about Pang Hua.

Although Li Zhao is only in charge of a small market town, he is not qualified for the job without some skills. He doesn't recognize Li Wei, but several immediate superiors are respectful in front of Li Wei, guessing in his heart that Li Wei is The status in the organization must be very high, maybe at the level of the deputy commander.

Even the superiors were alarmed, which shows that Pang Hua's matter is definitely not a trivial matter. He is sitting here, and he is also responsible for the ineffective supervision.

Future punishments will definitely be unavoidable. The most important thing now is to fully cooperate to reduce the guilt. Li Zhao dare not be sloppy. While wiping the cold sweat beads on his forehead, he is serious again and carefully recalls Pang Hua's past. something.

According to some intermittent memories of Li Zhao, he more or less re-listed some things about Pang Hua: the local gentry, with a good reputation, had business contacts with several aristocratic families such as Gu Jia in Jingnan, and the relationship was quite close. close.

"Oh, by the way, Li Guangping's headhunter in the town also has contacts with the Pang family."

Li Zhao suddenly remembered something, and quickly added.

"Well."

Li Wei nodded thoughtfully. There is no government office in the market town, but officials are appointed to maintain law and order. Catcher is the highest security officer in the market town. If I guess correctly, Catcher Li has already been bought by Pang Hua.

"Very well, go down and rest, it's not all your responsibility."

He waved his hand to signal Li Zhao to step down. If this matter was pursued seriously, Li Zhao would indeed be responsible for the unfavorable supervision.

However, Daqin had just annexed the Tang Empire, and was still digesting the occupied land. Pang Hua was a powerful local food gentry, and Li Zhaocai had been transferred not long ago, so he didn't know much about it.

Another thing is that the businesses conducted by Pang Hua seem to be normal on the surface. If it is not found that there is something wrong with him, no one will notice these ordinary things at all, which is understandable.

"Thank you sir."

Li Zhao was so excited that he quickly knelt down and kowtowed to thank him. He understood Li Wei's meaning, this matter was justifiable, and he would give advice to Ding Xi, the commander of the black guards, so as to reduce his responsibility.

Li Wei discussed with Xiaoliuzi, and finally assigned people to secretly monitor Pang Mansion Li Guangping to arrest the head, and wait for Jingnan's army to arrive before taking action. At the same time, he sent black-clothed secret agents to Yiwu County overnight to secretly investigate and monitor Gu Jia. All businessmen from aristocratic families who have close business relations with Pang Hua, etc. In short, no one who is suspicious should be let go.

After the order was finished, it was almost dawn, and Li Wei was so sleepy that he yawned. Anyway, it would take more than half a day for Jingnan's army to arrive at the earliest, so let's get some sleep first.

Not long after he lay down, he fell asleep. The little six stayed in the room, and Ye Chongyang and his wife took turns to watch outside the door. Fortunately, nothing happened for the time being. Li Wei was not disturbed, and he slept peacefully this time.

It was past noon when Li Wei woke up, and while he was eating, Little Six reported that there was nothing unusual about Li Guangping's head arrest in Tianzhuang Pangfu during the time he was sleeping.

After eating, Li Wei continued to sit and wait for the army from Yiwu to arrive.

Half an hour later, the good news finally came. Three thousand soldiers led by Zhuo Fengxing's lieutenant Yang Chenyi had arrived and were staying in the woods a mile away from the town to wait for orders.

Originally, according to the normal walking speed, even if he ran and marched desperately, he would have to arrive here after dark no matter how fast he arrived from Jingnan County City. A cavalry force of 3000 men came.

Of course, this 3000-man cavalry unit cannot be regarded as real cavalry, but can only be regarded as mounted infantry. Zhuo Fengxing has no intention of expanding the cavalry unit, he just wants the soldiers to rush to Linjiangji as soon as possible.

Li Wei was very satisfied with this, and immediately issued an order to block all roads leading to Jingnan with [-] soldiers, and Yang Chenyi led [-] soldiers to surround Pang Hua's farm.

The remaining 500 soldiers were under his personal command, 500 blocked all roads in the market town, and [-] entered the town to arrest people.

The army suddenly poured into the market town, which shocked the people in the market town. Fortunately, the officers and soldiers had strict military discipline and did not disturb the people.

Pang Hua was having fun in the mansion with his concubine in his arms, when the steward of the mansion stumbled in to report, the mansion was surrounded by the officers and soldiers.

Pang Hua's old face suddenly turned pale. He knew that something had happened. That kind of business was very dangerous, but the more dangerous it was, the greater the rewards. Because Gu Jia and other aristocratic families were involved in it, he didn't worry too much. Earning a mess, I don't know how much money I have.

However, he has always acted in a low-key manner and is good at disguising. On the surface, he is just a landlord and squire who has hundreds of acres of fertile land and often does good deeds.

While still in a daze, officers and soldiers rushed in like tigers and servants. The servants and servants in Pang's mansion didn't understand what happened. How could they dare to resist?

Li Wei threw Pang Hua to his subordinates for interrogation. What he is most concerned about now is how much property does Pang Hua have?

Copying this kind of bastard's house can usually make a lot of money to enrich the treasury, the fastest way to make money.

Soon, the statistics came out. The gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings copied from Pang Hua's room alone amounted to two million taels of cash, not counting land deeds and other fixed properties.

"Search them all for me!"

Li Wei gritted his teeth and ordered the soldiers to continue searching, and at the same time ordered his men to pry Pang Hua's mouth open. He didn't believe that Pang had such a small fortune, and he must have hidden it somewhere.

The new round of large-scale search can be said to be digging three feet, and finally found a hole under the bed in Pang Hua's bedroom, in which a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry were piled up, and the discounted silver amounted to as much as 700 million.

Developed!Li Wei couldn't bear the joy in his heart, and shook his fist vigorously, 1000 million, this guy's family property is so amazing that ordinary aristocratic families can't compare.

Pang Hua is a coward, and before he was executed, he was so frightened that even his ancestors recruited him. Everyone present, including Li Wei, opened their mouths wide open, their eyes gleamed golden, and their saliva flowed out.

According to Pang Hua's confession, two years ago, people from Jingnan's ancient family suddenly came to him, which made him flattered and fearful at the same time. Not home.

Twenty miles to the north of Linjiang Market Town is the rolling Wuyun Mountain, which is also known as Xiaowu Mountain because it is next to the towering Wushan Mountains.

Someone from the Gu family accidentally discovered iron ore in Wuyun Mountain. The reserves are quite large. The people from the Gu family were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths. To them, it was a big gold mine that could not be mined for decades.

The people of the Gu family have been mining iron ore for half a year in silence, but they dare not smelt it in the mountains. They have to transport it back to Yiwu to smelt pig iron, and then sell it to other families at a high price.

However, limited by technologies such as mining and smelting, coupled with the extremely inconvenient and eye-catching transportation, Gu Feiyang, the patriarch of the ancient family, finally chose to cooperate with several major families such as Jia Zhuang in Yiwu after a painful struggle.

A big pie fell from the sky suddenly, and the other families were too late to be happy, so naturally they hit it off.

Because Pang Hua's farm is very close to Wuyun Mountain, it is not only convenient for transportation, but also convenient for smelting. Therefore, several companies combined to attract Pang Hua.

Therefore, Pang Hua bought a large piece of land connected to the foot of Wuyun Mountain at a high price. His farm became a base for accumulating and smelting iron ore. The pig iron that came out was transported to the farms of the Gujia and other aristocratic families, and they were responsible for selling it, earning a lot of money.

Several major clans have made dizzying profits, but they are still not satisfied. They secretly transport pig iron to the outside of the Great Wall, which is severely lacking in iron ore, and sell it to the Golden Empire or other tribes, earning several times the silver from it.

Because iron ore and ironware are contraband, the border customs of various empires inspected contraband very strictly, so they forged pig iron into iron plates and other shapes, hid them in the interlayer of trucks, and transported a large amount of pig iron without anyone noticing. to the fortress.

However, if you walk too much at night, you will inevitably encounter ghosts. Li Wei suddenly had a whim and wanted to inspect Jingnan and other border gates, and accidentally broke this big secret.

Chapter 433 Grasping the Typical Tree Model

iron ore!Li Wei can't wait to go to Wuyun Mountain to have a look right now, but unfortunately it's getting late and it's going to be dark soon, so he can only go to see it tomorrow.

No wonder he was so excited, it was an iron mine with huge reserves, it was said that it could not be mined for decades, it was equivalent to a gold mine.

Pang Hua, who was ashen-faced, confessed everything that should be confessed, and was dragged down by the soldiers after signing the painting.

His mansion became Li Wei's temporary camp and barracks, and the kiln became a temporary prison for Pang Hua and other serious criminals.

Li Guangping from Linjiang Market Town was also arrested and interrogated with several yamen servants. Li Guangping used his power to give Pang Hua and others various conveniences. He was also an accomplice. Then cut together.

The official position of arresting the head is not big, but it is the real power of law enforcement. It is equivalent to the director of the township police station in later generations, and the chief law enforcement officer in a small place.

Pang Hua's farm was also successfully settled. Yang Chenyi led a thousand soldiers into the farm. There were more than a thousand family members inside, but no one dared to resist. Shooting with arrows, those servants were so frightened that they didn't even dare to think of resistance.

Yang Chenyi took control of the farm, and sent half of his troops to attack the mining field, deal with the servants there, and rescued more than a thousand coolies.

At the same time, he ordered his soldiers to count the pig iron in the storage warehouse, sealed it up, sent soldiers to guard it, and brought more than a dozen stewards from Pangshan and Tianzhuang to interrogate, and the truth of the case was revealed.

During the civil strife in the Tang Empire, a dozen members of Honggu's family had to leave their homes to escape the flames of war and fled to Linjiangji for refuge.

They are refugees and have no land to farm at all. They can only rely on odd jobs to earn pitifully small wages to survive. The whole family has more than ten mouthfuls and has no next meal. As a last resort, their parents had to sell Honggu to the rich man Pang Hua as a slave. , It is better to be a slave to a rich and powerful family than to starve to death. This is also the best choice in despair.

In addition to her dark complexion, Honggu also has a bit of beauty. She was selected by Pang Hua's son Pang Shan as her personal maid, that is, the housemaid.

For the sake of the family, Hong Gu served her wholeheartedly, which satisfied Pang Shan, and then begged Pang Shan to let her older brother Sun Hu and younger brother Sun Xiaohu go to the farm to do odd jobs.

Odd jobs are different from servants raised by rich families. Although the wages are heavy and the work is heavy, they are still free if they are not sold into slavery.

Pang Shan agreed that mining iron ore would require a lot of manpower, so my aunt's elder brother and younger brother were sent to work in the quarry. Their wages were sent to Hong Gu by Pang Shan every month, and then sent to Hong Gu by Pang Shan. She handed it over to her family, and the family's life was going on, Hong Gu didn't doubt anything.

The technology in the mainland is extremely backward, and the mining of ore is purely manual labor, which poses a great safety hazard. Many workers died in accidents, and some were disabled, but these people failed to go home. In order to keep the secret of the iron mine, they were all arrested. Dispose of it quietly.

Honggu's family lived frugally, and she served her wholeheartedly. When Pang Shan was in a good mood, he also rewarded her with some money. After saving, there were more than ten taels of silver, which was enough to marry his brother Sun Hu.

Coupled with the fall of the Tang Empire and the rule of the Qin people, every household will soon be allocated some fields. There is hope for life, and the suffering is about to end. Naturally, Honggu's family hopes that both sons will return home to farm.

The marriage was agreed, and the auspicious day was chosen. Honggu begged Pang Shan to let her brother Sun Hu go home to get married first, and then return to work on the construction site. Uneasy, suspicious gradually.

She did everything possible to find out about the construction site, but unfortunately, none of the servants in the village knew where the so-called construction site was. The people in Houzhuang might know, but because of the strict guards, no one could enter it.

The stewards in the village knew about it, but they didn't dare to speak out about this kind of head loss.

One day, Pang Shan got drunk and slipped his mouth by accident. Only then did Honggu know that her elder brother and younger brother died in a mining accident.

Honggu was distraught, and escaped from Pang's mansion to sue the officials. She never thought that Li Guangping's arrest would have been bought by Pang Shan. I never thought that I happened to meet Li Wei and his party, so a series of things happened before, and the whole thing was just like this.

Honggu is a fortune-teller, and she is tortured by Pang Shan until she is bruised all over her body. When she is about to be buried alive, Yang Chenyi leads an army into the farm, just in time to save her.

Early the next morning, Li Wei rushed to the Wuyun Mountain Mine excitedly. Seeing the ore field occupied by Gu Jia and other aristocratic families and quietly mining for nearly three years, his heart ached and excited. This time, he made a mess of money. No matter what, I have to thank Honggu for a while, well, this incident can be used as a model to make a big publicity, to encourage the common people to be brave enough to report and expose, and to fight against evil forces, hehe.

When he came to Pang Hua's farm and saw the piles of pig iron in the warehouse, Li Wei couldn't help laughing. The pig iron and iron ore in several warehouses were estimated to be more than ten tons. It's all cheap for him, cool!Pang Hua’s Tianzhuang’s family property and mines were all confiscated and confiscated. Li Wei sent someone back to inform Wu You and others, and arranged for some captives to work in the Wuyunshan mine. The half of Panghua’s farm near Wuyunshan was used as a smelter and warehouse , half as a barracks for the garrison.

During this period, the road leading to Jingnan County City was temporarily closed for a few days to prevent the news from leaking out, and it will be opened after Dong Zhongkang took down Gu Jia and other black-hearted families.

Three days later, the news came that General Zhuo Fengxing of Chengguan in Jingnan County, with the assistance of the local family Han, dispatched an army to take down Gu Jia and several other families. Pig iron, etc. are not counted, and the gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings and other valuables are as high as more than 5000 million taels of silver, filling the treasury of the Great Qin Empire to the brim.

The reason why these families, together with Pang Hua, the landlord's old fortune, have such frightening wealth is that they mine Wuyunshan iron ore and sell it after simple smelting. He took several times more profits, and thus accumulated such an astonishing wealth.

However, in the end it was all cheap for Li Wei.

In the next few days, Jingnan County City and Linjiangji held a public trial meeting at the same time to publicly trial various crimes committed by Gu Jia and other aristocratic families and Pang Hua, the landlord and old fortune, and then beheaded according to the crime.

The two places held public trial conferences at the same time, but the effect of the atmosphere was different. The public trial conference in Jingnan County was very large-scale, and the number of people was countless, which played a deterrent effect.

Li Wei wants to set a good example, so he sits in Linjiang Market Town in person. The public trial meeting is presided over by Gu Zhixing, a Tongzhi in Jingnan County. Tongzhi is the second person in the civil service system of a province and county. The local people are under great pressure.

The public trial and execution of the prisoners greatly frightened everyone present, but then, the entire meeting scene became unprecedentedly lively, and it was even so frenzied that people couldn't help but roar uncontrollably.

At the meeting, Gu Zhixing praised Honggu's heroic deeds, and described her as a heroine who defies power and has a sense of justice. It used to be the mansion of Pang's real estate, with a hundred acres of fertile land, and she was appointed as the head of grain in the Linjiangji area. Her children were given priority in government schools, and the focus was on cultivation with good grades.

For the poor, 5 taels of silver is an astronomical figure that they cannot earn in a lifetime. The land is the lifeline of the common people. If you own a hundred acres of fertile land, you can directly squeeze into the rank of landlord and squire.

The food chief is not an official, he is only responsible for assisting the officials to collect the official food, but the respect of a county should be polite, and the general yamen servants should politely respect the head of the food when they meet.

Furthermore, Honggu, the head of the grain, was kissed by the prime minister, and her nature was different from that of ordinary grain growers. Even if she made a big mistake and was taken down, she had to ask the prime minister for instructions a few yards before being punished.

The real advantage in front of me is that she has transformed herself into a rich and landed female squire, and she is also the head of the grain that the prime minister kisses, and she has a status. These are already enviable, and what makes people crazy is The matter of entering the official school later is really a great thing to benefit the descendants and glorify the ancestors.

Ten years of hard study, goods and the emperor's family, success and fame, glory of the ancestors, this concept has long been ingrained in the Cangyun Continent, so being an official is the exclusive property of scholars. Except for officials, scholars have the highest status and have the reputation of being a scholar. , You can see that the official does not kneel, because of the matter, you must first get rid of the reputation of a scholar before you can be punished.

That is to say, the prime minister has opened up a golden road leading to the officialdom for Honggu's children. As long as Honggu's children can strive for success in the future and obtain fame and fame, they can jump directly into the dragon's gate and become the family of officials. , how can it not make people go crazy with envy?

Such a heavy reward not only caused a huge sensation in Linjiangji, but soon spread like wind throughout the entire Qin Empire. The effect it caused was indescribable. The timid directly surrendered himself and changed his mind.

Those who committed serious crimes wiped their necks directly or absconded, and were finally arrested and brought to justice under the cover of official arrest documents.

Li Wei didn't expect that on a whim, making a typical example would cause such a huge effect.

"The people are useful, the hearts of the people are useful, the young master is wise and mighty, long live long live long live!"

The little six took the opportunity to flatter, and this time he also made a great contribution. Li Wei rewarded a lot of gold, silver and jewels.

Li Wei couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to choose a mansion in Chang'an as a reward, and the little six accepted the reward with a smile.

Chapter 434 A Beautiful Prospect

As far as Cangyun Continent's technology is extremely backward, discovering a huge iron ore deposit is like owning a mountain of gold.

While Li Wei was still enjoying himself in Linjiang Market Town, a large number of hard laborers had been escorted by officers and soldiers and marched in long lines to Linjiang Market Town.

The vast majority of these hard laborers were captives captured during the previous campaign, and there were also a small number of prisoners. They were all young and strong, and they were not as pale as the previous prisoners, thin as dry sticks, and dejected. On the contrary, many of them With a smile on their face, perhaps, you can also see the expectation of a new life from looking at their smiles and eyes.

In Cangyun Continent, no one understands the importance of productivity better than Li Wei. Population is the primary productive force. Therefore, he completely overturned the practice passed down for thousands of years and strictly prohibited the treatment of captives like livestock. They are slightly worse than ordinary soldiers. Every meal must have enough oil and water in the dishes, and there must be one meal of fish every week. The living quarters are clean, and work clothes and shoes are allotted. Military doctors and nurses can receive timely medical treatment when they are sick or injured, and they can rest for a few days, even ten and a half months.

Prisoners of war are cheap labor. They only need very little input, but the rewards they get are tens or hundreds of times. If you want to squeeze more value from these cheap labor for a long time, you must treat them kindly and give them some benefits. Small favors are also deserved.

In order to permanently occupy these young and strong prisoners of war, Li Wei has worked hard for three years. The common people can also get the land and be self-sufficient. As long as you are diligent enough, you can not only have enough food, but also have a surplus. In a few years, you can marry a daughter-in-law and live a prosperous life.

The review period is half a year. During this period, the assigned work is much easier than others, and the food has also been upgraded to a higher level, which is exactly the same as that of ordinary soldiers, and all work is counted as working hours. Although the wages are very small, it is already impressive. Here comes great hope.

On the day you leave the labor camp, the camp supervisor will pay you in cash according to the accumulated working hours in the past six months. After you settle in a certain place, in addition to a certain number of fields and free labor tools and seeds, you can Receive a settling allowance, which is the start-up capital for your new life.

It can be said that Li Wei racked his brains so hard to plan a sunny prospect for the prisoners of war, which can be said to have truly understood and mastered the minds of the ancients.

This person, once he has hope, his heart is full of hope and dreams, and then he will work hard for this dream. The treatment is so good that people can't believe it, and there are such beautiful prospects. After personal experience, everyone became excited and even fanatical. No one was passive and sabotaged. Even if there was no guard, none of them wanted to escape. They all worked hard, tried their best to express themselves, and strived for an amnesty as soon as possible. , Get rid of slavery as soon as possible, and become an upright family of the Great Qin Empire.

The vast majority of prisoners of war were either from the original Weiguo family or the original Tang country family. They wanted to get out of the labor camp as soon as possible, return to their hometown to reunite with their relatives, and live a happy life.

The [-] prisoners of war were divided into three teams and arrived at Linjiang market town one after another. After a day's rest, under the command of the battalion supervisors, they began to work in an orderly manner. Mining, transportation, and smelting were all full of energy.

The smelting workshop in the farm is only responsible for smelting iron ore into pig iron ingots, and then loading them on trucks and transporting them to the Great Wall for storage. It takes so much time and effort, and the tossing about money, manpower and food is only because of the secrecy of iron smelting technology. One of the biggest advantages of the empire, Li Wei racked his brains to strengthen the secrecy work in this area.

The [-]-mile Great Wall connecting Canglong Mountain and Tieji Mountain is not only the border fortress of the Great Qin Empire, protecting the safety of the pass, but also a bridgehead for the empire to attack the Zhou Empire. After the completion of the Great Wall, barracks and warehouses will be built.

Since it was the bridgehead to attack the Zhou Empire, it was natural to store up a large amount of military supplies such as food, weapons and equipment. Li Wei added a general camp in the Great Wall, that is, a one-stop workshop for smelting iron and making weapons and equipment, and the Great Wall became a city. Huge military material accumulation station.