The mine that Cao Dalin mentioned was more than ten miles outside Guixin City, not far from Guixin County, but it was a bit off. Wu Ji took his men and rode his horse and arrived soon.

From a distance, I saw a mountain, which was radiantly red, and Wu Ji's heart thumped: "It's not a hematite ore, right?"

Hematite is a very high-quality ore among iron ore, with an iron content of up to 70%. If it is hematite, how much ore will be? If it is all ore, not to mention the Wu family military industry, even if there are 180 Wu family military industry, it will be useless.

"Board, do you see?" Cao Dalin pointed to the mountain ahead and said, "It's all ore, but it's hard to mine, so it's necessary to abandon it." Yanlai felt quite regretful.

The mountain is full of ore, but it cannot be mined. It is equivalent to looking at the treasure, but it cannot be turned into money. Who can not regret it?

Wu Ji's guess was confirmed. Although he had already expected it, he was still shocked. If it was done, it would be great, and then there would be no need to worry about being useless.

Soon, we arrived at the foot of the mountain, which was the mining farm. There were dozens of people packing up their things, and it seemed that they were leaving like that.

A slightly short and fat man stood still, and the bitter cold wind blew on him, he didn't feel it, his eyes were particularly complicated, and he looked at the red mountain.

"He is the owner of this mine. His surname is Yao and his name is Yao Gui." Cao Dalin introduced Wu Ji, came to Yao Gui, and turned over and dismounted: "Shopkeeper Yao, what do you think? It's useless to look at it again. Do you still want to move the mountain?"

"It's a pity, so many good mines cannot be mined. What a pity!" Yao Gui's voice was a little hoarse, he felt very sorry, his face was a little decadent, he looked at Cao Dalin: "Shopkeeper Cao, what are you here? I have not told you that I am going to close the door, you have to prepare early. So are you, don't expand sooner or later, expand when I close the door, where are you going to find ore?"

"This...Shopkeeper Yao, this is my boss, Commander Wu who killed Liufeng Thief." Cao Dalin introduced Yao Gui.

As soon as he heard this, Yao Gui became respectful, his body was 90 degrees, and his figure was very low: "I have seen Commander Wu. I don't know that Commander Wu is here, so I would like to forgive Commander Wu."

Wu Ji waved his hand to stop him from saluting and headed straight to the point: "Shopkeeper Yao, I heard you are closing the door. Come and see if you can take down your mine."

"Okay!" Manager Yao was happy at first, then shook his head and sighed: "Commander Wu, although selling it will benefit me without any harm, I still want to remind you that there are many iron ore on the mountain now, but it is impossible to mine. I have already picked all the things that can be harvested. If you sell them down, you will lose."

This person is not bad, not so traitorous, Wu Ji has a great impression of him: "I'll talk about this later. If possible, please take me to see it before making a decision."

"Please! Please!" Wu Ji's reputation in Guixin County was extremely famous. Manager Yao only felt that it was a great honor to be able to contribute some effort to Wu Ji, so he hurriedly invited him sideways.

Wu Ji was not polite, and followed Yao Gui to check it out. The mountain was very large, and the iron ore on it was all hematite, which was difficult to mine. Along the way, I saw a pit in the east and a pit in the west. Yao Gui had mined all the places where it could be mined, and the rest was very difficult to mine.

After checking it, Wu Ji knew it and asked, "Shopkeeper Yao, how do you want to sell it?"

"You really want to buy it?" Manager Yao was a little unbelievable.

When Cao Dalin touched Wu Ji's elbow, he winked at Wu Ji, meaning that he would not buy Wu Ji.

In their eyes, the mountain has been abandoned and cannot be mined anymore. Only those with broken brains will be curled up.

"You offer the offer." Wu Ji nodded.

Cao Dalin wanted to say something else, but when he saw Wu Ji shook his head at him, he had to put a word in his heart and muttered in secret: "The boss has always been smart, why is he so blind? He wants to buy this place that is obviously useless. He doesn't spend it like this if he has too much money? Alas!"

Yao Gui looked Wu Ji over and over again and confirmed that Wu Ji was not joking. Then he said, "Commander Wu, you killed Liufeng thieves and saved the converted man. I am also a convert. My family survived because of you. I am grateful to you. If you want this mountain, I will give it to you. It is useless for me to keep it. I am sad when I look at it."

Such a big treasure can be picked up for nothing. Wu Ji was a little surprised. Yao Gui was a good person and smiled and said, "Thank you for your kindness from the shopkeeper Yao. How can this be achieved? You must pay this silver, so you can offer it."

"Commander Wu is as honest as water, and has a reputation, so it is." Yao Gui sighed very much: "Since that's the case, then only 500 taels of silver. If Commander Wu thinks it's too expensive, you can give it a price, what do you say is as much as you want."

Wu Ji did not deduct military pay and reissue military pay for soldiers, and had long been spreading the converts, so the converts highly praised him, and Yao Gui was no exception.

"Five hundred taels?" Wu Ji was so surprised. Yao Gui treated such a big treasure as garbage. He couldn't help but mutter in his heart: "If you knew that I could mine them all, I would think what I would think? Would you regret it so crazy?"

If it were someone else, I would definitely be eager to say this. Wu Ji was not the kind of person who likes to take advantage of others. He smiled and said, "Shopkeeper Yao, I will give you ten thousand taels of silver."

"Okay! Ah, ten thousand taels of silver?" Yao Gui didn't react at first, and then he almost bit his tongue off. His eyes were wide open, and he looked at Wu Ji, unable to speak anymore.

How could he take the initiative to give people silver? Ten thousand taels of silver, but he offered twenty times the price.

"Boss, you..." Cao Dalin was also shocked and almost bit his tongue.

"Commander Wu, this is not possible, this is not possible, this is a barren mountain, no one wants a thousand taels of silver, how can it be done?" Yao Gui finally reacted and hurriedly refused.

"Shopkeeper Yao, don't worry, I can still mine some, it won't be a loss." Wu Ji certainly wouldn't tell him that he could mine the mountain. If that were the case, Yao Gui might regret it.

"Really?" Yao Gui and Cao Dalin asked together.

Yao Gui has been a experienced master all his life, and he is unbelievable to this. Cao Dalin knew that Wu Ji had a good steelmaking method, but he didn't believe that he could mine.

"Of course it's true!" Wu Ji's voice was not high, but he was full of confidence: "If Manager Yao agrees, we will make a contract."

"Well! OK, then." Yao Gui thought for a while, and then reminded him: "Commander Wu, I have to remind you again. Once you make a contract, you will not regret it."

"Don't worry, I won't regret it." Wu Ji added in his heart: You must be the one who regrets it.

Under Wu Ji's instruction, Cao Dalin began to negotiate a contract with Yao Gui. Wu Ji called a personal soldier and whispered in his ear. The personal soldier rode his horse.

Cao Dalin and Yao Gui were both veterans of the contract, so they quickly agreed. Wu Ji and Yao Gui signed and asked Yao Gui to go to Wu's military industry to collect the money. Yao Gui could trust Wu Ji's credit, and he left happily.

In order to express his gratitude to Wu Ji, he gave the mine directly to Wu Ji, which saved Wu Ji a lot of trouble.

"Boss, Yao Gui is not bad, why didn't you invite him?" Cao Dalin had a good impression of Yao Gui and had to remind him. In the conversion, there were not many experienced mining masters like Yao Gui. If you invite him, it would be of great help to Wu Ji.

"It's not that I didn't think about it, it's because this matter involves a major secret. Therefore, he can't let this mine take charge. I'm going to let my third uncle manage it." Wu Ji smiled and called the miner, told him about the conditions for the recruitment, and asked them if they would like to stay?

Wu Ji's conditions are very good. Moreover, Wu Ji's reputation is beyond his reputation, so these miners can't agree, so they agreed immediately. Wu Ji's wages were much richer than before. When they hired them, they were all very happy.

Wu Ji asked Cao Dalin to make a employment contract with them, and then took them to the mine, found a place, and guided them to dig holes.

The miners immediately swung their hammers and started to dig holes. They all worked hard without being lazy and worked very hard.

"Boss, what are you doing to dig a hole?" Cao Dalin was puzzled and had to ask: "There is no need to go underground for this mining."

In the Song Dynasty, mining was mainly open-pit mining and underground mining, and there was no such condition at that time.

"You will understand later." Wu Ji knew that even if he explained it to him, he wouldn't understand it, so it would be better not to explain it.

Under Wu Ji's guidance, the miner worked hard to dig a hole. It took less time. A hole five or six feet deep and more than two feet wide appeared. Wu Ji then asked them to stop, take them to the next place, and then dig the hole.

After digging three holes in a row, Wu Qing and a few people from Wujiazhuang arrived with several carriages. When Wu Qing saw Wu Ji's face, he asked in surprise: "Ji'er, what do you want Uncle San to do? You won't buy this barren mountain, right?"

"Uncle San, have you brought the things?" Wu Ji did not answer his question.

"Bring it! Bring it! Ji'er, what do you want gunpowder?" Wu Qing looked curious again.

"Call them to move here." Wu Ji did not answer his question, but instead ordered the people from Wujiazhuang to move the gunpowder down and put it in front of the cave.

"Uncle San, this mine will be under your control in the future. You must remember it." As soon as Wu Ji finished explaining, he instructed Ding Zhuang from Wujiazhuang to fill the gunpowder, install the leads, and then compact it.

With Wu Ji's guidance, this matter is not difficult to do and it is completed quickly.

Wu Qing looked curious and asked what he was doing. Wu Ji did not answer and asked everyone to leave immediately and go to the designated location to hide, so that he would not be allowed to appear.

Then, Wu Ji pulled Wu Qing and several people from Wujiazhuang and said, "In the future, gunpowder will be used to mine this mine. You must take charge of gunpowder and not leak any of it?"

"Can gunpowder still mine?" Wu Qing looked disbelief.

In addition to being used in weapons, gunpowder is also a good thing for mining. This is how our ancestors did it.

Under Wu Ji's guidance, Wu Qing lit the fuse and the group followed Wu Ji to hide in the hiding place. Once they hid, Wu Qing and the others kept asking: "Can this work? Can it really be mined?"

There are quite a lot of questions. Wu Ji didn't go to answer them, just waited quietly.

"Boom!"

With a earth-shaking sound, the ground was shaking, and smoke and dust filled with it, as if the sky had collapsed.
Chapter completed!