It turned out that in addition to Liu Nier, there were many businesses that were traveling with Li Yuanba this time.

They are all registered companies for cotton planting sites, and the places they designated are outside Yanmen Pass. After all, the land there is still Turkic people.

But none of these people is foolish. Isn’t this the agreement that if you enclose your land, you have to pay for the guards?

When they saw that Li Jian became the Jinyang Palace, they made a bond. The thing is now very popular, with a denomination of 100 guan. Now no one sells 200 guan and keeps them as a family heirloom. After all, everyone is optimistic about the Li family in Guanzhong and Hedong.

So, these guys learned a lot and also launched bonds, which were also called "Cotton Bonds".

This cotton bond is sold to ordinary people, with a denomination of ten cents. For a time, paper in Luoyang was also expensive and in short supply.

After Li Yuanba and Liu Nier discovered this, they immediately asked someone to invite Sun Jiangui of Fuxing Businessman who was in charge of the matter. In the name of the Taiyuan Businessmen Alliance, they issued cotton bonds and mortgaged the shop and assets of Zhongshang Company in Taiyuan. The total bonds were issued 200,000 yuan, which were used for the opening of the yamen and recruitment expenses of the Zhaowang Mansion in Xifu, and were returned for a period of three years.

Then, even a bachelor like Xiannu, who has some money, snatched more than a dozen bonds.

Li Yuanba selected more than a dozen smart people from his personal army, formed a staff team, and jointly formulated the next plan.

Considering Li Yuanba's own perverted force, they left more than 100 people to cooperate with the base camp operation, the remaining Qianlai people were directly divided into more than a dozen teams, and brought food for several days, and all turned into detectives and spread them away.

At this moment, Song Jinggang, who was sitting on the city tower drinking, was anxious and impatient.

Since following Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang has also sold his strength to work hard to repay the favor he received from him.

Unfortunately, they are not justified. After joining the Turks, although the survival crisis has been avoided, the real problem is that their reputation is very bad.

They are now losing to Qianglong across the river, but unfortunately the local snake here at Yanmen Pass does not sell their face much. It has always been difficult to collect grain and soldiers, so they can only rely on Liu Wuzhou's own local plunder in Mayi.

It’s a pity that Song Jingang is full of strategies, but he has no chance to use it.

This time I heard that Li Yuan sent his third son Li Yuanba to Yanmen Pass to open the yamen and build the mansion. Song Jingang saw the opportunity this time.

Although it is rumored that Li Yuanba has the courage to be unstoppable, Song Jingang disagreed. Since he rebelled, the Turks have fought and the generals of the Sui Dynasty have fought. No one has ever seen anyone. The so-called courage to be unstoppable is just an exaggeration from others. At most, he can fight dozens or hundreds of them.

Moreover, if you are brave, you will naturally be lazy in your strategy, but you can take the opportunity to take it down, which can supplement a lot of military resources.

Duke of Tang was a wealthy family of many generations. When Li Yuanba came to open the yamen, money and craftsmen would definitely be indispensable.

Song Jingang made a good plan and looked forward to Li Yuanba and his party, and ordered his subordinates to attack, so as not to disturb Li Sanlang.

As a result, Li Sanlang, who was looking forward to it, was going to the river poplar trees in Loufan with Liu Nier. According to the old man in the business name, there was Carboniferous Mountain there.

There is nothing else. If Li Yuanba wants to build his nest, he must have coal and iron.

When I heard that, I was less than a hundred miles away from Yanmen Pass, so what else I said, and I ran over with my personal guards.

After walking west for two days, the group came to the poplar trees. There was indeed a lot of charcoal here, all of which were open-pit coal mines, which were very easy to mine, but unexpectedly, they encountered problems and no one mined them.

Looking at the coal mines all over the mountains and the families at the foot of the mountain, Li Yuanba, who was full of hope, was disappointed.

Liu Nier looked at Li Yuanba reluctantly at the coal mine and asked:

"This carbonite smoke is toxic and cannot be used, why should Sanlang be upset?"

"It's poisonous? Oh, indeed, but I'm not planning to use it at home, but I want to make steel."

"Carbonite can make steel?"

Liu Nier didn't let go of all the money-making things and was about to hold Li Yuanba down and ask clearly.

At this time, a group of people came over from the side of the road, drove the carriage, and carried all kinds of tools, and started to lift the coals on the ground with a familiar way.

Li Yuanba asked someone to call the person who led the lead over. The person who came was named Hu Bingtian, who was a manager in the local iron ore.

It turned out that it was not that the ancients did not know that coal was burning efficiently, but that they had smarter ways.

In Loufan, there are many iron ore and coal mines. Local people have families who specialize in iron smelting.

Among them, the Ma family and the Sun family are two typical representatives, and there are also a number of small families, all of whom are smelting iron in Loufan.

But when they smelted iron, they naturally built iron smelting furnaces, but for convenience, they started the furnace next to the iron ore, and no one put the cart before the horse.

Well, Li Yuanba slapped his head and knew that he had made an empiricist mistake.

Since he knew about this situation, there was nothing to say. Li Yuanba stationed in the coal mine and asked someone to invite local officials from Loufan to ask questions.

In the fourth year of Daye, Sui Dynasty, Loufan County was established. At this time, the county magistrate was an old servant from Chang'an named Li Yongchao.

All because Loufan is already the border of the Great Sui Dynasty, and he loses to a place where birds do not shit, and when he comes to serve as an official here, he usually has no background or is deposed.

Li Yongchao has been a clerk in Chang'an for many years. Lin Lao walked through Yu Wenji's path and got such a position as a county magistrate.

I thought that this border area was full of love and beauty, but I didn't expect that it would be a poor mountain and a bad water that caused trouble.

Since taking office, I have not made much money, and I have been criticized several times by Shangfeng because I cannot collect taxes.

After he came to pay homage to Li Yuanba, he vomited bitterness after three glasses of wine at the reception banquet. It turned out that the local iron smelting families in Loufan were all rebellious and disobeying discipline, and did not take the government seriously at all.

The reason is very simple, it is because there are many miners under their command, and it is even more common for them to be brave and fierce.

The government's government orders were sent down, and they each disobeyed their own lip service, and even tax revenues did not receive much money!

Li Yuanba was a little surprised and asked:

"Why not ask for help from above?"

Li Yongchao took a sip of wine and shook his head and said:

"The difficulty lies in this matter. These people have found a backer and sold their iron tools and iron embryos to those aristocratic families."

When Li Yuanba heard this, he laughed:

"Aristocratic family, haha, this aristocratic family has such long hands."

Liu Nier also smiled and called inquiry from several shopkeepers who came out with him. It turned out that the three major families of Hongnong Yang, Fanyang Lu, and Xingyang Zheng monopolized the iron embryo here.

Li Yuanba asked again:

"Then where do the miners here come from?"
Chapter completed!