Chapter 136 The unlucky mine supervisor,
the prefect, immediately understood what his daughter meant.
The Yanping Guards failed to suppress the rebellion, and they messed up. So the price of inviting the Changning Guards to dispatch should be the Yanping Guards.
At this time, if Changning Guard can clean up this mess and prevent things from spreading to the top, it will be the best result for Yanping Guard.
When he thought of this, Magistrate Fang immediately asked his men to contact the commander of Yanping Guards.
Commander Yu also had a headache. Three hundred households were wiped out. This matter must not be put on the scale. Once it is put on the scale, it will weigh a thousand pounds.
According to an official document from the Ministry of War a few days ago, Yu Dayou lost a military officer and more than 30 officers and soldiers in Ningbo, and he, the deputy commander-in-chief of Zhejiang, was deprived of his official post.
Commander Yu caused the loss of 300 people here. Why not just send them directly to the capital in a prison car for questioning?
Mine Supervisor Hu is a member of the palace. He is now surrounded by mining thieves. If something happens to Eunuch Hu, the matter will not be suppressed.
The top priority is to rescue Eunuch Hu.
At this time, the messenger from the prefect's Yamen came over, and Commander Yu was overjoyed after hearing the prefect's method.
If the Changning Guard can exterminate the Black Mountain bandits, they must be capable of fighting.
Although it hurts to promise benefits, it is better than losing one's official position!
Commander Yu thought for a while and immediately called his youngest son Yu Zongyuan and asked him to go to Changning Guard in person to discuss sending troops with Su Ze.
Commander Yu is not reluctant to give up the money. As long as the mining bandits can be put down and the death of three hundred families can be suppressed, the matter can be considered solved.
These days are really bad for the Yu family. Commander Yu reminds me of the mine supervisor Hu. If he hadn't provoked him to skip work, he wouldn't have caused such a disaster! Commander Yu cursed Hu Kuangjian again at home.
Mine Supervisor Hu, who was cursed by Commander Yu, was busy in the room at this time.
Eunuch Hu, who was cursed by everyone as a dog eunuch, actually kept a low profile when he arrived in Yanping Mansion. He did not live in Nanping City, but built a house on the edge of the mining area and lived near the mining area.
The mining area was surrounded. Eunuch Hu dispersed his family wealth and recruited some miners, and finally kept the mining thieves out.
But he can't get out now. Eunuch Hu also knows the fighting power and loyalty of his miners. It's okay to let them guard the defense, but it's a bit difficult to let them break out. So Eunuch Hu simply lies down and waits for Yanping behind closed doors. The prefecture and county came to the rescue.
Eunuch Hu was busy at this time. He put a piece of blue ore into a mortar, smashed it, and then ground it into fine sand with a grinding pestle.
Eunuch Hu carefully poured the blue sand powder into the white porcelain bottle, and then poured in water.
This set of flying water method can remove the sediment, filter it again, and wait until it settles tomorrow to get the blue powder.
Eunuch Hu was originally an eunuch from the weaving and dyeing house, but he turned out to be an insignificant little eunuch.
Later, the emperor wanted to open a mine, and I don't know which nobleman recommended it, so Eunuch Hu was sent to Nanping and became a mine supervisor.
From an outsider's perspective, this eunuch Hu could be said to have received a promotion and a raise in salary, and got a good job.
But in fact, Leng Nuan knew it. Eunuch Hu only discovered this unfortunate job after he took office happily.
Why is it an unlucky job? The silver mine that Eunuch Hu came to mine had already been mined in the Southern Song Dynasty.
The emperor did not know where to find a map of Kantu, and found out that there was a silver mine here. The Ministry of Industry asked the emperor many times not to open the mine.
The reason given by the Ministry of Industry is also very simple. This mine stopped operating in the late Southern Song Dynasty. This means that the mine has almost been mined, and if we continue to dig, we will not be able to dig out anything.
The emperor didn't listen.
After Eunuch Hu arrived, he discovered that although there were still minerals in the veins, these mines were relatively deep and difficult to mine and dangerous. However, for the emperor's mission, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and mine.
As a result, Eunuch Hu spent 10,000 taels of silver on mining in Nanping for five years, but in the end he only dug out 7,000 taels of silver.
During this period, Eunuch Hu was sprayed miserably!
Fujian Dao was involved in the incident and he embezzled money. How pitiful is it. Eunuch Hu's account book was clean. He had dug out 7,000 taels of silver in five years of mining. There was really no corruption at all.
The Ministry of Industry said that he wasted money from mining, so Eunuch Hu could only attach the account book again. Thanks to his honesty and prudence, the 10,000 taels of money from mining were really spent on what should be used.
In the palace, the imperial court sent people to investigate, and Eunuch Hu gave a lot of his savings as bribes, and then the real situation was sent to the emperor's desk.
Oh my God, there really isn't much silver in this mine!
In this way, Eunuch Hu guarded the "fat" Que'er for five years. Everyone in the palace knew that this job was a trap, and no one was willing to take over the job.
The emperor also knew that he did not listen to the dissuasion of the Ministry of Industry and engaged in this loss-making business, but he also refused to remove the mine supervisor.
The courtiers would bring up the matter of the mine supervisor every now and then and blast him. Eunuch Hu had been blasted over the years. Forget it, the eunuch was just a traitor anyway.
Eunuch Hu simply ignored everyone and hid in the mine supervisor to amuse himself.
Eunuch Hu's hobby is to study pigments and dyes. He came out of the weaving and dyeing factory, and he became very interested in the various ores in the mountains.
In addition to liking pigments, Eunuch Hu also liked to study ores. He found that various ores had different shapes. He collected many types of ores and also drew mineral maps of the mines in the mountains.
As for why the mining pirates rebelled, Eunuch Hu is also a mute and eats Coptis chinensis.
He has been mining in the mountains for five years. He is not very kind to the miners, but he is not very harsh either.
But in government-run mines, the treatment is just like this.
This brings us to another thing that caused Eunuch Hu to be impeached by the officials of the Ministry of Education, that is, the government-run mines suffered losses every year, but the mining thieves hiding in the mountains made a fortune.
Ever since Eunuch Hu started mining in Nanping, Deng Mao has been digging privately in the mountains. Over the years, the official mine has been increasingly losing money, but private mining has become increasingly rampant.
Eunuch Hu also thought of measures to prevent the miners from escaping into the mountains, but the treatment in the official pit was just like this, and he could not improve the miners' treatment.
However, on the side of Ke Dao Yanguan, Eunuch Hu pushed too hard, causing the miners to fall into rebellion.
Eunuch Hu would come to the book to defend himself at first, but over time he simply gave up. Whatever you say is what you say. Whoever replaces this bad job as the emperor would be Ai Lai. Compared with this job, the job of guarding the mausoleum is easy!
Now that Deng Mao has rebelled, Eunuch Hu has completely lied down. If he hadn't been caught by Deng Mao, at worst, he would have gone up the mountain to become a mining robber?
Anyway, I am a rootless person, with six pure roots and no worries. I might earn more as a mining thief than as a mine supervising eunuch.
Over there in Nanping County, Yu Zongyuan received an errand from his father, Commander Yu. Commander Yu spent a lot of money this time and sent fifty trusted servants to escort Yu Zongyuan to Changning Guard to discuss and request Changning Guard to send troops. Things to calm down.
Commander Yu also confessed to his son that this time the Yanping Guards were willing to spend their money. Whether it was the shops in the county, other properties of the Yanping Guards, or the farms outside the Yanping Guards City, as long as they could put down the mining thieves. Any chaos can be ceded to Changning Guards.
Following his father's instructions, Yu Zongyuan quickly rode out of the city, bypassing the road cut off by the mining pirates, and arrived at Changning Guard.
"Brother Su! Save me!"
Yu Zongyuan said this again. Sitting in the back compartment of the family temple, Su Ze looked helplessly at his number one angel investor.
"Brother Yu, our Changning Guard is a coastal guard, and it is not our responsibility to suppress the place." Su Ze first resorted to the art of play hard to get, and put the Changning Guard in trouble.
Yu Zongyuan was also a straight man. He said directly:
"Brother Su, your Changning Guard can even wipe out the Black Mountain bandits, so what trouble does it have for mere mining thieves!" "
And according to the soldiers who ran back from our Yanping Guard, Deng Mao's mines There are some bandits among the thieves who are good at using Japanese swords. I am afraid they have not colluded with the Japanese pirates to sneak into them. It is also the responsibility of the Changning Guard to quell the Japanese." "My father said it! If the mine thieves can be put down, the Yanping Guards should be rewarded
!"
Su Ze was also dumbfounded. He had never seen Mr. Yu negotiating like this. He showed his bargaining chip right away. He was just a fat sheep.
If you don't slaughter the fat sheep that are delivered to your door like this, it would be really unworthy of Zongyuan's title as an angel investor.
Yu Zongyuan simply gave the answer: "Brother Su, my father also said that you can choose any of Yanpingwei's properties! The farms outside the city are also fine, as long as the mining pirates can be suppressed!" Just choose
? And such good things?
Then I thought about it, Yanpingwei lost three hundred households due to the mining pirate rebellion. If this matter really got serious, the Yu family would definitely not be able to afford it.
For the Yu family's wealth, it doesn't matter if you give up an estate.
Su Ze's eyes lit up. He thought for a moment and said, "Is it okay to have a Yaohuo Bureau outside the city?"
Yu Zongyuan was stunned, and he said hesitantly: "This Yaohuo Bureau is not the private property of our Yu family, it belongs to the Yanping Guards." It is not easy to grant private property to private parties."
Seeing Su Ze's silence, Yu Zongyuan quickly said: "However, although the Yaohuo Bureau cannot sell it privately, the pharmaceutical equipment and contracted craftsmen in the Yaohuo Bureau can be given to Changning Wei. Yes!"
Yu Zongyuan knows the Yaohuo Bureau best. He is also serving as an errand for the Yanpingwei Yaohuo Bureau, and he also knows the current situation of the Yanpingwei Yaohuo Bureau.
Since the death of Xu Shisheng, the household clerk, the Yu family's drug smuggling channels have been completely cut off.
Now that Ma Baihu has stopped the Powder and Fire Bureau, the newly produced gunpowder cannot be sold, and it is too dangerous to pile it up in the warehouse. It is simply a hot potato.
When he heard that Su Ze wanted the Yaohuo Bureau, Yu Zongyuan was actually happy, and he also felt that this was a suitable deal.
Su Ze felt that he had made a huge profit. What Changning Wei lacked most was skilled craftsmen. There were many processes for producing gunpowder, and Su Ze was also planning to improve the gunpowder. These craftsmen were what he needed most.
As for production equipment, I have blacksmith and carpenter skills anyway, but I can put them into production as soon as possible if I have them ready-made.
The most important thing is channels. You need channels to buy saltpeter and sulfur. Now you have a stable supply channel.
After the negotiation was settled, Su Ze immediately said: "I'll go discuss it with Baihu, and I'll give Brother Yu an answer later."
In fact, if Yu Zongyuan doesn't come, Changning Guard is also preparing to send troops.
Mining pirates have blocked the access between Changning Guard and Nanping County, and there are suspected Japanese pirates among them. If it really spreads, it will also be a major hidden danger to the security behind Changning Guard.
Now that the mining banditry has not yet become a phenomenon, Su Ze is also preparing to take action at this time to put down the chaos of the mining banditry.
In fact, the chaos in the mining industry lasted from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty, especially after Wanli introduced the mining tax.
Among them were many miners who really couldn't survive and rebelled against the Ming court. However, mining bandits like Deng Mao who gathered refugees to dig mines privately were essentially similar to the Black Mountain bandits, and they were bandits who gathered to cause trouble.
In particular, leaders of mining pirates like Deng Mao are often local tycoons. They gather miners to dominate the mountains and become kings, and use money to bribe officials to do illegal things.
Although Deng Mao claims to be a descendant of Deng Maoqi, in fact this guy is a wanted criminal who committed a crime in Nanping City. After escaping into the mountains, he began to secretly dig silver mines. After he made a fortune, he gathered the miners.
Originally, there were several gangs of mining thieves in the mountains near Nanping. Because of his ruthlessness, Deng Mao merged the other gangs and became the largest mining bandit leader in Nanping.
When the weather is bad, mining bandits, like the Black Mountain bandits, will descend from the mountains and attack villages to steal food.
After hearing Su Ze's words, Lin Mojun also said: "Then we will send troops tomorrow?"
Su Ze nodded and said: "Without further delay, Deng Mao just defeated the officers and soldiers. It is the time for the arrogant soldiers. At this time, they must If you take the initiative to fight, it's a good time to wipe them out in one fell swoop!"
Another big reason why these mining thieves are difficult to wipe out is that they will crawl into the mountains if the situation is not right.
But this time Deng Mao defeated the Yanping guardsmen. It was a time when he was satisfied. This was a good time to gather and annihilate them.
Lin Mojun nodded, and Su Ze said: "Baihu, you can bring two Folan cannons this time to try the power of the artillery."
After seeing the power of the Folan cannons, Lin Mojun also nodded. agree.
Early the next morning, the bell of Baihu Station rang to gather the soldiers, plus the newly trained cannon team.
The guard station contributed two more cattle. Su Ze hitched the cattle to a gun cart, pulled two Franco cannons, and took the Portuguese gunner with him, dragging the shells towards the mine.
While walking, Su Ze chatted with the gunner: "Can the Folan cannon also be loaded with shotguns?"
The gunner replied honestly: "Of course shotguns are the most effective at close range. The one I carried this time There are shotguns in the sub-tubes."
The biggest advantage of the Franco machine gun's main-sub-tube structure is that it can be loaded quickly and fired quickly.
The sub-tube can be loaded with explosives and shells first. When firing, you only need to disassemble the sub-tube and replace it with a new one before firing again.
This time Su Ze brought ten loaded sub-cannons with him in order to test the lethality of the Folan cannon in actual combat.
Sure enough, when the official army appeared near the mine, Deng Mao, who had just won a great victory, immediately gathered the mine thieves and killed them from the mountain.
Su Ze saw from a distance a dozen warriors dressed as Japanese and rushing to the forefront holding Japanese swords.
Sure enough, there was collusion with the Japanese pirates!
The two artillery carriages have been fixed. The wooden artillery carriage has no spring shock-absorbing parts, so Su Ze filled it with soil and compacted it to reduce the anti-shock force.
The gunner loaded the gun into the barrel, and pointed the black muzzle at the Japanese pirates who were rushing over. Su Ze waved his hand: "Fire!"
1. There is no explanation for the government's losses and the private sector's profits.
2. In fact, from a modern financial perspective, it is a good thing to open a mine for 10,000 yuan, dig out 7,000 yuan, and increase GDP, but the emperor would not calculate it that way.
3. The mine supervisors in Jiajingnian and Wanli mine supervisors are not the same kind. The mine supervisors in Wanli are really bastards.
4. Jiajing still restricted eunuchs, and during the Jiajing period, the guarding eunuchs were abolished. The reason is also simple. Taoist masters can still suppress civil servants. It is definitely better to use civil servants than eunuchs. Wanli used eunuchs, but he could not suppress civil servants.
5. Correction to the previous article, it is a bolt-action rifle and not a flintlock rifle
(end of this chapter)