Chapter 775: A State Within a State

"Okay, what a Wang Mozhi, what a Taiyuan Wang! There is actually a country within a country, and this Wang Mozhi has become the emperor of the soil. Li Er sneered and looked at what was written on the paper, then shook his head and said.

"Alright, you go down. Regarding the Wang family's affairs, don't deal with it yet, wait until I think of a countermeasure, your main energy now is to catch all those moths without a background, as for those related to the family, let it go first, but you have to find out, and everyone must have enough evidence. Li Er waved his hand and signaled that Li Ke could retreat.

"Yes, Erchen knows." Li Ke gave up, and then left Comrade Li Er's imperial study.

After Li Ke left, Comrade Li Er picked up his mobile phone, and then typed two words in his henchmen.

"Come on!"

After sending these two words, Li Er put the mobile phone upside down on the table, and then rubbed his temples with his hands, and it could be seen that Li Ke had just given Comrade Li Er a very difficult question.

It was so tricky that Li Er, a heroic emperor who had fought out of the troubled times, felt a headache.

With the convenience provided by mobile phones, Comrade Li Er can almost be said to be able to gather his henchmen in the first place. But this time, not only Wenchen's henchmen, but also old ministers like Qin Qiong, as well as people like Du Ruhui who were sick and recuperating at home, were summoned.

Although Zhang Nan didn't want to go, there was no way, he was now also a member of the queue of Comrade Li Er's henchmen and courtiers.

After everyone came, Li Er didn't say a word, but just stretched out his hand and handed over the information that Li Ke handed over to him in his hand.

Then a group of people circulated it, but after everyone read it, they all had a solemn expression on their faces, and it was obvious that the development of the situation was somewhat out of their control.

And Zhang Nan didn't stand at the front at the beginning, because he was afraid that if Comrade Li Er got angry later, it would affect him, so Zhang Nan stood at the end, of course, Zhang Nan saw the secret letter, and it was also the last.

After Zhang Nan read the letter, there was also a trace of surprise on his face, Zhang Nan didn't expect that Wang Mozhi, an old man, was still quite bold, and he dared to do so many things that could kill his head under such a high-pressure policy of Comrade Li Er.

The current Wang Mozhi has almost turned their Taiyuan Wang's hometown into a country within a country.

Because of coal mining, Taiyuan's economy is developing rapidly, and Comrade Li Er originally wanted to hold coal in his own hands at the beginning, but at that time, Comrade Li Er considered that he was digging coal in Wang Mozhi's hometown, so he still gave Wang Mozhi some dividends.

At that time, steam cars had not been used on a large scale in freight transportation and shipping, so Wang Mozhi didn't care about it at first.

However, after Comrade Li Er's big ship went to sea and the steamship was widely used in freight transportation, Wang Mozhi found that his hometown was originally built on a gold mountain, but this gold mountain was made of black gold.

Marx said: as soon as there is a proper profit, the capitalist will be bold. With a 50 percent profit, it takes a risk; For the sake of 100 percent profit, it dares to trample on all human laws; With a profit of 300 percent, it dares to commit any crime, even to the risk of being hanged.

Obviously, Wang Mozhi's profit is no longer 300% of the profit, but 300% of the profit.

Comrade Li Er wants to control coal again, but it is still too far away from Chang'an, and Comrade Li Er's hand cannot be stretched that long, and Li Er has already explicitly forbidden private coal kilns, and only he can mine coal.

In addition to the several large-scale coal quarries in the hands of Comrade Li Er, Wang Mozhi has already mobilized his own family forces and opened nearly 100 coal kilns of all sizes in Taiyuan, Shanxi.

And semi-forcibly hired a large number of ordinary people as their cheap labor, digging coal for them in three shifts day and night. Because there were too many coal kilns opened, and Taiyuan did not have so much cheap labor, Wang Mozhi even bribed Taiyuan Taishou, let Taiyuan Taishou open a prison for criminals, and let the criminals in the prison come out to dig coal for him, which is called "labor reform".

These criminals eat the least amount of food and do the most work, and if they die of exhaustion or have some accidents, Taiyuan Taishou will only write a suicide in fear on the report.

Except for a part of the coal produced by Comrade Li Er, it will be brought back to Chang'an City as a reserve resource, and the rest will basically be sold directly in Taiyuan.

Those businessmen who need a lot of coal will choose to go to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province to buy coal, and Wang Mozhi seized this opportunity to completely control the price of the entire coal in his own hands.

In fact, Comrade Li Er sent a lot of spies to be planted in Shanxi, but basically all of them were spared, except for those who were found to be secretly killed by Wang Mozhi, the remaining large part of the people had also been bribed by Wang Mozhi with a lot of money.

Therefore, in the past year, the information that Comrade Li Er got was all information that Wang Mozhi had read and corrected with his own eyes, which was completely inconsistent with the facts. And Comrade Li Er has been kept in the dark.

Because the output of coal is huge, and the price of coal is also controlled in the hands of the Wang family, Wang Mozhi's Wang family is almost the emperor of Shanxi.

The official price of coal set by Comrade Li Er's side will triple when it arrives in Shanxi, of which two and a half times will fall into the pocket of the Wang family, and the remaining half will fall into Comrade Li Er's pocket.

There is even a trivial matter of Wang Mozhi recorded in the secret report, that is, some time ago, Wang Mozhi had a banquet in his own house, and after getting drunk, he even said that their Wang family just didn't want to be the emperor, if they wanted to be the emperor, they would have already sat on the dragon chair, and it was the turn of the current Li Shimin.

In fact, the current Wang family basically has the ability to rebel, after all, they have money and food in their hands, and even their own territory, if they really want to rebel, it is not a difficult thing.

In addition to coal, the appointment and dismissal of those small officials above the Taiyuan boundary is completely a matter of Wang Mozhi's words, as long as Wang Mozhi nods, then even if Comrade Li Er disagrees, Wang Mozhi can let that person sit on an official position on the ground in Taiyuan.

The current Shanxi has been completely built into the black gold empire of the Wang family by Wang Mozhi.