Chapter 162: Recruiting Talents, Growing Wings (6)
"Heavenly officials bless, there are no taboos, a seal in the hand, ghosts and gods are avoided - go!"
After receiving the order, the diggers immediately formed a team, carrying hammers, shovels, drills, and ropes...... All kinds of applied things, go straight to Pingdingshan, Faqiu Zhonglang will lead the team, Xiao Yi and civil and military officials will follow!
The team soon came to the bottom of the mountain, only to see that the mountain is not high, the grass and trees are sparse, there is no beautiful scenery around, there are no villages, not even a pheasant or hare, it is really deserted!
However, Da Sima said it, and the Emperor of Night Dream pointed out, saying that there was a treasure buried under this mountain (other excuses are not easy to explain, and everything is good to say when moving out of the gods), everyone will believe it and be suspicious, and they are still looking around......
Some people also secretly suspect that Da Sima is in a hurry to get money, is he desperate and wants to do a 'big deal', but the appearance of poor mountains and bad waters here is not like burying the emperor and generals?
The yellow rat took out the feng shui compass and began to measure the square and survey the terrain, and the rest of the school captains touched the gold, some looked for dragon points, watched feng shui, and some recited the law and measured the terrain...... All have a surprising ability.
"There are not many formulas to pass on, looking for the dragon to recognize the ancestors to see the sharp circle, the column screen and the tent are many down, the palace of the downstairs descends to the peaks and mountains, the bee waist crane knee dragon wears and changes, and the remaining branches are clamped and turned to hug the ring............"
"Weasels, talk to people!"
"Qiyu Da Sima: This mountain is overlapping, sparse grass and trees, it seems to be plain, in fact, it is hidden in splendor, with many years of experience of subordinates, although there is no ancient tomb underground, there are a large number of mineral deposits......"
"Haha - good eyesight, dig it for me!"
"No!"
The weasel did not lose the master of tomb robbing, and soon saw the mystery, and then found a col with soft soil, and commanded his subordinates to start exploring......
More than a dozen diggers worked together, some took out a Wushou shovel, some smashed it with a hammer, smashed into the ground, and immediately connected a section, just a meal, it was five or six zhang deep into the ground, and then pulled it out together......
"Look at what soil is brought out of the shovel, and you will know the situation below!"
"This shovel was invented by Da Sima, it can go deep into the ground for nearly ten zhang, and it is extremely convenient to hunt for treasure and explore the mountains, it is really the wisdom of heaven and man!"
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Everyone gathered around, looking at it with wide eyes, the middle of the shovel was hollow, bringing out a lot of soil, and the top was the black-brown topsoil, also known as 'cooked soil', mixed with a large number of plant leaves, with strong fertility and soft soil, which could grow crops.
Below is the raw soil layer, which is yellowish-brown and hard, mixed with some plant roots and hibernation bugs.
Then there is the core of the earth, very pure yellow, unadulterated with anything, but without any life...... People's eyes followed, and at the bottom of the shovel, they found that the soil had turned black again?
Unlike the surface soil, it was a pure black color, with a few fingernail-sized pieces that someone picked up and looked at closely......
"There is a coal mine underground, and it is buried very shallowly, and the quality is very good, but I don't know how much it is reserved?"
"The various departments spread around, dig more caves to come out, see how big the coal mine area is, if it is a big coal mine, the people of Runan County will be blessed!"
Knowing that there is a coal mine at the bottom of the mountain, everyone is happy, but how big the coal mine area is, how thick the coal seam is, is still an unknown, if it is just a blind cat to kill a mouse, find a small coal mine, it will not play a role!
The digging army spread, and within a radius of ten miles, hundreds of exploration holes were drilled, and the result was that all of them produced coal, and then expanded to twenty miles, and then all of them produced coal, and finally expanded to fifty miles, and it was still the world of coal......
The diggers were stunned, the civil and military officials were stunned, and even the well-informed yellow squirrels gasped vigorously, no one thought that there was a super-large coal mine under this unsightly Pingding Mountain, and it was easy to mine!
"Da Sima Wansheng - Wansheng - Wansheng Wansheng!"
People are completely crazy, some people look up to the sky and laugh, some people are jumping around, and some people are holding cinders, just like looking at a beauty, as if they can't see enough.
The generals crowded over and put Xiao Yi on their shoulders to express their respect and love, and even shouted the slogan of Wan Wansheng, just one word difference, it is the king of the shoulders!
With enough coal, the people of Runan County will not be frozen in winter; With enough coal, you can make well-made blades and farm tools, and you can also sell coal to other places in exchange for a large amount of money, grain, cattle, and seeds, and in terms of the area of exploration, it is enough to mine for hundreds of years, or even longer!
As early as when the army was raised in Yanzhou, the naughty girls of the Women's Army accidentally found an open-pit coal mine, Xiao Yiru got a treasure, and used coal to heat the soldiers and the people, but no one froze to death that winter.
Compared with firewood and grass, coal has strong firepower, burn-resistant, does not emit black smoke, burns the remaining cinders, and can also be used to pave roads, so it is deeply loved by the world, and it is called black gold!
However, the exploration technology of the Han Dynasty was backward, and the coal mines were often buried deeply, and there were very few that could be mined, and they had to be supplied to the army first to build excellent weapons, and the rest were divided among the dignitaries, and the ordinary people still used firewood and grass as fuel.
Xiao Yi didn't know geology, let alone that there were coal mines there, but he heard a joke in his previous life: 'Someone's father, Mr. Zhao, transported coal from Datong, Shanxi Province to Pingdingshan, Henan Province to sell it, and ended up losing his family......
Although this is a joke, it also proves that Datong in Shanxi and Pingdingshan in Henan are important coal producing areas, and then compared with ancient and modern maps, as well as the shape of the mountain range, Xiao Yi finally judged: Eagle Mountain is the later Pingdingshan, and there are coal resources buried underneath!
Facts have proved that Xiao Yi's judgment is right, the coal resources of Pingdingshan are extremely rich, and later generations are known as the 'Central Plains Coal Bunker', and the coal quality is excellent, the varieties are complete, and more importantly, the buried layer is very shallow, which can be mined on a large scale!
"Dig it...... Desperately digging ...... Dig all the time! ”
The treasure is in front of you, who can not be moved, the diggers army camped at the foot of the mountain, and then continued to explore, while carrying out crazy excavation, only to see the hammer flying, steel chisel flying, chiseling mountains through stones, straight into the ground......
Civil and military officials also joined in, and they were sweating and digging day and night, just to dig up the coal as soon as possible and relieve the hungry and cold people......
At the same time, Xiao Yi dispatched people from various departments to dig in the mountains together, and the Xuanjia army, the trapping camp, and the Danyang soldiers ...... A total of 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers have come to dig coal!
Three days later, at dusk, a real large lump of coal, black and bright, of excellent quality, was dug up, and then a truckload was sent to the barracks and to all parts of Runan County......
"Da Sima turned stones into gold and turned coal out of the mountain, everyone go and help dig it!"
"All the people who come to dig coal will take care of three full meals a day, two new clothes, and two thousand dollars a month!"
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Everywhere the coal truck went, the people of Runan County were also crazy, and they didn't think that there was a big treasure in the place where they had been poor for thousands of years.
After the news spread, the hungry people in several nearby counties also came to work with shovels and pickaxes, and in just a few days, two or three hundred thousand people gathered, and the number is still increasing......
As far as the eye can see, there are sweaty people everywhere, and there are loud trumpets everywhere, and then truckloads of coal are dug up and sent to the surrounding counties in exchange for money, grain, ploughing cattle, and seeds that the people urgently need......
The lively labor scene has also brought a trace of vitality to Runan County, to the entire Yuzhou, and even to the Central Plains, as long as there is hope of survival, the people will not rebel.
The draught does not forget to dig wells, the people are full of food and clothing, and make a fortune at the same time, the praise of Xiao Yi has not been broken, and some people have invited Xiao Yi's portrait to bow every day, and there are countless stories at the same time:
Some people say: Da Sima Xingjun was reincarnated and got the dream of the Emperor of Heaven, so he found the coal mine under the mountain and saved the people of Runan County, and the name of Yingshan also disappeared, and it was officially changed to Pingdingshan, because it was decided by Da Sima himself!
Some people also said: Da Sima dreamed of the gods, invited the giant Kuafu, from thousands of miles away underground, moved a giant coal mine, otherwise people live here, why not a cinder was found, Da Sima just came a few days to dig out the coal?
There are also people who say: Da Sima is not only the reincarnation of Xingjun, but also the son of the Emperor of Heaven, the Great Emperor originally had ten sons, living on the Fusang tree, bathing in the Tang Valley, taking turns to shine on the heavens and the earth every day, and was shot down by Hou Yi for nine......
Anyway, the more you talk about it, the more you talk about it, the more God you say, Xiao Yi is embarrassed, the Emperor of Heaven gave birth to ten sons of the sun, but he is more noble than the true dragon son of heaven, if this word is spread, I don't know if it is a curse or a blessing?
Within a few days, there was good news that in addition to exploring coal mines, the diggers discovered large-scale iron ore and salt mines, which are also of excellent quality and can be mined in the open pit!
Xiao Yi was also stunned at this time, he wanted to dig up a silver ingot, but he didn't want to have another gold lump, among all kinds of underground mineral deposits, the biggest impact on the people's livelihood of the country is salt and iron.
The former is a necessity of life, from the emperor and the general, down to the common people, who can't eat without salt, otherwise they will be weak, their hair will turn white, and it will cause a lot of diseases!
Salt is produced in various coastal areas, but there are too many impurities in sea salt, which is harmful to the human body, if it is refined into refined salt, it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources, and the mineral salt is different, the texture is extremely pure, and you can eat it directly when you dig it out!
Not to mention, iron is the raw material for building blades and farm tools, and it is the lifeblood of a country.
The coal mine can enrich the people, and the salt and iron can't mess around, Xiao Yi immediately dispatched people to surround the iron ore and salt ore found, and special people were responsible for digging them, and all of them were sent to the barracks for concentration!
Coal mines, iron mines, salt mines, ...... Like a little golden doll, it has brought vitality to the land of Yuzhou, but it has also aroused the covetousness of countless people, and the next step is to keep these minerals!
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