On the second floor of Binman Building, in the private room facing Yaqian Street, Li Yuan and several squires were eating wine and food in the private room, and a servant stood in front of the window, staring intently at the street.

Those squires were Zhao Yuanwai, Lin Yuanwai, and one of the two Zhou Yuanwai, and only Qian Xiu was present with the three brothers of the Qian family.

Qian Xiu is the one who took the initiative to reduce the price of grain to two taels to Xiao Mo last time in the Yamen!

One day after Xiao Mo left Shen County, Li Yuan learned about the mineral affairs of the three towns, and at first Li Yuan didn't care, minerals, this industry is not easy to do, and his own group of people in the first two years in order to hoard grain, the family has no extra money to operate.

However, Li Yuan still kept an eye on it, and while sending people to the three towns to understand the situation, he also brought these squires over and discussed them together.

There are only a few big businessmen in Shen County, and the mining industry is hugely profitable, which Li Yuan certainly knows, and if it is possible, they will certainly not miss the opportunity.

Merchants are very profitable!

After everyone arrived, they expressed their opinions on the matter of minerals, and everyone agreed on the same meaning, that is, they didn't know what the minerals were all about and how much the mineral output was, so they all kept a wait-and-see attitude.

While they were discussing, the people sent by Li Yuan to the Three Towns rushed to the meeting overnight, and as soon as they entered the door, they described the current situation in the Three Towns to the squires.

"Lively!" This is the image of the three towns by the observers sent by Li Yuan.

It's really lively, and now the three towns are under the plan formulated by Xiao Mo, led by Lu Lu, and on the basis of retaining the aborigines of the three towns, the refugees are incorporated into the household policies of each town, and then the fields are divided.

Instead of dividing all the fields, but apportioning the remaining fields that have been vacated over the years, Xiao Mo asked Lu Lu to plan them together, and then compile them into official fields and distribute them to the disaster victims for planting, and the profits produced by the fields, Xiao Mo also posted a notice, saying that the county will only charge some management fees, and the excess profits will be subsidized by the dividend system.

As for the fields of those widows, there is also a solution, very simple, hundreds of disaster victims, each of them can not be assigned tasks, so some of the idle disaster victims, become farmers, and contract those who are unable to farm.

Of course, all of this is based on the success of draining the water, and if there is no water source, everything is in vain.

However, Xiao Mo was still prepared with two hands, one was to protect the drinking water of the three towns, and ordered that no matter what, the wells in the three towns could not be damaged, whether they were dry or not, needless to say, the people of the three towns were not so stupid; The second is to send personnel to the coastal areas of Fujian and Lingnan to look for a white flower.

Xiao Mo said that it is called cotton, which can be ornamental, and can also be made into cotton clothes and bedding, in short, it is very useful, and Xiao Mo's task for those who are sent out is to bring the seeds back to Luzhou at all costs.

Cotton began to be introduced to China during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, first in the border area, and later after the prosperity of shipping, cotton began to be planted in Fujian and Guangdong, compared to rice, cotton is easier to grow, and does not need to be limited by paddy fields, so that those widows can carry seeds in their own fields without paying too much labor!

With cotton, there is naturally a process, which happens to be the strength of women, and has nothing to do with food, but if the cotton promotion is successful, then it will also bring a certain amount of benefit income to the three towns.

With all that in place, it's time for mining.

I don't have any idea about this Xiao Mo, so I can only rely on those experienced miners!

Of course, these things can't be seen by the people sent out by Li Yuan, but the vigorous scene of the three towns now is really impressive.

After the mobilization, the people of the three towns actively responded to the call of the county, and the whole people started to build their own homes together!

After telling Li Yuan what he saw in the three towns, Li Yuan asked, "Then how many iron mines can there be in these three towns?" ”

The man replied, "I don't know about this little one, but looking at the number of blast furnaces, it seems to be a lot!" ”

Nonsense, so many blast furnaces have been built, and there is no iron mine, so isn't it enough to be fed?

Li Yuan waved his hand to the man, and then the big businessmen in Shen County discussed it all night.

The next morning, Li Yuan went to the county government to find Xiao Mo, but was told that Xiao Mo had gone to Luzhou and would not be able to come back for several days.

How many days? Li Yuan was anxious, and when Li Ji found a grain merchant from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, what else did he have to do with this iron mine?

But there was no way to be in a hurry, so Li Yuan had to go back sullenly to tell the other people the news that Xiao Mo was going out.

After analyzing it, everyone felt that Xiao Mo might be deliberately avoiding himself, and his face was dark.

"Li Yuanwai, what do you think about this?"

They all looked at Li Yuan's body, Li Yuan shook his head and said, "If it's an iron mine, are you willing to exchange it for grain?" ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, and this is a good idea.

But then they were all deflated again, didn't Xiao Mo sign an agreement with everyone last time? If you go to him again, the price of grain will be eight dollars of silver and one stone, this price is just the price of the grain that everyone bought back then, so many years, these grains are in hand, and they have not yet generated profits! How can these squires be willing to give up?

Besides, it's not that people don't have food now, this Xiao Mo is also a god, I don't know where to conjure up food, and I put grain on a hundred stones a day!

After thinking about it, everyone had better decide to go and find Xiao Mo, eight dollars for eight dollars, and don't miss the opportunity and come again! If you miss this village, you won't have this store.

If you can get the right to mine iron ore, the profit is not comparable to these old grains!

So for several days, Li Yuan and the others were guarding the Binman Tower, waiting for Xiao Mo to come out of the yamen.