"Young Master! You're really fast enough, let me find it all the way! Xiao just looked for Huang Shibo, what kind of three-flowered grass did you say, Huang Shibo said that he had never heard of it, and he couldn't collect it, what should I do! Does the young master know what the three-flowered grass looks like? Jiang Peng stopped his steps and hurriedly asked Gao Huaiyuan.

This Jiang Peng is really an anxious child! Gao Huaiyuan smiled a little, but for someone like him who likes to study, Gao Huaiyuan still likes it in his heart.

After looking at the sky, it was noon, Gao Huaiyuan said with a smile: "I can't say a word, so let's do it, after we have eaten, I just want to go to the mountain to have a look, you will go into the mountain with me in a while, I will teach you what is Sanhuacao!" ”

There are really not many people who know this kind of thing, but Gao Huaiyuan saw this kind of thing in his father's cosmetics factory by chance in his previous life, and knew that this threeflower was an important raw material for making perfume, so he firmly remembered its appearance and smell, and in the past two years, he often saw such a three-flower grass in the mountains near Crouching Tiger Village, so he moved the idea of making perfume.

It only took a long time, Gao Huaiyuan thought of a lot of new ways to make a fortune, his mind was full, hurriedly returned to the small courtyard, and wrote down the things that he thought of in the morning one by one, and forgot about them in the future, he must implement these things one by one as soon as possible, through the experience of this war with the army, Gao Huaiyuan knows that even if he fights now, he is also rich, it seems that he is already a rich man now, but once it is used for war, his money is just a drop in the bucket. So for now, he must continue to make a lot of money, and after he has money, many things will be much easier.

After lunch, Gao Huaiyuan immediately found Zhou Lao Wu, and asked Jia Qi to call a few northerners who had opened copper mines in the north, and several people went out of Crouching Tiger Village together and walked towards the mountain.

This mountain road leads directly to the mountains, when Gao Huaiyuan did not leave Crouching Tiger Village, it has opened a lot, and now after Zhou Lao Wu led people to explore, he finally reached the place where Gao Huaiyuan discovered the copper mine, and now this matter is what Gao Huaiyuan is most concerned about, now there is money, plus if there are resources, things will be much easier to do in the future.

The col where the copper mine is located is about seven or eight miles away from Crouching Tiger Village, and everyone left Wohu Village and did not walk long before they arrived in the col, Jiang Peng followed Gao Huaiyuan along the way, learning to identify the three flowers, and the hard work paid off, and they really found a lot of three flowers on the side of the road along the way.

By observing the shape of the leaves and plants, and smelling the smell, Jiang Peng quickly mastered the method of identifying the three-flowered grass, so he did not accompany Gao Huaiyuan into the mountain, and after collecting some of them, he ran back to Crouching Tiger Village to find Huang Zhen's help.

Gao Huaiyuan and his entourage continued to march towards the mountain, although the road has been opened, but it is not wide, only allowing an ox cart to walk, there are still a lot of tree roots on the road, it is quite inconvenient to walk.

But Gao Huaiyuan didn't complain about anything, after all, with their current manpower, it is not easy to do this, Zhou Lao Wu doesn't know how much sweat it takes to do this, so Gao Huaiyuan still praised Zhou Lao Wu again and again, making Zhou Lao Wu feel that he has a lot of face, and finally thinks that he is also a useful person in Crouching Tiger Village, looking at Zhou Lao Wu's happy expression, Zhou Hao is also happy for his father on the side.

Although the road has been built here, but it is still inaccessible, from time to time there will be some wild beasts in the mountains jumping out, just become the target of Gao Huaiyuan and Zhou Hao, along the way they actually hunted a mountain boar, a few stupid roe deer, a few pheasants, so that everyone is interested, all the way to the col with laughter and laughter.

Several accompanying miners immediately began to explore according to Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, for mining, Gao Huaiyuan is an absolute layman, and he can't help at all, so he had to greet Zhou Lao Wu and Zhou Hao's father and son, find a nearby stream, peel and disembowel a hunted roe deer, clean it, and pick up some dry firewood, and start to barbecue.

When the roe deer was cooked, it was sprinkled with some salt foam, and it smelled fragrant, and the few miners who were looking around also looked for the smell.

A miner took a stone and ran back, and said to Gao Huaiyuan with a happy face: "Young master! It's really good, this should indeed be a copper mine, from a small point of view, the quality of this copper mine is not bad, and it is a copper and iron ore site, the young master is really a genius, he can actually find copper ore in such an inaccessible place, and he has prepared in advance, the small one is really admired! ”

Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but sweat a little, where would he be prospecting! If he hadn't been here in his previous life, he wouldn't have found a copper and iron associated mine here! Now he's a prophet of uncertainty again!

Several other miners also took the ore, nodded their heads and agreed, this ore is blue in color, it is indeed a copper ore, and it is mixed with iron ore, and the quality is still okay.

Gao Huaiyuan pulled out the dagger in his boots, split the roasted roe deer, handed it to the miners, and took a piece of it himself.

"Young master, although this is a mine, but there are very few ores on the surface, it takes a lot of manpower to collect, a little uneconomical, if you want to mine, you have to peel off these stones above, and then you can dig down, the small one also saw just now, the stones here are very hard, if you want to mine, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time and labor!" The miner who found the ore had a mouth full of oil, and said to Gao Huaiyuan while chewing.

The rest of the people also had the same opinion as him, thinking that this mine really needs to be mined like this, and it will take a lot of labor and time.

Gao Huaiyuan was very excited about finding the right place at this time, after listening to their words, he was a little frustrated, now he was anxious to mine the copper and iron ore here, if it was as they said, the initial investment was astronomical, and his current assets, if he wanted to develop the ore here completely independently, it was really a bit insufficient.

And he doesn't want people to get a piece of the pie, after all, he plans to smelt the ore produced here, and then keep it for his own use, if someone else inserts a lever, then many secrets of Crouching Tiger Village may be leaked out, and he doesn't want people to know the secrets of his Crouching Tiger Village at the moment.

"Is there no other way? How about mining in small quantities first? Gao Huaiyuan dropped the roe deer bones in his hand, grabbed a handful of leaves, wiped his oily hands, and asked the miners.

"No! Now you can only use this method to uncover this layer of stone on the surface before you can start mining, otherwise, relying on this ore on the surface alone, even a hundred and ten catties of copper and iron may not be able to be smelted, which is really not cost-effective! A miner interface replied.

Gao Huaiyuan stood up, followed them to the top of the mine, looked at these big bluestones in the mountain col, and really had a little headache, if this was excavated little by little by manpower, I really didn't know that it would be opened to the Year of the Monkey!

was originally full of joy, but when he saw the situation here, Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but feel a little deflated again.

Everyone thought about it and didn't come up with any good way to remove this layer of bluestone on the surface as soon as possible, revealing the ore layer below, so they could only use the old method to dig little by little, and finally Gao Huaiyuan came up with a good way, and patted his legs and smiled: "Don't think about it!" I have a solution! ”

"Oh? What is the best way for the young master? Tell me about it! If this stone is not chiseled with a chisel, what else can be used? Several miners around hurriedly gathered around and asked Gao Huaiyuan one after another.

"Fire attack! Burn it with fire! Gao Huaiyuan said with a smile.

After listening to Gao Huaiyuan's method, everyone was immediately discouraged, although they didn't dare to contradict Gao Huaiyuan, but they didn't think so in their hearts, what kind of bullshit is this good way! The stone is so hard, can't it be boiled with fire? This young master Gao is probably stupid!

Seeing everyone's disapproving expressions, Gao Huaiyuan could see that they didn't believe his idea, so he explained to them: "Don't disbelieve my words! If there is a copper mine under this gentle slope, we can find someone to cut some wood, pile it here, set it on fire for two days, and then pour cold water on it, and these burning stones will naturally crack when they are stirred by cold water! When the time comes to remove the rubble, the ore underneath will be revealed! It's just that this method is a bit dangerous, such a large forest, if it causes a wildfire, it will be a big trouble! ”

Everyone's hearts are summed up, it's really a little interesting, this young master Gao is really smart enough, he can actually think of such a wonderful idea, this method is really good, after heating the stone first, the cold water will be excited, the stone will naturally burst into pieces, such a simple method, why didn't they think of it, it really made these people even more afraid to underestimate Gao Huaiyuan's wisdom!

"Great idea! Why didn't we think of it? However, the problem of the mountain fire that the young master said should really be paid attention to, once the mountain fire is triggered, it is estimated that we will not be able to escape! But we can first cut down the nearby forests and clear a piece of land, anyway, we will set up a mine here in the future, and people also need a place to live, so we can use this method! An older miner nodded.

Gao Huaiyuan glanced at the middle-aged man, asked his name, and then remembered his name, this person's name is Ma Lian, a person from Shanxi, who once worked as a miner in a copper mine in Shanxi, and was familiar with the skills of mining, just because the Jin State wanted to wage war against the Southern Song Dynasty, and was forcibly conscripted into the army, and when he arrived here, he finally fell into the hands of Gao Huaiyuan and became Gao Huaiyuan's servant.

Among several miners, this Ma Lian is the most experienced, Gao Huaiyuan even if he ordered Ma Lian to be the main officer, responsible for the mining of copper and iron ore here, professional things still have to be done by professionals, Gao Huaiyuan asked himself if he is not a panacea, he will do anything, and in the end he still has to rely on these people to do things for him, otherwise, he would not have taken such a big risk and got these people back!

After deciding on this matter, Gao Huaiyuan walked around in this col again, looking at these stones on the surface, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he thought about it.

"There is a better way to mine than fire! Hehe! Let's go back first, Ma Lian just started to prepare for this matter, what tools and equipment are needed, and how many manpower are needed at the beginning, you think about it first, please help you make a list, this road will be widened by the way, and it still needs to be leveled, otherwise, the ore will not be able to pull out! If you smelt on the spot, you still need to build a charcoal field and build a smelting furnace, and there are still a lot of things to do! Gao Huaiyuan is in a better mood at this time, if his idea is successful, it is estimated that it will not be long before ore can start to be produced here! When the time comes, as long as you build another smelting furnace, you will be able to produce copper and iron by yourself!

Since returning to Crouching Tiger Village, Gao Huaiyuan has put down those things before the army, and devoted himself to the great cause of making money, and in a few days, he has continued to arrange various affairs, so that he almost forgot to report safety to Shaoxing's father, if it wasn't for Xue Yan to remind him of Crouching Tiger Village, this matter would have really been delayed!

After Gao Huaiyuan listened to Xue Yan's reminder, he patted his head and smiled: "Look at me as soon as I come back and get busy, I forget everything!" I guess my dad doesn't know about my return! I'll write to him now and tell him that I'm safe." ”

Once he really wrote a letter to Gao Jian, Gao Huaiyuan was really a little weak-hearted, after all, he went out with the army to fight such a big thing a year ago, and he didn't even say hello to his father, which is a bit unreasonable, not to mention that Gao Jian is also good to him now, and his behavior is indeed a little unfilial!

So Gao Huaiyuan anxiously put pen to paper to roughly describe the situation of this year to Gao Jian, but deliberately avoided several distress experiences, and also told Gao Jian by the way that he had been awarded the title of Jiupin Baoyilang for meritorious service, and the size was also a petty official without a job, so as to cover up his mistake of making decisions without authorization, and the province caused Gao Jian to dislike, and by the way, let him be happy, his son did not lose his face.

At the same time, Gao Huaiyuan also told Gao Jian about being expelled back to Daye because of his mistakes, and also pretended to promise that he would not make any more mistakes in the future, so as to make his father happy.

Even this time, he did not hesitate to take a set of pretty good glass wine utensils from the glass workshop, put them in a box, and gave them to his father as a gift to calm his anger.

After writing this letter, Gao Huaiyuan's forehead was soaked with fine sweat, this kind of thing is really tiring, even harder than him playing with a big knife, after all, it is not easy to make Daddy Gao Jian happy, and it is also hard work to make up stories!

When Gao Huaiyuan wrote a letter to Gao Jian, after thinking about it for a while, he once again spread out the letter paper, picked up the pen and wrote a letter to his little brother Zhao Yuju in Shaoxing, reporting a peace, now his family has a big business, if Zhao Yuju's mother and son have a bad time in Shaoxing, he persuaded Zhao Yuju to simply come to Daye County to join him and pull him down, for this little brother with a good relationship, Gao Huaiyuan is sincerely cared for, always afraid that their orphans and widows will be bullied in Shaoxing.

It's ridiculous to say, Zhao Yuju is also a royal clansman, and now he actually needs someone else's help, this world is really unclear!

After writing these two letters, Gao Huaiyuan asked Liu Er to take dozens of meetings and handed them to Xue Yan, and ordered him to send a shrewd servant to Shaoxing to deliver the letter at the old mansion, and specially instructed him, so as not to see his father and say that he missed his mouth when the time came, and by the way, let the person sent send the money to Zhao Yuju's family to supplement their family, they have not helped them for more than a year, and I don't know how their mother and son are living now!

After sending Xue Yan away, Gao Huaiyuan put down this concern and once again devoted himself to the affairs of Zhuangzi, and now many things can be said to go hand in hand, and Gao Huaiyuan, who is busy, is really a little unable to find the north! The start of the whole line is basically the development of the first type of development for Crouching Tiger Village, fortunately, Gao Huaiyuan has the bottom of his own heart, otherwise, it may really cause a lot of trouble!

First of all, he arranged for the construction of the waterwheel in the Zhuangzi, he gathered a group of craftsmen together, brainstormed, let them come up with their own ideas and methods, and strive to build the waterwheel better, and the overall plan was formulated by him, with the limited knowledge of some mechanical principles in the previous life, Gao Huaiyuan tried his best, racked his brains to draw a sketch of the waterwheel, as for the details, he couldn't do it, how to improve it was left to his craftsmen to do.

Fortunately, he now has all the craftsmen under him, the carpenter is in charge of the waterwheel, the blacksmith is in charge of transmission, and the stonemasons are in charge of the foundation...... In short, those who had nothing to do were mobilized and put into the construction of the waterwheel.

Not to mention, Gao Huaiyuan himself has to admire the wisdom of these ancient craftsmen, he just made a sketch, and the details of the three days were perfected by these craftsmen, so with Gao Huaiyuan's order, the Crouching Tiger Village became lively again, the damming of the dam, the chisel of the stone, the sawing of the wood, Zhou Lao Wu took on the work of the central scheduling, and was responsible for deploying these craftsmen to start work together.

The creek that flows through the courtyard is divided into three dams, each of which can be fitted with a large waterwheel to provide plenty of hydraulic power for Crouching Tiger Village, which may seem labor-intensive, but once completed, it will greatly improve the productivity of the village.

At the beginning of the waterwheel project here, Gao Huaiyuan over there recruited Huang Zhen and gave him a secret task to purchase some things needed for mining.

As for Huang Zhen's busy opening a store, he had to put it aside for a while, only after the implementation of various affairs in Zhuangzi, he could take a break to open a store, Huang Zhen also knew that Gao Huaiyuan would definitely have to do a big job when he came back this time, and his heart was also full of expectations, I don't know what good things Gao Huaiyuan will come out of again after coming back this time, anyway, now their goods are not worrying about sales, and it is not a big deal to slow down the opening of the store.

Huang Zhen also simply put down other things at hand, acted as the purchasing minister of Crouching Tiger Village, and began to be busy all day long, and shipped all kinds of materials and raw materials listed by Gao Huaiyuan back to Zhuangzi.

For a while, the road leading to Crouching Tiger Village came and went more vehicles suddenly, not to say that it was busy, at least it was much more lively than before, many people who came here for the first time to deliver goods, suddenly found that in this remote mountainous area, there was such a large-scale mountain villa, so they were surprised.

In order to speed up the speed of mining, only Crouching Tiger Village did not know how to gnaw until the Year of the Monkey, so after thinking about it again and again, Gao Huaiyuan ordered Xue Yan to come forward, and from the tenants and Gaojiazhuang gathered about 200 people to work together, and drove directly into the mountains, widening the original road, transporting large sand and gravel to pave the road, and crushing it with stone stones, forming a large road that can row three or two ox carts at the same time, so as to facilitate the transportation of various materials.