On the third day of the March, Shangsi Festival, it should be a good time to hold a "sweeping bath", but Li Li, who has been busy since the beginning of the year, has no time to do any activities.

At this moment, he took a boat to a certain place on the northeast of "Pengcheng Lake". He was in a corner of the military camp on the shore, and looked at the coal samples spread out on the ground, and was filled with joy.

The coal samples come from several miles away from the northeast according to this, where coal can be easily dug out with a "Luoyang shovel".

The hard work and efforts of the explorers were not in vain.

Although they had been fighting before, the explorers sent by Li Li have been risking their lives to explore this area.

Through communication with locals and the tool "Luoyang Shovel" to assist in exploration, the exploration personnel took more than half a year to finally find the coal mine veins.

The name of coal in this era is "carboniferous".

Several men introduced the situation aside. Because of their severe accent, people needed to retell: "Before, someone had picked up charcoal here, but it was from the wilderness, so mining was not easy."

"If you make a fire and cook, just pick it around you. No one will have to work hard to come here to mine the charcoal and then transport it back."

"But now, the water is not far away. It is very convenient to transport the carbonite out by boat. I just don't know what price it can be sold and how long it can be sold."

"After all, I have never heard of charcoal making money since ancient times."

When Li Li heard this, he looked up at the men.

These people are all middle-aged people, and their clothes are different from ordinary grass-roots people. They are representatives of some nearby clans. In short, they are local snakes.

When several middle-aged men saw Li Li looking at them, they quickly squeezed out their smiles and looked humble.

Li Li said, "I am in charge of Xuzhou and share the worries of the country. Since I have come, I will not leave. With my official here, the troops of Qi will not be rampant!"

This is not a big deal. It turns out that he has this ability. Of course, local snakes know this and try to "cooperate".

Unexpectedly, it was actually digging for carbon, or "coal".

Li Li used simple sentences as much as possible to describe a beautiful prospect to local tyrants: "For the long-term plan, I want to Daxing coal mines. Since there is abundant coal here, the state party will invest manpower and material resources to mine, and there will be no worries about selling coal."

"As long as you help me, I will not let you take the time to take the opportunity to mine the coal, at the price you have just announced, how much is it, and how much is it collected by the state party."

"You may ask, what is the use of the government asking for so much coal? Of course it is useful. Pengcheng and Hanshan stationed so many soldiers and horses, young and strong, as well as public officials and returning people, consume a lot of fuel every day."

"Secondly, the public office will set up a brick yard, using coal as fuel, and the amount will not be small."

"There's another." Li Li said, pointing to the north, "Double miles further north, there is an iron ore. The public office needs to organize iron smelting, use coal to make iron, and will make the country's railway.... Cough cough cough."

He almost let it go and quickly corrected: "Get the major things that benefit the country and the people, complete."

There is no basis for empty words, and everyone present is full of talented people. It is impossible to believe that by just a few words from Li Li, you will have a good future by following the public office.

However, Li Li defeated the Qi army one after another and drove away the Qi emperor capital, who was in charge of his own. With such a record, the local tyrants still wanted to try whether they could benefit themselves and their families through "cooperation".

"Eunuch, there is indeed an iron ore in the north?" One person asked tentatively, and Li Li nodded: "Of course, it is said that since the Han Dynasty, there have been iron smelting there, but the ore veins are small, so they are not famous."

"It's different now. The government sent people to explore and found a new mine vein. The state government wanted to run iron smelting there, which required a lot of fuel and coal, which was just right."

An elderly man asked: "Eunuch, the villain heard that the iron made of coal is very crisp and cannot be used."

"That's right, but Jiankang Dongye has already had a new way to use coal to refine excellent iron materials. You don't have to worry about this."

Having said that, local snakes roughly understand Li Li’s thoughts.

Xuzhou has been in the Northern Dynasties for hundreds of years, but for local tyrants, it doesn’t matter who the court is. Anyway, whether it is the south or north, the court that controls Pengcheng needs the help of them and the locals.

Now, this "Envoy Li" needs their help, saying "cooperation" and "making wealth together".

The solution is to mine coal mines. In this area, there is carbonite (coal) under the soil layer. It is not very deep and it is not difficult to mine.

The government wants to run coal mines, but there is not so much manpower and material resources to mine on a large scale, so it needs help from all companies to open coal mines to increase production.

As long as "Eunuch Li" keeps his promise and purchases the mined coal at the agreed price, the income of each company will be considerable.

This income is not the ragged iron coins of Liang State, nor any cloth, but salt.

When they have salt, they resell it everywhere, and the profit is not low, because since ancient times, salt trading has been a huge profit.

Not to mention, there are other conveniences to cooperate with the government.

Li Li said something and asked the officials to take these people to handle the relevant matters. He bent down and picked up a coal sample and looked at it carefully.

In that life, he visited Weishan Lake, so he stayed in Xuzhou.

Because I pay great attention to the various historical introductions in the introduction to the tourist area, I learned some of the development history of Xuzhou.

In the modern Westernization Movement, Xuzhou was a good place with coal and iron. Coal and iron ore were relatively concentrated, and its location was near Liguoyi dozens of miles north of Xuzhou.

The "Liguo" in Liguo Post is a place name left in history. It is said that during the Northern Song Dynasty, Liguo Tieye was very famous.

In the modern Westernization Movement, because the government discovered new large coal mines and large iron ore near Liguoyi, the coal and iron plant mine industries were established.

There are many coal mines in Xuzhou, so they were once known as the Coal Capital.

It is precisely because of these trivial and inconspicuous knowledge that Li Li dared to attack Xuzhou (Pengcheng).

Although this place is an important place for the four battles, it is not easy to defend or to cultivate farms with the national strength of Liang State.

To others, it seems like a waste of money.

But in Li Li's opinion, it is a treasure land.

The premise is to start the coal mine and iron mine as soon as possible.

The large open-pit coalfield that was first discovered near Xuzhou in modern times was between Liguoyi and Xuzhou. Therefore, when the second Qi reinforcements were flooded and Duan Shao was defeated and died, Li Li sent people to investigate the area north of Pengcheng.

Based on some of the situations known to the locals, it took more than half a year to find a shallow mineral vein.

Is this the first open-pit coal mine discovered in modern times? It is unknown, as long as there is coal, anyway.

The place has been found, and large-scale mining of coal is imperative.

With fuel with high calorie value (relative to charcoal), large-scale iron smelting can be spread out. With sufficient iron material, the situation will be alive.

Li Li put down the coal sample, clapped his hands, and walked out.

Tieye will start construction in the future. He has already thought of the name, and it is called "Liguo Tieye". Although Pengcheng is still an island in the lake, water transportation has become more convenient.

Hanshanyan intercepted the water harvesting and Sishui, which had a steady stream of water resources, which was something that could not be provided elsewhere.

The combined power of coal, iron and water is not something that people of this era can understand.

Therefore, in his hands, the Pengcheng-Hanshan combination, which looks like a Jedi, is a place where there is great potential.

When the time is right, plus the super copper mine in Le'an, Poyang, it's really...

......

Hanshanyan, beside the drainage canal, has now become a huge hydraulic field, with many water wheels constantly rotating, providing abundant power.

In a corner of the workshop, next to the coal mill, Zhao Mengniang, wearing work clothes, looked at the running machine and the coal samples just delivered by the "quality inspection" and frowned.

The new brick burning process uses coal powder as fuel, and the coal powder must be ground fine enough to reach a certain number of mesh (number of holes in the screen) before it can be used as a qualified brick burning fuel.

The requirement for the number of coal powder is the result of years of practice in Poyang brick kilns. It must be done, otherwise it will be unqualified products.

She put down the bottled coal sample and asked, "It's not detailed enough and hasn't reached the specifications, what's going on?"

The foreman quickly replied: "We are still in the process of adjustment, and we will be able to complete it at the latest day after tomorrow."

"You can't make mistakes in the time node. If you make mistakes, the subsequent construction period will be affected." Zhao Mengniang said, walking outward and following the staff.

"Now the government is going to build a large scale of construction, and it requires a lot of bricks. Whether the brick kiln can be put into production as scheduled requires cooperation in various construction sections. If you encounter any problems, you should report them as soon as possible and don't be lucky..."

Zhao Mengniang has been in Poyang for many years, managing industries for Li Li and managing hydraulic workplaces, and has brought a lot of technology and management personnel.

Now, Li Li is going to do a big fight in Xuzhou. While Zhao Mengniang took her children to Xuzhou to reunite with Li Li, she also transferred some of Poyang's technology and management backbones to bring them.

Just like the riverside hydraulic workplace was established, a larger hydraulic workplace was established here.

Not only that, many Poyang big families also sent teams to open up new worlds here with "Li Sanlang" and "Big Cat Peng".

Li Li has been operating in Poyang for many years and has accumulated human resources in "New Xuzhou".

So Pengcheng and Hanshan are full of Poyang people speaking Poyang dialect, which gives people the feeling that this place is Poyang.

There is Pengli Lake in Poyang, here is ‘Pengcheng Lake’, and there is a big river - Poshui, here is a big river - Sishui.

The huge Hanshan Weir provides abundant hydropower, so the power of the hydraulic machinery installed here is stronger than that of the hydraulic machinery everywhere in Poyang.

When he turned to the office area on the other side, Zhao Mengniang did not see Li Li.

Today, Li Li came to the scene to inspect and brought Xue's sister, Xue Yue'e, with her sister. Since the two were not here at the moment, Zhao Mengniang probably knew what was going on, so she went to the courtyard where her office was.

There was someone guarding the gate of the courtyard, and Zhao Mengniang walked straight in and came to the office door, but she heard the sound of the swaying bed inside.

It's true.

Zhao Mengniang sighed in her heart, but thinking about the past few days, Li Li's love for her became relieved.

When she came to Hanshan, she was shocked to realize that the Xue sisters who had heard of before were still perfect. She couldn't help but admire Li Li's self-control, and then she felt warm in her heart.

Li Li still has her place in his heart, which is enough. Anyway, men have to take concubines and the official wife doesn’t say anything, so why should she take it to her heart?

After waiting for a while, the 'cry' sound stopped. Zhao Mengniang felt something was wrong and knocked on the door.

"Come in."

This was Li Li's voice. Zhao Mengniang pushed the door and saw Li Li sitting on the 'rocking chair', shaking constantly, holding some information in her hand.
To be continued...