But when a document was passed to Guilin Prefecture, the prefect Liu was shocked.

The good days are over.

In view of the increasing silence of Guilin Prefecture and the prefectures along the way, and the thieves grew, not to mention that the court intends to ban trade. Lang Son follows the imperial decree and prepares for the future, and is determined to suspend the acquisition of all timber and minerals from the prefectures and counties in Guangxi, and instead increase the quota for Sumatra, Johor and other places.

Not accepted...

This was like a blow to the head. The shocking prefect Liu could not speak. Back then, there was a huge demand for Lang Son, so he bought various minerals everywhere. Many people saw that it was profitable, but they never expected that many worthless stones in the mountains could be exchanged for silver. Therefore, many people were looking for mines and opening mountains like crazy, organizing people to log and deforestate everywhere. After the development of the past four or five years, not to mention other places, just Guilin, here, almost many people rely on this for their own income.

Liu Xiong and Liu Magistrate Liu also made a living. He felt that things were a little bad, and sooner or later the oil and water would be cut off, but he never thought that this time, he was so fast that he had no time to prepare.

Most of the great families in Guilin Prefecture were born on mines. In the past, they rented out land for tenants to plant, but the income was too low. As a last resort, many people abandoned the land and then started buying mines and mining. The income was several times that of the past. Now... they are all over.

That's right, it's done. Almost everyone is done.

This is by no means an exaggeration, because the lives of countless people are maintained on this chain of interests.

Just talking about Liu Xiong. Liu Xiong was the prefect. He had a good life in the past few years. In order to curry favor with Shangguan, Bing Jingtan Jing gave out thousands of taels of silver. His work was quite good and he began to gradually be favored by Shangguan. This time, Liu Xiong planned to add more efforts and be more filial to the past two years. He tried to get a fat man when he was transferred.

But now, all this has become a bubble. His wealth has been cut off, which means that next year's filial piety will not be able to be collected by 500 taels. Unless you have taken out your old capital, for him, filial piety is investment, and once the capital chain is broken, the previous investment will be wasted. After all, everyone above knows that the prefect named Liu is very sensible and is very filial to ordinary people, so they favor it. But next year, your filial piety will not be added. Instead, it will decrease. What does this mean? No matter how you explain it, this is a different explanation. People's appetite will only grow bigger and bigger. You are better, year is worse than year. Why, is it a beggar who is the beggar? Or is it that you climbed up to a high branch and hugged which Buddha's foot, so you will be despised by me?

Therefore, once the capital chain is broken, Liu Xiong's wishful thinking will not only fail, but may even be thrown into the cold palace from then on and do nothing for the rest of his life. This time it is Guilin, and the next one is probably going to Qiongzhou.

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In fact, for Liu Xiong, it is still good. After all, he is just an official, and he can only change to a remote place, but he is still an official family. For many great merchants and families in Guilin Mansion, it is a real disaster. In order to mine, they have to buy the entire mine first, and then they have to recruit young and strong people. However, these alone are not enough. You can't transport all the iron ore to Lang Son. This truck of iron ore can't make much iron. How much silver can you exchange for after transporting it? So they have to refine the iron ore roughly, refine it into pig iron, then send it to Lang Son and Lang Son's workshops, and then make it into fine steel.

Every link here is silver. The cost of mines is getting higher and higher, and the manpower is being recruited is getting more and more expensive, and strong labor is required. If you can't afford a big price, people will go to Lang Son to make a living. In addition, they will have to build a small blast furnace, recruit a group of blacksmiths, buy some big trucks, and recruit some people to be responsible for transportation.

After a while, if you want to do such a business, it will definitely not be possible without thousands or tens of thousands of taels of silver.

But Guilin is still small and there will be no such wealthy family who spends a lot of money. So how can we do this? We naturally have a way, that is, to claim a loan. Anyway, as long as this transaction can be completed, we can make money every day. The iron price in Langsan is rising steadily, and we don’t have to worry about sales. Our Wang family is a family with great influence in the local area. After all, we have been here for generations, and our grandfather has built a bridge and paving the road, and our father has run the charity hall. The influence is naturally well-known, and we have been entrenched here for generations, with countless relatives and friends all over Guilin. So the Wang family comes out and we can work together. You give a little, I give a little, or you borrow a little, and you make a fortune together.

He is the most superficial form of mining, which not only shares the risks, but also allows everyone to get a piece of the pie from mining together.

Most of the more than 70 mines in Guilin Prefecture are composed in this form.

Originally, they had an investment every year, and then paid dividends or repayments. As long as the year was the same as in previous years, they would have to be rich in ten or eight years. But now, when such news came out, everyone was stunned.

If someone doesn't want iron ore, it means that the mineral you mine has become useless stones. The stone cannot be exchanged for silver. If there is no silver, how can you pay back the account? I have invested so much money in the early stage and the account has not been paid off yet, which really will cause the family to be destroyed.

Dozens of mine owners encountered a lot of trouble that day because the creditors and relatives came to the house, and everyone was not fools. Once the news came out, what everyone was most worried about was their own money. Since this mining was not profitable, you had to pay it back.

Don’t you return it? Although everyone is a relative and a friend, the brothers still have to settle the score clearly. Even if you sell your mine, you have to raise the money.

But... this mine is worthless now, who would buy a mine that is worthless? So even if the mine owners sell their home business, those accounts will probably be difficult to offset.

On the one hand, they comforted the creditors, and on the other hand, they went to the capital city one after another, with only one purpose, that is, to see the meaning of the government. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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