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Chapter 11 Breaking the loophole
The mine is located at the junction of Songhai Forest and Qingyuan Snow Mountain, but the actual control area is within Songhai Forest.

The former is the territory of the Lanters family, and it is also the person who co-operated to lure him into borrowing money from the Charlson family, while the latter is the collective name of Gooden's territory.

Starting from Qingyuan Town to the mine, the straight-line distance is about 31 to [-] kilometers, but the actual road conditions will stretch to [-] to [-] kilometers.

Therefore, this trip will have the possibility of sleeping outside, and the items of the accompanying team are well prepared.

Since he had to bring Reg on this trip, Gooden didn't tell them where to go before leaving, but just told them to get ready.

It was not until he left Qingyuan Town that Gudern told everyone his destination.

The group of people on the road did not gallop on horses, but slowly trotted forward on horses.

Gooden is not in a hurry, this distance can be reached in half a day at most.

He was also able to adapt to the bumps on horseback on the road, while enjoying the roadside scenery outside of town.

A heavy rain last night made the air smell of earth and grass, which made Gooden unable to take a few deep breaths in a row.

A world without industrial pollution is really wonderful!
Stop and go all the way, and arrived at the destination before noon at noon.

The mine is located in a forest clearing and is an open pit mine.

There are also many sheds built and some second-hand mining equipment in the open space around the mine.

After taking the mortgage of the mining site from the Lanters family, the things in this place belonged to him, including these equipment.

Gooden looked down and pointed to an open space and ordered.

"Come and divide into two groups of four, go to the surrounding area to guard, and the rest will set up a temporary camp here."

"Yes, Master!"

Everyone quickly dismounted and started building from the items they carried with them.

After being helped off his horse, Gooden walked towards the mining area without taking a break.

Coming to an open-air pile of ore, Gooden crouched down to pick up a piece of ore and examined it carefully.

There is a hint of metallic luster in the dark brown stone, and there is a yellowish brown substance in the middle.

Gooden's specialty isn't mining, but the ore doesn't look like iron ore.

After all, the Lanters family said that the existence of iron ore was discovered here, and this is the reason for the mining plan.

On the day when the mine officially started construction, his predecessor also visited here. Under the witness of his own eyes, there is indeed molten iron from mining to refining.

But just a few days after the inspection, he was told that the iron mine could not dig iron, and then he quickly mortgaged the mine and the surrounding territory to him to relieve the arrears.

"Old Joseph, come and see, do you know these minerals?"

Gooden took a piece and gave it to Joseph, and the other party checked it carefully after taking it.

After a while, he shook his head, "Master, this thing does look like ore, but it's not iron ore, and I don't know this thing either."

"Buck from the smithy, maybe he knows." Old Joseph added later.

"Yeah, why did I forget Buck..." Gooden patted his thigh and said suddenly.

As the owner of the blacksmith shop, the other party is dealing with ores in this line of work, and the other party is definitely more professional than them in this regard.

But it took half a day to come to the mine from Qingyuan Town, and now when I go back to invite someone over, I have to stay here at night.

Although there are equipment and tools for camping, Gooden is only used for preparedness and does not plan to stay overnight.

I can only wait for the next opportunity to come here again. Looking back at the ore in his hand, Gooden is a little strange.

If this thing is not ore, what kind of ore is it?

Looking at the mine equipment that looked like all around, Gooden asked suddenly.

"Old Joseph, do you think this is a fake mine? It's just a layer of ore in the open air above?"

Regarding the question from the young master, Joseph thought silently for a while, then shook his head in response.

"It shouldn't be possible. Since the other party dares to come to the joint pit ... to cheat your money, he will not do anything in the mine."

"Oh? Go on." Gooden dropped the ore in his hand and walked to the ore piled on the other side to check.

Joseph followed behind him unhurriedly and explained.

"Since the other party dares to say harsh words and go to the arbitration center, then he must be prepared in this regard."

"If you just found a random place and threw some ore into it and said it was a mining area, subsequent investigations by the Arbitration Institute would definitely be found."

"There must be mines under this mining area, but if it's not iron mines, it's another matter."

If the other party wants to cheat his money and his territory, then he has to prepare a fake mine containing minerals.

After listening to this explanation, Gooden nodded silently in his heart.

It seems that the other party is still investing in this, and he specially found a waste mine for him.

But for Gooden, who has memorized the periodic table, any mine is useful to him if the physical basis remains unchanged.

It's just that he has to know what kind of mine it is before he can judge whether it can be used.

Since the knowledge of physical chemistry has already been returned to the teacher, it will be difficult for him to use modern knowledge for identification.

After strolling around the mine, I still didn't find any useful information, but I had no choice but to return to the temporary camp to rest and talk about it.

The guards who have set up the camp are cooking rice in a pot at the moment. A pot of bacon, mushroom soup and hard bread is the lunch meal.

Going out, Gooden doesn't have such high requirements for eating, as long as he can eat enough.

The hard bread is served with the broth, and while eating lunch, I don't forget to think about the mines.

Looking at the scarce equipment in the mine, Gooden suddenly noticed something and asked suddenly.

"Old Joseph, does it cost that much to get a mine like this?"

Hearing the young master's words, Joseph, who hadn't reacted yet, was about to explain, but seeing such a 'shabby' appearance in the mine, Joseph immediately reacted.

"Master, what do you mean..." Joseph's eyes were a little excited, but because of Reg's presence, he didn't say it clearly.

But Gooden didn't care, and nodded directly to confirm.

"That's right, the development of this mine doesn't take that much money at all, but the Lanters family said that they spent all their gold coins, so they mortgaged the mine."

"If you let the Arbitration Institute intervene to investigate the value of the mine, deceive the lord into debt, and then try to take away the territory...hehe..."

Speaking of the back, Gooden sneered, letting Reg, who was silently cooking, cool down.

The establishment of the Imperial Arbitration Institute exists for the sake of fairness. For such disputes, only a bowl of water will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

And the scale of this mine is far from reaching the point where hundreds of gold coins are consumed in a few days.

Gooden had calculated the purchasing power of a gold coin. The equipment in this mining area did not even have fifty gold coins in total.

In addition, the land itself is the territory of the Lanters family, and there is no such thing as buying land.

Even if one hundred people are hired for labor costs, it is only one gold coin under the high salary of one silver coin a day.

How many days did it take to spend the huge sum of three hundred gold coins?

"This bill will have to be settled with the Lanters family sooner or later."

After Gooden finished speaking in a cold voice, he began to focus on cooking, while Reg was vigorously moving in his heart at this time...

　Very few tickets...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)