Poor family mother and son

Chapter 184
Miners are local people.In the past, the mines here belonged to the nobles of Donglun, who were slaves of the nobles. After the country was broken, the nobles "voluntarily" handed over the mines to the imperial court. Instead, they changed from slaves to civilians, and now they are "corvet".

They don't understand what system change is, but the change of identity makes them no longer be beaten and scolded, which is a personal benefit.

After they finish their service, they can still go to work to support their families, which is much better than before.

The head supervisor was originally a servant appointed by the old nobles, but his position was not affected after the reform, but he became more careful, for fear that any mistake would cause trouble to the master's family, and he would die.

"Go ahead, I'll just take a look and leave." Chu Qing said that he didn't need to accompany him and sent him away.

The head supervisor didn't dare to disturb the interest of the group, so he nodded and walked away.He had heard that the woman in charge was an official of Daxuan.

Chu Qing walked to the place where the ore was piled up, picked up a smaller piece, and showed it to everyone: "Look, how is this different from our ore?"

Chu Yuan observed carefully, and then said: "Boss, the ore over there is yellow, with maroon inside. This color is lighter, and the inside is blue-black."

Xiaobao said: "The green and black ones seem to have bean marks on them, like the thick bean paste in the village."

Zhuo Yao also nodded: "Yes."

Chu Qing said: "I doubt it's chromite, but people here say it's called bean iron ore, because there are bean marks on it."

"What is chromite?" Everyone couldn't figure it out.

It is estimated that Daxuan has not yet classified iron ore, so they are all called "iron ore"?Chu Qing couldn't figure it out either.

She saw that there are relatively bright iron products in the local area, which are different from the polished luster of her own, but brighter, and she heard that these things do not need to be oiled to prevent rust when they are not in use.That's why I found this iron ore out of curiosity.

The geologist who followed her at the time said that this place did not cause the compass pointer to fluctuate much, and they did not understand why there was iron ore.

It was because of the thin magnetism and bean marks, as well as the shiny iron products, that Chu Qing judged that this place might be chromite.

Today's stainless steel, watch straps, faucets... a lot of them are chrome-plated so they are so shiny and not easy to rust. If this is really chromite, we can't extract chromium, but iron products containing chromium are not easy. It's rusty.

However, seeing that Chu Yuan and Zhuo Yao had never heard of the term "chromite", they didn't want to say more.

"Hey! I just said it casually. I read a lot of books, so I don't remember very clearly." Chu Qing laughed and passed.

But thanks to the little common sense accumulated in modern times, Chu Qing generally deduces that this iron ore contains chromium.

"In a while, I'll go to them to discuss buying some ore, and you can also help me find Bai Hua, and ask him to approve a note, and then give it to Feng Zhizhou for stamping." Chu Qing ordered.

She doesn't want to deal with people like Feng Zhizhou anymore, she's not used to it!

Buy some of the mines here, transport them back to let Master Lu and the others study them carefully, professional people are always better than themselves.

Chu Qing took everyone to visit the developed water sources and cotton fields along the way.This opened Xiaobao's horizons: it turns out that things can be so big!He seemed to see Tu Huerte's cotton field again.

The endless cotton field, if you don't look at the bolls above it, it looks like a piece of firewood. It's not very beautiful, but everyone likes to look at it.

Because, cotton bolls!Planted it!
"It's not as good as Tu Huerte, you see, it's much more deflated." Chu Qing picked off a handful of cotton bolls, all of them were thin and small.

"If it can be planted, it is a win!" Zhuo Yao said excitedly, "It has never been planted before."

"You can't say that, it should have been planted before, but the growth is not as good as it is now, and there may be fewer peaches. That's why I don't plant it anymore." Chu Qing said.Nothing is so absolute.

"Well, yes, but we have succeeded!" Chu Yuan didn't like to listen to modest words. There were thin bolls, but he saw many plump bolls!

"Boss! Boss! They've changed their minds! They've changed their minds!" A boy shouted while riding his horse, and the wind carried his voice first.

Everyone looked over there, Qiao Keli kept talking as he got off his horse, "Boss! Guli King Pazhuo changed his mind and said he would increase the price of cotton!"

"Price increase?" Chu Qing narrowed his eyes: Is it the lord who changed his mind so easily?

Qiao Keli ran forward, panting and said: "That fat man and a man surnamed Meng..."

Chu Qing waved her hand and asked him to catch his breath first before speaking, no matter how anxious he was, it would take a while.

Seeing that his lips were chapped, Chu Yuan grabbed his own water bag and gave it to him. Qiao Keli was really thirsty.

Powerful, I took it and poured it into my mouth, choking on it all at once.

"Ahem..." Qiao Keli had a good cough, anxious in his heart, and said while coughing: "Zhandui said he met the merchant, and that person went to them to talk about buying wool first, but Zhandui said that they had already You have negotiated with the boss, and there will be no change, so I didn't sell it to him and waited for us to collect it.

Later, Zhandui went to send horses to King Guli, and saw that fat man of Guli King...cough cough cough...sending a felt bag to a merchant, the guy who planned to buy their wool, what did the fat man tell him 'And wait, there are still a few days before the cotton can be picked, and I will call back then. '

Then he coughed... Later, Zhandui followed the businessman for a while, and heard him tell his master that the fat man was obviously tempted, but he didn't promise anything right away, and he couldn't hear clearly.

Zhandui suspects that King Guli intends to sell cotton to that merchant, and the character 'Meng' is written on their caravan flag.Zhandui asked me to report back first. "

Qiao Keli went to collect wool and cotton this time, and when he arrived, He Sauter got the news first, and then returned to report the news without stopping.

"Did you say how much the Meng family paid?" Chu Qing asked.

"He didn't find out. But if you think about it, you can know that King Guli's heart must be higher than our price." Qiao Keli said, finally breathing well.

"Boss, could it be Jiangnan Meng's family?" Chu Yuan asked.

"It should be. Wool first, then cotton. This means cutting off our family's wealth." Chu Qing said,
In the caravan to Voss, I have never heard of anyone buying wool and cotton in large quantities.The collection is also sheepskin and cotton cloth.

This time, they want wool and cotton so targetedly, and their surname is Meng. The Meng family in Jizhou is finished, so it can only be the Meng family in Jiangnan.

After all, Chu Qing picked up the matter of smuggling iron ingots, which meant that the Jiangnan Meng family's smuggling of money from the Jizhou mining area was cut off.

Chu Qing looked at the cotton field in front of him, with a look of embarrassment on his face: "It's time for us to harvest cotton, I'm a farm official, I can't leave..."

(End of this chapter)