Dressed as a widow, raising cubs, farming and building infrastructure in Ming Dynasty

Qin Liu was immersed in regret for the past.

Many times, Zhu Yue expressed his affection to her.

Give her a jade hairpin, buy clothes, and go to the grassland to meet her.

It's just that she keeps running away.

If she had not escaped, but bravely chosen to stand with him and face all kinds of difficulties, wouldn't they have lived happily together long ago?

There would be no Balth and no Maon.

She might be able to guard Erlang day and night, and she wouldn't be as empty as she is now.

Ma Ang did not let Qin Liu feel depressed.

Using his connections and money, he spent 500 taels of silver to buy a coal mine that was about to be abandoned and let Qin Liu run it.

Buying a coal mine immediately depleted Ma Ang's money, and he still owed a lot of foreign debt. His life was very tight, and he had to count the money for firewood and rice and noodles every day.

Madam Ma sighed and looked at Qin Liu like a knife.

This woman used to look good, hard-working and smart when she was down and out.

No matter how I look at her now, I don't like it.

If you are not filial to your mother-in-law, you will not be able to have children and will not give your husband concubines.He is really not worthy of her son who is a third-grade military attaché!

Other women are prosperous.Fortunately for her, she squandered all of Ma Ang's money, her family became poorer and poorer, and she also owed a huge foreign debt!
No matter how strong Qin Liu's psychological quality was, he couldn't bear it and had to avoid it.

She had no relatives or friends in Datong, so she had no choice but to run the coal mine well.

After decades of disorderly mining, coal mines have little potential to tap.

As a woman, according to tradition, she cannot go into the mine, so she can only entrust others to make detailed descriptions of the underground conditions of the coal mine.

Qin Liu looked at the drawings of the underground mine tunnels that had been dug, but he became energetic.

The underground tunnel of this coal mine has already crossed the Great Wall and reached the area north of the Great Wall.

Moreover, according to her impression, if the mine tunnel is dug further north, there will be a huge new coal mine, and there will be iron ore not far away!
This amazing discovery was like opening the door to a new world.

You must know that the land north of the Great Wall is the battleground between the Tatars and the Ming Dynasty. It is extremely dangerous. Generally, the people of the Ming Dynasty will not go to that area to make a living.

But walking in the underground mine tunnel is different.

As long as the confidentiality work is done well and the Tatar soldiers don't know about it, it is a business without a basis.

That’s a steady stream of cash flow!

Besides, if you have a coal mine, you can engage in coal chemical industry and produce various industrial supplies!
Qin Liu's enthusiasm was suddenly ignited.

Just mining coal also requires start-up capital.The miners in the coal mine are ready, but the former boss has not paid them wages for a long time.In order to command them, a start-up capital is needed.

When Qin Liu was dejectedly trying to figure out how to prepare money, Ma Ang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He wasn't going to help her anymore.

Let her worry about worldly money, which will make her appear more smoky, instead of letting her consume herself in the spiritual world.

Qin Liu asked Ma Ang for help but it was useless, so he wrote to Ma Yue of Xuan Mansion to borrow money.

Ma Yue Ma Yue had already received Ma Ang's entrustment, but he just refused to say that he had no money to borrow.

Sister Ma Feng, on the other hand, said that the owner of a silk and satin shop in Xuan Mansion was interested in providing the money, but she needed to occupy [-]% of the shares.

Qin Liu was stunned for a moment, then nodded in agreement without hesitation.

When she left the grassland after Bals' wedding, Zhu Yue said that he would take [-]% of her shares.

Qin Liu finally thought about it.She could probably guess the director behind this so-called satin shop owner.

From beginning to end, it wasn't just that she wasn't brave enough.

Everyone has a worldly identity and limitations.

Liu Xuejiang is like this, Zhu Yue is like this, and she, Qin Liu, is like this.Of course, Zhu Yue could also choose a woman, decide to get married today, and hold a feast tomorrow to tell the world, just like Ma Ang.

But this woman must not be Liu Xuejiang.

Of course, he can choose to abandon his identity and force Qin Liu, who has no strength, to live in the south like Bals did, and even take Erlang with him.

However, is this enough?

It's just the beginning of bigger troubles.

Destiny has already marked the price of various things in the dark. To obtain certain things, you have to exchange them for other things.

Unless you specifically want one, there are plenty of alternatives to choose from.

Qin Liu is a rational person. He started to choose replacements, such as Bals and Ma Ang, very early on, and actively integrated into life.

But Zhu Yue is a firm idealist.He doesn't try to think outside the box.Instead, he firmly assumes his responsibilities.

Only within certain small areas where he could make his own decisions, he firmly adhered to his ideals.

With the initial start-up capital, Qin Liu began to work day and night.

Coal mines are being dug out continuously, but sales are not very good.

There are many coal mines in Datong, and people nearby can use coal to heat their homes.

If coal is transported overseas, the cost of road transportation in this era is extremely high, and it is not profitable at all.

In desperation, Qin Liu began to consider mining iron ore and using coal to make iron.

The demand for ironware is much greater than that of coal.

Blast furnace ironmaking is no small project.

First, coal must be selected to make coke.

The coal collected from coal mines is processed through processes such as crushing and screening to remove impurities and ash and improve the purity of the coal.

Next, the pretreated coal is fed into the coke oven.

Coke oven is the core equipment for coke production, usually using blast furnace coking method.In the coke oven, coal undergoes a retort reaction and is heated to high temperatures to decompose it to produce coke and other by-products.

During this process, volatile matter and gases in coal are released, while fixed carbon forms coke.

After the iron ore is mined, it must also be ground and screened to be processed into iron ore powder.

In this era without large-scale industrial machinery and electricity, it is extremely difficult to make these manually.

The industrial facilities in Datong are much better than those on the grassland, but the cost of building a blast furnace and refining steel in Qinliu is also very high, and it will be difficult to complete without several years of preparation work.

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In the capital, Li Dongyang, the chief assistant, was allowed to serve by the emperor as early as the beginning of the year.

The smooth return of his official position shows that Li Dongyang landed safely.Ever since Liu Jin was executed, Li Dongyang had written articles almost every once in a while to pray for him to become an official, and he was very aware of current affairs.

Emperor Zhengde's attitude towards Li Dongyang was very complicated.

Over the years, he had not found much actual evidence about the fire in the suburbs of Beijing.

But some overt and covert clues pointed to Li Dongyang, the chief assistant, and even Jiao Fang, the elder who became an official.

Jiao Fang was a northern official from a poor background, and suffered deeply from the cliques and cliques formed by southern officials.

So when Liu Jian and Xie Qian forced the palace, he chose to side with Liu Jin without hesitation.

Jiao Fang's reputation among officials was extremely bad, but he had been working for Emperor Zhengde and made great contributions to combating the collusive civil servant clique in the Hongzhi Dynasty.

As a mediator between the old civil servant group and the new imperial power, Li Dongyang played his due contribution.

However, Jiao Fang and Li Dongyang were the masterminds behind the fire that year.