She turned into a noble lady in the book, she wanted to lie down

Chapter 195. 195. Found a Gold Mine

While everyone was waiting for the imperial court to send people to Zhaoyang County, good news came from Daqing Mountain.

On March th, Liu Xinning's guards were the first to discover the gold mine!
On the Shangsi Festival on the third day of March, when everyone in Zhaoyang City was busy with outings, General Zhang and his cronies came to Houqingshan quietly.

After taking control of the salt mine, King Zhan and Xiao Muze were busy interrogating the supervisor of the salt mine and the officials of Zhaoyang County following the clues.

And the guards of Liu Xinning and Xiao Muze, with General Zhang's men, began to search in a fair and honest manner.

After all, there is already a salt mine in this mountain, so who knows if there is another salt mine?

Those soldiers and guards began to search from mountain to mountain.

There are many people here, and the efficiency is high. It only took more than ten days to find it.

Although Liu Xinning had expected this matter, she was still happy for a long time.

But Zhu Junshou didn't know whether to cry or laugh after hearing the news.

Finding salt mines and gold mines is a great achievement, not only to add glory to his evaluation, but also to Zhaoyang County.

However, the problem is that the position of Sheriff of Zhaoyang County is still not his, and he can't guarantee it.

After Liu Xinning got the news, she wrote another letter and hurried back to Beijing to announce the good news to Emperor Qingping.

This time, not only did the reply come quickly, but the people who came came even more quickly.

Emperor Qingping not only sent people from the household department to register and record, but also sent Liu Xinning's old acquaintance, Dali Temple Minister Liu Qingshi.

"What's so important about it that you were sent here?"

Sitting in the main hall of the front yard, Liu Xinning looked at Liu Qingshi, and felt that her doubts about the matter behind the county captain had been confirmed a little.

"Your Majesty said that the county lieutenant is a high-ranking officer, and I'm afraid no one would dare to properly interrogate him, so he sent me here." Liu Qingshi said with a smile on his face.

Whether this is the case, Liu Qingshi knew it well, and Liu Xinning knew it too.

The King of War is here, and the eighteen tortures are about to be used.The interrogation was even more detailed and clear. Why did no one dare to conduct a proper interrogation?

The trial is the trial, and the Zuo Junjun will not let go if he bites him to death, and the King of War can't help it.

The county lieutenant is already very powerful, who else can make the county lieutenant bite his tongue?Isn't it the princes in the capital?

That's why Emperor Qingping asked Liu Qingshi to interrogate, in order to find out the person behind it, right?
Emperor Qingping and others didn't know who the person behind the county captain was, but Liu Xinning vaguely understood based on the contents of the book that he had read that it should be the Fifth Prince.

Unfortunately, there is no evidence!
"Didn't Captain Zuo admit it?" Liu Xinning asked curiously.

"Yes, Lieutenant Zuo admitted it. However, he didn't find much money in his house, so..."

"He said it was all spent. What to eat, drink, buy paintings and antiques."

The profit of private salt is extremely high, and there must be a lot of money.Who can use up all the food and drink so quickly?

As for the antique calligraphy and painting, is it just how much the buyer remembers or how much?

Cough, she has experience in false reporting.

Therefore, the root is still with Zuo Junwei.

It's a pity that when we found Captain Zuo, there was already movement.

When Xiao Muze brought people to Zuo Junwei's mansion, he saw paper scraps in the brazier, presumably those ledgers had been burned.

Therefore, no matter where the money went, there is no clear evidence.

"The Zuo family didn't live extravagantly in the capital. Commander Zuo didn't spend too much in Zhaoyang City. Therefore, the Holy One sent officials to investigate."

What Liu Qingshi said was a bit vague, and Liu Xinning didn't intend to continue asking.

Anyway, according to the usual practice, it should be difficult to find out.Even if it can be found out, the rest is not what she should do.

Therefore, as a princess who doesn't understand political affairs, she should not ask about other things.

"Then Mr. Lao Liu has worked hard. I want to stay for a while and go to see the gold mine. I really didn't expect that there would be a gold mine in Zhaoyang County? When I return to Beijing, I will take Give this gold mine to Uncle Huang to make him happy."

Liu Xinning looked happy, but she just talked about the gold mine with Liu Qingshi with great interest.

The word "send" not only expressed her admiration for Emperor Qingping, but also indicated that this gold mine should belong to her.

Emperor Qingping owned the entire dynasty richly and obtained a lot of mines, so naturally he would not take a fancy to her small mine.

Therefore, according to her understanding of Emperor Qingping and the empress dowager's deception, these two mines will eventually be in her hands.

She, don't worry at all!
However, this attitude still needs to be made clear—especially in front of the emperor's confidantes.

"Ning'er, you should go back to the backyard first. Uncle, let Master Liu know about the matter."

Zhan Wang saw that Liu Xinning had finished speaking, so he opened his mouth.

Naturally, Liu Xinning quickly saluted and left.

King Zhan and Xiao Muze talked to Liu Qingshi about political affairs in the front yard, and Liu Xinning returned to the backyard, thinking about the mining of salt mines and gold mines.

Although the output of the salt mine and the gold mine belonged to her, Princess Zhaoyang, the mining matters were still handled by the government.

Therefore, there will definitely be problems with the output and fineness of the final report.

And the situation of greed for ink will definitely exist.

However, when the water is clear, there will be no fish.Liu Xinning still understands this truth.So, she didn't particularly care about it.

What she cares about is the problem of miners.

Mining is drudgery, and most people don't want to do it.Therefore, private small mine owners mostly buy people to do it.

As for the mines of important materials owned by the imperial court, the government mostly asked criminals in prisons or ordinary people to serve in corvee.

If there is still a shortage of manpower, the government may hire someone to do it.

For criminals, the people in the yamen will control them, and she is inconvenient and cannot intervene.

But for hired people or common people in corvee, she can intervene a little bit.

She wants to treat those people better.

In the previous life, Liu Xinning had an aunt who didn't have five clothes, and it was shameful to see what her father did, so in daily life, she would take care of their mother and daughter.

Because of what my aunt did, the cousins ​​and cousins ​​of the cousin's family took good care of her.

That was the only warmth she felt in that village.

After all, her father's gambling behavior has already made her family and friends stay away.

My cousin and cousin are not well-educated, so when I grew up, I took over from my cousin and went to work in the coal mine.

It is needless to say the hard work of going down to mine.

Whenever she saw their exhausted and dark faces, she couldn't help feeling distressed.

That was the state-owned coal mine in the previous life, all rules and regulations were relatively formal, and the miners worked so hard.

Today, although the mine is still under the leadership of the government, those rules and regulations do not exist.

Not to mention, the most basic daily necessities of eating and drinking for miners.

Therefore, Liu Xinning wanted to arrange trustworthy stewards in these two mines and do what she could.

For example, go to work as far as possible according to physical strength, eat and drink nutrition to keep up, wages for hired workers must be timely and cannot be deducted, and people who are in corvee cannot be paid wages, but they can be rewarded with a different name... and so on.

The selection of such stewards is very important.

Therefore, Liu Xinning thought carefully.

(End of this chapter)