Chapter 89 Mining Coal (Thanks to the leader of ‘Liangshuo’ for the reward)

The boys and girls who were practicing with Chu Qiguang were none other than Wu Bing, the young master of the Wu Wei family, and Wu Qingchen, the eldest daughter.

It was not unreasonable for Hao Xiangtong to think that Chu Qiguang was interested in Wu Qingchen, because as soon as she arrived, she saw Chu Qiguang wandering around Wu Bing and Wu Qingchen, like bees surrounding flowers, extremely attentive.

Even when Chu Qiguang saw Hao Xiangtong, he just said hello casually, and then walked around Wu Bing and Wu Qingchen.

Looking at this scene, Hao Xiangtong remembered that Chu Qiguang had talked to her so attentively a few days ago, telling her stories and jokes, recognizing her as his sister... and giving her a powerful drink called golden wine. For the medicine, she was only charged the cost price of two thousand taels.

The effect of the golden wine was really powerful. Hao Xiangtong felt that after using it, his physical strength, which was already close to the second level, increased rapidly. I am afraid that he will be able to truly enter the second level in a month or two.

Just after thinking about the golden wine, Chu Qiguang slapped her, which made her feel annoyed and ashamed every time she thought about it.

Although the other party used a wooden stick to slap her body because of their different relationship, Hao Xiangtong still felt strange.

As a result, when he came to Wu's house today to look for him, he saw this scene in front of him.

Hao Xiangtong punched the pine tree nearby, didn't even bother to go up and say anything, and walked away angrily.

Chu Qiguang and the others turned to look at the fallen pine tree. The young master of the Wu family asked strangely: "Why did Sister Hao break all the pine trees?"

"Maybe she has a stomachache." Chu Qiguang said, "Don't think too much. She will be fine if she goes back and drinks hot water. Hao Xiangtong has a very strange temper. You can never guess what is going on in her stomach. Yes. Okay, have you heard of golden wine?"

First, it was the two thousand taels earned from selling gold wine from Hao Yongtai, and then the two thousand taels from Hao Xiangtong. After Chu Qiguang got it, he bought all the ear-opening pills. He practiced every day for a whole night. Now, Qi Penetrating the Four Shoots has been completed. He has lost his fingernails, feet, and tongue, and now only the last teeth and hair are left, and he can enter the third realm.

‘After getting four thousand taels from Wu Bing and Wu Qingchen, it will take another five, six, seven or eight days to reach the third level. ’

In just over two months, he went from being an ordinary person to the third level of martial arts. If outsiders knew how fast Chu Qiguang was practicing, their jaws would definitely drop.

After negotiating the gold wine deal with Wu Bing and Wu Qingchen, Hao Yongtai came over, took some pieces of paper and said, "Brother Chu Xian, this is what you want us to find."

Chu Qiguang took it and glanced at it. After pondering for a long time, he nodded and said, "I probably understand what's going on. Let's go talk to your father and Mr. Wu together."

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In the Wu family's living room, Hao Wen and Wu Wei listened to Chu Qiguang's story.

I saw Chu Qiguang taking out sheets one after another: "I have been investigating the Ding family with Yongtai these days. I sent people to the Bingbei Road and Inspection Department to secretly inquire how many trucks of goods the Ding family took every month. The guys from the Ding family caravan were arrested and questioned..."

These data are not only simple inquiries, but also the cat demons went to these people's homes to investigate, which can be said to be extremely reliable.

But regardless of Wu Wei or Hao Wen, the people in power in this world are generally insensitive to numbers.

On the one hand, arithmetic is underdeveloped, and on the other hand, they are worried about learning too much and reading too much, and may easily become obsessed.

At this time, facing the data presented by Chu Qiguang, Wu Wei thought that Chu Qiguang was going to say that the Ding family evaded taxes and evaded corvee.

He wondered: "Now that things have happened, both the Demon Suppressing Division and the county magistrate are siding with the Ding family. What's the use of checking this? There is no real evidence. If they scare them, these officers and men will recant their confessions."

Chu Qiguang pointed to the string of numbers written down on the white paper and said: "It's not a matter of evading taxes and duties. Look at this... Just here in Meishan, according to the recall of the archer from the Inspection Department, 500 coals are shipped out every day. Above the basket.

Each basket is calculated as 60 kilograms, which means more than 30,000 kilograms of coal are produced every day, and more than 900,000 kilograms of coal is produced every month. "

Hao Wen was slightly startled: "So many?" Then he said: "But so what?"

"The Ding family has been mining 900,000 kilograms of coal per month for nearly eight years."

Seeing that Wu Wei and Hao Wen still didn't give any feedback, Chu Qiguang could only continue: "With such a large amount of mining and digging rocks and earth every day, Meishan is not big in the first place, and the rocks, water, soil, and vegetation have all been destroyed. Naturally, the Feng Shui spiritual veins were completely destroyed.

After hearing about the Feng Shui spiritual veins, the eyes of the two big landowners lit up. They looked at Chu Qiguang in surprise. Unexpectedly, the other party guessed the possibility of the spiritual veins being destroyed from these numbers. They were shocked and surprised. He said angrily: "You said that the Ding family destroyed Meishan's spiritual veins?"

Meishan Lingmai is said to be the ancestor of Zulong Mountain thousands of miles away. Therefore, the Feng Shui of Qingyang County has always been praised by the wealthy families and ordinary people in the county. It is also considered to be one of the reasons why Qingyang County has so many martial arts students, martial arts graduates and martial arts scholars.

What's more, the current royal family attaches great importance to Feng Shui, luck, and the spiritual veins of the mountains. Emperor Taizu once sent people to measure the spiritual veins of the world and compiled them into a book. Only then did he choose the location of the current Shenjing City and the Imperial Palace, and also laid out the No. 1 location in the world. The Feng Shui formation, and for the next two hundred years, anyone was strictly prohibited from destroying the spiritual veins.

Chu Qiguang said: "If they destroy Meishan's spiritual veins, no one in the entire county will let them go. In addition, they have violated a taboo of the imperial court, and the emperor will never let them go."

Wu Wei and Hao Wen nodded repeatedly as they listened, secretly thinking that Chu Qiguang was really powerful. After going to the Demon Suppression Department to intervene, he had caught the Ding family's weak spot in just a few days.

But Chu Qiguang hadn't finished speaking yet. He went on to add: "And the Ding family's coal is sold very cheaply, less than half of the market price. There must be secrets on Meishan Mountain. Unfortunately, the entire mine is heavily guarded. Not only is there Martial arts masters are on duty, and mine protection teams are patrolling day and night, but none of the people we sent have been able to get in."

Chu Qiguang thought in his mind: 'That mine is like a military camp. Even dog and cat monsters will be discovered if they go in. Qiao Zhi got closer and said that there are top experts stationed there. He will be discovered if he goes in... There must be more in this Meishan Mountain. What's the secret? ’

At this moment, Chu Qiguang naturally didn't know that the Ding family used the living corpses of the Immortal Path to mine the mines. The cost was naturally low. Living corpses were to be manipulated in the mountains, and naturally there were experts from the Immortal Path.

"But even so, their average price of coal per hundred kilograms is only 8 cents of silver, and their annual income is less than 10,000 taels. Although it is just an estimate, it is not too different. Where do they get the tens of thousands of taels of silver to send every year? From the capital?"

"They can send tens of thousands of taels to the capital every year, and they may earn hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year."

Wu Wei frowned and said, "We outsiders don't know how much money the Ding family makes in a year. We want to check... unless we can find the Ding family's account books."

"Everyone who walks by will leave traces, let alone a big business of more than 100,000 taels of silver?" Chu Qiguang said, while turning out another piece of paper, pointing to the rows of numbers on it and said: "This It’s the goods that the Ding family’s caravan sends out every month. Do you think they can earn tens of thousands of taels a year from these?”

Hao Wen and Wu Wei took a look at the contents above. They were all iron pots, salt, tea, cotton cloth, rice grain and other commodities.

Chu Qiguang said: "Based on the market price, even if all these things are sold, the Ding family will only earn two to thirty thousand taels of silver a year at most."

At this time, Hao Wen and Wu Wei were also confused. The coal mines and caravans combined were not enough. How did the Ding family earn money?