Chapter 12: Fire danger in the middle of the night

Tian Gouzi left, and the group wandered for a long time. It was not until the evening that they returned to the yamen. Before he could wait for a break, Zhang Zhong wrote a notice that it required a lot of ginseng that had been worth more than a hundred years ago. He could come and sell it or exchange it for some conditions that could be achieved.

As soon as this notice was posted, many people were anxious. They heard that the new county magistrate had put his son's affairs aside for the sake of handling the case. Now he was going to get ginseng for his son.

Everyone was asking, and some people were even planning to go to the mountains to see if they could find ginseng, some were for money, some were for help with the county magistrate, and some were very simple to make the county magistrate's son get better.

The lord Bo and the county magistrate were happy. Now there was another thing that Zhang Zhong could think about, and he would never do anything else. The lord Bo Zhan Kaijin originally thought about finding something tomorrow and sent Zhang Zhong to a distant place to work hard for a day, but was stopped by the county magistrate Xiao Chi.

"Brother Xiangyun, you can't do this anymore. What if the man finally said that it was our commander, Zhang Zhongyi was angry and sent him to the capital with Zhang Damazi and that person. The people there really asked something, are we still thinking about it?

His son hasn't woken up yet. He waited to see if he was still reading those booklets at night. If he still reads, he wouldn't have much energy tomorrow."

"Brother Buyong said that he really can't continue to take risks. Don't he want ginseng now? Why don't we find some ginseng for him. Those merchants who came here will be detained by him. At that time, the fertile fields can still turn into wasteland, so our benefits will be brought."

The master finally came up with a method he thought was the best. The county magistrate listened, with a smile on his face, but he was a little unwilling. Zhan Kaijin thought of a good idea. If he couldn't think of it, wouldn't he say he was not as good as Zhan Kaijin? So he said:

"It's not appropriate. We can't do this. We should tell those businessmen that they know a lot. You have to learn more in the future, otherwise something will happen."

"Brother Buyong is right. He should indeed let those businessmen take care of this matter. It should be fast, otherwise if the weather gets hotter and it rains a few times, someone else will think about it."

The Lord Bo Zhan Kaijin is easy to talk, and he will listen when others point it out.

After talking about this, he said again: "Brother Buy, that Zhang Damazi is just locked up now and has not been tried yet. Is it necessary?" When he said this, he compared his hand to his neck.

The county magistrate waved his hand and said, "But you must not do that. Have you seen four guards staying tonight? Even the food that locked up people was prepared and delivered to Jin Lailou. If you want to do it, it is easy for him to catch the handle. We have to make a long-term plan."

"Okay, let's take a long-term plan. Thanks to the things given to Jinlailou today, the people who were locked up seemed to have been hungry for three days. We took away all the money and food in the account. If we don't give them some food, they will starve to death."

Lord Bo Zhan Kai said with lingering fear that County Magistrate Xiao had just thought of this. In the past two days, he only focused on how to deal with the county magistrate Zhang Zhong who came first. He forgot the people who were imprisoned in prison. The yamen runners did not go there and just locked them. Today was exactly the third day.

They were thinking about the people in the cell, and Zhang Xiaobao was also thinking about it. From the file, they probably didn't do anything big. Some did not pay rent or tax, some robbed steamed buns from buying steamed buns, and some stole other people's money on the street.

What makes people even more ridiculous is that when I arrived at Jinlailou alone, I ordered one and six dishes, and I ate them all by myself, and then I had no money to pay the bill, so I was locked up. Jinlailou was originally opened by a relative of the county magistrate Wen.

The papers of more than 120 detainees were directly taken out, and the others had no time to take care of them. Zhang Zhong applied two cucumber slices to his eyes, finished reading them one by one, and said to the guard next to him:

"Tomorrow, you will protect Erniu and take those merchants to the riverside and take a walk at the pier. I will ask the county magistrate and the lord to follow you. You must transfer it for a day. It is easy for me to handle the case and release the person."

"Yes." The guards carefully trained by the royal palace are indeed different, and the answers are straightforward.

Zhang Zhong closed the papers and lay down to rest. Naturally, someone picked up the lamp and put the dummy in place. It was the turn of that person to watch over here, so he pulled the rope down every once in a while.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan brought back some things to learn, rested in the same room, and could get up for a while. The two of them lay on the couch thinking about coal, but couldn't sleep for a while, so they could only chat.

"Juanjuan, there must be a lot of coal yellow there, just amber. I will dig it out and make jewelry for you." Zhang Xiaobao said to Wang Juan.

"I don't want that thing. I want diamonds. You should think about how to use the coals to dig out. You can't just put them there."

Wang Juan is not very interested in those things.

"How else can I use it? Of course, it's burning. First, find a blacksmith and ask them to help us melt the iron, then make a stove-like thing, and then continue to burn from the stove. At that time, all the blast furnaces, open furnaces, and converters will be made. Then we start using the ones we made just now, making guns and cannons, and making guns..."

"Just just dream, just say serious." Wang Juan interrupted Zhang Xiaobao's words, moved the pillow, and turned to the side comfortably.

"Serious, then you can only use it to make iron. Look at Li Xun's guards all have crossbows. We can make them all by ourselves, such as crossbows that are full of iron, and use them to stomp the strings. At that time, you can play with birds, or make knives, do less, walk and hide when you have nothing to do. If something happens, you can use it for the guard team.

Other things are made in daily life, such as kitchen knives. In the future, all the masters of our restaurant use steel knives, scissors, etc., and take them out and sell them, or wait a moment, and let the blacksmith work hard to produce more steel ingots and sell them to the country at that time.

Well, it has to be kept secret. Now, coal may be used in other places to make things, and we can also use it for heating. The easiest thing is honeycomb coal. If we don’t mix other things, we can use yellow mud and coal face, and we can use it in the kiln, so that’s it.”

Zhang Xiaobao really cannot play the key advantages of coal, such as gas, etc., so he can only find ways in daily life. He is planning to store the coal blocks first and make the coal face into something for use. The only troublesome thing is that there is no high-pressure water gun, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive to decompose coal.

"Then let's do this first. How much wage are you going to pay to the people in Yushu Village?" Wang Juan couldn't think of a better solution.

"Based on the amount of mining, we can see how fast they mine. In short, we can't give it less. They should become the richest village in Huayuan County." Zhang Xiaobao had long planned for this and had to make them rich. If there was a coal mine by his side and took it directly, people would find out in the future, which would be bad for their reputation.

Wang Juan didn't have much thought about this. As long as the people in the village could make more money, I will see if I could bring the people in the village over in the future.

County Chief Xiao and Zhan Zhubo still didn't go to bed so early at night. Yesterday was basically like staying up all night. After all, it was the first day. They wanted to see more, and they were still eating and drinking in that small house today. From time to time, someone came to tell them that Zhang Zhong was not asleep yet.

When it was Yin time, the two of them finally couldn't stand the trouble of two days and one night. They fell asleep in this house and blew the lights. The two of them lay down for less than a quarter of an hour. A tight gong sounded. They were like others owed them tens of thousands of dollars, looking around with their hazy sleepy eyes.

"Sir, it's not good. It's water. The granary in the yamen is gone." A man who specialized in helping watch the night rushed in and shouted loudly to the two of them. They were not sleeping well and did not hug the woman at home. At this time, they had just fallen asleep and left, which made the two of them want to find someone to bite them.

"If you leave the water, go and save us. Why are you calling us?" Zhan Zhubo was still confused. When he heard that he was leaving the water, he immediately shouted.

County Magistrate Xiao was still more alert and asked, "Say it again, where did you get out of the water?"

"The granary of the yamen is the one who puts the rent collected. Do you want to go or not?" The visitor repeated it again and asked carefully. He also knew that the two adults had just fallen asleep, and there was actually no food in the granary.

"Go, how can you not go? That Zhang Zhong is not sleeping now. Can we not go if he goes? After all, it's the granary burned, why is there no food? This is clearly written on the account. Brother Xiangyun, get up quickly."

County Magistrate Xiao said helplessly, and began to put on his clothes there. Zhan Zhubo also got up and slowly put on his clothes in a daze. It took the two of them a quarter of an hour to dress up and went out to run towards the granary of the yamen.

When the two of them arrived at the place, there were already many yamen runners and people here to put out the fire. Zhang Zhong was also dressed neatly and directed the matter, asking loudly from time to time, "Why haven't the county magistrate and lord Bo come yet? Isn't their homes nearby? With the salary of the court, there will be no one at the critical moment?"

The yamen runners knew where the two went, and they should have been thinking of bad ideas again, but the people didn't know. When they heard Zhang Zhong's words, they complained there, and at the same time praised the new county magistrate and the people's hearts. It was a very mysterious thing. Now the county magistrate and the lord are gradually losing.

When the two of them ran over, they happened to hear Zhang Zhong ask again. They looked at the people around them, but they were so angry that they rushed up and snatched the bucket from one of them and rushed forward, wanting to show off and let the people see.
Chapter completed!