Since the current emperor sent a mine supervisor to the imperial court, there was no mine supervisor in Nanzhili like a place outside the country.

There are three eunuchs' yamen, one is the inner garrison in Nandu; the second is the Suhang Weaving Yamen in Suzhou first and then moved to Hangzhou; the third is the Jiangnan Town Yamen, which has only been established for more than a month.

However, these three yamen are not involved in mining tax affairs. The copper and iron ore in Nanzhili is now basically "private". Before the Jiajing Dynasty, the court had five official iron ore and two iron smelting stations in Nanzhili.

Liyang Mine is one of these five official mines. During the Jiajing period alone, the iron production reached more than 3,000 tons per year. The iron plant located in Wuhu was even larger in scale. Its peak was used to serve thousands of craftsmen, second only to Zunhua Iron Smelting Factory located in Northern Zhili. It refines more than 180,000 kilograms of plate iron, 60,000 kilograms of raw iron, and 200,000 kilograms of mature iron every year.

When the mines were prosperous, there were inciteers and charcoal burners, charcoal were patrolling furnaces, transporting charcoal, and selling alcohol, and one furnace was enough to support hundreds of people. Now, the "Sugang" that is popular among the people in Nanzhili is smelted by Wuhu Iron Factory.

The iron ore farms are so prosperous and sales are so high every year, which brings taxes to the court by hundreds of thousands of taels, but now they have become "private businesses". The reason is the four words "competing for profit with the people".

With the corruption of the administration, the officials and businessmen in Nanzhili formed many interest groups, and these groups often had Nandu Xunqi. The Xunqi was extremely powerful and the official iron factory was "private" through various means, thus causing the large amount of taxes that should have been paid to the state treasury to their pockets.

The whole process is exactly the same as the decaying wards today, and the iron ore farms in various provinces are so big.

In view of this, Wanli began to send mining supervision and taxation envoys to Guangxi, but there were mining supervision in other provinces, but there was no one in Zhili, the only one in Nannan.

There are two reasons: one is that the court officials who received "hears" strongly opposed it; the other is that the Suzhou civil war broke out in the 29th day of Wanli.

This civilian change was extremely disturbing and had a very bad impact, which made the government and the country make noise and the crowd excited.

Wanli, who had intended to send a mining supervisor to Nanzhi, was helpless in the face of this situation. On the one hand, he asked the weaving eunuch Sun Long to move to Hangzhou, and on the other hand, he completely dispelled the idea of ​​sending a mining supervisor to Nanzhi.

After all, Nanzhi is a major source of money, grain and taxes in the court. If the mining supervisors continue to cause civil unrest in various places, it will be quite unfavorable for the court itself.

In the third year after the Suzhou civil war, Liyang Iron Farm, located in Liyang County, Yingtian Prefecture, changed ownership.

The Liyang Iron Farm, originally under the jurisdiction of Nanjing’s Ministry of Revenue, was sold to a businessman named Xu Yuan for 24,000 taels.

This transaction made many knowledgeable people in Nandu angry because although Liyang Iron Farm is not as high as Wuhu Iron Farm and has a lot of profits, its annual sales income is more than 60,000 taels. Now it is sold at a price of 24,000 taels, which is simply a free gift.

However, no one in Nandu dared to write to the court to expose the matter because behind the businessman named Xu Yuan was Xu Hongji, Duke of Wei.

Xu Hongji was the descendant of King Xu Da of Zhongshan. He inherited the Duke of the Kingdom and cooperated with the garrisons in the Nandu. He led the Hou Mansion and was also the admiral of Cao Jiang. He was the leader of all civil and military officials in the Nandu.

If a grand duke buys an iron farm, who dares to say that it is not right?

Moreover, the Duke of the State did not take it forcibly, but bought it with real money and silver.

Even if there were those few officials who wanted to expose the matter, the Duke of Wei had a way to shut them up.

As for people, they are nothing more than fame and fortune. If they are not moved by fame and fortune, they can just transfer them away. If they don’t even have this ability, how could Duke Wei dare to be the leader of civil and military affairs in Nandu?

Xu Yuan was born in the Duke of Wei and was born in the family.

But don’t think that this person is only from the Duke’s Mansion, but he is really capable.

Since taking over the iron farm, Xu Yuan relied on the power of the Duke of Wei State's Mansion to annex or close the remaining ten small iron ores in Liyang County, and rectified all smelting workshops in the county, which was all under his responsibility, which greatly increased the amount of iron ore in Liyang and improved the quality. Later, through the Duke of Wei State's Mansion, he searched for buyers everywhere and collected orders widely. Even the inner garrison hall gave him more than 20,000 kilograms of orders every year.

In this way, in just one year, the profits of Liyang Iron Farm surged to 110,000 taels of silver, which made Wei laugh openly, and often said that buying Liyang Iron Farm was the most proud thing in his life.

It’s a pity that Wuhu Iron Field asked others to take action first, and the relationship was directly connected to the capital, so the Duke of Wei could not fight. Otherwise, Wuhu Iron Field would have long been surnamed Xu.

With the power of the Duke of Wei State and his own ability, in ten years, the Liyang Iron Farm has been run by Xu Yuan for a long time, and its reputation is even scared even when women and children hear it.

You must know the reason behind his ability, but I don’t know how many families are destroyed.

Xu Yuan and Liyang are really like heavenly existences.

Liyang County has changed three magistrates, but each magistrate has to walk to the iron field before he sits in the yamen. Otherwise, as Xu Yuan said, "If you ask you to leave tomorrow, you will not be able to delay the day after tomorrow."

Xu Yuan was summoned and even if the case was being tried, the magistrate would arrive immediately. Otherwise, he would be scolded at the least, and he would be punished at the worst, so he would not take the imperial court's official seriously.

This made my parents suffer. The second term was to beg my grandfather before the term of office, and to take action against my grandmother and move again. Otherwise, I would have to remove the seal and leave.

In fact, Xu Yuannian was not old. He is only in his early forties and is in his prime. On this day, because the Duke's concubine's birthday next month, Xu Yuan carefully prepared a gift. When the arrangement was made, an iron court guard came to report that the people guarding the yamen in Jiangnan wanted to meet the owner.

Jiangnan Town Guarding Yamen?

Xu Yuan had a little impression. Last month when he returned to Nandu, he heard from the Duke of the State that His Majesty had set up a new central official in Jiangnan, and the guard he was appointed was a young eunuch. He was very domineering, which made the officialdom in Nandu talk about it.

However, no matter how domineering the governor was, he did not dare to be arrogant in front of the Duke of Wei. Xu Yuan had been nestled in this corner of Liyang for a long time, and did not interfere with the governor's yamen. Therefore, it was quite strange. I don't know why the governor of Jiangnan sent people to him.

He changed his clothes and ordered the guard to bring the person to him.

"Are you the owner of this iron court?"

Song Sibao has been valued by his father-in-law recently and has been entrusted to accompany him. This time he came to Liyang to do business for his father-in-law. He was very proud of his journey.

Seeing that the person coming was not necessary, Xu Yuan looked like a eunuch, but he was not polite to him at all. He couldn't help but feel a little unhappy and said in a muffled voice: "I'm right, I wonder if this father-in-law is?"

Before the other party could finish speaking, Song Sibao waved his hand and said patiently: "Don't ask who we are. We are here to pass on the message to you for the guard's father-in-law. Just listen."

Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, thinking that he came to Liyang to take over the iron farm by the Duke of the People's Republic of China. Not to mention that no one in Liyang County dared to speak to him like this, even the officials in Nandu dared to treat him like this.

This eunuch is so arrogant!

He snorted slightly and said, "I don't know what my father-in-law has to say to me."

Song Sibao said "um" and said in a sharp voice: "My father-in-law said that Liyang Iron Field has been prosperous over the years, and it makes people feel slanderous. But the person in charge is still not good at doing things, which makes the iron field not prosperous enough, which is a pity. Otherwise, my father-in-law sells the iron field to my father-in-law for the 20,000 taels of money you are in charge. Seven days later, my father-in-law will come to the iron field in person, and then the iron field will be no longer named Xu."
Chapter completed!