Baoketu is the Baotou City in later generations. In Mongolian, it means a place with water plants and deer. The strong wind blows the green grass and dances gracefully. Occasionally there are pheasants flying up to it. It is indeed full of vitality.

However, what attracts Changping’s beautiful eyes the most is the building complex that suddenly stands on the grassland and rises from the ground.

To be honest, the lead-gray factory building is not beautiful at all, and it is covered with a layer of coal ash, which makes it even more dirty, especially the steam coal washing machine and steam conveyor belt that uses coal as fuel. Each machine sprays rich black smoke into the sky. If it is placed in later generations, this is a typical example of a severely polluted enterprise, the first to be shut down.

But now, it is a symbol of the industrialization power of the Ming Dynasty!

It's still a long way to go, and you can already smell a bad smell of smoke. Changping is used to it when interviewing emerging factories in the suburbs of Beijing, but Chiyohime frowned and covered her mouth and nose with her little hands.

What attracts more attention to Changping is the yurt around Baoketu Coal Mine.

This is the base camp of the Zarut tribe. Most of the workers hired are also members of the Zarut tribe. Women and the elderly are still tirelessly grazing cattle and horses, but the men have already started to work in the mines and have been wandering in the grassland nomads who have been wandering for thousands of years. Life has begun to undergo drastic changes from here.

The two girls in Changping have extraordinary identities. The board of directors of the coal mine here also came out respectfully. There were more than 20 people, eighteen Shanxi merchants, and only five Mongolian tribes. Just when Changping was stunning, these people also rode horses and hurriedly greeted them. Under the vigilant gaze of the guards, these people turned over and dismounted more than ten meters away, and then, led by a fat and chubby old Shanxi merchant, greeted them with a smile and a fist.

"I, Cao Sanxi, bring my colleagues from Baoketu Coal Mine to meet with the editor! Li Wanji, the editor-in-chief, can still visit our small place, which really makes our blessed shine!"

The fat old man was very good at speaking at first glance. He called him the editor-in-chief, but he didn't call him the Empress. As expected, Changping, a strong woman, felt much more comfortable. He jumped off his horse and reached out to help Cao Sanxi. Changping also smiled and clasped his fists and replied: "You are concerned about the country and contributed money and efforts to my Ming Dynasty. Building this coal mine not only provides precious coal to the empire, but also provides livelihoods for the Mongolian people on the grassland. Even His Majesty attaches great importance to this. Manager Cao is not a small place."

"This editor is here to collect on-site field trips and learn about the details of your joint coal mines. When I went back, I also published it on the headlines of the Imperial Capital Daily. Fortunately, it was promoted in other parts of the empire, so I have troubled it!"

The Shanxi merchants were already rich enough, but the worst thing was that they were famous. I heard that even Mao Jue attached great importance to his own industry and wanted to write himself on the headlines. Cao Sanxi's chubby old face was also happy like a bun, bowing repeatedly.

"You are kind to the editor. It's a blessing for the editor to come. The phoenix falls into the Wutong! Where can I disturb you? Please, I have already set up a banquet at the factory. Please give me a look!"

"I really want to go in?"

Smelling the smell of smoke and dust after the coal burned, Chiyohime was already smoky in her face. She heard that she had to go in for dinner. She jumped off the horse and lay down in Changping's ear and muttered quietly.

"Three hundred thousand taels!"

He shook the bulging money bag hanging around his waist, and as Chiyohime's eyes were straight, he posed three green jade fingers with a smile.

This trick was really good. Her little face collapsed in depression and wrapped the scarf on her chin around her face. She hummed angrily.

"If you die, you will die! Auntie, I will give it my best!"

After dealing with Chiyo Hime, Changhei turned his head back and smiled gracefully once again.

"I'm upset with Shopkeeper Cao."

Several Shanxi merchants were overjoyed and greeted him inward. They led the reporters' team and walked straight to the Baoketu Coal Mine. However, when they walked to the towering gate of the coal mine, Changping subconsciously turned around and looked around.

Looking at the little building that was rising from the ground, Han Xiaomo's big watery eyes were obviously filled with a sense of remembrance. When she noticed Changping's eyes, she lowered her head in panic.

Words can be fake, but this inadvertent expression cannot be faked, unless this girl has become so dark that she has reached the point of Cao Cao's realm. It seems that there may be something wrong with this Baoketu Coal Mine! Changping's heart sank slightly when he sees it.

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Baotou, later generations, first emerged with this coal mine. No wonder Shanxi merchants, who are rich and powerful, started this place, and the mining environment here is indeed excellent.

If you look at it from the sky, the entire coal mine factory is like a huge egg, wrapped in an oval shape of more than twenty small buildings. Within a range of tens of thousands of square meters of China Construction, the main body of the open-pit coal mine is really great. From construction to production, in just a few months, the grassland has been cut down one layer, and it has been concave for two or three meters. Tens of thousands of workers are busy digging up shallow coal mines, then pushing them to the side of the conveyor belt. The steam engine drives the wooden conveyor belt pulled by iron chains. One princess transports the childish coals into the factory entrance to the south, and another part of the workers continue to pick up the trolley and send them to the coal washing machine inside the factory to wash away debris and stones.

Coal is not only used on train steam engines. In this small glacier period, as a fuel for heating, these dark industrial gold are also the top priority. However, there is too little fuel on the grassland. On weekdays, herdsmen can only rely on collecting cow and sheep manure and drying it as fuel to barely meet the needs of daily cooking. They dare not think about heating in winter.

Now that this bag of Ketu coal mine and the coal produced here are enough to meet the fuel needs of a large number of Daming citizens who have moved to the grassland!

The scene of labor was extremely spectacular. Standing in a specially built manner, the glass passage between the board of directors and the senior staff dormitory building looked downwards, a crowd of busy people like ants, a huge roaring machine, and a pile of coal mountains. Even Chiyohime, who disliked the air, couldn't help but open her mouth wide and looked downwards, shaking her head in amazement.

“So spectacular!”

When talking about this, Cao Sanxi couldn't help but show off with pride, smiling and holding his fists.

"Even even in Shanxi, there are no such large open-pit coal mines. They can produce 660,000 stones of refined coal every year, which is enough to meet the needs of 500,000 people for heating. Wait for the railway tracks to be built here, and in the future, this will be a city, iron smelting plant, and leather factory, and you will have to get up!"

Looking at the mine below, Cao Sanxi's pupils showed a sense of ambition, his eyes were full of longing, and Changping's heart was surging when he heard it.

However, just as she was in the eye-blocking, a sudden noise caused her to turn her head away.

Relying on the No. 1 production building not far from the board building, coal miners who were busy working suddenly started to fight, and more than twenty people were beaten to the ground, punching and kicking. Some people actually dragged over the shovel of coal and turned it on the people. Seeing the riots, some workshop security guards in leather armor quickly stepped up to mediate, but these people might not have much deterrent power. In the push and shovel, there were even workers who beat people who seemed to be attacking these security guards.

"Shopkeeper Cao, what's going on?"

Listening to Changping's urgent questions, Cao Sanxi and several shareholders' faces became bad, and he barely made a smile. Cao Sanxi smiled and smoothed out the situation.

"Don't blame me! After all, these Mongolian people have a short period of naturalization and do not understand the rules. It is common for some conflicts with the Han people. I have hired old scholars from the Guan area to teach them the rules. In time, these barbarians will definitely be taught to be my Ming Dynasty obedient people!"

"The two editors, although this is a place outside the world, it has a unique flavor to enjoy! Especially the local roasted deer is awesome! I have prepared a banquet in the banquet hall downstairs. Please ask all the reporters from the capital to follow me and fill my stomach first!"

When he heard something delicious, Chiyohime's bright big eyes immediately lit up like a light bulb, and he kept lit his little head straight.

"Go quickly and go quickly!"

It was not easy to disgrace Cao Sanxi's face, so Changping also smiled and nodded: "In this way, it will be a blessing for Manager Cao!"

During the greetings, the group went downstairs one by one, but Changping walked behind this time. When she passed the corridor window, she looked up again. The group of workers who beat people had nothing to do. She ran to the corner to smoke. Several workers who were beaten to the point of bleeding were carried out on stretchers. Although she had never read "Solmes", the devil was hidden in the details. Changping obviously understood the truth. Looking at this scene, she subconsciously shook her head secretly.

It seems that this magnificent and harmonious Mongolian-Han joint factory plan is not as harmonious as it seems, and there are still many undercurrents hidden below.

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The meal at noon was quite enjoyable. The pure wild roasted deer was indeed a unique flavor. In the afternoon, Changping looked like an interview, and learned about Cao Sanxi in detail. However, in the evening, in Chiyoji's unwillingness, Changping stayed here in the name of writing a press release.

Chiyohime was really heartbroken. She was complaining that the air here was not good and she was not in a hurry to raise her baby. After a while, the girl was lying on the bed, and bursts of kitten-like purrs came out, and the saliva flowed out when she was sleeping.

Just next to her bed, Changping looked out the corridor outside. Apart from the two guards standing guard, no one was spying on it. As for this, she still pulled down all the curtains with concern, and then walked back to the bed solemnly.

"Ah oh ~"

With a wisp of crystal saliva, the small walnut bag that was stuffed into the little mouth for a whole day was pulled out. Han Xiaomo finally stumbled her mouth comfortably, and then she made her face bitter again.

"Princess, I really didn't lie to you. Those fat men came over with the Tartars and forced us to rob our coal mine. Today, Fatty Cao was the one who led us to arrest us! You will understand if you send someone to arrest them in the first instance!"

"Please, don't tie me up again!"

He ignored her request to loosen her, and his face was solemn. Changping asked with a serious face: "Today, I saw two groups of people fighting in the mine. One group of people injured another group of people. What do you know about this?"

"Battle?"

Han Xiaomo was confused when asked this question, but after thinking about it, she suddenly pouted again.

"What kind of fight is obviously bullying people! Those Mongolians don't treat us as human beings at all. It's a big deal to hit people with disagreement, and even beat people to death, and the government doesn't care."
Chapter completed!