"Thank you little official!" "Thank you Mr. Bai!"...

With a deep thanks, the two fans bowed and left. I just heard their self-introduction and they all came from the brothels of Dongerfang, which means that they have actually become "employees" under Qin Bai's industry. Since this is the case, Qin Bai will definitely not make things difficult for them. So after comforting and agreeing to send them back safely, the problems of these two people have been solved.

After the two pink heads left, only the uneasy Dong Chuan was left behind. Qin Bai ignored him for the time being. He took a piece of white paper, put some tobacco leaves found in the house, then rolled up a trumpet and took a beautiful breath.

If there is anything that makes Qin Bai the most satisfied after traveling through time, it is undoubtedly that he doesn’t need to worry about smoking. In Shandong, almost every household will plant a few tobacco plants, which can be smoked after drying and chopping. Although the taste of this kind of local tobacco must not be compared with the flavor of cigarettes produced by modern industrialization, at least it can be satisfying, and Qin Bai is already very satisfied.

Moreover, high-end tobacco brands have appeared in big cities, and smoking is popular everywhere in Shandong. For example, the proverb that later circulated, such as the three major monsters in Shandong, and the three major monsters in Northeast China with more immigrants from Shandong, all have the same sentence - a big girl holding a cigarette. From this we, the big girl in Shandong, smokes, drinks, perm her hair, and they are really good girls!

When Dong Chuan found that Qin Bai was left aside, he became more and more uneasy and even felt at a loss. However, this was not a psychological warfare. At this time, Qin Bai was recalling his behavior just now, and he kept smiling bitterly: "The old saying is really right. I am really easy to change my country, but my nature is hard to change!"

This was the case in the previous life. Qin Bai would be impulsive when he couldn't stand it, and would die if he was impulsive. Now that I think about it, killing Mr. Niu is definitely a big adventure. Anyway, the matter has passed, so there is no need to be afraid of anything. Face it first! So Qin Bai looked up and asked Dong Chuan, "They all call you Dong Xiucai? Let's talk about it first, why did you stay?"

"Report to Master Bai..." Dong Chuan was very respectful.

"Call me second master." Qin Bai quickly interrupted.

Qin Bai has always been helpless about his name. It should be "Qin Er", but others insist on "Bai Er", so how ugly it is? It has the meaning of "idiot second guy". But Qin Bai can't correct it, and over time, he got used to it.

This comes from a strong social custom. At that time, people were extremely particular about filial piety. The so-called body, hair, skin, and parents dare not hurt it. It was the beginning of filial piety. Even a hair cannot be damaged casually, so how could you change your surname casually? Of course, those insiders would sympathize with the experience of the Qin Bai brothers, but the entire society would never agree with their change of surnames. Therefore, others simply called him "Bai Er" and showed that vague dissatisfaction. However, it was not as far as to reject or sue the official, after all, there was a reason for it.

"Yes, the second master. The student is from Ruzhou, Henan..."

Dong Chuan just turned 20 this year, but he is not a scholar, but just a child. In the imperial examination system, if you want to become a scholar, you not only need to take the exam, but also need to obtain the exam qualification first. The specific process is not too long. If you are interested, you can refer to special materials. In short, unless your grades are really top-notch, you either have a strong background or give some money. Therefore, there is no difficulty for a child like He Wenxian, and it is very stressful for a small family like Dong Chuan and a small family with average grades.

Therefore, in order to continue the imperial examination, Dong Chuan and some of his relatives joined a caravan and went to Shandong to go to business, hoping to make some money. Unexpectedly, they encountered robbers in Shandong, and all the goods and money were robbed, and the caravan and his relatives were basically killed. Only Dong Chuan was still young, so he was left with his life and sold it to those private mine owners.

I don’t know how many moves he turned, but Dong Chuan finally fell into the hands of Master Niu San. When Master Niu San saw that Dong Chuan could read and remember numbers, he kept him as the accountant of his own private mine.

However, unlike ordinary accounts, although Dong Chuan has improved a lot in terms of living conditions, he just solved the problem of food and clothing. The identity of the mine slave has not changed at all, and he also found a way to make up for the contract for selling his body in the yamen, so he went from an illegal mine slave to a legal slave.

Therefore, Dong Chuan did not dare to run away at all. Once the escaped slave was captured, the outcome would be even worse. Especially since Dong Chuan's family was basically dead, and after so many years of being a mine slave, his studies were basically abandoned, and he didn't know where to run, so he could only leave it to Qin Bai's arrangement.

When Qin Bai heard that Dong Chuan was Niu Sanye’s accountant, his eyes lit up. I know too little now, and the accountant must have access to core secrets. So Qin Bai immediately changed his warm smile and asked Dong Chuan to sit down. He said politely: "Mr. Dong, you and I have never met each other before, and there is no slight grudge. I have never thought of making things difficult for you. I want to ask some questions here. As long as you can solve the doubts with all your heart, no matter what the result is, I will return the contract for sale and also offer a copy of Cheng Yi."

"Don't dare, don't dare." With Qin Bai's insistence, Dong Chuan finally sat down carefully, "Students must tell everything."

Sure enough, Dong Chuan knew a lot of things, and basically introduced the situation here of Niu Sanye:

The private mine owned by Niu Sanye is called Xiaohongling, which occupies several nearby hills and belongs to the same mine vein as the nearby Shanglin Village private mine. Therefore, there are many armed battles between the two sides.

Let’s talk about the Xiaohongling Private Mine first. There are currently over 120 mine slaves here, and there are more than 30 guards. The monthly ore output is about 200,000 jin. The unified purchase price sold to He Mansion is 100 jin and 50 cents, so the monthly income is about 1,000 jin.

However, there is also expenditure. The loss of tools and other messy losses is 50 taels. The monthly expenses of mine slaves' food and drinks are about 20 shi of miscellaneous grains, and other salt goods are about 100 taels. The expenses of the 30 guards are very high. When you are fine, you only need to ensure that you have enough food and drink, and at most you can pay some pocket money from time to time, which may be 200 taels per month. But once there is a fight, you not only need to "issuing bonuses" to increase morale, but also to ensure funeral expenses and medicine expenses after death and injury, so you immediately spend money like water. In addition, the small leaders and confidants under Niu Sanye also need to spend a lot of money to win people's hearts, and they are also about 100 taels per month.

"Oh? Then, this Xiaohongling private mine can earn 4 or 500 taels per month?" Qin Bai asked curiously.
Chapter completed!