In early September of the third year of Qingyuan, the weather in Yanjing began to turn colder, especially in the morning and night. The coldness in the evening breeze gradually made people unconsciously start adding clothes to their bodies. The sun set towards the west mountain seemed to be much faster than usual. In almost the blink of an eye, the sunset hanging on the top of the mountain would disappear silently.

Master Liu Ke and Ye Qing were riding in the same carriage. Compared to Ye Qing's calm expression, Master Liu Ke, who was shaking in the carriage, seemed extremely excited.

As winter is coming, if you want to transport the black stone from Wuzhou, you will naturally have no hardship. However, because the journey is far, the price of the black stone will also rise a lot when it is transported from Wuzhou to Yanjing. For today's Yanjing City, it may be as affordable as they can, but if you want the people to be able to use it, the price is obviously a bit outrageous.

After two days, Ye Qing took him and everyone around Oguchi Mountain for two days, he easily found the Black Stone, which was no less than Wuzhou, and there were all kinds of things.

So this is naturally great news for Liu Keshi, who is actually the prefect of Yanjing. He can easily solve many problems caused by money.

Yelu Chucai, who went to Dagu Mountain with them, did not choose to ride in the same carriage with them, could only sit on the horse's back and face the cold wind toward the direction of Yanjing City.

It’s not that he is not afraid of the cold, but that he once again disdained to be with the cunning Ye Qing, and even more disdained to ride in the same carriage with such a despicable villain.

There was a black stone in Oguchi Mountain. Yelu Chucai dared to slap his chest and bet. Ye Qing had definitely known that there was a black stone here for a long time, but he chose Wuzhou, which was hundreds of miles away for the Jin people to get the black stone. Now that he became the master in Yanjing, he chose Daguchi Mountain, which was dozens of miles away from Yanjing to get the coal!

Yelu Chucai was full of dissatisfaction but didn't know how to vent. He was even sure now that when Ye Qing first went to the Jin Kingdom, he had already thought about taking Yanjing one day!

Otherwise, how could he let the Jin people go far and seek coal instead of choosing Otani Mountain to get coal? It's simply outrageous!

The depressed Yelu Chucai was riding a horse. From time to time, he heard cheerful laughter from the carriage next to him. He would unconsciously snort coldly to express his dissatisfaction with Ye Qing.

Ye Qing also poked his head out of the carriage at the right time and looked at Yelu Chucai, who was sitting upright on the horse's back despite the cold wind: "Don't you really plan to get into the car and warm up?"

"I don't want to ride in the same carriage with some evil villains." Yelu Chucai replied proudly.

"Okay, I originally wanted to leave the Black Stone of Oguchi Mountain to you to take care of. Since you are not interested, then..." Ye Qingsi didn't care about Yelu Chucai's evaluation of his evil villain.

"I am disdainful, but I didn't say I was unwilling to deal with this matter!" Yelu Chucai turned his head and looked at Ye Qing in the carriage, with a cold and disdainful expression, and said, "But I agreed that if I leave it to me to take care of this matter, then you can't interfere in this matter anymore. Everything needs to be decided by me."

"Then tell me, what are you going to do next?" Ye Qing asked with interest. Master Liu Ke in the carriage smiled but didn't say anything. If this small thing was left to him, it would be a waste of talent.

So in his opinion, it would be better to hand over to Yelu Chucai. After all, this black stone is a cost-effective thing that ordinary people need. If the Song court used Yelu Chucai as a surrendered minister to narrow the distance between the Song court and the people, it would be better.

Yelu Chucai sat on the horse's back and talked for a long time. He thought that his thoughts this time were enough for Zhou Xiang, which could not only meet the benefits brought to Ye Qing by the black stone, but also allow the people to gain real benefits.

So when he looked at Ye Qing with confidence, Ye Qing sighed helplessly: "You are still young. If you have only such skills, you dare to do so.

A big bag can only mean that you, Yelu Chucai, have to change your name to Yelu Wancai."

"Why? I am not thinking well?" Yelu Chucai was stunned, and didn't care about Ye Qing calling him Yelu Wancai again, and hurriedly slowed down again and asked.

"If it's just a Black Stone business, then you'll be too underestimating me." Ye Qing kept it a secret and said, "Come to my mansion tomorrow and show you how much benefits this Black Stone can generate."

After saying that, Ye Qing put down the curtain of the car and ignored Yelu Chucai, who looked a little confused and thoughtful.

Yelu Chucai obviously couldn't understand what else could Ye Qing have to make this simple black stone derived more benefits. In his opinion, black stone is black stone. Even if you change, he can't turn into white face, right?

As Ye Qing returned to the mansion, Jia She and Xu Han had already unloaded all the black stones that had been pulled back from Ogu Mountain today from the backyard into the Ye Mansion.

Now it is not only Yelu Chucai who is curious, but even Xu Han, Jia She and Liu Keshi are curious about what Ye Qing can transform this black stone into.

Even a group of people gathered around a large group of people to push the black stone, Yelu Yue, the only mistress in the mansion, curiously attracted the mansion.

Although Yelu Yue didn't know what Ye Qing pulled these black stones to the backyard for, she could already vaguely guess that this must be related to the several things that Ye Qing had created by the blacksmith these days.

After all, Ye Qing, who is the King of Yan, is also a profitable businessman who can't get up early without profit. In the past few days, he ran out of the mansion and sat in the blacksmith shop for most of the day. Then he brought back a few things that he didn't know what it was for. Today he got black stones, so there was almost no need to guess. Yelu Yue knew that the things that Ye Qing had tinkered with were all for today's things.

Ye Qing's idea was very simple. He had already made the iron lug come out, and this move was because Wanyan Jing went to Jiangnan that time, and Ye Qing asked Wanyan Jing to take it back to Yanjing as a gift.

So now the iron furnace is no longer a new thing, but it is not used much in Yanjing now. But because of this, the honeycomb coal that Ye Qing wanted to imitate obviously had no use before.

Now that he has made up his mind to get coal from Ogu Mountain, the first thing Ye Qing naturally thought of was that the new things that had not yet appeared during the rule of the Jin Dynasty were naturally the best.

He originally planned to explain his doubts and doubts to Yelu Chucai tomorrow, but he couldn't resist the curiosity that Liu Keshi and others could not contain. King Yan had to reluctantly make it difficult and let Xu Han take out the "treasure" he had created in the past few days.

The identity of King Yan is so noble that it is naturally impossible to demonstrate it to everyone by themselves. So among the onlookers, Ye Qing did not choose Yelu Chucai, but Xu Han and Jia She followed each step he prompted to make this honeycomb coal.

Ye Qing, who was standing aside, waved to Yelu Chucai, who was staring at Xu Han and Jia She, and then said lightly: "What you said along the way seems to be impossible in my opinion."

"Why?" Yelu Chucai frowned and asked, "Wuzhou manages black stones in this way. No matter how big or small the black stone kilns are, they are held in the hands of the government. Only in this way can the government benefit..."

"Do you know how many small kilns have been secretly opened by the people of Wuzhou without telling the government?" Ye Qing asked lightly.

Obviously, Ye Qing did not know nothing about the situation in Wuzhou.

"How can there be a perfect method in the world? As long as it does not affect the overall situation... Besides, those small kilns are just fractions..." Yelu Chucai said casually.

"Yes, but the so-called Thousand Mile Dikes collapsed from an ant hole, and Wuzhou is like this, and what about Yanjing?" Ye Qing directed Xu Hanshao to mix with yellow mud, and continued to say to Yelu Chucai: "Although Wanyan Jing left, he took away most of the Jin nobles and royal officials, there were still many noble merchants in the vast Yanjing city. They are now in Yanjing and even around them.

The influence is no weaker than that of our new government. So since someone opens Wuzhou privately, will the people of Yanjing, especially the Jin survivors, not privately open them?"

"Strict protective measures should be taken, as long as it is discovered..." Yelu Chucai said with a frown.

Ye Qing shook his head and interrupted his words: "It's just a treatment of symptoms but not a root cause, let alone you see it? Don't you know how big Oguchi Mountain is? If you send all the troops over because of this little black stone, wouldn't it be a loss of big things?"

"What does King Yan mean?" Liu Keshi, who had listened to him for a long time, asked.

Ye Qing looked at Yelu Yue not far away with guilt, then deliberately lowered his voice and said, "It is enough to solve this problem by merchant supervision."

"What does it mean?" Master Liu Ke and Yelu Chucai said in unison.

"The government has set a mountain for legal mining of black stones, and then refined it into a zone, either sold or rented to merchants to mine it by themselves. The government only needs to collect taxes according to the system. In this way, if someone else opens a kiln privately from other places, whose interests do you think are the first to be damaged?" Ye Qing looked at Yelu Yue vigilantly from time to time.

Seeing Yelu Yue at this time, he happened to take the mold from Xu Han's hand curiously, and then stepped on the mold without any dirty legs and fell into the mixed black stone. He then slowly raised it with some effort to walk to another open space. As Xu Han did just now, he slowly pushed the black stone from top to bottom that squeezed into more than a dozen holes in the mold.

"Of course..." Yelu Chucai looked at Ye Qing in shock. If he didn't understand Ye Qing's intention anymore, he would really have to change his name to Yelu Wancai.

At this time, Master Liu Ke suddenly realized and said, "Yes, the damage is naturally the interests of the merchants who bought or rented. So when they find out, they will naturally obstruct or inform the government to uphold justice for them. In this way, we can do no need to do manpower or material resources, just treat the mountain as ours?"

"Your sister, what do you mean to be yours? The court! The court! The court!" The face of the King of Yan was instantly black like a black stone. He looked at Liu Keshi who was speaking without saying anything and scolded: "Remember, to the outside world, it must be said that it is the court. Which court is naturally the Lin'an court! Also, when selecting merchants, you must never choose those with strong financial resources. You must avoid buying and selling among them, preventing one from growing bigger or even occupying the entire mountain. You must make them form a competitive situation, so that it is beneficial to us."

"Oh... So that's it, I understand." Yelu Chucai suddenly had a hint of mockery on his lips, and looked at Yelu Yue who was having fun from time to time, and suddenly asked mysteriously: "The reason why King Yan is like this is because he is afraid that his wife will also want to make profits from it..."

Master Liu Ke was also awakened by Yelu Chucai's words in an instant. No wonder Ye Qing was careful to beware of Yelu Yue not far away when he told them. It turned out that he was afraid... Oh, no, the King of Yan was afraid of another wife who came to Yanjing soon?

Ye Qing glared at the two of them warningly, and then admitted: "Nonsense, if not, these hills would really become their own. What kind of damn court is there?"

Ye Qing was sure that once Yan Qingcheng arrived in Yanjing, he would definitely make a profit after learning about the black stone. He and Miss Yan had a long separation and reunion. Once someone mentioned it, Ye Qing would probably not even have an excuse to refuse.

And if Yan Qingcheng really takes it all for himself at that time, then the court's belongs to him will really become his own.

Of course, Ye Qing dares to hand over all the black stones to merchants now, so he has his backing, that is, the mining of other ores must require the help of rich women like Yan Qingcheng.
Chapter completed!