Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 325 Copper and Iron Ore

Ancient people, why do you want to treasure your broom? I don’t think the ancients should be blamed. In fact, the ancients couldn’t help it. The reason for this situation is that ancient China was in a feudal society with a small-scale peasant economy for a long time. Many places did not communicate with each other. Plowing at sunrise and resting at sunset, self-sufficient life status.

The lifeblood of a family such as craftsmanship is basically passed on to the male and not to the female, because if it is passed on to the female, it is called "returning" when a woman marries, that is, a woman is originally from another family, and returning home is when she gets married.Men follow their ancestral surnames, probably to maintain the uniqueness of their craftsmanship and avoid rumors.

You know, when your own daughter gets married, she becomes a person with a foreign surname. If you bring this kind of craftsmanship to an outsider's family, then the craftsmanship of your family's ancestors will be completely leaked. You can only pass it on to your grandson if you pass it on to your own son. , Turning back to the descendants and grandchildren, and passing it down from generation to generation, only then can we be worthy of our ancestors and prevent the secret craftsmanship of our family from leaking out.

This has nothing to do with feudalism or not, it's just for living and for the family.

But what Li You didn't expect was that there were such different people in ancient times. The Xia Gu in front of her was obviously a daughter, but her father had inherited the skill of looking at mountains.

You must know that Xia Gu is not alone, she also has an older brother, Li You has to admire Xia Gu's father's mind.

"There is Dansha on the top, and gold on the bottom. On the top, there is copper and gold on the stone. On the top, there is lead, tin and red copper. On the top, there is ochre, and there is iron on the bottom."

Aunt Xia glanced at Li You.

From this conversation, Li You was a little happy, because it can be seen that Xia Gu has a traditional method of searching for metal deposits.The same is true for not only looking for copper mines, but also for gold mines and iron mines.

Xia Gu uses certain geographical and biological knowledge to locate another metal deposit with one biological sign. This method is not only very useful, but also very commonly used.

"Is there really iron and copper mines in Qiuliang Mountain?" Li You finally showed joy.

"Not only do you have iron ore and copper mines, but you also have something that His Highness just used!" Aunt Xia looked at Li You with certainty.

At this time, Li You got up and walked around Xia Gu and Zhao Xing, then stopped and looked at Zhao Xing: "Among these captives, choose your confidants, and directly burn your former cottage , From now on, Qiu Liangshan and Datang will never have you Zhao Xing again.

Remember to choose your confidant, if it is not your confidant, you are moved with compassion, you, your wife, and your children will all die miserably! "

"I know what to do...!" Zhao Xing nodded silently.

When Li You waved his hand at this time, Qin Yong directly pulled the rope tied to Zhao Xing's hand with a knife, followed Zhao Xing and quickly helped his wife Xia Gu up, followed Li You, glanced at Zhao Xing and said: "We Take Aunt Xia to go forward first, and you will follow after me!"

"It's King Qi!" Zhao Xing bowed to Li You.

Li You supported Xia Gu with one hand and said, "Xia Gu, come to me to get the carriage, and tell me how you managed to see Wangshan!"

"Yes!" Aunt Xia reluctantly glanced at Zhao Xing beside her, and then followed Li You into Li You's carriage.

The carriage started to move forward leisurely, and in the carriage, Aunt Xia took the water that Li You handed over, and then began to talk about how they, those who look at the mountains, found the ore veins.

"To look for copper ore is to look for copper grass flowers. Where copper ore is rich, there will often be a strange plant with blue or purple petals. Wherever this kind of plant grows densely, there must be copper-rich ore underground. .

However, it is not enough to find the approximate location of the copper mine, but also to explore the specific location of the copper mine.

Because it is all manual mining, if you choose the wrong mine, it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is also prone to subsidence accidents. Therefore, what is going on underground can only be explored bit by bit.

In order to improve the efficiency of copper mining, we will first select a number of different excavation points, and then dig down three to five meters. If no copper ore is found, we will immediately abandon the pit.If copper ore is found, it will be used as a starting point to expand to the surrounding area, and the copper ore will be mined manually. "

"Oh, that's it!" Li You nodded while listening, and the carriage continued to move forward.

After about a stick of incense, Qin Yong came to the side of the carriage and said, "My lord, Zhao Xing came with a total of 30 people, saying that these 30 people are his confidantes."

Li You shook his head slightly: "In a cottage with more than 1000 people, there are only 30 confidantes. It seems that Zhao Xing is a knife in the hands of others!"

After Li You finished speaking, Aunt Xia on the side showed a bitter expression.

"Let him come over!"

Across the carriage, Zhao Xing came over: "Criminal Zhao Xing, pay homage to King Qi!"

"Where are the others?" Li You asked slowly.

"All executed. A total of 85 people.!" Zhao Xing replied decisively.

"En." Li You said in the carriage: "There must be someone in your cottage, I'll let Yi Pai go to the cottage with you, and wipe out the cottage for me. Except for necessities and money, everything else will be burned.

From then on, there was no more Zhao Xing in Qiuliang Mountain! "

"Zhao Xing knows. In the future, there will be no Zhao Xing in Autumn Liang Mountain. Then Zhao Xing asks His Highness to give you a name!" Zhao Xing clasped his hands.

"Zhao Shou. I want you to help me stay here, dig mines, open mines...!"

"Zhao Shou knows...!" After speaking, Zhao Shou apologized again, and strode away.

"Qin Yong. Take a platoon to help Zhao Shou!" Li You asked Qin Yong to lead a platoon to follow Zhao Shou to wipe out the mountain bandits, and then Qin Yong quickly took orders.

Afterwards, Li You glanced at Xia Gu and said, "Xia Gu, show me the way, let's go to the copper mine you mentioned!"

"Nu Nu obeyed...!" Aunt Xia hurriedly blessed her.

It's a pity that Li You can't take a carriage to go to the copper mine area that Xia Gu said, because that place is still relatively steep, and it should be on the mountainside of Qiuliang Mountain.

Li You's physical strength is not bad, but that Mr. Yan will be far behind. If it weren't for the help of that Uncle Hu, she would not be able to climb here at all. When she came to the place where Aunt Xia was, Li You Yuha laughed out loud.

Because there are copper grass flowers all over the mountains and plains here, and there are so many copper grass flowers, there is only one explanation, which means that there are a lot of copper mines here, and copper mines are good things. Finding copper mines in ancient times is equivalent to finding money, because copper coins Both are made of copper ore.

Just when Li You was happy, Xia Gu on the side also smiled and said: "Your Highness, this is a copper mine, and there is an iron mine ten miles ahead, and where is the iron mine, there is something His Highness wants. thing."

(End of this chapter)