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Guifang took his innocent men and went straight to the tin factory to do preliminary work. Cheng Jinzhou and Shen Cong followed leisurely with their followers.

Being outside the capital for the first time in the name of his father, and knowingly breaking the law, made Shen Cong inexplicably nervous. As he got closer to the tin factory, he became more and more nervous. He would tighten his crotch while riding a horse.

After walking for a while, Shen Cong couldn't help but ask Cheng Jinzhou: What if the other party doesn't agree? We don't know this person from Cangsi at all. We should wait for a while, take our time, and don't be so anxious. , I was caught, but it’s a troublesome matter...

Time is tight. Cheng Jinzhou also likes to deal with problems slowly, but customer service 010 is obviously not such a person. And in his opinion, it was only a matter of time before he was caught. If he didn't get more resources while no one was stopping him, it would be too late to regret it.

Of course, he couldn't tell Shen Cong and Guifang this. Although they had expected it, they probably thought that the Star Warlock had other ways to deal with it, but they never expected that Cheng Jinzhou was prepared to die from the beginning - against the Two-Star Warlock. Generally speaking, it is basically a method.

Shen Cong scratched his head and twisted on his horse, saying: Two hundred thousand kilograms of tin ingots are only worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, or we should choose the ones from Yizhou. Even if the silk cannot be sold for a while, it is money if it is kept in the treasury.

Daxia is in a period when physical land rent and monetary land rent are parallel. Silk itself actually exists as currency. Compared with things like Jiaozi issued in ancient China, in addition to being used to pay taxes, it can at least be turned into clothes. One more layer of functionality.

Cheng Jinzhou didn't hide it from him and said: I have said that the main thing I am interested in is tin ore, or their waste. So, we find each other and transport the waste away. This trip is over. If everything goes well , it’s best to get some tin ingots away. It’s very simple.”

Shen Cong was actually reacting to stress. He muttered twice and clamped the horse's belly hard with his thighs. He was still a young man on the road to learning how to be a normal civil servant.

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Compared with Tongxian, Fuyang is more prosperous. Places near the river are full of wheat fields that are beginning to sprout.

The tin factory is also located close to the river, but all the trees within more than ten miles nearby have been cut down. The scorching sunshine was shining directly, making people think it was summer.

From a long distance, you can see the gray smoke rising from the indigenous tin smelting process. Before the development of modern technology, tin smelting required a lot of charcoal. About every 800 kilograms of mineral sand requires 500 kilograms of charcoal. Coupled with the seven or eight times of panning before turning the ore into sand, this is basically the main cost.

Customer service 010 popped out of nowhere and said: What a waste.

Tin ore or wood? Cheng Jinzhou asked as usual.

We have them all. Send the things over quickly. You still have 13 million stars to buy books and upgrades.

Assuming each book has 10,000 words. Cheng Jinzhou raised his eyebrows and said casually: I don't know why you are so anxious for me to upgrade. Star Alliance level 3 can satisfy me.

Naturally, this is another question with no answer.

Customer service 010 didn't even know how to answer. He laughed for some reason and said, Let's wait until you can save enough money to discuss the word count issue.

Cheng Jinzhou retorted, but saw Guifang angrily rushing out from under the hill in front.

Before anyone arrived, Guifang shouted loudly: That old man Du Shunzhi.

Needless to say, the gentlemen at Fuyang Tin Factory were obviously not as cooperative as expected?

In fact, under the premise that they barely knew each other, Cheng Jinzhou and others rushed up with ugly mouths, and no one would cooperate with them.

Shen Cong calmed down, stopped Guifang and asked, What's going on? Du Shunzhi is Fuyang's warehouse chief?

You're still a seventh-grade official, but your head is as stiff as an ore. No wonder you were kicked here. Guifang complained twice, took a breath, and then said calmly: After I went there, I didn't say anything. He was kicked out after just one sentence. The guy’s beard turned white and he was about to leave office. He didn’t want to say anything.”

That's something that can't be helped. After hearing what he said, Cheng Jinzhou simply stopped and said, Then do you know where they threw the waste?

For him, the slag is the big deal, and the rest is just incidental.

It's everywhere. Guifang said angrily: I asked them seriously, and the people they dealt with changed several times, but this old boy is the only one who is not dead.

The power of the Hubu Cangsi is also different. In Huangjin County, he is a fat man. His position is not high but close to the capital, and his status is important. It is much better than working hard in the ministry with seniority. As for Fuyang, it would be nothing more than an institution like a granary. Guarding the tin mines was obviously a matter of distribution. In an environment like the Xia Dynasty, miners were discriminated against, and miner leaders were also discriminated against. Du Shunzhi is a seventh-grade official who is about to retire, but he has a strong and lustless character.

“Is there no record of them discarding waste?”

Guifang shook her head and said, No.

He was also a little ashamed as he spoke, after all, this was the first county where he was pulled out to do something.

Cheng Jinzhou raised his eyebrows. The development of things was quite different from what he expected.

Shen Cong relaxed, walked closer and said, With the other party's attitude, I'm afraid we won't be able to take away the tin ingot.

You look like you are indifferent. You dare not deal with Lord Star Warlock's affairs. Guifang continued to apply eye drops.

That's it, we won't go to the tin factory. Cheng Jinzhou thought for a moment, took out a stack of flying tickets from his sleeve pocket, handed it to Shi Mo and said, Go and change these several thousand taels of silver into cash.

After that, he said to Guifang and others: For a while, you take the money, and then hire as many people as possible to find all the places with tin mine waste. After finishing this matter, we will treat it as ours. Moved away 30,000 taels of silver ingots.

The meaning behind the words is naturally the promise to the 30%.

Shen Cong understood and said: As long as you are satisfied, we will find all the places, and then you can move the things away according to the distance.

He didn't understand star magic, but took Cheng Jinzhou's moves for granted.

Guifang also smiled happily when he understood. A few thousand taels of silver was a big gain for him. An ordinary Beijing official can only earn so much gray income in 10 years. Not to mention that they achieved it in just a few days.

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The amount of waste is far more than Cheng Jinzhou imagined. Just like the number of civil servants, when you think you have seen the limit, it is always just the tip of the iceberg.

Of course, the situation was more complicated than he imagined.

In the metal refining campus, the tin mine is like a coquettish little girl who lacks fatherly love. She has a constant relationship with every active or inactive metal. Sometimes she has relationships with several metals at the same time. When she is hungry, she will not choose what to eat. , it will not reject young people from other schools...

When it comes to metals that like to be mixed like this, few refineries can do it perfectly. Their work is like finding a father for a baby in a biological laboratory. It requires many layers of processes and a lot of labor. The refinery in Fuyang is no exception. They use an indigenous blast furnace to smelt tin. They first wash the tin ore into ore, then put the ore in a charcoal-fired furnace, and finally collect the solidified tin liquid in the furnace pool.

The result of this is that the waste residue of the ore is often mixed with the waste residue of the charcoal.

At the location of the first mine, customer service 010 said without any shame: Either you find someone to separate the ore, or the purchase price is reduced by half.

Maybe someone will buy charcoal residue? Cheng Jinzhou held on to a glimmer of hope.

There will be transportation fees. Customer Service 010 said coldly: The price I quoted you is minus the transportation fees. If you want to pay the transportation fees, I don't mind sending the garbage to places where it may be needed. .”

How high?

How about 2,000 stars per ton?

200 times the price of food?

That's true for special supplies.

Although Cheng Jinzhou was unwilling to cut his upcoming income in half, the hill-like waste pile left him with few options.

He looked up at the 30-meter-high waste mountain and said, Take it.

As he spoke, the area of ​​three to five meters square in front of him instantly turned into a blank, and then several square meters of charcoal residue piled up behind him.

200 stars, move forward. Customer Service 010's voice was very robotic.

After taking a few steps forward, another three to five square meters of ruins disappeared, and several square meters of charcoal residue and other garbage were once again piled behind them.

Cheng Jinzhou walked forward like this, careful not to collapse the waste mountain, and at the same time leaving a lot of garbage behind. He was like a giant waste earthworm, eating garbage and excreted garbage.

Guifang's people had been driven far away. Meng Dameng Er was guarding a position about one or two hundred meters away, and further away was Shi Mo and a few followers. Although everyone can't see what Cheng Jinzhou is doing, they can see the shrinking mountain of garbage.

After a while, Cheng Jinzhou came back refreshed and said loudly to Guifang: The next place.

The Lord Registrar didn't ask a word and left without saying a word.

He didn't know what spells the Star Warlocks had, and he didn't really want to know. If there is anything he cares about, it's just his official position.

People who are used to being slaves can easily become outright official fans once they gain power - exactly the type that politicians like best.

Cheng Jinzhou smiled and rode his horse, starting from the north of Fuyang and sweeping all the way.

A 30-meter-high hill can bring in tens of thousands of stars, and the sheer amount of slag left over from Fuyang for decades not only made him excited, but also made the customer service 010 less weird.

If half of the sorting fee were not removed, it would not be so difficult to achieve 14 million.

Cheng Jinzhou even had the leisure to joke with customer service 010: If you had told me this secret earlier, let alone tin slag, we could try it on iron slag, coal slag, and brick kiln slag.

“Only the tin mine waste has the same value as the tin mine.”

Cheng Jinzhou looked at the rising numbers on the ring and was still smiling from ear to ear. 3.2 million stars was an unimaginable amount of wealth half a year ago.

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