bullyxtreme Chapter 247 There is a mine
Chapter 247 There is a mine
"You have been conferred a title of nobility?" Su Jixiang was slightly startled and asked.
"Yes." Although the imperial envoy and the imperial edict had just left Beijing, his news network had already received the news. "According to the imperial envoy's pace, it will probably take about 20 days to reach Mangcheng."
Emperor Longchang gave the imperial envoy a month to arrive in Mangcheng and read the imperial edict.
"Oh, let's wait until he arrives." Su Jixiang curled his lips indifferently.
"You are going to be conferred the title of Marquis's wife, and you also have an imperial decree, so why are you not happy at all?" Seeing Su Jixiang's reaction, Wei Ling was not surprised, but he was also very curious.
He has known Su Jixiang for a long time and knows that Su Jixiang is not the kind of person who attaches great importance to titles. However, if she is really conferred the title of Marquis's wife, she will still be a little happy. But now it seems that Su Jixiang really doesn't care about this at all.
"This is just a means for our new emperor to appease you." Su Jixiang saw the crux of the problem at a glance. "If he was really grateful for your help in ascending the throne, he would not have granted me to you in marriage, and would not have failed to restore the glory of your Duke's Mansion. He did this because he didn't want you to have a foothold in the capital through your marriage. After all, you hold military power and are brave and good at fighting. He only wants you to be a knife in his hand, but doesn't want you to have equal power. Doesn't he really know what you want from following him in the rebellion and serving him? All you want is to kill the culprit who harmed your family with your own hands and restore the glory of the Duke's Mansion in Xizhen. But you were not satisfied with these two things. I watched The new emperor's heart is still filled with only himself. Although you killed the enemy with your own hands, you went there alone at great risk and almost lost your life. As for the matter of the Duke's Mansion, he didn't mention a word. Now he is looking for someone to make you a marquis. Isn't it because he weighed the pros and cons of the iron mine in Mangcheng and the military remonstration you reported in the memorial before the New Year, so he gave you such a sweet bean to shut him up? After all, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. If you really want to take the iron mine in Mangcheng for yourself, he can't do anything. Now you have said that you will hand over the iron mine in Mangcheng to the court. You have already expressed your loyalty to him. If he doesn't give you a reward, he is afraid that there will be trouble in the north."
After hearing what Su Jixiang said, Wei Ling picked up Su Jixiang from the chair and walked around the room several times until Su Jixiang felt dizzy. Then he put Su Jixiang down and kissed him hard on the cheek.
"What are you crazy about?" Su Jixiang touched his face, and then pushed Wei Ling's handsome face away, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "You're drooling on my face! Are you born in the Year of the Dog?"
"Madam, I am so happy!" Wei Ling smiled with rippling eyes, "How can you be so smart! You are really my husband's treasure. But there is one thing you said that is wrong, and I still need to correct you."
"What did I say wrong?" Su Jixiang raised his eyes and looked at Wei Ling. There seemed to be starlight in his eyes, and he was infatuated at first glance.
"When we were in the capital, if the Emperor Longchang had arranged a marriage with someone else instead of you, I would never have accepted it!" Wei Ling looked at Su Jixiang's beautiful almond eyes and said every word seriously. "And if you were not arranged to marry me but someone else, I would have snatched you back even if I had to force you to do it!"
Su Jixiang looked at his eyes, stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing.
"Okay, okay, just assume that I believe you!" She said with a smile. She wanted to push Wei Ling away. "I have something else to do. Let me go first. I'll finish the painting and show it to you."
"I'm serious. Stop drawing." Wei Ling pulled Su Jixiang back into his arms, "I didn't know what I was thinking at the time, but when I heard that Emperor Longchang had arranged for you to be my wife, I basically agreed out of instinct. I have no family anymore, and before I took revenge, I never thought about starting a family, but at that time, I don't know why I just agreed when I heard it was you. Maybe I didn't realize what I was thinking at the time, but now I think, maybe you were already in my heart even earlier, but I didn't know it. I won't agree to any other arranged marriage, only you."
Su Jixiang's face turned slightly red. "We're already married, so let's not talk about this anymore. Let's just be good to each other from now on." She tilted her head slightly, appearing to be very calm, but her heart was actually beating a little erratically.
Wei Ling kissed her gently, then changed the subject, "By the way, what are you drawing?"
"I'm drawing a stove and a mold for making honeycomb coal." Su Jixiang smiled when Wei Ling mentioned this. She pulled Wei Ling to the table and showed him a picture she had almost finished.
"What does this mean?" Wei Ling looked at it. He could see the stove clearly. Su Jixiang had drawn several kinds of stoves, some with chimneys and some without. But he couldn't understand what Su Jixiang had drawn, the round one with holes all over it...
"This is something combustible made by mixing coal, lime, mud and straw powder together. The materials are cheap and the cost of using it is much lower than that of charcoal." Su Jixiang said to Wei Ling.
"What is coal?" Wei Ling understood, but there were still some things he didn't understand.
"This is it!" Su Jixiang took out a piece of black coal ore from her box and gave it to Wei Ling. "When I went to the mountains to find someone to help hunt foxes, I saw someone burning this thing. They call it black flint, but it's actually coal ore. This is unprocessed coal ore, and burning it directly will release a lot of poisonous gas and black ash." She bought this piece of coal ore from a farmer in the mountains for a few coins.
"You're talking about this! I know this." Wei Ling laughed as soon as he saw what Su Jixiang was holding. "We were in the mining area before, and we had nothing to keep warm, so we had to burn this. Indeed, this thing produces a lot of smoke, and many of them are difficult to burn. Moreover, the smell after burning is very unpleasant and choking, but we didn't have anything else to keep warm at that time."
"Are you saying that there is this kind of coal ore in the iron ore area?" Su Jixiang was stunned and asked.
"That's not the case." Wei Ling said, "There is nothing in the mining area. The people nearby will pick up some of this stuff and exchange it with us for other things. The mining area has its own way of survival."
"Then do you know where this thing is produced?" Su Jixiang asked with a smile.
"I know. I bought several hills, and this thing is on one of them." Wei Ling said.
Su Jixiang... "How many hills did you buy?" She stared at Wei Ling with wide eyes in confusion... So the man in front of her is really a mining tycoon?