Chapter 1157

Li Xin looked at Yu Ji, who had a blade pressed against his neck, and finally, he chose to bow his head.

He didn't have the courage to stick his neck out and commit suicide. After Li Xin chose to surrender, the great battle finally ended.

Li Xin had originally thought that he would be treated favorably due to his status as a general, but he hadn't expected that the other side wouldn't care about his status at all!

They threw him into the iron mine pit to dig iron ore just like everyone else, and even if the daily amount handed in didn't meet the standard, he would be beaten!

Fortunately, quite a few subordinates helped him scrape together enough, which made things much easier for Li Xin.

He even only had to go through the motions every day; he even felt like he had become a prison warden?

Every day he just watched his former soldiers digging mines there, and when they were done, he would go over to demand it.

However, Li Xin's good days didn't last for many days before they came to an end; a soldier finally couldn't hold it in anymore.

He secretly went to report him, and finally, Li Xin was assigned to a separate mine cave, where he had to hand in a huge amount of ore every day.

Otherwise, a sound beating was definitely unavoidable.

Li Xin was lazy at first, but who knew that after not handing in enough ore, he was hung up and beaten for an entire night.

The next day he was lying on the ground and couldn't get up, until the third day when he could move, and just as he could stand up, he was dragged away to dig mines, although the amount was a little less.

But his body had serious injuries, and he had almost no rest time every day, only being able to rest at night.

Here, Qin Mu had to sigh that the physique of the ancients was truly excellent; if it were the 21st century, I'm afraid even those fitness coaches wouldn't be able to do it.

However, Qin Mu didn't pay too much attention to it; instead, Mi Zhu, who was far away in Xianyang, came to Bashu in person.

"Is this the pitch-black thing the lord was talking about?"

"That's right, you can take it back and try it. I allow you to stay in Bashu for a few more days.

This is called refined coal. When the time comes, I will send a large army to escort a batch of refined coal with you to sell."

"You decide the price yourself; I only care about making money."

Qin Mu looked at Mi Zhu with a face full of smiles; there was no other way, seeing him, how could he not smile?

Now sixty percent of the Bashu national treasury was earned by the team he led in Xianyang, and the remaining eighteen percent was from tax collection.

And another twelve percent was the money earned by the team he led doing business in Bashu.

That's right, their business had already spread from Xianyang to Bashu; reselling goods between the two sides was still very profitable!

"My lord is truly a god-like man. The effect of this refined coal is really good; perhaps just by relying on this thing, we can buy off all the merchants in Xianyang."

Mi Zhu said while playing with the refined coal in his hand; even though this refined coal had dirtied his hands, he didn't care at all.

This thing, in his eyes, was even more dazzling and precious than a diamond; if it weren't for fear of his lord misunderstanding,

he would have loved to kiss this refined coal.

"By the way, my lord, the subordinate wants to establish a chamber of commerce in Xianyang to gather all the merchants in Xianyang into it."

Mi Zhu said something shocking. Qin Mu, who was correcting documents on the side, even looked up at Mi Zhu.

The pen in his hand fell down without him noticing.

"Are you sure? Are there no royal merchants in Xianyang?" Qin Mu asked somewhat doubtfully.

"No, the entire Xianyang is suppressing merchants, and the status of merchants there is very low.

Those officials' families are not allowed to have any business existence."

After Mi Zhu said this, Qin Mu expressed some understanding; after all, the first formidable enemy of Ying Zheng was a merchant.

Lu Buwei, an existence with wealth rivaling a nation, had countless retainers in his hands, and those retainers were all skilled in various ways.

If it weren't for Ying Zheng having some ability himself, I'm afraid the person in charge of Great Qin now might be Lu Buwei.

"Alright, what's the name of the chamber of commerce?"

"Please let the lord decide this!"