Chapter 460: Making Trouble

Late at night, Li Li Banfeng sat in the Fifth Room, enjoying shadow play with the phonograph.

After editing, the plot was more coherent, the characters were fuller, and the situation of frequent frame dropping was greatly improved. The heroine in the story film became more and more real.

Li Li Banfeng praised: "To be able to conceive a shadow play with such a complete story on paper, your level has improved too much. It seems you found a good teacher."

The phonograph flashed the lens and said: "It all depends on Seventh Director's guidance."

Li Li Banfeng shook his head: "Don't praise me, I can't afford it. In terms of filming shadow play, I don't even have one percent of your skill. You really don't want to introduce that teacher to me?"

The phonograph answered firmly: "You are talking about that girl, right? That is really something I imagined myself."

Li Li Banfeng looked at the phonograph.

The phonograph said calmly: "Seventh Director, I am loyal to you and have never changed."

Regarding the previous things, the phonograph might still be dissatisfied, but he would not deceive Li Li Banfeng because of this.

In his view, this woman was really imagined by himself.

What exactly does this woman want to do?

No matter what purpose she has, Li Li Banfeng had instructed the Lady that she must not let this woman hurt the phonograph.

The shadow play came to an end, and Li Li Banfeng saw a vase on the heroine's table that looked very familiar.

"This vase is..."

"Seventh Director, this vase is ours, I borrowed it to use as a prop."

This is the lost vase mentioned by the Glove.

What kind of technique is this again?

"Seventh Director, the newspapers of Black Stone Slope are really good, almost natural scripts."

Li Li Banfeng stood up: "I'll go buy some more."

Li Li Banfeng left the newspaper office and was planning to go out to buy some newspapers. A rickshaw was parked at the door.

Rickshaws were rare in Black Stone Slope, and people generally took small trains when traveling.

The short and strong coachman stood up: "This guest, where are you going, I will send you... is it you?"

The coachman recognized Li Li Banfeng: "Little brother, you came to Black Stone Slope?"

Li Li Banfeng nodded: "Brother, why are you pulling a car here?"

"The business here is easy to do. Little brother, do you work in this newspaper office? That's right, I told you back then, find a job to do, it's not shameful, it's much better than a life-risking business. Do you know the boss of this newspaper office?"

Li Li Banfeng laughed: "In the newspaper office, generally don't call it a shopkeeper."

"Yes, this place calls him boss, the boss's name is Li Qi, I am here to find him."

Li Li Banfeng nodded: "Then you found the right person."

The coachman looked at Li Li Banfeng up and down, looking at his suit, and said happily: "You are Li Qi?"

Li Li Banfeng nodded slightly, and the coachman said happily: "Brother, get in the car quickly, brother will pull you away."

"Where to?"

"Go to Yellow Earth Bridge!"

"Take this car?"

"This car is faster than the train, brother has fire wheels under his feet!"

Li Li Banfeng and Ma Wu took the train to Yellow Earth Bridge.

Out of the train station, seeing the empty street, Li Li Banfeng sighed: "The business here is not easy to do."

Ma Wu knew that the business of Yellow Earth Bridge was not easy to do, but he really wanted to try. The New Land could become Seven Autumn City, and Yellow Earth Bridge might not be saved.

The coachman was waiting at the intersection, greeting Li Li Banfeng from afar: "Brother, you are here, who is this friend?"

Ma Wu introduced himself, and the coachman nodded: "So it is Brother Ma Wu, I have heard of your name for a long time. Two brothers, please get in the car, I will take you for a turn."

In the past, people from major families also had contact with Earth Deities, but it was limited to core members of the family.

After knowing Li Qi, Ma Wu had seen many Earth Deities. Usually, they called each other brothers, but today the Earth Deity had to pull the car himself, so Ma Wu didn't dare to take his car.

"You are too polite, we can just walk."

The coachman was unhappy: "How about it, look down on brother? Think I'm shabby as a car puller?"

Ma Wu shook his head repeatedly: "I'm afraid you'll be tired."

"Taking you slowly, I'm tired. Get in the car quickly."

Li Li Banfeng and Ma Wu took the foreign car and followed the coachman for a turn in the town.

Yellow Earth Bridge produces coal and yellow clay. A coal sand river flows around the city. There are more than a dozen bridges large and small in the town, among which the four largest bridges in the southeast, northwest, and north divide the whole town into four areas.

Yellow Earth Bridge is not sparsely populated in every territory. East Bridge, West Bridge, and South Bridge are relatively desolate. North Bridge still has quite a few residents, and occasionally you can see people setting up stalls to do business.

Ma Wu asked: "What do these people rely on for a living?"

The coachman said: "There are several coal kilns nearby. They work, can't earn big money, barely enough for food and clothing."

Ma Wu asked again: "Are the coal mines of Yellow Earth Bridge in their hands?"

The coachman shook his head: "How many mines are in their hands? Less than one-tenth! If you want to do coal business, I will take you, large pieces of mineral mountains belong to you two brothers."

The coachman pulled the two all the way to West Bridge, walked out of the town, and finally saw the mineral mountain at the edge of Yellow Earth Bridge.

This place is really not small. Ma Wu saw the mineral mountain as if he saw a gold mountain, and his two eyes shone together.

The coachman was still introducing on the side: "Look at these mineral caves, rails, mineral cars, all are ready-made..."

Clatter!

The mineral car fell apart.

The coachman was slightly embarrassed: "These are small things, repair it, and it can still be used."

Li Li Banfeng didn't understand coal mines, but Ma Wu was an insider.

"Old Seven, this big brother didn't lie to us, this is a good mine."

"Although most of the equipment in this place is broken, call our subordinates who are Industrial Cultivators, tidy it up, and it can open in less than half a month."

Li Li Banfeng asked: "Why start from the coal mine?"

Ma Wu said: "First, coal mines make money, second, coal mines use many people. Such a large piece of mineral mountain can accommodate three or five thousand workers."

"When the workers come, food, clothing, housing, and transportation must keep up. The business in the town will gradually flourish, and Yellow Earth Bridge will be able to see popularity."

Ma Wu was full of confidence, Li Li Banfeng was a bit worried: "Since the coal mine business is so simple, why don't you see anyone coming to do it?"

Ma Wu shook his head and laughed: "This business is not something anyone can do. Ordinary people pour out their money bags, and they can only open a small coal kiln."

"Operating a mineral mountain requires huge early investment. We have this capital, so we dare to make this plan."

Li Qi and Ma Wu's financial resources are indeed strong, but the four major families' financial resources are not shallow either. Why haven't they seen them come to Yellow Earth Bridge to do business?

Li Li Banfeng remembered that Qiu Qiu Zhiheng once said that doing business in Yellow Earth Bridge had many troubles.

Ma Wu also understood the inside story: "There are too few people in Yellow Earth Bridge. It is definitely not possible to recruit workers locally. Recruiting workers from other places requires bearing food, housing, and travel expenses. The operating cost is higher than in other places."

"Besides that, I also heard that the businessmen in Yellow Earth Bridge are not easy to mess with, and they always trip up outsiders."

While talking, Ma Wu looked at the coachman.

The coachman waved his hand: "Nothing is not easy to mess with. Isn't it just those few small coal kilns in North Bridge? This matter is wrapped on me. Whoever dares to find trouble, send him on the road directly. Two brothers, let go and do it!"

Ma Wu wanted to do it. Li Li Banfeng first agreed on the conditions with the coachman: "The territory of Yellow Earth Bridge, except for the current owners, will all belong to us in the future."

The coachman patted his chest: "The places with owners also belong to you, I will drive them all away!"

Li Li Banfeng waved his hand: "We don't covet the territory with owners, this is doing business properly."

Both sides agreed and set up a contract. With the Earth Deity taking care of it, Ma Wu also had confidence and immediately took the train to Black Stone Slope to recruit workers.

Miners are very bitter, and they have to go to that place Yellow Earth Bridge. People are really hard to recruit. Ma Wu raised the wages by double, and only recruited two hundred people in three days.

Two hundred people are also fine. First, make the coal mine run. Ma Wu was very optimistic: "Old Seven, the coal mine business is easy to do. When it turns, find our subordinates to watch it. I still have to return to Seven Autumn City, that is the most important place for us."

The miners were in place, went down to dig coal, Ma Wu brought Industrial Cultivators here, bought equipment and materials from outside, and repaired the railway from the mineral mountain to the station.

This is not a railway operated by the New Land, this is a small train railway for transporting coal. The craftsmanship is not so particular. There are several places that are rotten, and it can be used after repair.

After repairing the railway, the first batch of coal was dug out. Ma Wu arranged for people to have contacted buyers in Green Water City, and the first business was negotiated.

The cost was slightly higher, but because Li Qi and Liao Liao Zihui had an agreement, they took advantage of the freight, and the business still made money.

Watching the first car of coal transported out of the mineral mountain, Ma Wu was in a good mood.

Out of the mineral mountain, walking less than a mile, the railway had a problem, and the mineral car overturned.

This kind of long-disrepaired railway, having some faults is also within reason. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

Ma Wu called people to find out the cause and rushed to repair it overnight.

That night, the railway was repaired, and sixteen cars of coal were all robbed.

This matter was absurd, absurd to the point that Ma Wu didn't believe it: "Sixteen cars of coal, how could they be robbed? Just watching him move, he couldn't move it away!"

The train driver said: "I don't know what they used, they unloaded the coal in a blink of an eye, and in another blink of an eye, even the people disappeared."

Ma Wu frowned: "This should be those people in North Bridge making trouble, right?"

Li Li Banfeng didn't care about these sixteen cars of coal, he cared about the opponent's means.

To be able to transfer sixteen cars of coal away, the opponent must have a high-level magic treasure in his hand.

People who have this kind of high-level magic treasure are definitely not ordinary people. It seems they underestimated these coal bosses.

The coachman was still persuading on the side: "Brother Ma Wu, this matter is my fault, I should have followed the train all the way, it's me who thought less."

Ma Wu didn't complain. The business just opened, and some setbacks were normal. He went to the station first. The station was waiting to ship tonight, so he had to give people an explanation. Green Water City was waiting to receive the goods, so he had to give an explanation.

After handling the matter properly, Ma Wu continued to return to the mineral mountain to dig coal. Li Li Banfeng strengthened his guard to prevent anyone from attacking the mineral mountain.

That night, the mineral mountain really had an accident, not in the mineral cave, but in the living area.

The workers' shed was burned, and the workers had no place to live at night.

Ma Wu hurriedly took people to put out the fire. When he came back and looked again, the mineral car was smashed, the steam bag of the train head was chiseled, and the connecting rod was also broken.

Xiao Xiao Chuanzi hated: "These bastards, they specifically attack the vital parts!"

The steam bag and connecting rod were very special, not easy to change and not easy to repair.

What's more fatal is that this time the opponent took action under Li Li Banfeng's nose. Li Li Banfeng had the cultivation of the double eighth layer, but he didn't find the opponent's trace.

Where did the coachman go?

He is an Earth Deity, a cultivator above the clouds. If even he didn't find it, the opponent's background would be too big!

Such a powerful opponent, why would he stare at such a coal mine?

Xiao Chuanzi was contacting manpower to repair the train, the foreman ran over in a hurry and said to Ma Wu: "The account book is gone."

The foreman's account book recorded the workload of each worker. If this thing was gone, the wages couldn't be calculated.

These were workers recruited from Black Stone Slope, how could they suffer this grievance, and they went to Ma Wu to ask for an explanation one after another.

A worker was a bit excited and pushed Ma Wu.

Ma Wu didn't care, but he was very angry: "Really evil, is there any Mourning Cultivator in this place? I estimate the level is not low!"

Li Li Banfeng shook his head: "This is not done by a Mourning Cultivator."

He had fought with Mourning Cultivators in Medicine King Valley and was very familiar with Mourning Cultivators.

Ma Wu said: "Then which sect did this?"

"Can't see which sect, just feel that there is a ruthless person making trouble."

But since it is a ruthless person, why make trouble? Why not take heavy action directly?

Li Li Banfeng couldn't figure it out for a while.

While thinking, the Tang Dao trembled constantly at Li Li Banfeng's waist.

ps: Tang Dao seems to have remembered some things.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 461 =====