Kaiping Coal Mine is located in Kaiping, Luanzhou in this time and space, and Kaiping District, Tangshan City in the old time and space. As early as the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, coal mines were mined by local methods here.

In June of the fourth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1878), Tang Tingshu was appointed by Li Hongzhang to formally establish the "Kaiping Mining Bureau" in Kaiping Town, Tangshan, Zhili. He adopted the business model of the official supervision and commercial office, and raised a total of 100,000 taels of capital silver, of which 800,000 taels of silver was included. This was also the first large new coal mining enterprise to be supervised by the official supervision and commercial office after the start of the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty.

Kaiping Coal Mine was fully put into production in 1881. More than 000 workers were hired. In 188, it produced 8,000 tons of coal. By 1898, the annual output had reached 70,000 tons. Later, after expanding equipment, improving transportation conditions, equipped with transportation coal ships, and a special dock and stack. The bureau's coal production is mainly for ships China Merchants Bureau, Tianjin Machinery Bureau, and Beiyang Navy. It also sells a large number of markets and makes a lot of profits. It owns 6 ships, two factory stacks, and a silver mine. It also enjoys several equity shares in the Yongping Gold Mine, the Ash Field, and the Railway.

Moreover, under the leadership of the Kaiping Mining Bureau, the mining area accumulated personnel, houses surged, and trade flourished. After more than ten years of experience, a Tangshan town was piled up out of thin air. By the end of the 19th century, the total assets of the Kaiping Mining Bureau had nearly 6 million taels of silver. It was one of the most effective modern industries in the mining industry opened during the Westernization Movement.

Although after Tang Tingshu's death, Zhang Yi, the former attendant of Prince Chun's mansion, succeeded as the General Office of Kaiping Coal Mine. Due to Zhang Yi's poor management, he blindly expanded his construction and spent too much money to borrow foreign debts, resulting in the infiltration of foreign forces. A company called Molin Company, China Machinery Mine, provided a loan of 00,000 pounds to Kaiping Mining Bureau, thus investing in the Kaiping Mining Bureau. According to the investigation by Hu Hua, the company's engineer, the actual asset value of Kaiping Coal Mine, even underestimated, can reach more than 7 million taels of silver, equivalent to more than one million pounds. Therefore, Molin Company also had the idea of ​​occupying Kaiping Coal Mine as its existing one.

De Cuilin, who was the director of the Tianjin Customs and Taxation Department at the time, lived a luxurious life and was unable to make ends meet, and was eager to make a fortune. So all parties hit it off and began to perform a wonderful drama of "making money from nothing".

After the Eight-Nation Alliance captured Tianjin, it immediately arrested Zhang Yi, the then General Officer of Kaiping Coal Mine, in the name of affair with the Boxer Regiment, and locked him up at the British army station. The next day, De Cuilin visited Zhang Yi and expressed her willingness to exonerate him, but she did not have the right identity to help Zhang Yi. If she could have the identity of the General Officer of Kaiping Mining Bureau, she could come forward to protect Zhang Yi and prove that Zhang Yi did not have an affair with the Boxer Regiment. At the same time, she could also prove to the Eight-Nation Alliance that Kaiping Mining Bureau was a British company invested in China, so that the Mining Bureau could be kept from being occupied by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Zhang Yi was anxious to leave himself, so he wrote down the documents in prison without thinking about it, appointing Decuillin as the brokerage industry of Kaiping Coal Mine Company, the general manager of comprehensive affairs, and the right to act in a convenient way. He was left to the best methods he had prepared to protect the interests of mineral shareholders. Hu Hua, an American technical consultant and the representative of the British Molin Company in China, was the general manager of Decuillin.

In fact, this is De Cuilin. Hu Huahuo used a double act carefully directed by the British. The English side sang red, while De Cuilin and Hoover sang white, with the purpose of winning the Kaiping Mining Bureau.

After obtaining Zhang Ji's filing, Decuilin signed a share transfer agreement with Hu Hua in Tanggu under the witness of Decuilin's son-in-law Hannagan and British lawyer Emes. Decuilin gained a lot in this transaction. Not only did he become an advisor to the new company, with an annual salary of 1,000 pounds, but he also obtained 5,000 shares of shares worth 1 pound per share. In this way, Decuilin, an official of the Qing Dynasty, and Hu Hua, an engineer of the British Molin Company, won the equity of Kaiping Coal Mine without any expense.

In the old time and space, after the British obtained the controlling rights, they immediately sent troops into the mine and controlled the Kaiping Coal Mine. Later, despite the Qing court's negotiations among many parties and even went to the UK to file a lawsuit, but although the lawsuit was won, the British refused to return the Kaiping Coal Mine, and the British court shirked the responsibility of "unable to enforce it". Therefore, the Qing court, until the later Republic of China government, failed to recover the Kaiping Coal Mine. It once again proved the truth that weak countries had no diplomacy. It was not until the founding of New China in 1949 that the Chinese government took back the Kaiping Coal Mine.

The Kaiping Mining Bureau incident had no influence in the international community at that time. This was not only because the Qing court went to the UK for the first time to fight an international lawsuit, but another important figure in this incident, Hu Hua, an engineer of the British Molin Company, was Herbert Clark Hoover, who later became the first president of the United States. However, Hoover was just a 5-year-old young engineer of the British Molin Company, and Hu Hua was the name he used in China.

The embezzlement of Kaiping Mining Bureau was the first pot of gold dug by Hoover in his life. He was an ordinary engineer who had huge wealth in one fell swoop. From then on, he gradually moved to the upper class of the United States and eventually became the president of the United States. However, the embezzlement of Kaiping Mining Bureau also became the biggest defilement in Hoover's political career and the main basis for political enemies to attack him.

However, in this time and space, the "Wait for a Wolf" operation planned by De Cuilin has not been completely successful yet. He is still an engineer of the British Molin Company. In the future of this time and space, Hoover, who still can become the President of the United States, had brought the Kaiping Mining Bureau share transfer agreement signed by him and De Cuilin back to the UK and submitted it to the headquarters of Molin Company. He will register a Kaiping Mining Co., Ltd. in the UK and undertake all the property rights of the Kaiping Mining Bureau. Putting aside all the relationships, this is the final completion of the equity transfer of the Kaiping Mining Bureau.

Qin Zheng is familiar with the history of this period, so when he heard De Cuilin ask for a meeting, he immediately remembered this story. After the time travelers learned about this incident, they naturally would not let De Cuilin and Hoover easily succeed. On the one hand, it is to protect China's assets from being occupied by foreign countries, and on the other hand, Kaiping Coal Mine is also an extremely important resource for the time travelers.

Although at this time, the first industrial revolution powered by steam engines and coal-based energy has come to an end; and the second industrial revolution powered by electricity and oil-based energy has opened its doors, it is a long-term process for new energy to completely replace old energy. In the next ten years, or even twenty years, coal is still an important energy resource. In the old time and space, even fifty years later, there are still a large number of coal-burning steamships and steam trains.

Kaiping Coal Mine, which has an annual output of up to one million tons of coal carbon, is still of great value for the current crossing group. If it owns Kaiping Coal Mine, it can basically guarantee the supply of coal through the crossing group in the next two or three years, and it can also be used for external sales and obtain economic benefits. Moreover, Kaiping Coal Mine is only more than 100 kilometers away from Tianjin, and is there any railways the same? Therefore, occupying Kaiping Coal Mine for its own use, and soon reached a common view on the temporary executive committee.

The first two times when Decuilin came to find the time traveler, the time traveler was looking for another important person in the incident of embezzling Kaiping Mining Bureau. Zhang Yi, the general officer of Kaiping Coal Mine, turned out that after Decuilin and Hoover signed the share transfer agreement of Kaiping Mining Bureau, he immediately notified the British army to release Zhang Yi. Decuilin still needed Zhang Yi at this time, because in the share transfer agreement of Kaiping Mining Bureau, there was only the signature of Decuilin and Hoover, but no Zhang Yi's signature. Therefore, Kaiping Mining Co., Ltd. and Kaiping Mining Bureau's entire property rights transfer letter are required to Zhang Yi's direct signature.

So Decuilin put Zhang Yi under house arrest in Tianjin on the pretext that Zhang Yi's case was not over. After a long time, Zhang Yi found out that something was wrong and came to Decuilin to argue. But Decuilin was not polite at this time and directly told Zhang Yi that the share transfer agreement of the Kaiping Mining Bureau had been signed, and the British army also drove into the Kaiping Coal Mine. Everything could not be changed. Once this matter was exposed, Zhang Yi himself would definitely not be able to escape. It would be better for everyone to hide this matter together. In the future, it was only to protect the mines, so Kaiping Coal Mine was placed under the protection of the British flag and implemented a joint operation between China and the UK. Chinese and foreign staff enjoy equal rights, all rules and taxes have not changed, and the mining area also hung the flags of China and the UK, etc. At the same time, it was also allowed to give Zhang Yi the personal benefits of being supervised by the Ministry of China for life.

Zhang Yi was worried about pursuing his responsibilities in the future, and secondly, he could not withstand the threats and temptations of Decuillin and the British, so he half-spoken and half-decided. Now he just waited for Hoover to return from the UK and officially accepted the Kaiping Coal Mine on behalf of Kaiping Mining Co., Ltd.

As a result, after some search, the time traveler found Zhang Yi and arrested him. Therefore, Qin Zheng was confident in meeting De Cuilin. Of course, even if he did not catch Zhang Yi, the time travelers would not give up on Kaiping Coal Mine. At that time, at the worst, they would force possession by force. Anyway, in this era, whoever has the biggest fist is right. Time travelers were used to hegemony in the old time and space, so they would not be so stupid that they should pay attention to procedural justice in everything. In the matter of Kaiping Coal Mine, the British perfectly demonstrated to the time travelers what power is, the truth. In the past few days, De Cuilin's attention has been on the customs, and he did not notice that Zhang Yi was arrested, and he also came to the time travelers to protest that they had undermined Tianjin Customs.

When Qin Zheng mentioned Kaiping Coal Mine, De Cuilin's face was pale because the matter was only carried out in secret, and only five or six people knew about it. Although embezzlement of Kaiping Coal Mine brought great benefits to De Cuilin, it was not a glorious thing after all. What's more, as an official of the Qing court, he secretly embezzled the assets of the Qing court. Once this matter is exposed, De Cuilin will be completely discredited in China, and even Li Hongzhang cannot protect him. Of course, if Li Hongzhang knew what De Cuilin did, he would probably not protect him. Naturally, the fewer people knew about it, the better. But how did this group of overseas Chinese know about this matter!
Chapter completed!