Martial Cultivator Chapter 14: Identity

"Tianqing County's Xuanming Mine has already had multiple cave-ins. Many people have died."

Warden Li stared at Chen Chao and asked, "Do you know what this means?"

It was just that when he heard Warden Li, Chen Chao remembered the Lin Cheng whom he had just met and frowned. Turns out that things were not as simple as he said. He did not inform Chen Chao about the perils involved. Presumably, he did not want him to worry.

"Doesn't that mine have a Ministry of Works’ official sent by the imperial court?"

Chen Chao did not answer Warden Li's question. Since he was already destined to get involved, then obtaining useful information to the best of his ability was what he should be doing.

A mine collapse was actually not an uncommon sight in quarries. There were countless large and small stone mines within the borders of the Great Liang Dynasty. Such incidences happened virtually every day. In order to prevent the deaths of conscripted miners due to mining accidents, the Great Liang Dynasty had actually done many things. The most notable thing was that each stone mine would definitely have an official from the Ministry of Works in charge of it. These officials could accurately determine the mining depth of each mine through systemic studies. Once it reached the maximum limit that the mine could bear, they would immediately ask to stop the mining.

With these officials around, it greatly reduced the death rate even though cave-in incidences would still occur.

Hence, even if the Ministry of Works’ official at Tianqing County's Xuanming Mine made an error in judgment and resulted in one or two mining accidents, after one or two similar incidents occurred, they should have promptly ceased mining.

Warden Li nodded his head. He was very satisfied with Chen Chao's question at this time. Since there was going to be an investigation into that stone mine, then it needed a sensible person and not an idiot.

"After the first mine collapse, the Ministry of Works' official already took measures. But he did not find any problem

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