Chapter 109: Lu Xiang is to be edicted

The person sent by the Shaofu to be in charge of this mining matter was Lu Xiang, the edict to be appointed by Zhu Qizhen.

The Lu family is a family of masters and craftsmen, and the ancestor Lu Xian built the Nanjing palace for Emperor Taizu, and now the Nanjing palace is from Lu Xian's hand.

Therefore, the Lu family has a special status in the craftsman system serving the court.

And Lu Xiang was originally a stonemason.

Truth be told, he didn't have much research on mining.

But he has a high prestige and many disciples.

Therefore, when Liu Dingzhi established Shaofu, he invited him to take charge of some problems in mining technology.

At the beginning, Old Man Lu was just presiding, and he could subdue the craftsmen below, but Old Man Lu could become a first-class craftsman in the world, and he also had two brushes.

He has participated in the mining of Fujian, Zhejiang silver mines, and Jiajingou gold mines, and he dare not say how superb his skills are, but he knows the routines of ordinary craftsmen.

And accumulate experience, perhaps not a first-rate mining technology expert, but as an expert in gold and silver mining.

Therefore, he was also named an edict by Zhu Qizhen. Take an extra penny every year, and also have the right to play to Your Majesty.

Don't underestimate the power here.

With this power, the Lu family can be regarded as the number one person in the capital.

There is nothing else, at least the Lu family is in a hurry, and the Lu family can sue.

It's just that Lu Xiang is also apprehensive in his heart at this moment.

His family has served the palace for several generations, which seems inconspicuous, but the news is still quite well-informed. You may not know it at the beginning, but you are almost on Sado Island, and you have told Lu Xiang the original story.

He had done prospecting, and if prospecting was really that easy, there wouldn't be so many people who couldn't find a single seedling in their lifetime.

Many minerals are discovered by accident, or the ancients have long discovered and handed down, and the new mines that have been discovered by later generations according to the ruins of the ancients belong to a mining area or vein.

It's ridiculous to casually point to a place and say that there are gold mines here.

But it was ordered by the emperor, and Lu Xiang didn't dare to say anything, he could only use one hundred and twenty points of energy to explore the ore veins.

So when we arrived at Sado Island, everyone else went to the island first. But Lu Xiang ordered the ship to circle the island just to prospect for minerals.

Ancient Chinese prospecting theory can be said to have a long history, the earliest is the six pipes, and later, there is more development, but it will inevitably fall into the category of occultism.

Of course, this is not to say that these occult theories are useless.

It's just that, of course, many people don't understand the scientific principles underneath the occult.

Just like this time, Lu Xiang was looking at it.

It is said that different mines have different colors when viewed from a distance

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The three types of gold, silver and copper ore have different treasures. However, the best time to observe the qi is not other time periods, that is, after autumn, only after autumn, the vegetation is sparse, and the true color of the mountain can be revealed. According to the different colors of stones on the mountain, you can roughly tell whether there is any ore or not.

This is the only way to see it carefully.

So it's not the right time. At the turn of spring and summer, a lush greenery, and you can see something.

However, Lu Xiang is not without gains.

In addition to looking for energy, we also have to look for dragons.

The so-called dragon hunting is to judge whether there is ore according to the direction of the mountain, the direction of the water vein, and even the structure of the mountain.

However, such a lot of work.

It's not like you can see it from a distance.

However, Sado Island is not large, with only two parallel mountain ranges, both running southwest and northeast. Between the two mountain ranges, there is a long and narrow mountain plain with streams upstream from the peaks on both sides, and this plain can also be cultivated.

The port is also between two mountains, and the people on the island are no more than a few thousand. The strong men are only a few hundred.

Many of these people were descendants of Japanese nobles who had been exiled. It doesn't have much to do with the Ashikaga family either. So Ashikaga Yoshimasa didn't care at all.

These thousands of people became the people of the Ming Dynasty.

As for how to hand over to the Japanese side, Lu Xiang doesn't have to worry about it at all.

After he came, he devoted himself to discovering the mine.

The first thing he spotted was the golden sands.

In fact, there are gold mines on Sado Island, which is not too much of a secret.

It's like poison, ignoring the measurement and talking about toxicity is a hooligan. Today, the gold mines on Sado Island are gold sand that has been harvested from rivers and streams. The portion is small.

Japan itself is a country rich in gold and silver mines, and there are many such places throughout the country.

Therefore, Japan does not attach much importance to this area.

After Lu Xiang saw the golden sand, he flowed into the mountain along the river, looking at the mountain and water potential on the one hand, and looking for mineral seedlings on the other.

The so-called ore seedlings refer to the exposed external ore veins, of course, many times there are few mineral seedlings that are too clear, which requires some special plants.

However, Lu Xiang's efforts were in vain.

Although the Sado Gold Mine is famous for generations to come, it takes a lot of work to detect it. It's not always possible to find it all at once.

Lu Xiang first explored the North Mountain, and then turned to the South Mountain.

There was no harvest in the North Mountain, but there was a harvest in the South Mountain. He found that the ore that was exposed was not gold, but silver.

It's just that although it is not a gold mine, it also makes Lu Xiang's heart tremble.

Because he couldn't estimate the size of the silver mine for a while.

It's a silver mountain.

Lu Xiang's heart was full of indescribable reverence for the emperor, and in his opinion, this matter was a miracle. It is precisely because he knows the difficulties of mining that Lu Xiang understands better

How hard things are.

Don't talk about Jinyiwei's intelligence, there are too many true and false news in the world.

How could the emperor find out the accurate news from so many complicated news?

Isn't this God's blessing?

As for why it was said to be a gold mine, but what was found was a silver mine, Lu Xiang subconsciously ignored this, after all, for the imperial court, gold and silver are actually the same.

Lu Xiang naturally didn't dare to delay, and immediately sent the news back.

The people who got the news along the way were dumbfounded and couldn't believe it, many people thought that it was the emperor's nonsense, just a willfulness, but they never thought that there was really a gain.

For a while, Zhu Qizhen was also golden in the eyes of many insiders.

When Zhu Qizhen got the news, it was already May.

The wheat in the north is ready for harvest.

It's been a good year.

Of course.

It's not that the wind and rain in the world are smooth, there are no disasters, Hebei is still a spring drought, but over the years, the Three Lakes and Five Rivers Project has been familiar to the people of Hebei, and even when the imperial court was controlling the water, the corners and corners that were not noticed were also repaired by local officials in later generations.

After seven years of orthodoxy, Hebei's prosperity has flourished day by day.

There is also a lot of experience in fighting spring drought.

Therefore, the spring drought was a hurdle that the people of Hebei could not overcome, but now everyone is accustomed to the spring drought and does not feel the drought.

Therefore, there is no problem with the drought in central Hebei, and although the drought in other places is serious, it is nothing.

The most serious is Jinan Province.

Zhu Qizhen naturally sent people to tax exemption and disaster relief, and a routine would also cost money.

But I don't know how much better the money spent here is much better than the previous situation where millions of victims were killed at every turn. In Zhu Qizhen's view, this is simply God's blessing.

However, Zhu Qizhen is also a little concerned about the situation in Shandong.

Without him, Shandong has been plagued by many disasters and difficulties in recent years, with continuous floods and droughts. The Yellow River also runs through most of the Shandong Peninsula. It has brought great disasters to the people of Shandong.

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "Shandong Water Conservancy should also be rectified." ”

But how to rectify it, Zhu Qizhen didn't have a plan for a while, so he could only let it go first, and then talk about defeating the tile spur.

Now Zhu Qizhen just hopes that there will be no floods between the summer and autumn this year, and Zhu Qizhen will probably be able to drag 10 million taels in his hands for the whole year.

Coupled with other aspects, one or two million taels, the funds for the construction of various cities in the grassland this time are probably enough.

Daming's financial situation will take a very obvious turn for the better.

It seems that there is also a double solstice of blessing.

Here he has just faced such a good situation, a rare good year in the past few years, which has made the Ming Finance breathe a sigh of relief, and he received good news from Japan.