The development of Taipei is in an orderly manner, opening up wasteland, clearing tribes, establishing camps, and building roads.

Those submissive tribes showed their skills in the process, whether they were soldiers or developers, they were more able to adapt to the local environment, when the soldiers and people of Tainan wrapped themselves as if they were only wrapped in steamed rice dumplings, they were able to walk in the jungle as if they were not attacked by malaria!

Therefore, they became the vanguard on the battlefield and on the construction site, and their active work was also rewarded handsomely, with rice, meat, oil, sugar and eggs for them and their families to eat and drink, as well as salary bonuses.

Craftsmen were summoned to develop gold mines, many of whom came from the mainland, and when each person arrived, they were required to fill in the "specialty", and after verification, they were called up for forced labor, and after a month of free labor, they were transferred to market price employment.

The discovery of the (Jinguashi) gold mine is a very large mining area, its formation is related to the volcano, the formation of a large gold vein, its natural gold nuggets are very large, to the southeast province to offer the largest gold nuggets up to 50 taels! There is also a "gold bag", its volume is very small, generally only a few meters in diameter, more than ten meters to tens of meters long, in a mine of hundreds of meters to thousands of meters, the size of the gold bag is like a sesame seed falling on the table, it is not so easy to find.

However, although the so-called rich gold bag is small in size, it is characterized by a very high gold grade, according to many miners, the richest part can be washed out of nearly half a bowl of gold in a bowl of mineral sand, and a "gold bag" can usually produce a ton or more of gold!

The upper part of the vein is rich in gold, the lower part is rich in copper, and there are even many shallow ore bodies where the gold is washed into the river by rainwater. Therefore, traces of placer gold can be found in streams near gold mines, and even further afield in the Keelung River... All the gold, Yan Changwu Tian shamelessly owns it!

The river sand panned for gold, and a large number of people were taken to dig out the gold grains with a screen.

In addition to tool mining, the ore is mostly burned with burning wood, and then poured with cold water, and the ore is hot and expanded, cold contraction, bursting and breaking. The miners then grind it into powder and sift it with water in a bowl. This method of gold panning was the main method of gold mining in ancient times.

This method is inefficient, and the southeast government uses explosives to open the way to mine gold, blow up the mine hole, blow up the loose ore vein, and form a mine hole.

When the gold ore was mined in the mines, the ore was put into a basket and brought out of the basket with a roller like drawing water.

The first process is grinding: the ore is first put into the water mill, and the large pieces of ore are crushed by hydraulic action, and then ground into powder with a stone mill, which is as thick as cornmeal.

The second process is panning. It is to wash the ore powder in water to remove the non-ore part, leaving a powder with more gold content, which is called concentrate powder in the jargon.

The third process is called dough sintering. In other words, gold-containing powder and rice are mixed together to make pellets, which are layered with charcoal to form piles to remove sulfide sulfur and sinter into crunchy ore clusters.

The fourth process is called lead reduction smelting. The ore mass is mixed and smelted and chemically replaced to form a lead block containing gold and silver.

The fifth process is called the ash blowing method. That is, the lead block containing gold is smelted on the ash of plants and trees, and oxygen is blown in to remove the lead from the lead block. Blowing away the grass ash yields high-purity gold.

The final process of alchemy is called fire, which is also the most critical step in gold smelting! That is, these wool gold are turned into gold nuggets, and when the fire is turned into fire, the crucible is first burned red with a strong fire, and when the smelted gold water is purified to a certain extent, it is poured into the gold mold, and the gold smelting is completed.

The fuel used is coal, which is available in Southeast Province and transported from Tainan to Taipei by cargo ship.

Stone mills are driven by animal force, and oxen, donkeys, and mules are used to work.

As for the manpower for mining, the southeastern province became a slave owner, importing a large number of indigenous people from Batavia and the Philippines to work (the slave business between Hongmaofan and the southeastern province has always been good, even in times of war and hostilities).

Well, what, indigenous people, lazy?

It was found that some Dutch and Western overseers had a hand in dealing with the natives, and they were able to teach "a bear a lesson to admit that it was a rabbit", so even the overseers imported it together!

Tens of thousands of natives worked, invited 100 red-haired fans as supervisors, three years later, the Han people learned the ability to tame slaves in the red-haired fan, kicked the red-haired overseers back to the South China Sea, and managed themselves!

The first place in the work yield has meat to eat, and the last place eats whips!

Of course, it won't be so simple, the style of the Southeast Mansion is to be both hands, in addition to coercive measures (mining is not a dinner party), but also to give hope to the slaves, for example, every year there are hundreds of well-behaved slaves naturalized into the Southeast Province, become commoners, enjoy welfare!

After another fifteen years of work, the miners were repatriated to their hometowns, and the southeast government sent them a small amount of silver dollars as compensation, and as a result, they had this silver dollar, which was higher than the income in their hometown!

The news came that many natives wanted to become slaves of the Han Chinese...

Others say that Yan Changwu is a very benevolent son of God!

Gold and copper are developed together, for copper mining, the Chinese people have rich experience, they have adopted a combination of vertical shafts and inclined shafts, inclined roadways and flat roadways, and use various technical means to solve a series of complex technical problems such as underground ventilation, drainage, ore supply and roadway support. A number of copper smelting shaft furnaces have been established, with reasonable structure, ventilation ditches, furnace cylinders, golden gates (copper liquid and copper slag placement ports) and vents, etc., to continuously smelt copper ingots.

Happily, 1,000 tonnes of copper ore was harvested and has steadily increased since then.

As a result, with copper, the southeast province issued its own minted copper coins, which were very popular with the mainland and Wajima because of their high content and exquisite shape, and were often lost as much as they put on the market.

But copper, the most important thing is to cast cannons, and I'll talk about it later.

In addition, the Keelung Sichuan barbed gold mine, Ruifang gold mine, and the discovery of a large gold-rich mine in Mudankeng Mountain have been discovered, and a number of gold mines add up, almost 50,000 taels of gold enter the southeast treasury a year!

There are 200,000 taels of gold in five years, which is equivalent to 5 million taels of silver in Europe, which is really terrifying, and Yan Changwu's economy can be called a rich country.

Yan Changwu looked at the report of the mining area, and he was so happy that he shouted, "I have a rich start!" ”

Money is a man's guts, gold is the spine of a dictator, plus a steady stream of silver from the mainland, shogunate silver, Spanish silver, Dutch silver, and British silver, the money of the southeast province flowed into the silver treasury like a flood, so that the southeast province could expand its armaments and wars, build ships and artillery, consolidate its strength with violence, and show his muscles like a boxing champion, and one of Yan Changwu's carriage numbers is 00544 (move me to try)!

Develop and operate, give benefits to the people, buy people's hearts, and their people's hearts will be attached.

Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian at that time, heard that a large number of gold and copper were shipped from the southeast province, and he was really depressed, and shouted, "This kid (Yan Changwu) is really the reincarnation of gold and copper (golden boy) under the seat of Mazu Niangniang?" ”

In particular, he pointed out that "Jin and Copper" instead of "Jin Jiatong", he is a big man, once his words are spread, many people will call Yan Changwu the reincarnation of Jin and Copper in the future!

Everyone said that Yan Changwu didn't introduce himself wrong, but we heard it wrong, it should be the reincarnation of the golden bronze boy, not the golden boy boy!

Later, in the worship of the people, Yan Changwu became a "golden flash", and was made into a golden boy next to Mazu, and was enthusiastically loved by the people!

He is the god of war, or the god of wealth!