Chapter 450: Inspecting the Gold Mine

From the bottom of his heart, Gao Junshan hoped that the Anglo-Dutch war would be fought for a long time, so he was not enthusiastic about participating in their disputes, but he also knew that it was not easy to manage Asia well, and he had no interest in intervening in Europe.

He also knows that Britain will become the maritime hegemon of Europe, which is also the reason why he is deliberately allied with Britain, and now that Britain is in trouble, it is reasonable for him to stretch out his hand and pull it, after all, Britain is his little brother.

The negotiating team he sent to England had achieved its intended purpose, and the British were interested in Huaxia's banks, hoping that Huaxia would help them build a banking system, and at the same time, hoping that Huaxia would provide them with the technology for the steam engine.

He understands that it is impossible for science and technology to dominate for a long time, so the transfer of steam engine technology to Britain and the improvement of Britain's naval strength have long been listed in the plan of Gao Junshan, and after the internal combustion engine is put into use, the steam engine technology will be sold to the British.

Xichang is now engaged in gold mining, and the two large gold mines found are in the Ural Mountain, because the Ural Mountain is between the Huaxia Kingdom and the Rakshasa Kingdom, Gao Junshan is worried that the Rakshasa Congress will come to make trouble, so he specially formed two divisions to defend the two gold mines.

Fortunately, the contract signed with the Rakshasa country only said that the Ural Mountains were the border between the two countries, and did not specify how to divide them, since so many mineral treasures have been found in the Ural Mountains, the Ural Mountains cannot belong to the Rakshasa countries, and he has ordered the 102nd Division, 104th Division, 106th Division, 107th Division and 108th Division of the First Army to advance to the plain of the Rakshasa Country - the foot of the western mountain of the Ural Mountains.

The Rakshasa Kingdom still doesn't know what we are doing in the Ural Mountains, and they don't know what the Ural Mountains will mean to them, and the military operations of the Huaxia army have not aroused the vigilance of the Rakshasa Countries.

Two large gold mines were discovered, one on the west side of the Ural Mountains, near the Rakshasa Kingdom, and the other on the east side of the Ural Mountains, near the Huaxia Kingdom. Gao Junshan set up a Ural gold mining company in Xichang, which was supervised by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the company's business was to develop two gold mines in the Ural Mountains.

In order to concentrate on gold mining, Gao Junshan ordered the Ural Gold Mining Company to first mine the gold mines in the west, close the gold mines in the east, and then develop the gold mines in the east after the gold mining in the west was programmed.

After the gold ore is mined, it will be minted into gold bricks as a gold reserve for Huaxia.

With abundant gold reserves, it will play a special role in stabilizing the national economy, curbing inflation, and improving international credit.

On this day, Gao Junshan, accompanied by the general manager of the Ural Gold Company, came to the gold mining site in the west of the Ural Mountains.

Mining is quite mature for Huaxia, there are no less than 300,000 mining workers in the country, and there are countless mines of all kinds.

Gao Junshan came to the gold mining site, which has been officially mined, this gold mine belongs to the rock gold mine, the miners in the rock wall, with steel drills to open a small hole, and then fill the holes with explosives, the rock gold ore is blown into small pieces, transported to the concentrator, these gold ore through the concentrator refined into coarse gold, and then the coarse gold is sent to the refinery for refining, you can get a high purity of gold bricks.

The gold deposit is very large, and the geologists who came with Gao Junshan introduced to him the process of discovering this gold mine, and introduced the development process of this gold mine, the gold grade, etc.

At the mining site, the miners were busy in the local area, and for the safety of the high mountain, the escort guided him to visit a point of the mine for a while, and then left here.

Before leaving the gold mine, the gold mine manager said to Gao Junshan: "Mountain chief, our gold mine does not have a name yet, please give this gold mine a name." ”

"West Jinbao Mine." Gao Junshan uttered four words.

The manager of the gold mine said happily: "From now on, our gold mine will have a name!" ”

Gao Junshan said: "Another gold mine is called Dongjinbao Mine. ”

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The gold ore mined from the Xijinbao mine is first transported to the foot of the eastern Ural Mountains, where there is a large concentrator in Huaxia, and the gold ore transported to the concentrator is crushed and high-temperature to extract gold nuggets of low purity, and then these gold nuggets are transported to the refinery in Xichang for deep refining.

After Gao Junshan inspected the Xijinbao mine, he inspected the concentrator plant in the eastern part of the Ural Mountains, and finally returned to Xichang from the concentrator.

After returning to Xichang, Gao Junshan decreed that a railway from Xichang to Xijinbao Mine should be built, so that the gold mine could be transported directly from the mining area to Xichang for processing and refining, and this railway would be extended to the northern part of the Ural Mountains in the future, connecting with the large coal mines in the Ural Mountains.

The discovery of large gold and coal mines in the Huaxia Kingdom did not attract the attention of the Rakshasa Kingdom, but the military movement of the First Army caused the Rakshasa Kingdom to panic, they mistakenly thought that the Huaxia army was going to war with them again, and also mobilized the army to deploy defenses, and at the same time sent an embassy to Xichang.

Gao Junshan personally met with the Rakshasa delegation and assured them that the Huaxia army had no intention of entering the territory of the Rakshasa country, so they could rest assured that the army was stationed at the foot of the mountain because it was inconvenient to camp on the mountain, and there was no intention of invading the Rakshasa country.

In order to completely reassure the Rakshasa mission, Gao Junshan also signed a "Xichang Agreement" with them, which was a supplementary agreement to the previous "Nebuchu Treaty", which specifically determined the border between the two sides in the Ural Mountains, and this agreement also guaranteed that the Chinese army would not invade the Rakshasa Kingdom.

The Rakshasa envoy got the agreement that Huaxia would not invade the Rakshasa Kingdom, and happily returned to the Rakshasa Kingdom to communicate with their empress.

After sending off the Rakshasa mission, Gao Junshan received a telegram from his second son, Gao Chengjun. Gao Chengjun is now the governor of the Ryukyus, which has jurisdiction over Taiwan and the island nation.

Gao Chengjun said in the telegram that Zheng Zhilong wanted Zheng Chenggong to take over his current position, but Gao Junshan did not agree to Zheng Zhilong's request, because Zheng Zhilong is now the local governor of Hirado Island, and Zheng Chenggong is now the commander of the naval fleet, and his position is much higher than Zheng Zhilong, how can Zheng Chenggong be allowed to replace Zheng Zhilong? Besides, Zheng Zhilong's official was appointed by Huaxia State, and it was not passed on to whoever Zheng Zhilong wanted to pass it on.

Gao Junshan personally sent a telegram back to Zheng Zhilong, first praising him for his contribution to maintaining the stability of Hirado, and then retaining him for a few more years.

Zheng Zhilong accepted Gao Junshan's retention.

In early November, Liu Fangliang arrived in Xichang, the president of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, which oversees the operations of the two major gold mines in the Ural Mountains to ensure that gold does not fall into private pockets.

Gao Junshan admired Liu Fangliang's ability to do things, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate he was in charge of played a positive role in China's economic development activities, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the General Affairs Bureau were the two sharp knives in Gao Junshan's hands.