Chapter 120 first digs up the world's first copper mine

Wei Zheng is a very smart person, and so is Fang Xuanling.

And these two are very flexible people, since Chen Ying under the banner of building Chidao, before the invention of the steam engine train, he set out to build a railway called "Chidao". With or without a steam engine train, the advantages of Chidao were incomparable to the official roads of this era.

In particular, the transportation efficiency has the assistance of the gallop, and the four-wheeled heavy carriage can carry 6,000 catties of heavy goods, and it can be transported at a speed of 300 miles per day along the gallop. With the completion of the 600-mile road from Chang'an to Luoyang, the efficiency of transporting grain from Luoyang to Guanzhong has increased more than tenfold. The continuous four-wheeled trucks can transport up to 220,000 stone of grain from Luoyang to Guanzhong every day, even if there is no harvest in Guanzhong, Guanzhong will no longer be turbulent due to food hunger.

Not only the transportation of grain and grass, but especially the transportation of the army. The Tang Dynasty didn't say that it was comfortable or uncomfortable, and a carriage the size of a heavy-duty carriage was crammed into a group of heavily armed soldiers in this space of no more than ten square meters. 10,000 troops only need 1,000 four-wheeled carriages, and they can march 300 miles a day, and the key is that there will be no fatigue. Let the phrase "a hundred miles and those who are interested in the profit of the general" completely swept into the pile of old papers.

Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling looked at the map around the Tang Dynasty for two hours, and came to a conclusion that once Li Shimin attacked from the Fusang mainland, from Liaodong, to Linhai, Qiongzhou, and Jiaozhou, there were almost everywhere places where he could land, and the long coast would be a natural landing ground for Li Shimin. When guarding against the Eastern Turks to the north, there are still traces to be found, because the Great Wall has been built by successive dynasties, and there are only a few roads for nomads to go south, even if they are guarded, there are traces.

However, the coast is so long and there is no danger to defend is a great headache.

Is it necessary to build a great coastal wall?

Even Wei Zheng was taken aback by this crazy idea, the cost of building the Great Wall was so great that even Li Jiancheng and Wei Zheng didn't dare to imagine it.

Wei Zheng slowly formed a vein in his head, it is not advisable to build the Great Wall, so what about building a galloping road? Once along Youzhou, Dingzhou, Cangzhou, Qingzhou and Yangzhou, Yuezhou, Runzhou, Fuzhou, Guangzhou coastal construction of a strategic road around the sea? Troops stationed in Youzhou, Guangzhou, and other coastal states can quickly rush to the aid along the strategic gallop road once Li Shimin's army is discovered, and block Li Shimin outside this strategic gallop around the sea.

Of course, this is also a strategic project no less than the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, such as how many farmlands, how many mountains and rivers, how many rivers need to be passed through to build this galloping road, thinking about it makes people feel like a dog bites a hedgehog and has nowhere to start.

Wei Zheng bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this galloping road must be repaired, focusing on Yuezhou, Yangzhou and Runzhou first. ”

Li Shimin's biggest shortcoming is that there are no war horses in the Fusang Continent, even if Zhang Zhongjian desperately transports the war horses to the Fusang Continent, but I don't know if it is not adapted to the water and soil, or other reasons, anyway, the war horses in the Fusang Continent, whether it is a Xianbei horse or a Hequ horse, without exception, all have to be wasted, no bigger than a donkey, no faster than a cow, even so, Li Shimin's million army, only less than 5,000 cavalry, and mainly scout cavalry.

Once Li Shimin chooses Youzhou or Hebei as the landing site, then the Anton Army or the Hebei Army will let Li Shimin know what the Tang Iron Cavalry is. The only thing Li Shimin could use was the mountains or wetlands of Yuezhou, Runzhou, or Fuzhou, and the Tang Dynasty did not have many cavalry in Sanzhou.

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "That's fine, then build a gallop road first." ”

Fang Xuanling smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty's treasury has no money!" ”

A penny is difficult for a hero, not to mention that what Li Jiancheng lacks is not a penny, but a huge amount in millions of guan.

Wei Ting looked at Li Jiancheng with a headache, and said cautiously: "It's better to compromise with the clan......"

Without waiting for Wei Ting to finish speaking, Li Jiancheng shook his head and said, "It's impossible!" ”

However, there is still no way to solve the problem of money.

Under the same sky, Chen Ying was also worried.

Chen Ying was not worried about lack of money, but on the contrary.

There's too much money.

To say that Yang Rong should be born rich and noble, since Ye County and Chen Ying separated, Yang Rong returned to the Qiuzi Wu Clan's business, but when in Qiuzi, Yang Rong's caravan got lost, originally even Yang Rong thought that this small caravan of about 100 people would be buried in the desert, who knows, this small caravan arrived at Greenstone Mountain by mistake and found a very large copper mine.

Without the caravan's reminder, Chen Ying would have apparently forgotten that in the territory of Mongolia (actually China), on the border with China, in the county of Baodege, is the world's largest copper mine, the Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper mine.

Chen Ying knew about this great discovery, after all, it is easy to remember that the reserves of the Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper mine have been proven, and the preliminary proven reserves are 31.1 million tons of copper, 1,328 tons of gold, and 7,600 tons of silver.

Excluding the value of silver and copper, the value of gold alone is nearly 464.8 billion yuan, and if copper is included, the value is the most astonishing, reaching more than 2 trillion yuan.

Of course, Yang Rong's men also discovered the three-hundred-mile coal mine northwest of the Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper mine, which was so large that it took three days to run on horses, and it was all open-air, and even the sand of the grass was not more than a foot deep. Yang Rong didn't figure out how big this gold, copper, and silver mine was, but after preliminary exploration, she was already intimidated.

Yang Rong rushed to Shule non-stop and told Chen Ying about the matter.

When Chen Ying heard the news, he quickly thought of what kind of place this was. In later generations, it no longer belongs to China, as high as 2 trillion gold, silver and copper mines, and as high as nearly 2 trillion coal mines, even if the United States, which is rich in later generations, will not be indifferent in the face of a wealth of 4 trillion yuan.

As Marx said, if there is a twenty percent profit, capital is ready to move; If there is a fifty percent profit, capital will take risks; If there is a 100% profit, capital dares to risk hanging its head; If there is a profit of 300 percent, they dare to trample on all the laws of the world. Of course, now Chen Ying is facing a fortune of up to four trillion.

Even if it is converted into Guan in the Tang Dynasty, this wealth is equivalent to 93,479 trillion Guan. I am afraid that the two hundred and eighty-nine years of the Tang Dynasty combined, the treasury revenue does not have so much money.

No one thinks they have a lot of things in their own house, and in the same way, no one is unhappy about getting other people's things into their own house. Especially for a time-traveler like Chen Ying, he liked to visit forums in his previous life, and he didn't know anything that was not very confidential at all.

In later generations, there were many countries that did not have a small amount of their own domestic resources, but these countries often chose to spend money on imports abroad, and did not intend to mine them from their own countries. Just like rare earth resources, this kind of metal resources that play an extremely important role in military, metallurgy, chemical industry, agriculture and so on, everyone is clamoring for the world's first rare earth content in the flower planter, and some rabbits are proud of it.

But in reality? Rare earths themselves are a scarce resource, but they are sold cheaply. Sold at the price of cabbage, at the cheapest time, it is not as expensive as pork. In the past, China's total reserves accounted for 88 percent of the world's total, but now only 52 percent remains, which is Chen Ying's biggest heartache as a fart citizen......

Thinking of this, Chen said to Yang Rong: "That coal mine, you can organize people to dig it, dig as much as you can, anyway, I will only be the protector of the capital in Anxi for five years at most, as the so-called people go to tea and cool, once I go to work, it is hard to say whether you can keep the coal mine......"

Speaking of this, Chen Ying organized the language and said: "You can also organize people to bid for these coal mines and copper mines to the major clans!" ”

In later generations, little Japan frantically bought Chinese coal to reclaim the sea, and of course bought rare earths back to hoard them, and then sold them back with three to five hundred times.

Chen Ying plans to learn it, anyway, the steam train has been invented, and when Datang enters the industrial revolution in the future, the consumption of coal will definitely be endless, so let's consume the world's first coal mine first......

Thinking of this, Chen Ying picked up the pen and gave Li Jiancheng a fold.

"Your Majesty, congratulations, Datang has made a fortune. The minister found a mountain of gold in Anxi, and the minister estimated that he could dig up about 2.3 million taels of gold and millions of copper......"