Less than five days after the news of the discovery of a large open-pit coal mine in the area under the jurisdiction of the 101,100th household of Xibo, Ma Kai, the commander of the 21st Wei Station, personally accompanied Lu Nanfeng, a member of the Tuntian Qing Officials Division of the Ministry of Works, to the jurisdiction of Luo Zongshan.

There is a reward for discovering mineral deposits, this is a rule set by Zhu Cijiong himself, but the reward is not uniform, the mineral deposits have a size, if the unified reward is a few hundred taels or a thousand taels, then the discovery of large or super-large mineral deposits will suffer a big loss, if the unified reward is thousands of taels or tens of thousands of taels, then if the discovery of a small mineral deposit will suffer a big loss.

Therefore, he also added a side rule, that is, rewards according to the size of the mineral deposit.

Discover small mineral deposits, reward 1,000 taels;

Medium-sized mineral deposits are found, and a reward of 5,000 taels is awarded;

Discover large mineral deposits, reward 10,000 taels;

Discover a super-large mineral deposit and reward 20,000 taels.

Of course, the size of this deposit is not determined by the person who discovered it, but by the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the relevant professionals to the site to investigate.

According to Luo Zongshan's description, the coal mine in his jurisdiction is definitely a super-large open-pit coal mine, but whether he says it or not, the officials of the Ministry of Industry have the final say.

Lu Nanfeng is the official of the Ministry of Industry who is responsible for identifying the size of the coal mine, and the team he led are all professionals in coal exploration and coal mining, and the reason why he came so quickly is because he has already arrived in Siberia, and there must be brave men under the so-called heavy reward, Zhu Cijiong and Bi Maokang have long realized that there is the temptation of huge prizes, and these guards will definitely try their best to find mines, so they sent the officials in charge of identification and relevant professionals to Siberia as early as possible.

Sure enough, less than a month after the start of the Tunwei migration, good news came one after another, Lu Nanfeng had just finished identifying a medium-sized open-pit coal mine in the nearby Qianhu Institute, and news came from here, and he found a super-large open-pit coal mine, so he brought people over in a hurry.

Luo Zongshan naturally welcomed their arrival, he also knew that the Ministry of Industry could only give money after reading it, as for how much money to give after reading it, he didn't have much idea, he was a small local person, he was used to being poor, one thousand taels was a big fortune for him, five thousand taels was already a huge wealth, as for ten thousand taels, twenty thousand taels, he couldn't even think about it, how much it had to be!

These professionals of the Ministry of Industry are naturally familiar with the exploration of the size of coal mines, you know, most of the coal mines that are being mined in the Ming Dynasty are explored by them, but they have a total of only a few people, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty is so large, even if they are scattered, it is impossible to run all the territories of the Ming Dynasty for a lifetime, not to mention the careful exploration of the past, and the professionals of other mineral deposits are similar, just a few people, it is impossible to explore all the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the demand for minerals in Daming is getting bigger and bigger, the demand for coal mines, iron ore, and copper ore is skyrocketing, especially in coal mines, with the increasingly widespread application of steam engines, the amount of coal has doubled and risen, and there are many places where coal can not be bought, and even many places are using firewood to burn steam, I don't know how much waste it has caused.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong came up with this reward mechanism, if there is no reward for you to let people find it, people will not pay attention at all, now it is different, not only there are rewards, but also heavy rewards, plus the contracting mechanism behind them, these guards are not crazy to look for it!

Sure enough, this trick is still very effective, the first batch of tunwei has only migrated to Siberia for less than half a month, and news of finding mineral deposits has come from all over the country, and four or five coal mines have been found, but Luo Zongshan is the largest here, so Lu Nanfeng gave priority to bringing people over to investigate.

To say that the survey technology of this era is still relatively backward, nothing more than to see with the eyes and dig by hand, the professionals of the Ministry of Engineering do not have any instruments and equipment, they can only dig and look at it with experience, so it is more time-consuming, like the coal mine discovered by 101 Wei, such a large range, at least ten days to complete the survey.

So, Luo Zongshan took people to accompany Lu Nanfeng and others to start the process of deep excavation and sampling, and almost every place had to dig a few zhang deep to confirm whether there was a coal seam below.

In fact, a super open-pit coal mine with a radius of thousands of miles is unlikely to exist, and a large part of what Luo Zongshan dug up was drifted from the main ore deposit, floating on the surface, a shallow layer of coal, and after digging deep in many places, it was ordinary soil and rock, and there was no coal seam at all.

However, the coal can be scattered everywhere, proving that the main mineral deposit should still be quite large, Lu Nanfeng and they began to slowly determine the location of the search for the main mineral deposit based on experience, and this search is a few days.

During this time, they can be regarded as blessed, because the group of hunters led by Lao Xie has also been trained almost completely, and they have slowly started hunting, what grouse, rabbits, and mink don't know how many they come back in a day, and the 101,000 households gradually have a stable income, and even have money to buy some wine to drink.

Moreover, most of these things are valuable in fur, and meat has naturally become a good mountain treasure for entertaining guests.

Even, in order to welcome their arrival, Luo Zongshan specially asked Lao Xie to bring ten flintlock pistols to kill a black bear near their gathering place.

In fact, according to the book, this season is not the best time to hunt bears, the most valuable bear is the pair of bear paws, and the best time to take bear paws should be spring, because bears have the habit of hibernating, they all live by licking palms when hibernating, and the gelatin in the palm of the palm is moisturized in the palm, which is one of the reasons why the bear paw is rich in nutrients.

The bear's paw is not the best for this autumn hunt, and it is not easy to preserve, so it is basically impossible to take it out and sell it, so you can only eat it yourself.

However, Luo Zongshan had to order someone to kill the bear, because its nest was too close to the gathering place, and if he rushed into the gathering place one day when he was hungry, it would be a big trouble, because most of the time the strong men went out to work, and the gathering place was full of old and young women and children, and it couldn't kill a bear at all.

To say that although this bear's paw is a famous delicacy, there are really few people who have eaten it, even the commander Ma Kai has not eaten it, Luo Zongshan also sent someone to ask the shopkeeper Li of the Ming Royal Xinglong Firm to inquire about the method before he knew the method.

The easiest way to make bear's paw is to braise it, and it must be steamed for two quarters of an hour before being boiled in soup made of chicken, lean meat and bones, and then accompanied by ginger, shallots, cooking wine and other condiments to remove the fishy smell.

In short, although Ma Kai went back the next day, the treatment enjoyed by Lu Nanfeng and his party here was quite high, but they did not cheat for personal gain, and finally explored that the main mine of this open-pit coal mine was about ten miles in a radius of more than ten miles, which could only be regarded as a large deposit, not a super-large deposit.

For this result, Luo Zongshan is already very satisfied, the reward of 10,000 taels is a huge wealth for the entire 10,100 households, and they can also participate in the mining of coal mines in the future, which is a long-term stable income.

As for how to mine coal mines, this chapter is over, and let's see the next breakdown.