The next day, Gongsun Hao and Secretary Xing got into Lao Duan's carriage again, this time they were going to the Appalachian Coal Mine, which is the largest coal mine in the Americas and the largest coal mine in the world, covering an area of 180,000 square kilometers and with reserves of more than 300 billion tons.

Of course, this is the exploration of later generations, the current Chinese geological engineers do not have such great ability, but it is not a difficult thing to know that this is a large coal mine, this coal mine can not be called Appalachian Coal Mine, this coal mine, the Chinese people gave it a name, it is called Chang'an Coal Mine.

Chang'an Coal Mine is more than 300 miles away from Chang'an City, and the carriage of the old section cannot reach the destination in one day, so everyone has prepared a change of clothes for accommodation on the road.

After breakfast, the three of them went on the road, still on the same road as yesterday, north, north, all the way north.

Because the road was wide and flat, Lao Duan drove the carriage fast, and both the story and Secretary Xing sitting in the car felt uncomfortable.

"Old Duan, go slowly, go slowly, we're not in a hurry."

Gongsun Hao said loudly to Lao Duan, who was driving the car in front, and at the same time, he had to hold on to the armrest tightly, otherwise he might fall under the seat.

"Oh, oh, ......"

Lao Duan tightened the reins and gave the horse an order, and the speed of the carriage slowed down.

"I'm sorry, Assistant Gongsun," Lao Duan turned back and apologized to Gongsun Hao, "This road is straight and wide, and I forgot to control the speed of the carriage when I was happy." ”

Secretary Xing said: "Old Duan, you are so happy that you almost threw out all my internal organs." ”

Lao Duan apologized again: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" ”

Gongsun Hao said: "Don't be greedy, drive the car steadily, I still have something to discuss with Secretary Xing." ”

"Great!" Lao Duan replied.

Gongsun Hao tried to let go of the handle, and felt that the carriage was indeed much more stable.

"Secretary Xing, have you brought all the information about the coal mine?" After Gongsun Hao let go of his hand, he asked Secretary Xing.

Secretary Xing pointed to the stack of documents at his feet and said, "I've brought them all, so many documents, I read them all night last night." ”

Gongsun Hao quipped: "Thank you for your hard work, but I didn't sleep last night!" ”

Secretary Xing asked curiously, "Are you also reading the documents?" ”

"No, no, no." Gongsun Hao shook his head and said, "I drank all night for the mayor last night. ”

Secretary Xing asked enviously, "Such a good errand?" Who are you drinking with? ”

Gongsun Hao said: "Those brothers from the Agriculture and Forestry Department. Didn't they transport a batch of ploughing cattle from Mongolia, and the mortality rate of ploughing cattle during the transportation was only 10 percent, and they were happy to say that they were going to invite the tiger mayor to drink, and the tiger mayor caught my tolerance and went crazy with this group of brothers all night. ”

Secretary Xing said: "The safe transportation of ploughing cattle to Chang'an this time will greatly alleviate the problem of shortage of farm labor. ”

"Yes!" Gongsun Hao said, "Although a large number of African black slaves have come to the Americas as our laborers, they are still far from keeping up with our development situation. ”

Secretary Xing asked, "Why don't we use the laborers of the island countries?" I've heard that there are as many as 6 million laborers in China in the island countries, and if they can come to the Americas, do we still need to buy African slaves from Westerners? ”

"You are stupid," Gongsun Hao couldn't help but criticize Secretary Xing, "Don't you know what the main task of the island laborers is?" ”

In order to prove that he was not stupid, Secretary Xing hurriedly said: "I know, build the railway for us." ”

"That's right, the laborers of the island countries are building railways for us, and if all the railways in our country are not built, how can we let them come to the Americas?"

Secretary Xing said worriedly: "Now that the emperor has come to the west coast of the Americas, we have to make every effort to get closer to the west coast, and now we are facing the problem of lack of labor, and the lack of labor limits our development, according to our current speed, when will we be able to meet with the emperor's West Bank army?" ”

Gongsun Hao said: "You don't have to worry about this, Li Dingguo's South African Army has developed to northern Africa, and it is estimated that they can send us 300,000 black slaves a year." ”

Secretary Xing's mouth was surprised like an "O"-shaped: "300,000 people!?" ”

Gongsun Hao said: "We still have tens of millions of Malays and Indians waiting to be shipped over in Nanyang, so the shortage of labor will definitely be solved in the near future." The problem is transportation, to transport tens of millions of people to the Americas, how much capacity is needed! ”

Secretary Xing suggested: "We are vigorously building large transport ships, can we solve the problem of insufficient capacity in the near future?" ”

Gongsun Hao smiled: "This is not a matter for you and me to consider, the emperor will definitely have a reasonable arrangement for these problems." Okay, let's talk about our current mission! ”

Secretary Xing squatted down, took out a document bag from a stack of document bags, and then took one of the documents inside to Gongsun Hao, and said, "You can take a look at this document first." ”

Gongsun Hao took the document and looked at it, this is a document signed by the electric power department and the coal mine, and the content of the document is an agreement on the coal mine to use coal to offset the electricity bill of the electric power department.

"This agreement has not yet been signed." Secretary Xing explained.

Gongsun Hao was angry: "The coal mine is about to be electrified, so this agreement has not been signed yet?" ”

Secretary Xing said: "This is the reason why the mayor asked us to go, the power department and the coal mine have not yet negotiated on the price, and we need to coordinate." ”

Gongsun Hao said: "What is there to coordinate this? The town hall gave an order down to see who of them dared not to carry it out. ”

Secretary Xing said: "Our city hall can only give them guidance, economic work must be subordinated to the market economy, not a problem that can be solved by an order, if the economic problem is solved by an order, it is very likely to hinder the development of the economy." ”

Gongsun Hao smiled: "Hehe, listening to your tone, you seem to be a senior economic expert." ”

Secretary Xing said embarrassedly: "I'm just talking nonsense." ”

Gongsun Hao looked at Secretary Xing with encouraging eyes: "What you said is very reasonable, after we go this time, we must do more explanation work, urge them to implement all the work as soon as possible, and not affect the electricity consumption of the coal mine." ”

When Gongsun Hao said this, he yawned deeply, and then said apologetically: "I'm sleepy, let's sleep first." ”

He leaned back in his chair.

Secretary Xing was busy all night, and he was also very sleepy, so he explained that Lao Duan had lunch at the Lotus Station at noon, and he also leaned on the chair and fell asleep.