After all, Wu Tiexin is the son of Wu Haogu, although he is not a very favored concubine, but he is not so poor that he has never seen gold. When he married a wife and started a family, Wu Haogu also gave him 100,000 silver taels plus a mansion in Tianjin.

In addition, his wife Wu is from the Haizhou Wu family on the rich side, and the assets of the dowry alone are as high as one million taels!

His older brother, "Kamakura Shogun Yoshitoshi", also gave him an estate near the port of Uraga, along with thousands of acres of land in the surrounding area.

So he is also a small rich man, so that he will not be able to move when he sees gold. Even if there is a little too much gold in front of him now, it is almost piled up like a hill.

But when he knew that Hua Rong's big liar had only exchanged for such a large pile of gold with only a dozen small broken daggers that cut meat and cut ropes, he couldn't be calm anymore.

As a professional naval officer, Wu Tiexin still has the most basic military qualities. So as soon as he saw those crude gold products, and then learned the price of Hua Rong in exchange for gold, he completely understood that the "Golden Continent" he had discovered was a golden continent that was unguarded!

"Admiral, according to the investigation of the lower officials, these Yin people are not only barbaric, but also stupid, they do not know how to smelt copper and iron, and only use stone and gold tools......"

Hua Rong is much more shrewd than Li Kui, he looks very strong, his eyes are flashing with a hint of ferocity, but he always has a smile on his face.

Of course, his fierce light was not aimed at Wu Tiexin, but at the indigenous Yin people who had gold, but no iron weapons and bows and arrows.

However, Wu Tiexin had an order not to take the initiative to attack the Yin natives, so he didn't use his hands to rob it openly, but played a trick and exchanged a dozen knives for a pile of gold.

"Gold is the easiest piece of hardware to process and refine." Wu Tiexin looked at the gold and said faintly, "This is taught in the nature textbook, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it!" ”

"Admiral......" Liu Yan squatted there, playing with the cute gold, "Do you say we are sending troops to ......?"

Halfway through his words, the eyes of the officers in the tent, including Hua Rong, lit up.

"Send troops?" Wu Tiexin sneered, "Isn't it just a little iron?" Can you kill people and set fires?

And...... How much can you rob by killing people and setting fires? There must be more than one tribe in this area, right? What if we rob one and the rest of the tribes run away?

Let's do business! If you want to be kind and rich, you must convince people with virtue, you know? Fortune matters, listen to me! ”

When everyone heard this, they also felt justified. Wu Tiexin's father is the richest man in the world, and he is self-made, and when it comes to getting rich, his family recognizes the second, who dares to admit the first?

Wu Tiexin said to Hua Rong: "Captain Hua, go back and bring some salt to the tribe that has been exchanged for gold, and invite their chief to come to us as a guest...... Let's see if we can talk to each other? If you can communicate, talk to them about the knife for gold, and then exchange a little more! This is all the extra money of our Enterprise brothers! ”

"Whoa!" Hua Rong responded, paused and asked, "Admiral, why don't we leave a stronghold here too?" ”

"Don't stay," Wu Tiexin said with a smile, "I'll leave after exchanging the gold...... This time, the brothers have sent it, and it's time to go back to Japan and live comfortably.

Brother Rong, you are not a small boss, it's time to settle down. When you return to Japan, you will be told that you are a good friend. Let's be a master in Japan from now on! ”

"Little one, thank you, Admiral." Hua Rong smiled and saluted.

Wu Tiexin waved his hand and said with a smile: "Hurry up...... Be polite to others, you must be harmonious and make money, but you can't learn from Li Kui's black guy, you can't make a fortune like that. ”

"Okay, let's go for the little ones."

was coaxed by Wu Tiexin like this, Hua Rong was suddenly full of expectations for his future life.

When I found gold in the United States, I went to Japan or some other place to buy a Zhuangzi and marry a wife...... A happy life is about to begin!

Such a happy life not only belongs to Hua Rong, but also the common dream of countless Zhou States and Eastern Song Dynasty in the future!

……

When the news of the "gold everywhere" in the New World reached the Great Zhou mainland, it was already the summer of the nineteenth year of the Republic.

This summer, the situation of the three points of the world has been consolidated a little. The war between the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Western Song Dynasty finally came to an end in the spring of that year. After a long period of encirclement and shelling, the two major fortresses of the Western Song Dynasty in the Central Plains, Nanyang and Luoyang, fell one after another!

On the Hedong battlefield, the Great Zhou Republican Army also made a little progress, taking several state armies.

However, this level of victory was not enough to upset the balance of the three countries, but rather made the three-point situation more solid.

Because in this war, the Great Zhou Republican Army has lost the sharpness of the "First Central Plains War".

And the army of the Western Song Dynasty also seems to have found a way to curb the rapid advance of the Great Zhou Republican Army, that is, to continue to build fortresses!

As more and more work was carried out, so did their skills in building the fortress. By the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the Republic, the construction capacity of the army of the Western Song Dynasty was not even below that of the Republican Army of the Zhou State.

And they were not as fond of building permanent fortifications as the Zhou Republican Army, using "expensive" plaster and masonry.

Instead, I like to build rammed earth or even pile earth (just pile soil, no need to tamp or slightly ram) fortress, the cost is very low, and thousands of people can pile a very good fortress in a month.

Although the fort was rammed earth or mound, the multi-tiered prismatic out-of-fort layout and the sloping exterior walls at a large angle could offset the power of the Republican cannons to the greatest extent.

Moreover, this kind of rammed earth bunker can actually prevent the "burrowing of the city", because the crypt dug by enemy sappers often collapses because the mound above is too soft.

At the same time, the spread of musket technology also made the fortress very easy to defend - the Republican eight-year heavy smoothbore gun was still very easy to copy, even in the Western Song Dynasty, which relied on the government-run handicraft industry and craftsmen to make a living, it could still be produced in large quantities.

Of course, the combination of artisans and government-run handicrafts, although not conducive to technological progress, is also prone to reduce production efficiency.

But now the Jingkang staff officer of the Western Song Dynasty, who is in charge of military production, is still more powerful, not a scholar who didn't know anything and fooled around casually.

Therefore, the "Jingkang-style smoothbore gun" of the Western Song Dynasty was of good quality and the output was not low, which was enough to support the defense of the fortress.

The progress of artillery technology came to a standstill after the First Central Plains War.

In this case, it is still possible to breach the fortress, but the cost and time required to break through the fortress are multiplied exponentially - when the attacker lays down a fortress, the defending side has even 100 fortresses.

Although there were often not many defenders in this kind of suggestion fort, it was also difficult to take down, and it was troublesome to fence it up, and it was necessary to starve and consume food......

The current Chinese civil war has roughly entered the era of "invincible fortresses"!

Since it is invincible, of course, it is conducive to defense and not conducive to attacking.

So for most of the 19th year of the Republic, peace talks were taking place between the Western Song and New Zhou countries.

However, this peace talks, which were about to bring decades of peace to the Central Plains, became an inconsequential matter in the summer of the 19th year of the Republic.

Because of the streets and alleys of Tianjin, Xuzhou, Haizhou, Yanjing, Lushun, Liaoyang and other big cities of Zhou, the hottest topics discussed by people have become the gold of the New World!

In the eyes of the people of these commercial cities, who fought to the death of the bitter Song Kingdom in the west, how could the mysterious continent full of gold be more eye-catching?

"A whole shipload of gold! A boatload of gold! Everyone who followed them made a fortune! The good houses in Jingdong Shang City have been bought in short supply during this time! They all came back from making a fortune in the New World......"

"Really? Is this true? ”

"Of course it's true! Didn't you notice that the price of gold was falling during this time? From twelve to eleven! How many years has the Jin family been in Twelve? How did you suddenly drop a piece? Isn't it because gold was discovered in the New World? ”

"And how are you going to get to this new world? Do you want to go by boat? ”

"How? Does your dude want to go gold panning too? ”

The people of the market, the wealthy businessmen and the magnates of the republic, all took an interest in the New World. If it is said that the previous exploration of the New World was completely promoted by Wu Haogu and Zhao Kai. Then after Wu Tiexin's Enterprise came back full of gold, it made other people who had the ability to organize and open up the New World smell the smell of making a fortune.

New Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty, one is a world of wealthy businessmen, and the other is a world of wealthy businessmen, where can a career that really have a lot of money to be made to vigorously promote at the national level?

"Official, is the New World really full of gold?"

The delicate voice sounded in Wu Haogu's ears. At this time, the head of Lao Wu was squinting his eyes and soaking comfortably in a hot spring in the Tangquan Palace of Chengde Summer Resort.

It was a white, steaming pool with a faint smell of sulfur. The pool was paved with pebbles and kept very clean. Around the small pond is a glass pavilion that can be enclosed in the winter and you can soak in the hot springs while basking in the sun. In summer, the doors and windows are opened, and you can soak in the spring while enjoying the shade of the trees outside, and the rockeries are scattered, which is very charming.

This kind of charm is not what Wu Haogu loves, but it is made by the beauty around him.

The rebuilding of the summer resort was left to Okuno. Wu Haogu only has to pay for it and enjoy it...... He now leaves Tianjin every summer and goes to the summer resort to spend time with Da Ooye, Ci Ono and Xiao Sese, which is really a blessing!

Not only is it a lot of good fortune, but there are also several sons and daughters! After all, both Okuno and Okuno are still young and in good health, so it's time to be able to give birth. Even Xiao Sese is "old and strong", and he also gave birth to a son for Wu Haogu......

As soon as there are many children, the economic pressure will naturally be great, and the family property on the territory seems to be a little insufficient!

Is it really not enough? It seems that there are two American continents to divide!