Chapter 291: Xiaohai Gold Mine (Page 1/1)

After the Ming army released another round of firearms, the smoke was blown away by the wind, and I saw a corpse lying on the opposite position, and the Buryats behind the corpse stopped their horses and looked at the Ming army on the opposite side in a daze. According to the course of history, they should have encountered the Rakshasas soon after, and then they were conquered by the Rakshasas' firearms, but now they were first conquered by the firearms of the Ming Dynasty.

Yayo was lucky not to die, he looked at the pipe that could breathe smoke in the hands of the Ming army opposite, and secretly complained in his heart. Two hundred paces away can take the life of a man, how can such a weapon give the Buryats a chance to shoot arrows, or surrender. But how to surrender? Do you just go out? It doesn't seem very good.

Zhang Zongling gave him steps: "The Ming Emperor has a decree: if the Buryats around Xiaohai are willing to submit, they will be given a preferential status and will be stationed around Xiaohai forever." ”

Yayoke dismounted, then dropped his sword, walked to the front and knelt down, and said, "The Buryats are willing to serve the Ming Emperor as the lord." ”

That's right, Zhang Zongling is extremely satisfied, the power given to him by the emperor is extremely great, and he is big enough to act cheaply on Xiaohai's side. In other words, what Zhang Zongling said here will be recognized by the emperor in the end, and it will not be regarded as a false decree. Zhang Zongling helped Kia Yoko and said with a smile: "May Daming and Tile Thorn be like a family." ”

After consulting with Yayo, Zhang Zongling chose to start building the city at the confluence of two rivers in the southwest of Xiaohai. The terrain is flat, very habitable, and there is plenty of forest around, so at least there is no need to worry about the origin of the trees.

A large number of construction workers came to Xiaohai, where there are abundant rock resources, so the first thing was to build a cement plant and a lime plant. After having cement and lime, the rock was mined with gunpowder to build a city about 300 paces long and 200 paces wide, which was a military city.

The workers began to build houses two hundred paces outside the city limits to serve as temporary barracks, and the army could not always be kept in tents.

Along with the workers came a group of students from the geography department of the institute, and after these students had determined the location of the cement plant and the lime factory through exploration, they began to survey the minerals in other places, because His Majesty the Emperor said that there was a gold mine here in Xiaohai, although I don't know how the Emperor knew about it, but what the Emperor said, it is better not to question it.

Students of the geography department began the exploration process under the protection of the Guards. It's no different than exploring a cement plant and a lime plant, just look at the texture of the stone, and the gold can't be exposed to show you. So after more than a month of exploration, the gold mine was not found, but a large coal mine was found.

This is an unexpected joy, Xiaohai here is the end of the Beijing-small railway, and it is foreseeable that the railway will also go from here to the distant Ural Mountains, the demand for coal on the railway is larger, although it is feasible to transport coal from the mainland, but the price is too high, coal is found here, then the energy problem of the train is solved.

But this was not a gold mine after all, so the students continued to explore, and finally another month later, they found a mountain with gold mines. After everyone shouted "Emperor Shengming", they were very excited and immediately transmitted the news back to the capital.

After Zhu Youxiao heard the news, he finally put his mind at ease. He immediately asked Wang Chengen to publish the news in the newspaper, saying that a gold mine had been discovered near Xiaohai, and the preliminary estimate of reserves reached 50 million taels. Because of the support of the Ming people to the imperial court, the Ming Dynasty was able to occupy Xiaohai, so His Majesty the Emperor decided to sell this gold mine, in addition to the Ming royal family, all interested Ming people can sign up, scheduled to go to Xiaohai in a month and a half to conduct on-the-spot investigation, and then bid for sale.

The news spread across the country very quickly, and a large number of merchants began to make contact, wanting to cooperate in mining Xiaohai. Everyone knows that since the emperor has released the right to mine, it is impossible to allow a family to mine, and it is obviously impossible for a little money to take down the gold mine, except for the royal family, no one else can take out this money.

Soon, in the newspaper, the basic method of selling Xiaohai gold mine was published. First, it would have to be at least five partnerships to compete for the right to mine the gold for fifty years. Secondly, those who want to go to Xiaohai for on-the-spot research must be responsible for their own travel and living expenses. Thirdly, a deposit of 5 million yuan must be paid before the auction, and the deposit slip must be placed in the household after being deposited in the bank, and if the mining right is obtained, the mining fee to be paid will be deducted, and if it is not obtained, it will be returned.

In fact, when the newspaper first said that Xiaohai's gold reserves reached 50 million taels, everyone didn't believe it, because this number was too big, so big that it was terrifying, and everyone felt that there was no way to prove the reserves. But the emperor said that he had discovered the gold mine, of course, it could not be said out of thin air, there was no 50 million taels, even if there were 5 million taels, no, 500,000 taels, or 50,000 taels, what a great fortune it was.

And now the newspaper said that the deposit required for the auction required was 5 million yuan, which made most people believe that Xiaohai's gold mine was indeed rich in reserves, and 50 million taels may not be, but 5 million taels should be no problem. Just thinking about this amount will make people's eyes straighten, and they can't even walk their legs.

Wealthy businessmen formed trading companies, and then came to the household department to register and pay deposits. The bank received a large amount of silver, and because it was difficult for the trading company to raise so many silver coins, it had to take out the silver ingots that were secretly stored at home, give them to the bank to exchange for silver coins, and then take the check and hand it over to the household department.

After the date of the inspection came, according to the bank's report, the bank received an astonishing 30,000 taels of silver ingots, and the mint only minted more than 7 million yuan of silver coins a year.

Zhu Youxiao said to Li Zhizao: "It can't be calculated like this, we have to make more silver coins, 10 million yuan a year." Because the space we occupy is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more places where silver coins are used, but the minting of copper coins can be slowed down, and the printing technology of the institute is now good, so let's make a part of the paper money first, and use it instead of ten coins. ”

In fact, Li Zhizao has long proposed to replace copper coins with paper money, because as long as silver coins exist, there will be no big problem with small paper money replacing copper coins, and even if there is a problem, because the denomination is small and the value is low, it is relatively easy to solve. But Zhu Youxiao was always worried that throwing paper money at this time would eventually become like the previous banknotes, and finally it would have to be forced to carry it out. But now that he had so much silver at once, he thought it would be okay to give it a try.

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