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Early the next morning, Feng Shaoguang invited Zuo Zongtang, Li Kaifang, Su Sanniang and others, under the leadership of Chen Shuitai, the guard general who stayed behind in Guiyang, to inspect the seizures in Guiyang City. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Chen Shuitai is now the commander of the rear division of the Holy First Army. After breaking Guiyang City, because a lot of money was seized in Guiyang City, which was of great value, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Luo Xuan specially left Chen Shuitai and more than a thousand holy soldiers in Guiyang City to take care of those precious minerals.

Chen Shuitai led everyone to the state office, and dozens of holy soldiers were on duty. In the middle of the lobby are hundreds of wooden boxes, with seals and copper locks. Chen Shuitai took out a bunch of keys, opened the lock, opened the box, and a box full of white silver ingots appeared in front of everyone.

Zuo Zongtang, who was indifferent to what he was looking at, also had his eyes shining, looked at the hundreds of boxes in the lobby, and asked, "Master Shuai and good man, are these all like this?" ”

Chen Shuitai didn't know him yet, but when he saw him following the Holy King, he replied respectfully: "This lord, according to statistics, has a total of 75,000 taels of silver. ”

"Wow!" Su Sanniang was the most excited, ran directly to the wooden box, touched the silver ingot, and muttered: "Get rich, get rich!" ”

Li Kaifang just grinned widely, hehe smirked.

Feng Shaoguang's heart is also in his heart, this time it can be said that he has seized the most. However, after experiencing several seizures and learning the news that Changsha City was captured by the Taiping army, he was no longer as complacent as before. You must know that after the Taiping army broke Wuchang City in history, more than one million taels of silver alone were captured, and there were countless other gold, jewelry, copper coins, not to mention weapons and materials. Therefore, although there are more seizures in Guiyang City, compared with the seizures of Hong Yang and the others in Changsha, the provincial capital, it is not worth mentioning.

Subsequently, Chen Shuitai led everyone to the backyard of the state government.

On both sides of the gate of the backyard, there are thirty-two cannons, all of which are not small in caliber, some of them are cast in bronze and some in iron. It seems that they are all seized in Guiyang City!

"Guiyang is worthy of being a state city, and the artillery is so sharp! It is also a loss to the Qing demon soldiers who defend the city to abandon the city and surrender, otherwise, my holy soldiers will definitely pay a heavy price for attacking the city with this artillery! Feng Shaoguang sighed!

"With the blessing of Emperor Heaven, there is such a fortunate thing!" Chen Shuitai replied.

Zuo Zongtang frowned, but did not speak.

The people continued to walk back and came to the garden behind the yatang. The originally empty back garden was also used as a temporary warehouse, with large wooden boxes and baskets stacked with finished minerals.

"Holy King, the seized finished products are all here, a total of 30,000 catties of copper, 10,000 catties of white lead, 40,000 catties of black lead, 110,000 catties of pig iron, 5,000 catties of tin and many other mixed ores, and 30,000 catties of sulfur." Chen Shuitai reported the number with a happy face.

"So much sulfur too? Brother Chen, I heard that there is a sulfur mine in the Baoshan mining area outside Guiyang City, and there is also a gunpowder factory of the Qing Demon next to it, I don't know if it has been occupied? Feng Shaoguang remembered what Luo Xuan mentioned and asked.

"The Holy King has been occupied. The minerals around Guiyang Prefecture, especially the Baoshan mining area in the west of the city, the Huangshaping mining area in the southwest of the city, the Xianghualing mining area in the south of the city, and the Zhenghe mining area in the east of the city, have all been occupied and temporarily sealed. Chen Shuitai replied.

Feng Shaoguang frowned, the mining area is all sealed, isn't it all stopped? No, we have to get back to mining as soon as possible. It's just that this mineral affairs have to be specially arranged for a person to be in charge.

Feng Shaoguang saw Zuo Zongtang staring at the sulfur, knowing what he was thinking, he pointed to the sulfur and asked: "Ji Gao, I heard that you not only read the Confucian classics intensively, but also extensively dabbled in history and geography, and even went up to marching and fighting, down to the daily study of hundreds of workers, I wonder if Ji Gao knows anything about this matter?" ”

"Holy King, sulfur has been there since ancient times, and it can be used for alchemy and medicine, and it can be used to ward off evil spirits and drive away poison. At the moment, of course, the greatest use for my holy army is to make gunpowder. Others, presumably, still have a role, but Zuo is dull and doesn't know yet. Zuo Zongtang talked eloquently.

"What Ji Gao said has basically covered the old uses of this thing." Seeing that Zuo Zongtang was attracted by his words, Feng Shaoguang continued: "But Yunshan has been in contact with Western miscellaneous books, and he saw some new uses for this thing, and wanted the craftsman to try one or two to see if it was feasible!" However, it's a pity that there is no equipment to take advantage of now! Let's not talk about these things first, Ji Gao, this king wants you to stay in Guiyang for the time being, and preside over the mineral mining and smelting in Guiyang. I don't know what you think? ”

Zuo Zongtang was quite surprised when he heard this, he understood that Feng Shaoguang took a fancy to his talent and wanted to use him, but he didn't expect it to be so quick and give such an important position. Through the understanding of the past few days, he already knows how much Feng Shaoguang values the minerals in Guiyang. So, although he looked like he was nothing, he actually felt a little sour in his nose. He is forty years old this year, and he has failed several examinations, and he has been disappointed, and he has long broken off the idea of career and talent. Unexpectedly, just joining the Taiping Holy Army, the Holy King was going to let him take care of the government affairs of a state, and his already cooled heart burned, this kind of feeling of being valued by Bole, how could it be good to make people want to cry!

"Thank you, Holy King, for your attention! Zongtang must do his best! Zuo Zongtang's tone was resolute, as if he was returning to his childhood and expressing his attitude to the teacher who appreciated him.

At this time, Chen Shuitai found several mine leaders from outside, all of whom were foremen of several mines near Guiyang Prefecture, who had been mining in this area for many years, and had a very clear understanding of this business.

Feng Shaoguang briefly interrogated and learned that in the suburbs of Guiyang alone, there are the Baoshan mining area four or five miles away from the west of the city, the Huangshaping mining area eighteen miles southwest of the city, and the Zhenghe mining area three miles east of the city. Among them, the largest is the Baoshan mining area. The reason why it is called Baoshan Mining Area is because it is like a treasure mountain, which is not only rich in minerals, such as lead, silver, gold, copper, sulfur, iron, etc., but also contains a large amount of minerals, as if it is inexhaustible.

As soon as several miners said that Feng Shaoguang was interested in this Baoshan mining area, and it was not far away, he decided to have lunch, and everyone went to the Baoshan mine with the miners.

Next, Feng Shaoguang and Zuo Zongtang focused on the arrangement of mining in the lower part.

The most important thing is, of course, the mining of silver and copper, and organizing personnel to mine and smelt them as soon as possible. These two minerals are actually money. Needless to say, copper coins are also hard circulation currency, accounting for the copper mines in Guiyang, and the copper of the entire Hunan drum copper coins will be purchased from Yunnan at a high price, so that it not only strengthens itself, but also weakens the enemy, such a good thing can not be done!

Secondly, the mining of sulfur, the more the better. Because, the saltpeter mine on the side of Jiuzhi Mountain has begun large-scale mining, and when the nitrate factory is built, large-scale nitrate production can be carried out, and at that time, there will be a steady stream of saltpeter transported to Guiyang. By using the gunpowder preparation workshop left by the Qing Demon Government next to the sulfur minerals, with a little improvement, it is possible to prepare gunpowder on a large scale. This is an unprecedented achievement! From then on, the Taiping Holy Army did not have to think about saving gunpowder on the battlefield, and every time they looked forward to capturing some gunpowder, they could make gunpowder by themselves, and they would no longer be controlled by others!

In addition, there are some other minerals. Feng Shaoguang just noticed that the so-called white lead is actually tin, and black lead is lead. For both of them, there are uses, but relatively speaking, at present, black lead is a little more useful, which can make projectiles for artillery and shotguns. Therefore, there is a slight focus on the mining and production of black lead. As for other iron ores, because they are relatively common, there is naturally no shortage for the time being.

The manpower of mining, Feng Shaoguang asked Zuo Zongtang to arrange it by himself, but the prisoners brought from Ningyuan can come in handy.

Returning to the side room of the state government, Feng Shaoguang asked Liu Shengbang, the guard of the imperial forest, to take over the state government with the holy king's personal guard battalion. It was time for dinner, Feng Shaoguang knew that Zuo Zongtang would definitely not be able to adapt to the religious customs of the Holy Religion, so he did not keep him to eat with him, and prayed with Liu Shengbang and the guards, "Thank you Emperor Tian, give me food and clothing, and thank the Holy Country, give me food and clothing, the Holy Spirit is always there, residing in my heart, sweeping away demons, invincible." Then they ate to their own food.