The Governor of Gnawing Dog knew that by the end of October 1280 there had been no more than seven gold mines of great size and size found in the mountains of Western Australia; If you count some of them, they are too small to be worth filing for, and there are only twenty of them.

As for the gold diggers who get a few taels of gold dust from the mountains, there are only a few hundred.

In fact, compared to the number of people who come here to pan for gold, the success rate is probably less than one percent!

At first, he was a little worried, afraid that the gold rush would stop------- but it turned out that he underestimated the effect of the speculation.

The Wandering Times simply reported the discovery of a few gold mines, and then wrote about the amount of gold they produced, turning the legend of possible gold mines in the mountains of Western Australia into a real story.

The entire folk of the Great Song Dynasty is boiling!

The number of people who signed up to pan for gold immediately doubled, and Zhang took advantage of the opportunity to add a daily flight to Best City.

Everyone knew that Zhang was not very interested in gold and silver, which also made his houseboys see through the essence of gold.

They knew that if all the gold in the treasury was spent, there would be nothing left in the market, and in the end, maybe not a single tael of gold would buy a loaf of bread!

Therefore, the biggest role of gold is to leave it alone, tell others that you have it, or make it into an ornament to make others envious.

Therefore, the owner of Zhang Island is indifferent to the direction of the mined gold, you are willing to keep it yourself, you are willing to sell it to the shops, you can sell it to the money bank------- there is no monopoly on the island at all!

Unlike the Great Song Dynasty government, it still stubbornly holds the monopoly of tea and resolutely does not allow free trading.

This time, the owner of Zhang Island has no choice------- the tea production on the island is high, and the quality of the roasted tea is good, but what makes people helpless is that it is indeed not as good as the tea of the Great Song Dynasty, and even black and white people can drink it!

Therefore, this is not as simple as opening the opening of the sea salt monopoly.

However, Zhang Island Master also has a way, he is planting coffee cherries in Borneo, and when the time comes, we will see if the coffee with milk powder and sugar can challenge the tea sold by the Great Song Dynasty!

Having said that, Director Zhang Dao is privately owned by the people to hide gold and buy and sell from the people, because he is confident that he can let those people use real money to buy their own supplies!

Of course, these supplies have to be useful to them.

Zhang Island Master thought about it for a while, wrote a letter to the Governor of Gnawing Dog, asked him to develop Eastern Australia moderately, and gave him another coordinate------ which was Melbourne in the future.

He was satisfied with the work of this indigenous housekeeper.

The Governor of Dog Gnawing was not blinded by the gold, he seriously developed farms and pastures, increased the scale of urban construction and port construction, and with the help of those forced prisoners and the Japanese peasants he sent to him, he regarded the production of daily necessities as a major matter.

It's really good, Zhang Island Master also knows in his heart, there are fewer and fewer ships to transport daily necessities there, but more and more coke and hardwood can be brought back.

This is a serious and strong child, and he is liked.

However, he didn't want to increase his workload, so he used the word appropriate, and asked him to set off according to the actual situation in Best City, and not to be too hasty and too big.

After receiving the letter, the Governor of Gnawing Dog thought for a long time and decided to wait for Best City to go through this season's harvest.

By mid-November 1280, he was inspecting the growth of crops with Squadron Leader Davigmin.

Spring ploughing in Western Australia starts in September, and that is a very tiring time.

Fortunately, Zhang sent a large number of Japanese peasants in advance, otherwise relying on those labor prisoners and members of the Liuqiu army to support the peasants, they would not have been able to complete the rice planting work of nearly 10,000 mu of paddy fields!

It's okay for those people to help plant dry fields------ but even more so for the natives, and they can still be used for washing coal and moving bricks.

Nearly 10,000 acres of paddy fields look really spectacular, and the two of them walked carefully on the field stalks, constantly sighing.

Of course, they all knew in their hearts that this paddy field was far from enough compared to the hundreds of thousands of acres of paddy fields on the southern plains of Liuqiu Island------ but this was reclaimed by them when they had nothing!

Every place here is dripping with their sweat!

The rice seedlings in the paddy fields have grown to a foot tall and look like a verdant carpet under the blue sky.

In the distance, Japanese farmers can be seen bending over and pulling weeds in the paddy fields.

Most of the Japanese peasants sent by the owner of Zhang Island have worked on Liuqiu Island, and they have been selected, and all of them are hardworking and willing to work.

It was they who accomplished what seemed impossible, and the rice planting was completed in a matter of days.

Governor Dog Gnawing and Squadron Leader David Weiming have both participated in the farm work of planting rice, which is a kind of work that can break the waist!

The Governor of the Dog Gnawing said, "They only work here for two years? I want them to stay here for the rest of their lives------"

"Hmph, I didn't plan to let them go when they came!"

The Governor of the Dog Gnawing Dog glanced at Squadron Leader Dai Weiming and said, "What? Are you going to tear up the contract, with a gun? ”

"Hehe, I'm not that stupid------ Island Master Zhang won't let me do this, I want them to stay by themselves!"

The Governor of the Dog Gnawing nodded and said, "I was going to do this------"

"After the two-year contract expires, we sell them a family of 30 acres of paddy fields, a buffalo, and a house and homestead according to the standards of the Great Song people. Hey hey------"

"Well, they are also allowed to buy and sell grain freely, and of course they will sell it to us------ hehe!"

The Dog Governor didn't notice that his laughter was becoming more and more like that of Squadron Leader Davigmin.

In the distance, a Japanese farmer was tired from pulling weeds, and he straightened up and looked around------ of course he didn't know that someone was plotting them from a distance.

They rounded a small hill where dry fields were located.

Tens of thousands of acres of dry land look even more expansive!

At present, these dry fields are temporarily cultivated with corn and wheat, sweet potatoes and potatoes, supplemented by peanuts, soybeans, broad beans and a small amount of tobacco.

As they walked, they observed the growth of various crops------ which was really good, and the strudite served as a slow-release fertilizer, allowing them to cultivate for two seasons in a row.

Squadron Leader Dai Weiming sighed:

"Island Master Zhang is really a strange person in the world, he knows everything and can do everything! With these dry fields, wherever we go, we are on our turf!! ”

"The same is true of the king's family and the An's family------ may they always guide us!"

At this time, they saw Guo Shoujing walking along the field path sweating profusely, and he was now organizing the idle Japanese farmers and labor convicts to plant cotton fields, which was the highlight of the year.

Guo Shoujing took off his big straw hat and wiped the sweat fiercely with the handkerchief around his neck, which was already yellow-black.

Guo Shoujing said: "It's been so long, and I haven't seen Zhang Hongfan come back, so he has to go to the edge of the world to recruit labor?!" ”

Governor Dog and Squadron Leader Dai Weiming glanced at each other and said, "Still short of labor?!" ”

"Lacking, how can it not be lacking?! The natives I had drawn were finally able to learn how to dig canals, so I saved the Japanese peasants and laborers from planting cotton fields------ but there was a shortage of masonry workers at the cement factory!

It doesn't work if it affects the cement plant, where cement was not produced earlier, and I can't build a cement canal!

The water seepage of the canal at the bottom of the clay soil is very serious, and it can't be transported far, and there is no way to expand the cotton fields------ waiting for the development of the paddy fields by the river to be completed, how will the cotton fields be arranged? ? ”

Governor Gnawing Dog and Squadron Leader Dai Weiming also had a headache after hearing this, and the damn Zhang Hongfan didn't come back yet!

Squadron Leader Dai Weiming suddenly had a bad thought in his heart, this guy can't be pulling people to run away, right?!

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