The land of the desert. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 At the beginning, Li Jiancheng proposed to borrow money from the world's businessmen in the form of state bonds, as a supporter of Li Jiancheng before he ascended the throne, Lu Shengzhi bet his life and the net worth of the entire family on Li Jiancheng's body, and lent Li Jiancheng a large sum of money, but if this money does not meet the expectations of the elders in the family, and may not even get the principal of the investment, then not only is he dangerous, but Li Jiancheng is such an emperor, There will be unforeseen dangers! As a result, Lu Shengzhi has also been searching everywhere in Mo Nan during this time, and there are not a few businessmen like Lu Shengzhi, especially the other three merchants who are known as the four major merchants in the world and other businessmen here who supported Li Jiancheng with Lu Shengyi. There is no way, everyone has to try their best to scrape and find. However, because of the looting of the major merchants on the grassland, the resistance of the grassland people was aroused, and many small merchants died in the vendetta of the tribe and could never return to their hometowns, and even some of the attached tribes also caused rebellions, so that Li Jing and Li Ji therefore strictly ordered the major merchants not to easily cause conflicts, so Lu Shengzhi and others had to change their strategies and exchange food for those small tribes and small clans that had been attached to Li Tang. However, most of the tribal clans lost a large number of strong men and livestock because of the failure of the western expedition with Ashina Dupi Khan, and followed the Khitan tribal alliance back here, many of the tribes were coerced and killed, if it were not for the big chief of the tribe who defected at a critical moment, I am afraid that many tribal clans would be completely disappeared. For these reasons, Lu Shengzhi and other merchant families desperately raised the price of grain, for example, one stone of grain can be exchanged for a high-quality tiger skin, or three high-quality wolf skins, and as for the sheepskin, it can be exchanged for a stone of grain for dozens of chapters, as for whether it is new grain or old grain, it depends on the conscience of the seller. However, even so, Lu Shengzhi and the other three big merchants did not get much gain, in order to find more benefits, Lu Shengzhi and the other merchant families decided to change their strategy again, and led their guards to the original location of the Khan Court of the Turks in the eastern part of Mobei, and went there to see if they could find something that could be exchanged for money. After arriving there, Lu Shengzhi discussed his sphere of influence with the Zhang family in Jiangnan, the Qilu Heng family, and the Gong family in Changsha. Lu Shengzhi came to his sphere of influence with his subordinate guards. Formerly a camp of Turkic nobles.

"Search me now! Don't miss any place, be sure to find something valuable. ”

"Yes!" Lu Shengzhi's guards were like a big cleaning, looking for tents by tent. However, they were disappointed that valuable furs were not found, only ornaments that could not be taken with them—ornaments carved from the bones of dead men and carved out of green stone.

"Hmmm! Really, don't these Turkic barbarians know how to decorate with gold and silver? What use do I want these dead man's bones and green stones! Lu Shengzhi picked up a green stone and was ready to throw it out angrily.

"Wait!"

"Hmmm! Lupin, what's wrong? The guard slave named Lu Ping looked at the stone in Lu Sheng's hand.

"The head of the house! Please give this stone a look to the little ones! Lu Shengzhi handed him the stone angrily. The guard slave named Lu Ping took a closer look at the stone and immediately showed an excited expression.

"Congratulations, master! Congratulations, O Master of the Family! ”

"Lupin! Where does the joy come from!? ”

"The head of the house! This is a treasure! This stone is called malachite, which is actually a change of copper, and copper ore is generally found everywhere this malachite. ”

"What, is this true? Lupin, can you be sure? ”

"The head of the house! Please believe that the villain, the villain's father and ancestors were all miners, familiar with this stone. Since this camp is capable of producing so many stones, there must be copper mines in this place! ”

"Copper Mine!" Lu Sheng listened, immediately rejoiced, in China, copper is basically synonymous with money, since the Han Dynasty, China has been suffering from the lack of copper, in order to solve the money shortage, the rulers of the court racked their brains, promulgated laws, prohibiting the people from melting money as instruments, prohibiting the outflow of copper money, casting when five, when ten, or even when a hundred big money, this situation, in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the former Sui period felt deeply, the rapid development of the economy needs more copper money to turnover, no copper money, can only use silk, silk, cloth, etc. instead of coins to circulate, To a certain extent, it has also been welcomed by the people, but these things are easy to damage and are not easy to divide, so they are not as good as coins after all. Therefore, the extermination of Buddhism during the period of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty has this significance, and Li Jiancheng also took this kind of action in order to solve the financial crisis, copper mine means copper money, and copper money can help Li Jiancheng solve the current crisis, and help Li Jiancheng solve the current crisis, which is equivalent to solving his own crisis.

"Good! Pick up shovels and shovels at once! Dig for me! Be sure to know if there really is a copper mine! Let me know as soon as you're sure. ”

"Yes!" Lu Shengzhi's guards immediately picked up their tools and dug up within a radius of several miles. This digging is terrible, Lu Shengzhi's guards can not dig a meter or two deep, someone dug up a hard stone, knock down the stone to see, these stones are green color, after Lu Ping's guard slave confirmed, the stone not only contains copper, but also contains a large amount of copper. At this time, all the guards and slaves dug frantically, and found that this piece of copper ore is extremely widely distributed, at least within a radius of tens of miles, if the stones within a radius of dozens of miles contain copper, then how much copper will there be here? Lu Shengzhi can be sure that this is a large copper mine, and it is very easy to mine, if it can be developed, I am afraid that the output of all the copper mines in China combined is larger.

"Good! It's great that now our crisis is over. Immediately write a letter and send it to the Left-behind Mansion in Mayi, so that the people who stay in the Left-behind Mansion can quickly report to the Holy Saint and obtain the mining rights in this area! Immediately afterwards, the other three families also discovered this situation, and immediately sent people to the Mayi Left-behind Mansion, so that the people who stayed in the Left-behind Mansion could quickly report to Li Jiancheng and tell the good news.

Chang'an Taiji Palace, Li Jiancheng is having a headache for the current crisis. In the first war to destroy the Eastern Turks, now the imperial court has fallen into an embarrassing situation after the elimination of the Eastern Turks - now the imperial court has obtained some slaves and cattle and sheep, which is equivalent to making a wedding dress for the Western Turkic Khanate and the Xueyanta Khanate, and those slaves have no market for consumption for the time being, a large number of people have to eat, and the grain alone is a large amount of consumption, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in the land of Monan alone, and the cost of investment is quite large, but the benefits are very small, although this territory is large, it is only due to climate, fresh water, soil quality and other reasons, There is not much land suitable for farming, and it can only be used for nomadic herding, while the Han people in the Central Plains generally focus on agriculture and do not immigrate, if they rely on the army alone, how many soldiers and horses are needed to hold it, and how much does the court need to invest every year? However, this simple investment is not destined to last, and if it is abandoned, this land will soon become the territory of the Western Turks, and within twenty years, the Western Turks will become as powerful as they were when the Turkic Empire was not divided. Even if the Western Turks don't rob it, what about Xue Yantuo? But if the troops are withdrawn from the land of Monan. This war is futile. The imperial court will face a crisis similar to that of the pre-Sui period.

"Hmmm! Annoying! At this time, Mingyu's father-in-law quietly came to Li Jiancheng's side again. Didn't speak for a long time. Of course I didn't dare to speak, first, Mingyu reported to Li Jiancheng about Ashina Yunge Zhaorong's pregnancy, and was scolded by Li Jiancheng, so now you naturally have to be careful.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"Your Majesty! This is the recital of the Mo Nan Left-behind Mansion, which was conveyed by the Lu family of Dai Ma Yi, the Zhang family of Jiangnan, the Gong family of Changsha and the Qilu Heng family. ”

"Oh! Show it to me! When Li Jiancheng opened the book, he jumped up happily.

"Good! It's just great! "According to the above report, the four major merchants conducted a more detailed exploration of the entire copper mine, and found that the copper ore contained as much as 30% copper, that is, as much as 30% copper. The Central Plains was not without copper mines, and the copper reserves announced by China in later generations were about 80 million tons, and as long as one percent of them could be mined, the court would at least not suffer from a lack of money.

It's just that China's copper ore is scattered, the content is low, it is difficult to mine, the copper ore in nature, the highest rich ore content can reach 99%, and it is generally on the surface, purple-red, so it is also called red copper. Soft and malleable, it can be processed into tools and daily necessities with a little beating. And in China, such copper ore is very rare, has long been found by the ancestors to make weapons, now most of the copper ore is buried deep underground, according to the exploration of later generations, China's grade of more than 1% of the copper ore only accounts for 35.9% of the reserves, on average, the country's copper ore grade is only 0.87%, the difficulty of mining can be imagined. The copper ore found today is more than 30 times that of the domestic copper mine, and only one or two meters of soil can be mined by digging up the surface layer of soil, although I don't know how large the reserves of the entire copper mountain are, but it is only a preliminary estimate, and the scope of the entire copper mountain occupies hundreds of miles in a local circle. With this copper mountain, the court not only can no longer suffer from the lack of copper, but also gives the Tang Dynasty a reason to include the grassland into its own territory, as long as this copper mountain is not dug up, even if the Central Plains changes the dynasty, it will always occupy the copper mountain as its own property. With the current level of mining, it is possible for this mine to be open for decades and hundreds of years, and even if the mine is dug up, this land has already been firmly occupied by the Han people.

"Good, good, good." After reading this book, Li Jiancheng laughed, and sure enough, he was drowsy and sent a pillow, and he secretly wondered in his heart, could it be that he had a good character, and God gave him a windfall when he just felt the shortage of copper coins in China.