The take-off of Luzon is inseparable from the big cháo of gold panning.

Due to the arrival of a large number of gold diggers, Luzon feared a rapid increase in population, and the supply of daily necessities such as clothing, food, and housing was suddenly tight. Especially in the first year, the demand for consumer goods rose sharply, and in just a few months, the prices of the most basic rice, flour, oil, salt, and spirits and cigarettes that gold diggers could not leave for a while, rose by 20 times.

This has led to a change of heart among many farmers who would have planned to abandon their estates and join the gold digger industry.

Because the grain in their warehouses was snapped up, even the crops that were still green in the fields were ordered at ten times the original price. And as long as the gold rush does not subside, the income will always be stable and abundant. In this way, no one is willing to invest their own infinite effort in the estate.

Prior to this, although Nanyang Company had spent a lot of money to build thousands of plantations and had already entered the harvest period, its isolated geographical location abroad made it produce crops that were not sold well............... Although the plantation economy is also dependent on the land for food, it is completely different from the small-scale peasant economy, which does not rely on the market and aims to be self-sufficient, and its production is aimed at making a profit by selling agricultural products. Its large-scale, monolithic cultivation will only produce far more than is needed, or even not needed, a large number of agricultural products, which must be digested by the market. Although Nanyang Company did its best to open up the market for it, the high transportation costs discouraged merchants in Europe and even the local Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, so the backlog was very serious.

However, in order to protect the positive interests of the manor owners, Nanyang still spent a huge amount of money to buy, but fortunately, its parent company Huilian reached out and was willing to provide long-term interest-free loans. Of course, the Synergy was not the same thing as the Nanyang Company, which had to be accountable to its depositors, and in exchange they had acquired a monopoly on the financial sector in Luzon from the Nanyang Company.

When the gold rush broke out in Luzon, people realized that Nanyang Company was playing a big game of chess, and the reason why they did not plant mulberry orchards and cotton fields, which were scarce on the mainland, but blindly planted rice, sugar cane, and tobacco was to prepare for today's sudden surge in demand.

Now that all the inventory has been replaced by the gold diggers' golden sands, Nanyang has made another big profit.

But making money is not the purpose of the Nanyang Company, otherwise they would have sealed the gold mountain and dug it themselves, which would definitely make more money than now, and everything they did was for one goal, that is, to turn Luzon into a real territory. Just as they fully supported the people's cultivation, they also gave support to the gold diggers at any cost.

When there are more and more gold diggers, outpacing local supply capacity, and then there is a shortage of supplies. The Nanyang Company also tried every means to transfer and coordinate supplies, and even stopped all maritime business, ordering a huge fleet to import a large number of daily necessities from China, from Indochina, and from India, so as to ensure that the gold diggers would not starve to death with their gold on their sleeves.

The noodle gold diggers also gave Nanyang a handsome return, not only handing over 30% of their income, but also buying all kinds of consumer goods boldly.

Of course, it was not only the Nanyang Company that benefited, but also the maritime merchants, who realized that there would be unlimited business opportunities, also searched for 100% of the goods and shipped them to Luzon, sold them to local merchants, who then transported them to the towns where the mines were located.

Not only the sales industry, but also the service industry has also poured in. Because of the shortage of labor, those who could not pan for gold directly became the main force of the service industry, and they did laundry and cooking for the gold diggers, and opened tavern theaters...... and the most indispensable casino green building for gold diggers. Those gold diggers would even take all the jīng that they had collected and then return to the mines to pan for gold. In this way, the income of the gold diggers was quietly transferred to the merchants in the sky-high service.

In those years, there was no unprofitable business if you only married someone who could rely on the gold diggers, which made the price of land in the town skyrocket, and the original land that only cost 30 gold yuan rose to 8,000 gold yuan, and there was no market for it...... A gold dollar is not a gold coin made of gold, but a bill of exchange issued and accepted by Huilian.

As mentioned earlier, all the gold diggers deposited the golden sand into the Huilian number, and then got a deposit certificate that had to be withdrawn by themselves. But the gold diggers still need huā money, and it would be too much trouble to extract gold from the Huilian. And the Connecting told them that the metal wears out, so it's better to use our golden ticket. The golden ticket is different from the certificate of deposit, it can be used as money in any Huilian number, and it can be used as money without recognizing the person.

Gold diggers are no strangers to this concept, because the rich people in the country have been using silver tickets for many years. The reason why it is not called a silver ticket but a gold ticket in Luzon is that on the one hand, it sounds more magnificent, and on the other hand, it is also because no one in Luzon asks for silver.

In addition to paper money, in order to meet the daily consumption and vanity of gold diggers, Huilian also minted gold coins called gold dollars, each gold dollar contained one gold penny. In order to prevent someone from deliberately cutting and wearing, each gold dollar has a jīng beautiful pattern and huā pattern, and it was very popular with gold diggers as soon as it was introduced. But after all, a gold dollar was still too valuable, and Huilian soon introduced auxiliary currency units, silver horns and copper cents. One gold dollar is equal to ten silver horns, equal to one thousand copper cents, establishing a complete monetary system and quietly completing the experiment of the silent jiāo generation.

Nowadays, it is rare to hear in Luzon the saying that a few taels of gold, silver, and a few copper plates are replaced by how many dollars, how many jiao, and how many cents. Although they don't know what this change means, people have fully adapted to it and enjoy the convenience it brings.

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Before the sixth year of Wanli, the gold mining in Luzon was mainly shallow gold mining. Spontaneous by gold diggers, mining can be carried out using rudimentary machinery, or even just a basin. Although the amount of this surface sand, which is similar to that of white picking, is huge, it cannot resist the frenzied collection of hundreds of thousands of gold diggers, and in less than eight years, the production began to decline. The most intuitive feeling is naturally those gold miners, who were the least poor in the past. Nearly a pound of gold can be mined in a month, but since the fifth year of Wanli, the minimum number has been constantly refreshed, and in the end, it is purely handmade, and even one or two per month cannot be guaranteed.

Many thought that this was the end of the gold mining carnival and began to look for another way. To the surprise of those who assert that the gold rush will be over once the gold rush is over, more than ninety percent of the gold diggers returned to Luzon with their families after returning home, where they bought land and dwellings, intending to live for a long time.

It's no surprise that eight years is enough time for gold prospectors to understand what Luzon is like.

They knew and believed that there was sacrosanctity in the sī property here, and the government would not forcibly expropriate the property they had exchanged for their lives.

They knew and believed that everything here had to be done by law, because for eight years the two great powers here, the Nanyang Company and the Governor's Office of Luzon, had always strictly followed the laws and regulations that were enacted. If you don't break the law, you hardly feel the presence of power.

They knew and believed that they could live a prosperous and comfortable life here with a fertile land that they could never have imagined in the country, and that after all these years of construction, Luzon's towns and cities had matured, with all kinds of department stores, and that they enjoyed it no worse than at home. And don't look like the mountain roads are rugged, but taking a passenger boat from the town's port can get you anywhere you want to go safely and quickly.

Freedom, security and abundance are as indispensable as air for those who are accustomed to them.

Of course, it is needless to say that the most hopeful thing about Luzon is the bright future of the mining industry, and everyone knows that shallow golden sands can only be regarded as the golden mine, the real treasure, in the veins buried deep underground. It's just that deep development requires more equipment and more sophisticated technology, which is beyond the power of individual gold diggers or groups.

At this time, Nanyang Company came forward to establish the Luzon Mining Group, and set up separate companies in each mining area to purchase equipment, fire and machinery with strong capital, and organize strong manpower and material resources to carry out deep excavation. Of course, Nanyang was not alone, they sold shares to miners, and Jī expressed their enthusiasm for their work.

As deep excavations unfolded, Luzon's gold production soon returned to its peak and doubled. In addition, a large amount of precious metals such as silver and copper have been discovered, and the mining industry has become the leading industry in Luzon, and in terms of the speed of development and the value created, it is difficult for any production department to match or match the industry driven by the gold mining boom.

Although it has not been for a long time, the powerful magic of the mining industry has already been revealed. It led to the rapid growth of social wealth, which not only changed the social outlook of Luzon, but also accumulated and provided funds for the development of other industries, such as wood processing, machinery manufacturing, metallurgical casting, and so on. There is also the jiāo transport industry, a network of jiāo connections to the whole island has been formed, and roads have been carved out even in the mountainous areas, although not as comfortable.

At the same time, this labor-intensive and long-term sustainable industry provides a stable market for the sustainable development of agriculture and animal husbandry. Luzon cultivated five times as much arable land as it did in the fifth year of Longqing, making the island's food supply more than sufficient from a shortage of food, and if it were not consumed by so many people, the blow to the plantations would be fatal.

Therefore, it is impossible to overstate the significance of the mining industry to Luzon. However, Shen Mo came to the mining area this time, not to see the mining... He couldn't see anything in this kind of black dòngdòng mine, so he might as well go through the books of the mining company. Nor is it to get acquainted with the hard work of the miners ... These guys, whose income is twenty times higher than that of their domestic counterparts, should be a little tired.

His purpose was to see what haunted him......

One by one, one

The important land in the mining area is guarded by security forces, which is why Shen Mo wants to come with Zheng Ruozeng. Otherwise, it would be too tragicomedy to break in with the guards and catch fire.

It was different with Zheng Ruozeng, I heard that the president was here in person, and the head of the mine hurriedly greeted him. Shen Mo and Shen Jingjing didn't want to do much, and Zheng Ruozeng only vaguely introduced that these two were shareholders of the company. When the manager heard this, he was naturally terrified. I took them to the office of the mine to rest, it was still early and I couldn't eat, but tea, snacks and fruits were set on the table.

Zheng Ruo didn't smile in front of his subordinates, but in front of Shen Mo, it was not easy to put that on the face, so he had to try his best to say to Yan Yue: "Don't be busy, the two owners came this time mainly to see the situation in the mine." He smiled a little awkwardly: "They're very interested in that big guy." ”

The good manager was flattered and said: "When the two owners and the president come to rest, I will take you to have a look." ”

"I'm rested." After a few months of traveling, Silent Skin's skin has darkened, and he has lost a lot of weight, but his qi is obviously much better, and he looks much younger than when he was the first assistant.

"I'm not tired." Shen Jing has long been trained as an iron man, otherwise how could Luzon have a few years? He also stood up and said, "Let's go out and take a walk." ”

"You really don't understand the old man." Zheng Ruozeng is more than sixty people, how can he compare with two guys who are less than fifty, and slowly stood up with a wry smile.

The group walked through the fence and came to the mine. Of course, the environment in the mine is by no means pleasant. The main part is a huge pit in the shape of a deep bucket, and the mountain has not been dug up, and there is almost no vegetation visible, and it looks even more ugly against the background of the surrounding mountains surrounded by thick greenery. The pit is like a terrace, but it is actually spiral-shaped, and the miners are in those "terraces, up, with * heads." Ding Dangdang digs, and then uses the cable car to lift the excavated earth and rock. The ore is sorted out by the workers above, and then the earth and stone are transported away.

Shen Mo is most satisfied with the world, is the undamaged ecological environment, but now he sees that because of his own leadership, he has destroyed the beautiful mountains and rivers here, and his mood is naturally not good, but he also knows that if human beings want to develop, they must first destroy the environment, and it is inevitable to destroy first and then govern. Of course, he had come here with all the difficulty, not to see the bare pit, but to see the culprit who had caused the trees to grow for miles away.