Although the expansion has not yet been completed, just improving production management and increasing manpower to a limited extent has greatly increased the output of Zhaoyuan and Pingdu's gold mines, producing more than 5,000 taels of gold in September alone, far exceeding previous expectations, and Li Hui has a further understanding of the speaking style of the biochemical soldiers.

Unless it's a task that requires it, these guys never say big things, they say they can do it, and they often do it better, and what they say they can't do, many times it's not absolutely impossible to do.

Since most of the wages are paid for daily necessities such as rice, flour, salt and cloth, and the low cost of the system, this cost is almost negligible, and the gold produced is equivalent to net earnings.

At the current gold and silver ratio of nearly 1:30 in the world, more than 5,000 taels of gold is enough to exchange for more than 150,000 taels of silver, even with Li Hui's current vision, it cannot be said to be a small amount of money. But this is nothing compared to Li Hui's recent new financial resources

As early as when he first realized the system's dependence on precious metals, Li Hui immediately remembered the most famous gold rushes in history, although compared to the total gold reserves, those gold mines may not be larger than the "Laizhou-Zhaoyuan Gold Belt" of more than 4,000 tons, but they can form a gold rush tide, which shows that the difficulty of mining these gold mines is extremely low, and this advantage is very great.

In particular, the Yukon Gold Rush and the Alaska Gold Rush, which are very close in terms of geography and time, have historically mined more than 500 tons of gold by gold prospectors in just a few years with extremely rudimentary tools, which is difficult to match in the Shandong gold mines, which require large investment to produce large outputs.

Therefore, not long after making the first deal with Beiyang and having start-up capital, Li Hui sent several biochemical technicians (in order to save money, they are only level 1 soldiers, but they all point to mining and metallurgical specialization, and their ability to find ore is no worse than that of level 5 technicians. Head to the Yukon River Basin to find gold, which was discovered earlier than Alaska, so it's easier to find because it's more clearly located, and it's easy to find it, plus the gold mines in Alaska aren't far away.

After a year of exploration, the situation of the gold mines in the Yukon Valley has basically been figured out, and after the victory of the Battle of Dadonggou, the threat of the Japanese Navy to shipping in the Yellow Sea has finally been temporarily lifted.

If there is no competition, they will always concentrate on mining, and gold mining does not need to be too professional anyway, let alone the guidance of technicians; And if the news leaks and triggers a gold rush, then they will simply eat black and rob those gold diggers of their harvest.

In the harsh environment of the Arctic tundra, large troops and heavy weapons cannot be used, and the superb shooting technology of the biochemical soldiers and the excellent long-range accuracy of the Jiawu rifle can play a huge advantage far beyond imagination, not to mention the gold diggers, even if the United States and the British government send regular troops over, do not want to exterminate these hundreds of people without casualties of tens of thousands.

What's more, the optimization of various weapons did not ignore their adaptability to extreme environments, and Li Hui also let them bring special clothing that is conducive to concealment in the local environment, which has an even greater advantage.

Of course, Li Hui also knew that if the time dragged on too long, when the Western powers also developed pointed bullets and officially installed them in the troops, the good days of these biochemical soldiers would come to an end.

However, a few years is enough for them to get two or three hundred tons of gold, or even more, such a huge sum of money is enough for Li Hui to unify the whole of China, even if none of these hundreds of people can come back, it is worth it.

To put it bluntly, Li Hui still didn't treat the biochemical soldiers as real people with flesh and blood, and he would feel distressed when he died just because the recruitment price was too expensive, but if he could exchange it for hundreds of tons of gold, let alone kill hundreds of biochemical soldiers, even if it was thousands, he would not hesitate at all

Venture capital firms left (and dozens remained, some as permanent representatives, while others went to various parts of the country to gather intelligence.) Hundreds of people were sent out, and the more than 1,000 newly recruited biochemical soldiers were all used in the newly expanded troops, and for a while, Li Hui's side began to be short of people.

Fortunately, it has been a few months since the construction of the road and mine began, and Li Hui has more or less found some young people who are worthy of training and promoted them to become grassroots cadres, which can not only let the soldiers and workers see the hope of progress, but also cultivate talents, and can also greatly alleviate the problem of insufficient cadres around Li Hui.

And after the system treasury becomes full again, the problem of insufficient cadres is even less worth mentioning

After the Battle of Dadonggou, Li Hui never left his own territory, let alone go to Tianjin to meet Li Hongzhang, and even the Weihaiwei base, he no longer set foot in it, with Li Hongzhang's shrewdness, it is not difficult to notice this abnormal phenomenon.

Including Hannagan, a German, the Western powers sent people to understand the reason for the great power of the blasting bombs used by the Beiyang Naval Division, which made Li Hongzhang realize that Li Hui's explanation before the war was probably purely fabricated.

However, after the victory of Dadonggou, Li Hongzhang not only did not breathe a sigh of relief, but more worrying problems followed. In this case, Li Hongzhang can't spare his hands to solve Li Hui's hidden danger at all, and as for the venture capital company, Li Hongzhang is asking for them, so he doesn't dare to tear his face easily

The disastrous defeat of the Japanese Combined Fleet in the Battle of Daedonggou put the Japanese Army units that had invaded Korea in an extremely dangerous situation, but they still launched the Pyongyang Campaign as they did in history.

After learning of this, although the Japanese army base camp was generally not optimistic about the outcome of the Pyongyang Campaign, it still did not stop the unauthorized actions of the Japanese troops entering Korea.

Besides, even if the Pyongyang battle is lost again, it is not a bad thing, on the one hand, it will be more reasonable and deceptive to sue for peace after two consecutive heavy defeats; On the other hand, when sea transportation is no longer safe, the Japanese army entering Korea can reduce the consumption of materials by killing more people, thereby reducing the pressure on logistics supply

For high-level decision-makers, it is very irresponsible to expect a miracle to happen, so the main reason for the acquiescence of the Japanese army base camp is the latter, but Li Hui, the enemy, sighed secretly after learning that the Battle of Pyongyang broke out as scheduled, and was very optimistic about the performance of the Qing army.

But what Li Hui didn't expect was that the Battle of Pyongyang in this time and space was actually won