Zhan Tianyou did not object to Yang Chao's harsh requirements, they originally hoped to have their own career, and the hot topic of building railways, everyone from farmers to the emperor cared about, which was in line with their wishes. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Therefore, one by one did not have any opinions at all, and signed a contract under Yang Chao's flickering, of course, not everyone signed, but Zhan Tianyou signed it on behalf of Zhan Tianyou, and others, including those who had not yet arrived, wrote a power of attorney to Zhan Tianyou, and the contract was legal.

After signing the contract, they immediately entered the working state, Zhan Tianyou took a few classmates, and immediately set off, carrying the measuring instruments borrowed from the Mining Bureau, and measured them near Yantai.

At this time, it is almost the end of the year, and it is the coldest time of the year, and the sea breeze blowing from the sea is biting.

Using the map given by Yang Chao, they roughly planned a route, which was obviously the closest from Yantai Port to the south through the Laishan Mountains.

"How?"

On a cliff in Laishan, a person is slowly sliding down the rope, carrying a measuring tool on his back, and his face is purple.

"Almost!"

The man took out a piece of paper, which was densely packed with data, precious data that he had obtained from hanging from the cliff for half an hour.

But when Zhan Tianyou heard this, his face immediately turned wrong.

"When we do engineering, we can't say these words, it's as much as it is, and we don't say anything about it."

Zhan Tianyou, who has entered the working state, seems extremely stubborn, as a Cantonese person, he is not tall, but at this time he has quite a momentum.

Then, without leaving any affection for his friend, he took the measuring instrument, climbed up along the rope again, and measured in the cold wind for an hour before coming down.

Although his hands and feet were numb from the cold, Zhan Tianyou took out the data for the first time and compared it with the map.

"Exactly!"

Zhan Tianyou felt incredible.

Although Yang Chao's map looks very accurate, there will always be some errors in the measurement, but I didn't expect Yang Chao's map to be completely consistent with the data he carefully measured, that is, who Yang Chao's map fully meets the construction requirements.

"It seems that Lord Yang's map has also been carefully measured, perhaps by asking foreigners to measure it. It seems that the adults are very determined to build the railway. ”

Huang Zhongliang lamented that after he returned to China, although he occasionally got involved in railway affairs, most of them were superficial, and he generally worked as translators and consultants for officials, and it was foreign engineers who really did it, which made him quite regrettable and useless heroes.

"You can't be careless. We had to measure it ourselves before we could do it. ”

Zhan Tianyou said stubbornly, others are not easy to say, their senior brother has always been very principled, and his character is also strong, especially the national self-esteem is extremely strong, even if it is the data of the best engineer of foreigners, he dares to doubt it, and will definitely find out the fallacy.

"Let's go, let's go somewhere!"

They have formulated an observation position, as long as the observation plan is complete, it will basically cover the area where the railway near Yantai will pass, and they plan to do this work without waiting for others, and it is best to complete it before the year.

Yang Chao was actively cooperating with them, and had already sent people to Tianjin and Shanghai to recruit people, and greeted Sheng Xuanhuai through Zhang Zhidong and Yuan Shikai, allowing him to recruit 30 students from the Beiyang University group in Tianjin and Nanyang Public School in Shanghai.

There is no doubt about the level of education in Peiyang University, all American teaching methods, all homework is taught by foreign teachers, textbooks are taught in foreign languages. All kinds of equipment and facilities used in the students' experiments are imported from the United States. At that time, being called "Oriental Cornell" by foreigners was not only a praise, but a tangible status, but it was recognized by famous American universities, and graduates could enter the United States for graduate studies without examination.

Compared with the initiator of Peiyang University Hall, which was British, Sheng Xuanhuai only participated, Nanyang College was set up by Sheng Xuanhuai, of course, a large number of imitations of Peiyang University Hall, when the Boxer Rebellion was made the year before last, even Peiyang University Hall was all moved to Nanyang College to run schools together. Moreover, Nanyang College has a complete education system from primary school to university, with more students, Yang Chao does not plan to recruit only college students, middle school students can meet the requirements.

Local schools in Yantai are even recruiting aggressively, planning to recruit at least 300 people.

From 1865 to 1866, Guo Xiande, an American missionary who came to Yantai to preach, successively set up a male and female Western-style primary school, which was later merged into one and named Wenhui Academy. Up to now, there are more than 50 schools run by foreigners in Yantai, and the number of Western-educated talents in Yantai is no less than that of Beijing and Tianjin, and in the whole of China, that is, Shanghai is stronger than Yantai, and Guangzhou can only be compared.

It's just that Yantai's university education is relatively backward, although Wenhui Academy is known as a university, but it is not very perfect, and the real perfection is that Yuan Shikai should be Cixi Yizhi Wenhui Academy as the team, Shandong University, but at this time, because of the death of Cixi and Guangxu, Yuan Shikai did not open Shandong University, which can be regarded as an influence.

Although the university is not very famous, the local primary and secondary education in Yantai is still relatively good, so Yang Chao is qualified to recruit 300 students.

The one who went to the north to recruit people was handed over to Wang Qiu, and the one who went to Shanghai was handed over to Pan Xun, and Li Sidi, the nephew of Li Boxuan, who has great local energy in Yantai, went to do it, and I believe that he will not be disappointed by Yang Chao.

Yang Chao himself, then went to the barn of Dongying Village, in fact, the barn is the name of Yang Chao, the local people saw the building at first glance, at this time has given her a name, called the big stone house.

The shape of the large stone house has not changed at all, it is still a rough granite appearance, surrounded by a round cylinder, and a straw hat-shaped black roof on top.

But there has been a huge change in the inside.

The spaceship lying on the roof is not just basking in the sun these days, hundreds of mechanical tentacles with the thickness of arms have been making big holes in the stone wall without stopping, and at this time the stone wall has long been densely covered with mesh, but these nets are not hollow, there is filling inside.

The filling is steel, high-quality steel.

Some tentacles drilled holes, some tentacles spewed hot molten steel, and after solidifying, a layer of steel mesh was formed in the stone wall, making the building almost a reinforced concrete fortress, of course, there were steel bars, and the concrete was replaced by stone.

Not only that, but there is another thing in the underground that outsiders can't see, this building has six meters on the surface and is divided into two floors, but what no one knows is that there is also one floor underground, a large basement of three meters. When it was first built, the source of the stones was the melting of the sediment on the ground, so as many stones were dug out of the ground, a large cavity was formed long ago, and a basement was naturally formed.

This basement is not known to anyone at this time, and Yang Chao does not plan to let people know.

"The harvest is not small, but it is far from enough."

While the main body of the spacecraft was under construction, the robot Lao Jiu was not idle, and he had already salvaged the open sea.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, Dengzhou was a commercial port leading to Korea and Japan, and it was once extremely prosperous, but it was interrupted in the Yuan Dynasty, so there will naturally be a large number of shipwrecks in the sea.

It's a pity that a large number of sunken ships are nothing more than porcelain, silk and the like, very few of them shipped silver, and they emptied the entire Laizhou Bay, but they only got more than 200,000 taels of silver, of course, it is related to the fact that this is an export port, if you follow the route all the way to Japan, you will definitely find more, but Yang Chao has no time at this time.

"There is also a gold mine that can mine 20 tons of gold, about 1 ton in the first year, half in the second year, and about 30% after the third year."

Lao Jiu patiently reported the discoveries of these days.

The discovery of the gold mine made Yang Chao overjoyed, there is a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, and it is not surprising that there is a gold mine on the seabed near Zhaoyuan.

It's a pity that this spacecraft is a research ship, although it is fully functional, and the repair capacity reaches the atomic level, but the mining capacity is not strong, and the mining capacity is calculated according to the taste of mineral products.

In fact, most of the gold mines on the earth are at the bottom of the sea, and later scientists calculated that the gold content of space meteorites that fall into the ocean alone is more than 3,500 tons every year. Not only that, but 55 million tonnes of gold alone are dissolved in seawater. Heilongjiang alone rushes more than 8 tons of gold into the sea every year.

The spacecraft has the ability to refine the gold dissolved in the seawater, but unfortunately the speed is too slow, and there are not many kilograms a year by refining the seawater alone, so it still has to rely on gold mines, and the dissolved gold in the seawater can only be a pity.

"Let's dig first. One ton of gold a year is only 30,000 taels, and one tael of gold has risen to more than 30 taels of silver, and the total is only one million taels of silver. It would cost 30 million taels to build the railway, and at this rate, it would not be enough at all. ”

Yang Chao calculated silently and couldn't help frowning.

"Since there are gold mines overseas, what about Japan overseas, what about Australia overseas, and South Africa overseas? If you have time to explore, if you can find a richer gold mine, you may not have to worry. ”

Thinking of this, Yang Chao suddenly had an idea, but Australia and South Africa were too far away, and he couldn't let the spaceship be too far away.

"Let's go to Japan first!"

Yang Chao decided.

A few days later, a strong wind blew all night, and early the next morning, a group of palace maids and soldiers of Huayong Company in the big stone house found that the roof of the big stone house had been blown away last night.

What they didn't know was that the spacecraft had already set sail and set off for the waters of Japan, and soon the good news really came back that a very large gold-silver associated mine with reserves of up to 10,000 tons could guarantee the production of ten tons of gold and one hundred tons of silver per year for the first ten years.

"Pick, light him. There is no light now, and it will not be Japanese in the future. ”

Yang Chao shouted happily, not only because he had discovered a gold mine, but also because it was a gold mine in the waters of Japan.

It's a pity that it is limited to the mining capacity of the spaceship, and the maximum annual output is only this point.