It has been two years since Zhu Youxiao established the Golden Army. After the beginning of the spring of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the gold army once again explored a lot of gold mines in the Heilongjiang River Basin, and found that the further north it went, the richer the gold resources became after entering the Siberian region.

Last year, the gold army had mined nearly 100,000 taels of gold in the Heilongjiang River Valley, and in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, with the northward shift of the mining area, 150,000 taels of gold were mined in just half a year, and it was very easy to mine 300,000 taels of gold throughout the year.

The main reason why there is so much gold here is that there are no ethnic groups who have mastered the gold mining technology, and they do not know how to mine the gold below the surface after the surface gold is mined.

In fact, this is true all over the world, as well as in the Americas, Australia, and many islands in the South Seas.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, a gold army landed in Alaska, which later became the Americas, and successfully discovered gold in Alaska.

At the same time, in Nanyang, Taiwan, Luzon, Borneo and other places, the gold troops established by Zhu Youxiao discovered gold mines and mined them. The Gold Force's prospecting in Luzon also unearthed a number of copper deposits, which were located in the mountainous areas of the northern island of Luzon, as well as southern Luzon.

Luzon is very rich in copper mines, and copper is more scarce than gold in Daming. There is no big problem for Daming to have gold for the time being, but the demand for copper is too great. Not only does it take a lot of copper to mint copper coins, but there is also a huge demand for copper from the people. Copper can be used to make copperware, which is very popular in the market, both internally and for export.

Not to mention that copper is also used in the military, and Zhu Youxiao has already begun to let people study the telegraph. After this thing was researched. Copper was also needed to lay telegraph wires.

Luzon is indeed rich in copper mines. There is a ranking in the world.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the gold army also carried out gold exploration in Australia, found a lot of dog's head gold in Australia, and successfully discovered gold in the southeast of Australia, and immediately reported to the imperial court for mining.

In the Ming Dynasty, the scale of exploration of gold mines is not large, but the gold mines and silver mines that have been discovered are within the mining scope of the gold army, and the labor force for mining is very sufficient. Because now the Ming Dynasty has begun to implement the compulsory military system.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, eight agricultural production corps, three construction corps, and one mining production corps were formed, which were specifically responsible for mining silver and gold mines.

These agricultural production corps were sent to the frontier areas for agricultural production, as well as military training and night schooling, with a four-year service. After the completion of the compulsory military service, after four years of cultural education, they will be able to have a certain level of education, and the teaching materials of the night school are mainly based on national policies and laws. and history textbooks that can stimulate a sense of national honor.

In this way, they can understand the benefits of national policies to the people and understand basic legal knowledge. And has a sense of national honor.

Some of them will be promoted to grass-roots officers, some will be transferred to the University of Political Science and Law for further study, and some will be sent to some agricultural and construction universities for further study.

This gives those conscripts from ordinary families a chance to get ahead.

Ordinary conscripts can also learn things in the agricultural and mining production corps and the construction corps, and the best production facilities and technologies are used in the agricultural and mining production processes, and the soldiers of the construction corps can also learn how to carry out construction operations.

As far as agriculture is concerned, these agricultural production corps use the most advanced agricultural machinery, and any new agricultural equipment in the machinery manufacturing plants is first promoted in the production corps, and there is sufficient animal power for them to use. After four years of service, I can also understand the latest agricultural production technology under the influence of hearing and hands-on operation. Moreover, the production model of the Agricultural Production Corps is not precision agriculture, but agriculture that pursues the maximization of individual labor efficiency. These soldiers were well suited to immigrate to the colonies because they knew how to produce agriculture as efficiently as possible. At the same time, the production corps also planted more crops, such as grain, cotton, vegetables, and fruits, and raised some livestock, so as to improve food.

The formation of these production corps is very cost-effective for the imperial court, as it can allow the children of ordinary families to be tempered and studied in the army, and have a positive effect on society. Second, it can allow the imperial court to continuously discover outstanding talents, and for these outstanding talents, they can be promoted to basic officers, or they can be sent to various fields for further study. You can go to the police, or you can be absorbed into state-owned enterprises.

The third point is that the cost of forming these production corps is low, for example, the agricultural production corps, the agricultural products obtained by the labor of these conscripts every year can not only feed these conscripts, but also produce a large number of commercial agricultural products, which can be sold or hoarded as strategic reserves, and their value has exceeded the military expenditure invested in these production corps.

Fourth, during the war, these production corps can be put into combat, and with the popularization of firearms, the soldiers of these production corps can also fight on the battlefield.

Those construction corps are responsible for the construction of highways, water conservancy facilities, and other projects, and the high efficiency of militarized management is vividly reflected in the construction activities.

The conscripts worked for the imperial court for four years for free, and naturally they were treated better when they were discharged. First of all, state-owned enterprises have a large number of positions to take the lead in considering these conscripts, and at the same time, if these conscripts immigrate to the development areas, they can also get land and interest-free loans.

Even if you become an ordinary worker after retiring, you can move your household registration at will.

Because these conscripts can eat their stomachs, they have attracted many young people from many areas to sign up. Military service has greatly broadened the horizons of ordinary children from poor areas, and also provided them with many outlets, and there are many options to consider after retiring from the army.

If you're willing to endure hardship, the Golden Force is a great place to go.

The Gold Force is not only responsible for gold exploration, but also for silver and copper mines, as well as for exploration, mapping, and recording various natural resources.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, three production corps were sent to Nanyang to open up wasteland, and they were also an important force in suppressing the natives.

After discussing with Sun Chuanting and others, Zhu Youxiao decided to set up 10 more production corps next year, sending seven to the islands of the South Seas and three to Australia.

The model of the Production Corps definitely works, and those Production Corps (Harmony) are likely to stay there after they are sent to the South Seas and Australia.

In the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, it will inevitably encounter many indigenous forces, and if all of them are directly faced by the common people, it is likely to be bullied by the natives.

But send a group of young people under militarized management over, as long as those natives dare to jump, Daming can immediately teach those natives a lesson. (To be continued.) )