The next day, under the auspices of Zhang Cai, a mausoleum was built three miles outside the town, just like the mausoleum in Chang'an City, which was specially buried for the martyrs of national merit.

Of course, construction hasn't started yet, but there are already a few tombstones left before the construction begins. Among these tombstones, six of them are compatriots killed by Australian cannibals, and the rest are heroes who took the first step in the process of migration.

Zhang Cai personally read the eulogy, and led everyone to bow deeply three times to these compatriots who were far away from everyone.

After all, during the Qingming Festival next year, Zhang Hongbin will take the members of the royal family and all the members of the National Assembly to the heroic cemetery outside Chang'an City, sweep the tombs of all heroes and martyrs, and pay respects.

Perhaps, it is precisely because of the perfect pension system and maintenance system, and at the same time being able to enjoy the annual worship of members of the royal family and members of the National Assembly after death, so the soldiers of the republic always fight to the last drop of blood. In the words of many fighters, that is: this life is worth it!

Zhang Cai inherited Zhang Hongbin's ideas and also inherited his means of buying people's hearts. I also feel that my father's method is effective, so he will inherit it.

After the worship, sure enough, the feelings of the immigrants calmed down a lot, and even the families of the deceased began to stand up in grief.

Seeing that the effect was good, Zhang Cai naturally issued an order, and every Qingming from now on, he would lead a cadre of civil and military ministers to come here to worship. After earning enough hearts and minds of the last people, Zhang Cai, under the leadership of Zhang Gu, counted the spoils of war this time.

Two tons of gold, made into various handicrafts by relatively crude means. But this also shows one thing, and that is that this gold is very likely to be a natural gold mine, that is, open-pit doghead gold. Only in this way can it be so lightly stripped out of the ore and used to make handicrafts.

Two tons of gold, piled up together, how spectacular, seeing this gold, even Zhang Cai couldn't help but swallow his saliva. He was young, but he knew what gold meant. It's just that he also understands that at this stage, this gold is actually of little use to him.

But it's still necessary to stock up on some in advance.

"Immediately send out scout cavalry to explore the surroundings from the indigenous tribes, I want to know the exact location of the gold mine!" Zhang Cai instructed Zhang Gu.

"Yes!" Zhang Cai doesn't say this, Zhang Gu actually has to do it.

After all, they also need to use this gold to contact the fleet through guò in exchange for all kinds of supplies needed by the stronghold. It is true that Zhang Cai is Zhang Hongbin's son, but young birds always have to learn to fly, and Zhang Hongbin's release of Zhang Cai will always have a limit. This limit should be the scale it is today. It is certain that from now on Zhang Cai wanted to obtain any material, and he could only obtain it through guò and local trade.

Therefore, if you can prepare gold and silver, you should prepare more, after all, it is not easy for the fleet to come from the mainland once.

Hastily returned to his residence, which was the only concrete and steel building in the entire town, and it was also designed as a large mansion. After all, this is the prince's palace, and if he is crowned king in the future, this is the palace. From the point of view of the Chinese people, today's palace is already very shabby.

It's just that Zhang Cai has no concept of enjoyment for the time being, or he is not a man now, so he has no need to deal with desires. Gold and silver treasures are of little use on this continent, and naturally there is no greed. His few hobbies now are to enjoy food, but he has a strong self-discipline, but love will not be indulged in, in fact, as a king who creates a kingdom, he has too many things to do, and he should not spend his time on these things.

If you simply want to be a hedonistic emperor, then you don't need to go abroad at all, how high-level is it to enjoy in Chang'an City?

At this moment, it is already three o'clock in the afternoon, and generally speaking, Zhang Cai is working at this time, but today is more special, so he went home directly. And when you don't need to work, three o'clock in the afternoon is the time for afternoon tea, and to put it bluntly, it is an excuse to give yourself an excuse to eat dessert.

probably knew that Zhang would go home for afternoon tea, so the two maids had already brewed the tea and prepared some Chinese and Western desserts. One of the most special things is probably the cheesecake, right? This thing is Zhang Cai's favorite, Zhang Hongbin used to buy it in the supermarket and gave it to him once, he completely fell in love with this dessert, and then Zhang Hongbin in order to avoid some trouble, so there was also a period of time dedicated to the local production of cheesecake...... I made a cheesecake that was more similar.

The cheesecake in front of Zhang Cai's eyes is the result of local production, and the cheese is even made from the milk of cows shipped to Australia.

"Your Highness, please use tea." When Zhang Cai sat down, the maidservant obediently poured him a cup of tea.

"En......" Compared with the past, today's Zhang Cai is a little absent-minded.

The whole person just picked up the teacup casually, took a sip carefully, and then picked up a piece of cheesecake and tasted it slowly.

"I don't know why, I'm a little homesick......" Zhang Cai muttered when the cheesecake that was bitten down was put down.

It turned out that he was homesick...... It's not surprising that a seven-year-old kid has been away from home for less than a year, and it's strange if he doesn't want to go home. You must know that those children in the same grade are still coquettish in the arms of their parents.

"Your Highness, there are still two months, the liaison ship will arrive, if you really want to go back at that time......" The maid next to her looked at Zhang Cai's sentimental appearance, and couldn't help but have a trace of maternal psychology, and tried to comfort her.

"I can't go back...... Zhang Cai smiled and continued to eat his dessert.

If he says that he is Zhang Hongbin's son, then Hope Town and Sihua Village are not his own children? How can any parent leave their children aside and enjoy the blessings themselves? This metaphor may not be particularly appropriate, but for Zhang Cai, it is actually the same thing.

The new territory of Huaxia has slowly taken shape under his construction, and it has also begun to develop rapidly. As the founder of this force, Zhang Cai is also sincerely relieved and happy, at this moment, let him lose this qiē and go back to be an ordinary prince, he can't throw it away.

The next day, Zhang Gu took the people of the headquarters and began an exploration journey. The trip didn't last long, though, and I came back after a night outside.

Gold, a gold mine with a lot of reserves, not to mention underground, can be found everywhere in the open air. Zhang Gu went out with 300 people, and when he came back, each of them brought at least 30 catties of dog-head gold, and said that there were more and more dog-head gold in the gold mine!

Not only that, but in the vicinity, an open-pit iron mine was discovered. And Zhang Gu also knows how to identify ores, he can be sure that it should be the best quality iron ore! What a piece of iron ore of excellent quality and abundant reserves means, everyone present knows. Therefore, after hearing the news, it was a joy.

The only trouble is that there are too few people, and even if there are a lot of resources, they will not be able to mine them effectively.

However, seeing that there are still two months to go, the first to reserve a large amount of gold ore is the most important thing.

Over the next two months, Zhang Cai personally led the manpower to continuously mine ore in the gold mines, and then smelt them into gold ingots on the spot, and finally transported them back to Hope Storage by horse-drawn cart. By the time the ship arrived, the town of Hope had stockpiled nearly four tons of gold.

Previously, Zhang Hongbin had promulgated a new unit of measurement, so four tons is 4,000 kilograms, and 4,000 kilograms is 4,000 kilograms, that is, 8,000 catties, which means that there are 80,000 taels of gold, which is 80,000 gold coins according to the calculation of one gold coin per tael today.

Let's not talk about the heavy weight of these 80,000 gold coins, just talk about their value, which is enough to make anyone blush. I'm afraid that these four tons of gold will be shipped back to the mainland, and no one needs to advertise anything, so naturally there will be many people who will choose to settle in Australia. Perhaps in their eyes, this is a golden island.

This is also what Zhang Cai needs, even if he knows that the republic is now short of manpower, but if Australia wants to develop, why not need more manpower?

The liaison ship left, they are actually a subordinate fleet of the Republic Chamber of Commerce, Zhang Hongbin thought in advance, Zhang Cai should buy a batch of supplies, so the captain of the liaison ship, at the same time, will have a detailed understanding of the price of all the goods in the Chamber of Commerce.

How many things can be bought with 80,000 gold coins, this is what he negotiated with Zhang Cai. Don't look at Zhang is the prince, according to Zhang Hongbin's instructions on the ship, how stingy you are to be more stingy, try to squeeze every gold coin here, and try to increase the price of every commodity. In fact, this is not surprising, it is transported so far from the mainland, and there are more transportation costs and labor, not to mention the loss caused by uncontrollable factors.

As a result, 80,000 gold coins can only buy goods equivalent to 30,000 gold coins on the mainland. In other words, the profit is at least 300%.

Zhang Hongbin's arrangement is not without benefits, at least after seeing this profit, I am afraid that there are few businessmen who can be calm. When there are more people coming and going to Australia, the route will become busy. At that time, Zhang Cai will come back with a sentence or something, which is also much more convenient.

After the gold arrived in the Republic, Zhang Hongbin could be sure that Zhang Cai had initially conquered the continent, or at least officially settled there.

So, he fulfilled his promise - to be crowned!

After constant discussion in the Congress, the second prince Zhang Cai was named the king of Yue, and Australia has since been renamed Yuewang Island, which is an inalienable territory of the republic, but the military and political power is in the hands of the king of Yue. For the emergence of such a powerful prince in the republic, it is rare that no one opposes it. After all, this prince is not in the homeland, even if he has military and political power, he will not pose a threat to the local regime, in this case, why not be generous? Look at people, more than seven years old to go away to another country, open up territory for the country, how can you not express a little bit?

So, the matter was settled, not to mention the national announcement, and the "Daily" also kept describing the Yiqiē of Yuewang Island.

Since then, everyone has known that the first prince of the Republic has appeared, and he is also a prince with real power......