A good court meeting, because of Li Shimin's two sentences, turned into a vegetable market.

Why are Datang officials so surprised?

Because in fact, China was a poor country for a long time in history, and silver only became one of the main currencies after the Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the current Datang told the development that the use of copper as a currency denomination was too small, so it incorporated gold and silver into the monetary system early.

Datang's local silver production is not high, and now Datang's mining and smelting technology has developed rapidly in recent years, especially after the emergence of steam engines.

But the annual production of silver is only 100,000 taels.

How much is 100,000 taels? In the Tang Dynasty, a catty was about 680 grams, and 16 taels were recorded.

These 1 taels are 42 grams, and 100,000 taels is converted into 4.2 tons.

And if Tang Ping brought back these two mines, if they can really reach the output that Li Shimin said, it will be 20 times higher than the local silver production of Datang.

"Tang boy, does Fusang really have so much gold and silver?"

Cheng Zhijie asked incredulously.

"Is there any time when the mineral map I gave is inaccurate?" Tang Ping asked with a smile.

Li Daliang, who took over Dai Zhou as the new secretary of the Ministry of Industry, said: "The mineral map given by Ping Guogong, whether it is coal mine, iron ore or copper mine, is all accurate. ”

Cheng Zhijie glanced at him: "I didn't say I didn't believe Tang boy." ”

After speaking, he looked at the generals beside him, and found that these guys had golden lights in their eyes one by one, and he knew that they were thinking the same thing as himself.

However, these guys still refused to say it directly, and he Cheng Zhijie was not afraid to be this wicked person, so he directly came out and said: "Your Majesty, since this Fusang is so rich in minerals, then we ......"

The latter words were not finished, but as the leader of the Tang Dynasty, the meaning was obvious.

"Ahem." Li Shimin gave him a blank look, if he can grab it, can he not do it?

He dreamed of turning those resources into his own drops, and Tang Ping told him privately that there were at least two or three gold and silver mines of this scale in Fusang.

But Fusang has always been honestly a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, if the Tang Dynasty sees which vassal country has good things and goes over to occupy them, what will happen to other vassal countries?

Although the strength of Datang is now no problem even if it fights on multiple fronts, as a monarch, the country has only been stable for a few years, and he really doesn't want to let Datang's soldiers have too many casualties.

In fact, Tang Ping is very good in this way, and a large amount of resources can be exchanged for a small price.

The word concession is very good, and after renting it, I have the right to garrison and enforce the law there, just like a country within a country.

And I didn't say that I won't let you continue to rent after the lease period expires, everything is easy to discuss, maybe when the time comes, I will "discuss" with the other side, and the other side will agree again?

are all old partners, Cheng Zhijie saw the eyes of his boss, and knew that this road would not work, so he didn't say anything more.

The mining officials of the Ministry of Industry discussed while looking at the mineral information given by Li Shimin.

In fact, it was all found by Tang Ping from modern times.

These things are not easy to find, but fortunately, he now has a good relationship with Li Aiguo, a museum expert, and he has also registered on it.

He said that he wanted to go to the mine information of Sado Jinshan and Iwami Ginzan, and Li Aiguo found it for him from Xiaori through his connections in the industry.

There is no way, now Li Aiguo is still holding "Three Classics and Yishu" in his hand to talk about conditions with Xiao Ri, of course Xiao Ri is willing to sell him a favor for this kind of small matter.

"Your Majesty, if there is no problem with the information given by Ping Guogong, and we use the steam engine as power, I think the output can be further increased." The one who spoke was the mining official who started chatting with Tang Ping, named Li Yu.

"Well, but how do you solve the fuel problem?" Li Shimin is of course happy to be able to increase production.

"This ......" Li Yu looked at Tang Ping and asked, "I don't know if there are coal mines in Fusang?" ”

Tang Ping thought for a while and nodded and said: "Fusang coal mine resources are quite rich, but there is no large-scale mining, if you want to use Fusang's local coal mine, you may have to jointly develop it with Fusang." ”

"Then tell them to dig it!" Cheng Zhijie said a little arrogantly: "It's a big deal, let's just give money." ”

Everyone knows which of the coal mines used as fuel and the gold and silver dug up are worth more than that.

"Now that Cheng Chumo and Fang Yiai are still on an envoy in Fusang, I will contact them to negotiate with Fusang."

This kind of thing is beneficial to both sides, Datang can get coal, and the people of Fusang can increase employment opportunities and have an income.

So leave it to two fools to talk about, and it can be regarded as exercising them.

"In that case, it is better to repair the road from their Fusang, at least the road from the mine to the harbor has to be repaired."

"Yes, I heard that the Fuso fishery has a lot of fish, and I think we can buy some as well."

All of a sudden, there was a lot of money, and many officials began to discuss how to develop Fuso.

"Since Fusang has such rich mineral resources, they will inevitably begin to develop steadily in the future, I think we can start the layout now, although they are rich in gold and silver mines, but other resources are scarce, we can dump our Datang goods, especially luxury goods to Fusang."

"That's right, let them mine to make money, and then come to buy our Datang goods, and finally bring those minerals back to Datang."

"However, I heard that the education level of the people of Fuso is relatively low, and if we develop Fuso in large quantities, I think it is necessary to improve the education level of the people."

"Definitely, and letting the people of Fusang learn our Tang culture from an early age is inherently conducive to assimilating them."

These officials are all old oilers, and although the development requires a certain amount of money in Fuso, it is nothing compared to the future output.

And 80 tons of silver, dug up, will definitely be used, only when it is used, can it make money.

Therefore, the second half of a good court meeting was directly held by the Tang officials into a meeting of the Fusang development plan.

As for whether Fusang agrees with this development plan or not, it doesn't matter, it's still the same sentence, everything is good to "discuss".

Tang Ping listened and listened to it, and only then did he understand why later generations always saw the state giving interest-free loans to some poor countries such as Africa, and so much aid for construction.

After listening to it, I realized that there are so many twists and turns in it, and I can only say that the free one is the most expensive, and it really makes sense wherever I put it.

These Chinese officials have been able to play a set of tricks since ancient times.

At the end of the event, according to statistics, Datang's input-output ratio was able to reach an astonishing 1 to 12.