"This matter is not a big deal, I don't believe that the Tusi of Dongchuan dares to confront our Daming, and directly send troops to circle the copper mine, and find someone to mine it, isn't it over?"

Feng Cheng looked at Tang Zhao a little speechlessly, and hurriedly explained.

"You're such a fool, how can you get the copper out of Yunnan when it's mined?"

"It's not a small problem! With this broken road in Yunnan now, how many things can be transported out every day, do you not count in your heart? ”

Tang Zhao was stopped by Feng Cheng for a while, he had been fighting in Yunnan for a long time, and of course he knew how bad the traffic in this broken place in Yunnan was.

From Yunnan to Sichuan, the mountains stretch, it is very difficult to walk, but it is slightly easier to go to Huguang, there is a waterway, but the waterway to transport people and salt is good to say.

Something as heavy as copper can't be carried away by a single ship.

Tang Zhao looked at He Qiu with a blank look and said.

"If you want to come to a good country, you must have a good idea, otherwise you won't mention it."

He Qiu said with a smile.

"I do have a way to do it, not only to engage in mining in Yunnan, but also to set up a smelting industry in Yunnan, and keep most of the profits in Yunnan."

The mystery of extending the industrial chain is not only understood by modern people, but also understood by the ancients.

Feng Cheng couldn't resist the desire in his heart and urged.

"Don't sell it, let's talk about it."

He Qiu was very happy in his heart, as long as the two of them really decided to mine the Dongchuan copper mine as they said, then they would be on Zhu Di's thief ship, and if they came and went, it was equivalent to the three princes of the Ming Dynasty standing behind Zhu Di.

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang has any regrets in the future, it will be difficult to drive Zhu Di down, which can be regarded as adding a layer of insurance to Zhu Di's position as the prince.

Without waiting for Feng Cheng and Tang Zhao to urge them again, He Qiu explained to them in detail how he made money.

To put it bluntly, it's very simple, don't take the initiative to touch the income of the copper mine, this income can be called whoever touches it and who dies, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes can't tolerate sand the most.

If the two of them want to earn personal wealth on this, then they will gamble their lives and their lives.

The matter of copper mining can be handed over to the Tusi in various parts of Yunnan, so that the Tusi can also drink soup, and let them go to Annan and other places to arrest people to open mines, anyway, don't use Han people to go to the mines to do such dangerous work.

In this way, it will be difficult for the toasts to unite together again and start a rebellion.

As for smelting, it is naturally led by the Han people, and they can ask the imperial court and Zhu Di for people, Zhu Di's blast furnace in Beiping, there are still a group of people who have been taught by He Qiu and have their own ideas about smelting.

Let them smelt, compared with the soil smelting can produce several percent more copper.

As for the mystery of making Feng Cheng and them make money, Kunming City is at the foot of the city, Kunming City will be more than 150 kilometers away from Dongchuan, but there are no other big cities before the two.

As long as the merchants came, they would definitely settle in Kunming, and if the two of them bought the land in the city, built shops and inns, and waited for the large-scale mining of copper mines, the money would flow in like water.

He Qiu also kept an eye on this, not letting Feng Cheng and Tang Zhao really come into contact with smelting, if they really let them master how to smelt, maybe the two families would become a big trouble in the southwest in the future.

Although Feng Cheng and Tang Zhao regretted that they couldn't eat directly from the copper mine, they also knew that this was the best way, and they didn't dare to test Zhu Yuanzhang's mind.

However, Feng Cheng said with some hesitation.

"But you still haven't said that this copper mine has been mined on a large scale, how to transport it out."

He Qiu said with some spirit.

"I have two options! One is to build the Jinsha River channel to the north, which can directly send the mined copper to the Yangtze River with the help of water transportation, and transport it all the way to the capital. ”

"The other is to open up the sea outlet from Kunming to the south, and send copper materials to the Jiangnan area by sea."

He Qiu then added.

"These two methods are relatively safer to transport by river, but they are also more expensive; Out of the sea, the risk is high, but the amount of sea transport can also be large, and the cost is small. ”

"The land route in the middle, you can transfer people from Beiping, repair roads in Yunnan, I built a cement factory in Beiping, cement is used to build roads is very convenient, compared with the previous way of road construction, the cost is much lower."

Feng Cheng thought about it roughly, and found that He Qiu's two methods were really relatively simple to operate in practice, the Jinsha River originally had river transportation, but it was not paid much attention before, and some sections of the river were relatively difficult to walk.

It's good to say that it is a little more difficult to transport goods, but as long as the imperial court makes efforts to rectify it, it is also very convenient to transport goods.

It's sea freight...... Tang Zhao's father, Tang He, once cleared out the Japanese in Fujian and other places, this group of people is very annoying, if you want to go by sea and land, then the sailor can't let go.

Fortunately, there are still remnants of the Poyang Lake Water Division in the court, and it is very fast to rebuild, but with such a big determination, the imperial court may not be able to come down.

Feng Cheng weighed it for a long time, but gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Okay, done! I'll write a letter to Mu Chun and ask him to come back to Kunming, and the four of us will have a good discussion, and then ask the court to play! ”

Tang Zhao was stunned, and he didn't know whether the method He Qiu gave was useful or not, so he just asked.

"According to your method, if we don't mine copper ore, won't the income be much less, can we ensure that we earn more than 100,000 taels a year?"

He Qiu made a rough estimate in his heart, and shook his head gently, Tang Zhaodeng's heart was cold, wouldn't it, with such a strong effort, he couldn't even earn more than 100,000 taels a year?

I saw He Qiu speak.

"It's not sure about this, once the Dongchuan copper mine is mined on a large scale and the trade route is opened, as long as the local copper can be shipped out, other goods can also be shipped out, and it should not be a problem to collect hundreds of thousands of taels of money every year, as for more, I can't guarantee it."

Tang Zhao's heartbeat almost stopped, hundreds of thousands of taels? My goodness!

At first, he thought that He Qiu shook his head because he couldn't reach more than 100,000 taels, but he actually shook his head because it was too much more than 100,000 taels.

And that's not all, He Qiu continued.

"If General Tang, you still don't think it's enough, you can also build another city in the Dongchuan Copper Mine, and the planning inside is all up to you."

"In this way, you can collect money twice, that is, when the business route is not prosperous, you should be able to earn more than 100,000 taels a year."

Hundreds of thousands of taels plus hundreds of thousands of taels, or hundreds of thousands of taels, but is this almost a million taels?

Tang Zhao kept estimating in his heart, and his face gradually became a little hideous.

At least he Tang Zhao has grown so big, he has never seen more than 10,000 taels of money, and now someone suddenly told him that he may be able to have an income of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in the future.

Tang Zhao's eyes turned red all of a sudden, who the hell cares about Zhu Yunwen at this time, as long as he doesn't delay himself making money in Yunnan!