Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 998 First dig out the world's largest copper mine

Chapter [-] First dig out the world's largest copper mine
Wei Zheng is a very smart person, and so is Fang Xuanling.

Moreover, these two are very flexible people. Since Chen Ying under the banner of building Chidao, he started to build a railway named "Chidao" before the steam locomotive was invented.Regardless of whether there is a steam engine train or not, Chidao's advantages are incomparable to the officialdom of this era.

Especially the transportation efficiency, with the aid of the galley, the four-wheeled heavy-duty carriage can carry six thousand kilograms of cargo, and it can be transported along the galley at a speed of 22 miles per day.With the completion of the six-hundred-mile road from Chang'an to Luoyang, the efficiency of transporting grain from Luoyang to Guanzhong has increased by more than ten times.The continuous four-wheeled carriages can transport up to [-] shi of grain from Luoyang to Guanzhong every day. Even if there is no grain in Guanzhong, Guanzhong will no longer cause turmoil due to food starvation.

Not only for transporting food and grass, especially for military transport.The Tang Dynasty was not comfortable or uncomfortable, so to speak, a carriage of the same size as a heavy-duty carriage, just squeezed a group of heavily armed soldiers into this space with an area of ​​no more than ten square meters.An army of [-] troops only needs [-] carriages, and they can march [-] miles a day without any fatigue.Let the phrase "those who benefit from a hundred miles fall into the general" be completely swept into the pile of old papers.

Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling looked around the map of the Tang Dynasty for two full hours, and came to a conclusion that once Li Shimin attacked from the Fusang mainland, almost everywhere from Liaodong, to Linhai, Qiongzhou, and Jiaozhou would be places where he could land , the long coast will be Li Shimin's natural landing site.When going north to guard against the Eastern Turks, there are still traces to be found, because the Great Wall has been built by successive dynasties, and there are only a few roads for nomads to go south, even if they are prepared, there are traces to be found.

However, the coast is so long and there is no danger to defend, which is a very headache.

Is it possible to build a Great Coastal Wall?
Even Wei Zheng was taken aback by this crazy idea. The cost of building the Great Wall was so great that even Li Jiancheng and Wei Zheng couldn't even imagine it.

A thread slowly formed in Wei Zheng's head, building the Great Wall is not advisable, so what about building Chidao?Once a strategic road around the sea is built along the coast of Youzhou, Dingzhou, Cangzhou, Qingzhou, Yangzhou, Yuezhou, Runzhou, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou?Troops are stationed in Youzhou, Guangzhou and other coastal states. Once Li Shimin's army is found to be attacking, they can quickly rush to help along the strategic road and block Li Shimin from this strategic road around the sea.

Of course, this is also a strategic project no less than the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. For example, how many farmlands, how many mountains, and how many rivers need to be passed through to build this road, it makes people feel like a dog biting a hedgehog, and there is nowhere to start.

Wei Zheng bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I think this road must be repaired, and the focus should be on Yuezhou, Yangzhou and Runzhou."

Li Shimin's biggest shortcoming is that there are no war horses in the Fusang Continent. Even if Zhang Zhongjian tried his best to carry the war horses to the Fusang Continent, he didn't know whether it was the acclimatization of the environment or other reasons. With one exception, all of them were useless, not as big as a donkey, and as fast as an ox. Even so, Li Shimin's army of millions had only less than [-] cavalry, and most of them were scout cavalry.

Once Li Shimin chooses Youzhou or Hebei as the landing site, then the Anton Army or the Hebei Army will let Li Shimin know what the Tang cavalry is.The only thing Li Shimin can use is the mountains or wetlands in Yuezhou and Runzhou or Fuzhou, and Datang did not deploy many cavalry in the three states.

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "That's fine, let's build Chidao first."

Fang Xuanling smiled wryly, "Your Majesty has no money in the treasury!"

A penny is hard for a hero, not to mention that what Li Jiancheng lacks is not a penny, but a huge amount in units of millions.

Seeing Li Jiancheng's headache, Wei Ting cautiously said, "It's better to compromise with the family..."

Before Wei Ting could finish speaking, Li Jiancheng shook his head and said, "It's absolutely impossible!"

However, the problem of money is still unresolved.

Under the same sky, Chen Ying was also worried.

What Chen Ying worries about is not the lack of money, but the exact opposite.

Too much money.

To say that Yang Rong should be born with wealth and honor, since Ye County and Chen Ying parted ways, Yang Rong returned to the Wu family business in Kucha. However, when in Kucha, a caravan of Yang Rong got lost. Rong also thought that this small caravan of about [-] people would be buried in the desert. Unexpectedly, this small caravan arrived at Green Stone Mountain by mistake and found a very large copper mine.

If there is no reminder from this caravan, Chen Ying has obviously forgotten that in Baodeg County, Mongolia (actually part of China) bordering China, is the world's largest copper mine Oyu Tolgoi Gold and Copper Mine .

Chen should be aware of this great discovery. After all, the number one in the world is easy to remember. The reserves of the Oyu Tolgoi gold-copper mine have been proven. The preliminary proven reserves of copper are 110 million tons, gold The reserves are 320 tons and the silver reserves are [-] tons.

Not counting the value of silver and copper, the value of gold alone is as high as nearly 640 billion yuan. If copper is included, the value is the most amazing, reaching more than [-] trillion yuan.

Of course, what Yang Rong’s associates discovered was a coal mine three hundred miles northwest of the Oyu Tolgoi Gold and Copper Mine. The area of ​​the coal mine here is astonishingly large. The sandy soil of the grass is not more than a foot deep.Yang Rong didn't know how big this gold, copper, and silver mine was, but she was intimidated by the initial inspection.

Yang Rong rushed to Shule non-stop and reported the matter to Chen Ying.

When Chen Ying heard the news, he quickly thought of where it was.In later generations, this place no longer belongs to China. There are gold, silver and copper mines as high as [-] trillion yuan, and coal mines as high as [-] trillion yuan. Even the United States, which is rich and powerful in later generations, will not be indifferent to the wealth of [-] trillion yuan.

As Marx said, if there is a 20.00% profit, capital will be eager to move; if there is a 50.00% profit, capital will take risks; if there is a [-]% profit, capital will dare to risk hanging its head; If there is a [-]% profit, they dare to trample on all laws in the world.Of course, what Chen Ying is facing now is a fortune as high as four trillion yuan.

Even if converted into guan in the Tang Dynasty, this wealth is equivalent to 470 guan.I am afraid that the 280 years of the Tang Dynasty will add up, and the treasury revenue will not have so much money.

No one thinks that there are too many things in their own home. Similarly, no one is unhappy when they bring things from other people's homes to their own.Especially for a time traveler like Chen Ying, who liked to visit forums in his previous life, and knew some things that were not even considered confidential.

In later generations, there are many countries whose domestic resources are not small, but these countries often choose to spend money on imports from abroad, and have no plans to mine them from their own countries.Just like rare earth resources, this metal resource plays an extremely important role in military affairs, metallurgy, chemical industry, agriculture, etc. Everyone clamors that the rare earth content of flower growers is the first in the world. This is proud of.

But actually?Rare earth itself is a scarce resource, but it has been sold cheaply.Selling it at the price of cabbage, when it was the cheapest, it was not as expensive as pork.In the past, China's total reserves accounted for 80.00% of the world's total50.00, but now only [-]%[-] is left. This is Chen Ying's biggest heartache as a fart...

Thinking of this, Chen Ying said to Yang Rong: "You can organize manpower to dig that coal mine, and dig as much as you can. Anyway, I have only served as the governor of Anxi for at most five years. As the saying goes, once I leave the job, you can dig the coal mine." It's hard to say if you can't keep it..."

Speaking of this, Chen Ying organized his speech and said: "You can also organize people to bid these coal mines and copper mines to the big clans!"

In later generations, Little Japan frantically bought Chinese coal to fill the sea, and of course bought rare earths to go back and hoard them, and then sold them back with three to five hundred times more.

Chen Ying intends to learn. Anyway, the steam train has been invented. In the future, when the Tang Dynasty enters the industrial revolution, the consumption of coal will definitely be endless, so let's consume the world's largest coal mine first...

Thinking of this, Chen Ying picked up a pen and gave a memorial to Li Jiancheng.

"Your Majesty, congratulations, Datang has made a fortune. I found a gold mountain in Anxi. I estimate that I can dig out about 230 million taels of gold and millions of copper..."

(End of this chapter)