Destiny Only Han

Yeyi County, Chengdong Gold Mine.

The rooster crowing in the morning evokes the sleeping gold mine. Many short figures, about 1.2 meters tall, appear on the road, waving brooms that are much taller than they are. , Cleaning the dust and garbage on the road.

It's not that the gold mines are employing child labor, it's that they're only this tall.

These people are all slaves bought from the Sushen people over the years.

Those who are stronger and stronger have been transported to work in deep underground mining areas such as coal mines, while those who are relatively weak can only stay here to clean up garbage, raise pigs and grow vegetables for logistics.

If you look closely at this moment, you will find that there is no numbness on the faces of these slaves. On the contrary, they are extremely focused and love their current work.

They will carefully clean each road seven times, striving to achieve a spotless effect.

Da da da……

The sound of crisp footsteps came from a distance.

The slave who was sweeping the ground raised his head, and a fascinated look appeared on his face.

The ones walking towards them were the Silla maids who had just left work, and the ones making the rattling sound were the high-heeled shoes worn by the Silla maids.

These Silla maidservants were not ugly at all, but now they dressed up a bit better, walking in high heels with a swaying posture, making the slaves who peeked at them couldn't help swallowing their saliva.

Then, clean up harder and harder.

According to the rules of the gold mine, they can only get paid if they are rated as 'best' in the month's exam!
And only after taking the money, they can go to the wine shop to spend, watch the singing and dancing, and kiss the beauty of these Silla maidservants like the gold diggers here...

Well, based on the principle of making money from gold mines and flowers from gold mines, Liu Ying has opened many restaurants in the mining area, providing all kinds of rare food and wine as well as exciting programs.

Sometimes, in order to ensure that those gold diggers who made a fortune can consume alcohol, Liu Ying even thought about cutting off the supply to Liu Bang...

After all, Lao Liu doesn't give money...

After three poles in the sun, Zhong Limei showed up at the gate of the gold mine with dozens of burly mine supervisors carrying rolls of red carpets, and spread the carpets on the spotless ground with swift hands and feet.

After a while, a horse team appeared on the road in the distance.

Zhongli Mo led the supervisor behind him to stand in two rows, waiting silently with a solemn expression.

da da da da...

The horse team approached from far to near, Liu Ying jumped off the horse, laughed and walked over, opened her arms and hugged Zhong Limei and the other executives waiting here.

Then, Liu Ying spoke highly of the important position and role of the Yeyi Gold Mine in the economic revival of the Han Empire. The spirit of fearing hardships and dangers and daring to shine a sword has put forward clear requirements for Yeyi Gold Mine to start a new journey and set sail again...

After a while, the executives except Zhongli Mo touched the red flowers on their chests and left with confused and excited expressions on their faces.

Zhongli Mo greeted him with a chuckle: "Your Highness is here to distribute big red flowers to everyone? Then? What about mine?"

Liu Ying stepped forward and put her arms around his shoulders on tiptoe:

"You and the Marquis of Huaiyin can be regarded as brothers, and the Marquis of Huaiyin and I are also brothers, so we are half-brothers! Brothers don't engage in such hypocrisy... let's go, take me to see Changes in the gold mine!"

Zhong Limo smiled helplessly, he was prepared for Liu Ying's joy, but he didn't expect Liu Ying to act like this in private...

However, he likes it.

"This is the security booth, there is the No. [-] warehouse and the No. [-] mine, that is the security booth, and that is also the security booth... This is a wine shop, and this is also a wine shop..."

Zhongli introduced the layout of the gold mine in a ignorant manner, but when he mentioned the security booth and the wine shop, his tone was a little good, which made Liu Ying have every reason to believe that he was actually a robot.

The gold mine in front of me is said to be a mine, but its scale is already close to that of a small city. The stagecoach system that has just been promoted in Guanzhong has achieved full coverage of the mine as early as half a year ago.

Many small settlements gradually emerged around this gold mine. People there grew food and vegetables, raised chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, and then sold them to the gold mine in exchange for money.

It is no exaggeration to say that the gold mine is like a bottomless black hole, siphoning more than half of the commodities in the nearby counties.

After all, this gold mine now has more than 4000 gold diggers, more than [-] guards, and more than [-] slaves.

After turning around, Liu Ying expressed her admiration for the overall cleanliness and orderliness of the gold mine, and immediately asked: "How much gold can the gold mine produce every day?"

"When it's more, it's more than 300 catties, and when it's less, it's seventy or eighty catties..." Zhong Li said with a smile: "It depends on luck in gold mining, and the output varies every day."

Liu Ying nodded. In fact, for him personally, earning dozens of catties of gold every day is already very satisfying.

But such a small amount of production is a drop in the bucket when viewed nationwide, and it cannot meet people's demand for precious metals in commercial activities.

So that's why he's eyeing the silver mine next door.

One's own mine can be kept and dug slowly, and other people's mines can be dug first. As for how things will develop in the future, it will be left to future people to do.

Liu Ying looked at Zhong Limei and asked, "How many engineers here know how to smelt and purify silver?"

Zhongli said confidently: "One thousand and twenty-four...I don't know anything else, I remember this number very clearly, after all, I only paid them yesterday..."

Liu Ying said with a smile: "Very good, wait and ask them if they would like to work in a different environment, double the wages, and pay [-] months' wages every year!"

Zhong Limo took a breath, and said in disbelief, "Such a high salary? What His Highness said makes me want to change my career to be a craftsman!"

"No, no, no..." Liu Ying stretched out her index finger and shook it: "You can't be an engineer, you have to go to another place and continue to help me manage the silver mine."

Zhongli was stunned for a moment: "Me? Silver mines? Don't we have silver mines here?"

Liu Ying said with a smile: "So what, shouldn't the more gold and silver are cuties, the better?"

Zhong Limei nodded his head in agreement.

Liu Ying asked: "Don't you ask me where I want you to manage the silver mine?"

Zhong Limo said confidently: "It should be Huang County to the east of Laishan! It is said that His Highness bought it two years ago, and then discovered gold and silver mines..."

"No!" Liu Ying shook her head again. What Zhong Limei was talking about was Mount Lai and Rushan in the south. Although those places had already been acquired by Liu Ying, they chose to temporarily seal them up and plan to develop them slowly in the future.

He looked at Zhong Limei with a puzzled expression and said, "The place I told you to go is on the other side of the sea, where Xu Fu once set foot!"

"Overseas Fairy Mountain?"

Zhong Limo yelled out, with an expression of disbelief on his face, he really didn't expect that Liu Ying's mining had been dug to the feet of the gods...

"It's not a fairy mountain, it's just an ordinary island." Liu Ying corrected her and said with a smile: "Well, the general location of that island is near the hometown of those sweeping ministers."

"So after we got there, we changed our business model. Instead of recruiting gold diggers, we recruited the dwarves around us to work for us for free...Of course, not all of them are free, just take care of the food."

Zhongli glanced at him sideways, thinking that just caring about meals is some kind of solicitation!

Liu Ying continued without realizing it: "When you go, you will be accompanied by warriors from the Sushen people. Then you will take care of them first and let them help us to support the venue. After that, I will send you guards from Shangxiantang One is to maintain order, and the other is to recruit miners."

"Well, also, this is a new method of smelting silver that I recently researched, yes, it's called the soot blowing method. You can show it to our engineers later, and let them refine silver according to this method .”

In a daze, Zhong Li took the brochure that Liu Ying handed over and put it in his sleeve: "Your Highness means that I will be in charge of the silver mine there from now on?"

"It's not just a silver mine." Liu Ying took out a letter of commission written by himself from her bosom: "You will be the first governor of the Jingjing Island of the Han Empire, with full power to handle all affairs on the island, and enjoy the right to conquer the island. Barbarian privilege!"

"Well, you will have twelve Weiyuan-class ships and a garrison of no more than 5000 people. But the focus is still on the development of silver mines. I need the silver mines there!"

It is said that the reserves of Iwami silver mine are extremely rich. In the 17th century, silver production accounted for one-third of the world's total silver production!

If the silver mine can be put into production now, the Han Kingdom today is equivalent to the fruit tooth and bullfight tooth of later generations, and will receive a huge amount of currency used to promote economic development.

Well, after all, the Han Empire is much larger than the Iberian Peninsula, with abundant products, it can be self-sufficient even without external input.

But the only regret is that there is a shortage of gold, silver and copper, so the value of heavy metals will appreciate in many times with the peacetime.

Therefore, the favorite thing for local rich people is to bury gold and silver and enjoy the pleasure of natural appreciation.

Then, there was less currency in circulation, and precious metals like gold and silver appreciated again.

Over and over again, everyone can only barter...

And the act of transporting a large amount of silver from overseas is like turning on the nuclear-powered money printing machine of the Federal Reserve in later generations. At this time, whoever saves money will write...

Zhong Limo took the letter of appointment from Liu Ying's hand, with a dazed expression on his face.

But Liu Ying was equally confused, and the source of his confusion was a large group of gold diggers who surrounded him with cards in their hands, which read:

Strongly protest against mixing water with wine!

Liu Ying asked in a daze: "What the hell is this?"

Zhongli Mo's face was full of grievances: "It's not my fault, they are getting stronger and stronger now!"