Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 71 Congenital Deficiency
The moment he opened the "blind box", Zhu Xianhai froze for a long time before speaking.

"Hey, it's like this..."

The map displayed on the light screen is an extremely detailed map, with mountains, rivers, roads... if there are any.

Of course, there are roads, such as the simple road between Nanhua and the reclamation area, and some so-called trails on the grassland.

But as a map, it is undoubtedly extremely detailed, and the scale can even be adjusted at any time.Simply put, it can be adjusted at any time between civilian maps and military maps.

If nothing else, this feature alone is worth the price of admission.

"It turns out that the nearest white settlement is less than 100 kilometers away..."

Oversight!
Too careless!

Staring at the few settlements shown on the map, although there are only one or two white families in those settlements.But also potentially dangerous.

Zhu Xianhai said to himself.

"Going back to pretending to be Mapuche and uprooting these settlements..."

No wonder it will be exposed, so can it not be exposed?

Suddenly, the function bar on the upper right of the map attracted Zhu Xianhai's attention.

"Function bar? What function is hidden here?"

While being puzzled, Zhu Xianhai clicked on the "Function Bar", and his eyes lit up instantly.

"Mineral resource survey!"

It actually has this function?
Zhu Xianhai's heart burst into frenzy, resources!

What is the most important thing for the development of industry?
The first is human resources, and the second?
Isn't it just mineral resources?

If the development of industrial population is the premise, then mineral resources are the fundamental foundation.

Perhaps the population of Nanhua is not large now, but even at the moment, there is still a certain demand for mineral resources here.

Take coal for example. At present, Nanhua has more than a dozen steam tractors and six steam engines. Although using firewood as combustion can meet short-term needs, in the long run, without coal, Nanhua's development will be limited.

Of course, there is also coal and iron, these are the most fundamental foundations for the development of industry.

Without coal and iron, in this era when heavy industry is the strength of the country, how can we talk about development!What future are you talking about?
[Opening the primary mineral resource investigation function requires 1000 experience points. ]
Zhu Xianhai quickly made a decision to turn on this function again.

With such a good function, if you don’t enable it, you will be really sorry for the gold finger of the system.

[The user spends 1000 experience points to open the primary mineral resource distribution investigation function. This function is used in a targeted manner, and each use requires 10 to 100 experience points. ]
Uh……

The system is really krypton gold!
As a krypton gold player, seeing such a result, of course he grinned, but even grinning has to be used.

[Please select the minerals to be investigated]
Since "coal" is what steel needs right now, Zhu Xianhai of course chose coal directly.

[Junior users only have an investigation authority of 200 kilometers, and the buried depth of minerals is limited to 200 meters. Do you want to start the investigation? ]
"200 kilometers? There is still a limit to the distance, and there is also a limit to the buried depth..."

Shouldn't krypton gold players have preferential treatment?
Why are there such restrictions?

Staring at the dialog box on the light screen, Zhu Xianhai grinned.

"Come on, two hundred is two hundred. Anyway, we don't have a railway now, and we may not be able to transport it for two hundred kilometers."

"Start the investigation!"

As the light screen flashed, several mineral signs appeared on the map soon.

"There is actually a coal mine near Nanhua!"

Surprised, Zhu Xianhai clicked on the description of coal mine resources, and his face immediately turned down.

"The reserves are less than one million tons, and the ash content is still high, and the calorific value...just this, can this be called a mine?"

For Zhu Xianhai, who is used to large coal mines of hundreds of millions to billions of tons in Huaxia, he is embarrassed to say that it is a mine when faced with a coal mine with a reserve of only a few hundred thousand tons. The quality is also very average.

However, the investigation is very detailed, from the location, to the buried depth, to the reserves, and even the quality of the coal, there are detailed descriptions.

The only unsatisfactory thing is that the reserves of these coal mines are all small. In China, even if they are mined, they belong to the kind of "small and micro mines" that need to be shut down. Let alone the output of [-] tons, it is Thousands of tons have already reached the sky.

"South America's coal mines are really insufficient!"

Zhu Xianhai, an engineering student, of course knows the shortcomings of this place in South America. Gold and silver are produced, and copper mines are the world's number one. There are also large-scale high-quality iron ore deposits, but there are no coal mines.

Many people even directly regard the lack of coal as the most critical factor for the inability to develop industries in South America.

On the surface, it seems that there are some truths. The key step of the world economy or the national strength of each country lies in the industrial revolution. It is impossible to become a powerful country.

The key factor of the industrial revolution is the production of steel, which in turn depends on coal and iron. Britain can become the first industrial revolution country because they have both coal and iron, while France still has some iron, but coal mines are It is very scarce. Lorraine, the only coal mine, was snatched by Germany in the Franco-Prussian War. This is why France's steel production has been lagging behind Germany.

Without iron ore and coal mines, there is no way to make steel. Without enough steel, there is no way to enter the heavy industry and manufacturing industry. We can only rely on imports. In this way, let alone enter the second industrial revolution independently, even defending the country will become a problem.

Of course, things have never been that simple. There are many places where resources are scarce. The industrial economy in South America cannot develop, and it is finally reduced to the control of British and American capital. Resources are definitely not the root cause.

But it is definitely a constraint.

"Yes, no matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat!"

Looking at the small coal mine located less than 100 kilometers south of Nanhua, although the reserves are only a few hundreds of thousands of tons, the advantage is that the buried layer is shallow, easy to mine, and the quality is not bad, let's make do with it!

Moreover, the small size of the coal mine means that less mining manpower is required, and for now, it must be able to meet Nanhua's needs.

"The map can still be exported."

In addition to being pleasantly surprised, when Zhu Xianhai wanted to output the map, the next moment, he wished he could pump the system twice.

There is even a fee - 100 pesos for a map!

That's it!

Krypton gold system, really krypton gold.

However, after getting more than a dozen maps, Zhu Xianhai felt that it was worth the money. After all, this was the first Nanhua map he had in hand.

Holding the map in his hand, staring at Viedma on the map, Zhu Xianhai said to himself.

"Okay, now it's just you!"

The soldiers who attacked Nanhua came from Viedma. That Second Lieutenant Philip took some medicine and dared to sneak attack Nanhua.

To deal with this kind of potential enemy, Zhu Xianhai has always had only one belief—to take the initiative to attack and solve the problem fundamentally!

(End of this chapter)