The Great Han Dynasty: From Feng Lang Juxu to the Eternal Emperor

Chapter 551 Iron Ore
These days, Sang Hongyang, Lu Chongguo, and Li Ju continued to take their soldiers to find seaports.

During this period, Gongsun He personally visited the South Vietnamese court, hoping that the South Vietnamese court could cooperate with them in finding a suitable port to develop.

The ports entering and leaving the sea need to be developed, and the manpower under Weining alone is not enough. The five thousand troops have to drill every day, which can certainly help, but Gongsun He feels that South Vietnam cannot do nothing.

After the port is built, if they are not in South Vietnam in the future, sooner or later it will still be theirs, and they will naturally have to contribute.

Mi, the old Prime Minister of South Vietnam, with a warm smile on his face, asked Gongsun, "Master Gongsun, why do we want to build a port?"

With the current productivity of South Vietnam, it is useless for them to build ports. It will cost more money. Besides, they are a poor country. They are crazy to spend a lot of money to build ports.

Their country can't even build decent ships, so what's the use of spending money to build ports?

Gongsun He said calmly: "The port you built is not to serve you, but to serve people outside."

"How much does land transportation cost? How much does maritime business and trade cost? You can think about these things for yourself when you have time. You will definitely save more money."

"The construction of the port will do no harm to you now, but if you think about it in the long run, it will do no harm to you."

"I hope you will think about it carefully, and if you figure it out, you can tell us."

"If you don't understand, we will build the port ourselves. Of course, if you want to use it in the future, you will have to pay us a usage fee."

Gongsun He was neither humble nor arrogant, nor did he force the other party to do something.

After he returned, he found Weining and everyone held a meeting again.

Gongsun He never suggested spending a lot of time and energy on building the port. If South Vietnam participated in the construction, the speed would certainly be much faster, but the attitude of South Vietnam is now unclear.

Weining understands Gongsun He's concerns. He doesn't want everyone to focus all their energy on port development. In other words, they still need to find other ways to make money and enrich their economic strength.

As for the development and construction of the port, we will wait until South Vietnam figures it out. Gongsun He does not recommend developing it himself.

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In the next period of time, everyone will focus on finding iron ore.

But what surprised Weining was that just one month later, people from Zhengxi came over, and they actually agreed to work with Weining to develop a maritime port in South Vietnam.

This is a good thing, but it may last for a long time. Wei Ning immediately asked Gongsun He to contact the South Vietnamese court.

Wei Ning was aware of Gongsun He's abilities, and it was reasonable for him to persuade the South Vietnamese court.

Wei Ning planned to go out and take a look at the surrounding mountains to see if he could find an iron mine, but neither Sang Hongyang nor Wei Qing suggested that Wei Ning go out.

Now that there is cooperation between South Vietnam and the Han Dynasty, who knows where the details of the Han Dynasty will be?

Wei Ning said that he could not go out on horseback, but could sit in a sedan and walk around for a while, so Wei Qing agreed.

This small town in the northeast has continuous mountains, and most of the mountains have owners. After the conquest of the West and the unification of South Vietnam, many South Vietnamese tribal leaders were given mountain tops.

Weining opened the coach, pointed to one of the mountains and said, "Go dig some soil there."

The mountains here are very strange. The trees on the mountains are not lush. There is definitely a mine, but I don't know what it is.

Not long after, someone dug up the soil. Weining sniffed it, looked at the color of the soil, and said to him, "dig deeper and take a look."

"Here!"

Not long after, a soldier came over excitedly and said: "Your Highness, we have dug iron!"

They have been looking for the mountain range for so long, but they have never laid their eyes on it. They have been looking for the iron mine day and night. Who knew it was right next to them?

Weining also had a smile on his face, and then said: "Go and find out who owns this mountain range, and try to see if there is any idea of ​​selling it." "Here!"

When Weining returned to Northeast City and told Sang Hongyang and others the news, everyone was extremely excited. Could this be dragon energy?

They had been searching for so long but still couldn't find the iron ore, and His Highness found it after only being out for half a day?

This was probably what the so-called darkness under the lamp was like. When Sang Hongyang heard that the iron mine was located on the top of a hill not far from the Northeast City, he was a little dumbfounded for a moment.

He really hasn't been looking around.

The soldiers also returned from abroad at this time and told Weining that this mountain range belonged to the Langqiong tribe in South Vietnam. They heard that people from Northeast City wanted to buy their mountain and expressed their welcome, hoping that Weining could go and negotiate in person.

Weining naturally had no time to spare, so he sent Sang Hongyang over and asked Sang Hongyang to buy the mountain back at the lowest price no matter what.

The Langqiong tribe is the same as their name. The leader is Langqiong Zhao. The tribe has about fifty or sixty thousand people. It is considered a small tribe.

However, the leader of Langqiongzhao is a very greedy leader. Knowing that Northeast City is economically developed, he plans to kill a wave of Sang Hongyang.

"This mountain... But when I followed King Zhengxi to fight the enemy, the King rewarded me for my bravery and specially rewarded it to me."

"It's a badge of honor."

He really didn't know how to brag. It was just a barren mountain. There was nothing worth bragging about. He couldn't plant the land, and there were no trees growing on the mountain. He couldn't even sell it for money.

There would be a fool who would buy his mountain. Of course he would sell it, no matter how much money he paid.

Although he thought so in his heart, he couldn't show it. He changed his words and said: "Thirty thousand taels of silver, not a penny less!"

Sang Hongyang was silent for a moment, nodded and said: "Okay!"

it is good?
These Han people from Northeast City are so easy to deceive. That's great, thirty thousand taels of silver... that's too much!

Eh? Why are you leaving?

Lang Qiongzhao saw that Sang Hongyang didn't talk nonsense at all, so he stood up and was about to leave. He was anxious and hurriedly grabbed Sang Hongyang and said, "Are you going to withdraw money?"

Sang Hongyang shook his head and said, "No."

"Then you go to the hut?"

Sang Hongyang shook his head and said, "No."

"It's not this, that's not it, what are you doing? Don't you want to buy it?"

Sang Hongyang nodded this time and said: "Yes."

ah? If you didn't say yes just now, why didn't you buy it?

"Wait, wait!" Lang Qiongzhao stopped the other party and asked, "Why don't you buy it?"

Why? Don't you know? Even if you regard me as a fool, you are not like this. You said that I still have the desire to counter-offer for ten thousand taels, but you said that I have no desire to counter-offer for thirty thousand taels.

Sang Hongyang said: "It's too expensive. I'll buy another mountain."

Sang Hongyang's negotiation wisdom was not at the same level as the other party's. He had already crushed the other party to death in just a few words.

Lang Qiongzhao said hurriedly: "This... we are talking about business. There will be back and forth. If you are not satisfied, just discuss the price."

(End of this chapter)