At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 520: Journey to the Kingdom of God and Development in Half a Year
On January 15th, the 24th year of the Han calendar, Yinzhou continent, the starting port.

Time flies and never comes back. It has been half a year since the establishment of the Northern Yinzhou Governor's Office in the New World.

Although this period was short, the noble priests of all the major Mayan city-states knew about it. On the coastline west of Maya, a powerful kingdom called Han established a city called Starting City. It is said that this country called Han and the Mayans had the same ancestors. A few years ago, Prince Guyu went to Han and came back, and he described Han as the same as the kingdom of God.

There are countless cities towering into the clouds, and the Han people live in solid houses, not afraid of any wind or rain. The Han people grow extremely rich crops that can fill the stomachs of every Han person. The salt they eat is as white as the snow in the sky. They wear either snow-white cotton clothes or gorgeous silk clothes. Everyone is as strong as the gods in the sky.

There are countless tall buildings in the cities of the Han Dynasty. The fluffy soil turns into rocks, and they use black stones to pave a road that is not afraid of rain. At night, the city of the Han Dynasty is like a kingdom of God. The Han people will use something called kerosene lamps to illuminate the entire city, making the night in the city as bright as the day. The Han people like to travel on such nights.

The Han people used something called railways to connect hundreds of their cities. Running on the railway was a fire spirit that was more powerful than the Winged God. The Han people called this spirit a train. As long as it ate something called coal, the fire spirit would burst out with endless power and could carry a city's worth of goods. Moreover, it ran very fast and could run from the east to the west of Maya in one night.

In the cities of the Han Dynasty, there is a place called Shifang, where all the goods in the world are concentrated.

There are bright silk, soft cotton, warm wool, crystal clear glass, colorful porcelain, and pure white rock sugar and salt. It can be said that any goods in the world can be found in this market.

It can be said that after his trip to the Han Dynasty, Prince Guyu became a real Han emperor. He firmly supported the ancestors of the Mayans, who migrated from the land of the Han Dynasty.

But what Prince Guyu said was too exaggerated. The entire Mayan priests' description of heaven was not even one-tenth of what Prince Guyu said. They were already the most imaginative people in this country, and they still could not imagine such a powerful country, let alone ordinary people in Maya.

They all thought that Prince Guyu was in a fantasy, so he said such crazy things. How could the ancestors of the Mayans be on the continent across the sea? And how could the country across the sea be so powerful? Even gods should not be so powerful.

But Prince Guyu not only offered sacrifices to the ancestors of the Mayans and brought back gifts that were rich enough to rival a country, but when they saw with their own eyes the silk cloth, various porcelains, glassware, white sugar, white salt, swords and armor, and the divine chariot that shone with dazzling light, these tangible objects forced them to admit that there really was a powerful, god-like country on the other side of the sea.

The Han Dynasty was so powerful and wealthy that the Mayan nobles began to accept Prince Guyu's statement. Most importantly, the silk, tea, porcelain, white sugar, white salt, flatbed carts, wheelbarrows, and various iron tools they used in daily life all came from this place called the Starting City. The major city-states and chiefs of the Mayan country were now proud to own goods from the Han Dynasty.

After learning the news, Chen Mai thought it was extremely beneficial for the Han Dynasty to rule the New World. He collected the news and finally wrote a travelogue of the Kingdom of God, promoting the Han Dynasty throughout the Mayan country and making them realize that they were also the people of the Kingdom of God.

The priests of the Mayan countries also felt that such propaganda was beneficial to their rule, so they added fuel to the fire. Of course, this was also related to the generosity of the Han people. In order to improve the relationship between these noble priests, Chen Mai generously gave them Han luxury goods.

They were even told that the luxury goods they liked could be exchanged for some useless slaves. If they didn't even have slaves, they could just go to the starting city to work and the money they earned could support their entire family. Moreover, the Han people's tools were extremely sturdy, and even the sturdiest Makwawit could not compare to the Han people's farm tools.

As a result, many Mayan workers took away many magical farm tools, forcing Xu Aimin to formulate a collective responsibility law. Farm tools had designated storage rooms and were distributed to the Mayan people when they were needed. If one person lost a farm tool, the whole group would be punished, and the army was sent to monitor them from the outside, thus reducing the loss of farm tools.

These are just a small part of the conflicts between the Han and Mayan peoples, but Xu Aimin tries his best to resolve these disputes by peaceful means.

In general, the Mayan aristocratic priest class has recognized the existence of the Han Dynasty in the New World and gave Xu Aimin a hundred miles of land within the starting city.

After more than half a year of construction, the Starting City has undergone earth-shaking changes.

A brand new port city has sprung up at the location of the original fishing village. The original wooden docks have now been replaced with stone docks. A three-meter-high lighthouse has also been built. Kerosene lamps will be lit at night, and the light of the lighthouse can be seen from a radius of more than ten miles. The pier goes deep into the sea, and the dock has been expanded 10 times. Now it can accommodate 30 ships with a capacity of more than 10 tons at a time. The dock is full of masts, but many ships have returned to the Han Dynasty after unloading their cargo. They will bring supplies and personnel to the Northern Yinzhou Governor's Office for the next step. At least in the next years, the Northern Yinzhou Governor's Office will still need to rely on the goods of the Han Dynasty to maintain normal operations.

The thatched huts in the port were all replaced by wooden board houses. At that time, the Maya had no shortage of trees. These Mayans could cut down a tree several meters high in half a day with their strong steel axes and saws. Then the logs were pulled to the sawmill. Once the steam saw was started, it would take less than an incense stick of time for the logs to become a pile of planks. These planks were pulled to the city to build standard board houses, and the wood chips, bark, etc. were taken to the paper mill for papermaking.

With a complete set of standardized processes, the style of the wooden houses is exactly the same, and it is a standard two-story small building. Ten craftsmen can complete it in one day, just like playing with building blocks.

Relying on such a standardized process, the craftsmen built 3000 such wooden houses, most of which were given to naturalized Mayans to live in.

In the core area of ​​the City Lord's Mansion, there are generally brick and stone houses, with about a thousand of them. These are the residential areas for the core personnel of the Beiyinzhou Governor's Mansion. Outside the residential area is the warehouse area, where there are granaries, cloth warehouses, cargo warehouses, and arsenals for the entire Governor's Mansion. All the supplies of the entire Governor's Mansion are stored here. There is also a ten-foot-high and five-foot-wide city wall on the outside, which is equivalent to the inner city of the starting city.

The City Lord's Mansion is a 5-story brick and stone building, covering an area of ​​approximately one acre and with hundreds of rooms inside. It is considered the headquarters of the Northern Yinzhou Governor's Mansion.

Xu Aimin didn't want to build such a tall building at this time, but Chen Mai said: "It is only magnificent that can enhance prestige. The Mayans are friendly with our Han people now because our Han people are strong. If they think our Han people are weak, they will definitely attack our starting city. This tall building is the best proof of our Han people's strength. We need to see the Mayan natives submit to this building."

Only then was Xu Aimin persuaded by Chen Mai to build the first wonder of the Han Dynasty in the New World.

Outside the starting city, there are lush tropical rainforests in the east, south and north directions. However, a large area of ​​these rainforests has been left empty as they were all cut down in the past six months. Most of the wood has been used to build wooden houses, and a small part has become raw materials for shipyards and car factories.

Thanks to Liu Bi's teachings, the Mayan civilization finally learned how to build cars, but their technical level was no match for the Han Dynasty. At the same time, their shipbuilding technology was extremely poor. They usually cut down a tree and hollowed out the trunk to make a canoe.

In order to trade food for the Mayans, Zhang Yang mainly developed the shipbuilding and car-building industries. The transport ships, wheelbarrows, and flatbed trucks were the rigid needs of the Mayan city-states. The Mayan nobles who had used wheelbarrows and transport ships could carry goods on their shoulders.

These means of transportation also greatly accelerated the exchange of materials among the major Mayan city-states, and the prosperous commercial economy made the Starting City the commercial core of the major Mayan city-states.

Outside the city, the coastal areas were all developed into fields, planted with local crops such as corn, potatoes, and peppers, as well as rice, cabbage and other vegetables from the Han Dynasty. The Northern Yinzhou Governor's Office reclaimed 3 acres of land in the past six months. According to the estimation of the local elders of Maya, if all these lands had a good harvest, they could harvest about 20 dan of grain.
Outside the city is the industrial zone of the Governor's Office. Lumber mills, shipyards, car factories, kiln factories, and cement factories are all built here. These small industrial facilities not only have to meet the needs of the starting city, but also need to meet the needs of the major Mayan city-states. It can even be said that this new continent has only this little industrial production capacity.

Therefore, the profits are extremely lucrative. It can even be said that the largest financial source of the Governor's Office is this small industrial zone.

A transport ship can make 10 times the profit, a wheelbarrow or a flatbed truck can make more than five times the profit, and the white paper of the Han people can make more than 20 times the profit. These savages even used white paper to create new patterns, painted colorful clay on the paper, and then made clothing styles and wore them directly as clothes. They even made paper clothes.

Outside the industrial area is a huge timber warehouse area filled with precious felled timber, each piece of timber is more than a hundred years old.

Zhang Yang introduced to Xu Aimin: "These are logs that are more than a hundred years old. The inferior ones are used to build wooden houses. These are the most precious red oak, white oak, and cedar in the Han Dynasty. They have been fumigated and dried. These logs are worth tens of thousands of coins when brought back to the processing plant in the Han Dynasty. These are unique woods in the New World. I named them rouge wood, and the ones that are the same color as gold are named golden sandalwood. These woods are unprecedented in the Han Dynasty, and their value is difficult to estimate. If the nobles and wealthy businessmen like them, one log may be worth a million. Even if they don't like them, it should not be a problem to sell them for hundreds of thousands of coins. All these logs should be worth hundreds of millions of coins when brought back to the Han Dynasty."

At this stage, the only useful things for the Han Dynasty in the New World are these precious logs. Other specialties of the New World are not worth transporting on a large scale, and cannot be sold for much money, especially in Central Yinzhou, where even the furs cannot be sold.

"Hundreds of millions of dollars? Not counting the cost of the ship, it has already cost us more than ten billion dollars to come to the New World. This little profit is far from enough to cover the cost." Xu Aimin frowned.

If the Governor's Office keeps losing money, it will be difficult to operate. At the current rate of development, it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars every month to maintain its development. If the income is only this much, it will lose hundreds of millions of dollars every year. This is very rare for the Han Dynasty. You must know that each reclamation site in the Han Dynasty brings wealth to the court. Only their Beiyinzhou Governor's Office is losing money. How can he explain this to the court?

Chen Mai said, "The Governor's Office can make back its investment. Young Master Zhou and his men have already established twelve vassal states near the Silver Mountain. It is said that they have already refined 40 catties of silver and 1 catties of gold at the Silver Mountain. These precious metals are worth about billion coins. According to the original agreement between the court and the vassal states, the court will take half of the profits from the gold and silver of the New World, which is about to million coins."

Zhou Ce and his team explored the area around the Silver Mountain, but only found a few small silver mines, which were completely incomparable to the Silver Mountain they first discovered. Because they wanted to compete for the control of the Silver Mountain, the parties almost fought each other, and finally established vassal states near the Silver Mountain according to the original agreement.

They could each mine the silver on the Silver Mountain, and the more they worked the more they earned. As a result, 12 small cities appeared near Yunshan. These cities were built around the silver refinery. All the craftsmen, miners, people in the industrial chain, and these vassal states also developed around the Silver Mountain. There were probably more than 3 people in that area, but apart from being able to refine silver, a specialty, they had not developed any other industries.

From the simplest food to the mining tools, bricks for building the castle, refractory bricks for the blast furnace, mine carts for pulling ore, and cloth needed by the workers, all need to be purchased in the starting city.

In just a few months, the Starting City exchanged goods for more than 1 kilograms of silver, and the profit was extremely high. To some extent, these princes were the largest consumer market for the Starting City.

Xu Aimin said happily: "I had forgotten about the development of Yinshan. I didn't expect that Brother Zhou Ce and his team developed so fast that they could actually hoard 40 kilograms of silver!"

This number surprised Xu Aimin a little. The Han Dynasty court had explored the Treasure Island for more than ten years and had discovered dozens of mines, but the annual output of minerals was only about half of this number.

Chen Mai said with regret: "If Your Majesty had not spread the news of the Silver Mountain, the Silver Mountain would have belonged to our Governor's Office, and the Governor's Office would not have lacked funds for development."

Chen Mai originally thought that even if there were gold and silver mines in the New World, they would be at most similar to Treasure Island. However, he did not expect that there would be such rich mines in the New World. Half of the ore was actually silver. He had never heard of such a mineral.

Now Zhou Ce and his team have only made a start. All kinds of equipment and personnel have not been recruited yet, and the production capacity cannot be fully unleashed. If they get the support of the court, it is possible to increase the production capacity two or three times. This output will be extremely terrifying, almost 10% of the court's fiscal revenue. The Governor's Office will become one of the most important departments of the court.

The power of their Dudu Mansion would naturally increase. If it could become a general's office in an important town, his chief clerk could become a chief official with a salary of two thousand stones.

Xu Aimin said: "They are meritorious officials of the court, so they should not be treated unfairly. Besides, the gold and silver they dug up also flowed into our governor's office."

Xu Fan and Xu Aimin said that the significance of the Han Dynasty's enfeoffment of princes was, first, to expand the borders of the Han civilization, and second, to reduce the influence of meritorious officials on the Han Dynasty. At this stage, the Han Dynasty court was ready to move the feudal lords out of the Han territory, so naturally they had to give them a benefit to be willing to move, and the gold and silver mines in the New World were this benefit.

"Chen Mai sent an envoy to inform Brother Zhou Ce and the others that the fleet of the Governor's Office was returning to the Han Dynasty and asked them if they wanted to go back with them?"

"I will go and inform them right away."

Xu Aimin passed the news of returning to the Han Dynasty to Zhou Ce and others, and they immediately decided to return to the Han Dynasty.

After several months of settling down, they began to gradually sober up from the craze for silver. They now understood that silver was wealth only in the Han Dynasty and could not be exchanged for much in the New World.

Of course, the fact that they could wake up so quickly was directly related to the high prices that Chen Mai sold their goods to them. When the food they brought was consumed, Chen Mai sold them food at the price of 300 coins per stone, which was nearly 10 times higher than that in the Han Dynasty. The key point was that even at such a high price, Chen Mai only sold them some corn and potatoes. A piece of linen cost coins, which was more than three times that of the Han Dynasty, and a piece of silk cost coins, which was more than ten times that of the Han Dynasty. The prices of various mining carts, flatbed carts, and wheelbarrows were also about ten times that of the Han Dynasty.

Despite the high price, he said with a look of making a profit: "This is only because we grew up together. Otherwise, I would never sell it to you at such a low price."

It seems like Zhou Ce and his friends made a lot of money.

But in fact, they all know that they have suffered several times the scissors gap between industry and agriculture, but they are powerless to refute it, because this scissors gap between industry and agriculture is not only cutting them, but also cutting the indigenous people of the entire New World. In the entire New World, only the Starting City can provide the industrial products they need. This is a unique business. Not to mention that the price of Chenmai has increased by less than 10 times now, even if it increases by 20 times, they have no way to refuse unless they can manufacture these industrial products themselves.

(End of this chapter)