Chapter 32 Three-person

In fact, of course, it is not Yang Yong's good character. The copper mine discovered by the Sui army accidentally was the Erdant copper mine in Outer Mongolia in later generations. The mine was not only easy to mine, but also had a huge reserve. In the 1970s, Outer Mongolia was mined under the Soviet aid. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Outer Mongolia joined forces with Russia to produce 400,000 tons of copper concentrate annually, and it was accompanied by two precious metal veins of molybdenum and silver. Once the Erdant copper mine was mined, it became the main source of income for Outer Mongolia, accounting for 50% of the fiscal revenue of the Outer Mongolia government at its highest.

However, there are still six hundred years before the name of the Mongols appeared. Now that history has changed, it is a question whether this nation can appear again. The early discovery of this large copper mine is equivalent to cutting off the hope that nomads will rekindle their hopes of reviving the grassland. For the sake of continuous copper materials, the Han people will always firmly occupy this grassland.

Of course, on the other hand, it may also be said that Yang Yong has a good character. Historically, the territory of the Tang Dynasty has expanded to the west of Lake Berga, but he has not discovered this large copper mine on the Mongolian Plateau. Otherwise, these corpses would not have been abandoned in the later period.

There are only two types of copper coins that are popular in the Great Sui Dynasty. One is Kaihuang Wuzhu, the other is Daye Tongbao, Daye Tongbao. Gu Mingsiyi was a new coins minted after Yang Yong ascended the throne. The former Wuzhu coins were abolished and directly called Daye Tongbao. Kaihuang Wuzhu once cast a small amount of copper coins that were 6 jin and 4 jin. However, the total amount was less than 10,000 jin, and the rest were copper coins that weighed four jin and two jin. Daye Tongbao continued the weight of Kaihuang Wuzhu, and the copper coins were also the standard four jin and two jin.

The Great Sui Dynasty began to mint coins from the early years of Kaihuang. In the first three years, a total of 45 million jin of coins were minted. All the coins circulated on the market were exchanged for Wuzhu coins. Without the old coins as the source of copper, the amount of coins minted later decreased greatly. First, the coins were minted between 100 and 2 million jin per year. By the Renshou period, the amount of coins minted in the court in one year was less than 400,000 jin.

From the first Sui Wuzhu to the current 20 years of Daye, the court has cast more than 70 million coins. From the fifth year of Emperor Wu of Yuanshou to the Yuanshi period of Emperor Ping, the total amount of more than 28 million coins was cast. This cannot be said that the economy of the Great Sui Dynasty has far surpassed the Han Dynasty.

The copper coins cast in the Sui Dynasty were tin two or eight coppers, and the copper was 3 jin three or six coins. The 70 million jin of copper coins required 117,600 tons of copper. These coppers almost used up all the copper materials mined in all dynasties. Now the newly mined copper ore in Chaoting is only about hundreds of tons a year. Even if all of them are used to mint coins, they are only hundreds of thousands of coins, which is far from meeting the needs of economic development.

If this copper mine can mine 1,000 tons of pure copper every year, it means that the Sui Dynasty can cast an additional 600,000 guan of copper coins, and 2,000 tons is 1.2 million guan. Of course, with excess copper, it is not necessary to cast it into copper coins. All kinds of tools and utensils can be made of copper, and the price of copper will also plummet. There will be no good thing that can make several times the profit after melting the copper coins and making the instrument.

"Congratulations to the Emperor, congratulations to the Emperor." The ministers who were with the emperor also reacted and congratulated them one after another.

"The emperor personally led the expedition. Before he arrived at the battlefield, he first heard the windfall that could be used for the hundred years of the Great Sui Dynasty, which indicates that everything went smoothly in this expedition and that the Liaodong clown who could definitely be killed was pissed off." Zhao Nian said with a fun beside him.

"Well, Tianyu doesn't take it, but he is blamed. Since God made the Great Sui Dynasty discover this big copper mine, it is the wealth given to the Great Sui Dynasty by God. This copper mine is called Tianyu Copper Mine. I passed my order. Twenty miles around the copper mine were immediately designated as a forbidden area. I ordered the Minister of Works Yun Dingxing to formulate a detailed mining plan, the faster the better. In addition, all copper mines that were mined in China can be closed down. The miners immigrated to the grassland and all the treatment was superior. Changsun Sheng and Li Jing discovered that the copper mine was meritorious and each was upgraded to one level. The other relevant personnel were waiting for the reward."

The discovery of Tianyu copper mine was spread to the court. The Ministry of Works received the greatest enthusiasm and quickly dispatched skilled miners from China to the grassland. The 50,000 Sui troops on the grassland no longer took the defensive force and became aggressive. It required a lot of manpower to mine copper mines. These manpower could not come from the country. The best target was of course to seize it from the Western Turks. The herdsmen on the Western Turks were also trapped in bloody storms, just like the original Eastern Turks.

Although everyone had expected that this copper mine would bring benefits to the court, no one expected that the benefits would be so great. In the first year, the ore mined reached 5,000 tons. If it were in China, these ores could only produce fifty or sixty tons of refined copper, but the 5,000 tons of ore from Tianyu Copper Mine had produced more than 1,500 tons of refined copper.

Since then, this copper mine has been mined for more than 400 years, with a total output of more than 5 million tons of refined copper. If it is used to cast copper coins, it can be cast 3 billion sprigs of copper coins. In fact, due to the inflow of silver and gold, the copper coins circulated at the highest level in the country were only about 150 million sprigs, and only one-twentieth of the copper material produced in this copper mine is enough.

Of course, it is impossible for all copper to be used to cast coins. In fact, there are too many uses for copper, such as weapons, farm tools, utensils, large tripods, bronze statues... But when copper coins cannot meet the requirements, most of the copper materials are naturally used to cast coins.

With this large copper mine, all low-grade copper mines in the Sui Dynasty were stopped in the second year. After that, all new copper materials in the Central Plains came from the Tianyu copper mine. It was not until hundreds of years later that the Han people entered the era of comprehensive industry and hot weapons, and the supply of this copper mine alone could not meet domestic demand.

However, at that time, the Han people had already broken through the obstacles of the ocean, and the sources of copper ores were richer. There was no need to make the idea of ​​low-quality copper ores in China, which allowed many primeval forests and landforms to be preserved in later generations.

Later generations have evaluated the significance of this copper ore to China, which is no less than the significance of the textile industry promoting the industrial revolution. It is precisely because of the sufficient copper provided by Tianyu Copper ore, which not only provided copper for the rapid economic development of the Sui Dynasty, but also provided enough copper for manufacturing machines. After the Sui Dynasty, a large number of bronzes were also preserved intact as antiques, leaving behind many colorful and exquisite bronzes of later generations.

Zhuo County, the government soldiers from all counties gathered here, 10,000, 20,000... By the time Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin arrived in Zhuozhou, the soldiers and horses in Zhuozhou were at their peak, and had reached more than 100,000 people. These more than 100,000 people turned the entire Zhuo County into a large military camp.

Although Qin Qiong was the first time to join the army, he got a position of a long position due to the recommendation of the county magistrate. There were two special characters in his team, one of which was Cheng Yaojin, who was only fifteen years old, and the other was younger than Cheng Yaojin, only thirteen years old.

Although the soldiers in the palace were not as good as the elite of the imperial guards, they were all big-sleeved and round-waisted, young and strong men. They were not convinced by each other. Qin Qiong was over thirty years old and still looked like a little white-faced. Cheng Yaojin was tall and strong, and a black face could be fooled, but he had no hair on his mouth, and he looked extremely immature. In addition, he was younger than Cheng Yaojin, which made people feel weak and bullied.

At the beginning, Qin Qiong's team was ridiculed a lot, and even veterans from the same team were extremely dissatisfied with Qin Qiong and the other two. They often spoke out and provoked. If it weren't for the strictly prohibited armed fighting in the army, someone would have been rude to them long ago.

However, after a few days, everyone was afraid of Qin Qiong and his men. Although armed fighting was strictly prohibited in the army, soldiers would always find opportunities to compete. In just a few days, Qin Qiong and the other two defeated dozens of people who provoked them. The thirteen-year-old child's martial arts skills were not bad compared to Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin. They beat more than a dozen people.

The thirteen-year-old child, named Luo Ming Shixin, is from Licheng, Qi County, and is a fellow villager with Qin Qiong. With his age, he is naturally not qualified to become a registered soldier. When he heard the imperial edict of the court to recruit soldiers, he ran out of his home to join the army. Because he didn't bring much money, he had no travel expenses on the way. He was immediately in a dilemma and happened to meet Qin Qiong and his party. Seeing that both of them were fellow villagers, Qin Qiong was rich in his pockets, he generously donated money to help. He originally wanted Luo Shixin to take the money home, but after all, he was still young. Seeing that Qin Qiong looked down on him, Luo Shixin proposed to compete with Qin Qiong. Qin Qiong had no choice but to let Cheng Yaojin compete with him.

Luo Shixin is two years younger than Cheng Yaojin and has a figure of about half that of Cheng Yaojin. Cheng Yaojin looked down on Luo Shixin at the beginning and thought he could defeat it with one hand. Unexpectedly, Luo Shixin gave him a warning and threw Cheng Yaojin into the sky. Cheng Yaojin was angry and got up to fight again. As a result, after dozens of rounds, Cheng Yaojin was thrown to the ground again.

Seeing that Luo Shixin was so powerful, Qin Qiong agreed to stay with him. When he arrived in Zhuozhou, Qin Qiong could register with the government soldiers. However, Cheng Yaojin and Luo Shixin took a lot of effort and practiced martial arts in front of the officers responsible for registering and making records, so that they could become government soldiers and separate with Qin Qiong.

This time, the emperor was in charge of the army, and many soldiers in the palace wanted to see the emperor with their own eyes. Cheng Yaojin and Luo Shixin were no exception. Unfortunately, Zhuo County was nearly a thousand miles away from the Liaohe line. In order not to let the Goguryeo people get the news first to prepare, Yang Yong appointed He Ruobi, the Minister of War, as the front line commander. After the soldiers gathered in Zhuo County and formed an army, they immediately set out in advance.
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