Chapter 680 Territorial Minerals
The Luo family's workshops are mainly built in the mountains near Anyue Mountain City. On the main road entering the mountain, a spacious marching avenue has been built at this time.
A checkpoint has been set up at the entrance of the avenue to enter the mountain, and some recruited peasants are responsible for guarding them day and night. On the avenue after entering the mountain, you will encounter some patrolling peasants from time to time along the way. Occasionally, you can see the Black Hawk Ninjas that can be revealed next to the road to let Masaru know their existence (so that the guards around Masaru will mislead someone to attack Masaru).
The real workshop is located in a wide valley in the mountains, which is almost equivalent to a small basin. Due to frequent earthquakes in Japan (Zhengliang has experienced no less than ten small earthquakes after he came here), and mudslides are prone to erupting in the mountains and forests, so for the safety of these workshops and the technicians in it, Zhenggliang sent people to explore several times and finally concentrated all the workshops scattered in the mountains to this small basin that can not only prevent disasters caused by earthquakes but also prevent mudslides.
After several years of development, this small basin has formed a small town with workshops and houses (called Workshop Town by locals). A large number of craftsmen, workers and their families live here. It is also quite convenient to live here after birth, and you can fully farm and live in it. There are also two shopping malls, Luoshi House and Shenwu, which are specially allowed to settle here.
In order to keep some of the technology of the territory confidential, almost all residents here must obtain approval from the Intelligence Pavilion and Zhengliang before they can get out of this huge mountain range (the Black Hawk's nest is nearby, so that they can monitor the surrounding mountains).
In order to appease the craftsmen, workers and their families who settled here, Zhengliang not only paid them generous salary, but also exempted them from taxes. Therefore, with the conditions here, it is almost equivalent to a paradise, and the local people are fully satisfied with this kind of life (at this time, whether in the Ming Dynasty or Japan, there are scenes of war and chaos everywhere, and they can live here quietly, all living supplies are guaranteed, children can also learn cultural inheritance skills, and they can also use their talents. What else can they complain about?).
After arriving in the small basin where the workshop is located, Zhengliang first met everyone in the meeting hall in the center of the basin.
The retainers present this time were Togo Heiji. As the ruling of the territory's internal affairs cabinet, he had to be present. Moreover, among the several important officials around Masaru, Kakuma Shisen was in charge of the Togo Kingdom at this time to deal with the situation around the Togo Kingdom. Akaba Nobusuke was in the Tuomae country and was working hard to deal with the forces of the Ouitan family. At the same time, he led the diplomatic negotiations with the Ouitan family. As for the ruling of the Territory Intelligence Pavilion, Yamamoto Kazusuke naturally also wanted to take charge of the work of the Kishigaki-geune City's unified intelligence cabinet and assisted Masaru Daimei to monitor the entire Luo family territory and foreign situation. As for the retainers of other military, internal affairs, logistics and other departments, they all had their own specific work to be busy. Therefore, only Togo Heiji, the ruling of the Interior Affairs cabinet of the various workshops in the territorial areas, needs to accompany Masaru.
In addition to Heiji Togo, there are also iron tools made of Tadajiro, weapons responsible for the forging of weapons, weapons responsible for the iron cannons and iron cannons forging of large tubes, weapons responsible for the friendly army of the country, weapons responsible for the detection of minerals, and weapons responsible for the detection of minerals, and Tian Xiangyu, who is responsible for the smelting of ores.
Tian Xiangyu was from the Ming Dynasty. He served as the Luo family's official position. Chen Tianjie was both in 1544, following Wang Hai's smuggling fleet and his family and his family to settle down. Not long after his settlement, Chen Tianjie showed his skills familiar with the language and culture of the Southern Barbarians with the opportunity to deal with the visiting Zhu Qinfeng fleet. He was therefore appreciated by Zhengliang and gradually grew into the Luo family's independent public position.
After being reused, Chen Tianjie then recommended his friend Tian Xiangyu to Zhengliang. Chen Tianjie and Tian Xiangyu's ancestors were both gentry from the coastal areas of Zhejiang, and they made a fortune by relying on doing business with the Southern Barbarians. After the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, their family gradually declined. Some gentry who rose through collusion between officials and businessmen and even collusion with Japanese pirates took the opportunity to continue to erode their interests, and finally forced Chen Tianjie and Tian Xiangyu to bankrupt ten years ago. They were desperate. The two defected to Wang Hai, trying to make a fortune again, but because they touched the interests of others, they were jointly attacked by gentry and bureaucrats in the local area who had been doing smuggling business. They were eventually forced to take their families to Zhengliang.
Since these two ancestors had close contacts with the Southern Barbarians, they had been influenced by the Southern Barbarian culture since childhood and had a rich knowledge of the Southern Barbarians. Tian Xiangyu's family secretly operated minerals and was also very good at smelting technology. After getting the opportunity to show his talents, he quickly showed Zhengliang smelting technology such as the "Amargam Method" of the Southern Barbarians. Then, combined with the Ming and local smelting methods of the Japanese country, they established a complete smelting method, which greatly improved the smelting efficiency of the gold, silver, copper ore and other minerals of the Luo family.
Later, he even joined hands with the ore pursuit Li Hongfei to integrate vertical hole excavation, tunnel excavation and other excavation methods, which made the Luo Family's mine excavation technology great progress. Due to his huge contribution to the Luo Family, he was directly promoted by Zhengliang from a craftsman foreman to smelting and practicing the Luo Family's family last year.
In the convention hall of Gongfang Town, after everyone finished their salutes, Togo Heiji, who was in power as the Interior Cabinet, first introduced the recent situation of Gongfang Town. Then, Li Hongfei, the territory and mines, submitted a book that was kept in a wooden box to Masara.
This is about the ores found in the Luo Family territory in the past decade. Since a lot of the information on these ores is kept confidential (except for several important figures, including Zhengliang, even ordinary retainers may not know the ores in various places of the Luo Family), Li Hongfei did not report it in public, but instead submitted it to Zhengliang in the form of an account book.
Zhengliang took the account book submitted by the young martial arts and the young man, and immediately opened it and read it. From the information on the account book, he learned that the situation of the Luo family at this time was as follows:
In terms of gold mines, only a huge gold mine was found on the Oiping Mine in Fenghouguo area. In addition, no other gold mines were explored in the territory of Feiqian Kingdom, Chuohou Kingdom, Feihou Kingdom, Chuoqian Kingdom and Hinata. However, the gold mine in Fenghouguo area alone could increase the Luo family's income a lot.
In order to keep the Luo family's unique smelting technology confidential, after the gold mine is dug out of the Weiping Gold Mine, the local smelting workshop will adopt the smelting technology that is currently widely known in Japan to initially smelting these ores, and then the smelted gold ore and waste slag (in fact, it also contains some gold) will be transported to the main workshop near Yueshan City, Feiqianan, for the last step of smelting, and strive to maximize income.
In terms of silver mines, a rich silver mine was found on Yunye Mountain in the Beizhen Mountains of Shenzai County, Feiqianguo, named Yunye Silver Mine; a silver mine was found on Shiqu Mountain in Shangwu County, Zhuhouguo, named Shiqu Silver Mine. The above two silver mines were explored by the Luo family after occupying the local area and are currently being mined.
In addition, the Miyahara silver mine of the Homogo and the Oeehiro silver mine of the Tomogogo were just discovered by the Otomo family, and now they have been occupied by the Luo family, and the local mining work has returned to normal.
For the purpose of keeping the smelting technology confidential, these silver ores will first adopt the initial smelting locally and then transport them to Feiqian General Workshop for final smelting for silver extraction.
In terms of copper mines, two new copper mines were found in Shiraishi Mountain in Matsuura County and Void Zangshan in Nanfeiqian (the small copper mines originally discovered by the Luo Family on the wild high mountains have long been excavated), and the reserves are very rich, and they are named Shiraishi Copper Mine and Void Copper Mine respectively.
In addition, the built Feixing Mountain and the fatty Xiyue Mountain have copper mines that were originally occupied by local wealthy families. At this time, these copper mines also belonged to the Luo family, but these were small copper mines, and they were mined for a long time, and the reserves were no longer large.
It is worth mentioning that there are many companion iron ore among the above-mentioned copper ore, which slightly alleviates the territorial demand for iron ore. Of course, the majority of demand for iron ore still needs to be solved by import.
In terms of rare ores, only lead ores and tin ores were found in Weiping ore in Fenghouguo. The Inner Government will soon mine these two mines after the autumn harvest. It is expected that their reserves should be able to fully meet the needs of the Luo family for use of lead ores and tin ores.
The above-mentioned gold, silver, copper, lead and tin ore are used for the smelting method, which is first used to initially smelting locally and then transported to Feiqian General Workshop for final smelting for ore extraction. Among these minerals, lead and tin ore will be kept for their own use. Gold, silver ore, and copper ore will be mined together with Ming Dynasty merchant Wang Hai and Southern barbarian Zhu Qinfeng. Part of it is left for the Luo family to use for their own use, and part of it is left for Wang Hai and Zhu Qinfeng to earn higher benefits (The Luo family will send people to participate in the transaction process throughout the entire process, and by the way, increase the navigation knowledge of these people).
Chapter completed!