I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Chapter 142 [4 More] 142

Liu Tan raised his head and looked at Wei Buyi in a bewildered manner. After the initial excitement, Wei Busu was at a loss for a moment when he watched Liu Tan without saying a word.

"Your Highness?" Wei Buyi wondered, why is His Highness unhappy?

Liu Tan wiped his face and asked, "Did you really find out?"

Wei Buyi nodded: "Really!"

It’s fine if it’s other minerals. Copper mines are considered to be the most commonly recognized minerals in this era. At the beginning, everyone wondered if they misunderstood it.

Liu Tan took a deep breath: "Go and ask Mr. Huo to come over."

Huo Guang came very quickly, and now the entire leadership team of the Northern Borderlands is working in the county mansion. In the area of ​​the county mansion, it is less than [-] meters from Liu Tan's office to Huo Guang's office!

After Huo Guang came in, he asked, "Your Highness, what happened?"

Liu Tan looked up at him and said, "Wei Buyi just said that a copper mine was discovered in the site where the palace was chosen."

Huo Guang was also taken aback, and turned to look at Wei Buyi, this time he didn't need to question, Wei Buyi said first: "Really, if your Highness and Huo Xiang don't believe it, you can go and have a look."

Huo Guang subconsciously turned his head to look at Liu Tan: "Where Your Highness chose the palace..."

Liu Tan looked at him seriously and said, "I said I don't know if you believe me?"

Huo Guang's expression was obviously disbelieving, and Liu Tan was a little dumbfounded: "I really don't know. If I knew, I would have someone go and look for it directly. Why do I need to set up the palace there? Now that the foundation pits have been half dug, what else is there?" We need to relocate."

The truth is this, but if Liu Tan really doesn't know anything, it means that Liu Tan can produce all kinds of minerals at any place with his finger!

In fact, things like copper mines are no longer as simple as minerals, but a mountain of money has been dug out!

Huo Guang said: "Your Highness, I will go and have a look first."

Liu Tan also stood up and said, "Let's go, I'll take a look too."

Although I know the situation of the Hetao Desert from various records, in fact Liu Tan has never seen the Hetao Desert with his own eyes. Oh, it doesn’t count to see the pictures after passing through. It’s just that this time he can go there to take a look, otherwise he really can’t find it. For what reason.

By the time Liu Tan and Huo Guang got there, half a day had passed.

At this time, the construction of the palace had all stopped, and the conscripted people gathered together and were very excited.

After seeing Liu Tan's carriage, these common people stood up and looked at Liu Tan's carriage in awe.

These days, information is underdeveloped, and all news is passed on by word of mouth. It just so happens that some of the managers who built the palace this time had followed Liu Tan to the Western Regions.

They all knew that Liu Tan had dug a gold mine when he was building a city in the Western Regions.

So it slowly spread among the people who came to build the palace.

In the beginning, His Royal Highness the King of the Northern Realm was the incarnation of Qian Tong, and the place he chose must have been discovered by Qian Cai.

Qian Tong can be said to be the god of wealth that people believed in the Han Dynasty, but the recognized god of wealth Zhao Gongming or Guan Yu, the god of wealth and martial arts, had not yet appeared at this time.

After Liu Tan got out of the car, he went directly to the place where the copper mine was first discovered.

The place was already guarded by soldiers, and no one was allowed to approach it. After Liu Tan took Huo Guang and others in, he saw a hole in the foundation pit.

And the craftsman who was said to be very good at identifying copper mines was already blushing with excitement.

This is probably the highlight moment of his life. When he saw Liu Tan, he stuttered and seemed to be so nervous and excited that he would faint at any time.

Liu Tan said soothingly, "Don't be nervous, just speak slowly."

The craftsman became even more excited, and tremblingly said: "Many... Thank you, Your Highness, thank you, Your Highness."

Liu Tan is helpless, thank me for what I do?

Waiting for the craftsman to say that he might not be able to wait, he simply asked: "Can you estimate the size of this piece of copper mine now?"

The craftsman said: "It's hard to estimate now. If... If the slave's guess is right, at least there are copper mines within the entire palace. You see, the ore here is layer by layer. The terrain of this generation is like this." , so the specific size needs to be explored again.”

Liu Tanxin said that where is the palace? Who would build the palace next to the mining area?

He asked, "How is the quality of the ore?"

All mines are divided into rich and poor. If it is a very barren mineral, there is basically no need to mine it when the mining efficiency is low.

When he asked this, the craftsman was even more excited: "Your Highness, the copper ore here can extract at least [-]% of the copper ore, and it is the best copper ore!"

To be honest, when he heard that copper ore can only extract [-]% of the copper ore, Liu Tan was still very disgusted. He didn't know much about minerals, but he thought that mining for half a day turned out to be [-]% of the waste, which was too difficult.

Unexpectedly, such copper ore is actually the best copper ore.

He asked with some surprise: "The best? Is it the northern border country or..."

"It is the best copper mine within the scope of Dahan!" The craftsman explained excitedly: "And not only that, His Highness didn't know something, I just looked at it, and the associated mines of these copper mines turned out to be silver mines! There are a small amount of lead ore and zinc ore!"

Liu Tan was shocked. He had no research on minerals and never knew that copper ore could be associated with silver ore.

"Associated mines of copper mines and silver mines?" Wei Buyi on the side was a little shocked, he knew even less than Liu Tan.

The craftsman nodded vigorously, while Liu Tan was a little dumbfounded.

Although this is not a gold mine, it is really a mountain of money.

Even though silver is not used as currency these days, it is still widely used in various jewelry, even if it is not as good as copper.

Liu Tan turned to look at Huo Guang, Huo Guang immediately said: "I will send someone to seal off the entire area, Your Highness... If so, I am afraid that there are not enough craftsmen in the middle school now."

The craftsmen brought by Liu Tan were specifically proposed by Liu Che, thinking that no matter whether they are needed or not, they should be prepared for his son.

This is preferential treatment for Liu Tan. As for Liu Fuling... Liu Che's reason is very good: Qi is a land of abundance, where talents come forth in large numbers, so there is no need to prepare too much.

Well, the double standard clearly leaves you speechless.

This was also one of the reasons why Liu Fuling gritted his teeth with hatred when he left.

The treatment is not good, it doesn't seem to be a big deal when there is only one, but suddenly there is a control group next to it, which is extremely easy to be psychologically unbalanced.

When they left, Liu Fuling's convoy also included the people brought by the Queen Mother of Qi. It was not as big as Liu Tan's team alone. Thinking about their mother and son being put on the same ground, if they want to stand up, they can only bless the crown prince. Well, there is no second way.

Even the sudden death of the crown prince has nothing to do with him. The mother of the King of the Northern Realm is still in Chang'an.

Even if the former Mrs. Gouyi discovered that the Empress Dowager of Qi had categorically stated that Liu Tan was not Chen Ajiao's own birth, but if Liu Che didn't say anything, the others would agree, so who could have doubts about the life experience of the King of the North?

Anyway, if Liu Che likes someone, even if he is not considerate, he can think of every aspect, but no matter how thoughtful he is, he probably would not have thought that Liu would find a copper mine when he talked about it.

After hearing Huo Guang's meaning, Liu Tan said clearly: "I'll go back and write a letter to my father!"

Huo Guang was a little hesitant: "The minister means to recruit talents in the northern border country. After all, the copper mine belongs to His Highness, so it is not appropriate for the imperial court to send people...."

Liu Tan quickly realized that princes and kings were allowed to mint money these days!

Not only is it allowed, but there are no restrictions on the amount of coins except that they need to be reported to the court!

To be honest, this kind of laissez-faire did not lead to economic collapse, and it can only be attributed to the relics of ancient customs. Nowadays, everyone is still used to bartering.

For such a hidden danger, Liu Tan was very worried, but he couldn't say anything, he could only sigh: "It's okay, it's the same when I write to my mother."

Huo Guang shut up immediately, really, how could he forget that Liu Tan also has a rich empress mother?

The queen's team is more comprehensive than the prince's, who doesn't have anyone under her?

And the strangest thing about him is why does Liu Tan suddenly look worried?

Shouldn't this be something to be happy about?

Even if he was killed, Liu Tan was worried about the entire economic system of the big man, and when a person can clearly see that something may erode the foundation of the country but there is no way to change it, the pain is unbelievable.

Yes, even if you can see it, Liu Tan doesn't plan to say it, at least not right now, saying that he is mobilizing the interests of all the princes and kings, no, no, not just the princes and kings, the emperor favors anyone these days For whom to mint money, think about Deng Tong, and even make "Deng Tong money"!

If Liu Tan really raises this question, not only the princes and kings, but also those who have benefited will want to kill him.

Killing him is not just a mental activity, but also put into action.

People these days still have some barbaric legacy, the way of benevolent and righteous gentleman has not been promoted, there are not so many rules, and there are not many restrictions. If you really don't like it, you can find someone to kill you, and there is no psychological burden.

Think about Chen Ajiao killing Mrs. Li so simply and neatly, and almost no one in the ruling and opposition parties judges Chen Ajiao knows that this kind of thing is normal.

Wait a little longer, when Liu Tan went back to write a letter to Liu Che, he held back and didn't write.

But he was young, with the passion and impulsiveness unique to young people, which made him hold back and he couldn't stand it. After thinking about it, he simply wrote a letter to Liu Ju.

Of course, he didn't write anything in the letter, he just wanted to give Liu Ju [-]% of the income of the entire copper mine, which was the case every year.

Anyway, the scourge of witchcraft seems to have passed safely. As long as Liu Ju does not have major problems, he should not be abolished, so sooner or later the emperor will be him.

In this case, there is no difference between giving him a part of the copper mine's income and giving it to the emperor. The only difference is that it is not included in the court.

When Liu Tan wrote this, he suddenly remembered one thing. This copper mine is his own, so even if the money is minted, it will not be included in the income of the Northern Kingdom.

So...he is very rich, but the Northern Kingdom is still very poor!

Sitting on a mountain of money on the one hand, and having the poorest fiefdom on the other, this contrast... Liu Tan was really a little dizzy.

When he was trying to write a letter to Jingli, Huo Guang suddenly came to the door with a map.

Liu Tan was shocked when he saw the map: "This is... a map drawn according to my method. Where did it come from?"

Huo Guang said lightly: "In the past few days, I visited the surrounding area and briefly drew it. Because the places I visited are limited, the area drawn on the map is not large."

For a moment, Liu Tan seemed to feel the fear of being ruled by a bully when he was in school.

But this map is indeed very simple, basically it is Shuofang City and the surrounding area of ​​more than 50 miles.

The topography and landforms around Shuofang City are not complicated at all. A small part of the vegetation is mostly Gobi and desert, and there is a Yellow River, so it is easy to draw.

Liu Tan looked at him and asked, "Then... what happened again?"

Huo Guang said: "The place His Highness originally selected can no longer be used to build a palace, so let's choose another one."

At this time, Liu Tan was already a little afraid of choosing a site, so he simply said: "Isn't the one you chose before very good? Just that."

Since you can't change everyone's perception, you can only succumb to metaphysics. He won't interfere with the head office, right?

Huo Guang said: "I sent people to investigate it before. It seems that there is an underground river there, which is very close to the surface. It is not suitable. Your Highness should choose it."

Liu Tan held back for a long time, and simply chose a place near the west of Shuofang City, which is the only way for Shuofang to go to and from Xi'an Yang. If there is anything special, he should have discovered it long ago, so he wouldn't wait until now.

However, after he finished the selection, Huo Guang did not take the map away.

Liu Tan raised his head and looked at Huo Guang with some doubts, Huo Guang looked at Liu Tan with piercing eyes: "Your Highness, choose a few more, well, it's best to choose ten or eight, let's go and have a look!"

Liu Tan:? ? ?

Liu Tan: "I don't!"