Chapter 1452 Golden Continent
After all, Wu Tiexin is Wu Haogu's son. Although he is not very favored, he is not so poor that he has never seen gold. When he got married, Wu Haogu also gave him 100,000 silver coins and a mansion in Tianjin.
In addition, his wife Wu comes from the wealthy Wu family in Haizhou, and his dowry alone has assets of up to one million taels!
His brother, "General Kamakura Yoshiyuki", also gave him a manor near Uraga Port, which also included thousands of acres of land around him.
So he is also a big and small rich man, so he won't be unable to take any steps when he sees gold. Even if there is a little more gold in front of him now, it is almost piled up like a hill.
But when he knew that Hua Rong, the big liar, had only used a dozen small broken daggers that cut meat and ropes to exchange for such a large pile of gold, he could no longer calm down.
As a professional naval officer, Wu Tiexin still has the most basic military qualities. So when he saw those rough gold products and learned the price of Hua Rong for gold, he fully understood the "Golden Continent" he had discovered, and it was also a golden continent that no one guarded!
"Admiral, according to the investigation of the subordinates, these Yin people were not only barbaric, but also stupid. They could not smelter copper and iron, but only used stone and gold..."
Hua Rong is much smarter than Li Kui. He looks sophisticated, his eyes flashing with a hint of ferociousness, but his face is always filled with smiles.
Of course, his fierce light was not directed at Wu Tiexin, but at the native Yin people who had gold but no iron tools and bows.
However, Wu Tiexin had an order that he could not take the initiative to attack the natives of the Yin people, so he did not take action to rob him, but instead made a fool of himself and exchanged more than a dozen knives for a pile of gold.
"Gold is the easiest thing to process and refine among hardware." Wu Tiexin looked at the gold and said quietly, "This is taught in the natural science textbook, it seems that it is correct!"
"Admiral..." Liu Yan squatted there, playing with the adorable gold, "Do you think we are sending troops..."
He said halfway, and the officers in the tent, including Hua Rong, all their eyes shone.
"Send troops?" Wu Tiexin sneered, "Isn't it just a little iron tool? Is it necessary to kill and set fire?
And... how much can I rob if I kill someone and set fire? There should be more than one tribe in the area here? What should I do if we rob one and the rest of the tribes run away?
It’s better to do business well! You should make money with kindness and be virtuous. Do you know? Listen to mine when it comes to making money!"
When everyone heard this, they felt it was reasonable. Wu Tiexin's father is the most wealthy man in the world, and he started from scratch. When making money, his family recognized the second place, who would dare to recognize the first place?
Wu Tiexin said to Hua Rong: "Captain Hua, take some salt to the tribe that has been exchanged for gold and invite their chief to come to visit us... See if you can communicate? If you can communicate, talk to them about the transaction of Xiaodao's exchange for gold, and exchange it a little more! This is all the extra money of our Enterprise Brothers!"
"Here!" Hua Rong responded, paused and asked again, "Admiral, why don't we leave a stronghold here too?"
"No more," Wu Tiexin smiled, "I'll leave after changing the gold... This time, all the brothers sent it, it's time to go back to Japan to live a comfortable life.
Brother Rong, you are a big boss, it’s time to settle down. When you return to Japan, someone will tell you that the door is so close. You will be the master in Japan in the future!”
"I thanked the Admiral for my thanks." Hua Rong bowed with a smile.
Wu Tiexin waved his hand and smiled, "Go quickly... Be kind to others, you will definitely make money with kindness. You can't imitate Li Kui's black friend, you won't be able to make money if you don't."
"Hello, I'll go here."
After being stolen by Wu Tiexin, Hua Rong was immediately full of expectations for his future life.
I found gold in the United States, went to Japan's provinces or some other place to buy a farmhouse, and married a wife... A happy life is about to begin!
Such a happy life not only belongs to Hua Rong, but also to the common dream of countless Zhou Kingdoms and Eastern Song Dynasty people!
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When the news of "gold everywhere" in the New World was sent back to the Great Zhou territory, it was already summer of the 19th year of the Republic.
This summer, the situation of three parts of the world consolidated a little. The war between the Great Zhou and the Western Song Dynasty finally came to an end in the spring of that year. After a long period of siege and shelling, the two major fortresses of the Western Song Dynasty in the Central Plains, Nanyang and Luoyang, fell one after another!
On the Hedong battlefield, the Great Zhou Republic Army also made some progress and captured several state troops.
However, this level of victory is not enough to break the balance of the Three Kingdoms, but instead makes the three-point situation more consolidated.
Because in this war, the Great Zhou Republic Army had lost the sharpness of the "First Central Plains War".
The Western Song army seemed to have found a way to curb the rapid advancement of the Great Zhou Republic Army, that is, to continuously build a castle!
With more and more construction, their technology to build battalions was also rapidly improving. By the 18th and 19th years of the Republic of China, the construction capacity of the Western Song army was not even inferior to that of the Zhou Republic Army.
Moreover, they did not like to use "expensive" mud and masonry to build permanent and solid fortresses like the Zhou Republican Army.
Instead, I like to build rammed earth or even pile up soil because of the bad luck (just pile up soil, without tamping or tamping it slightly). The cost is very low. If you can pile up thousands of people in just one month, you can pile a very good bastion.
Although this fortress is rammed earth or piled up, the multi-layered prismatic fort layout and large angle inclined exterior walls can maximize the power of Republican cannons.
Moreover, this kind of rammed earth-stacked castle can actually prevent "burning the city in the cave", because the crypts excavated by enemy engineers often collapse because the mound above is too soft.
At the same time, the spread of musket technology has also made it easy to defend the eight-year-old heavy smoothbore gun of the Republic, which is still very easy to copy. Even the Western Song Dynasty, which relies on official handicrafts and craftsmen, can still be produced in large quantities.
Of course, although the combination of craftsmen and official handicrafts is not conducive to technological progress, it is also easy to reduce production efficiency.
However, the Jingkang Staff of the Western Song Dynasty who was in charge of military production is still quite powerful. He is not the literati who did not know anything and fooled him casually.
Therefore, the "Jingkang-style smoothbore gun" of the Western Song Dynasty is of good quality and has a low output, which is enough to support the defense of the bastion.
The advancement of artillery technology has stagnated after the "First Central Plains War".
In this case, although it is still possible to break through the bastion, the cost and time required to be spent increased exponentially when the attacker sets down a bastion, the defensive side even built up 100 bastions.
Although this kind of suggestion often does not have many defenders, it is difficult to fight, and it is difficult to surround it, and it takes hunger and food to eat...
The current civil war in China has roughly entered the era of "invincible bastion"!
Since it is invincible, of course it is beneficial to defend but not to attack.
Therefore, for most of the nineteenth year of the Republic, the Western Song and New Zhou countries were conducting peaceful negotiations.
However, this peace talks that were about to bring decades of peace to the Central Plains became an irrelevant thing in the summer of the 19th year of the Republic.
Because the most popular topics discussed in the streets and alleys of Zhou's big cities such as Tianjin, Xuzhou, Haizhou, Yanjing, Lushun, and Liaoyang have become the gold of the New World!
In the eyes of the people of these commercial cities, the hardship of Song State in the west is not as attractive as the mysterious continent with gold everywhere?
"A whole ship of gold! A ship of gold! Everyone who followed him made a fortune! Good houses in JD.com have been bought in short supply during this period! They all made money in the New World and bought them..."
"Really? Is this true?"
"Of course it's true! Didn't you find that the price of gold is falling during this period? It's falling from twelve yuan to eleven yuan! How many years has the Jin family been standing at twelve yuan? Why did it suddenly fall one piece? Isn't it because gold was discovered in the New World?"
"Then how do you go to this New World? Do you want to take a boat?"
"What? Do you guys want to go hunting for gold?"
This is true in the market and the people, and the wealthy businessmen and the powerful people of the Republic are all interested in the New World. If the previous exploration of the New World was completely promoted by Wu Haogu and Zhao Kai. Then after Wu Tiexin's Enterprise Returned with a full load of gold, other people who are capable of organizing and developing the New World can smell the smell of making money.
In the New Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty, one is a prosperous businessman who shares the world, and the other is a rich businessman who is completely a prosperous businessman. How can one really have a big money to make a big push at the national level?
"Officials, is it really gold everywhere in the New World?"
A delicate voice rang in Wu Haogu's ears. At this time, the head of state of Wu was squinting his eyes and soaking comfortably in a hot spring in the Tangquan Palace in Chengde Summer Resort.
This is a pool of white air and clouds are filled with a faint smell of sulfur. The pool is covered with pebbles and is cleaned very clean. Around the small pool is a glass pavilion, which can be closed in winter, basking in the sun and soaking in hot springs. In summer, doors and windows are opened, so you can soak in the spring while enjoying the shade of trees outside, and the rockery is scattered, which is very charming.
This kind of charm is not something Wu Haogu likes, but it was created by the beauty around him, Ouoye.
The rebuilding of the Summer Resort is all left to Okuno. Wu Haogu just pays for money and enjoys it... He now leaves Tianjin every summer and spends it together at the Summer Resort and Okuno, Okuno and Xiao Sesse. It's really a blessing!
Not only is she very lucky, but she also has several sons and daughters! After all, Ou Ye and Ou Ye are still young and in good health, and they are the time to give birth to a child. Even Xiao Sesse is "heavier and stronger" and has given birth to a son for Wu Haogu...
With more children, the financial pressure will naturally be enormous, and the property of the territory seems to be a little insufficient!
Chapter completed!