() At the end of 1886, Liu Fu's coal mine and gold mine were started at the same time. Talent is talent. This Henanese named Zhou is not only good at mining coal, but also gold, silver, copper and iron.
As my father said, these are all crafts. No matter what you pick, the key point is the word pick. In order to thank Liu Fu for saving his life, Father Zhou almost delayed his work.
With Chu Yu's body, he also went to build the mine. Fortunately, Liu Fu found out early and stopped him. He said that he would not be busy these days and would have more time to return favors in the future. He would let Mr. Zhou recover from his illness.
I would like to thank my employer again for his thoughtfulness and said that if he could not go, he could let his son go. His two sons have already received his true inheritance, providing one-stop service from exploration to construction to digging.
Father Zhou's real name is Zhou Yancong, a very literary name. He has two sons. His elder brother is Zhou Shuyuan, who is in his 30s. He is married to his wife Feng, but has no children. His younger brother is Zhou Shuqing, who is just 20 years old and is single. Liu.
Fu gave the task of building a coal mine to his elder brother and the task of opening a gold mine to his younger brother.
With 5 green soldiers as the starting point, the remaining people will figure out a solution on their own. However, Liu Fu has a request, that is, mining is dangerous work, and wages must not be deducted, and food must be kept up. In addition, the safety of the mine must be kept. Liu Fu is determined
It is required to use thicker and denser wooden squares to reinforce the mine, so as to avoid the tragedy of burying people alive.
The Zhou family has been mining for a living for generations. Of course, they know how to find a reason. But after all, there is not much that can really be done because there is a cost issue. However, Liu Fu said, I am not short of money. I will just provide the money to see the effect.
You can add up the rest, and if you are short of anything, ask me directly.
With his boss's statement, especially as the third son of the governor of Taiwan, Zhou Yancong's father was deeply moved and said that Liu Fu has a heart of a Bodhisattva. If you have benefits, you can't take advantage of others. Father Zhou asked for Liu Fu's consent.
Under such circumstances, while recruiting local miners in Taiwan, he asked his eldest son to urgently
Set off back to Henan, and persuaded the whole family of those old friends who drilled coal holes with me in the past. Before the festival, more than 20 kilometers of stone road was finally completed, starting from Keelung Port in later generations and ending at Jinguashi Gold Mine.
At the foot of the mountain, there is also a fork in the middle, leading to the Badouzi Coal Mine.
Both the coal mine and the gold mine have been almost completed, and trial mining has begun on a small scale. According to Mr. Zhou's personal estimation, if there are sufficient manpower, the Badouzi Coal Mine can produce 30,000 tons of coal per year. If it is replaced with machines for mining,
It needs to be turned over at least five times; the gold mine in Jinguashi has an annual output of 10,000 taels, which is not a problem. Since the copper mine is an associated mine, it is not easy to estimate accurately, but 50,000 tons per year is the minimum.
After Liu Fu heard about the overall situation of the mine, he immediately sent a telegram to David in Europe, briefly describing the size of the mine and asking him to adjust the purchase of mining equipment. Within a few days, David sent a call back expressing the order.
It has been downloaded. Part of the initial cement and mining equipment has been shipped to Taiwan and is expected to arrive in 2 months.
Things are going well in Taiwan, and Liu Fu is in a relatively comfortable mood. During the holidays, schools, mines, and clothing factories all have holidays, and festival fees are paid on a per-person basis. Even the green soldiers at the dock who watch the ships for him have a copy. Of course, Liu Fu
, Liu Dagui, foreign teachers, and Zhou Yancong’s family are all considered
Expert level, the red envelope is obviously much bigger. Liu Fu originally wanted to give a few foreign employees a family leave, but after thinking about it, it would take less than half a year to go back and forth, so he forgot about it. During the festival, the seaside 20 kilometers east of Fucheng was full of life.
The situation was boiling. The imperial court approved Liu Mingchuan’s request to build a railway, but the funds
Basically nothing is in place, you have to figure it out by yourself. What else does Liu Mingchuan want to do? His stupid son has a lot of money. He runs a school and mines. Building a small railway is definitely not a problem. Just like that, build it.
The railway matter fell on Liu Fu's shoulders. Liu Fu was not too heavy-handed at all.
In fact, he had wanted to build the railway for a long time, but he had no reason to tell his father that it would take no effort now. As for whether his father would provide funds, that was secondary. The main thing was that his father provided a group of engineering skills.
Among them are many talents who have studied in Europe and the United States. What Liu Fu lacks now is not money, but people.
Historically, this railway was from Hsinchu-Taipei-Keelung, with a total length of 99 kilometers. It took a total of 6 years to complete and cost 1.3 million taels. These tourist brochures clearly stated it, but Liu Fu led the team.
British engineers set a time limit of three years to complete the project. They asked for people and money. Every time they completed the project ahead of schedule,
After working for one month, the chief engineer will be rewarded with 50,000 taels of silver, and all other technical staff will receive a share. Under the cannon of silver, people from any country will generally not resist too fiercely. This British engineer did not even resist.
, all agreed directly, and then coaxed dozens of technicians to work quickly like coaxing ducks.
After leaving 1 million taels of silver for his father to purchase equipment and recruit labor, Liu Fu gave up. This was a national construction project, and he couldn't contract it even if he wanted to. It was up to his father to handle the specific matters.
In addition to starting the construction of the Keelung Railway, Liu Fu also hired hundreds of local and mainland laborers and began to level the wasteland near the future Keelung Port according to the map. The specific port location had to wait for David to find experts to determine, but
The approximate location is on the map. Let’s level it first. Anyway, factories such as steelmaking, shipbuilding, oil refining, and power generation all use land and cannot waste it.
