When Wang Lulin hired people to explore and find gold mines in his fiefdom, several officials in the New Taipei Prefectural Prefecture's yamen were quite pleased when they received the news.

They actually hope that Wang Lulin can find gold mines or something. This is not only good for Wang Lulin himself, but also great for their entire New Taipei Prefecture.

How did New Kingsoft develop next door develop? It’s not because of gold and silver mines!

However, they were not optimistic about Wang Lulin's exploration in a short period of time, because Wang Lulin's exploration in a short period of time was concentrated in the actual controlled area of ​​the Tang Dynasty.

If there were gold mines in these actual controlled areas, how could this place be left to Wang Lulin? The government would have mined it long ago.

Although the Holy Emperor was tolerant of the nobles and would enthrone a large amount of land, he would generally not enthrone the land with the reclaimed land. Basically, it was enthroned and land that could not be actually controlled.

In fact, most of Wang Lulin's large fiefdoms are also land that the local government cannot actually control, either in deserted places or in the hands of local indigenous people.

Even the small valley plain that Wang Lulin planned to develop was not considered the actual controlled area of ​​the Tang Dynasty. There were several indigenous tribes near that area.

In addition, it is a bit far away from New Taipei Port. The local government has tried to develop it, but they have been attacked by indigenous people. Because of the long distance and the small population of New Taipei Prefecture, there is not enough manpower to develop the land around New Taipei Port, so it simply put it aside.

In addition, Wang Lulin is a marquis at least, and he can't take out all wasteland, so he has to give some benefits. Otherwise, Wang Lulin is not stupid, so how could he invest a lot of money to develop?

The enthronement of rules is very particular about the empire. The most fundamental purpose is to mobilize the nobles to organize immigration and develop overseas territories.

Give benefits, but this benefit is generally limited.

If you want to get more benefits, then the nobles need to pay a certain price!

What's the price?

Of course, it is to turn those unacted land into actual control!

Wang Lulin did the same.

If he wants to develop the valley plain, he must first wipe out the nearby indigenous people, otherwise he will be able to attack every few days and there will be no way to develop it.

For this reason, Wang Lulin spent a great price and cooperated with several bodyguard companies that carried out business in the local area. He hired more than 500 armed guards, and cooperated with dozens of his own guards to prepare to clean up the surrounding indigenous people.

These bodyguard companies are bodyguard companies established with the approval of the military. Most of the armed guards in them are mainly veterans and have been engaged in war operations in various parts of North America for a long time.

He had a lot of combat experience with the indigenous people, and it took less than half a month to expel the nearby indigenous people. In this way, Wang Lulin was able to arrange manpower for development.

First, some fortress defense facilities were built to prevent the indigenous people from returning, and then they began to hire people to carry out large-scale land reclamation.

The development of the valley plains was relatively smooth, but the gold mine that Wang Lulin wanted was never found.

After all, it is because the technicians under his command are not professional enough.

In the end, there was no way, so he took the initiative to contact the American Mining Company and asked their staff to survey, and agreed to jointly bear the survey costs and cooperate in development.

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Although it will give up some of the profits, it is better than not being able to find gold mines.

The people from the American Mining Company were indeed professional. After transferring a team of hundreds of people, they really found a gold mine.

However, the scale of this gold mine is not large, and the expected reserves are very small, far from Wang Lulin's expectations.

But having is better than not!

But half a month later, they found another silver mine. The reserves of this silver mine were quite large, and they could barely be considered a medium silver mine, which surprised Wang Lulin.

Although the silver mine was not before the gold mine, it was also a treasure pot!

Immediately, I cooperated with the American Mining Company to develop it!

Seeing that there were gold mines, silver mines, silver mines, and several square kilometers of fertile fields, Wang Lulin sighed that this America is really a treasure land!

This also made him firmly increase his investment in America, not only to develop his own fiefdom, but also to invest in other places.

Just when Wang Lulin was struggling in America, several merchant ships flying the Tang Dynasty dragon flag also entered the Port of Cadiz in Europe.

Nowadays, the Datang merchant ships that can successfully travel to and from the Atlantic Ocean and enter Spanish or Portuguese ports are all merchant ships carrying military supplies.

This is not the Tang Dynasty's own attempt to intervene in the Atlantic trade, but the request of the Spanish and Portuguese.

They requested delivery to their doorstep to avoid any accidents!

Anyway, ships limited to weapons trade cannot affect their profits of Atlantic trade. There are many pirates in the Atlantic Ocean, and even the Spanish and Portuguese ships are often plundered, especially the pirates in England, who are now driving warships to plunder, which makes the Spaniards and Portuguese hate them.

The pirate ships that used many ships to encircle and annihilate the English failed to kill the English pirate ships.

In order to ensure the safety of the armies, they simply asked the Tang people to deliver goods to their doorsteps.

In this regard, the Tang Dynasty was naturally happy to make another freight. By the way, it could continue to understand the situation of the Atlantic Ocean and the ports along the African coast, and prepare for the subsequent large-scale entry into the Atlantic Ocean.

At the same time, we also hope to gradually open up the gap through the military trade, so that ordinary merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty could also enter the Atlantic Ocean.

After three merchant ships loaded with Tang Dynasty ordnance merchant ships entered the Port of Cadis, the cargo of two of the ships was instantly aired, and these were all ordnances scheduled to be sold to the Spanish.

The remaining ship was rested and replenished and continued to Portugal.

These three ships were not accompanied by the Tang warships. In view of the current relationship, Spain, Portugal and England are all seeking the Tang Empire, and it is unlikely that they will rob the Tang Empire of the Tang Empire at the threat of guilt.

On the other hand, it is because these three ships are large steam merchant ships in the Tang Empire, each of which is nearly 2,000 tons, and is also equipped with high-power steam engines.

Its mobility is perfect for sailing ships.

It is not that easy for those pirate ships to catch up with these steam merchant ships and rob.

Even if you catch up, you can't beat it!

These are all armed merchant ships belonging to the Tang Dynasty Atlantic Trading Company, and are equipped with dozens of artillery!

Perhaps in the view of the Tang Navy, these armed merchant ships were just armed merchant ships, and their combat effectiveness was far from comparable to the new generation of steam and steel warships. However, for the sail wooden warships of European countries, they were still behemoths, enough to crush their behemoths.

So even if you are sailing alone, you don’t have to worry about risks.

Another very important thing is that the Spanish and Portuguese also provide warships for escort or surveillance along the way. Ordinary pirates really don’t have the courage to rush up and grab one.

In addition to these three merchant ships heading to Europe, there are five merchant ships behind them on the way, which also means that the military trade between the Tang Empire and Spain and other countries has reached a new level.

Given the huge threat from the Tatars, European countries now have a huge demand for ordnance. Spain, Portugal, England, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Sweden, the Kingdom of Naples, the Ottoman Empire and other countries are all seeking to purchase various ordnances from the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty also refused everyone, and only bought it if you give it money!

Anyway, the ones sold are plate armor, combs, cannons, etc. that are exclusively for export. The Tang Dynasty has sold them to the world for almost twenty years, so they will naturally not treat Europe in special terms.

The overseas trade of the Tang Dynasty has always been very particular about fairness and freedom.

As long as you give money, you dare to sell it. As for what you want to buy it, Datang doesn’t care.

Even some pirates came to the door in a roundabout way, asking for ships, guns, etc. The weapons merchants of the Tang Dynasty were generally very welcome.

The arrival of the Tang Dynasty's military trading ships in Europe one after another also brought a large amount of military equipment to European countries, which forced the military strength of European countries to a higher level.

Although these ordnances are export-type ordnances, some of them have no advantages in performance, such as the grenade gun. The grenade gun produced by the Tang Empire is not better than the grenade guns handmade by the Portuguese, but the key is that the output is large.

As for plate armor, export-type plate armor is generally thinner, and its protection ability is actually average, but the weight must be lighter. What is more important is the output. As long as you have money, you will have as much as you want.

It is not like the plate armor produced in Europe. It is all made by hand by craftsmen, and the output is very low.

This global trade also led to a large amount of gold and silver, especially gold, flowing into the empire's mainland.

The Central Bank of the Tang Empire is now happy and panic!

The gold and silver reserves in the central bank were increasing. By the 29th year of Xuanping, the gold reserves in the central bank of the imperial government had reached more than 1,000 taels of tons.

The more than 2,000 tons of gold are generally more than 200 million Tang Yuan. At first, it seems that there is not much. It is not as much fiscal revenue as the Tang Dynasty has in a year, but this account cannot be calculated like this.

Because this is the central gold reserve, it does not include the gold reserves of major banks themselves. For example, Royal Bank, they themselves have more than 300 tons of gold reserves.

In addition, there is more gold in the people.

After all, holding gold is in case of accidents, which is the idea of ​​many people, especially wealthy families. Many families have a large amount of gold and silver.

In addition, a large amount of gold and silver jewelry has not been calculated.

If calculated in this way, the amount of gold that the entire Tang Empire has is a very terrifying number.

So much gold poured into the empire, which inevitably caused a certain amount of inflation and also caused some people to be vigilant.

The Empire exported so many commodities and finally exchanged them for a bunch of gold.

But in addition to being beautiful in the vault, these golds cannot be eaten or worn.

Then the question comes, why are we doing so much trouble in overseas trade?
Chapter completed!