The large number of Indian labor forces made the railway construction in Ming Dynasty take off as if it had wings.
After more Indians came to Ming Dynasty, some became miners and started digging coal and iron ore, and some became river workers. , joined the ranks of regulating the Yellow River, and some became farmers and began to cultivate rice in various parts of Huguang.
Zhang Qianfang kept bringing in Indians, and the Ming Dynasty needed more Indians.
If the Indians were not adapted to the cold weather, the Ming court would have wanted to drag them to Mobei to build the railway.
The Beijing-Xiao Railway has been built in the desert.
After the Liang-Beijing Railway and the Shanmu Railway were basically built by Indians, a large number of Houjin laborers and Ming Dynasty workers joined the construction of the Beijing-Xiao Railway, and a large-scale railway was discovered in Ordos. coal mines, nineteen trona lakes, and open-air lakes of Glauber's salt.
The discovery of these minerals enabled the trains of the Beijing-Xiao Railway that transported rails from Beijing to Guihua and other places to finally have a large amount of cargo to carry on their return journey.
There is no need to transport coal back to the mainland, but alkali and mirabilite are good things.
Alkali lakes and mirabilite lakes that are so easy to mine have not been discovered in the mainland.
The newspaper published the news about the discovery of large alkali lakes and mirabilite lakes in the Loop, and attached the Ministry of Household's management regulations for selling the mining rights of these mineral lakes.
A large number of businessmen flocked to grab the alkali lakes and lakes.
Mining rights to Lake Glauber's Salt Lake.
The Ministry of Household Affairs adopted an auction method this time.
It first set a base price, with different base prices according to the mining rights for twenty, fifty, and one hundred years.
Then the auction began, and the highest bidder won.
Of course, before the auction, the Ministry of Revenue took all the businessmen who were interested in buying by train to the station before naturalization, and then rode horses and cars to Ordos to take a look at the specific conditions of the minerals and roads to be aware of them.
The businessmen came to the alkali lake, picked up a little lake water with their hands, tasted it in their mouths, savored it slowly for a long time, and then spit it out with a look of satisfaction on their faces.
This kind of alkaline water contains very little salt.
After a little processing, it becomes an excellent alkali.
It costs money to transport it to the mainland.
The railway has reached the north of Guihua City, and the transportation conditions on this road are already excellent.
The Department of Revenue started the auction on the spot, which had been agreed upon a long time ago.
Each businessman held a check drawn by the Royal Bank.
All merchants who want to participate in the auction must first pay a deposit of 10,000 yuan.
After the auction, if there is no winning bid, it will be refunded.
If the bid is successful and the money is not paid, the 10,000 yuan will be confiscated and the auction will be held again.
Because the Ministry of Accounts has set a minimum price, each merchant participates in the auction with a check that far exceeds the minimum price.
The auctioneer held a small wooden hammer, lightly knocked on the table and said: "We will start the auction now.
The No. 1 Alkali Lake is located in the Wushen tribe.
No one asked for fifty or one hundred years of mining rights, so we will directly auction the second one.
The ten-year mining right has a base price of 1 million yuan, and the price can be increased by 10,000 yuan each time, and the higher bidder will get it.”
Everyone has seen this alkali lake.
The alkali production is high and the purity is high.
Moreover, since it can be reached from Shaanxi without crossing the Yellow River, the transportation situation is considered to be good.
Soon someone took out a small wooden sign with the number 83 on it and held it up.
"Okay, Merchant No. 83 is offering one million yuan.
If there are any merchants who want to increase the price, please hurry up."
"Merchant No. 35 bid 1.01 million yuan, merchant No. 47 bid 1.02 million yuan, oh, merchant No. 55 directly shouted out a high price of 1.1 million yuan, merchant No. 5 bid 1.2 million yuan, " Many people started to grab No. 1 Alkali Lake, and it was finally sold for 1.8 million.
With the help of the bank staff, the account official registered the check number handed in on the 34th and then put it away.
No. 1 Alkali Lake was successfully auctioned.
This auction only auctions twenty-year mining rights.
Unless someone requests it at the beginning of the auction, fifty-year mining rights and one-hundred-year mining rights will be auctioned.
Before the auction of No. 2 Alkali Lake started, Merchant No. 33 proposed I want to buy a fifty-year mining right.
The auctioneer knocked the small wooden hammer and said: "Because merchant No. 33 requested to auction the fifty-year mining rights, the fifty-year mining rights will be auctioned first.
If no merchant can bid, the twenty-year mining rights will be auctioned instead.
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No. 2 Alkali Lake is also located in the Wushen tribe, and the mining rights for 50 years have a minimum price of two million yuan, and the auction is now open.”
Everyone will do the math.
Two million in fifty years is obviously more economical than one million in twenty years.
Moreover, the longer the time, the more perfect the equipment, the higher the output, and the traffic situation will also be improved.
Therefore, the No. 2 Alkali Lake Competition It was very intense, and the deal was finally sold for 3.8 million.
Ten of the last nineteen pieces of Alkali Lake were auctioned, which was a normal value considering the domestic demand.
Together with an open-pit Glauber's salt mine, a total of 51 million yuan was auctioned.
Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Revenue, looked at the numbers reported by his subordinates, and his heart almost stopped beating.
After the emperor told him about the auction method, he initially disapproved of it.
He thought it would be great to be able to sell up to 10 million yuan, but he didn't expect to get so much.
What kind of bonds should be issued?
The Ministry of Accounts is now worried about how to use so much money.
Li Zhizao, the president of the Royal Bank, thought about the boxes of silver ingots handed over by the merchants, and sighed that the emperor was really powerful.
He was worried that he would not have enough silver to make silver coins.
Now at least five years of silver taels are enough.
Moreover, after this incident, the credibility of the Royal Bank's checks has been established.
In future large transactions, no one will bring a large amount of silver coins to deliver them.
Instead, they will deposit the money in the bank and issue a check for payment.
This is important for What a huge profit for the bank.
When Zhu Youxiao received the report, he just smiled.
It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to be short of money in its own hands, and the application of checks will soon lead to the use of paper money.
As long as the Ming Dynasty's military force is still the strongest around, those checks with numbers written on them will be all kinds of No one dares to deny hard currency in transactions, and no one will deny it.
But he also understands that the issuance of banknotes is a slow process.
At least for now, only checks can be used, and banknotes of various currencies cannot be directly issued.
When everyone is completely accustomed to checks, when anti-counterfeiting technologies such as multi-color overprinting are only in the hands of research institutes, and when people find it too heavy and inconvenient to hold silver and copper coins, then is the best time to issue banknotes.
Now that the officials in the DPRK have discovered that so much money has been sold for just the Alkali Lake in Hetao, there is almost no opposition to the emperor's aggressive expansion of territory.
Who knows what valuable things may appear in other occupied places.
The furs produced in Beicheng, Xiangzhen, are of good quality and reasonably priced.
Many officials have bought them for their wives and daughters
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