Cheng Yanjin picked up a piece of dog's head gold and held it to Li Chao, "I found it in the Qingnipu warehouse, this is at least ten catties."
Oh my God, such a big piece of dog's head gold, there must be a gold mine around here. ” Li Chao took it, the dog's head gold was very heavy, and the gold nuggets looked of good purity.
At least ten catties of natural gold nuggets, Li Chao is still the first time to see it.
"There's still in the warehouse" "Yes, quite a bit.
It is said that the lord of Qingnipo Castle traded with the merchants of Beisha Castle.
It is to take the goods brought by our Tang ship, and every time the merchants of Beisha City pull gold to trade.
There are not only refined gold ingots, but also such natural dog's head gold, as well as placer gold.
Cheng Yanjin said with a smile.
Anyone with a little common sense should know that if you can find doghead gold, there must be a gold mine nearby, and most of them are relatively shallow gold mines, and maybe the purity is still very high.
And if there is still gold sand nearby, then it is certain that there is a large gold mine nearby.
Since the gold was sent by the merchants of Beisha City, it must be that the gold mine is near Beisha City.
Li Chao recalled in his mind about the gold mines in Liaodong, but he didn't think of anything.
In my memory, the place where there were many gold deposits in China's interior was probably the Shandong Peninsula, where there were many gold mines.
Even in the nearby sea, huge reserves of gold have been discovered.
But think about it, it's the Tang Dynasty, and it's not uncommon for Dalian to discover gold mines.
The city of Beisha was called the Golden State in later generations.
Even the nearby bay is called Golden State Bay.
Golden State, Golden State Bay, plus the current gold, then the possibility of a big gold mine here seems to be great.
"It's a pity that even if there is a gold mine, that gold mine is also near Beisha City, and we will definitely not be able to get it now."
A gold mine with abundant reserves, even shallow burial, must be extremely valuable.
Even if Datang now has paper money, gold, silver and copper are still hard currency.
The price of gold remains even higher, and Lee Kee can also earn extremely high profits by minting gold coins.
If you can have a big gold mine, you can make more money.
"Why don't you think the Bassy side hasn't reacted yet?"
Li Chao's fleet has taken Qingnipu for three days, and in the past three days, the fleet has scattered in all directions, and various squads have crisscrossed the countryside, attacking villages and towns everywhere, and they have been swept away everywhere they go.
All the people are taken away, and the elderly and children are equally valuable.
Not to mention money and food, and even after the people of the fleet have robbed it, they can also use the waste and sell the remaining villages to the caravans waiting behind at a cheap price.
The caravans followed the convoy like ravens eating carrion.
The fleet took away the most valuable things, and the rest belonged to them, and they bought them cheaply, and then organized people to take away all the valuable ones that could be used, what furniture, what crops in the fields, even the wooden beams of the houses, etc., were not wasted at all.
Anyway, it's close to the sea, so if you directly pack the ship and transport it back to Dengzhou, you will definitely be able to make a little money.
"I'm sure they should already know the news, but they certainly don't know the specific news yet, and they may mistakenly think that we are the army of the imperial court, so they hold on to Beisha City and dare not come out."
Cheng Yanjin guessed.
"I think that's a possibility."
Li Chao put down the heavy dog's head gold, "In vain, we are still preparing for an ambush, it seems that we have thrown our flattery to the blind."
Forget it, since they don't come out, then let's go to the next stop, give orders, call everyone back, and we are ready to withdraw. ” The next stop, Shiren Wang.
Shiren Wang, roughly in the Zhuanghe River of later generations.
At this time, Pu, Tianjin, and Wang all mean seaports.
Shirenwang is a good port.
In the past, most of the routes that took Goguryeo would stop at Shirenwang after leaving Qingnipo.
However, before going to Shirenwang, Li Chao planned to sweep the islands in the sea near Liaoning by the way.
He can't occupy Dalian now, but it's no problem to occupy a few islands, and the ships of the Goguryeo can't compete with them on the sea.
Occupying these islands, it is easier for them to rob.
It is equivalent to having one forward base outside the Liaodong Peninsula, which can be attacked and defended, and if you grab something, you can send it to the island first for storage, and slowly transport it back.
In the Changshan Islands to the east of the Great Liao, there are 18 inhabitable islands, and there are more than 200 small islands that cannot be inhabited.
In the west of Daliao, Changxing Island is a huge island, which is a large island of more than 200 square kilometers, with an area of nearly 400,000 acres.
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The island was very close to the mainland on the other side, but the sea, which was not very wide, was two hundred paces wide, but it happened to be a moat.
After occupying the island, it is very easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Sixty miles from east to west, twenty miles wide from north to south, what a big island.
There is also a lot of land on the island that is suitable for farming, and it is also suitable for building shipyards.
"It's better to knock down these islands first, Your Majesty has given the entire southern Liaoning to your Li family.
Since Lushun can't fight for the time being, it's good to take back these islands first. ” The emperor's previous edict did not state the ownership of these islands.
However, according to convention, these coastal islands should naturally be attached to the land on the other side.
Therefore, although Changxing Island and Changshan Islands are not small, no one will take these islands seriously.
Li Chao regards these islands as the fiefdom of the Li family, and no one will say a word.
"I always feel that you brought everyone to rob you, and what you said so nicely, in fact, it was all for everyone to help you recover these fiefs from the Li family.
Even if you can't recover the land on the shore first, you can at least take these islands. ” "I feel like you've been used as a gun."
Li Chao directly ignored Lao Cheng's complaints.
"Don't say you haven't had a good time lately, you just robbed Qingnipu and Shimajin, but we have gained a lot, right?
You have also divided the population of 5,000 before and after your old journey, not to mention, there is still so much money and food.
Don't be dissatisfied, others don't know how to envy it.
You see, how many people want to follow our fleet. ” Lao Cheng smiled, "I'm just talking." ” After laughing, he said with a straight face, "I heard the news from Beijing, and I heard that you got a new law for Ma Zhou, so you will be divided into acres."
I said are you stupid, why are you doing this new law if you have nothing to do, what good is it for us to strike rent and spread the land into the acre?"
Lao Cheng knows very well that he is a military upstart, a real nobleman, and of course a big landlord.
This is more than the two tax laws, and he has to pay more taxes.
It is equivalent to the taxes and servants of the common people in the past, and now most of them are paid by them.
What he couldn't understand was that Li Chao was a bigger landlord than him, why did Li Chao do such a thankless job.
"If you only see that you will pay two more taxes and land rent in the future, but you can't see that the people will no longer have to serve in the future, which will be of great benefit to industry and commerce.
It can be said that if we do not implement the practice of paying money for service and apportioning the land into the mu, we want to make industry and commerce bigger and stronger. ” t1706231537: