Dinner is a feast of river fish.
There are all kinds of fish caught in the Yangtze River, and there are even puffer fish, which is a rare delicacy.
But because it is highly poisonous, it has to be cooked by a special cook.
Sunset.
In the afterglow of the setting sun, whale oil lamps were already lit on the deck.
Two rows of long tables were erected, and the veteran cadres took their seats.
Although they are all veteran cadres, retired veteran cadres also have to be ranked.
All the people present were naturally ranked according to their titles first, and the king's titles were ranked first.
Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Cheng Biting Jin, Luo Shixin, etc. are all kings, so they are ranked according to their positions before retirement, for example, Li Jing was a privy envoy before his retirement, and Qin Qiong also retired from the position of a privy envoy, so the two of them have to be ranked first, and they have to be ranked according to the titles of the two.
Li Jing now has the title of Taibao, Qin Qiong has the title of Tai Lieutenant, a third division and a third duke, and the third division is in front of the three dukes, so a group of old cadres are headed by Li Jing.
However, Li Jing refused to sit down, because although Li Jing was the third duke, Qin Qiong was the emperor's father-in-law.
This relationship is not simple, he Li Jing can't rely on the old man to sell the old and grab the front of Qin Qiong.
Moreover, Li Jing is still a relatively lonely person in the court, so his brother Zhang Zhongjian was originally the deputy envoy of the privy council and the commander-in-chief of the navy.
But Qin Qiong is in the court, there are a bunch of friends and brothers, what Luo Shixin Cheng bites Jin Danxiong, Xin Niu Jinda, etc., I don't know how many brothers are the king's brothers.
Pushing back and forth, in the end, Li Jing sat at the top of the table on the left, and Qin Qiong sat at the top of the table on the right.
Then, of course, the next group of five tiger generals such as Cheng Yanjin, Luo Shixin, Shan Xiongxin, and Niu Jinda.
"Your Majesty, the gold mine in New Gold Mountain State, Australia, the minister also intends to join a share."
Luo Shixin said to Zhang Chao with a wine glass.
Zhang Chao sat on the top, and was enjoying eating the salt and pepper shrimp, this shrimp was fragrant and crispy, and he threw one directly into his mouth, chewing it with the shell and meat, which was really crispy.
"It's a good thing, there won't be too much gold, and you won't be afraid to dig more.
If you dig gold out of the mountains, you can take it to the Mediterranean, take it to Africa, and then you can sell many slaves and ship it back, whether it is to help you cultivate wasteland for planting, or to open mines and work, it is excellent.
Zhang Chao wiped his mouth and replied with a smile.
Dahua has indeed developed a lot of gold mines, which can produce one million taels of gold a year, which can be said to account for at least eighty percent of the world's gold mining, but gold is a natural currency after all, and who would be too much.
If you go abroad, buy and buy, as long as you don't buy other people's luxury goods and the like, it's all worth it.
In fact, there are no luxury goods to buy abroad, and in terms of luxury processing, who has Dahua's technology is good.
Silk silk, porcelain glass, tea and sugar wine, and even paper and books, none of them are good things that can make the envious eyes of those barbarians fall.
What foreign countries have, at most, are just some jewelry beauties.
Dahua originally had three major gold mines, Denglai Gold Mine, Luzon Gold Mine and Yili Gold Mine, and later discovered three major gold mines overseas, namely Jinzhou Gold Mine in Jinzhou, Vietnam, Xinjinshan Gold Mine in Australia, and San Francisco Gold Mine in the Americas, and now there is also a Heihe Gold Mine.
Of these big gold mines, only one Denglai gold mine is in the Central Plains, and the other major gold mines are in the border areas or even overseas.
The mining of several major gold mines has also led to a gold rush, attracting many willing gold diggers to go overseas to pan for gold.
The vast majority of gold prospectors were actually those who had been freed by former slaves, or some naturalized barbarian natives from the four sides of Dahua, who did not enjoy high welfare benefits like the Han people and could easily obtain large tracts of land.
They fantasize about getting rich overnight and then changing their fate, so they can buy a ticket to pan for gold regardless of the cost.
The imperial court fully supported this gold rush, not only because it could get a lot of gold, but more importantly, it could attract many people to go to those gold mines, and those gold mines were on the frontier and overseas, and it was difficult for anyone to go under normal circumstances.
After a large number of gold diggers pass, they can drive consumption and attract businessmen to do business.
A gold mine, and soon a trading town was built on the side.
Slowly, granges will be cultivated around the commercial town, and food will be grown, and it will not be many years before the town on the edge of the gold mine will become a city, and one day there will be no gold here, and it will become a normal town.
With a town, a population, a handicraft industry, and a grange, this place can also drive the surrounding area.
It's a great way to colonize.
There are people like Luo Shixin and Cheng Yanjin who are willing to invest in the development of gold mines, and Zhang Chao fully supports them.
"I also enter a share, two percent of the shares are good, how much principal, absolutely a lot."
Zhang Chao said with a smile.
Cheng Biting Jin looked pained, "Your Majesty, if we don't give you a dry share, we don't need you to invest capital."
"How can I take advantage of you, in this way, since you think I have more shares, then I will take one percent of the shares, and I should pay as much principal as I want."
Cheng Yanjin reluctantly agreed.
"Lao Cheng, don't sell it if you get cheap, others may not be willing to let Your Majesty participate in the shares, with Your Majesty's participation, your business will become an imperial brand."
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With the royal escort, this business will only get more and more prosperous. ” Lao Cheng smiled, having said that, but without the emperor's participation, he Lao Cheng did business, would anyone dare to pit him.
Pingbai was taken up by the emperor for a hundred shares, which is a business that does not lose money.
Some people then said that they would invest in the development of gold mines in Jinzhou, some people would invest in the development of gold mines in Heihe, and some people would invest in gold mines in San Francisco.
A night banquet seems to have become an investment conference.
Zhang Chao doesn't care if any of them want to open a gold mine in a group anyway, anyway, he has a share.
I don't want much, he participates in a gold mine.
"Your Majesty, San Francisco is Li Shimin's fiefdom, we used to open mines, do we have to ask his opinion first" Li Jing reminded Zhang Chao on the side.
"When did San Francisco become Li Shimin's fief Isn't San Francisco the fief of the American duke, and the U.S. duke remembers that it was given to Li Hong.
Li Shimin was canonized by me as the Duke of Germany, and his fief was the same as that of the British Duke Xu Ji and the French Duke Chi Gong, all of which were in the Jinshan River Valley Plain, and the four countries shared this thousand miles of plains, but the Jinshan Peninsula was assigned to Li Hong.
Niu Jinda was originally eating chopped pepper fish head, this fish head is very fresh, with fresh chopped pepper, salty and spicy with a little sour, the taste is extremely beautiful.
Hearing what Li Jing said about Li Shimin, he immediately refuted.
The emperor left a piece of land for Li Shimin's father and son, which is already extremely rare, is it possible that the imperial court wants to develop a gold mine now, and it has to ask them to fail.
When it came to Li Shimin, all the veteran cadres present had complicated expressions for a while.
In any case, Li Shimin was everyone's king in the past, including the current emperor Zhang Chao, who was also Li Shimin's courtier.
But now, Li Shimin is a somewhat embarrassing existence.
Everyone tried not to mention it, as if there was no such person in the world, but now it was mentioned again.
There was silence.
Some people think that Li Shimin is in the past, and it is always a hidden danger to keep him, I heard that Li Shimin is now going everywhere in the Americas, and he has also engaged in long-distance friendship and close attack, united some Mayan Yin people, and is fighting with those city-states.
As for North America, there are not many tribes where the Yin people have formed a climate, and now they have basically been pulled into his alliance by Li Shimin, the Heavenly Khan.
In North America, Li Shimin played very slippery, although Xu Ji and Wei Chigong were also named national princes, they were still very loyal to Li Shimin, and they still got along with each other as monarchs and ministers.
The eight colonial companies set up in North America were bent on trading and making money, and their relationship with Li Shimin was unexpectedly harmonious.
"Your Majesty, I heard that the German Duke has conscripted an expeditionary force of more than 8,000 men and is on an expedition to the northwest.
It is said that he wants to conquer the Yin people in the Northwest Arctic Land, but I think his intentions are more than that. ” Where is the northwest of North America Of course, Zhang Chao knew that there was Canada in the future and Alaska in the United States, all the way to the northwest, that was the Bering Strait, and beyond the strait was Siberia.
The northeastern vassal kingdoms of Dahua, the Yaksha Kingdom and the Wandering Ghost Kingdom, are there.
Huskies and Alaskan dogs from the two countries came from there, and now Hanjing is everywhere, which powerful and rich people do not raise a few at home, this situation is the same as when the Tibetan mastiff was fried in later generations, and the local tyrants are not good at raising a Tibetan mastiff to realize that they are rich.
Li Shimin must also know such a geographical situation, and his Northwest Expeditionary Force may not have the intention of opening up the road back to the Central Plains to the west.
After all, to return to the Central Plains from the sea, it is not a matter of a nautical chart, which requires many sea ships and excellent crews.
Li Shimin doesn't have any of these, and Zhang Chao can't let him have them.
If Li Shimin wants to return to the Central Plains, it is impossible to go from the sea, so from the land is the only way.
However, Zhang Chao does not believe that Li Shimin has the ability to cross Alaska, cross the Bering Strait, and then cross Siberia, and then be able to fight all the way to the Central Plains.
If you really have that ability, then Li Shimin would just fly directly across the Pacific Ocean, why bother.
"The Duke of Germany is willing to open up North America for the imperial court, but I think he is loyal and diligent in royal affairs."
Zhang Chao said with a smile on his face.
Many of Li Shimin's actions in North America can't escape his eyes, but Zhang Chao has not moved, because Li Shimin tosses again, and he can't get any results in 20 years.
Li Shimin is afraid that he will not be able to toss for 20 years, because he is addicted to smoking.
In addition to corn and potatoes, there is also tobacco in the Americas.
Zhang Chao sent people to bring back many new species from the Americas, including tobacco, but these tobaccos were only planted in his imperial garden and used as exotic ornamental plants.
In North America, Li Shimin learned to smoke from some Yin people.
I heard that Li Shimin is now addicted to smoking, and he has to smoke dozens of cigarettes a day, and it is estimated that he will not live for 20 years with such a smoking method.
He really wanted to send someone to remind Li Shimin that smoking is really harmful to his health t1706231537: