Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 546 Amazing Mines

Peng Bin was really overwhelmed with excitement right now, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep at night.

Because they discovered an amazing deposit.

Of course, this mineral deposit cannot be regarded as their discovery.

At the beginning, it was accidentally discovered by the Apache tribal coalition led by Cao Wenzhao.

However, what they discovered was a coal field with a radius of several miles, but what they discovered was an endless vein.

The size of this vein is truly shocking.

The people they sent to the south, north and west have been exploring for several days, but they still haven't detected the edge of this vein.

At this moment, the south and north teams have detected more than 200 miles, and the west team has to cross the mountains, so the speed is slower, but they have also detected more than 100 miles.

In other words, the length of this vein has reached more than 100 miles, and the width has reached more than [-] miles. Moreover, it is not over yet, and it is still extending, extending in three directions.

This is not a big deal.

Even more astonishing is the thickness of this vein.

He deliberately found a mine that was hundreds of feet high, and ordered people to pull out the soil and shale layers from the bottom of the mountain and dig directly into it. After several days of digging, the hillside was leveled by them by more than ten feet. Yes, the sides and bottom of the hillside are still full of coal.

In other words, the thickness of this coal seam is more than twenty feet.

He didn't even dare to think about such an amazing mineral deposit before!

More importantly, this is an open-pit coal mine. There is no need to open a mine, just dig directly. No matter whether you dig down, forward, left or right, it is all coal, and it is not too convenient to mine. .

Taichang was overjoyed when he received the news.

They are short of coal right now, God actually gave him such a big surprise!

He couldn't hold on any longer, so he got on the Spike and arrived at the place where Peng Bin was with a group of expert guards and tens of thousands of sailors.

Attacking the British colonists doesn't seem to matter that much these days.

Because the strength of the British colonists at the moment is too far behind them.

Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Wenzhao led the two armies in such a powerful way that they could advance almost a hundred miles in a day without any problems at all.

It is estimated that the British colonists will be driven out of the territory of the Apache tribe in a few days, so he doesn't need to worry about it at all.

On the contrary, this coal mine is very important to the future development, so he couldn't help but want to come and have a look.

It's not very far from the coastline here, and it takes only a few hours to get there by boat.

The problem is, when they arrived at the temporary pier, it was neither Peng Bin nor Qin Yiming who greeted them, but a few soldiers from the Shenji Battalion.

As soon as he got off the boat and asked, he immediately pointed to a mountain in the distance and said that Mr. Peng took people to dig the mountain.

dig a mountain?

What is this operation?
He couldn't help but raised his binoculars and swept in the direction pointed by the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, and he froze for a moment.

At that scene, people couldn't believe their eyes.

What did he see?
The barren mountain with a height of more than one hundred feet in the distance seemed to be scraped by something huge, and a large piece of the hillside towards this side was scraped off.

This is not the point, the point is that the steep surface that was scraped out is full of coal seams, nearly ten feet high!
Neither Peng Bin nor Qin Yiming expected that the emperor would run over in person.

They're having a headache right now.

Because there is no way to dig the hillside, if you dig in from the bottom, if it collapses, the people below will be finished.

They all changed to let people stand on the hillside and dig down.

The problem is that it is not safe anymore, because they have already dug out a cliff that is nearly ten high, and if a person falls from it, he must fall to his death.

They were discussing standing in front of a cliff nearly ten feet high, and Taichang had already marched over with tens of thousands of horses.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion on the hillside pointed behind them for a while before they realized it and turned their heads to look back.

My God, the emperor is here!
They rushed up to meet them, bowed their hands and said hello.

Taichang got off his horse and exchanged a few pleasantries with the two, and then he couldn't help but ask, "Why did you dig this way?"

Peng Bin quickly explained: "Your Majesty, I want to know how thick the coal seam is. It is not easy to dig on flat ground, and water will seep if you dig a few feet deep, so I asked them to dig here."

Well, this coal seam doesn't look very thick.

Taichang looked at the steep hillside, then at the pile of coal piled up like a hill beside him, and asked curiously, "Are you sure how thick this coal seam is?"

Peng Bin shook his head in embarrassment and said, "No, I don't know how to dig. It's very dangerous to dig from the top to the bottom of such a high cliff."

This is true, it is nearly ten feet high, but it is more than 30 meters high, which is equivalent to the height of a ten-story building. If it falls, it will be fatal if it does not fall to death.

Taichang couldn't help looking at the cliff and pondering.

It would be great if there was a large excavator, one shovel down would be a big truck of coal!

The problem is that there is no excavator at the moment, and the Ministry of Industry seems to have designed that kind of big wheel with teeth, and the wheel is only about ten feet high, so it is useless to move it.

How to dig such a high coal seam, we have to think of a way, otherwise how will we mine in the future?
Could it be that, after digging to this extent, stop digging and continue digging in another place?

Isn't this a waste?
It seems that only special machinery can be designed, and it is too dangerous for people to dig.

Taichang thought about it for a while, and tens of thousands of soldiers behind him had already set up a big tent for him.

He simply waved his hand and said: "Come on, let's go to the big tent to discuss and discuss."

Peng Bin looked at the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion on the cliff, and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, shall we still dig?"

What else are you digging?
It's too dangerous, if you accidentally fall to death a few, how unjust will the soldiers die?
Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "Forget it, don't dig yet, let the soldiers come down and rest."

Hearing this, Qin Yiming quickly waved his hands to tell the soldiers on the cliff to stop digging and come down to rest.

Taichang said to Peng Bin again: "Go and get the map of the mine veins, I'll take a look."

Hearing this, Peng Bin hurriedly walked towards their original big tent.

After a while, he came over with a roll of maps half the height of a person.

Seeing this, Taichang simply ordered four small tables to be moved to the middle of the big tent, and then asked Peng Bin to unfold the map on it and introduce it in detail.

This open-pit coal mine is really not that big. At the moment, the length in the north-south direction has reached more than [-] miles, and the width in the east-west direction is almost [-] miles. It still hasn't reached the edge.

Such an astonishing mineral deposit is almost unrealistic.

Taichang looked at the map carefully, and then asked, "Are you sure there is coal in these places?"

Peng Bin nodded without hesitation and said: "Your Majesty, there must be some of them. They won't report it until they detect it. After all, the mine vein is long and wide enough. Even if it reaches the edge, it's normal. There's no need for them to lie. "

This is.

Taichang thought for a while, and then asked curiously: "How did you determine the location of the vein? You know, there are mountains all around here. You wouldn't order people to dig everywhere, would you?"

How to explain this?
Peng Bin thought about it carefully, and then explained: "Your Majesty, the coal seams in the same vein usually contain the same things. The most common ones are layered rocks, and it may also be other gravel or soil. In short, follow these same things to find on the line.

If the same thing is broken, just dig around and have a look. It is possible to dig a couple of feet deep and you will get to the coal seam again.

At that time, we can continue to search according to the new things mixed in the coal seam. "

Oh, that's how I found it.

It has to be said that people these days really have a way to detect such a wide range of mineral deposits without the aid of any equipment.

The question is, how big is this amazing deposit?
Also, how to exploit such a large mineral deposit?

(End of this chapter)