Daming Crazy Emperor

Are there coal mines in the Siberian province?

This is for sure, and later generations here is a well-known coal export place.

However, Taichang didn't expect Song Yingxing to send out the officials for prospecting for mines less than three days before he rushed over and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, we have found the coal mine!"

what?
To be honest, Taichang was too shocked.

Are coal mines so easy to find?
He couldn't help being surprised and said, "Where did you find the coal mine?"

Song Yingxing still couldn't help but excitedly said: "Your Majesty, it's at the place where the Shenwu Battalion and the cavalry of the Siberian Khanate fought."

so close!
Of course he knew that place, and it didn't take half a day for the Flying Dragon battleship to drive there.

Taichang froze for a moment, and then asked: "Are you free, why don't we go and have a look together?"

Song Yingxing didn't have much time at first, but he also wanted to go and have a look.

After all, it is a great thing that there are coal mines so close.

If the coal mines there are large enough and there are enough reserves, then they don't have to go to other places to mine.

He nodded without hesitation and said, "My minister is free."

Well, let's go when we have time.

Taichang immediately said to Yuan Keli: "Li Qing, call all the dragon warships, let's go and have a look."

Yuan Keli quickly ordered people to raise the banner and summoned all the six nearby flying dragon warships.

Immediately afterwards, the group took the flying dragon warship and went straight to the place where the Shenwu Battalion fought with the cavalry of the Siberian Khanate.

They have all run this channel once, and they don't need someone to lead the way at all.

About three hours later, the fleet arrived at the destination.

At this time, this place is very different from when they left.

All the camps where the Siberian Khanate originally lived had been removed, leaving only a circle of decay.

There are all cattle, sheep and horses in Lanshan, so densely packed that I don’t know how many there are.

A circle of piers has also been built beside the river bank, and there is a circle of tents for the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion near the piers.

As soon as Taichang pulled Zhu Cihong off the boat, a general from the Shenwu Battalion quickly stepped forward and bowed, "The last general will see the emperor."

He nodded slightly, and then asked, "I heard that a coal mine was found here. Do you know where it is?"

The general of the Shenwu Battalion quickly pointed to the northeast of Lanshan and said: "Go back to the emperor, the coal mine is at the bottom of the mountain over there."

Hearing this, Taichang looked up and saw that mountain could be seen with the naked eye, which proved that it was only about ten miles away from here, even if he ran half a circle around Lanshan, it would only be more than 20 miles.

He just thought about it for a while, and then said decisively: "Send someone to bring a thousand horses over quickly."

Well, the war horses here are so scary. There are more than [-] war horses in the Shenwu Battalion, including the original Siberian Khanate.

After a while, several soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion drove a large group of horses over.

These war horses are also complete with saddles and stirrups.

Taichang immediately waved Yuan Keli, Song Yingxing and the others and Qian Huwei to get on the horse, and then hugged Zhu Cihong to the horse in front of him, then got on the horse, waved his hand and said loudly: "Let's go."

"Booming..." There was a rush of hoofbeats, and they galloped for about a quarter of an hour before they saw a row of people wielding hoes and digging desperately near the forest in front of them.

Of course, they weren't mining coal.

These soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion were only helping to determine the approximate scope of the coal mine and the thickness of the coal seam.

As soon as they rode their horses to the bottom of the mountain, an official from the Ministry of Industry hurried up and bowed his hands and said, "My humble servants see the emperor."

Taichang nodded slightly, then got off the horse with Zhu Cihong in his arms, and then asked, "How did you find out that there is a coal mine here?"

This question is really strange. If coal mines were so easy to find, the people of the Siberian Khanate would have discovered it long ago.

The official from the Ministry of Industry quickly explained: "It's a fluke for me, when I first came here, I found dark brown stones on the ground, which seemed to be associated stones in the outer layer of the coal mine.

Then, Weichen inquired with the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion stationed here, where there is such a stone.

Unexpectedly, the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion directly told Wei Chen that they dug out these stones from the ground.

It turned out that in the first battle with the Siberian Khanate, hundreds of enemies either fell to death or were trampled to death by horses.

After they cleaned the battlefield, they decided to dig a big pit here to bury these people.

And these dark brown stones were dug out when they dug the pit.

However, they did not dig deep at that time. After digging this kind of rock, they felt that they could not dig further, so they did not continue to dig.

Weichen felt that there were probably coal mines down here, so he asked them to dig down hard.

As a result, the coal mine was discovered only after digging down to a depth of more than one foot. "

Uh, this is shit luck for you boy!

It turned out that the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion dug out the associated stones of the coal mine when digging the pit.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then asked again: "How big is the coal mine here, have you finished exploring it?"

The official from the Ministry of Industry said excitedly: "The coal mines here should be very large, because the ministers have ordered people to dig forty or fifty miles along the relevant landforms, and there are still coal mines underneath.

Moreover, the coal mines here are buried quite shallow, roughly more than one foot below the ground, which is very easy to mine. "

Very good!
Taichang couldn't help smiling at Song Yingxing: "Chang Geng, look, I said there must be a coal mine here, and this coal mine is probably enough for millions of people."

Song Yingxing nodded quickly, and then couldn't help asking: "How thick is the coal seam here? Have you detected it?"

The official from the Ministry of Industry was quite excited and said: "My lord, the coal seam here is quite thick, even my ministers ordered people to dig down five or six feet deep and have not yet reached the bottom of the coal seam."

Song Yingxing couldn't help being excited when he heard the words: "Your Majesty, it's all over now, this coal mine is really enough for millions of people, why don't we order people to drive the machines to mine right now?"

Don't worry.

Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "Don't worry about these few days, it's still midsummer, and there are still three or four months of winter.

Besides, there is no special mining equipment nearby.

If we let the railway excavators come to mine now, the railway will stop.

I was still thinking that they would quickly build the railway to the grasslands to the west and connect several large cities on the west bank of the Hubei River.

As for coal mining here, you can mobilize specialized equipment from nearby Monan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places.

You'd better let them continue to explore and see how big this coal mine is.

At that time, we will also be able to determine how to build a nearby port terminal to pull out the mined coal mines. "

How big is the coal mine here?
To be honest, Taichang's or Daming's luck is really good at the moment.

This is one of the five largest coal fields in the world in later generations, and its area is frighteningly large

It only took two or three days for officials from the Ministry of Industry to find this coal mine, but it took more than ten days to explore the scope of this coal mine.

Because the area of ​​this coal mine is really too large, its length is six to seven hundred miles, and its width is also two to three hundred miles.

Although the area of ​​this coal mine is not as large as that of the Tianci Mountain Range in North America, its coal seam is much thicker than that.

Anyway, officials from the Ministry of Industry ordered people to dig for more than ten days, but they didn't get to the bottom.

The coal seam here is dug layer after layer, as if there is no end.

The mines in Xiber Province are really scary. After the officials from the Ministry of Industry prospecting were sent out, there was almost a lot of good news.

Within a few days, good news came from the middle reaches of the Hubei River, and officials from the Ministry of Industry discovered oil there.

At this time, the oil reserves are not yet certain, but there must be a lot of oil there, because the oil sprayed out directly after the well was drilled, and the spraying did not stop for several days, and an oil lake was almost sprayed out nearby. coming.

Immediately afterwards, good news from Yenihe came one after another.

Ministry of Industry officials first discovered gold deposits near the confluence of the middle and upper reaches of the Yeni River, and then iron deposits in the upper reaches of the Yeni River.

These two deposits are not far from the coal mines discovered in the Hubei River. The iron ore and gold mines are actually only about [-] miles away from the coal mines, but they are not in the same river system.

At this time, Song Yingxing was eager to build the canal between the Hubei River and the Yeni River immediately.

Because once the canal is built, the iron ore and gold mines in the Yeni River Basin can be brought directly to Shenwu City for smelting.

After he ordered people to find a place to build the canal, he couldn't wait to run over and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, the place to build the canal has been selected, and the total length is less than two hundred miles. How about we mobilize the equipment now, Organize manual excavation?"

How did this guy become so impatient.

Taichang calmly said, "Where is the location of the canal?"

Song Yingxing quickly pointed to the map and said, "Your Majesty, look, it's here.

This place is not far from the coal mine we discovered. As long as the canal is completed, we can pull it along with the coal mine, gold mine and iron mine, and bring it to Shenwu City for smelting. "

He had also been to this tributary, and it was the place where the Shenwu Battalion's [-] elite cavalry were stationed.

Taichang looked at the map carefully, then shook his head slightly and said: "You can mobilize equipment and organize manpower to dig the canal, but you don't need to order people to bring the coal, gold and iron mines to Shenwu City.

You can find a suitable place directly between the two tributaries of the Ebei River and build a city specifically for smelting gold and iron ore.

In this way, the coal mine does not need to be transshipped.

Moreover, the smelting plant is very dusty. If you build a large smelting plant in Shenwu City, it will not be able to be used as a transit base. "

Uh, build a city next to the coal mine?

Great idea!

Song Yingxing nodded again and again and said: "I understand, I will arrange it now."

The construction of his canal and the city dedicated to smelting has not yet started, and good news from the New Xijiang side continues to spread.

There are actually coal mines at the intersection of the upper and middle reaches of the New Xijiang River, and there are many gold mines in the upper reaches of the river. There are three large gold mines and seven or eight small gold mines.

This time even Taichang was too excited.

He really didn't expect that the mineral deposits here are so rich.

How many days is this?

They discovered two coal mines, one oil mine, one iron mine, four large gold mines, and seven or eight small gold mines!

This is really a fortune. Just these gold mines, if they are all mined, they will have at least an annual income equivalent to hundreds of millions of taels of silver!
This also strengthened his determination to develop Xibo Province.

The problem is, even if he brings all the family members of the 30 southeast battalion soldiers over, there are only more than 200 million people.

Of course, he could have brought all the 50 family members of the soldiers of the Peking University Camp here. The problem is, even if this is the case, there are only about [-] million people in total.

This area is more than twice as large as the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty. Can it be developed with 500 million people?

This population is definitely far from enough.

From the looks of it, we still have to find a way to attract more people.