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Chapter 938 Untapped Gold Mine
"The expedition team in Oceania was sent by me at that time. According to the promise to them at the time, the people who returned to them will be resettled. They will have three months of vacation and a compensation. After the vacation is over, they can choose to return to the army Or resign." In order to encourage overseas exploration, Chu Yun compensated the members of the expedition quite generously.

What can most stimulate people's desire for adventure?money!Merchants in the West traveled tens of thousands of nautical miles to explore new routes to the East in order to earn 200%-500% profit from a single voyage!
"More people need to be organized to build towns locally, and it would be best if someone could settle there..." Chu Yun wanted to build permanent towns in Oceania in order to control Oceania.

Oceania has a large amount of metal ore that Chu Yun covets, and this land is very clean and sparsely populated.At this time, there may only be hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in Oceania in the Stone Age, and the local indigenous people can be used as labor force at an extremely low cost.

Unlike the Mughal Empire, which has a population of [-] million, Oceania has no belief issues, no intertwined and historical issues of various local forces, and is very suitable as a colony.

"Master, do you want to summon them?" Ella asked.

"Just ask them to send two representatives to Beijing. I'll have a little understanding of the local situation." Although Chu Yun generally knew that the Oceania expedition team with muskets and two cannons would have no problem conquering the local aborigines, he still wanted to know Expedition details.

It is definitely not the indigenous people that pose a threat to the expedition team, but the local water and soil diseases and the lack of medicines.

"Prisoners can be exiled to the colonies like Britain. They are guilty. We can grow the population of the colonies without paying any price." Nelson suggested to Chu Yun.

Chu Yun shook his head: "No, although it is the most convenient way to exile prisoners to the colonies, they are full of hatred for the government. If they become permanent residents there, they will easily betray the mainland. The United States and Oceania are separated. Britain is a living example of that."

"Then we can only develop it through the government's organization of manpower, otherwise ordinary residents will not leave their current stable life and live in a backward, primitive and strange mainland." Nelson said.

"During this period of time, let me think about it. We already have an expedition team stationed there, and no one will compete with us for a while." Chu Yun is not in a hurry to colonize Oceania. With the continuous improvement of agricultural technology, the current one The carrying capacity of the [-] provinces in Beijing can support many more people.

It would be better to develop Oceania later than to separate Oceania from the current system after the development of Oceania.

For the development of Oceania, Chu Yun has some headaches.Oceania is too far away, and the use of galleons to transport iron ore is not worth the loss, unless it is a [-]-ton giant ship specially produced to transport iron ore...

By the way, there seems to be a gold mine in the Melbourne area!Chu Yun suddenly wanted the world he lived in. In addition to San Francisco, there is also a "new gold mountain", Melbourne. In the middle of the 19th century, there was a gold rush in the local area, so that tens of thousands of Chinese workers poured into the local area.

Chu Yun took a world map drawn on the bookshelf and pointed to the Melbourne area in southeast Oceania: "I almost forgot that there is a gold mine here! Maybe we can use this as a reason to hire workers to develop there, so that we can both Attract ordinary residents to go to the local area to build a permanent town, and at the same time, we can use gold mines to make up for the loss of our stationed in the local area, and even transport the gold back as a gold mine reserve!"

Gold mine? !Nelson and Ella also leaned over to look at the location Chu Yun pointed to, which happened to be the temporary station built by the Oceania expedition team.

"If the amount of iron ore is large enough, its value is higher than that of gold. But now that there is no giant ship, what resources can be higher than gold and silver?" Chu Yun's eyes were a little fanatical.

The unit value of gold is high. A large sailing ship can transport several tons back at a time. Unless it encounters a storm or hits a rock and sinks, it is definitely the most cost-effective trophy.Now Chu Yun is very short of money, just like Charles I on the other side of the ocean, he wants to do a lot of things, not necessarily because he doesn't have enough skills, but because he doesn't have enough money.

"If there is a gold mine and it is going to be mined, it will be extremely difficult to supervise. First of all, it must be ensured that the workers who mine the gold will not hide the gold sand privately, secondly, it is forbidden to privately mine the gold mine secretly, and finally, it must be supervised and responsible. A gold mining officer.” As the chief of intelligence, Ira’s first consideration was regulatory issues.

The Melbourne area is [-] miles away from the capital, and the value of the gold mines is too high. Maybe someone in the team sent to mine the gold mines will enrich themselves, and even join hands to deceive the capital.

"Finding people to do things is risky. People are not machines after all." Chu Yun knows that mining gold mines is easy to breed corruption, but someone always needs to mine.

"In addition to Melbourne, there are also gold mines here..." Chu Yun pointed to the place where San Francisco is located. There are no colonists here, only Indian tribes.Spanish colonists were still further south in Mexico, and British and French colonists were in eastern America.

"These are wealth, which can relieve financial tension." Aila knew that Chu Yun was paying close attention to various constructions, and every major project was burning money, so that he was under a lot of pressure.

"Well, it's time to build a permanent town to mine gold mines in the western part of America." Chu Yun couldn't deny it.

With the precedent of successfully sending an expedition team to Oceania, he can also send another expedition team across the Pacific Ocean to establish a colony in the San Francisco area and mine the local gold mines.

"You can send a fleet to the San Francisco area along this route, which happens to be sailing along the warm current of the North Pacific Ocean, and the speed is relatively fast." Chu Yun stared at the map, remembering the ocean currents he had learned in his previous geography class.

He thought it was useless before, but in fact this knowledge can help boost productivity.

Ella listened patiently to Chu Yun's murmurs, and always felt that his serious and knowledgeable appearance fascinated her.

"Master, there is another piece of news. Da Yuer has withdrawn from Dongpu to the capital. When do you plan to meet her and deal with Dongpu's affairs." Aila said to Chu Yun again.

"Let her rest for a few days before letting her come to see me. I have too many things to do recently." Chu Yun thought of many other things, such as establishing a western trading company, mining colonial gold mines, building steam ironclad warships, and domestic industrial construction. Just a big head.

"Then I'll go and inform Da Yuer." Aila knew that what she could do for Chu Yun was limited, so she tried her best to help him calm Da Yuer's emotions.

(End of this chapter)