Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 18 Iron Ore
Cui Ruoyun quickly understood what her brother meant, she raised her head and asked, "You mean, this money was newly minted near Guazhou?"

Cui Tao nodded immediately and said, "Yes! Sister, do you think there will be iron mines near Guazhou?"

Now Cui Ruoyun sat up straight, looked at the new money in her hand and said, "Wait for me, I'll ask my colleagues."

Then Cui Tao saw that Cui Ruoyun's eyes lost their spirit and gradually became dull.This is the managed state after "offline".

In the state of trusteeship, this body eats, drinks, sleeps normally, and can also perform simple self-defense techniques, but it will not take the initiative to do anything.

Cui Tao paced back and forth in the room, what if there are iron mines near Guazhou?

Iron is the backbone of industry. Although Guazhou has developed trade, resources have always been lacking. This is also the pain of many life-streaming players.

If there is really iron ore, then the ironmaking industry can be developed, not only armor weapons, but even muskets and artillery can be thought of!

Thinking of this, Cui Tao became even more excited.

After a while, Cui Ruoyun logged into the game again.

"Xiaotao, you are right. There is indeed a high-quality iron mine near Guazhou."

"Really?"

"Yes, there is a medium-sized iron mine near Guazhou, but the quality of the iron ore is very good and the iron content is very high. This is what my friend from the Department of Geology told me."

"Sister, you said there really are iron mines near Guazhou!?"

"Yes, Guazhou Dashuixia Iron Mine, this iron mine has been in mining until now."

"It's all being mined now? Is the iron ore stock so rich?"

Cui Ruoyun shook her head and said, "It's not that there are rich reserves, but that this iron mine was only discovered in modern times."

Cui Ruoyun said: "Dashuixia Iron Mine, this iron mine is under the river bed of a river. This big river dried up due to climate change in modern times. Iron ore was found under the exposed river bed, which was later developed into an iron mine. , has been mined until now.”

Cui Tao asked excitedly: "Sister, is it difficult to mine this iron ore?"

"It's not big. The iron ore is on the surface very shallow under the river bed. If it wasn't for this river, the iron ore would have been mined long ago."

Cui Tao stood up and said, "That is to say, is anyone mining this iron mine now?"

Cui Ruoyun shook her head and said, "Not necessarily. If iron ore is mined on a large scale, it will definitely be discovered by the government. I think it is possible that a certain section of the mine collapsed, causing the river to wash out the iron ore."

"Residents in the lower reaches picked up iron ore, but they couldn't cast large iron objects, so they could only make iron coins."

Cui Tao nodded repeatedly and said, "Sister, what you said makes sense!"

"Sister, help me mark the location of the iron mine, I'm going to report the good news to His Royal Highness King Jianning!"

Cui Ruoyun nodded, and marked the location of the Dashuixia Iron Mine on the map.

Excitedly holding the map, Cui Tao rushed out of the barracks and ran towards Li Yan's camp.

Cui Ruoyun stood up and walked into the next room.

There are large and small bottles and jars piled up in this room. This is the laboratory that Cui Ruoyun built in the game.

Putting a transparent crystal cup on the crystal lamp, Cui Ruoyun murmured:
"The experiment of purifying alcohol is not difficult, and now it is possible to produce high-purity alcohol."

"Now that the fuel for the alcohol lamp is available, we can proceed to the next experiment."

"Next, we will start experiments related to the production of gunpowder. The purpose of the experiment is to configure the most powerful gunpowder formula to provide the basis for the later manufacture of fire caps."

"From now on, let's purify the raw materials first."

Cui Ruoyun opened her experiment notebook and began to write and draw in the notebook.

The game world is not like the real world. From the experimental equipment to the experimental materials, it has to be manufactured step by step by itself.

So Cui Ruoyun is very cautious. She always plans the experiment and checks the relevant literature before starting to do it.

When Cui Ruoyun started the experiment, Cui Tao had already rushed into Li Yan's barracks.

"Where is His Royal Highness King Jianning?"

"Your Highness is reading in the study."

"Please let me know that Cui Tao has something important to do when he joins the army."

"Cui Canjun, please wait a moment."

After Li Yan arrived in Guazhou, he has been unwilling to live in the governor's mansion, nor is he willing to live in a rich man's house.

He moved into the barracks of the Moli army and lived in the room of the captain of the Moli army.

Although this room is slightly larger than the rooms of ordinary officers, the decoration is very simple.

"Cui Canjun, please."

The servants led Cui Tao into the study, only to see Li Yan sitting in the study reading a book.

Behind the desk, there is a huge map.This is a hand-painted full picture of the Tang Dynasty by an art professional player.

Looking at this huge map, the Great Tang still stretches from the Yajiang River in the east to Hengluosi in the west, the Xing'an Mountains in the north, and the huge empire of Qiongzhou in the south.

It's just that after the Anshi Rebellion, Datang completely lost a large area of ​​territory outside Yumen Pass.

For the next thousand years, future generations can only look at the Silk Road and sigh.

Li Yan put down the book in his hand and said, "Cui Canjun, what's your business?"

Cui Tao knew that Li Yan didn't like red tape, so he said directly: "Your Highness, I know where the big food merchant's fake money comes from!"

"Oh? Cui Canjun didn't even go to the governor's mansion, so he knew the fake money came?"

Cui Tao immediately said: "Your Highness! Please look at the rust on this fake money."

Li Yan saw the red rust color on the fake money, and asked suspiciously: "Is this fake money made of iron?"

"exactly!"

"It's no wonder the fineness is so good, it's almost the same weight as real money, but is it worthwhile to cast iron money?"

Forging copper coins with iron is a completely loss-making business in this era.

Li Yan was also wondering how these big food merchants got the fake money.

Now the officials of the governor's mansion are already interrogating these big food merchants, but these merchants have always been interested. If they admit that they know the fake money and deliberately use the fake money, then the death penalty is really inevitable.

So they insisted that the fake money was traded from other places, and they didn't know it.

Cui Tao explained Cui Ruoyun's discovery.

Li Yan frowned while listening. When he heard the news about the Dashuixia Iron Mine, a smile filled his face.

"Is there really an iron mine near Guazhou?"

Cui Tao immediately said: "Well, my sister's divination method is very powerful. If there is any iron ore, as long as His Highness gives me twenty wrestlers, I will know if I go to Dashui Gorge!"

Li Yan knew that what Cui Tao said about fortune-telling was actually because the players looked up the information.

However, there is an iron mine near Guazhou. This news still makes Li Yan very excited!

Iron mines, if iron factories can be built to smelt steel, then Guazhou can become a military center.

With steel, there is also the possibility of marching towards the industrial age!
Li Yan patted the table and said, "I'll give you thirty warriors! Cui Canjun, hurry up and check the iron mine!"

Li Yan said again: "Also investigate the matter of privately minting fake money! Nail these big food merchants to death!"

"My subordinate understands!"

(End of this chapter)