Chapter 470: Mi Zhu's Shock
There are indeed a lot of minerals in Southeast Asia, but Zhang Yu doesn't know the exact location, so he can only let them find it by themselves.
In fact, not only the southeast region, but China is also rich in minerals. There is definitely a large amount of gold, silver, copper and iron, but Zhang Yu doesn't know where they are distributed, and most of them have not yet had the technology to mine them in this era.
So Zhang Yu aimed overseas.
According to Zhao Hai's introduction, these minerals are probably in Indonesia and other places in later generations.
"My lord, when we arrived, we found that it was very easy to mine. Some of us went to explore the surrounding environment, and some of us repaired the ship there, and mined some of it. This time we brought back a ship full of minerals." Zhao Hai said again.
"Okay, you guys have done a great job. All the crew members should be rewarded. I will ask Zhang Zhao to do it later, and your credit will be recorded. If there is a chance in the future, you will be appointed officials and knights." Zhang Yu promised road.
Their contributions are great, enough to confer titles and titles, but Zhang Yu doesn't have this power yet.
Zhao Hai was very moved, he didn't expect that he, a boatman, could get such treatment here.
Zhang Yu finally sent Zhao Hai to the door in person, which moved Zhao Hai very much, and he felt like he died for his confidant.
In fact, Zhang Yu did attach great importance to them, and the treatment was very high.
A great discovery in Southeast Asia, Zhang Yu has opened up many routes there, and opened some counties.
It's just that most of these require Zhang Yu's continuous investment, but now that the mine has been discovered, Zhang Yu doesn't have to continue to invest, and it has paid off.
Zhang Yu asked Zhang Zhao to ask for detailed sea charts, and then organized a huge fleet, leading thousands of people there in the early stage, planning to open up a county there, establish a stronghold, and then continuously mine ore.
In the Northeast, before Zhang Yu asked Gu Yong to mobilize tens of thousands of people to search for ores, and after tens of thousands of people pulled a net to search, they also found many mines.
Most of them are iron mines and coal mines, which are also very important. There are also copper mines, silver mines, and gold mines, but there are not many of them.
Zhang Yu has now hoarded some ore and started smelting and minting coins. It won't be long before he can use the coins he minted, and the money shortage will be alleviated by then.
When Zhang Yu was making these plans,
Mi Zhu is here.
"Here comes another God of Wealth." Zhang Yu welcomed Mi Zhu very much.
In fact, Mi Zhu has been here for a few days, but he didn't come to see Zhang Yu.
He had gone to learn about Kuaiji County through his subordinates before, and Mi Zhu was taken aback when he learned about it.
When did the Jiangdong area become so developed?
Mi Zhu even thought that his subordinates were deceiving him, so he followed this mission and came in person.
After a few days of investigation in the Jiangdong area, he was completely convinced.
The Jiangdong area is indeed very rich.
Mi Zhu is a man of vision, and he has personally inspected many places.
He observed on the pier for a day. The merchant ships were very dense, and a large number of products were being shipped out. This happened to several wharves, and thousands of people were busy at one wharf.
After seeing the pier, Mi Zhu went to look at the most important agriculture.
The most important business of the Mi family is agriculture, so he attaches great importance to agriculture.
After he inspected Jiangdong's agriculture, he was even more shocked.
The water system here is well developed, and there are patches of farmland.
There are also patches of tea gardens on the mountain.
Moreover, he found that farmers are very rich, have fields at home, and the most important thing is to have farm tools. Many people in other places are poor and have no farm tools, so the production efficiency is low.
There are only farm tools, there are many canals in the fields, and there are water trucks for irrigation. What shocked Mi Zhu is that there are usually only a few households with a farming ox.
Not to mention the importance of cattle, one cattle is more valuable than several people.
All this shocked Mi Zhu very much.
Obviously, Mi Zhu's shock was not limited to that.
He finally knew Zhang Yu's confidence to be an enemy of all the aristocratic families.
Zhang Yu's own talent training system is very complete.
Of course, this is a serious perfection in Mi Zhu, but in Zhang Yu's eyes it is still far from perfect.
At present, some counties with relatively large populations will have a college, and the college can allow hundreds of people to study.
These are elementary and intermediate colleges, and the students are relatively young.
There may be tens of thousands of people in a county, but only a few hundred people are studying. Obviously, the proportion of people receiving education is very small.
And there are only two colleges of higher learning, one in the north and one in the south.
Those trained by colleges of higher learning can be directly assigned to serve as officials in various places, but only three or four hundred people graduate every year.
Although the number of people is constantly increasing, there are still some shortcomings in the expansion of Zhang Yu's power.
After Mi Zhu's inspection, he was completely optimistic about Zhang Yu.
He suddenly felt that Zhang Yu had the greatest potential.
What a sensible choice it was to marry my younger sister to Zhang Yu.
Mi Zhu was shocked by other things, of course, such as the prosperity of the city.
The city here may not be very big, but the economic prosperity in the city is unimaginable in other places.
There are many kinds of squares and markets in the city. When the people have money, they naturally want to consume. There are all kinds of shops and vendors.
And Zhang Yu's tax revenue is also very large from the shops and squares here.
Zhang Yu's tax is not high, but it can't support the large amount, so he has a lot of income every month.
Those traders are also willing to pay taxes, because the tax rate is not high, and they can also get Zhang Yu's protection.
In other words, in the Jiangdong area, the law and order is very good, there are no bandits in the territory, and there are few crimes.
Bandits are everywhere in other places, and it takes a large number of people to transport some goods. These are huge costs.
In the Jiangdong area, there is no need for guards to transport goods to and from, and no one dares to rob here.
"To invest in Jiangdong, you must invest in Jiangdong." Mi Zhu decided to tie Zhang Yu's chariot completely after the inspection.
"It is said that Zhang Yu still has a lot of business overseas, and he is completely invincible. Zhang Yu and I are related by marriage, so there is no need to worry about coming to Jiangdong."
Another reason why Mi Zhu wanted to come to Jiangdong was that Zhang Yu would not blackmail the businessman at all, but the status of the businessman was very high.
In other places, businessmen are simply inferior, and those in power can do whatever they want.
But here, Zhang Yu protects business.
After a few days of investigation, Mi Zhu went to see Zhang Yu.
"Haha, Brother Mi has come from a long way, it's been a hard journey." Zhang Yu went to the gate to meet this uncle himself.
Mi Zhu's face was indeed tired, but his spirit was very excited.
"Brother Zhang, I came here on orders, and I dare not say how lucky I am." Mi Zhu directly informed him of his intention.
Zhang Yu nodded and welcomed Mi Zhu in.
After entering, the two sat down, and Zhang Yu said directly, "It's not impossible for Tao Qian to ask me to stop fighting. What sincerity did he ask you to bring?"
Mi Zhu smiled wryly, and Zhang Yu was still the same, without any etiquette or politeness at all, and negotiated directly. The strongest system to dominate the Three Kingdoms