The prisoner Mi clapped and said, "Brother, what we want is not land, but gold, silver and copper mines. The trouble is here. If Jiuzhou does not have any extra inch of land, it would be simple. There are hundreds of acres of land to immigrate there, and everything is easy to say. The problem is that Jiuzhou still has land, what is lacking is population, and the population that is mining."

"A mining man must have three or four farms, and this must be the prevalence of iron ox plowing. Now they are still using stones, so they can't dig without eating or drinking."

"It's simple to occupy. You're right. Three hundred people, using conflicts between tribes, are enough to gain a foothold. I was in Gaoliu back then, and I didn't see such a thing."

"But the problem is how to use these stone utensils and all public lands to the public, so that they can plant food, dig ore, smel ore, collect big trees, and build ships..."

After saying this, Shu Guitian felt that what he thought was too simple.

He envied the story of the eight hundred people destroying Panyu, and felt that if he was still using stones and slashes and fire, it would be a good idea that three hundred people would be enough to create a South China Sea.

But after hearing what my brother said, I realized that I was simply thinking, and it was not the same situation at all.

In Panyu, the Mo family was really invincible: hundreds of people broke through cities, shot and killed aristocrats, destroyed writing, and the sacrificial classes threw them into the sugarcane fields for the crime of harming the people and not taking advantage of their own strength to cut sugarcane, liberated slaves, re-divided the land, and banned the feudal obligation of the aristocrats to enfeoff the land. They almost instantly gained a foothold there by using class struggle.

But if it was really as my brother said, there was no concept of a state there, it would still be like the primitive democratic deliberation system in ancient times. Even if you learned a little bit of slash-and-burn technology, it would be publicly owned by the land, and the class struggle that was always unfavorable in the South China Sea would be useless.

Mining requires food and the most basic rule is achieved - even when learning the Sishang founded, how many people must be sent to each village and community to take turns mining, the locals must know what the regime means. Otherwise, even if they can't beat it, can't run away? Anyway, it was originally a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood. How could I do when I run into the mountains to hide?

Immigration from Zhuxia? Not to mention that Zhuxia has a lot of land, and some places that have not been cultivated are short of people everywhere in Si. Who would be willing to run there if they are not allowed to die?

Shu Guitian frowned and said, "If you say so, don't care?"

The prisoner Mi shook her head and said, "I have to care. I must care. Before... Oh, by the way, you were still on the sea at that time. I did have several brainstorming meetings before, and I was talking about this."

"If you have a long-term plan and want to survive after the population increases in the future, it would be simple. Just look at it slowly, there is no text there, and you won't even use copper. It is unknown if you can be one of the Jiuzhous of Xia in the future."

"But isn't you asking for a short-term solution now? Gold, silver, sulfur, and copper is really short of Si. Now the copper in Tongling naturally belongs to us, and the copper in Daye Mountain belongs to the Chu people..."

"You don't know that the best cannons are all copper. Artillerymen don't like iron cannons. The copper cannons are far and accurate and not easy to explode. Now they are practicing military forces. It is necessary to achieve within a few years that each infantry brigade has three small cannons, and the number of artillery must also increase."

"There is a lot of copper and sulfur on the island. If it can be solved, not only the gold and silver, but even the copper will be the best achievement in the world."

The prisoner Mi then smiled bitterly, "So this is the problem."

"The merchant seeks profit, Sishang Heavy Industry, and the merchant's profit comes from the transfer of goods. However, now the hulin ironware in Sishang is transported there, what can I get back? Maybe I can get some furs, because the people there have no money. Even if they have learned to plant, the grain prices have been so low in recent years that the trade in the South China Sea must be "a ship must carry a certain stone of grain, otherwise it will be multiples". If you go there to transport grain, why wouldn't the family have to have a gold mine?"

"Mining makes money, the above will definitely not allow gold and silver to be mined privately. If merchants want to dig, the cost is too high, and they have to support locals to teach them to grow grain, and they have to invest several years to let locals know about obedience and transactions... If they transport people from Si Shang Nanhai and other places, not to mention that the merchants cannot afford the cost, even if Si Shang is short of people now, how can they get the turn of those merchants to grab people? Can they grab our Mo family?"

"If a businessman cannot count on it, he still has to rely on organization. But what the organization lacks now is copper, not land, nor is it that Si Shang has a large population and has no land to cultivate. If you cannot gain copper within a few years, you can slowly make it for hundreds of years, and you don't need to waste your energy and talents there."

"So the above is still discussing this matter, and it's hard to decide."

Speaking of merchants, the san prisoner Mi couldn't help but mutter: "Merchants are the most unreliable. Look, when people there will be farming and mining in the future, the merchants will definitely find a way to go, and they will definitely smuggle and avoid the tariffs on ship trade. But you have to rely on them to develop there and take the most difficult first step from scratch... Humph, why don't they invest in the quicker and safer place to make money now?"

He had a lot of opinions about the businessmen and was quite dissatisfied with some of the above policies. He couldn't help but complain with the intention of drinking.

Shu Guitian didn't care about the nature of the merchant. He understood that his brother was right. For example, the place he had sailed far away before, the merchant would definitely not be afraid of losing his life, because there was already civilization there, and trade could be traded for gold and silver wealth. But as for the island that was still slash-and-burn, it was impossible for the merchant to go there. It was really unprofitable and could only rely on the Mohist organization to accomplish this.

However, he had already understood what he wanted to know. He frowned and thought for a moment, and suddenly knocked the dining table with chopsticks and said, "Brother, is there a problem with copper now... it is not a question of whether to benefit, right?"

The prisoner Mi nodded and said, "That's right. Let's put it this way, there are money on Si Shang now, there are people, food, various handmade goods, cloth, but... there is a shortage of copper and sulfur, because it is expanding its army. How to turn money into copper? This is a big problem. Because Si Shang now uses paper money more, the money cannot be directly turned into copper, and the copper used for casting cannons is different from that of coin copper."

"Copper is not copper coins now, but copper for casting cannons. These two are not the same."

Shu Guitian's heart was thumping, because he suddenly thought of a possibility and asked: "So since he is not short of money, there are still many 'long-term workers' in the south of the South China Sea, and there are also many miners in Tongling and other places. If there is really a large copper mine there, it will be transported directly, for example, if you work for three years, you will be given a commission for six years, and you will be specialized in it and have a dedicated person to take charge of it, right?"

The prisoner Mi smiled bitterly and said, "Brother, you are on the boat and don't know what to do on the road. Now to go there, you need to cross from the South China Sea, to Si Shang, to Qi, to Lai Di, to cross the sea, to the south of Jizi Korea, to the southeast along the coast, to Juli, and then to cross the sea south..."

"If you don't talk about tens of thousands of miles, it's not a false statement. How much is it spent? How much time will it take?"

Shu Guitian smiled and said, "Brother, what you know about land is on land, but you don't know about sea. Every April, the South China Sea will blow directly on the northeast. Then why do you have to cross the sea along the coast of Jizi Korea to Juli? If there is a route, you can directly connect from the Wuyue land in the South China Sea?"

"It is not impossible to transport people to there, mine copper ore, and return after all."

He turned to the gentleman and asked, "Sister, you have mapped the nine states of Yu. I believe that your classmates must have measured the longitude and latitude there when you first sailed to that island last time, right?"

The gentleman who participated in the compilation and drawing of mountain and river geography naturally knew and said, "I know. Please wait, I'll take a look."

She hurried back to her room, took out a note, and said, "If you use the southernmost test..."

After reading a message, she and Shu Guitian could understand immediately, but after the rest of the table didn't understand the longitude and longitude of the longitude and latitude, Shu Guitian rubbed his head, shook his head as if he wanted to shake out all the wine he had drunk before, dipped it in a little bit of wine with chopsticks, and murmured, "Let me calculate... Let me calculate..."

The gentleman stretched out his chopsticks and opened the chopsticks that his younger brother had calculated there, and said with a smile: "I am not as good as you in Zhang Fan's sailing changes in the wind and clouds; but when it comes to the geometry of the nine numbers, you are not as good as me."

"If we calculate it from the southernmost end, the latitude is similar to that of Kuaiji City; if we calculate it from the east and west, the nearest place is only Shangqiu to Nanzheng."

She did not talk about the distance between numbers, but gave an intuitive distance between cities.

Shu Guitian believed that his sister would not make a mistake and was overjoyed: "It is not far away when looking at it this way. It would be very difficult if there is a road that is open to transport ten-year laborers from north of Panyu, or transport miners from Kuaiji to Tongling."

"There is a large island in the northeast of Panyu. If you can go along the island to the northeast, this road may not be blocked."

He was a man who had lived a life further south of the South China Sea. He sailed along the coastline and found the legendary rich man in the Central Plains. He was far away for several years and did not care about this kind of thing from Shangqiu to Nanzheng.

If there is a willingness to support it... there are naturally many risks, and there may be strong winds, and the ship may be destroyed and people may be killed... But once this route is found, your merits will be recorded by future generations, so that this life will be worthwhile.

He calculated that in three years, it was enough for those who could sail to the north to find copper or gold or silver ore and sulfur, and it was enough for the villages there to learn how to grow and trade grain. As long as they could find a closer route, they could transport people to solve the urgently needed copper ore and gold and silver, they would be willing to pay the price of one or two hundred people, as well as the wealth and manpower needed to support the navigation.

The more I thought about it, the more excited I became, and said, "Sister, in a few days, you can get me a map you have drawn. If printing is troublesome, money is not a problem. I can find someone to draw it specifically, without printing."
Chapter completed!