Chapter 454: Dukou Town

Yang Yunxian has been shaken out of his mind by Su You's toad yawn. The monthly output is 50,000 jins, the annual output is 600,000 jins, and his own income is 120,000 jins!

Nowadays, copper is a hard currency. In the Song Dynasty, one pound of copper could be used to cast eight coins!

Thinking that you don't have to do anything, you can get 10,000 kilograms of copper every month, and you can also establish a relationship with the Song Dynasty. In addition, Su You brainwashed and indoctrinated you along the way to consume it in the Meishan mine. When the time comes, you will just sell food to the mining area, then

It's a huge wealth.

By the time the group arrived at Yangju City, the two of them had discussed many details in depth, and their relationship was extremely harmonious.

Su You felt a little resentful in his heart. The history of the warlords' melee in later generations, when the big bosses from all sides curried favor with imperialism, did not hesitate to lose their power and humiliate the country, and let all the benefits of the mines be divided up by the big powers, does it mean something like this now?

Now, I have become the villain in the textbook, which is really ridiculous.

An army blocked the way at the city gate, with well-equipped flags and armor. It was probably the best army the Yang family had to offer.

The leading general waved his hand, and the army drew their swords and shouted to the sky for victory.

The general stepped forward on his horse, clasped his fists and said, "Father, the Lord is already in the palace. Please invite the angels to come in."

When Su You saw this formation, he couldn't help but smile: "Chief Wang, this guard of honor is quite majestic. I wonder if your surname is Duan or Yang?"

Yang Yunxian's face turned red with embarrassment, and he whipped his son's helmet: "What are you doing! Withdraw, you won't let the angels laugh!"

Yang Yizhen was dumbfounded. He just went out for a trip. Why did his father's attitude towards the Song Dynasty Angel change drastically?

Su You winked at Shi Wei. Shi Wei stepped back slightly and hid behind Zhang Qi. He took off the hand crossbow from the side of the horse, clicked the spring of the machine, and a strange thing was launched, and the rope holding the opponent's flag was fired.

Cut off.

The flag was hung upside down, the Dali military's shouts suddenly turned into shouts, and there was chaos at the city gate.

Shi Wei put down the crossbow and looked like an old god was on the ground. It wasn't until she saw Su You secretly putting his hands behind his back and giving a thumbs up that he couldn't help but chuckle.

Yang Yizhen hurried back to reorganize the army, and finally got out of the way and invited Su You and his party to enter the city.

This kid no longer dares to underestimate Su You. According to the legend of Dali, Su You has had many magical powers since he was a child. Until now, he is no different from an earthly immortal.

On the flagpole just now, there is a Yuan Tong Bao folding three iron coins with sharp edges embedded in it.

There has always been a legend in Taoism about the "flying clam with green money". This thing was a small toy that Su You made to please his wife. It had no lethality. Several young boys used to bet with pears all day long, and it came in handy here.

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But in the eyes of Yang Yizhen, who is not aware of the seriousness, this is undoubtedly the method of the immortal family.

Fortunately, Su You was very polite and even held hands with him when he passed the city gate: "Brother, I have admired his name for a long time, but I only wish that today I can see his grace."

Yang Yizhen swallowed: "Angel...Yizhen is the famous Tanhualang that I have admired for a long time...When I saw him today, he was indeed...exceptional as expected."

The people of Dali didn't understand the rules of receiving envoys, so Su You didn't bother to make up lessons with them. He finished things early and left time to plan production.

The royal palace in Dali is still very unique, but the civil and military teams were obviously put together temporarily. Su You didn't take it seriously. He packed up, held his credentials and a scepter, and walked into the main hall from the middle door: "Su You, the Imperial Messenger of Song Dynasty"

, I was given a letter of credence and proclaimed the ruler of Dali."

The king stood up, got down from his seat, and went to the side table: "I will lead you, Duan Silian, the king of Dali. I will not hesitate to do so, and I will sincerely obey the emperor's order."

The edict was written by Zhang Fangping. It started from the Taizu period, to the capture of Nong Zhigao, which became a turning point in the relationship between the two countries, and then to the bright future and the importance of peace between the two countries. It told the king to protect the country and the people, and finally agreed.

Dali pays tribute once every five years.

This last point is very important. Today's tribute system is actually a disguised trade method between neighboring countries and the Song Dynasty court, and the rewards given by the Song Dynasty are far more valuable than the tribute goods.

But it’s not like I’ll accept the tribute if you want. This is equivalent to a very powerful reward. You must obtain the permission of the Song Dynasty court before you can pay tribute.

Xiao Gaohouye and Meishan's business has been booming, and they have long looked down on this small profit. However, from the head of the Dali Kingdom to the Yang family's father and son's staff, everyone has a happy face.

Once the formalities were completed, Su You had completed his mission. The king expressed his sincere gratitude to Su You for mediating the conflict between the two parties in Dali and avoiding weapons.

Su You took the opportunity to propose a non-war zone plan and suggested establishing a buffer zone between East and West Dali to facilitate mediation.

However, the benefits of the copper mine did not benefit the country's owner a penny.

If the two warlords of Dali agree on something, the puppets have no room to interfere.

Next, Su You went to Nongdong Mansion, Quechao Jiuzhan, and presided over the negotiations between the Gao and Yang families in Nongdong.

The city guard of Nongdong Prefecture has always been the target of being wooed or attacked by the two families, trying to survive in the cracks. Now Su You suddenly has a big leg, and he immediately hugs him tightly.

This is actually a preparatory meeting for sharing the spoils. If something is obviously beneficial to everyone, then let’s put aside the dispute and work together to develop it.

The Gao family took this incident as a good opportunity to enter the Yang family's traditional sphere of influence and win over the wandering tribes;

The Yang family regarded this incident as a good opportunity to break the Gao family's monopoly on Dali in diplomacy, transportation, and economy, and worked hard to get closer to Su You and the Song Dynasty behind Su You.

In Su You's words, I am the spokesperson for Sitong Company, and everyone should behave according to the rules.

The stage has been set for everyone. As long as the interests of the company are guaranteed and under the premise of cooperation, how the two of you engage in intrigues is your internal affairs in Dali. I have no reason or need to interfere.

Of course, it's still the same sentence. The big guys can only talk about intentions. The specific follow-up details will be finalized by representatives of the Shi family who are experienced in overseas mineral development.

Next, Su You took Shi Wei to visit two economically developed areas in Dali. It was not until December, when the Mining Department of Nongdongfu started everything and the 600-person protection and exploration team arrived that Su You set off.

Head to Erlin.

Atun Chizun, the former Great Ghost Lord of the Second Forest Department, and now Su Chizun, the state defense envoy, went out to the ferry of the Metallurgical Town at the mouth of the Anning River to greet him with the most solemn etiquette.

This is a strange place. The big town is still south of Jianchang Prefecture in Dali, but the town is almost filled with Yi people from the Erlin tribe and a large number of Song people in charge.

This area was explored and built by the people of the Song Dynasty. It used to be a barren land, but now it is naturally deeply marked by the Song Dynasty.

In order not to irritate the Dali people, this place was not named, so it was called Fukou.

In fact, the Panzhihua City in later generations was previously called Dukou City.

Except for his clothes and skin color, Su You almost suspected that he had arrived in a large town in the American Western era.

The town is full of wooden buildings and shacks, and there are almost all tall smelting furnaces around the town. Su You and Shi Tong stole the furnace design plan from Zhou An. There are no less than five 10,000-pound furnaces here at a glance.

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Surrounding the furnace is the mineral processing area, which is as big as a square and has simple rail tracks.

A string of ore carts pulled by mules and horses were unloaded here.

The mineral processing area is usually chosen on a hillside, where huge windmills drive steel crushers to crush the ore into small pieces.

The small pieces are rolled into the vibrating screen, where countless Yi and Han people with dusty faces and ragged clothes select the ore, and then send the ore to the smelting area for stacking.

There are countless tall chimneys with billowing smoke in the mining area, which are coke ovens.

Today's Tufa Long Kiln coking consumes a lot of coal, which leads to very serious smoke and exhaust gas pollution in the mining area.

A red light flashed under a large furnace, which was a furnace of new steel coming out.

The high temperature melts the precisely proportioned ore into molten steel. Thanks to the refractory bricks and asbestos abundant in Erlin, the furnace temperature is high enough to melt the steel into liquid.
Chapter completed!