Daming Military Empire

Chapter 154 Iron Ore Gold Mine
In October, the sky in Beijing was high and the clouds were clear, and the weather was pleasant. In this comfortable environment, Zhu Cijiong felt particularly good. The shipyard has already broken ground, and the new artillery factory has also begun to build workshops. It will be possible to produce sailing battleships in the next year. Now, the Ming Empire is about to set sail, and dominating the sea is no longer a dream, let alone how beautiful it is in his heart.

Just when Zhu Cijiong's mood was soaring, Song Yingxing ran over and poured cold water on it inappropriately: the iron ore was almost gone again.

Over the past year, the Wanggong Factory has produced unknowingly how many muskets, cannons, and shells. The 200 million jin of iron ore sent by Shivela has long been used up. The speed can't keep up with the speed of consumption, so the iron ore is almost gone again!
As soon as iron ore was mentioned, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but think of Shivela. Isn't this guy going to buy flintlock guns and artillery from him?He had a general idea of ​​the current inventory of guns, and he could get together almost [-] flintlock guns and [-] May [-] howitzers, so he summoned Shivela.

Shivira didn't run away, he has been courting the rich and powerful in the capital, and Daming's high-end luxury goods are his cash cow, which can bring his family tens of millions of taels of silver in income a month, nothing is more important than this, As for the Governor of Macau, fuck it, what money can he make, anyway, nothing will happen if his guards are there to watch, it's more important to do his own business.

It’s not that he forgot about buying flintlock guns and cannons. After all, it takes time for his family to recruit private troops. Besides, he hasn’t figured out where to send the family’s troops to steal money. Brazil is pretty good. There are gold and silver everywhere, but he doesn't know him very well there, and he doesn't have any trustworthy friends. He doesn't know if he will get the money by sending the army there so rashly, so he has been hesitating. He hesitated for more than two months, until His Majesty the Emperor Ming suddenly summoned him.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire is now his biggest boss. When the big boss summoned him, his feet were blown, his butt was smoking, and he rushed to the Forbidden City in no time.

Zhu Cijiong is quite polite to this guy. After all, the business of Daming Western Trading is now entrusted to him as an agent, and the monthly income is tens of millions of taels. In the future, he will also rely on him to bridge the contact with the big powers, so , basically Zhu Cijiong treats him as a partner.

After the two exchanged a few pleasantries, Zhu Cijiong directly got to the point, and asked with a smile: "Count Shivira, do you still want the muskets and cannons you mentioned last time?"

Shi Weila was taken aback when he heard the words, and then said pleasantly: "Yes, Your Majesty, is it ready?"

Zhu Cijiong nodded and said, "Well, it's ready, when are you going to pick up the goods?"

Shivela has been having a headache for where to send the troops. Hearing the words, he couldn't help blurting out: "The goods can be picked up at any time, but I haven't figured out where to send the recruited troops yet."

Zhu Cijiong heard the words, his heart moved, and he asked casually: "Oh, you also recruited an army, what do you want to use it for, restore the country?"

Shivela quickly shook his head and said: "The time for restoring the country is not ripe yet. Besides, the restoration of the country is not a matter for me alone. Our Lord Duke has not yet made up his mind. It is useless for me to be anxious. I mainly want to Go and occupy a few gold or silver mines, anyway, Spain and our Portuguese overseas territories are in a mess now, as long as you register any company, you can grab them, and whoever grabs them will own them."

There is such a good thing, Zhu Cijiong almost wanted to say, I will grab it for you, but after thinking about it, let it go, he has dual citizenship of Portugal and Spain now, no matter where he goes to grab it, it is a contradiction within the country. Once he rushes in, he is robbing territory. Now Spain is still one of the largest maritime powers, and Daming does not have the ability to compete with him for overseas colonies.

If you can't participate, then you can only stare blankly, Zhu Cijiong said regretfully: "Oh, then have you thought about where to grab it?"

Shivela sighed: "I originally wanted to go to Brazil. I heard that there are gold and silver mines everywhere, but I am not familiar with it at all, alas."

You don’t know me well, so what else is there to say, Zhu Cijiong was about to end this topic, but suddenly remembered that he wanted this guy to engage in iron ore, gold mines and silver mines can be ignored for the time being. But you have to fool this guy to grab the iron ore!
He tried to recall, which country has more iron mines?Australia is famous for its iron mines, but it is too far away, so he has to find a closer one. After thinking for a long time, he finally remembered that there are a lot of iron mines in India, and Ah San hates it the most. By the way, add some blockage to them, just right, kill two birds with one stone.

So Zhu Cijiong said flickeringly: "Aren't you very familiar with the Governor of India, Kong Dede? I heard that India also has a lot of gold mines. You might as well go to India. It is also close to Ming Dynasty. It is very convenient for you to replenish ammunition, and you can also protect Our goods, isn't this very good?"

Shivira's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he said quite emotionally: "Earl Conded also said that there is a lot of gold there, but he is not strong enough and has not penetrated into their inland, so he has not found the location of the gold mine. Go to my army, you should be able to get in."

Zhu Cijiong continued to fool around and said: "If it's too bad, you can ask Kong Dede to buy some weapons in the past. Only investment will pay off."

Shivela said excitedly: "Yes, if it's too late, let Count Conded also buy weapons to expand his army, and he will definitely defeat those natives."

Zhu Cijiong seemed to remember that the place with the most iron mines in India was called Karnataka, so he continued to foolishly said: "Well, I heard that there is a gold mine in a place called Karnataka in India, why don't you go there?" Let's see."

Hearing this, Shivira almost jumped up excitedly, and he said excitedly: "Karnataka, it's right next to Goa, the Governor's Palace of Conded is in Goa, oh, it's great to buy cakes, although It is very difficult to take down the whole of India, but if you just take down Karnataka, I will definitely have no problem cooperating with Count Conded. I will let the family members take the army to Goa immediately, Your Majesty, I will let the family members send money as soon as possible Come here, when the money arrives, can you help me send the muskets and cannons to Goa? Nicholas seems to have business there, just let his fleet take them there."

It's such a coincidence, that's great, he has never studied world geography, he doesn't know where Karnataka is, and he doesn't know where Goa is, he didn't expect that the two places happened to be next to each other, so They are sure to take Karnataka soon.As for money, anyway, if you want to buy iron ore from him, you have to pay for it at that time, so it's better to pretend to be generous and sell favors.

So Zhu Cijiong pretended to be generous and said: "The money is not in a hurry, I can help you send the weapons to Goa now, it happens that there are a lot of iron ore in India, and I just need iron ore, so you can just pay with iron ore. Anyway, native mining doesn’t cost money, right.”

Shivira couldn't believe his ears, iron ore, he could still use iron ore to pay for it. It might be worth some money when transporting it to Europe, but it's only worth the toll money. Generally, it's not what he needs. I wouldn't do such a thankless thing.Randomly transporting some spices, tea, etc. is hundreds of times more profitable than iron ore. Who has nothing to dig those things to sell, so generally iron ore is mined by yourself. Anyway, there are dug everywhere, let the natives dig , Even the money for mining is saved, so that thing is not worth much at all.

Now His Majesty, the great Emperor of the Ming Empire, actually asked him to pay with iron ore, which was worthless at all. This was like giving him guns for nothing!Shivela was touched and said: "Your Majesty, you are too generous. I have never heard that you can buy things with iron ore. I don't know how much iron ore you need. I will dig it for you as much as possible."

Zhu Cijiong made some calculations. He didn't need too much a year ago. After all, the naval gun factory hadn't been built yet. In the past two months, the main purpose was to equip the regiments with muskets and artillery. However, the demand will increase after the new year, so he Pretending to be indifferent, he said: "I haven't used much iron ore recently, you can collect 100 million catties for me first, and after the Chinese New Year, you probably have captured that Karnataka. Just give me 200 million jin every month, let’s give it to me for ten years, and after ten years, it will be settled.”

Shivela was so moved that fifty catties of iron ore would be expensive if sold for one tael of silver. So, 200 million catties would only be worth 4 taels of silver, which would be 48 taels a year. It is only 480 million taels. The price agreed at the beginning can be doubled, that is to say, the price of 800 muskets and [-] cannons is [-] million taels. Now the price has not doubled and there is no need to pay cash. It was picked up for nothing, and you don't have to pick it up yourself, you just need to force the natives to pick it up.

Shi Weila was too moved, but Zhu Cijiong was too proud. Those guns were just personal labor costs in addition to the material cost. If the cost of labor and materials was calculated at half the price, those guns were actually worth more than 100 million catties. Iron ore is good now, they want to send more than 2000 million catties of iron ore over here, and earn a big favor, and even cheated the hateful Ah San.It's cool to think about it. Originally, they only needed to be escorted to dig gold mines. It was a bit tiring, but the things were not heavy. Now it's miserable. Most of them have to be escorted to mine iron mines, 200 yuan a month. Wan Jin, hehe, I'll make you feel awkward, make you find fault all the time, I can't dig you nasty asses to death.

Shivela was touched for a while, and finally remembered the business. These colonists worked so hard to run around the world. To put it bluntly, it was to make money. To put it bluntly, it was to rob gold and silver. Now everyone knows that there are gold mines there. Robbing him is naturally a positive thing, he was a little reluctant to cup his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid I have to leave for a while, I have to go over to discuss matters in India with Kong Dede, otherwise he may not attack immediately Karnataka."

When Zhu Cijiong heard the words, he wanted to roll his eyes, so he went, and quickly grabbed the iron ore for me, why are you still grinding around here?Of course, you can't say that on the surface, he pretended to bless: "Then I will wait for your good news here, I wish you an early capture of Karnataka, find their gold mines, and fill your warships and merchant ships."

Naturally, Shivira went there with a thousand gratitude, and he didn't even know that His Majesty the Emperor was just fooling him into grabbing iron ore!
Zhu Cijiong felt a little bit guilty in his heart, for fooling people like this for the iron ore, I don't know if he will be angry and scold his mother if he doesn't find the gold mine by then.What he didn't expect was that Karnataka really had gold mines, and there were quite a few of them, and Shivera had a great time snatching them there. That's great!

(End of this chapter)