At the same time that the Battle of the Western Region was launched, the joint technical team of the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry and the General Administration of Mines of the Ministry of Finance rushed to Liuqiu Island.
After professional exploration, they found that this gold mine is of high value, of excellent quality, and not difficult to mine. It is conservatively estimated that there are tens of thousands of kilograms of gold available for mining.
Some traces of copper mines were also found around the gold mine. It is suspected that there are larger copper mines near the gold mine, and it is believed that the veins of this gold mine can continue to be explored, and there may be other surprises.
They believed that setting up a mining farm here and starting mining would provide the Ming Dynasty with precious metals worth hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of copper coins every year.
Su Yonglin was very happy and immediately ordered the General Administration of Mines of the Ministry of Finance and the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry to form a large-scale joint working group, headed by Li Le, a doctor in the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry, to organize a professional prospecting team and a series of equipment to go to Liuqiu Dadao Gold Mine for construction. .
Su Yonglin's hope is to start production before the end of the year, mine the gold and copper on Liuqiu Island, and transport them back to China to enter the national reserve to prepare for the next step of currency reform.
After Lin Jingchun learned about it, he also took this matter very seriously.
He personally organized a professional team from the Ministry of Finance to go to Liuqiu Dadao Gold Mine to evaluate and estimate the value. He then planned to station relevant personnel at the mine to make detailed statistics on the gold and copper produced by the mine.
And because of this discovery on Liuqiu Island, Lin Jingchun believed that Liuqiu Island had good development value, so Lin Jingchun suggested that Su Yonglin consider officially operating Liuqiu Island.
He suggested that the Ming Dynasty's administrative divisions should be formally established on this large island, incorporated into direct rule, and then experiments be carried out in accordance with Su Yonglin's earlier plan.
Earlier, Su Yonglin had a plan to build an industrial city with the mining industry as its core, and was planning to find an area in Liaodong to experiment.
The specific plan is to rely on the mine to gather the population, develop the surrounding areas, build agricultural areas, living areas, and industrial areas together to develop into a new type of industrial settlement, so that the population will gradually increase.
At present, no suitable place has been found in Liaodong, but it has been found on Liuqiu Island.
Su Yonglin was very happy about this, so he decided to test his long-planned plan on Liuqiu Island, using it as an experience package for subsequent construction of industrial cities and the development and expansion of the working class.
As soon as he thought of this, Su Yonglin immediately convened multiple departments of the imperial court and various departments of the Renaissance Association for a joint government affairs meeting to conduct detailed consultations on Lin Jingchun's proposal.
Because Ming Dynasty had no experience in building industrial cities before.
The existing cities are basically water and land transportation hubs. Because they are built with agricultural status, commercial status, military status, and transportation status as the core, there are no purely industrial cities.
In the future, after the Ming Dynasty's science and technology developed by leaps and bounds, the construction and transformation of industrial cities was almost inevitable.
In the not-too-distant future, some prosperous industrial cities will appear in traditional remote areas such as Liaodong, grassland, southwest, and Lingnan. In order to accumulate relevant experience, Su Yonglin expressed his willingness to conduct an experiment on Liuqiu Island. .
Regarding the latest scientific and technological progress in the Ming Dynasty, the senior officials who participated in the government affairs meeting and the senior cadres of the Renaissance Society all had some knowledge.
They knew that Su Yonglin was promoting wonderful power reforms with genius ideas, and planned to use brand-new power equipment to bring unprecedented changes to the Ming Dynasty.
He called it his "Project for the Industrial Revolution."
In his description, Ming Dynasty, which will use new power equipment in the future, will develop ten times or even a hundred times as fast as it is now. Everyone's life will undergo earth-shaking changes in just a few decades, and everyone will see it from another perspective. Entering a new era.
At the government affairs meeting, Su Yonglin made a very clear speech.
"The industrial revolution plan is the core plan of Ming Dynasty in the future. In order to realize this plan, Ming Dynasty has made a lot of preparations. As long as the technological breakthrough is completed, everything will come naturally, so that we will not be in a hurry when the new era comes. , I think it is necessary to build an industrial city on Ryugudashima."
Officials and members looked at me, and I looked at you. There was unconcealable curiosity and yearning in everyone's eyes.
They were accustomed to the victory and glory that Su Yonglin brought to them, and they were also passively accustomed to the changes that Su Yonglin brought to them that they were willing to accept or not.
Some of these changes are in their interests and they are willing to accept them.
Some are not in their interests, so they are reluctant but will eventually be forced to accept them.
For example, Su Yonglin imposed increasingly stringent control requirements on officials and Fuxing members.
The industrial revolution plan was not aimed at a certain person or group, but the entire Ming Dynasty. When Su Yonglin took them to visit the No. 1 Steam Engine, they were also shocked.
They were all surprised when Su Yonglin said that this machine would be used in all walks of life in the future.
They couldn't imagine that such a strange machine could drive a car and then run from a top speed of 600 miles to a light everyday speed.
In the 14th year of Tianbao's reign, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty got the news of the rebellion in Anlu Mountain within six days. He traveled three thousand miles for six days, which meant that the news traveled five hundred miles in one day.
This was already the extreme speed at which military intelligence information could be conveyed in the most urgent situation during the heyday of national power in the feudal dynasty, including road administration and horse administration.
In order to complete this extreme transfer, the station system needs to pay an extremely expensive price, including but not limited to more than 20 good horses becoming disposable products and being scrapped from then on.
Because of the extremely high cost, such extreme speeds are basically not used in daily life. Traveling five hundred miles a day to deliver messages may not happen once or twice a year.
According to Su Yonglin's description, once the steam locomotive is successful, the maximum speed of the heyday feudal dynasty will become the starting speed of the new era, and it will continue to accelerate in the future, easily surpassing the maximum speed of the heyday feudal dynasty.
The cost is also very low.
Seeing the big from the small, the development speed of Ming Dynasty will be far behind all the dynasties in history, and at an extremely low cost, it will move towards the sea of stars that the predecessors could not even dream of.
Each of them was shocked by the future described by Su Yonglin, and they felt that their souls were trembling.
They have long accepted that Su Yonglin would come up with a brand new idea from time to time and then put it into practice and achieve huge profits and success.
But they had no idea how far Su Yonglin had planned the Ming Dynasty.
They didn't know what the future of Ming Dynasty looked like in his head.
Is it a kingdom of gods flying in the sky?
New ideas they had never been exposed to, new political systems they had never been exposed to, brand new weapons they had never been exposed to, and an industrial revolution they could not imagine were all brought about by Su Yonglin.
So much so that they believed from the bottom of their hearts that Su Yonglin was a special being. Without him, nothing would happen.
Even the degenerates who were most disgusted with Su Yonglin's institutional reform could not imagine how far the Ming Congress would have fallen without Su Yonglin's leadership. They did not like Su Yonglin's idea of continuing the revolution, but they could not move away from the route planned by Su Yonglin.
They wanted to get rid of Su Yonglin, but found that they couldn't do it, no matter from any aspect, they couldn't do it.
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So they are desperate.
