"Cousin, you can't be too kind to one!"
Li Chengqian came in the morning, and during dinner in the evening, Li Tai came again.
He shouted while naturally sitting on the table where Tang Ping and the others were having dinner.
"What's wrong with you?" Tang Ping tapped the chopsticks he used to pick up the braised pork, and then gave him a large piece of green vegetables.
He has a physique that is prone to obesity, but he still likes to eat meat and high-carbohydrate foods.
"The prince is short of people. You gave him an idea. In about half a year, a large number of basic craftsmen can be trained for the Tang Dynasty." Li Tai looked at the green vegetables in his bowl, put it into his mouth helplessly and ate it. Said: "I'm in need too!"
There is no such thing as sleeping and eating while eating here in Tang Ping.
"What do you lack?" Tang Ping asked curiously.
"Lack of iron!" Li Tai put down his chopsticks and said seriously: "You don't know, now we need iron to build steam engines, ships, cars, firecrackers and cannons, and all kinds of weapons and tools. iron."
"But the contract you owe Fuso requires you to give them some iron in exchange for gold and silver..."
"Hey, do you think you've lost money by exchanging iron for gold and silver?" Tang Ping asked with some dissatisfaction.
"Of course it's not a loss. After all, the price of gold and silver is much higher than the price of iron." Li Tai explained: "But we are short of iron!"
"Cousin, you don't know, I am a piece of iron now and I wish I could break it into ten pieces and use it! The things we make now can be made without iron, but it is still far from enough!"
Li Tai said with a sad face: "Not to mention you gave the prince an idea. In half a year, we will have more craftsmen, and we will increase the production capacity of many things. But it is hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. You must have iron to make it, right?"
"Didn't I give you a lot of maps of iron mines?" Tang Ping asked strangely.
"There is a map, but it's not that easy to dig!" Li Tai was a little helpless: "Cousin, don't you have a place with high iron ore content, rich yield, and easy digging?"
"I..." Tang Ping was about to say no, but suddenly thought of a place and said instead, "I really know a place."
Originally, Li Tai just said casually that the content is high, the yield is rich and easy to dig, so it is necessary to
Shouldn't it be long ago that such a place should be excavated?
I didn't expect that Tang Ping really had it.
"Where?" Li Tai asked excitedly even without eating.
"In the south..."
"Miao Man or those small southwest countries? I will go back now and ask my father to issue an edict to ask those countries to cooperate."
"No, further south, you can reach the sea!" Tang Ping said, "That's Australia."
"Australia? Where is Oceania?" Of course Li Tai had seen the globe that Li Shimin placed in the Xiande Hall of his office. With his photographic memory, he immediately remembered where Tang Ping said Australia was.
"Yes!" Tang Ping also just remembered that it is not too difficult for Datang to go to Oceania now. Since In this case, why not go there to mine? ?
You must know that Oceania is really a place blessed by God. The iron ore in Australia belongs to open-pit mining areas. A lot of iron ore is not only of excellent quality, but also exists near the surface layer. The difficulty of mining is very small, and the construction method is also very simple. It's not difficult, just dig with a mining pick.
So to go mining there, you don't need any craftsmen at all. As long as you have strong laborers, there will be no problem.
Tang Ping turned on his mobile phone and looked at Australia's mining situation with Li Tai. Li Tai said ecstatically: "Cousin, you still have a way!"
"Then cousin, can you go to the local area and hire some locals to help us mine ore?"
"Hire someone locally?" Tang Ping was a little confused.
"Yes, you see, if workers go to such a far place, even if we use our steamboat now, it will take more than a month to float on the water. You have to let them go home once a year or two, right? This is more than a month !”
"And in such a far place, we have to be responsible for the health and safety of those workers, right? So I think we can hire local people to mine for us, and then we only need to send some soldiers to guard the mine. And the soldiers who are responsible for guarding the mining area You can also follow the ore ship back for a rotation every time.”
Tang Ping saw that Li Tai's words were clear and reasonable, and suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Are you deceiving me?" Tang Ping asked Li Tai: "From what you said, I have to go there in person.
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Tang Ping had already reacted at this time. He was afraid that Li Tai had already known that Australia's iron ore was suitable for mining and deliberately came here to fool him so that he could be fooled.
"Hehehehe!" Li Tai said with a smile: "Cousin, do you think the indigenous people on the Australian island can understand the Tang dialect? I'm afraid I can't find a translator. You are not the only one who can do more work. Last trip?"
Tang Ping was furious: "I just came back from Fusang. I have been in Shanghe Village for less than two months, and you want me to leave again?"
"Cousin!" Li Tai pretended to be pitiful: "But we are really short of iron. Look, look, I brought all the documents from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works. Here is our annual output and annual consumption. Write it clearly."
"YouLook at me last time when I was digging for iron ore, I almost died under the mine. If you hadn't come to save me, maybe I would really be dead... "
"Okay, okay!" Tang Ping held his forehead and said, "I will take people there at most, and then contact the locals, and I will come back after agreeing on the conditions."
"Don't worry!" Li Tai patted his chest and said, "As long as my cousin goes over and takes care of the locals, we will do the rest."
After saying that, he was afraid that Tang Ping would regret it, so he hurried away without even eating.
Tang Ping was helpless. He also knew that the current development of Datang was somewhat unbalanced. The rapid development was accompanied by the scarcity of resources and talents.
The gold and silver mines he brought back from Fuso can inject a large amount of funds into Datang, and Datang can start many new projects, but the consequence is a larger resource gap.
However, he only learned in high school that Australia is a country that sits on a mine cart. He really doesn't know what the specific situation of the local aborigines is.
After searching online, Tang Ping was dumbfounded.
Because he thought there were many aborigines in Australia, but in fact Australia's written history only probably lasted a few hundred years.
Not to mention that he couldn't find out what was going on on the Australian island during the Tang Dynasty, which lasted more than a thousand years. Even those historians could only infer from many ruins.
The only thing known is that the Aboriginal people of Australia are called Tasmanians.
As for more, it’s all unknown!
