After eating well at noon, everyone was more motivated to work in the afternoon. Shi Quan and his team actually loaded ten full carts of ore.
After eating dinner in the mining area until they were full, Shi Quan said to Tang Ping: "We won't stay here tonight, we are going back."
Tang Ping didn't stop him. He knew that the people in these tribes wanted to know whether these bronze medals could be exchanged for the promised food.
Now everyone needs to build trust, so he even said: "It's too full for you to walk back. I'll take you there in my car."
The tribesmen had seen during the day that those carts were loaded with so many stones and could still drive very fast, so they all agreed.
Now they can only describe their mood as returning home. It would be good to go back earlier.
EightTen strong men loaded four trucks and staggered out of the mining area. It was almost twelve o'clock before arriving at the Eucalyptus Tree Tribe.
No one in the Eucalyptus Tribe expected that they would all come back at night, lighting torches one by one, illuminating the gate of the tribe.
The warehouse outside their tribe has not yet been built, but Tang Ping has delivered the food to the Eucalyptus tribe in advance.
People from other tribes came back late at night, and Elder Eucalyptus had to wake up the whole tribe and carry the food that Tang Ping had sent in advance to the door.
Shi Quan stood at the front, nervously spreading his hands and handing thirty bronze medals to Ju Yan.
Juyan put two bronze medals in a box on one side and asked someone to deliver a 15-pound bag of rice.
After all the bronze medals were thrown away, 15 bags of rice were placed at Shi Quan's feet.
"Have you all eaten rice in Tang's mining area today? That rice is cooked with this kind of rice."
After listening to Elder Eucalyptus's explanation, Shi Quan opened a bag, grabbed a handful of rice and looked at it with Shi Shi in front of him. Although the rice was still hard, it was indeed very similar to the rice he had eaten today.
I wanted to grab a handful and put it in my mouth, but was stopped by the elder of the eucalyptus tree.
"It hasn't been cooked yet. It's just like raw meat that hasn't been grilled. It tastes different from cooked meat."
Elder Eucalyptus asked Wu Yun to bring over a pot and said: "This is given to you by the kind Tang. You have to add water to cook the rice when you go back to make it delicious. But in the future, if you need this kind of pot, you need to use this brand to replace it." Yes, a pot is needed
Four brands. "
Wuyun stretched out his fingers on the side and taught them the secret of cooking.
After Shiquan remembered it carefully, he and Shitou carried their three bags of rice and a pot, and rushed back to their Stone Spear tribe overnight.
It's true, it's all true.
There really was a fool who made a place where as long as he picked up rocks and dug rocks, he could have food, shelter, and get so much delicious food.
In this case, we will naturally need to call in more people.
Other tribes had almost the same idea as the Stone Spear Tribe. After handing over the bronze medal and getting their own food, they left quickly.
After everyone from the other tribes had left, Elder Eucalyptus changed his dignified appearance and directly poured the bronze medal in the box onto the ground and shouted: "Quick, Bring a torch over here and light it up a little."
Then one by one he threw the bronze medals into the box and counted them.
In one day, eighty people from these tribes brought back a total of two hundred and ten bronze medals.
Then she took the rope and stones to write and draw on the ground. After a long time, she said excitedly.
"These are worth more than two hundred and ten bags of rice. If you give half of it to other tribes, there will be more than one hundred and five bags of rice. Then you need to give fourteen bags of rice to the Black Mountain tribe. Our tribe will make a profit..."
"More than ninety dollars for a bag of rice!"
After she finished shouting, the entire Eucalyptus Tree tribe fell silent for a while, and then began to cheer in the middle of the night: "Long live, long live."
"With this much food, we can eat it for almost a day."
This works out to more than 1,300 kilograms of rice, which is enough for hundreds of people in their tribe to eat for one day.
And this is only the first time that eighty people have come. When those people go back to the tribe and call for more people, their Eucalyptus Tree tribe will also be able to earn more food.
And just as they thought, four or five days later, tribesmen rushed to Tangping's mining area and started working.
Some of these people will go back once every three or four days to get some credentials, while others will only go back once after working for more than ten days.
Miners in the mining area also come and go, but when there are few people, there are almost 600 people, and when there are many people, there are even 800 or more than 900 people.
Carload after carload of iron ore was transported to Tangping and they first docked.
port and then transported back to Qiongzhou.
In Qiongzhou, under various encouragement policies of the Tang Dynasty in recent years, many landless people have reclaimed land to grow rice.
Just transport the rice from Qiongzhou Granary to Australia to exchange for iron ore.
Datang's steam freighters were not enough for a while, so they could only use the sailing ships of other chambers of commerce to send Qiongzhou's iron ore back to the Central Plains for smelting into steel.
Li Tai received so much iron ore at once, but he was still not satisfied.
He began to urge Li Chengqian to speed up vocational training, especially for craftsmen who smelt iron ore.
Because Tang Ping said that there are huge amounts of iron ore and coal mines in Australia, instead of sending these two minerals back to Datang for smelting.
It would be more economical and more efficient to just find a place in Australia to build more iron smelting plants and smelt the iron ore into iron ingots first and then send them back to Datang.
There is no way to find these smelting workers from the local aborigines in Australia, so they can only rely on Datang to train them and send them over.
Li Tai even wrote to Li Shimin, hoping to establish the first overseas city of the Tang Dynasty in Australia.
After all, after the smelting plant is established, workers can’t just work in the factory, right? Still need to improve supporting facilities to attract people.
The best thing is to have a complete city. In the future, workers can even get married and have children there, and their children can also receive education there.
For this reason, Li Shimin specially recruited Tang Ping back.
I showed him Li Tai's letter and asked, "You are most familiar with the situation in Australia. What do you think?"
Tang Ping nodded after reading it. Li Tai was indeed one of the smartest people in the Tang Dynasty. His city plan was basically perfect.
It is not just an industrial city surrounding an iron smelting plant, but a comprehensive city integrating agriculture, industry, trade, transportation and other industries.
"I think it's feasible, very feasible. As for the address, it would be Port Hedland where we dock."
"A port is being built there. By then, the city will be connected to the port, and it will be more convenient to transport goods with our Datang."
After listening to Tang Ping's words, Li Shimin smiled and said: "The person who will preside over the construction of this new city..."
Tang Ping looked at Li Shimin's smile and felt an ominous premonition in his heart.
