Tang Ping is confident in saying this. The degree of automation in this era is destined to exploit resources and use a lot of manpower.
Where do people come from? As long as the treatment is good enough, the vast African plains in the south of the Arab region and the European continent in the north can attract countless workers.
If things go wrong, Tang Ping can even take people to those places to distribute flyers to recruit workers.
In this era, many places are still at the stage where as long as they have enough food, they are happy. Tang Ping believes that no one can refuse the conditions he offers.
"New energy minerals?"
"Is it the same thing as coal?"
Today's wealthy businessmen of the Tang Dynasty can already understand these words spoken by Tang Ping.
As for coal, everyone knows how profitable that thing is.
Don’t Looking at the price of one piece, it doesn’t seem to be high, but it can’t help but consume a lot.
There was a trading house in Shanxi that was about to close down, but when he was planning to sell the family's mountain, he discovered a coal mine and soon became one of the top wealthy businessmen in Shanxi.
Some businessmen even jokingly call it black gold, which means black gold. As long as there is that thing in their mountains, it means they can have a steady stream of income.
"It's not coal, but it's more important than coal, it's Shizhishui!"
This is what is recorded in "Youyang Miscellaneous Things·Strange Things" written by Duan Chengshi of the Tang Dynasty: "Stone lacquer is made from Shizhi water in Gaonu County. It is greasy and floats on the water like lacquer. It is used to plaster carts and burning lamps. It is extremely bright."
The Shizhishui mentioned here is another name for oil in this era.
People in the Tang Dynasty knew that oil was flammable, but it was not used on a large scale because of production constraints.
"Shi Zhi Shui? There is a lot of Shi Zhi Shui there?"
"Many!" Tang Ping nodded: "It's too many to imagine. You should also know that the place we live in now is a ball, called the earth, right?"
These wealthy businessmen nodded. There were not many children in their families learning this knowledge, so although it was difficult to accept it at first, everyone gradually accepted this fact.
"Almost more than half of the sludge water on our planet is in Arabia!"
Judging from the proven oil reserves, the current reserves in the entire Middle East are 102 billion tons, which accounts for about 61.5% of the world's total proven oil reserves.
Hearing what Tang Ping said, these businessmen's eyes flashed with gold.
Many people don't have a concrete idea of how big the world is, but they do know the concept that half of the world's Shizhi Water is there.
"Tang... Shopkeeper Tang..." Someone asked excitedly: "That place... we can occupy... No, can we buy it?"
The purchase he was talking about was probably the same as the mountains in Datang. If a coal mine was discovered after buying it, it would be the property of their family and inexhaustible wealth for future generations.
After hearing Tang Ping explain the oil reserves there, these businessmen became interested.
Yes, it may be difficult to dig out those things now, but isn't the thing called "technology" in Datang always developing?
Now Now that more and more new gadgets have appeared, I don’t know when the technology that can dig out Shi Zhishui will be available. In that case, I His children and grandchildren all have someone to rely on.
"purchase?"
Tang Ping frowned and thought for a while and said: "Everyone also knows my prospecting skills. There are several places with particularly rich reserves that must be handed over to the imperial court. As for the others, I can discuss with the imperial court and map the land. Come out and sell it piece by piece.”
“But let’s be clear first, no one can guarantee whether or how much there is Shizhi Shui under these pieces of ground. So for you, it may be a big gamble. After all, those places cannot be sold too cheap. ."
"No problem!" After hearing Tang Ping say that they could discuss the sale with the imperial court, these wealthy businessmen of the Tang Dynasty agreed without even thinking.
How can you make money 100% in business? Since that place contains more than half of the Shizhishui in the world, if you buy a few pieces of land yourself, you won't be so unlucky that you can't dig it at all, right?
What's more, even if Shizhishui cannot be dug out and it becomes the world's energy center as Tang Ping said, the price of the land will naturally rise. Even if it is used for other businesses, there will be no loss.
As for selling it expensively, that's natural. Anyway, I should still be able to live for a long time. Even if my family's fortune is drained this time, now that the Tang Dynasty is so prosperous, I can just make the money back.
These businessmen were having a heated discussion with Tang Ping, as if they had forgotten that the place belonged to the Arab Empire, a very powerful empire in this world, and not the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
but
No one here doubts whether the Tang Dynasty can defeat the Arab Empire.
So what if the Arab Empire had millions of troops? We in the Tang Dynasty also have many troops.
Our weapons are more powerful than yours. We have muskets, tanks, airships, and battleships. How could we not be able to defeat you?
This is probably also a rare thing where the empire's territory is being divided up before the war begins.
"Shopkeeper Tang, you must have a map of the Arab Empire. Why don't you draw the map now?"
"Yeah, you have to strike while the iron is hot for this kind of thing. Look, it's rare for everyone to gather together like this today."
Tang Ping didn't expect these businessmen to be so eager, and he understood after thinking about it again.
The wealthy people of the Tang Dynasty were not just in Chang'an. Who had the Turkic nobility, the maritime merchants of East Vietnam, and the royal families of various vassal countries? No Money?
If this news gets out, the competition will be huge.
Instead of waiting to compete with more people later, it is better to take some pictures now.
Tang Ping understood this and said with a smile: "Wait a minute, everyone, don't we still need to discuss this matter with the court?"
"The relationship between Shopkeeper Tang and His Majesty, I think His Majesty will definitely not refuse. We will open a few bottles of good wine here and wait for the good news from Shopkeeper Tang."
Tang Ping apologized and went back to get the map.
As for discussion, if this matter had not been discussed with Li Shimin in advance, could he bring it up in front of these businessmen?
He even marked out for Li Shimin which places had the richest oil reserves.
Then which places will be auctioned and the starting price for each piece will be discussed in advance with Li Shimin and Fang Du.
Datang's official development capabilities are limited, so it is better to give some to private chambers of commerce, which can not only receive a large amount of funds in advance, but also promote their respective development through competition.
Now he is just showing off and going to the palace to take out the map.
When Tang Ping came back, all the powerful Tang businessmen in the room looked at him eagerly.
Tang Ping shook the map in his hand and said: "Your Majesty agrees, some places can indeed be sold to you, but the one with the highest price will get it!"
"It's natural. It's a good thing, but it can't be sold at a bargain price, right?" All the wealthy businessmen of the Tang Dynasty said eagerly.
