Chapter 299 Continuing to update, the generals set off! The hard-to-choose American Shepherd

The six ships had just been put away. Zhao Yun, who was in Wuyang, heard the message sent by Wu Ban and knew that Chen Ye had arrived at the port.

So he sent the deputy general to take out the walkie-talkie and ordered the battalions to continue sending messages along the road. He also asked the firearms troops to assemble and prepare to board the ship. Finally, he rode alone and rode towards the dock.

As soon as he arrived, he saw six large ships docked on the shore. The forty-meter-long iron ship was a behemoth during the Three Kingdoms period.

But before he could dismount, there was another "boom-boom" sound, and the second batch of troop carriers converted from 500-ton bulk carriers also appeared on the water.

It was slightly different from Zhang Fei's shock. Compared with the ships that had appeared, Zhao Yun was not so psychologically shocked, but he was more afraid of Chen Ye.

"I didn't know that when the imperial master arrived, Zilong was far away to greet him, so don't be surprised if you look forward to it."

"No problem, since General Zilong is here, let the soldiers prepare to make rice. I'm afraid they will have to stay on the ship for more than two hours.

Today we will first transport the soldiers from Wuyang to Nan'an to camp, and at the same time open up a camp area for the brothers who are preparing to go there. From tomorrow onwards, Wuyang will transport the soldiers in the morning and afternoon."

Chen Ye clapped his hands and said in return. Just as he was talking, there was another sound of the motor of a speedboat. After listening to it, Zhang Fei knew who was coming without thinking.

"National Preceptor, your Majesty should be here."

"It is indeed His Majesty. He has just sent a message asking me."

Chen Ye nodded. Zhang Fei's thinking was still very clear. Maybe it was because the wind on the speedboat just now blew his mind clear.

It's just that Chen Ye's words made Zhang Fei a little unresponsive. He had been following Chen Ye all the time, and he didn't see Chen Ye use the walkie-talkie. How could he know that Liu Bei had arrived.

In fact, Chen Ye sent a message through the system. Knowing that the ship had been put away and that there was no need to avoid it, Liu Bei did not let the soldiers disembark, but drove directly over.

The sound of the speedboat came from far away, and then the guards who controlled the speedboat slowly parked the speedboat on the shore. Liu Bei ignored the guards who were preparing to set up a board, and jumped to the shore first.

"Your Majesty is mighty!"

"color!"

The guards on the speedboat were all frightened by Liu Bei's move. It didn't matter how powerful Liu Bei was in doing it, even the soldiers could do it, but you have to consider Liu Bei's age.

Liu Bei is now sixty. In ancient times, many people could not live up to his age. At this age, he can make big jumps, but on the shore, he is still a delicate creature like the emperor. Isn't he worthy of applause?

"National Master, why are there still these 500-ton ships?"

Liu Bei glanced at the twelve ships on the shore. He knew the tonnage of these ships by comparing them in the display window, and asked a little strangely.

"There is a long distance between Wuyang and Nan'an. There are very dense curves, which is not suitable for turning a boat that is too long, so I let the small one out first.

But it's enough. It's about 200 kilometers away from Bo Road by water, and you can get to Nan'an in two hours at most.

A 500-ton ship can transport 240 people on the first floor, 160 people on the second floor, 100 people on the third floor, or 7,200 people on the 12th floor.

Today, General Zilong led the first group of people to set off. Tomorrow morning, His Majesty will order the army to come from Chengdu, and then after having a meal in Wuyang, they will set off directly for Bodao.

It is estimated that these twelve 500-ton ships will come from Bodao every morning and bring back 7,000 people at noon. They only need to operate for two consecutive days to transport all the adapted modern troops."

"Well, in this case, it should be able to meet my plan. Originally, I thought that it could be shipped in one day, and the remaining day would be used to transport ordinary sergeants.

In this case, it will take two days to transport the adapted generals and two days to transport the ordinary sergeants."

After listening to Chen Ye's arrangements, Liu Bei had no objections. The priority was to be prudent when transporting by water. Otherwise, the ship would be too long and it would be difficult to reverse the ship and change ships would be even more troublesome.

"What's the plan?"

"I have informed Sun Quan that if the messenger arrives today, in ten days, I will use Jingzhou to attack Cao Pi and ask Sun Quan to give up Jingzhou."

"Huh? Will he agree?"

Chen Ye didn't react. After Zhang Fei told him Liu Bei's little plan, Chen Ye understood it instantly. He said that Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun didn't pay attention and patted Liu Bei on the shoulder.

"Old Liu, you guys who are playing tricks have really dirty hearts."

"Master, how can this be called a conspiracy? Everything I said is true.

If Sun Quan gives Jingzhou to me, after I defeat Cao Pi, I will indeed ignore the past grudges and reward him with three states, but if he doesn't obey, then I can't blame him."

"Tsk tsk tsk."

Chen Ye clicked his tongue and stopped talking. Liu Bei's face was not something that ordinary people could tear open.

The emperor of the old Liu family, if he were placed in any modern sales company, he would be the boss's most popular treasure. He is smooth-talking and thick-skinned.

Liu Bei looked at the twelve troop transport ships on the river and felt excited. His battle to revive the Han Dynasty was about to begin, and he was destined to realize the great cause of reviving the Han Dynasty three times.

Just these twelve troop transports that Chen Ye and he despised were able to penetrate the Soochow Navy, not to mention the thousand-ton ship that was 66 meters long.

The Yangtze River is invincible.

However, Liu Bei suddenly thought of something else that Chen Ye had said before setting off. Thinking that it might not be convenient to talk about it everywhere, he turned around and looked at Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun.

"Zilong, go and tell the soldiers to lift the ban on the river, and then prepare to board the ship. Then let the navy patrolling the speedboat dispatch a battalion of troops to Wuyang and prepare to board the ship.

Yide, you take my speedboat to go down to the Bo Road, bring over the sailors I have left to train sailing, and come back by speedboat. We will start the first batch of transportation at noon today."

"promise!"

"Well, Lao Liu, there is only one speedboat, and I'm afraid it won't be enough to pull so many speedboats."

Chen Ye pointed at Liu Bei's parked speedboat. There was only room for eleven people. A cargo ship only needed one operator. The rest were the auxiliary personnel he called. These people are here in Wuyang.

There are also.

"Just squeeze in a bit, go ahead."

"promise!"

Chen Ye listened to Liu Bei's words and thought that it would not be impossible to have two people sitting in the middle aisle of the speedboat. Anyway, no one in the Three Kingdoms checked for overloading.

After the two left, Liu Bei finally started to inquire about the matter.

"National Master, today you said in Chengdu that you still had something to say in person, but you were in a hurry and didn't say it. Can you say it now?"

"Oh, it's just about resolving your financial pressure. The 21st Century side wants to cooperate with us to develop the gold mines in California."

"This is a good thing, what kind of cooperation method."

Liu Bei's eyes lit up. He had really been worried about repaying money recently. The loan he and Chen Ye had originally borrowed was 4 billion, and they had to pay back 20 tons of gold.

If we use Dahan's unit of measurement, where one catty is equal to 224-230 grams, he would have to pay more than 80,000 catties of gold.

He didn't feel this debt when he borrowed it, and he was even happy, just like a modern person who bought a house with a loan, but when he thought about starting to pay it back, he felt a little breathless.

Now in the Shu Kingdom, even if it is squeezed dry, it cannot produce a thousand pieces of gold. This gold is real gold, not copper.

Of course, the entire Han Dynasty definitely had it, but if he took over the world, it would be impossible for him to take away one-tenth of the millions of kilograms of gold in the entire Han Dynasty at once, right?

So if there is a new way to make money, he is definitely more willing to participate together.

"There are two plans in the real world.

The first set is that we buy equipment, hire our own people, mine and refine it ourselves, and they harvest finished gold. The price is 320 yuan per gram, and Dahan gold is more than 72,000 yuan per jin.

The second plan is that they provide all the equipment needed for mining, and they pay for the operating costs, transportation, personnel and logistics materials.

You only need to pay staff wages. They don’t care how much money you have to control people. These equipment and the mineral veins with a radius of hundreds of miles around the equipment are charged at 150 yuan per gram."

"National Master, why is there such a big difference between having equipment and not having equipment? The two plans you mentioned seem to require the use of equipment. What kind of equipment are they?"

Liu Bei was a little surprised. The price of three hundred and twenty-one grams of gold was reduced to one hundred and fifty, and Chen Ye was able to let him consider the price, which meant that the one with the lower price would be profitable.

Of course, Chen Ye must have taken a cut in the middle, but this was not important. He had communicated with Chongzhen about the scale of Chen Ye's cut, and knew that this guy was not very good at taking the cut.

If you want someone to do work for you, you can't let others do it for nothing, right? So he didn't even have any doubts. After all, it was so easy for Chen Ye to make money from him, and he even had to take the initiative to share the profits with Chen Ye.

"If it were the traditional way, with tens of thousands of people manually panning and digging for gold, the annual output would be more than 40 tons at most. This output is actually very low.

But with the use of modern equipment, such as mining trucks, vibrating plates, refining tanks, chemical sedimentation, and fixed-point blasting and other technical professors, the output will directly increase to thousands of people operating various mining equipment.

The annual output is 200 tons."

"hiss!!!!"

When Liu Bei heard this number, he was stunned for a moment. He did some calculations in his brain. One ton of gold is 100,000 grams, three hundred yuan, which is 300 million yuan. Two hundred tons is 60 billion yuan, which is more than 60 billion yuan a year!

And this is two hundred tons of gold. Even the total amount of gold that Han has accumulated over the years is just two hundred tons, more than one million kilograms, and he can get it in one year with the equipment.

In fact, the annual output of 200 tons is due to Chen Ye. The gold mining conditions in modern America are completely different from the mining conditions in America during the Three Kingdoms. In California during the Three Kingdoms, every fish you fished in the river was filled with gold.

That's all money.

"National Master, come and sit down and tell me, why is there such a big gap between the two methods?

Why do they provide some equipment and keep the price so low? How much does a set of these equipment cost? Which one should we choose better? "

As soon as Liu Bei stretched out his hand, a table and two sofas appeared in front of him. After pulling Chen Ye to sit down, he took out a notebook and looked at Chen Ye seriously.

“A gold mine, if you only count the equipment and preliminary construction, as well as workers’ equipment and mining vehicles, would actually cost less than 100 million to open.

But if you include the electricity costs for daily equipment operation, you will not have a water plant or a power plant to provide you with industrial electricity.

Therefore, you need to use generators, water pumps, etc. The equipment of these things is very expensive, and if you buy these equipment, you will burn tens of thousands of dollars every day to operate the entire gold mine.

And this is only the equipment and operating costs of the gold mine. We also need to consider the cost of personnel training, logistics materials, and environmental pollution. Oh, we don’t need to consider this for the time being.”

Chen Ye said and crossed out the cost of environmental management.

Well, the germination of capital is definitely inseparable from the sacrifice of something, and environmental pollution in California is necessary.
To be continued...