Cui Ruoyun quickly understood what her brother meant. She raised her head and asked, "You mean, this money was newly minted near Guazhou?"
Cui Tao immediately nodded and said: "Yes! Sister, do you think there will be iron ore near Guazhou?"
Cui Ruoyun sat up straight now. She looked at the new money in her hand and said, "Wait for me. I'll ask my colleagues."
Then Cui Tao saw that Cui Ruoyun's eyes had lost their vitality and gradually became dull and dull. This was the trusteeship state after "offline".
In a state of custody, this body will eat, drink, sleep normally, and perform simple self-defense techniques, but will not do anything on its own initiative.
Cui Tao paced back and forth in the room. What if there is an iron mine near Guazhou?
Iron is the backbone of industry. Although Guazhou has developed trade, it has always been short of resources. This is also a pain for many life stream players.
If there are really iron ores, then the iron smelting industry can be developed. It will not only be armor weapons, but also muskets and artillery!
Thinking of this, Cui Tao became even more excited.
After a while, Cui Ruoyun logged into the game again.
"Xiao Tao, you are right. There is indeed a high-quality iron mine near Guazhou."
"real?"
"Yes, there is a medium-sized iron mine near Guazhou, but the quality of the iron ore is very good and the iron content is very high. This is what my friend from the geology department told me."
"Sister, you said there are really iron ores near Guazhou!?"
"Yes, Guazhou Dashuixia Iron Mine, this iron mine is still being mined."
"Is it all being mined now? Is the iron ore stock so rich?"
Cui Ruoyun shook her head and said: "It's not that the reserves are rich, but that this iron mine was only discovered in modern times."
Cui Ruoyun said: "Dashuixia Iron Mine, this iron mine is located under the bed of a river. This large river dried up due to climate change in modern times. Iron ore was discovered under the exposed river bed, which was later developed into iron ore.
, it has been mined to this day.”
Cui Tao asked excitedly: "Sister, is it difficult to mine this iron ore?"
"It's not big. The iron ore is on the surface very shallow under the river bed. If it weren't for this river, the iron ore would have been mined long ago."
Cui Tao stood up and said, "That means, is anyone mining this iron mine now?"
Cui Ruoyun shook her head and said: "Not necessarily. If iron ore is mined on a large scale, it will definitely be discovered by the government. I think it is possible that a certain section of the mine may collapse, causing the river to wash out the iron ore."
"Residents downstream picked up iron ore, but were unable to cast large iron tools, so they could only build iron coins."
Cui Tao nodded repeatedly and said, "Sister, what you said makes sense!"
"Sister, help me mark the location of the iron mine. I'm going to report the good news to His Highness King Jianning!"
Cui Ruoyun nodded and marked the location of Dashuixia Iron Mine on the map.
Cui Tao excitedly took the map, rushed out of the military camp and ran towards Li Yan's camp.
Cui Ruoyun stood up and walked into the next room.
This room is filled with bottles and jars of various sizes. This is the laboratory that Cui Ruoyun built in the game.
Placing a transparent crystal cup on the crystal lamp, Cui Ruoyun murmured:
"The experiment of purifying alcohol is not difficult, and now it is possible to produce high-purity alcohol."
"Now that we have the fuel for the alcohol lamp, we can proceed with the next experiment."
"Next, we will start experiments related to the preparation of gunpowder. The purpose of the experiment is to configure the most powerful gunpowder formula to provide a basis for the later production of flash caps."
"Start now by purifying the raw materials."
Cui Ruoyun opened her experiment notebook and began to write and draw in the notebook.
The game world is not like the real world. From experimental instruments to experimental materials, you have to make them step by step.
Therefore, Cui Ruoyun was very cautious. She planned the experiment well and checked the relevant literature before starting to do it.
Just when Cui Ruoyun started the experiment, Cui Tao had already rushed into Li Yan's military camp.
"Where is His Highness Prince Jianning?"
"His Royal Highness is reading in the study."
"Please inform me that Cui Tao, who has joined the army, has important matters."
"Please Cui Shenjun please wait a moment."
After Li Yan arrived in Guazhou, he refused to live in the governor's mansion or in the home of a wealthy family.
He moved into Molijun's military camp and lived in the captain's room of Molijun.
Although this room is slightly larger than an ordinary officer's room, the decoration is very simple.
"Cui Canjun, please."
The servants guided Cui Tao into the study, only to see Li Yan sitting in the study reading a book.
Behind the desk, there is a huge map. This is a hand-drawn map of the Tang Dynasty by a player majoring in art.
Looking at this huge map, today the Tang Dynasty is still a huge empire that stretches from the Yajiang River in the east, to Hengluosi in the west, to the Xing'an Mountains in the north, and to Qiongzhou in the south.
However, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty completely lost a large area of territory outside Yumen Pass.
For thousands of years, future generations can only look at the Silk Road and sigh.
Li Yan put down the book in his hand and said, "Cui Canjun, what's the important thing for you?"
Cui Tao knew that Li Yan didn't like red tape, so he said directly: "Your Highness, I know where the fake money from the big food merchant comes from!"
"Oh? Cui Shenjun didn't even go to the Governor's Mansion, and he knew that the fake money was here?"
Cui Tao immediately said: "Your Highness! Please look at the rust on this fake money."
Li Yan saw the red rust color on the fake money and asked doubtfully: "Is this fake money made of iron?"
"exactly!"
"No wonder it's of such high quality that it's almost the same weight as real money. But is it cost-effective to make money from iron?"
Using iron to forge copper coins was a completely loss-making business in this era.
Li Yan was also curious as to how these big food merchants got all this fake money.
Now the officials of the governor's office are interrogating these large food merchants, but these merchants are always aware of the interests. If they admit that they know the counterfeit money and deliberately use the counterfeit money, they will be really guilty of death.
So they insisted that the fake money was traded from other places and they didn't know it.
Cui Tao told Cui Ruoyun's discovery.
Li Yan frowned while listening. When he heard the news about the Dashuixia Iron Mine, a smile spread across his face.
“Is there really an iron mine near Guazhou?”
Cui Tao immediately said: "Well, my sister's divination skills are very powerful. If there is any iron ore, I will know if your highness gives me twenty strongmen and I can go to Dashui Gorge and have a look!"
Li Yan knew that the divination Cui Tao mentioned was actually the player consulting the information.
However, there is an iron mine near Guazhou. This news still makes Li Yan very excited!
Iron ore, if iron plants can be built to smelt steel, Guazhou can become a military center.
With steel, there is the possibility of moving towards the industrial age!
Li Yan slapped the table and said, "I'll give you thirty warriors! Cui Canjun, you go check on the iron ore as soon as possible!"
Li Yan added: "In addition, we should also investigate the matter of privately minting counterfeit money! Nail the charges of these big food merchants to me!"