Chapter 1516

The copper material consumed by each bullet shell is equivalent to two money. In this way, the demand for copper material suddenly increases. Even if the bullet shell can be recycled, the problem is that as the use rate of muskets in the Song Dynasty becomes higher and higher, the number of bullets required to be made is naturally more and more.

Even though the Song Dynasty increased the mining of several original copper mines, it still couldn't make ends meet. Now, Wang Yang brought another surprise good news to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the prospecting team affiliated to the Wanhong Trading Company of the Song Dynasty was located 180 miles northeast of the former Xixia Zhuola and the Southern Army Gaizhou City. A giant copper mountain with amazing reserves was no less than that of the Tongshan Mountain in Jiangxi of the Song Dynasty. Moreover, the mineral deposits were in the shallow surface, which was very easy to exploit..."

"If it can be fully developed, it is expected that the copper output in our Song Dynasty will increase by nearly 30%, that is, the annual copper ore can be as high as 50 to 60 million kilograms."

"These are the copper ores found by the prospecting team in that mining area. These are copper materials smelted using local ores..." Wang Yang pointed to a basket placed next to him, where there was the green copper ore.

Inside a wooden box next to it, there is a neatly-coded box of copper ingots, and there is a box next to it, a full of coal that has been coking.

"This is..." Su Dongpo was stunned when he saw the coal carbon and looked at Wang Yang. "Is there even coal carbon there?"

"That is, in addition to the copper mine, it is about a hundred miles north. It is close to the west side of the Xishou Baotai Army Division. A large area of ​​coal mine belts were also found there, and the reserves were no less than those of Liaodong."

"At present, this bronze mountain is at the junction of our Song Dynasty and Xixia. As for that coal mine, it must penetrate deep into the Xixia..."

Listening to Wang Yang's words, the sound of gasping from time to time represented the shocking and unconcealed emotions of the important officials of the Song Dynasty present.

There was coal there, which was at most an unexpected surprise for the Song Dynasty. No matter how many coal mines there were, the officials of the Song Dynasty were actually just jealous at most, and at least they would not take any extreme actions because of this.

But the problem is, copper, for the Song Dynasty, which is in the currency copper standard, Tongshan is just Qianshan.

If the number of kilograms of copper can be mined, the Song Dynasty can make more copper coins. With more copper coins, the country's treasury can be more abundant.

For a dynasty, this is definitely the fastest way to make money besides tax revenue. Especially after years of technological improvement, the cost of minting money in the Song Dynasty is now less than ten cents, which is reduced to a level that is so low that it is worth ten cents compared to the labor and cost of 300 cents in the past.

Nowadays, a copper mountain with an annual output of 50 to 60 million jin is discovered, which means that the Song Dynasty's treasury can increase its income by more than tens of millions of yuan each year.

What does this mean? It means that the Song Dynasty, which has to be weighed repeatedly for the expenses of tens of millions of yuan every year, suddenly became a nouveau riche who spreads money freely.

The new and old party bosses who expressed deep contempt for Wang Yang's strategy of fighting on both sides of the Song Dynasty and winning both directions, and the old party bosses could not calm down in an instant.

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Emperor Zhao Xu was stunned for a long time before he recovered. "It seems that Wang Qing, you are asking me a problem. You are telling me that if you don't send troops to Xixia, or if you don't take down the Hedong Road in Northern Liao first, these things are very likely to be used by Xixia."

Su Dongpo took a deep breath, glared at Wang Yang, but said frowningly. "If Xixia had such a huge copper mountain, then they would not have to worry about insufficient financial resources. All they had to do was to mint coins and then buy everything scarce in Xixia."

"Well, Lord Wang, please forgive me for asking Zhang, "I wonder how you know that there will be minerals in that area?" Zhang Dun, the old driver, couldn't stop and looked at Wang Yang with a puzzled look on his face.

"It's very simple. When I was working on Shaanxi North Road in the past, I often chatted with local people and heard all kinds of rumors in that area."

"It is learned from the people that many dynasties had previously mined coal and copper mines there, and Wang did not take it seriously. After all, that area was still in the hands of the Western Xia.

But since my Song Dynasty had already taken over the area of ​​Nagai Zhucheng, Wang thought that that land had become the territory of my Song Dynasty. If there were really minerals, it would naturally be a major event that would benefit the country and the people. So he learned about the Wanhong Trading Company..."

Wang Yang said this and bowed to the emperor. "Fortunately, God blessed me in the Song Dynasty. I didn't expect that in less than three months, they had already confirmed that there was a mine. After that, they had been carefully searching for the mine veins in that area, and finally got such exciting good news."

King Duan Zhao Ji also stood up at this moment, and said with a righteous look on his face.

"It is indeed God bless me in the Song Dynasty. Before, our Song Dynasty has always been very cautious in investing in military equipment. The Song Dynasty and Yuan Youjia have been developed for several years, but so far, the dressing has been less than 20% of the Song Dynasty's border troops.

As for the Yuanyou crossbow, so far, our Song Dynasty has made less than 100,000 handles, which is still a huge gap from the 300,000 handles required by the Song Dynasty military."

"In addition to the winning weapon Yuanyou Shenwei Cannon developed by Lord Wang, we can only maintain the lowest output per month. If we want to meet the needs of millions of tigers in the Song Dynasty, then we need to increase the investment by at least two million yuan per year. This is not the case with the developed muskets and mortars..."

The bigwigs of the old and new parties did not expect that Zhao Ji, the Duan, would jump out and cry to the emperor for poverty, and how could he bear it?

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Liang Tao quickly stood up, ignored the words beside him, glared at his Duan King Zhao Ji in disappointment, and said to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, I think that although the tax revenue of our Song Dynasty has increased significantly over the years compared to the early years of Yuanyou, there are still many places that still need to increase investment, whether it is to develop Lingnan or stabilize our Song Dynasty's rule over the Western Regions."ァNewsヤ~8~1~Chinese Website www.x~8~1zщ.com

"In addition, in the past two years, the disasters in the Song Dynasty have been frequent, and the court also needs to provide money and food to save disasters..."

Emperor Zhao Xu stared blankly at the ministers one by one and two, burst into tears at him, and even began to expose each other's shortcomings, believing that his department was short of money than the other party, and the court should spend money on important departments where he was.
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