Dinner is a feast of fish.

There are all kinds of fish caught in the Yangtze River, and even pufferfish. This is a rare delicacy. However, because it is highly poisonous, it requires a special cook to cook.

The sun sets.

Under the afterglow of the sunset, whale oil lamps have been lit on the deck.

Two rows of long tables are supported, and the old cadres take their seats. Although they are all old cadres, retired veteran cadres also have to rank in seats.

The people present naturally ranked first by title, and the king's title was at the forefront. Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Luo Shixin and others were all ranked by titles of kings, so they ranked by positions before retirement. For example, before Li Jing retired, he was a Privy Councilor, and Qin Qiong also retired from the position of Privy Councilor, so the two had to line up, so they had to line up according to their additional titles.

Li Jing is now in charge of the title of Taiwei, and Qin Qiong is in charge of the title of Taiwei, one in the third division and one in the third division, and the third division is in the front, so a group of old cadres are led by Li Jing.

However, Li Jing refused to sit down because although Li Jing was the third prince, Qin Qiong was the emperor's adoptive father. This relationship is even more difficult. Li Jing can't rely on his seniority to rush ahead to Qin Qiong.

Moreover, Li Jing was still a relatively lonely person in the court, so he took his brother Zhang Zhongjian as the deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor and the commander-in-chief of the Navy. However, Qin Qiong was in the court, and he had a lot of friends and brothers, such as Luo Shi, Shi, Yao Jin, Shan Xiong, and Niu Jinda. There were countless brothers who were the king alone.

Pushing and pushing, Li Jing finally sat on the head of the table on the left, and Qin Qiong sat on the head of the table on the right.

Then of course, the group of five tiger generals such as Cheng Yaojin, Luo Shixin, Shan Xiongxin, Niu Jinda and others.

"Your Majesty, I plan to invest in the gold mine in New Jinshan State, Australia." Luo Shixin said to Zhang Chao with a wine glass.

Zhang Chao sat on the top and was enjoying eating it with salt and pepper shrimp. The shrimp was fragrant and crispy. He just threw it into his mouth and chewed it with the shell and meat together. It was so crispy.

"It's a good thing, you won't think that there is too much gold. You won't be afraid of digging it out. Dig out gold from the mountains, take it to the Mediterranean, and take it to Africa. You can sell many slaves and ship it back. Whether it's helping you reclaim wasteland and plant it or mine work, it's excellent." Zhang Chao replied with a smile on his lips.

Dahua has developed many gold mines now, and can produce one million taels of gold a year. It can be said that it can account for at least 80% of the world's gold mining volume, but gold is a natural currency after all, so who would think it is too much?

Take it abroad, buy, buy, and as long as you don’t buy other people’s luxury goods, it’s all a good thing to count. In fact, there are no luxury goods to buy abroad. In terms of luxury goods processing, who has the best skills of Dahua? Silk, silk, porcelain, glass, tea, sugar and wine, and even paper books, isn’t a good thing that can make the eyes of the barbarians fall off.

What's there in foreign countries? At most, it's just jewelry beauties.

Dahua originally had three major gold mines, the Denglai Gold Mine, the Luzon Gold Mine and the Yili Gold Mine. Later, three major gold mines were discovered overseas, namely the Jinzhou Gold Mine in Jinzhou, Vietnam, the New Jinshan Gold Mine in Australia, and the San Francisco Gold Mine in the Americas. There is now a Heihe Gold Mine.

Only one of these large gold mines is in the Central Plains, and several other gold mines are in the border areas and even overseas.

The mining of several major gold mines has also led to the gold rush and attracted many gold diggers who are willing to take risks to go overseas to hunt gold.

The vast majority of gold diggers are actually original slaves who have gained freedom, or some barbarian natives on all sides who have become naturalized in Dahua. These people do not enjoy high welfare benefits like Han people and can easily obtain large areas of land.

They fantasize about getting rich overnight after rushing gold and then changing their destiny, so they can buy a boat ticket to go to gold without paying attention.

The court fully supports the gold rush. Not only can gold rush be obtained by gold rushing, but more importantly, the gold rush can attract many people to those gold mines, which are all on the frontiers and overseas. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for anyone to go.

After a large number of gold diggers have passed, they can drive consumption and attract businessmen to do business.

A gold mine will soon build a shopping town next to it. Gradually, farms will be reclaimed around the Shang town and planted grain. In no time, the town next to the gold mine will become a city. One day in the future, gold will be produced here, and this place will become a normal town.

With a town, population, handicrafts, and farms, it can also drive the surrounding area.

This is a very good way to explore colonial colonization.

There are people like Luo Shixin and Cheng Yaojin who are willing to invest in and develop gold mines, and Zhang Chao fully supports it.

"I also invest one share, just 20% of the shares. The amount of capital is definitely a lot of money." Zhang Chao said with a smile.

Cheng Yaojin looked heartbroken, "Your Majesty, why don't we give you 10% of your share, and you don't have to invest your capital?"

"How can I take advantage of you? This way, since you think I have a lot of shares, then I will take 10% of the shares, and I will pay as much as the principal."

Cheng Yaojin agreed helplessly.

"Old Cheng, don't behave well if you get a bargain. Others may not be willing to let His Majesty participate in the shares. With His Majesty joining the shares, your business will become the royal brand. With the protection of the royal family, this business will only become more and more prosperous."

Old Cheng smiled loudly. Having said that, without the emperor's participation in the shares, he was in business. Who else dared to cheat him? He was occupied by the emperor for nothing. This is a business that would make no profits.

Some people followed up and said they wanted to invest in the development of gold mines in Jinzhou, some wanted to invest in the development of gold mines in Heihe, and some wanted to invest in gold mines in San Francisco. These veteran cadres all knew that gold mines could make money.

A night banquet seemed to be a investment promotion conference.

Anyway, Zhang Chao is in charge of who they have to start a gold mine together, and he has a share of the meeting.

I don't want much, he has participated in a gold mine.

"Your Majesty, San Francisco is Li Shimin's fief. When we go to mine, do we have to ask him for his opinion first?" Li Jing reminded Zhang Chao.

"When did San Francisco become Li Shimin's fief? Is San Francisco not the American Duke's fief? I remember that it was granted to Li Hong. Li Shimin was conferred the German Duke by me. His fief is the same as the British Duke Xu Ji and French Duke Yuchi Gong. They are all on the Jinshan Valley Plain. The four countries divide the thousand-mile plains, but the Jinshan Peninsula is assigned to Li Hong." Niu Jinda was originally eating the chopped pepper fish head. The fish head was very fresh, and it was salty and spicy and a little sour. The taste was extremely beautiful. When he heard what Li Jing said, Li Shimin immediately refuted.

It was already very rare that the emperor left a piece of land for Li Shimin and his son. Is it still necessary to ask them for advice if the court wants to develop a gold mine?

When it comes to Li Shimin, the old cadres here all had complicated expressions for a moment.

No matter what, Li Shimin was the king of everyone in the past, including the current emperor Zhang Chao, who was once a minister of Li Shimin.

But now, Li Shimin is a somewhat embarrassing existence. Everyone tried not to mention it, just because they were not in the world, but they were mentioned again.

A silence.

Some people think that Li Shimin is a past tense, and keeping him is always a hidden danger. I heard that Li Shimin is now fighting everywhere in the Americas, and has also launched a distant and nearby attack, united with some Mayan Yin people, and is fighting with those city-states.

As for North America, there are not many tribes in the Yin people there, and now they have basically been pulled into their own alliance by Tiankhan Li Shimin.

In North America, Li Shimin was very good at playing. Although Xu Ji and Yuchi Gong were also named Duke, they were still very loyal to Li Shimin and were completely residing with each other as the ruler and the subject.

The eight colonial companies established in North America are devoted to trade and making money. Their relationship with Li Shimin is unexpectedly harmonious.

"Your Majesty, I heard that the German Duke convened an expeditionary force with more than 8,000 people, and was expeditioning to the northwest. It is said that he wanted to conquer the cold land of the Northwest. But I think his intentions are more than that."

Where is the Northwest of North America?

Of course, Zhang Chao knew that there were Canada in later generations and Alaska in the United States. It was all the way northwest, and that was the Bering Strait, and it was Siberia across the Strait.

The Yaksha Kingdom and the Liugui Kingdom, the northeastern vassal states of Dahua, are there.

Husky and Alaska dogs from both countries came from there. Now there are many people everywhere in Hanjing. No powerful and wealthy family can raise a few. This situation is the same as when the Tibetan mastiffs were later speculated. If the rich people don’t raise a Tibetan mastiff, they will not be able to say that they are rich.

Li Shimin must have known such a geographical situation. His Northwest Expeditionary Force may not have no intention of opening up the road to the Central Plains to the west.

After all, it is not a problem with a chart to return to the Central Plains from the sea. It also requires many sea boats and excellent crew members. Li Shimin does not have these, and Zhang Chao cannot let him have them.

It is impossible for Li Shimin to return to the Central Plains from the sea, so it is the only way from land.

However, Zhang Chao did not believe that Li Shimin had the ability to cross Alaska across the Bering Strait and then through Siberia, and then he could fight all the way to Central Plains.

If you really have that ability, then Li Shimin just flew across the Pacific Ocean by flying in the clouds. Why bother with that?

"The German government is willing to explore North America for the imperial court. I think he is loyal and diligent in the affairs of the king." Zhang Chao said with a smile on his face.

Many of Li Shimin's actions in North America could not escape his eyes, but Zhang Chao had not done so, because Li Shimin had no trouble in any way, he would not have any results in twenty years.

Li Shimin was afraid that he would not have been tormented for twenty years because he became addicted to tobacco. In addition to corn and potatoes, there were also tobacco in the Americas. Zhang Chao sent people to bring back many new species from America, including tobacco, but these tobacco were only planted a little in his royal garden and treated as ornamental plants in foreign lands.

However, Li Shimin learned to smoke from some Yin people in North America. I heard that Li Shimin is addicted to smoking now and has to smoke dozens of them a day. This way of smoking is probably not enough to survive for twenty years.

He really wanted to send someone to remind Li Shimin that smoking is really harmful to health!
Chapter completed!