I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

This made him put his heart back in his stomach.

What is the most frightening thing about buying stocks and investing?

Of course it's a mess.

If Daming's railway was abandoned halfway because of the difficulty of the project, then the money raised by the Duke of Chu's frugality would be in vain.

After all, other businessmen have extorted money, Zuo Dashuai has plenty of ways to collect debts, if this Daming extorts money, there is really no one in this world who can do it.

……

On January 25th, the day of Zhu Fugui's [-]th birthday, the horse team finally arrived at the destination, a continuous temporary tent camp.

（朱富贵的出生日期为1848年1月25日，故事出场时，即1863年3月1日为15周岁，16虚岁。朱富贵一脉久居雁荡地区，故而多说虚岁。）

Julie, who had been waiting for many days, rushed out wearing slippers and dragged Long Live into the tent without any explanation.

Hu Xueyan was stunned by such unruly foreign women.

However, the officials of the Ming Dynasty who accompanied them all looked at their noses and mouths with their eyes and noses.

It wasn't until the evening that Long Live Lord got out of the big tent, and his expression unexpectedly showed a rare sluggishness.

Of course, as for Julie the Little Elk, she was already slumped on the floor and unconscious.

What else is there to do?

So on the first day of arrival, we should eat, drink, and rest.

In fact, Zhu Fugui also really wanted to come here, since the king never came to court early.

Unfortunately, many engineers are waiting.

These are local talents accumulated by Daming through the last railway, and the construction plan will be determined with the help of later generations materials provided by Zhu Fugui.

These Daming's own engineers are all Zhu Fugui's favorites, and he is reluctant to let them sit idle.

Wouldn't it be nice to assign tasks to them first, and then go all over the Great Salt Lake with Julie?

……

As the emperor, Zhu Fugui naturally knew nothing about how to build railways.

He came here, on the one hand, to bring the relevant materials from the consultants of later generations to the engineering team, and listen to their preliminary plans, and on the other hand, it also played a role in boosting morale.

In this day and age, the Great Salt Lake region is utterly barren.

In the future, Salt Lake City, the third largest city in the western inland of the United States, is still in ruins.

That's right, as early as 1847, a group of Mormons fled the persecution of the Eastern Church and crossed half of the United States to settle here.

In later generations, Salt Lake City has always been the altar and holy city of Mormons.

However, in this era, as the Ming Dynasty moved eastward, the colonial regimes in the central and western regions were wiped out one after another, leaving only the horse bandits and so-called "free cowboys" in the wilderness who were difficult to completely eliminate, and invaded the settlements of the Ming Dynasty from time to time. Play the role of the Indians of the past 100 years.

An organization as conspicuous as the Holy City of Mormonism was naturally destroyed by heavy blows in the first place.

Daming rescued white women who were "forced" to practice the doctrine of polygyny and one husband, and volunteers organized by the Daming Foundation for the Rights and Interests of Foreign Women found them new jobs in Seattle.

So today's Salt Lake City is in ruins.

Daming's current population of 660 million is not enough to cover high-quality land such as the west coast, the banks of the great river, and the newly included Texas region (Xingui Province), so it is really unable to build settlements on the edge of the great desert.

However, after the opening of the middle line railway, Salt Lake City must be developed.

Even the establishment of "Salt Lake City" has been determined, and it is one of the few cities that is not named "new".

Mainly because the name Salt Lake City is so straightforward.

The reason why the construction of Salt Lake City has such a high priority is that Salt Lake City has rich strategic resources relying on the Great Salt Lake.

You may not believe it, but the most important natural resource of the Great Salt Lake is actually bugs.

Bugs, Artemia to be exact.

Artemia live in high-saline waters and feed on algae, which is a high-quality live bait for aquaculture.

Artemia from the Great Salt Lake is of excellent quality and has a huge output, accounting for more than half of the global market share in later generations.

Artemia eggs in the Great Salt Lake sell for 200-300 US dollars per kilogram, which is extremely profitable.

Of course, Zhu Fugui has no interest in Daxing aquaculture for the time being.

Today, the western part of North America is still in a state of zero involution of "beating the roe deer with a ladle to scoop the fish, and the pheasant flying into the rice pot". In addition, the fishery resources in the East Pacific area have not been developed at all, so Zhu Fugui does not need to consider artificial breeding at all. Aquatic issues.

Take some at most to fish yourself.

But Ming Dynasty didn’t need to raise aquatic products, a certain aquatic super empire in later generations needed it!

Later generations of Chinese people rely on farming to eat fish, so wild catch is not enough!

Artemia is almost a hard currency in the aquaculture industry, as well as in the ornamental fish aquaculture industry.

The most important thing is that Artemia is neither a protected animal nor a high-value-added product. It will be an important foreign exchange-earning fist product for Zhu Fugui to export to future generations.

Of course, in addition to Artemia, there is also the world's largest open-pit copper mine 40 kilometers southwest of Salt Lake City.

However, it is said to be the largest in the world. Due to the addition of the attributive "open air", the real output is far less than that of Chile and other places.

But if this open-pit copper mine is not in a place like the Great Salt Lake, but in Mexico, I am afraid that the history of world civilization may change.

In any case, copper smelting is an important pillar industry, and the more the better for any industrial country.

Even this large copper mine is worth building a railway to develop.

In addition, as a salt lake, there are naturally various salt mines that can be mined, and these will become the industries of the Royal Mining Group.

After all, Zhu Fugui is worried about handing it over to others, fearing that they will owe the treasury tax. Zhu Fugui promises that he will never evade taxes, and he will definitely pay attention to environmental protection and protect the migratory birds in the Great Salt Lake Wetland.

The people of Daming said yes after hearing this!

Chapter 418 Tufuzi's Rebirth

Located in the Oquirrh Mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah, the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine is the largest open pit copper mine in the world.

However, in this era, Zhu Fugui named this copper mine "Yugong Copper Mine".

The reason for taking such a name is that in later generations, this copper mine will become an abyss crater with a depth of 1200 meters, a width of 4000 meters and an area of ​​7.7 square kilometers, which can also be seen from outer space.

However, when Zhu Fugui climbed the mountain with trekking poles, it was hard to imagine that it would become such a spectacle only 100 years later.

In later generations, the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine is a famous tourist attraction in the Great Salt Lake area.

Standing on a hill that is not too high but has a very wide view, Zhu Fugui overlooks the mountains and rivers and cannot help but be overwhelmed by the magnificent scenery.

The natural scenery in North America is really good, but now it belongs to Ming Dynasty, which is even better!

While admiring the natural scenery, the soldiers of the Jinyiwei Gold Army and the students of the Mining Department of Guozijian took out various measuring tools from the mountaineering bag and began to explore the mineral veins.

The Gold Troop is the head of the five armies of Jin (gold minting troop), wood (forest troop), water (water conservancy and hydropower troop), fire (fire-fighting troop), and earth (civil engineering and transportation troop) under the Jinyiwei South Town Fusi.

Nanzhen Fusi's troops, in terms of combat effectiveness, are incomparable with Beizhen Fusi's troops in charge of internal security, espionage, and special operations, but they are Daming's last cards in their respective fields.

And in terms of attributes, they are also the most loyal troops to the emperor, and they are the emperor's private soldiers who are only responsible to Zhu Fugui.

This gold team frequently participates in the development and construction of large-scale projects such as the Xinlu mining area and has extensive experience.

Their theoretical level may not be as good as the students of Guozijian, but the experience accumulated in production practice is the most precious wealth.

Of course, the two can also be transformed into each other.

One is the emperor's disciple, and the other is the emperor's private army.

Not only the graduates of the Imperial College have entered the Golden Army with the rank of deputy company lieutenant, but in the future there will also be retired officers of the Golden Army who will return to the Imperial College to become teachers.

Yang Chen, a 33-year-old technical cadre at the ninth level, is the military officer who is most likely to step on the podium in the future and train the next generation of talents for Emperor Zhu.

He is the technical ace and prospecting star in the gold army, and is deeply loved by his comrades.

But Zhu Fugui knew Yang Chen's background very well.

Because this guy's qualifications are very old.

Although they were not the thirty or forty Chinese laborers who were robbed by the Yin people in the same mine as Zhu Fugui, they were also the first batch of Chinese laborers who were exchanged from the Pash Coal Mine during the slave-for-miner operation. Old Conglong.

Zhu Fugui's coal digging time is relatively short, but Qi Wenchang and the others all know Yang Chen.

And at the beginning, Lao Qi and the others despised Yang Chen very much.

There is no other reason, this old man is actually a Tu Fuzi.

In the profession of Tu Fuzi, they pay attention to searching for dragons and tapping acupuncture points, watching the wind and seeing the water, and Yang Chen is one of the best.

In Chinese culture, digging people's ancestral graves is undoubtedly a very immoral thing.

It's not the later generations where the so-called "grave robbery novels" are prevalent, and Tufuzi has been gradually exonerated. In this year, it is considered light to catch Tufuzi and beat him to death directly.

So although his qualifications are very old, Yang Chen's progress has not been smooth because of his poor "composition".

Later, under the personal auspices of Zhu Fugui, under the leadership of Xia Zhixin offering wine, the discipline of archaeology was established in the Ming Dynasty, and people accepted the setting of "archaeology" a little bit.

But in this way, Tufuzi will be beaten even more by everyone.

Because the grave digging of these guys is completely different from the protective excavation of the archaeological team.

They regarded the precious slips as dung, and only looked for valuables such as gold, silver and jade.

At the same time, they ignored the placement of items at the site of cultural relics excavation, did not make records, and did not take photos. Many precious first-hand materials were all destroyed by tomb robbers.

Of course, at present, there are only Yin or Caucasian tombs in the North American headquarters of the Ming Dynasty, which are not suitable for archaeology.

The archaeological team of Ming Dynasty is currently mainly practicing in the Aztec and Mayan regions.

Of course, there is also a very excellent place to practice hands, which is the Imperial Guard of Wa Island.

Some time ago, Xia Zhixin had applied for the approval of the project. In the second half of the year, Daming will conduct a tentative excavation of the tomb of the 12 false emperors at Quanyong Temple in Dongshan, Kyoto.

For the tombs of Chinese emperors, especially the tombs of Zhu Fugui's many uncles, they must not be moved.

But the tombs of these false emperors naturally need to be excavated!

Of course, Ming Dynasty is all about serious archaeology, and it is not the same as Sun Dianying and Marshal Sun's set of archaeological methods.

As Marshal Sun's companion, Yang Chen was also invited by Xia Zhixin.

After all, although Tufuzi is the most hated creature by archaeologists, the archaeology of Ming Dynasty has just started, and Tufuzi's experience is still of certain value.

But after thinking about it again and again, Yang Chen decided to cut it off completely, he no longer wanted to smell the smell of the graveyard.

Yang Chen signed up to join the army, ready to find himself again on the battlefield.

However, God made a joke for him.

He came to the Jinyiwei Golden Army by accident, and found a career that was more suitable for him to shine here.

At this moment, he bent down to the ground, holding a rolled-up tool that looked like a shovel, and took samples from the soil layer and rock wall.

This tool is the famous Luoyang shovel.

This kind of tool is actually not as old as imagined, and it has only been around for a hundred years.

Using a special shape, the tomb robbers pierced the Luoyang shovel deeply into the soil, and the deepest soil samples can be taken out for analysis at a depth of more than ten meters underground.

It is also very useful for prospecting and soil analysis.

Of course, Yang Chen and his comrades also brought a lot of more professional equipment.

Only Yang Chen would use a tool like Luoyang shovel.

This is also because the prospector, the ace equipment of the gold army, was not brought.

This kind of equipment that uses radioactive sources to detect underground metal deposits is naturally much easier to use than the original Luoyang shovel.

But this time, he was traveling with Shengjia.

Although theoretically there would be no radiation spillover, who would dare to risk the safety of the Holy Son of Heaven?

Even if His Majesty the Fugui received 1 gray of radiation, they will be blamed!

Therefore, whether it is the soldiers of the Gold Army or the students of the Imperial College, they all use the most basic and safest way to conduct prospecting and analysis.

Fortunately, it is an open-pit copper mine after all, so it is relatively easy to detect.

Soon, both sides reached a preliminary consensus.

The detection and exploration of both parties have shown that the copper ore here is of high grade and shallow buried, which is extremely convenient for mining.