My Daming New Empire

It is better for the army to make the money than for the merchants to make the money.

When Zhou Nan heard that he was going to withdraw his troops immediately, he felt a little pained.

Although Daming killed more than 1 people this time, he also killed 5000 people himself, and nearly [-] people were injured.

In addition to casualties, countless money, food and materials were spent, but only to teach them a lesson, and then throw out the fruits of victory.

Zhu Zhanji knew that even if he opposed it, it would be useless.

In the final analysis, there is only one reason, and that is profit!

Leaving an army in the grassland, if there are fewer people, it will not be able to defeat the opponent, and if there are more people, it will not be worthwhile to spend money and food.

If you want Daming's army to stay on the grassland, you have to find a way to get money so that the benefits of stationing outweigh the expenses.

He thought about it, and said to Li Liang: "Bring me my file box, I want to find a file."

In his previous life, Zhu Zhanji controlled countless mineral resources in South America and Africa, and knew very well about mineral resources around the world.

Although the grassland is very poor now, the mineral resources here are the richest in Asia. The reserves of many mineral resources rank first in Asia, and the reserves of gold and copper rank first in the world.

However, the Oyu Tolgoi Copper Mine, the world's largest copper mine, is located at the junction of Mongolia, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia in later generations, and the Ergut Copper Mine is located at the junction of Mongolia and Russia in later generations.

He has never been there, so of course he cannot directly say that there are copper mines there.

Therefore, he wanted to "find" a copper mine near the route of their march this time.

Moreover, there is indeed such a copper mine, which is the Zeilt copper mine located in the northern suburb of West Urt in later generations.

This copper mine is pitifully small compared to several other world-class copper mines, but in the current Ming Dynasty, there is no copper mine that can match it.

The reserves here have been surveyed in later generations. The copper ore reserves in the mining area are about 150 million tons.

In addition, there are associated molybdenum and silver, and the reserves of silver are more than [-] tons.

Although this mine is not a world-class large mine, it is an open-pit mine, which is easy to mine and has a high grade.

Bringing out this copper mine will definitely attract the interest of Zhu Di and the military, because the current Ming Dynasty is extremely short of precious metals.

With a map, Zhu Zhanji and Li Qian came to the tent together.Because the war is considered to be over, the sand table in the big tent was moved to another place, leaving a large space.

When Zhu Zhanji arrived, the generals had almost reached a unity and were about to withdraw.

At the end of the day, Zhu Zhanji stepped forward and said loudly, "Grandpa Huang, my grandson has a request for your permission."

"What's the matter?"

"Half a month ago, when the army passed through the northern part of the Tula River, my grandson found that a local mountain was in line with the copper mountain that the craftsmen said. It was just because the war was imminent, so my grandson didn't say anything. Now that the war is over, Mahamu and others have fled far away. , so my grandson wants to check it out.”

Zhu Di said with some disapproval: "Since it's the way to come, why not wait for the army to call back before checking? Although the Oirats are fleeing now, there are disorderly soldiers everywhere, so we have to be careful."

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Hundreds of thousands of troops are dispatched and stationed. It is troublesome. If there is no copper, grandson will wait for the army there. If there is copper, the army may have to stay here for a while, so grandson I'd better go check it out first."

Zhu Di thought for a while and said, "In addition to your Habayashi Zuowei, you will bring one guard each from the Sanqian Battalion and the Shenji Battalion, making a total of 1 troops."

"Grandson obeys."

(This mine is actually a zinc-copper mine, mainly zinc, without gold. I hope the data party will not be serious. Because on the route of the Northern Expedition and in the hinterland of Mongolia, this mine is larger.)

Chapter 56 Copper Mountain

The later Caierte copper mine is located at about 113.3 east longitude and 46.7 north latitude.This is the intersection of the grassland and the Gobi Desert, located in the hinterland of Mongolia, and there are also abundant groundwater resources nearby.

And here is about 450 miles away from Hulanhu, where the army is located, which is the city of Genghis in later generations.

In his previous life, Zhou You launched his own survey satellites, earth remote sensing satellites, weather satellites, and military satellites.He has some knowledge of most of the large mineral resources in the world, and he has been to Mongolia for investigation, so he wrote down the approximate location of several large mines.

In later generations, this is a three-hour drive at most.But on this grassland with no coordinates and no signs, it is not an easy task to find it.

Zhu Zhanji led a group of [-] cavalry, but they followed lightly and simply. Except for some iron pots to boil water, they didn't even bring a cook. Each of them carried five days' worth of rice and pancakes.

The army will be ready to set off tomorrow, and the vanguard battalion will arrive at the Tula River with its luggage at the latest in five days.

Although Zhu Zhanji did not object to the withdrawal of troops, he wanted to use actual interests to attract part of the army to stay and deter the entire grassland.

The Arabian horse Zhu Zhanji rode can easily walk 150 kilometers a day, but the Mongolian horses ridden by others cannot.So this journey is expected to take two full days to complete.

We set off at dawn on the first day, took a break at noon for an hour to eat and feed the horses, and by the time it got dark, we had walked almost 120 kilometers.

There were only [-] kilometers left for the journey on the second day, and everyone arrived near the destination before dark.

However, Zhu Zhanji did not go directly to the destination, but stationed the army near a small tributary of the Tula River.

Marching on the grassland, clean water is always the most important.

Except for Zhu Zhanji, no one actually cares whether there are copper mines or not.Everyone is willing to come with him, and they pay more attention to building a relationship with Zhu Zhanji, the grandson.

Anyway, Zhu Zhanji said what he said, and no one questioned his decision.

Zhu Zhanji likes this state, because if someone really asks him how he knows there are copper mines here, he really can't tell.

He didn't learn surveying in modern times, and when he came to ancient times, he just went to the Ministry of Industry to make horizontal knives again, and chatted with a group of miners about some earthen methods of finding ore in this era.

However, the Caierte Copper Mine is not located on the edge of the flat land, and there are some continuous hills around it. It was not in the middle of the route that the army marched at the beginning.

If you can tell whether there is a copper mine there after a few miles, even the old master is not sure, let alone his great-grandson.

These people didn't object, and they were willing to mess around with him because he was the grandson.And Zhu Di probably thought that he wanted to sneak out to play and didn't want to keep him, so he let him out.

The two-day journey made everyone exhausted. The army cleared a field on the sand and gravel by the river, settled the horses, and everyone ate some dry food, wrapped in blankets, and fell asleep in the open air. .

Of course, Zhu Zhanji didn't need to sleep in the open air. Although Li Liang and the others wouldn't be able to bring Zhu Zhanji's big wooden barrel in which he bathed every day, it was still a piece of cake to bring him a tent.

After a good sleep, Zhu Zhanji woke up early the next morning.

After the morning exercise, I drank a bowl of porridge cooked by Li Liang and the others, and ate a meatloaf with the porridge, which solved my stomach problem.

Today is the twelfth of June, and the staff of the Sitianjian first helped Zhu Zhanji calculate the exact time, and then Zhu Zhanji took out the sextant he made, and calculated the current exact location according to the elevation angle of the sun.

This kind of calculation has a fixed equation, which is much simpler than the current popular star-stretching technique, and the error is extremely low, the difference is only about one kilometer.

In contrast, stargazing is not only troublesome, but it is normal for the error to vary by tens of kilometers or hundreds of kilometers.

After testing out his specific location, and then referring to the location of the Zeilt copper mine in his memory, he quickly calculated that there was still a difference of about three kilometers between the station and the copper mine.

After identifying the direction, Zhu Zhanji ran towards the copper mine with 7000 people. "It's the short mountain in the northeast, let's go!"

Seven thousand horses are galloping, and the hooves of the horses are ringing. Not to mention the wild wolves in the grassland, even the mice are too frightened to show their heads.