Qin Lang swam in the sea for a while and boarded the yacht.

Zhang Chao handed him the fishing rod.

Halong Bay is also known as Guilin on the Sea. It has beautiful scenery and has more than 3,000 rocky islands and earth islands. Shenlong Island is the largest island, with a size of more than 200,000 acres.

The island has endless primeval forests and beautiful coastal beaches. The entire Halong Bay belongs to Wulong Prefecture, which is the fief of Qin Lang's fifth son, and is owned by him and Anon's son. Compared with the countless ships lined up to transport coal in and out of Keelung Port opposite, and the port that is bustling and noisy.

The Shenlong Island seems much quieter.

The bay here is beautiful and calm. There is a small town on the island, mainly based on fisheries and the processing of wood, medicinal materials and spices on the island.

Shenlong Island, which is fifty miles long and forty miles wide, is actually completely self-sufficient. There are more than 5,000 acres of arable land on the island. In addition, the current booming fishery here is enough to provide self-sufficient for the above ten thousand people on the island.

There are precious frankincense woods here, as well as beautiful golden monkeys, which are rich in cuttlefish, abalone, sea cucumber, squid, sardines, etc.

During the three years in Lingnan, Qin Lang spent most of his time here.

He built a beautiful manor on the island with an exclusive private beach.

The waves gently hit the nearby beach, and seagulls flew past the boat, and small islands in the distance...

"Isn't you really going back to Luoyang?"

"Um."

"The court will?"

"It's been more than three years, so it's great if I don't have it, so everyone is used to it." Qin Lang smiled.

Zhang Chao laughed twice, but he didn't believe it. In fact, the envoys from the court came one after another. Not only did the prince of Luoyang constantly summon Qin Lang back to the court to assist in the government, but the emperor of Chang'an asked Qin Lang to return to Luoyang more than once. He would have to go to Fengshan Mountain next year, and also use troops to Goguryeo. The emperor needed Qin Lang to return.

But Qin Lang just couldn't get in. Today he said that he was in poor health and tomorrow he said that he was uncomfortable. Anyway, he said that he was not feeling well.

"Are you not afraid of angering the emperor? Then send hundreds of cavalry to tie you back to Beijing?"

“Not that exaggerated.”

In fact, Qin Lang is not fighting with anyone. He is just bargaining. Of course, he does not want high-ranking officials or generous salaries. On the contrary, he hopes to stay in the place and work outside, and does not want to return to the court.

Outsiders don’t understand, but Qin Lang has become more and more determined in the past three years.

The Tang Dynasty is now like the fire cooking oil, but Qin Lang has already begun to plan a way out.

It is said that in the past three years, Changsun Wuji was very proud in the court and suppressed Fang Xuanling. His uncle was already the first person in the dynasty.

Changsun Wuji even attracted a lot of people, which was very tempting to rebuild a Guanlong Group.

However, it is said that although Fang Xuanling gave in to Changsun Wuji everywhere, he was not so easy to talk to on the surface. The two husbands have been secretly confronting each other.

In short, the water in the court is very muddy.

Qin Lang went back without intention.

Although Li Shimin is still young now, he still wants to take this opportunity to plan more.

"Is that fleet back?"

"Well, I'm back, Sanro really plans to make the news public?"

"What's there to hide?"

"That's a gold mine with an estimated daily production capacity of 300 taels." Zhang Chao was shocked. The daily production was 300 taels, which was nearly 110,000 taels a year, and more than 6,800 kilograms of gold. Based on the current market where the gold price of the Tang Dynasty continues to rise, the gold-silver ratio reached 1 to 13.

During the Wude period, one liang of gold was worth 8,000 yuan in Kaiyuan Tongbao, one liang of gold was worth 5 taels of silver, the ratio of gold was one to five, the ratio of gold to copper was one to eight, and the ratio of silver to one to one to one to six.

In recent years, gold and silver have begun to be used as currency and circulate in large quantities. Industry and commerce have flourished, money circulation has increased, and people's consumption has increased. Although bills such as private flying money, banknotes, silver notes have also begun to be used in large quantities, gold and silver are physical currencies, especially precious metals, so they are also sought after.

Although the imperial court now circulates gold and silver coins instead of directly circulates gold and silver, it is stipulated that the imperial court will mint gold and silver coins with standard denominations and then use them according to the face value, but after all, it will also be subject to fluctuations in the supply of gold, silver and copper raw materials, so the price has not changed at all.

The imperial court could only adjust the quality and weight of the coins to achieve a relatively stable exchange value.

Although a silver bill can be exchanged for a permanent copper coins, it has changed a lot from the early days. At the earliest, a silver coin contained one tael of silver and two thousand copper coins. Now, a silver coin actually contains eight coins and silver, plus a certain amount of copper, only one thousand copper coins are discounted.

One tael of silver was actually depreciated compared to the past when exchanged for copper coins. At the beginning, one tael of silver was more than one thousand six hundred copper coins, but now it is only worth 1,250 yuan. It also includes copper materials, labor costs, etc., which is actually about one thousand copper coins.

In comparison, gold has risen sharply. At first, one gold was worth five taels of silver and eight jin. Now the price of pure gold and silver is 1 to thirteen. Although it is still exchanged for silver dollars by 1 to 10 to 10, the actual gold content is still controlled by that one to thirteen.

Now a gold coin is worth ten stakes of copper coins.

Gold prices continue to rise, and silver prices remain high. The amount of gold and silver mining in Datang is also increasing year by year, but domestic demand is still in short supply.

Therefore, in recent years, many people have gone overseas to buy gold and silver and transported back to the Tang Dynasty, reselling and making money, or simply going outside to explore and mine gold and silver. As long as they have the ability, whether they are cooperating with the natives or digging by themselves, this is a huge profit.

Every company who finds gold mines will find ways to keep the secret as much as possible and never leak it out.

The gold mine that Zhang Chao mentioned just now, with a daily output of 300 taels of gold, is 110,000 taels a year. Although it cannot be owned by the Tang Dynasty, it must be exchanged for coins from the court, but 110,000 taels of gold is worth 1.11 million coins of copper.

Now Qin Lang plans to announce the news about this gold mine.

"You're so crazy."

Qin Lang just smiled, "You only saw in front of you, but not farther away."

“Where is the distance?”

"Gold is just a dead thing, and people are the most precious. I hope that after releasing the news of the gold mine, it can attract more people to go there to hunt for gold. Only with people will there be everything. Then we can build towns, workshops, and even farming and farming, etc...."

"Wait." Zhang Chao stopped Qin Lang, "That's just a wilderness overseas. It's so far away from here. What's there to develop? Are you planning to develop there? It's not easy to develop. Any place is better than that kind of place. Apart from gold, what's there? Although there is a lot of gold, there are only a few places where gold seedlings will be bright sooner or later, which is not worth it."

Qin Lang thought to himself, I was attracted by the distant wilderness of that place.

Although the Central Plains Continent is good, it is also the Tang Dynasty.

Just like Fuqing, when the Qin family passed by, there was only a group of places where the Sui Dynasty was expeditioned by Liuqiuqiu Island, with a barbaric land and nothing.

Although it is very close to Fuzhou, there were not many officials or soldiers in Fujian at that time.

The Qin family invested a lot in Linqing, building wharfs, building cities and land reclamation, recruiting immigrants, and building workshops. They built Linqing into a lively and prosperous business port, turning it into an important spice processing center, and even the shipbuilding industry became a little famous.

However, within ten years, the imperial court officially established a county in Linqing, under Fuzhou, and sent a county magistrate here. It even set up a Zhechong Mansion, where all the lands where the Qin family reclaimed were measured and counted and registered.

Although the whole world is the king's land and the court's actions are correct, it is still somewhat inconsistent with the Qin family.

The most important thing is actually not to lose some money. What Qin Lang needs most now is a safe harbor bend to prepare for the future.

So he needed a real place beyond the world, a place that the court could not control.

He had been to Linyi before, but Queen Fan Lin was still very nice to him. Their son Liulang was already very cute. The Queen even revealed that he would stay in Linyi and said that he would be the real regent, but Qin Lang still came back after walking around.

Now Linyi is backed by the Tang Dynasty and has developed quite well, at least on the surface it is prosperous.

It looks like the Little Tang Dynasty, but it is precisely because of this that Qin Lang felt that it was not very safe here. After all, it was his order that he took advantage of the civil strife in Linyi and not only cut off hundreds of miles north of Da Nang, but also rented Da Nang for a long time.

Even the Xinzhou of Qiushui River, which is bordered by the capital Shizipu, has become the concession of the Tang Dynasty. There are now Tang merchants everywhere, and the built on it is no different from the Central Plains cities. Countless Tang people live there, and the South China Sea navy even has a supply port there. The navy's ships often cruised in the Qiushui River.

To put it bluntly, the Tang Dynasty really wants to subvert Lin Yi's words now, that's really a matter of one sentence.

"Sanlang, but that place is too far away."

Qin Lang smiled and said, "Didn't you say the fleet is back? Then do you know why the fleet comes back so quickly this time, because it leaves the new route that I had asked for inquiries before. This new route has shortened the distance many times."

“Many times?”

"That's right, actually, it's really close to us, but the old routes in the past were too circling."

Qin Lang drenched water on his hand and drew a simple chart on the boat board.

"This is Fuqing, this is Liuqiu, this is Guangzhou, this is Qiongzhou Island, this is Wu'anzhou, this is Shenlong Island, where we are now located. Where should that place be?"

"Didn't you keep going south? In the depths of the South China Sea? After passing Linyi, continue to travel south thousands of miles along the coast, after passing Funan, then turn east, then travel between the South China Sea Islands, and finally reach the depths of the South China Sea?"

"Hahaha, it's wrong, it's a big mistake." Qin Lang got water on his hand and pulled a horizontal line almost eastward from the position of the bend of the dragon he drew.

Then I drew a circle there.
Chapter completed!