The conversation starts with the Yongping Superintendent who was talking about the four major bronze supervisors that day.

According to Mao Geng's idea, the open-pit copper mine in Dexing, Jiangxi Province was known as the number one in Asia and the third in the world. Since it was an open-pit copper mine, it must be extremely shallow in burial and should be given priority. As for what to do after mining Dexing's copper resources, Mao Geng didn't think there was any need to worry about it. There were many copper mines in the world. As long as industrialization develops, the Song Dynasty was the first to enter the era of great navigation, and the resources in South America would be inexhaustible.

However, Mao Geng was a little disappointed. Although Lu Jiuyuan knew that Dexing produced copper, he had limited knowledge. Instead, he knew very well about the Yongping Zhendanshui copper smelting in Qianshan.

It turned out that what surprised Mao Geng was that Ehu was in Yongping Town.

When Zhu Lu met in Ehu, Lu Jiuyuan stayed in Ehu Temple for more than ten days. Lu Jiuyuan was not a person who was not a human being, so he naturally understood that the local area could build Ehu Temple, which was mostly because of copper production. It was because of copper production that he had money to build the temple and the incense was so prosperous.

During his days at Ehu Temple, Lu Jiuyuan not only knew that copper was produced here, but also heard various stories about copper. Specifically, Ehu Temple is a famous temple, located in Ehu Mountain to the north of Yongping Town. Guiyang Mountain and Tianpai Mountain, which produce copper, are located in the southwest of Yongping Town, and are also well-known. At most, it is said that 100,000 people surrounded these two copper mountains, and Qianshan Mountain is engaged in business, such as copper collection, smelting, transportation, etc.

Mao Geng remembers that the Yongping copper mine in later generations was in the southwest of Yongping Town. According to reports, copper was originally produced in the Song Dynasty, but only the upper layer was mined. Most of the time, it was collected to smeltein copper. The Song people did not expect that there was a huge copper mine stored below. Even later generations had several explorations, and then they confirmed that there was a super copper mine below.

This is the benefit of being a time traveler. In the 20th century, after more than ten years of difficult exploration, it was discovered that the copper mines under the Yongping copper mine were amazing, and only one layer could be uncovered can open the open-pit mining. This information is equivalent to a treasure map in the Song Dynasty. Now, Mao Geng is in control of this treasure map.

Of course, there is no need to hide it from Lu Jiuyuan. Mao Geng directly told him that just digging down the copper mining site now, there will be endless copper ore.

The copper metal reserves of Yongping Copper Mine exceed 1 million tons, and the annual output in later generations was 20,000 tons, which was converted into Songjin, which means more than 30 million jin. Of course, if the human sea tactics were used to mine, even if gunpowder could be used to blow up the hard rock layer, it would probably be good to reach 20 to 30% of the output in later generations.

The Dexing Copper Mine is not yet known where it is hidden, and the location of the Yongping Copper Mine is certain. Although the reserves of the Dexing Copper Mine are several times that of the Yongping Copper Mine, Mao Geng felt that the treasure map of Dexing that he had mastered seemed too inaccurate. Instead of finding it, it would be better to dig out the Yongping treasure that had been accurately positioned first.

Lu Jiuyuan didn't ask why Mao Geng learned that Yongping copper mine contained a huge amount of copper mine. Lu Jiuyuan knew that Mao Geng would not make jokes. He could believe what Mao Geng said.

So the two of them started to discuss how to mine Yongping copper mine.

Mao Geng's preliminary design was to use gunpowder to explode the rock layer and use human sea tactics to mine copper ore. As for copper smelting, fire method copper is the main method and copper is the auxiliary method. While mining Yongping copper ore, you can also wait for an opportunity to explore Mingdexing copper ore.

Considering the need to be mined with gunpowder, it involves zinc smelting that needs to be kept confidential, and based on scale and efficiency considerations, it can only adopt the official model at present, and mobilizing disciplined Xiangjun to mine copper mine is the first choice.

After calculation, I sent 20,000 jin troops. Even if the average per capita production of one kilogram of copper per day, it would be easy to produce 20,000 kilograms of copper per day. It should not be difficult to produce 7 million kilograms of copper per year, plus 500,000 kilograms of zinc. If some advanced management measures are introduced, the output may be higher.

The 20,000 xiang army will pay a salary of one million jin a year. Of course, what I paid was Huizi, equivalent to 750,000 jin of copper coins, 300 jin per jin of copper, and 200 jin per jin of zinc, and 2.2 million jin a year's total income is 2.2 million jin. Considering investment and other operating costs, the profit should be considerable. Mao Geng simply estimated that in a year, it would not be less than 500,000 jin. If the scale effect, technological effect and management effect were combined, the profit level could be further improved, which did not include additional products, gold and silver. You should know that the gold and silver content of the ore in Yongping Copper Mine are not low.

Don't be surprised, Mao Geng designed the state-owned enterprise model in later generations, which was called the official camp in this era. Considering that the combat power of the Song Dynasty was basically a slack, but the Xiang army had no other skills, but it had one of the biggest abilities, which was that it consumed the national treasury - it was very deceptive. Mao Geng believed that the best way out for these Xiang army, which consumed the national treasury but was useless, was to transform it into an industrial population. The model of official enterprises was digested, disguised, and achieved a soft landing in disguise, which may be the only way out for some time in the future.

The Song Dynasty has always regarded military camps as shelters, such as unemployed vagrants, lazy people, refugees after the disaster, and even criminals, all of them have been taken into the army, and they have completely regarded the army as charity. Of course, this is also a strange thing that only the Song Dynasty has. The Emperor of the Song Dynasty thought that after raising these people, the world would be peaceful.

Speaking of wartime, when it was necessary to charge in real swords and guns, the master soldiers of the Song Dynasty were of course unable to help, so they had to recruit utility and envoys. The so-called utility and envoys were recruited as senior soldiers. Yue Fei joined the army as the utility. The envoys had the highest level, followed by the utility. At the same time, the military pay and the utility pay were much higher than that of ordinary soldiers. But then the problem arose, corruption in the army breeds. If the military generals had three thousand soldiers, they would often report to the court to claim that there were two thousand utility and envoys in the camp, which was of course not. These generals had little combat power, but their ability to earn empty salary increased. Xiaozong could not, so he had to issue a rigid rule during the Longxing period, stipulating that the military's utility and envoys could not exceed 30%.

OK! This is a bit off topic.

In short, the Xiangjun is a shelter that can wait and be fine. It is not enough to do some logistics, but they can't count on them in war. Therefore, it is better to convert it into an industrial population as soon as possible! According to the practice of the Special Administrative Region, a truth has been proved - Xiangjun is still very necessary to switch to a cement worker and a construction worker.

In addition to digesting the Xiangjun, the second reason is that Zhao Group took out some of the spare money from the national treasury to develop industry and mining. Millions of chunks of money were placed in the treasury. It is said that the ropes for money were decayed, which obviously did not conform to the law of preserving and increasing value. In Mao Geng's eyes, Zhao Group was like a wealth-keeping slave. It was good to be good at managing finances, and it was also good to avoid investment risks, but it seemed to be lacking in stimulating the economy. In comparison, the Qingmiao method that Wang Anshi developed had the intention of using national resources to stimulate the economy. It was just that he was not good at acting properly. But to be fair, Wang Anshi was still very reliable in macroscopic, but the details were not done well. When people talked about it, details determine success or failure. Wang Anshi failed, and failed in details.

It's gone too far again.

Well, the army of the Song Dynasty was idle and the national treasury was idle and Mao Geng felt that they should be mobilized and transformed into the industrial development resources of the Song Dynasty. The whole country's efforts to develop industry is an attempt, and I hope it will be a good start. Perhaps soon, this national system will also occupy a place in the industrialization wave of Song Dynasty. No matter how many disadvantages the national system has, it cannot be denied that the national system also has its superiority.

In order to strengthen the determination of the court, Mao Geng introduced a joint-stock system.

The joint-stock company designed by Mao Geng has a capital of one million jin, the imperial court accounts for 70% of the shares, Mao Geng's Special Zone Group accounts for 10%. In addition, Taiwan-Song Haimao and Gaojian Real Estate also account for 10%. Taiwan-Song Haimao and Gaojian Real Estate do not need to be mobilized by Mao Geng. After Han Tuozhou and Zhou Xun learned that they could obtain a large amount of copper materials and make a large profit, they took the initiative to subscribe to their shares. It is well known that Han Tuozhou's Taiwan-Song Haimao is not short of money. Zhou Xun now sells real estate projects overnight, and it is not difficult for the three companies to spend 100,000 jin.

In this way, the Song Dynasty court actually only needed to take out 700,000 guan, that is, to take out the money that was taken out in installments in one year in one go in advance, because the military salary of the 20,000 guan a year is 750,000 guan. If the xiang army is at least inflicted on weapons and armor, it is still a problem to not be able to fight one million guan. So, just for this, the court will only make a profit but not lose. If it is still counted as fifty percent of the year, it will be even more unsatisfactory.

Regarding what the name of this official joint-stock company should be called? It can’t be called Jiangxi Copper Industry, let alone zinc, gold and silver, and maybe something else should be produced. After thinking about it, Mao Geng felt that it should be called Wugang Development Holding Company. With such a name, installing more factories and mines at that time will save a lot of trouble.

Considering that Wugang Holdings started very well from the beginning, it may develop into a giant enterprise in the future, so when Lu Jiuyuan solemnly recommended Xin Qiji, Mao Geng also felt that no one was more suitable than him. Xin Qiji is extraordinary in terms of military, political, prestige and talent, so it is perfect for him to be the CEO of Wugang Holdings. Besides, Xin Qiji is idle now.

Zhao Guo had seen Mao Geng’s Wugang Holdings Project Plan and was very moved at the time. The so-called reduction in revenue is nothing more than this. Mao Geng also claimed that he could win the copper coins war with this, so why not do it!

Zhao Guo also knew that Xin Qiji was a good player in financial management. If it was really like Mao Geng said that there was a super copper mine stored in Yongping, Zhao Guo believed that it was obviously more reassuring to Xin Qiji than to give it to others! Well, Jiaxuan can not only be able to maintain his literary status but also kill enemies in martial arts, but also a capable person in business. I am optimistic about him and hope that he can make more money for the Song Dynasty. In other words, he can maximize the interests of the court.

As for the options proposed by Mao Geng in the plan, isn’t it just to give Xin Qiji one percent of the options? Anyway, I have to pay for it, I just pay for the shares of Wugang a little later. Of course, I can give it this kind of convenience.
Chapter completed!