Chapter 2819

Baikes and others spent some time reviewing the written materials, and then listened to the work reports from the bank and gold mine leaders. Then the group took a car to the nearest mine to inspect the mining conditions here.

In fact, the mining method of this gold mine is very similar to that of the Fushan Copper Mine. The ores buried underground are also mined, then screened, crushed, and smelted to obtain metal products with extremely high purity. However, when comparing productivity, the two

It's not at the same order of magnitude at all.

Walking next to the mountains of ore, Chen Yixin introduced: "These are the ores you see that have been crushed. For every one thousand kilograms of such ores, one or two taels of gold can generally be refined. About five taels is ideal."

The situation is over.”

Bai Letong exclaimed: "So the gold dug out of the gold mine is still so rare?"

Chen Yixin smiled and said: "The kind of gold bricks you saw in the vault before requires about one to two million kilograms of ore to refine. You can imagine how much manpower and material resources were spent during this period, so gold has a lot of value.

High value.”

Bai Letong said suddenly: "This is the reason why things are rare and valuable."

The same mining process, but the actual output is hundreds of times different, which is reflected in the scarcity value of gold. However, Bai Letong thought of the banknotes he usually uses. The printing cost is obviously much lower than that of mining.

The cost of gold, but as long as the currency value is linked to gold, it will have the same purchasing power as gold. I can't help but admire the wisdom of the predecessors.

Although the main industry in Linglong Town is gold mining, except for the smelting plants and bank vaults, there is almost no trace of gold anywhere else. Even the currency circulation in the town uses banknotes issued by Haihan.

In terms of the circulation level of banknotes, it is not inferior to areas with developed commerce and trade such as Fushan County.

After visiting the mine, the group went to the smelting plant built next to the mine. The beneficiation and smelting process of gold mines is more complicated than that of copper mines, and more mechanical equipment is used here. Related

During the tour, the official in charge also introduced the entire process of gold smelting in great detail.

The ore mined from the mine is first sent to the jaw crusher for rough crushing, and then the cone crusher is used for secondary crushing. Only after the ore is broken into small particles of a certain size can it enter the next step.

The ore that has been crushed twice is sent to the ball mill to be ground into powder, and then sent to the spiral classifier for classification processing to screen out impurities such as mud, vegetation and trees in the ore.

The roughly selected ore is then sent to the cylindrical screen, and the concentrate is screened out through high-pressure water flushing, and then sent to the shaking table by the elimination machine, so that the concentrate sand for smelting can be produced.

When Bai Letong heard this, he was already dizzy and confused. It was even more difficult for him to understand the heap leaching, adsorption, displacement, precipitation and other production processes that followed.

And there is more to smelting ore than just this production line. In fact, there are different processing methods for different grades of ore. Even the low-grade gold-containing "waste rock" that is stripped during the mining process has special processing techniques.

The gold produced through these links is only crude gold. It requires multiple processes to remove the metal impurities contained in it and reach a higher purity before it is melted and cast into gold bricks or gold bars.

After going through this entire production process, even a layman like Bai Letong has a deeper understanding of the value of gold.

Of course, what Chen Yixin wants to emphasize is not the complexity of the gold production process, but the various mining machinery and equipment used in the production process. He wants to use this to show to Bai Kesi that the equipment provided by the Ministry of Industry to the Northern Region has played an important role.

It has played its due role and has received very good benefits as a result. If the Executive Committee wants to promote the industrialization process of mining resource production, then the Northern Region is the most sensible choice.

After completing the inspection mission in Zhaoyuan County, Baikes and his party turned southwest to Laizhou City. Compared with the areas in Dengzhou that have begun to enter the industrial era, the neighboring Laizhou is closer to the original appearance of this era.

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There are no mineral resources being mined near Laizhou City. The reason why they came here was partly for inspection, and partly because people from Jinan Dewangfu had been waiting for them in Laizhou for two days.

During their previous stay in Qingdao Port, Bai Kesi and his party met with Huo Mingxian, an aide of Prince De's Palace. At that time, Huo Mingxian rushed to Qingdao Port to seek help from Bai Kesi, hoping that Haihan could help Prince De's Palace resolve the pressure from the Ming court. At that time, Bai Kesi's response

He was also tough-minded and said that he could take measures including military means to help Prince De's palace.

However, the verbal promise was probably not enough to make Prince De's Mansion completely at ease, so after Huo Mingxian went back to report the news, Prince De's Mansion quickly sent someone over, planning to go to Dengzhou to visit Chen Yixin and Bai Kesi. When they walked to the border of Laizhou, they heard that

Chen and Bai were on an inspection trip, and the next stop might be Laizhou, so they sent someone to Zhaoyuan County to deliver a letter explaining the situation, and then waited in Laizhou City.

Of course, if the person who comes is still a staff member of Prince De's palace, then he probably is not qualified to ask Chen Yixin and Bai Kesi to change their itinerary and go to Laizhou. The main reason is that the letter sent to Zhaoyuan County is signed by the current Prince of De, Zhu Youli.

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After the Qing army attacked Jinan City in 1639, the former German King Zhu Youshu was unfortunately captured and died. A year later, his cousin Zhu Youyue succeeded to the throne.

However, since Jinan city was looted inside and outside by the Qing army, the German king only inherited a title from his cousin. The imperial court was in financial distress and could not even come up with the money to rebuild Jinan city, let alone

Let’s talk about the salary of King De’s family.

After the war, most of the ten households in Jinan City were empty. Although Prince De's Mansion had some land, no one was cultivating it. As a last resort, Prince De's Mansion had no choice but to rely on its own efforts.

The goal was to make ends meet. Later, he received help from kind-hearted people and was able to finally overcome the difficulties.

Of course, this is not a pie falling from the sky. The so-called good Samaritans bring not only relief, but also other purposes. Prince De’s Mansion is soft-spoken and short-handed, and when it was too late to discover the truth,

With no choice but to cooperate, he established a relationship with Haihan.

Prince De’s Mansion needed money and food to maintain life, and Haihan needed to expand his connections with the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty. Both sides got what they needed, and it can be said that they hit it off. In the following ten years, Prince De’s Mansion maintained contact with the Northern Region and established a

We had a certain amount of mutual trust, so we had the arrangement of sending our children to participate in the Haihan imperial examination last year.
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