A month later, the whaling ship "Sky Rich" finally returned to Shanghai. As usual, the cabin was filled with whale meat. On the way back, they encountered a group of whales. After catching several large whales, they filled the cabin and returned to Shanghai.

When the ship was about to enter the port, Captain Lin Dongfu once again called the crew members to the deck, asking them all to swear that they would never reveal the location of Jinhe.

"You have to figure it out. Don't just drink a few glasses of wine and then you'll be proud of it. As long as outsiders don't know, Jinhe is our Jinhe! After the spring starts next year, we will bring a ship of cargo and let the natives find gold for us. In a few months, we can get at least tens of thousands of taels of silver, and everyone can get thousands of taels!"

Everyone wants to eat alone!

The same is true for the sailors on the "Sky Rich" and with the captain's advice, the sailors felt that they could definitely keep it confidential. After all, this is tens of thousands of taels of silver a year!

In order not to arouse suspicion from the outside world, they specially caught a ship of whale meat. After delivering the goods to the ship owner in Shanghai, the captain asked the first mate to sell the fur on the market, and everything was in line with common sense.

However, the secret couldn't last long, and before they could even wash out the gold from the golden sand, a fast-pitched sailor told the secret of Jinhe in the tavern.

"The river is like a golden dragon, with pebbles, like the scales of the Dragon King. There is gold sand in the cracks. When I hold it out, there is gold in the sand and sand in the gold..."

After learning the secret of Jinhe from the drunk sailor, not many people believed it. Who would believe a drunk? Even if the sailor always encounters many incredible things, what he said was too amazing.

Jinhe?

"There is gold in the river? You can just blow it all!"

"Who, who has blown it! Let you all the unsightly things, see and see..."

The drunk sailor took out a piece of gold from his arms, a walnut-sized dog-head gold! The yellow gold flashed with an attractive look under the kerosene lamp, and in an instant, the entire tavern fell into madness!

"My God, gold, it's really gold!"

"Dog head gold!"

"Golden River! The Golden River is there..."

...

In an instant, the whole of Shanghai fell into madness, Jinhe!

There is a golden river in the extreme north!

Compared to when he came back from Jinhe, Liang Min lost weight in just a few days, and even lost weight.

He has not been asleep for three days and three nights!

It’s not that he doesn’t want to sleep, but that he doesn’t dare to sleep.

It is said that the "Sky Rich" whaling ship discovered a golden river in the far north.

Golden River, gold!

Faced with such temptation, the sailors on the whaling ship of "Sky Rich" became a "hot commodity" in everyone's eyes. In order to know where Jinhe is, some sailors were even beaten to death.

But how could ordinary sailors know the location of Jinhe? But in the face of unimaginable wealth, the law has become a decoration. In order to prevent being kidnapped, they had to get together to discuss countermeasures.

"Everyone be careful!"

Li Si, whose eyes were red, held the revolver in his hand and stared at the door. He shouted as he listened to the sound of horse hooves outside.

"As long as the person who came is not the captain, we will shoot!"

At this moment, the sailor beside the door said loudly.

"It's Tiqi!"

"The captain is with them!"

Tiqi!

captain!

While more than a dozen tibi were standing outside the door on horseback, Lin Fudong entered the house and said.

"Okay, brothers, let's go to Nanjing!"

"Captain, why go to Nanjing?"

"Dedicate the Jinhe to the Emperor!"

"Why do we have to offer Jinhe to the emperor? That's clearly what we discovered!"

"It's true that we discovered, but are you useful?"

In one sentence, everyone turned into mutes, and now they are all targeted.

Huang Chengcheng's gold is enough to make anyone crazy and forget the threat of the law. Now someone has lost his life!

When the sailors on the whaling ship "Sky Rich" took the train to Nanjing to "discount" under the escort of Tiqi. In the Laoshan Palace on the other side of Nanjing, Zhu Guoqiang was enjoying a rare family happiness.

He had been a grandfather three years ago, the crown prince Zhu Heyu had a wedding, and the next year the crown prince Zhu Yizheng was born. This was the third generation of the royal family. In the following two years, the crown prince had several children born one after another.

Although it is a cold day outside, it is as warm as spring in the glass greenhouse. This is the tropical botanical garden in the palace, with an area of ​​thousands of square meters. You can see various rare tropical plants here, and garden paths, small bridges, rockery and other landscapes are also set up.

The children were sitting at the foot of the rockery, and Zhu Guoqiang and his son Zhu Heyu were sitting opposite each other.

"Father, I heard that a child has given money?"

"Donate a child?"

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile.

"It's just a word game for officials. Those sailors discovered that big gold mine was like a child holding gold across the market. They couldn't defend it and could only offer it to the court."

Sometimes, things in the world are so impermanent. Originally, Zhu Guoqiang thought that the earliest gold mountain to be discovered should be San Francisco. After all, the Ming Dynasty had already established the "Yuzhang City" there. But who would have thought that after so many years, "Yuzhang City" was still the same "Yuzhang City", and the gold mines there were still not discovered.

On the contrary, another "Kings Mountain" that was discovered the latest was accidentally discovered by a whaler.

"The truth is almost done."

"Heyu, what are you going to deal with this?"

Zhu Guoqiang asked with a smile.

Over the years, the prince has been learning how to govern the country. Zhu Guoqiang wanted to hear what he would do about this matter. After all, there will be many similar discoveries in the future. With the discovery of "Kinshare", similar things will inevitably happen again and again. There is a rule and system that can always solve some problems.

"It is not easy to make a living in the sea. I found that the Golden River is occasionally. Human nature is greedy and it is reasonable to want to eat alone. Now I donate the gold mine to the court for self-protection. Although the court can benefit from it, if the gold mine is directly collected, it would be a loss of the court's dignity. However, the innocent and loyalty must be understood. In the opinion of the son-in-law, it might as well set up a gold mine company and give the crew a certain share to commend them for their righteous dedication. If there is a similar situation in the future, they can handle it accordingly. Of course, they can also go to find gold."

Zhu Heyu's answer made Zhu Guoqiang nodded with satisfaction, and then said.

"This method is a good idea!"

Zhu Guoqiang smiled and said:

"The country does not have to take advantage of individuals. They are the discoverers, but the mine belongs to the state. Well, this is 15%! The discoverers can own 15% of the shares in the future."

After thinking about it, Zhu Guoqiang said again.

"However, I still have to leave it to the court for discussion."

People die for money, and birds die for food.

Even if it is the snow and ice there, even if it is thousands of miles away from the country, for gold and wealth, thousands of people have poured into the Golden River. No matter what the future is, one thing is certain that the extreme north of the Ming Dynasty is destined to be changed by gold.

"Even if one of the ten gold diggers lives there, the surname is Daming!"

For Zhu Guoqiang, he cared more about that land than gold. For the Ming Dynasty, the gold mine was just a bait that attracted people to settle there.

More importantly, the generosity of the court will also drive people to go to the unknown land, driving people to explore there and discover the treasures buried there.

And in this process, that land will also become the Ming Dynasty. Just like in this world, those Cossacks from Europe. What drove the Cossacks to cross the Ural Mountains to the icy and snowy wasteland.

Is it the driving force for expansion?

Of course not.

It was just because of the generosity of the Tsar, that those Cossacks could get all the land, gold, fur, power they wanted in Siberia.

Did the Tsar suffer this deal?

Of course he did not suffer any losses, and even took a big advantage. After all, for Russia, in the 21st century, Siberia's resources were even the economic pillar of that country. It was that barren land that supported Russia's economy.

And what did the Tsar pay for his expansion?

But it just gives some explorers certain privileges or economic benefits.

In this world, the Russian Tsar could do it. The emperor of the Zhu family could do it, and would be more generous than the Tsar.
Chapter completed!