A yard in the inner city of Puluo, where Xiaohua Mountain lives in Puluo.

Ping An Trade now has half of its business from Nanyang, so at least one-third of the year spent in Xiaohuashan in Puluo.

Nowadays, everyone's pace of life is not as fast as that of later generations.

When Xiao Huashan went to Diandude, he heard the story of storytellers telling stories about overseas adventures, so he slowly returned home to prepare for a nap.

Although he also had wives and concubines in the Tang Dynasty, it did not prevent him from continuing to find a few maids to sleep with him in Puluo.

However, just now he was lying down today, when his servants hurriedly called out.

"Cui Jian comes to see me? Is there anything urgent for him?"

Generally speaking, Cui Jian and Xiao Huashan only talk about important matters at Ping An Trade station and rarely go to each other's homes.

It is even rare to come over in a hurry like today.

"Langjun, Manager Cui just said that there is something big to discuss with you, and everyone else is already in the lobby."

After hearing what the servant said, Xiao Huashan had to give up his lunch break and changed his clothes under the help of his maid.

"Haha, Brother Xiao, you're rich, our safe trade is going to make a fortune."

When Cui Jian saw Xiao Huashan, he came over happily and gave him a hug.

So enthusiastic shocked Xiao Huashan.

"What made a fortune? Did any merchant from a foreign country place a large order for us?"

In the Nanyang region, there are not many large countries, but they can also be regarded as large as small countries.

Especially in some ports on the business road, there is basically a small country behind it.

These small countries occupy the right time, place and people. In the Tang Dynasty, their living standards were not necessarily much lower than those of the people in Chang'an City.

At least the problem of eating can basically be solved.

In all dynasties, it is rare to hear of any country in Nanyang that caused famine.

It is not because there is no record in history books, but because these places are not easy to cause famine as long as they do not commit suicide.

Coconut trees, banana trees, durian trees in the fields...

Various fruits can be found almost all year round.

In addition, if you sow seeds into the ground, you can ripen three times a year, and the per capita grain output throughout the year is definitely higher than that of the Tang Dynasty.

For example, in Linyi, some people are relatively lazy. After harvesting a season of rice, they will leave the rice stems grown by chopsticks there. In less than two or three months, rice can be produced on it.

Such a slutty operation can only happen here in Nanyang.

"The business of the natives in Nanyang is not that easy to do now. There are all kinds of caravans in the entire Puluo, and there are eight hundred, so how can we get any good things?"

Cui Jian waved his hand and denied Xiao Huashan's speculation.

"Oh, what's the matter that makes you Cui Jian so excited?"

"Mine, our Ping An Trade Expedition Team discovered a huge mine on Sumen Island, which is located in Puluo Central. This morning, I received news at the dock, and immediately went to the yamen to buy that piece of land.

For this reason, I also took out our Cui family’s own money in advance to pay for the land purchase funds. After all the procedures are secure, I will have time to come and discuss with you Brother Xiao.”

Cui Jian's approach made Xiao Huashan feel a little uncomfortable.

Although this matter is very anxious, it is not as anxious as not even enough to discuss it with me in advance.

So there was no expectant smile on his face, but he was silent.

Fortunately, Cui Jian was also smart and immediately realized that he might have done something bad.

There is no way. As a child of the Cui family, he has not achieved particularly outstanding results in recent years.

Especially in terms of adventure, Ping An Trade has already put in a lot of manpower and material resources, but it can be said that no return has been received yet.

Finally, he received news from the expedition team today, and immediately asked the expedition team members to continue to stay on the boat. He only took Lai Yuanhong, who was familiar with the situation, to the yamen to participate in the land purchase.

Because once so many expedition members got off the ship, the news that Ping An Trade discovered a huge tin mine on Sumen Island could not be hidden.

If someone takes the lead and buys that piece of land in the yamen, there will be some disputes from now on.

"Brother Xiao, I apologize to you. I am really too anxious today. However, the tin mine on Sumen Island is ten times larger than the largest tin mine in our Tang Dynasty, or even hundreds of times. The value behind this is definitely more than a million chunks.

As long as we have such a tin mine in our hands, we will not have to worry about the next hundred years of Ping An Trade.

I didn't dare to delay such an important thing for a second, for fear of being taken over by someone.

If the duck that is so stolen flying, I will have no shame to go back to Chang'an City."

After Cui Jian explained, although Xiao Huashan felt a little uncomfortable, he accepted it quickly.

The main reason is that the tin mine worth more than one million tannes also shocked him.

"This tin mine is really that big?"

Xiao Huashan was a little worried that it was because Cui Jian wanted to find a reason for himself, so he deliberately exaggerated the scale of the tin ore.

"Lai Langjun, let me tell Manager Xiao what is the scale of the tin mine on Sumen Island?"

At this time, Cui Jian directly let Lai Yuanhong, who was following him, speak.

"Shopkeeper Xiao, worth more than one million guan, this is just my preliminary estimate. If the ore layer of this tin ore is thick enough, it would be no surprise that it would be worth millions or even tens of millions of guan.

After all, we have only undergone a very brief confirmation now and know that this mining area is very huge, but it is not very clear what is going on below.

The tin ore on Suman Island is definitely much higher than that in Lingnan Road. We simply throw the tin ore next to the bonfire and can naturally extract tin.

This can definitely greatly reduce our ore refining costs, so that our tin, even if it is transported back to Datang by Nanyang, will have a much higher profit than the Feng family's tin mine in Lingnan Road."

When talking about professional matters, Lai Yuanhong immediately became energetic.

"This tin mine is not like a gold ore and silver mine. No matter how much it is smelted every year, it will not affect its value. Nowadays, there is a certain amount of tin needed by our Tang Dynasty every year, right?

If the news of our discovery of a huge tin ore on Sumen Island came back to Datang, will the price of tin directly fall to the bottom? The value of our tin ore will invisibly lower."

Xiao Huashan’s concern cannot be said to be unreasonable.

However, Lai Yuanhong obviously doesn't think so.

"Shopkeeper Xiao," although the truth is what you said, tin cannot be used on a large scale in our Tang Dynasty. The most important thing is not because it has no use value, but because its price does not have much advantage and its output is relatively low, so no one uses tin on a large scale to make some things.

But once we start smelting tin ore on Sumen Island, we can provide tin on the market every year, it will be an astronomical figure.

At the beginning, although the price of tin will drop, but in the entire Tang Dynasty, more than 90% of tin is in the hands of our Ping An Trade, our price is decided by us.

Although we can't let its price rise and fall casually, there is no problem to keep its price at a high level that is closer to the present, and others can't say anything that is not coming."

Although Lai Yuanhong studied prospecting technology, he spent three years at Guanshishan Academy and his various insights also increased.

"Brother Xiao, I think what Lai Langjun said makes sense. The tin on the market is basically provided by us. So isn't it our final decision?

As for the Tang Dynasty's demand for tin, I think with the strength of our Cui family and Xiao family, this trend can be guided.

For example, we can use tin to make chopsticks and plates, or use tin to paint on the vessels, or even use tin to make jewelry. Anyway, as long as we have tin in our hands, are we still afraid that we won’t find any use?”

Cui Jian had not received news that the price of tin in Chang'an City was rising, and the iron smelting workshop of the King of Chu's mansion began to produce tinplate tinplate.

Otherwise, the two of them would probably be excited to start discussing how to mine the tin mine on Suman Island as quickly as possible.

No need to worry about the size of this tin mine?

"Okay, no matter what, our Ping An Trade has found a treasure. We can search for the expedition team now and focus our manpower on Suma Island."

Xiao Huashan no longer had so much trouble and began to discuss the specific things about the next step with Cui Jian.

"Although we have bought this piece of land, it is difficult to guarantee that other businesses who have heard the news will not buy land near our tin mines and will compete with us for resources at that time.

So the most urgent thing is that we now organize general guards to go to the mining area and surround the land we bought with some signs."

With the energy of the Cui family and the Xiao family, the power that dares to rob their things openly should not be found.

But it is entirely possible to get a bargain next to you.

Anyway, there is no Tang Dynasty power on Sumen Island now. Could it be that only you safe traders can go up to such a large island?

How can this be true?

"Well, let's divide the labor, let's make arrangements now."

...

In the Nanyang area, it is not only Ping An Trade who is looking for unknown minerals, but the expeditions at other noble families are also working hard.

Just when Xiao Huashan and Cui Jian were busy mining the tin mine, they bought a thousand acres of land at a low price on an island next to Puluo. Wang Dali and Anan, who were preparing to plant rubber trees, were now stunned and staring at the fields that had just been burned by the fire.

Although the trees above have been burned out by the fire, the fire is even more vigorous at the end of the field.

"Da Li, what's going on?"

Anan stood there in surprise, a little at a loss.

Could it be that the land god was angry because his methods of reclaiming land were too rough?

Otherwise, the trees on the ground had been burned, why had the fire not been extinguished yet?

"It doesn't matter. Although this island is close to Puluo, it does not have the living points of our Tang people, and even the shadow of the natives cannot be found.
To be continued...