Cheng Yaojin picked up a piece of dog-headed gold and showed it to Li Chao, "I found it in the Qingnipu warehouse, it is at least ten kilograms. My god, such a big piece of dog-headed gold, there must be a gold mine nearby."

Li Chao took it, and the gold head was very heavy, and the gold nuggets looked good in purity. It was the first time Li Chao saw a natural gold nugget weighing at least ten kilograms.

“There is still in the warehouse?”

"Yes, many of them. It is said that the Lord of Qingnipu City and the merchants of Beisha City were traded. They used the goods brought by our Tang Ship. Every time the merchants of Beisha City would trade with gold. There were both refined gold ingots, such natural dog-headed gold, and sand gold." Cheng Yaojin said with a smile.

Anyone with some common sense should know that if you can find gold in dog heads, there must be gold mines nearby, and most of them are shallow gold mines, and maybe the purity is very high. If there is still gold sand nearby, then it is certain that there is a large gold mine nearby.

Since the gold was sent by merchants in Beisha City, the gold mine must be near Beisha City.

Li Chao recalled the gold mines in Liaodong in his mind, but he didn't expect anything. In his memory, the place where there were a lot of gold mines in mainland China later was probably the Shandong Peninsula, where there were many gold mines. Even nearby seas had huge reserves of gold mines.

But thinking about it, it is now the Tang Dynasty, and it is not uncommon for Dalian to discover gold mines.

Beisha City, which was called Jinzhou in later generations.

Even the nearby bays are called Jinzhou Bay.

Jinzhou, Jinzhou Bay, and with the current gold, it seems that there is a huge possibility of a large gold mine here.

"It's a pity that even if there is a gold mine, that gold mine is near Beisha City. We will definitely not get it now." A gold mine with rich reserves and even very shallow burial must be extremely valuable. Even if the Tang Dynasty has paper money, gold, silver and copper are still hard currency.

The price of gold remains high, and Li Ji can make extremely high profits by minting gold coins.

If you can have a big gold mine, you will make more money.

"Why do you think there is no response in Beisha City?"

Li Chao's fleet has been taking Qingnipu for three days. In these three days, the fleet has scattered out, and each team scattered across the countryside, attacking villages and breaking towns everywhere, and sweeping away everywhere.

All people are captured without leaving, and the elderly and children are equally valuable.

Not to mention money, grain, etc., even after the fleet robs, they can still use waste, and sell the remaining villages to the caravans waiting behind them at a cheap price.

Those caravans followed the fleet like carrots eating carrots.

The fleet took away all the most valuable things, and they gave them the rest. They bought them cheaply, and then organized people to take away all the valuables, such as furniture, crops in the fields, and even wooden beams in houses, etc., which were not wasted at all.

Anyway, it is close to the sea, so you can definitely make a little profit by simply packing the ship and transporting it back to Dengzhou.

"I believe they should have known the news, but they certainly don't know the very specific news. They might mistakenly think that we are the army of the court, so they guard Beisha City and dare not leave."

Cheng Yaojin guessed.

"I think this is also possible." Li Chao put down the heavy dog-headed gold, "We are still preparing to have an ambush. It seems that we are throwing our charming eyes to the blind man. Forget it, since they don't come out, then we will go to the next stop, pass the order, and call everyone back, and we are ready to withdraw."

Next stop, Shiren Wang.

The stone man Wang is roughly in Zhuanghe in later generations.

At this time, Pu, Jin, and Wang all mean a harbor. Shirenwang is a good port. In the past, when the routes to Goguryeo left Qingnipu, most of them would stop at Shirenwang.

However, before going to Shirenwang, Li Chao planned to scan the islands on the sea near Liaoning.

He can't occupy Dalian yet, but it's okay to occupy a few islands. The Goguryeo's ships cannot compete with them on the sea.

Occupying these islands makes it more convenient for them to rob. It means that there are advance bases outside the Liaodong Peninsula. You can attack and retreat or defend. If you rob something, you can also send it to the island to save it first and transport it back slowly.

There are eighteen islands that can be inhabited in the Changshan Islands east of Great Liao, and more than two hundred islands that cannot be inhabited.

In the west of the Great Liao Dynasty, Changxing Island is a huge island. It is a large island with a total area of ​​nearly 400,000 acres.

This island is very close to the opposite continent, but the not-so-wide sea surface is only 200 steps wide, but it just happens to be a natural barrier.

After occupying the island, it is very easy to defend but difficult to attack.

It is sixty miles from east to west and twenty miles from north to south. What an island is so big. There are many lands suitable for farming on this island, and it is also suitable for building shipyards.

"It's better to capture these islands first. Your Majesty will give the entire southern Liao to your Li family. Since Lushun cannot be attacked for the time being, it's better to take back these islands first."

The emperor's previous edict did not specify the ownership of these islands.

But according to convention, these islands on the coast should naturally be attached to the land on the other side. Therefore, although Changxing Island, Changshan Island, etc. are not small, no one will take these islands seriously.

Li Chao regards these islands as the fiefs of the Li family, and no one will say no.

"I always feel that you brought everyone to rob. It sounds so nice. In fact, it is all for everyone to help you recover these fiefs from the Li family on the Bashang. Even if the land on the shore cannot be taken back first, you will at least take these islands."

"I feel like you're using it as a gun."

Li Chao directly ignored Lao Cheng's complaints.

"Don't say you haven't had a good time recently, so you snatched Qingniura and Ishimatsu, but we have gained a lot, right? You have also divided the population of 5,000 in the past and after, and there are so many money and food. Don't be unsatisfied, others don't know how much envy you. Look, how many people want to follow our fleet."

Old Cheng smiled, "I'm just talking."

After laughing, he said seriously, "I followed the news from Beijing. I heard that you have made another new method for Ma Zhou, and you can just spread the diary into the acre. I said, are you stupid? Why do you do this new method? Then renting mediocre, what are the benefits of us? "

Lao Cheng knew very well that he was a new military scholar or a real nobleman, and of course he was also a big landlord. This is a big landlord who made a living by the acres, but it was even more powerful than the two tax laws, and he had to pay more taxes. This is equivalent to the people's taxes and services in the past, and now they paid most of them.

What he couldn't understand was that Li Chao was a bigger landlord than him, so why did Li Chao do such a thankless thing?
Chapter completed!