"Please invite my brother Duan to live in the palace first, and then send someone to inform my sister-in-law. Don't let her worry at home. Just say that if I have something to do, I may have to live there for a while."

In the desperate gaze of Lao Duan, Prince Yang Xiaochunzi said.

Well, he has to catch a few more fish.

If Lao Duan was let go home, no one would take the bait as soon as the news spread.

Alas, it is not easy for Prince Yang to do now. It is absolutely impossible to throw away the iron crops you caught in Australia. In fact, the iron crops cannot be thrown anywhere, they can only stay in the country and slowly let them disappear. Once they are thrown outside to breed and live, they will create a mortal enemy country, so that they can only exile those ordinary criminals, but this is not very meaningful. After all, he cannot produce many criminals worth exiling in a year.

The way he designed colonization Australia was to use the Jinzhou colonization company as the core, some adventurous ordinary people as managers, exiled criminals as thugs, and then slaves as the main labor force. It would be better that they were all eunuchs. Anyway, it won't take many years, so the focus is still on mechanization.

It is easy to deal with criminals, just throw them over, anyway, those who commit crimes have no choice.

Whether it is easy to deal with slaves or buy them or catch them, there is no difficulty in any case.

But this management class is not easy to deal with. Nowadays, it is impossible for ordinary people to leave their hometowns and travel thousands of miles. At least the people of the Ming Dynasty, who are getting more and more prosperous, will not do so, so he has to use some means. Fortunately, such a thing is difficult at the beginning. As long as the gold mines in Melbourne are drawn out, it is attractive to gold. If the Jinzhou Tuolian Company has a jealous profit, there will naturally be more people joining the ranks of investors and joining the ranks of gold hunting in Jinzhou. After all, the temptation of gold is extremely huge.

It is estimated that in the current situation, he could catch dozens of people in this trap, and then he could gather a boat to send it over, and then station an army. One whistle is enough. There are hundreds of prisoners in the prison and let the fleet send it over. On the way, he caught a group of Nanyang slaves, went to Melbourne to build a castle, reclaim a piece of farmland and raise some livestock, and took some small gifts to coax the indigenous people to live in harmony. By the way, he would basically stabilize and have enough manpower to open a gold mine.

At that time, even if you turn against the natives, you would just kill them.

Colonization is not the same.

On the first day of the opening of the market of the Yingtian Stock Exchange in the Ming Dynasty, he raised a total of three million taels of silver for Prince Yang. The Warwick Steel alone absorbed 1.2 million taels of investment. This figure surprised the outside world. Moreover, the enthusiastic wealthy businessmen from all over the country were still coming, and even pure stock trading began to appear.

With sufficient financial support, the rest is simple.

"This doesn't work, it's too slow!"

Thirty miles northeast of Dangtu County, Prince Yang pointed at a huge construction site in front of him with a horse whip and said.

In the direction he pointed, tens of thousands of prisoners, even some women, were busy constantly. Among them, the supervisors holding whips were waving their whips from time to time, and they immediately screamed when they were slower. Unfortunately, many of these people were royal relatives, and now they had to be coolies but still had to live. The work they had to do now is to clean up the surface vegetation and soil covered with the upper layer of Ma'anshan Nanshan Iron Mine, and then continue to dig out the iron ore inside.

Digging until death.

Not only them, but another group of prisoners are building roads from here to the Yangtze River, and a wharf dedicated to transporting iron ore.

However, what they built was not an ordinary road, but a stone slightly higher than the ground to compact the roadbed. Sleepers were laying on the land base. Those unlucky iron-core crops were carrying heavy railway tracks to lay these sleepers. Of course, they built not real railways, but horse-drawn railways. The early British people always did this. As for trains and other things, I will talk about it later.

"Prince, these Tartars are too lazy. They are used to being old men and can't do anything at all!"

The mine manager next to Yang Feng complained.

"What are the whips in your hands for? If you don't obey, you will suck them, and if you don't obey, you will kill them. If you can save their lives, it is already considered a mercy outside. Now, those who make them eat full every day are here to be the masters? By the end of next month, iron ore must be transported out of here!"

Yang Feng said with a gloomy face.

"The decree of the subordinate!"

The mine manager quickly knelt down and said.

Yang Feng continued to stare at the construction site without saying a word.

This iron ore cannot really satisfy him, because the grade of this iron ore is very low and must be processed, that is, crushed and fined and then magnetic separation. The ore dressing plant is in Wujin, where the steel plant is located. Because the ore dressing machinery must use steam power, but the steam engine must use coal. Yang Feng currently only develops the Niutoushan Coal Mine, which is definitely not transported upstream. The main reason why he chose the Ma'anshan iron ore is that it is convenient to transport and can flow down the Yangtze River. Even a full-loaded merchant ship basically arrives at the station for 24 hours. The transportation problem can be completely ignored. Otherwise, if he goes to develop the Shilu Coal Mine, there is no need to be treated ore, but transportation alone can exhaust him to death.

He is also in a hurry now.

Now his steel gap is getting bigger and bigger. The Ming army relies on steel in wars. In fact, the output of Changguo was not enough at all. It was mainly due to him dragging it from Lin Qian's side one by one. But now he has no time to drag the steel ingots in Changguo. In fact, he has not met Lin Qian for more than half a year. If this continues, the steel will not be enough. So he must start the steel plant before the reserves are used up, otherwise he will have to run back to Changguo and become a porter himself.

Once the steel plant is put into production, the annual production capacity of 60,000 European tons is enough for any of his current needs. After the steel plant is completed, we will then build the Tangshan area. In addition to Changguo, the steel production capacity of Warwick Steel will reach 150,000 European tons, which is enough for him to build railways and ironclad ships.

"Little bastard, get out of here!"

Prince Yang was full of confidence there, but suddenly was awakened by the voice of the mine manager. When he lowered his head, he saw two dirty and ragged little men standing not far away, looking at him with a blank look.

"Don't scare the kids!"

Prince Yang scolded the mine manager with a stern face.

The guards who were about to go over and drag the two little men away immediately stopped. At this time, the two young women who were working were so scared that they ran over quickly, but were stopped by the guards. They hurriedly fell to the ground and kowtowed to beg for mercy at Prince Yang. It was obvious that they were the mothers of the two little men. Although their clothes were worn, they could not hide their charm. It was obvious that they were from a wealthy family, but they were too haggard. One of them was still looking at the mine manager with a gaze. It was obvious that there was a story between the two men.

"Kid, what are your name?"

Yang Feng asked amiablely, touching his little head.

"My name is Cao Yong."

The older one said.

"My name is Cao Fu."

The younger one said.

"Why are you here?"

Yang Feng asked with a smile.

This is simply nonsense. Why did he not appear here? If he hadn't, he would still enjoy Jia Baoyu's life in Jiangning Weaving Mansion.

"I, we are the Door of the House."

Cao Fu, the true author of the legendary Dream of Red Mansions, said.

"Do you know what the coating is?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Baoyi is the emperor's slave, who specializes in doing business for the emperor."

Cao Feng said proudly.

"No, Baoyi is the lowest untouchable, even worse than the hang prostitute, do you know? He belongs to the kind of person who is too low to be cheap, almost like a pig or dog. In fact, Baoyi cannot be considered a real person. You are Kang Mazi's livestock, and there is no difference between you and Kang Mazi's dog. Kang Mazi himself is already a villain, and Baoyi is of course even cheaper as a villain. It is the king who liberated you. Although you still need to atone for the sins committed by your ancestors, you are a dignified person. You don't have to be a slave to anyone, you can stand up your chest and be upright.

Although being a dog may eat better than this and dress better than this, dogs are dogs after all, and your personal dignity has been trampled on. Although I let you work here, your dignity is guaranteed. You are not the slave of whom, you are no longer the dog of whom, but a dignified person!"

Yang Feng said excitedly, clenching his fists.

Then he stood up and said to the mine manager: "It seems that the education issues of these children need to be cared about. You can find all the children of the Baoyi family in the mine and don't let them work with them. Anyway, they can't do the work, and don't live with their parents anymore. In the future, a special school will be built and the royal palace will allocate funds to you. Then the Ministry of Education will transfer a group of teachers. Although they are the children of criminals, the children of criminals also have the right to receive education!"

Well, it should be the power of baptism to be precise.

At that time, we will send them a group of special teachers to let them know what real history is, let them know how their ancestors became slaves of the Tartars, how the Tartars slaughtered them, deceived them, and trampled on their dignity in a random way. In short, they will only have hatred for the Tartars in their hearts. Although this is quite difficult, the matter is due to humans, especially those who are younger, who are still very easy to be successful.
Chapter completed!