Chapter 751 I still have to thank him
Leaving aside food, drink and other things that focus on people’s livelihood, what are the things that are very important to the development of civilization? That must be ore!
But for this ore, Zhou Xu did not need to go from city to city to confirm it. He just summoned Zhang Xuemei and asked her to report it.
His own knowledge of ores is very limited. If he were asked to look at it, he probably wouldn't be able to see anything.
In comparison, Zhang Xuemei has sufficient professional knowledge.
At the same time, before this, Zhang Xuemei was responsible for all the ore-related work here, and she was considered the overall person in charge of this entire work.
"I see you, Your Majesty!"
As always, before Zhang Xuemei entered the door, Zhou Xu opened the 'Peeping Eyes' to confirm.
This time, the other party did not have any more mantras, and at the same time, the loyalty level increased by two points compared to the beginning, reaching sixty-three points.
This is within Zhou Xu's expectation. After all, we are modern people. Most of them are egoists. They put themselves first, and it is difficult to have high loyalty to anyone.
However, Zhou Xu didn't care too much. Zhang Xuemei's job, to put it bluntly, was to explore geology, find mineral veins, and identify ores, and there was no requirement for loyalty.
"I called you in this time mainly because I want to know the specific conditions such as the types and quantities of mineral veins in this land."
Without Moji, Zhou Xu went straight to the point. stated his purpose.
After hearing this, Zhang Xuemei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly reported.
I don’t know if it’s due to the geographical environment, but the number of mineral veins here is quite considerable.
According to Zhang Xuemei's report, there are a total of two coal mines, three iron mines, two copper mines, one gold mine, two silver mines, four salt mines, and one lead and zinc mine.
This is only the main mineral vein. You must know that these mineral veins also have associated minerals and produce various other ores. Zhou Xu, who has not done much research on this area, felt his head hurt.
For now, the number of minerals discovered here far exceeds that of their old continent.
Of course, this should be largely thanks to the existence of Zhang Xuemei, a professional.
To put it simply, in the Old Continent, aside from those particularly conspicuous mineral veins, they don’t know that other mineral veins exist underground or in mountains.
It’s impossible to dig when you see a piece of land, right? Have you dug it out before replacing it with another piece?
This approach is unrealistic.
"In other words, all the mineral veins here have been discovered?"
Faced with this question, Zhang Xuemei shook his head.
“Although I am engaged in geological exploration, if you want to find deep mineral veins, you also need some professional equipment. In this era, there is no way to do it. Now the most I can do is to find some relatively superficial mineral veins. .”
This answer was not beyond Zhou Xu's expectations.
The convenience of modern society is that there are many convenient devices that simplify many things.
This has also led to many professions, and even many people have lost most of them without these things.
But Zhou Xu is a person who knows how to be content. You know, when he faced the ore before, he basically turned a blind eye and ignored a few that were particularly easy to recognize. He didn't know anything else.
But now, after all, there is Zhang Xuemei who has relevant knowledge and professional abilities, which is much better than before.
Zhou Xu was also unambiguous after that, and soon told Zhang Xuemei about his plan to transfer the other party to the interior of Dazhou to explore the geology and confirm the mineral veins.
When Zhang Xuemei heard this, she immediately agreed and said there was no problem.
Loyalty is low, but she is not a fool and knows who has the final say now. Nowadays, whether it is Liu Jiefang or Zhang Xuemei, both of them actually have a typical working-class mentality.
According to their ideas, who is working for and not working for? Anyway, as long as the wages and benefits continue to be paid, it will be fine.
In comparison, Liu Jiefang is more open-minded.
Before time travel, domesticating homing pigeons was one of his hobbies, and he was an enthusiast who was deeply involved in the game.
In the past, when I was playing, I had to consider the pressure of life and family, but now it’s better. Now he is happily raising pigeons every day, making money, and living a happy life. The mentality will naturally be much better.
From this point of view, he and Ma Guotao are also very similar.
But Zhang Xuemei is different. She may have talent for geological exploration, but this is definitely not her hobby. In addition, she is very thoughtful, so her mentality is naturally not good.
Zhang Xuemei is undoubtedly a talent, and Zhou Xu still hopes that she will work for him honestly.
With this mentality, although Zhou Xu doesn't know how to enlighten her, he can provide her with better treatment and rewards.
For example, every time a new vein or ore is discovered, she can be given a bonus. At the same time, when the work comes to an end, she can also be given a month-long vacation.
A month long vacation? In this era, that is unimaginable. Even Zhou Xu himself is always spinning, never giving himself a few days off throughout the year.
Zhang Xuemei is getting a bonus and a long vacation. Let’s not talk about whether her life is better than in modern times. At least it sounds good, right?
Facts have proved that the effect is still somewhat effective. By capturing micro-expressions, Zhou Xu can feel that Zhang Xuemei is happy, and her loyalty has also increased a bit, which is a good sign.
After taking over the task, Zhang Xuemei went back and packed her things briefly, then took the members of her geological exploration team and set off quickly.
During this period, new coins minted by the mint were also continuously sent over.
With the increase in the amount of new currency reserves on hand, the comprehensive replacement of the currency here has also officially begun.
Each city has a person in charge of this work, and the person in charge of Xianyang City is naturally Li Bowen, the current minister of the administrative department.
Although the work of changing the currency has only officially started now.
But the preliminary work has actually started long ago.
The previous famine paralyzed various cities and displaced most of the people here.
Zhou Xu took advantage of the famine to provide relief to the victims and advocate for immigrants to arrange work. At the same time, he conveniently gathered all the private industries in the city into his own hands, and then provided jobs to new immigrants.
Li Bowen admired this method in his heart. Compared with this king, their previous methods were too naive.
Their king took away all the private property in the city. Looking back, the people had to thank him.
Getting back to the topic, the common people have all become his wage earners, and he naturally has to pay them wages.
And the wages paid out are exactly the newly minted copper coins.
Under the circumstances at that time, it would definitely not be enough to exchange all the currencies at once, but it would still be no problem to pay some wages month by month.
In other words, new currency has long entered people's lives, forming a state of coexistence of old and new currencies.
Compared with replacing them all as soon as they come up, this operation process is undoubtedly more acceptable to the people.
(End of this chapter)