There are indeed a large number of minerals in Southeast Asia, but Zhang Yu doesn't know the specific location, so they can only find it themselves.

In fact, not only the southeast region, but also the land of China is rich in minerals, there is definitely a large amount of gold, silver, copper and iron, but Zhang Yu does not know where it is distributed, and most of them have not been mined in this era.

So Zhang Yu aimed overseas.

Through Zhao Hai's introduction, these minerals are probably in Indonesia and other places in later generations.

"My lord, when we arrived, we found that it was very easy to mine, some of us went to explore the surrounding environment, some of us went there to overhaul the ship, and some of it was mined, and this time we brought back a boatload of minerals." Zhao Hai said again.

"Okay, you did a great job, all the crew should be rewarded, I will let Zhang Zhao do it later, and your credit will be recorded, and if there is an opportunity in the future, you will be given a knight." Zhang Yu promised.

Their merits are great, enough to be knighted, but Zhang Yu does not have this power for the time being.

Zhao Hai was very moved, he didn't expect that he could have such treatment as a shipwright here.

Zhang Yu finally sent Zhao Hai to the door in person, which made Zhao Hai extremely moved, and he felt that he was dying for his confidant.

In fact, Zhang Yu does attach great importance to them, and the treatment is very high.

The great discovery in Southeast Asia, Zhang Yu has opened many routes there, and opened some counties.

It's just that most of these require Zhang Yu's continuous investment, and now that the mineral deposits have been discovered, Zhang Yu does not have to continue to invest, and there is a return.

Zhang Yu asked Zhang Zhao to ask for a detailed chart, and then organized a huge fleet, and took thousands of people to go there in the early stage, preparing to open up a county town there, establish a stronghold, and then extract ore in a steady stream.

In the Northeast, Zhang Yu asked Gu Yong to mobilize tens of thousands of people to find ores, and after tens of thousands of people pulled the net to search, they also found many mines.

Most of them are iron ore and coal mines, which are also very important, and there are also copper mines, silver mines and gold mines, but there are not many of them.

Zhang Yu has now hoarded some ore and started smelting coins, and it won't be long before he can use the coins he minted, and then the money shortage can be alleviated.

When Zhang Yu was making these plans, Mi Zhu came.

"Another God of Wealth is here." For Mi Zhu's arrival, Zhang Yu is very welcome.

In fact, Mi Zhu has been here for a few days, but he didn't come to find Zhang Yu.

He had learned about Huiji County through his subordinates before, and after understanding it, Mi Zhu was taken aback.

When did the Koto region become so developed?

Mi Zhu even thought that his subordinates had deceived him, so he went on this envoy and came in person.

When he inspected the Koto area for a few days, he was completely convinced.

The Koto region is indeed very wealthy.

Mi Zhu is a man of vision, and he has personally visited many places.

He observed the docks for a day, and the merchant ships were very dense, and a large number of products were being loaded and shipped out, and several docks were like this, and there were thousands of people busy at one dock.

After looking at the wharf, Mi Zhu went to see the agriculture that was most important.

The Mi family's most important business is agriculture, so he attaches great importance to agriculture.

When he finished inspecting Jiangdong's agriculture, he was even more shocked.

The water system here is well developed, and there are patches of farmland.

The mountain is also full of tea plantations.

And he found that the peasants were very wealthy, their families had land, and most importantly, they had farm tools, and many people in other places were poor and did not have farm tools, so their production efficiency was low.

There are many canals in the fields, and there are waterwheels to irrigate, and what shocked Mi Zhu was that there was usually a ploughing cow in a few households.

Not to mention the importance of ploughing cattle, a ploughing ox is more valuable than several people.

All this shocked Mi Zhu very much.

Obviously, Mi Zhu's shock is not all.

He finally knew that Zhang Yu dared to be the enemy of all the families.

Zhang Yu's own talent training system is very perfect.

Of course, this is a serious perfection in Mi Zhu, but it is still far from in Zhang Yu's eyes.

At present, some counties with large populations will have an academy, and the academy can allow hundreds of people to study.

These are beginner and intermediate academies, and the students are relatively young.

There may be tens of thousands of people in a county, and only a few hundred people are studying, and apparently the proportion of people receiving education is very small.

There are only two colleges of higher learning, one in the north and one in the south.

Those trained by colleges and universities can be directly assigned to various places to become officials, but only three or four hundred people graduate every year.

Although the number of people is increasing, there is still some lack of expansion of Zhang Yu's power.

After Mi Zhu's inspection, he was completely optimistic about Zhang Yu.

He suddenly felt that Zhang Yu was the one with the greatest potential.

What a rational choice it was to marry my sister to Zhang Yu in the first place.

Of course, there are other things that shocked Mi Zhu, such as the prosperity of the city.

The city may not be very large, but the economic prosperity inside the city is unimaginable elsewhere.

There are many kinds of markets in the city, and when the people have money, they naturally want to consume, and there are all kinds of shops and vendors.

And Zhang Yu's tax revenue is very large, and it also comes from the shops and markets here.

Zhang Yuding's tax is not high, but he can't stand a large number, so he has a lot of income every month.

Those traders were also willing to pay taxes, because the tax rate was not high, and they could also be protected by Zhang Yu.

In other words, in the Jiangdong area, public security is very good, there are no bandits in the territory at all, and there are few crimes.

Everywhere else there are bandits, and it takes a lot of people to transport some goods, which is a huge cost.

And in the Jiangdong region, there is no need for guards to transport goods back and forth, and no one dares to rob here.

"If you invest in Jiangdong, you must invest in Jiangdong." After Mi Zhu finished his investigation, he decided to completely tie Zhang Yu's chariot.

"It is said that Zhang Yu has a lot of industries overseas, and he is completely invincible, and I have an in-law relationship with Zhang Yu, so I don't need to worry about coming to Jiangdong at all."

The reason why Mi Zhu wanted to come to Jiangdong was that Zhang Yu would not blackmail merchants at all, but the status of merchants was very high.

Elsewhere, businessmen are inferior, and those in power do whatever they want.

But here, Zhang Yu protects commerce.

A few days after the investigation, Mi Zhu went to see Zhang Yu.

"Haha, Brother Mi has come from afar, and he has worked hard all the way." Zhang Yu personally went to the gate to greet this eldest brother.

Mi Zhu did have a tired face, but his spirit was very excited.

"Brother Zhang, I came by order, and I don't dare to say that I am happy." Mi Zhu directly informed the intention.

Zhang Yu nodded and welcomed Mi Zhu in.

After entering, the two sat down, and Zhang Yu said directly: "It's not impossible for Tao Qian to ask me to quit the army, what sincerity did he let you bring here?" ”

Mi Zhu smiled bitterly, Zhang Yu was still like that, there was no etiquette at all, there was no politeness, and he negotiated directly.

(End of chapter)