Chapter 761: Tang Tribe's Resources (Part 1)

After the banquet, when all the guests had left, Luo Chong immediately ordered Dashu to organize a group of geological exploration teams to be sent to the Tang Tribe. There was no clear number yet on how many markets, grain stations, banks, and factories these things would be built for the Tang Tribe and where they would be built. All of this had to be done before the division of counties in the Tang Tribe could be completed, so that Luo Chong would have a clear picture of the territory of the Tang Tribe.

Fortunately, these had been supported by the clan leaders of the Tang Tribe. They would send capable people to lead the exploration team of the Han Tribe. After all, the things to be built were also built for them, so these clan leaders were very concerned, and some even hoped to make their territory larger and divide it into several more counties, so that they could get more assistance.

Such a scene made the exploration personnel of the Han Tribe laugh and cry. Finally, when they stated that they were only responsible for land measurement and that only the chief could decide on administrative division, these clan leaders gave up the plan to bribe the exploration team and secretly made up their minds that when Luo Chong divided the counties, they must go to a meeting to discuss it.

Apart from anything else, if we can have another delicious meal, it will be worth the trip.

The food of the Han tribe is really delicious!!!

With the joint efforts of more than 30 exploration teams composed of military scouts, resource exploration, and sea chart surveying personnel, and the active cooperation of the Tang tribe, Luo Chong finally got a rough map of the Tang tribe's territory and its surrounding areas a week later.

The key targets of this reconnaissance are the freshwater system, land resources, and forest resources in the Tang tribe's territory. With these, there is a basis for survival, and the three necessities of life, water, food, and firewood, are all available.

The second is special resources, such as wood, minerals, wild animals and plants, etc., among which metal minerals are the most important.

The Tang tribe has its own ability to smelt iron, which Luo Chong has known for a long time. However, according to what Dashu has learned from the local natives in the past six months, the iron smelting technology of the Tang tribe is still at the primitive block smelting method, that is, in the process of refining iron from ore to single element, the iron has never melted, and has always remained a red-hot solid from beginning to end.

This shows that the Tang tribe still has no ability to melt iron metal. Without liquid iron, there is no casting.

But none of this is important. The key is that Luo Chong wants them to find out the distribution of iron ore in this area.

A week later, the people of the Tang tribe came to the large conference room of the Takumi County government office again. On the conference table in the middle, there was a large map and densely packed stone specimens, as well as a thick stack of documents describing plants. These things required Luo Chong to personally identify and confirm their uses.

The first thing to see was of course the pile of different stones, with dozens of different sizes. However, Luo Chong found a lot of the same ores at a glance, that is, there were many duplicates here, and there were not so many varieties.

The most important thing was of course the iron ore. Luo Chong first picked up the reddish-brown stone and looked at it.

"Han leader, this is the red stone we use to burn iron. I heard from your people that the Han tribe calls this iron ore."

Luo Chong nodded and said, "Yes, anything that can be used to refine iron can be called iron ore, but there are many different types of iron ore, not all of them are the same. The one in our Han tribe is different from this one. Yours is called hematite."

At this point, Luo Chong asked the big tree next to him, "Have you done any tests? How is the quality?"

Da Shu nodded, flipped open a document in his hand and said, "These stones have been tested. The iron content of hematite is about 60% to 65%, which is lower than our magnetite, but still acceptable. In addition, we have found a lot of pyrite, which has a very low iron content but is suitable for refining sulfuric acid. We have marked the origin on the map.

These two white calcium ores have also been calcined. One is limestone and the other is gypsum, which are distributed between the iron ore area and the seaside.

There is also a silver metal mineral. After calcination experiments, it was found that the melting point is very low and it is very large. It may be tin ore, which is very soft.

Others include quartz for making glass. Oh, by the way, the sand here is also very clean, so it should be used to make glass.

There are also several types of building materials. The most common ones are granite, basalt, and bluestone, and the reserves are very large.

There are also several types of gemstone minerals. The most common one is pure white stone, which has a reserve no less than basalt and grows together with quartz. We don’t know the remaining ones. The Tang tribe calls them seven-color stones and green water stones. "

Da Shu was flipping through the experimental analysis report in his hand while introducing the stones on the table to everyone.

Tang Ji and a group of clan leaders were confused when they heard it. They had no idea what Da Shu had just said, and Luo Chong just nodded in understanding, and then checked the stones they didn't know.

What is this green water stone? According to Luo Chong's amateur jewelry appreciation experience in his previous life, he judged that it should be jadeite, that is, a stone like jade. He couldn't say what kind of jade it was.

The remaining seven-color stone is a natural gem that is light yellow, pure transparent, and has colorful glass reflections.

Luo Chong recognized this one, because there are only a few kinds of stones that can change color by themselves in nature, and the one in front of him happened to be a metal mineral, that is, diaspore, a mineral for refining aluminum metal.

Unfortunately, aluminum metal cannot be refined by melting, but can only be refined by electrolysis. He had no choice. The Han tribe did not have the technology to upgrade to the electrical age, so Luo Chong was not very interested in this gemstone, even though it was dozens of times more expensive than diamonds in the previous life.

The last kind, white, large in quantity, soft in texture, but harder than lime, he also recognized this thing, the same material as the two stone lions at the school gate. If I am not mistaken, it should be marble, also called white marble, which is a building material for stone carving, and can be used when building the imperial palace. He

looked at all the ores, but there were no copper mines and precious metals, which made him feel very sorry. He originally wanted to mine currency metals near the capital, but unfortunately there was no silver and copper here. Fortunately, Zhudao was rich in copper mines, the distance was not far, and shipping was very convenient, which was acceptable.

After the mineral resources were sorted out, the next thing to look at was the pile of plant identification reports, and some collected plant specimens. As Luo Chong flipped through them, Tang Yao came over to introduce them to him. It was obvious that no one knew more about plants than she did.

(End of this chapter)