The pen moves the silver hook, and the ink draws the dragon and snake.

When the two words settled on the rice paper on the panel, all the emperors and princes in the main hall focused their eyes on these two words. They all frowned and fell into thinking.

Even if you are a scumbag, you still have to pretend.

And a top student like A Biao has a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"Brother Zhu, the word "immortal master" must have a profound meaning. I have never thought about this in depth before."

Li Er also stared at those two words and said aloud.

"hehe."

Lao Zhu smiled happily and glanced at Li Er.

"Xiao Tang, if you listen to my brother's classes with us more in the future, you will know how shallow you were in the past and how superficial your understanding of the world was."

"This is the difference between immortals and mortals."

After saying that, Lao Zhu also looked intently.

I saw the word "resources" written in large letters on this panel of rice paper.

"I understand, just like what the Immortal Master said before, the main reason why we want to conquer the Japanese islands and open up South America is not to include these two places in the territory, but for the sake of the Japanese islands and South America.

The silver mines are resources!”

"This is actually the same as the core of our silver expansion plan!"

Abiao's voice sounded.

As soon as these words came out, others became more or less enlightened.

Ji Boying turned around and looked back, placing the pen in his hand on the pen holder.

He glanced at A Biao first, and then glanced at the group of people on the seats.

"Abiao is right. The silver mines in Japan and South America are one of our target resources."

"In the process of our expansion to the two continents of Japan and South America, whether it is population or land, everything must be resourced. We must clearly calculate the costs and benefits, and we must not make a loss-making business."

"Especially for land, who can tell us now what the land acquired through expansion is mainly used for and what resources can be obtained from it."

One word comes out.

This group of emperors and princes who had just been scolded finally had a few brave people appear.

For example, Wuzong Zhu Houzhao stood up first.

"Returning to the Immortal Master, if the land is fertile, it will naturally be used for farming!"

"Producing more grain means a country is prosperous! As long as the grain produced in a land can supply the expenses and security needs of the local population, and can provide taxes for the court, then the land is not considered a loss."

Wu Zong finished his words.

Everyone else on the seats nodded along, especially Emperor Xuande, who was deeply touched.

The reason why he chose to give up Annan back then was because the income Annan brought to the court was far lower than the expenditure in Annan. In order to reduce costs and increase efficiency, he had no choice but to lay off the company.

"No other answer?"

Ji Boying frowned slightly.

Although Wu Zong's answer is indeed correct, in the current era of small-scale peasant economy, most of these people's understanding of land is still limited to the production of grain.

When there is food, there are soldiers, and when there are soldiers, there is a country.

This is a simple understanding of the prosperity of the country and the people in the era of small-scale peasant economy.

"You can still mine!"

At this moment, Old Wanli, whose eyes were swollen and squinting, shouted excitedly.

"I can make money by mining!"

'Snapped'.

Old Wanli just finished speaking.

The Jiajing Immortal raised his hand and slapped Old Wanli on the back of the head.

"You fat guy knows how to mine!"

"Did you earn that money from mining?!"

In the mid-to-late Wanli period, for more than twenty years, the eunuchs who were ordered to mine mines harmed countless common people in the world. Rather than the money earned from mining, it was more of the people's fat and oil squeezed out.

"Good answer."

Just as Old Wanli was being beaten, a piece of recognition from the Immortal Master instantly made Old Wanli's face light up. In his excitement, Old Wanli didn't know which muscle was cramping, and he subconsciously slapped Immortal Jiajing back.

"I just said, my answer is right! And you still hit me!"

Immortal Jiajing was stunned for a moment after being beaten.

then.

The counterattack was a straight uppercut, hitting Lao Wanli's chin accurately.

"What a bastard! It's too late for you!"

"Zhu Zaijing, beat him with me!"

Covering his mouth and nose with bleeding nose, Lao Wanli's eyes showed fear. In addition to fear, there was also impotent rage deep in his eyes.

He hates, he hates why he was born late.

If you want to be on the same level as this old Taoist priest who is as skinny as firewood, you will have to fight today, and you will have to be crushed to death with these 300 kilograms of meat!

The words fell.

Longqing Little Bee also rolled up his sleeves and was about to compete with his father in a mixed doubles match against his son.

"Quiet!"

Teaching assistant A Biao frowned upon seeing this and shouted loudly, maintaining classroom discipline.

At this time, Abiao seemed to have half the majesty of an immortal master in the class.

Following Ah Biao's loud shout, the slightly chaotic classroom suddenly became quiet again.

Ji Boying glanced at Old Wanli, and then looked at everyone.

"I can tell you clearly that all kinds of mineral resources in the world will be the primary target of competition in the next few hundred years. Which country can master these resources will have the right to speak in the world."

One word comes out.

Lao Zhu and Li Er both looked tense, as did Lao Zhu Di. They all valued international prestige.

‘Have the say in the entire world.’

The moment this sentence was spoken, everyone pricked up their ears to listen, for fear of missing a word.

"Of course, this is not limited to gold, silver, and copper mines, but also includes coal mines, iron ores, rare earth mines, uranium mines, oil, shale oil, natural gas, etc."

"According to the distribution of these mineral resources, mineral resources can be divided into three categories: terrestrial resources, marine resources, and extraterrestrial resources."

"According to the uses of these minerals, they can be divided into ten categories: energy minerals, ferrous metal minerals, non-ferrous metal minerals, rare metal minerals, precious metal minerals..."

While Ji Boying was carrying the book, his eyes swept under the podium at the same time.

At this moment, all the emperors and princes were listening in confusion, and many of them were immersed in taking notes.

It doesn’t matter whether you can understand these words or not, just write them down first and then talk about them.

"No need to remember, just listen carefully."

The immortal master finished speaking.

Xiyu, who had been prepared for a long time, came to each seat with a smile and handed out a piece of rice paper to each person. The contents of this rice paper were densely recorded with the names of various mineral resources.

These were all prepared by Ji Boying in advance.

As for the periodic table of elements, Ji Boying was not going to show it to these people because they couldn't understand it either. He would wait until the next training session of Tiangong Institute to show the periodic table of elements and other high school chemistry and physics knowledge.

We can't blame Ji Boying. His understanding of physics and chemistry is limited to high school, and the college entrance examination is the pinnacle.

"Master Immortal, I have a question."

at this time.

Emperor Xuande, who had just received the mineral classification list and carefully read the contents, frowned and asked.

"What are the uses of these mines?"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone else also looked at him.

This question asked by Emperor Xuande is also the biggest question in their minds now.

It's easy to say that gold, silver, copper and tin ores can be used directly as currency or decoration. Iron ore can be used to cast weapons, and coal mines can also be burned. I can still understand these.

But what can other mines be used for?

Oil? Natural gas? What are these?
To be continued...