For more than ten days, Chen Daojian spent every day at a banquet. This young scholar has never drunk a drop of wine since he was a child. His family is poor and intelligent since childhood. He knows what he can do and what he should not do.

Wine will only make people's minds bulge. When reading, it will be harmful but not beneficial.

After arriving at the Nan'an Marquis Mansion, there was no need to study hard every day. There were occasional cocktail parties for the Marquis Mansion. Xu Zixian, the Marquis of Nan'an, was the prince at that time. Occasionally, he would convene officials and generals to have a dinner party and drink a few drinks during the meal.

The Japanese seem to have a completely different atmosphere here. The old and old families in the Danei family and the samurai have usually shaved their scalps, but they have strange buns, simple robes, and knives every day, with a cold and old-fashioned look on their faces.

But they have to go to the restaurant to drink every night, and everyone has to get drunk, otherwise there will be no talk, including merchants.

The Japanese people lacked food, only various seafood.

In this era, these things were not very good. The sales of Japanese sea goods in Dawei were quite limited, so many merchants had to stipulate that merchants from Dawei who came to trade had to carry a certain amount of sea goods to leave before they could trade, otherwise they would be banned.

With this method, the Japanese can only sell their dried seafood every year. Otherwise, in this day, many inland people have no understanding of seafood and no desire. The sea is vast and there is no industrial salvage means and equipment. The fish in the sea are extremely rich. Ordinary fishermen can return with a full load while riding small wooden boats. Why do you need to spend money to buy Japanese seafood?

Due to various complex psychology, the Japanese became quite enthusiastic after confirming the cooperative relationship. Chen Daojian went out every night and then came back drunk.

Fortunately, these days are almost over.

After meeting with Muromachi's representatives, the other party vaguely expressed his determination to fight against the sky. Then Morita Ouchi made an appointment. The Japanese Daming and the Great Wei Junhou officially agreed to the agreement for the alliance, which was very specific this time.

If Pu Xingfeng comes to attack, whether it is attacking the Dongfan or Feiqianzhuan, the Danei family and the Nan'an Marquis Mansion are obliged to send troops to the allies and help each other.

Pu Xingfeng is the enemy, and the covenant of the Dawen family is also very clever.

If Kang Tianqi wants to attack the Eastern Vanguard, it has nothing to do with the Japanese, and of course the Japanese will not help.

In addition, conflicts, disputes, and even wars between Liu Dan, Yan Qi and the Dongfan were not within the scope of help from the Japanese.

Chen Daojian didn't quite understand that it was actually a simple matter, but the Japanese people were hesitant and spoke in a twists and turns, but they just refused to speak out directly.

It seemed that it would be embarrassing to say such things directly. Later, after Chen Daojian and others expressed their feelings, the Japanese showed relief, as if a huge embarrassing thing had been solved by Chen Daojian.

Later in the negotiations, big merchants from all over the country rushed over, including cotton cloth, raw silk, tea, sugar, and other items. The Japanese were very interested in them.

They also hope to obtain more iron tools from the Great Wei Dynasty. The Japanese islands lack iron, and their armor was seriously insufficient. Many soldiers and even samurai wore bamboo hats, bamboo armor or leather armor. Only a few high-ranking warriors and daimyos were wearing various colors, painted with tail feathers or horns, and looked ferocious... In Chen Daojian's view, it was nothing more than adding some terrifying atmosphere, and the protection ability of the Japanese armor was really limited.

Recently, the iron tools produced on Fujian Road have significantly reduced the quota. Chen Daojian could only tell the other party tactfully that he could not help this matter for the time being. Dongfan himself has also begun to lack iron tools and has to buy them from afar. The production and sales of Fujian iron have been in a considerable situation.

The pig iron production in the Great Wei Dynasty was at its peak during the Xuanzong reign, about 90 million kilograms. This output was enough in that year, but now the population of the Great Wei Dynasty has increased by at least three to five times compared with the Xuanzong reign, and the pig iron production has decreased compared with the Xuanzong reign.

Japan is also seriously short of iron, even daily objects.

The iron pots, pots, shovels, cups and fine iron in the Wei Dynasty are very popular. Japan is also a bitter and cold place. It is very popular to start a stove in the room and boil water to keep warm.

Including Luzon, Siam, Cham, and Zhenla, countries also have serious shortage of iron tools.

The fine iron utensils of the Great Wei Dynasty, like raw silk, porcelain, tea and cotton, are quite popular among all countries. In order to obtain these utensils, all countries are willing to trade hot goods such as gold, silver and spices.

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Under the lights, Chen Daojian unfolded the letter paper and began to write a letter. Recently, a Zhejiang merchant ship was about to return to Mingzhou and passed through Dongfan or Penghu. Chen Daojian asked someone to withdraw some stakes of money to the ship owner and asked the owner of the merchant ship to bring his letter to Dongfan. Someone would accept it and send it directly to the Nan'an Marquis Mansion and hand it over to the Junhou Xu Zixian.

Chen Daojian felt that Dongfan had made up his mind to start a good cotton cloth business, as well as sugar, tea, and raw silk. These businesses were the most popular businesses overseas.

But sugar, tea, and raw silk are all invincible, and will not form a monopoly position like cotton cloth.

It is very likely that fine iron will become a business similar to cotton cloth. Dongfan can form a monopoly pattern, because the iron industry in Jianzhou is almost destroyed, and Tingzhou's output is insufficient to meet the needs of the local Wei Dynasty, let alone export trade.

Chen Daojian believed that this was a good deal, and in advance, the Dongfan could make iron-making as Junhou imagined, as the blast furnace was considered by him.

According to Xu Zixian, he was able to erect a blast furnace by himself and could produce high-quality fine iron with coal.

The craftsmanship in Dongfan has set up an exploration team and is going to explore the central and northern parts.

Under the light, Chen Daojian slowly finished writing and sealed his mouth. He let out a long sigh and felt a little relaxed inside.

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"Two consecutive training sessions were all along the coast and mountains." Fu Qian said to Xu Zixian in the meeting hall of the other courtyard: "For the second and third times, we sent exploration personnel, and we are also old miners in Jianzhou. They are all old prospecting experts. They have been prospecting for generations, and the mining industry on Fujian Road is developed, and there are not many people in this category."

Xu Ziyi nodded and said, "The weather is very hot, there are many mosquitoes and poisonous snakes, and they have all worked hard."

"It's okay." Fu Qian participated in the third exploration and was really interested. He spread a relatively simple map and said in a deep voice: "In the west, north, and hilly landforms of Taipei, Junhou mentioned, we found a coal mine. The veins of the coal mine are shallow and easy to develop. If it is not deep, it means that coal will be produced. On the west, near the coast, there are two large iron ore veins, which are close to the shore, which are easy to mine, easy to mine, and easy to transport. The premise is that roads and ports must be built along the coast. The coal mine is farther away, and we discovered indigenous activities and hope to send some indigenous people to communicate. If it doesn't work, we can only use force."

It is already mid-June, and the army has been training several times in Taipei. The road of more than 300 miles has basically been opened. Several battles with the indigenous people in the mountains have occurred along the way. The scale is small and there are no casualties.

After arriving in Taipei, large-scale exploration personnel were dispatched for more than ten consecutive days. As far as Xu Zixian knew, there were veterans of exploration and exploration and exploration from Jianzhou, such as Zhang Fengguo, Lin Jiong, Chen Jigui.

Fujian iron not only uses wood, but also uses iron in small iron ore. After all, Fujian iron has been developing for more than a hundred years, and it is difficult to find large-scale wood resources that are easy to cut down in many places.

After Fu Qian and others successfully prospected, they had set up a station 260 miles north, and then the navy sent them to transport personnel and tools, and began to build a port on the beach.

At the same time, they began to build roads, extending to the north and east, and connecting them with exploration sites and mine veins.

The early preparations have been almost completed, and the rest is to really invest in the mine veins and recruit miners.

"It's not difficult to recruit miners." Fu Qian said: "Wang Yue has made people angry in Jianzhou. Now a large number of miners are unemployed. They are in a hurry to find a job. Most of them have no savings. If they delay further, many people will starve to death."

Fu Qian stood up and said, "The double-chamber method and coal refining method mentioned by Junhou, we must first make a blast furnace test, otherwise something will be easy. I plan to go to the north and erect a furnace first."

Xu Zi first planned to name the current Huaxi to Nan'anxi area Nan'an, from the north to the Taichung area in the later generations, Zhong'an, and Taoyuan, and the New Taipei area was called Bei'an.

The coal mine discovered is close to Taipei and close to the mountainous area. Both iron ore are in the areas from Taichung to Hsinchu, and are also two major iron ore areas in Taiwan in later generations.

Taiwan's coal reserves were once quite high. In later generations, coal storage gradually used up. There were more than 100 million tons, which was worth mentioning. Most of them were inferior bituminous coal, which was very different from brown anthracite.

The iron ore reserves are also quite average, only in the Hsinchu area of ​​Taichung, and there are iron ore in the Suao area of ​​Hualien area on the east side of the island.

At this time, we cannot go to the east of the island to develop. If there is a topographic map, it is easy to find that the central part of the island is full of mountains, and it is only smooth when it reaches Taipei. The remaining plain areas are mainly in Tainan to Taichung and Taipei.

A small number of plain areas on the east side of the island are concentrated in Suao and Hualien areas. The area is very narrow, almost the limited land near the sea.

Most of the cities in Taiwan in later generations were in the southwest and northern regions of the island, and only a few were in Taitung, which fully explained everything.

It is also very convenient to go from Fujian to Tainan along the ocean current and can be accepted by people.

Then he circled the island to the east, immigrated in narrow areas covered with mountains and seas. Faced with the harassment of indigenous people, tsunamis and typhoons, Xu Zixian didn't know how many people could persevere.

"You're going to do it very well." Xu Zixian said to Fu Qian: "This matter is very important."

Fu Qian clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, lord."

Fu Qian is thin, capable, full of vitality and confidence. He is very satisfied with his condition, and Xu Zixian is even more satisfied with this.

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