Xu Xiake seemed extremely excited and looked at Guo Zhiyuan with a burning gaze and said, "Sir, Caomin has turned all over the Datun Mountains and found that there are very few iron ore veins here and they do not have the value of mining. If you want to find the urgently needed iron ore veins, you should go to the inland. Please ask Caomin to return to the inland as soon as possible. I will definitely find the iron ore veins for you!"

Guo Zhiyuan patted Xu Xiake's shoulder heavily and said movedly: "Brother Zhenzhi, thank you for your hard work. Let's take a few days off first. Wait for me to make some preparations and then send you back to the inland!..."

After seeing off Xu Xiake, Guo Zhiyuan started working in the study. He hand-drawn a simple map of China, and then began to think about what famous minerals in later generations had not been discovered and developed in this era. Fortunately, Guo Zhiyuan was a secretary before traveling through time and had a good memory. After fiddling for several days, he finally got this simple distribution map of China's minerals.

As soon as Xu Xiake got this simple map, his eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "This is the territory map of my Ming Dynasty?! It's so amazing. Master, you actually drew the territory map of my Ming Dynasty in such a short time?!" No wonder Xu Xiake was so excited. The Ming Dynasty had strict controls on population mobility. Many people never left the place where they were born in their lives. They didn't even know how big China was, let alone seeing the full version of the map of China.

Guo Zhiyuan waved his hand and smiled, "This is nothing. My dear brother has never seen the "Kunyu All Nations Map" drawn by Mr. Ricci, a great Westerner. It not only contains the territory map of my Ming Dynasty, but also all countries in the world have marked it on it. If you have the opportunity, I will find someone to copy it and give me a picture..."

Xu Xiake's eyes became brighter as soon as he heard this, and he said with a gloomy face: "If I could travel all over the world in my lifetime, I must draw a more accurate picture of all nations, and that would be worth my life!"

Guo Zhiyuan was infected by Xu Xiake's ambition and patted his shoulder heavily and said, "I have a chance! When China rises and is powerful, I will definitely let you lead a fleet to the world to envoy all countries and fulfill your dreams!"

Xu Xiake nodded excitedly. Only then did he notice the mineral distribution marking made on the map and said in greater surprise: "Sir, how do you know that there are mineral veins in these places?..."

Guo Zhiyuan touched his nose awkwardly, but it was hard to explain, so he had to pretend to be a charlatan and said, "I had a dream a few days ago. In the dream, I got guidance from the gods. There may be mineral veins in these places. Brother, please go and explore it, maybe you will get something from it..."

Xu Xiake did not worry about this problem anymore. His heart had already flown inland. He carefully put the map away and said with great fighting spirit: "With this picture, I will definitely live up to the entrustedness of the adults and find the mine veins for the adults!..."

The procurement channels between Dongbo and the inland have been opened, and Xu Xiake helped to find the mineral veins. The problem of Dongbo's resource limitation has been completely solved. Dongbo has also broken the bottleneck of development and entered a period of rapid development. Time flies. In the blink of an eye, Guo Zhiyuan has been in Dongbo for three years. In the past three years, Dongbo can really be described as rapid changes. The construction of the three new cities of Beigang, Keelung and Dasheng has been completed, and now it has begun to expand to the hinterland of Dongbo.

Guo Zhiyuan's immigration plan has also been completed. Now the new immigrants in Dongbo have reached 350,000, which is 50,000 more than Guo Zhiyuan's plan. This is because Guo Zhiyuan deliberately controlled the number of new immigrants in the later stage. He does not want the developing Dongbo to be dragged down by the population expansion.

The military factory has also formed a scale, and can now produce 1,000 flintlock rifles a year. As for the new plate armor, it has long been assembled with the entire army. The current Xinxin Army can be said to have been armed to the teeth. Although the specific combat effectiveness still needs to be tested in actual combat, the Xinxin Army, which has not been upgraded, can it defeat the Japanese pirate pirate coalition. Will the Xinxin Army's combat effectiveness be poor after the upgraded equipment?

There are more than 20 warships launched in the shipyard for trial sailing, including three giant warships of the Thousand Stone class. Although it is still a little far from Guo Zhiyuan's goal of building a naval fleet, Guo Zhiyuan is confident that even if he faces the Spanish Invincible Fleet with strong ships and powerful artillery, Dongfan will already have the power to fight!

With strong force as support, Dongbo's sea trade business is getting bigger and bigger. Now it has basically monopolized the sea trade business in the entire southeast coast. The sea merchants of the East China and India sea trade company who did not join Guo Zhiyuan in the southeast coast hated Guo Zhiyuan to the core, but in the face of Dongbo's powerful force, they could only break their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs. They have also tried to organize armed warships to disguise pirates to attack Guo Zhiyuan's fleet, but Guo Zhiyuan's fleet is equipped with escort ships. Their armed warships are not the opponents of escort ships equipped with side guns. Often, an escort ship can make them flee in panic!

Fortunately, Guo Zhiyuan did not do anything at all. He had to let others drink soup when drinking meat himself, so he did not forbid the maritime merchants who did not join his East China India Maritime Trade Company to do maritime trade business, but he had to abide by the rules he set, that is, the amount of goods in each trade cannot exceed the quota he set, and the selling price cannot be lower than the minimum price he sets. In this way, Guo Zhiyuan became the rulemaker, who can not only make the cake bigger, but also ensure that the largest piece of cake will always belong to him!

But in this way, the Spaniards and the Dutch who traded with them were unhappy. In the past, they could take advantage of the disagreement between the Ming Dynasty's maritime merchants to lower the trade price and maximize profits. But now Guo Zhiyuan has become the rulemaker, and the price has to be decided by him. Do you like to buy it or not?

The most hateful thing is that Guo Zhiyuan also likes to engage in "innovation". For example, tea that is very popular in the West was priced by weight in the past, but now it is not. Guo Zhiyuan asked the maritime merchants to package them uniformly, and instead use exquisite ceramic cans to sell them in cans. It is also called "canned tea, made by masters". The packaging is exquisite, but this thing is expensive. One pound of canned tea costs one tael of silver. In the past, one tael of silver could buy ten kilograms of bulk tea, which means that Guo Zhiyuan added a package and increased the trade price of tea by ten times!

And the "Laoganma hot sauce" that Guo Zhiyuan recently made is even more expensive. It costs five taels of silver for a jar. I just don't buy it if you sell it expensive, but Guo Zhiyuan is very terrible. When the "Laoganma hot sauce" first came out, he made a try-out package and put the hot sauce in a delicate purple clay jar. It doesn't cost money to give it for free. The Westerners originally saw that this mushy thing didn't catch a cold. Seeing that the packaging is so exquisite and free, let's try it. Who thought that this thing was addictive, the feeling of the taste bud explosion was so cool. Now, those Western nobles don't eat this thing for a meal and feel that nothing tastes tasteless. But when they buy it for Guo Zhiyuan, this thing turned into a can of five taels of silver. Do you like to buy it? Do you think it's arrogant or not!
Chapter completed!