The Western Army's victory in transit should have been a very important thing for Asia, but the Eastern Army Office, from top to bottom, did not stay in the county, from Chen Mu, Zhao Shizhen and Zou Yuanbiao.

The county is temporarily in charge of the permanent preparatory system composed of personal army general Du Song, infantry general Shao Bianjiao, cavalry general Hei Yunlong, chief commander Bai Tao, inspector Pei Xiao, and border guard system Fu Yuan, You Zheng Lin Manjue, and infantry Qianhu Lin Huer.

No matter which link in the middle, the Western Army had illegal actions, the more than 300 pieces of meat were used by the Western Army for this defense system.

It is wrong to say that the Western Army does not pay attention to the Western Army. Changsheng's army is far ten times more focused on them, and Zhu Xiaoen, the King of Ailan, who is ready to try the Western Army, is eyeing them too much.

But Chen Mu and the magistrate Zou Yuanbiao were not in Changsheng, and they seemed too contemptuous.

They were not in Changsheng at this time because there was more important things to do. Changsheng's immigration expedition team sent to the north to find new places discovered iron sand, which means that there is a possibility of iron ore in the jurisdiction of Changsheng County.

Chen Mu would even think about iron ore and would go crazy.

On the day when the immigrant received the news, the port prepared three ships for him, and immediately led a hundred personal soldiers, Zhao Shizhen, Zou Yuanbiao and more than a hundred migrants from the county, Zhongminjiang Mountain owners, and the immigrants who passed the letter of return from the expedition team, headed north by boat.

The place where the iron-breaking sand was found was a town thousands of miles north of Changsheng Port, located between Changsheng and Jie County, and four hundred miles north was Port Vallarta, where Lin Huer had led his wounded soldiers to rest for a short time.

After seven days and seven nights of sailing, two gunboats and one blessed ship docked. The immigrants who served as guides introduced to Zhao Shizhen and others: "This is a natural port. We sailed along the coast and got off the boat. After getting ashore, we found that there was a Western Yi military camp in the past, but it has been abandoned for a long time."

"The tribe said that this place is called Manzanillo by Western barbarians."

Chen Mu had just got off the boat and stepped on the white beach with Zhao Shizhen, Zou Yuanbiao and others looking around the beach that was highlighted by the depression compared to Changsheng Port. Hearing this, he stopped and asked, "Apple?"

Manzanillo means apple in Spanish, but the word apple was just called in the Ming Dynasty. In the past, it was called Pinguo. In the Han Dynasty, it was called "Nai" and was planted in Hexi. During the Ming Dynasty, people believed that apples in Yanzhao were the best, and the name was gradually changing.

The immigrant nodded and said, "Yes, the Westerners have grown a lot of apples here to make wine. There are also workshops for making cider in the native villages. It is said that sailors often drink cider and do not get sick at sea."

scurvy.

Chen Mu followed the immigrant's raised finger and looked into the distance. However, he was blocked by the jungle and did not see the apple manor mentioned by the immigrant, but he agreed that cider could cure diseases.

I heard Zhao Shizhen say: "In the books obtained in Panama, Magellan from Luzon had sailed for the Spaniards. His fleet suffered a terrible disease at sea, bleeding from mouth, swelling of legs, and rotting of flesh. He tried all the methods that could be used."

Others have things to be busy with, and Zhao Shizhen's work is relatively easy, giving him enough time to study various materials, making him the most informative and memorable in the military office, saying: "They suspect that they are entangled by the devil, and praying is useless."

"Blooding, bathing with animal blood, eating candy, and exercising, it is suspected that it is the dirty smell on the boat, the blood and the oil in the pot make them sick. Some people eat mice because mice can jump around on the boat, which was once extremely popular. A mouse can be sold for a high price of two taels of silver on the boat."

"I think it was their retribution for doing evil." Zhao Shizhen curled his lips: "Otherwise, why are we okay?"

"Because we drink tea and eat kimchi, we can sometimes grow vegetables on the boat." Chen Mu smiled and waved his hand, "Fruit wine and rosy fruit will also be good choices in the future. Magellan is over, and now it is our turn at sea. Perhaps the future world history will say that in the year of Longwan, the Ming Dynasty discovered the Spaniards, and thus discovered the world - how far is the place where the iron ore was discovered?"

The flag army had dragged the war horses off the boat and saw the ships approaching the port. Immigrants who taught the local people to farm in the distance had brought the indigenous people to greet them. They pointed out the direction for Chen Mu, and people either rode horses or walked toward the stream where the iron ore was discovered.

It seems that the ore veins are not far from the coast, and they are not far from the east along the river. Then they arrive at the place where the expedition team discovered iron sand. It is said that the expedition team is looking for suitable land to grow from Pingxiang, that is, the port where they docked, and the young people in the team are fetching water by the stream to find the sand in the water differently than usual, which makes people discover the iron ore here.

Although it was less than twenty miles away, there was no proper road in the area. The group walked and stopped. It was almost dusk when they arrived at the area, and the progress of the expedition team was also very slow.

This is a team of only more than 40 out of 3,000 people. The stream is called the Wetfoot River. People set up tents along the river, mostly strong young people who have reclaimed several acres of land around the camp. The main source of food is still the food that is unloaded from the rations and hunting unloaded from the boat.

People were already extremely tired along the way. The flag army was busy setting up camps and putting the rice and grain they carried into pots. The experienced kilnmakers and blacksmiths accompanied him were full of energy, and shook their heads as they looked at the blast furnaces set up by the expedition team.

Since there were no professional craftsmen, the expedition team put the iron sand and soil he had worked hard to collect and fry it in the furnace. Not only did the iron produce less and more residue at a time, the furnace was also small. It only took more than ten kilograms of pig iron into a furnace, so it would destroy the furnace and be useless. It would also have to be rebuilt, which was labor-consuming and time-consuming.

But Chen Mu really saw the iron. His expedition team used a stupid method to temper the pig iron ingots and made more than 100 kilograms of pig iron during the time they came. Needless to say, what happened next.

No one hoped to find iron ore in Yazhou than Chen Mu, and no one hoped to appear on the land under his jurisdiction than Zou Yuanbiao. The two hit it off.

In the next few days, Chen Mu's personal soldiers left a general bannerman to station Pingxiang Port to explore the surrounding topography map; the mine exploration craftsmen went up the river to explore the location of the mineral veins. Zou Yuanbiao's indigenous deputy from the Baima tribe was appointed as the chief of Pingxiang on the spot. His primary task was to recruit local residents to build roads and trade with the surrounding tribes.

Chen Mu also made great efforts, not only leaving the personal soldiers of the General Banner and hundreds of craftsmen, but he came here without bringing anything, and only brought 20 million yuan of Tongbao money.

Among them, four million Tongbao is directly used in this forty-man expedition team as a reward for discovering iron ore. They and the surrounding immigrant explorers and indigenous tribes will offer rewards. In the future, those who find iron ore and veins within a radius of 100 miles will reward Tongbao 200,000 or equivalent goods each time.

There was a brave man under the heavy reward. In the next half month, three expedition teams within a radius of more than ten miles discovered traces of iron ore, not only iron sand, but also earth and ingots of iron. The more they discovered, the larger the iron ore veins, which made Chen Mu and his party extremely happy and began to dispatch people from Changsheng to this place.
Chapter completed!