Xiao Yiran wanted to lead people through the jungle in the west to explore a larger territory for the Dragon Clan, although it was not publicized to the public, it was still known by the clan. On the morning of the day of departure, almost all the people came to see them off.

Xiang Lin led thirty capable soldiers, carrying wooden quivers at their waists, longbows diagonally on their shoulders, and javelins of uniform style in their hands, and walked in front. Xiao Yiran walked behind the soldiers, and behind him were sixteen personal guards. The group brought half a month's worth of dry food, and gradually got into the dense jungle west of the settlement and disappeared.

In addition to having just escaped from the Snake Clan, Xiao Yiran had traveled through the mountains and forests, and this was the first time he had gone deep into the jungle. In those days with Xiao An, the two just wandered around the edge of the jungle, looking for prey, as well as oak cocoons, etc. When the team gradually entered the depths of the jungle, Xiao Yiran was a little overwhelmed. The jungle was so dense that it was beyond her imagination, and the trees that shaded the sky and the vines that crisscrossed the sky almost made it impossible for the group to walk. Xiang Lin and the others were familiar with the jungle, thirty people, four at a time in front of them with stone knives and stone axes to open the way, sixteen guards stood around Xiao Yiran, surrounded her, and marched slowly. At the end of the day, you can only travel more than 30 miles. When staying at night, the careful guards will always build a temporary residence for Xiao Yiran between the trees one or two meters above the ground, so as to avoid being bitten by insects and snakes at night.

Xiang Lin would arrange for each group of two to keep vigil for about an hour, and Xiao Yiran's personal guards were also in groups of two, guarding their emperor.

After five days of walking, they still couldn't see the edge of the jungle, and Xiao Yiran and they didn't dare to eat their own food all day long, so they had to arrange for people to hunt to replenish food. The water source in the jungle is still sufficient, including some water-rich fruit plants that Xiang Lin and others know that can be eaten raw. It's just that the speed of travel is slower.

It wasn't until twenty-three days later that the group walked out of the jungle and into an open field. Standing at the edge of the jungle, Xiao Yiran looked at the open area, which was very large, not to mention thousands of acres, and further west of the open land was a turbulent river, much larger than the river south of the snake tribe's station. To the west of the river are the mountains of strange nature, where vegetation grows only halfway up the mountainside, and the top of the mountain is bare, full of black-brown rocks, and almost no grass grows.

"Xiang Lin, send someone over to explore the depth of that river and see if you can go through?"

"Emperor, why do you want to cross the river?"

"I wanted to go to the opposite hill and look at the stones."

Xiang Lin sent four people to test the depth of the river, and the rest of the people followed, slowly walking towards the riverbank.

"Emperor, the river is not very deep, but the current is turbulent, and people can't cross it."

Xiao Yiran stood on the shore and observed carefully for a long time, the river surface was not wide, only less than 100 meters, but the current was indeed too turbulent, if you fell into it, I was afraid that you would be taken away in an instant.

"Xiang Lin, go cut down a dozen trees, and find some flexible and strong vines, and let's build a raft."

Xiang Lin still knew about the raft, and they had seen the turtle people east of Longshan use it. Leaving ten people behind to assist sixteen guards to protect Xiao Yiran, Xiang Lin led the remaining twenty people back to the jungle to cut down trees and find vines.

It was still a difficult task to cut down tall trees with rudimentary stone axes and knives, and it took them five days to set up a raft that could carry ten people at once. In the first batch, six soldiers and four guards were sent over first, the second batch passed by six soldiers and four guards, and the third batch was Xiao Yiran and Xiang Lin, as well as the remaining eight guards. In the end, eight soldiers were left behind on the east bank of the river, and the others crossed the river to the west bank.

Xiao Yiran came to the bare mid-mountain and saw the copper ore at first sight, which made Xiao Yiran very happy. Seeing the look of surprise on the emperor's face, Xiang Lin hurriedly asked:

"Emperor, is there any difference between these stones?"

"It's very different, with these stones, whether it's our weapons or farm tools, there will be a huge change. Xiang Lin, how many people do you need to send if you want to transport these stones back to Longshan? ”

"Emperor, not to mention the jungle we came from, but the river under the mountain, if you want to transport these stones back in large quantities, I'm afraid there are not one or two hundred people. In this case, it will affect the cultivation and hunting within the clan. ”

Xiao Yiran thought about it, and asked Lin Dao:

"What if we move the station?"

"Is that appropriate?"

"Let's go back and discuss with the elders before deciding, these stones are too important to us."

"Shall we return now?"

"Tomorrow morning, inform your soldiers that each of them should bring back a stone, and bring as many as you can."

The return trip was much faster than when I came. Even so, it took thirty-six days to go back and forth. Before they could get out of the jungle, they were found by the people sent by the elders to greet them, and when they came out of the jungle, the people who had received the message came from the station to meet their great emperor.

After returning to the station and resting for only one night, Xiao Yiran ordered someone to cut down hard trees, and she wanted to burn charcoal. Xiao Yiran knew that if he wanted to smelt copper ore, he would just burn wood, and he would not be able to reach the required temperature at all. Burning charcoal, Xiao Yiran had only seen charcoal and a charcoal kiln before he was reborn, but he didn't know how to burn it.

"You can only slowly realize yàn, and charcoal will always be burned."

Xiao Yiran didn't know to cheer himself up in his heart. Fortunately, after repeating it four or five times, I finally fired a qualified charcoal. It's not enough to have charcoal, you also need a dry pot. This really gave Xiao Yiran a headache. To make a dry pot, you must have a kind of clay that is resistant to high temperatures, which is clay? Xiao Yiran can only use the most stupid method, use all kinds of clay to make a dry pot, and fire them one by one, whichever is suitable, use which.

For the emperor who had been tinkering with some strange things since he returned, the clansmen, including the members of the Council of Elders, watched silently. They all know that their emperor is not simple, and there must be a purpose for doing so. Therefore, whether it is burning charcoal or burning a dry pot, no one will discount it, and no one will ask why.

When the thirty soldiers were brought back and most of the copper juice smelted from the stone was cast into a small copper sword, and the sharp edge was sharpened, Xiao Yiran picked it up and cut off a tree trunk the thickness of an arm, all the clansmen were stunned. Then bursts of cheers erupted, and after the cheers, they all prostrated on the ground and once again made a five-body bow to their emperor. There was no need for Xiao Yiran to explain anything, the clansmen already understood what it meant.

The rest of the matter is logical.

Xiao Yiran first arranged to bring people to the forest to open up a road in the jungle, and on the road that was opened, a fifteen-meter-high earthen platform was built every ten miles, Xiao Yiran wanted to learn from the beacon tower on the Great Wall that he had seen before he was reborn, because Xiao Yiran did not plan to move the entire dragon clan over. After all, Longshan has already operated on a large scale here, and it would be a pity to give it up at once.

Then, at the elders' meeting, Siu Yat-ran announced:

"The young men and women of the clan moved to two-thirds of the new station, leaving one-third and the old and sick to stay behind. In the event of a foreign attack, they will immediately hide in the jungle and light a beacon fire at the same time to warn them. ”

As Xiao Yiran's status in the hearts of the clan became higher and higher, no matter what she said, no one would raise an objection.