"That's what I'm looking for you."

"What instructions does the lord have?"

"Before looking for you, I went to find Mi Fang, and now the route from Jiaozhou to Yangzhou and Xuzhou has been opened, and the time for us to trade with Xuzhou has become very short, and the pig iron for a short period of time can be solved by sea, but this is not a long-term solution. So I want to find a large iron mine and mine it. ”

Liu Zheng told Xu Huang what he thought in his heart, and Xu Huang frowned when he heard it.

"Looking for an iron ore to mine? Lord, iron ore is not so easy to find, as far as I know, some of the iron ore found by the imperial court is now in the hands of the imperial court, almost no one else is in the hands, and although there are some mines in the entire Jiaozhou, the output is not able to satisfy us, and the ore cannot refine enough pig iron, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

In fact, Xu Huang also had some understanding of these things, so when Liu Zheng said that he wanted to open a mining farm, he immediately raised his own doubts and wanted to persuade Liu Zheng.

"About this, Brother Xu Huang, you don't have to worry, when I went to Xuzhou this time, I found a place overseas in Jiaozhou, that place, I looked at the surrounding peaks and found that there must be excellent mineral deposits, so we only need to mine it, and our demand for iron ore can be alleviated."

In fact, where did Liu Zheng go to Zhuyazhou to see it, he just relied on the memory of his previous life to know that there must be iron-rich ore in Zhuyazhou, and when the time comes, he will go to the peaks of various places to dig and dig, and if he digs a few more times, he will definitely be able to find it.

With Liu Zheng's words, Xu Huang still wanted to say something, but Liu Zheng was the lord after all, and since Liu Zheng decided something, he would not object.

"Okay, now that the lord has an idea, I won't say anything more, the lord just needs to tell me what to do."

"Actually, there is nothing to do, I just want to ask you if there are any military developments recently, if not, we will first transfer some troops and go to Zhuyazhou."

Although the place of Zhuyazhou was discovered, but now Zhuyazhou is not completely under the control of the imperial court, and many times this place is an indigenous existence, if Liu Zheng wants to take Zhuyazhou, it is essential to send soldiers and horses to suppress it.

Liu Zheng now occupies Jiaozhou, Cai Mao in the north will not take the initiative to attack, and Linyi Kingdom in the south has just experienced the battle of annihilation, and there is no chance to jump out to do things for the time being.

And those soldiers and horses newly recruited by Liu Zheng, if they want to train, they naturally have to find something to do, training troops, and finding big forces naturally can't do it, but it is no problem to conquer a small place like Zhuyazhou and fight a dozen indigenous forces to let them have some experience.

"Zhu Yazhou, I heard Shi Xie's assassination history talk about this place, it is in the open sea not far from Hepu City, it is said to be a small island, and the population in it is not large, only more than 100,000 aborigines?"

When Liu Zheng mentioned Zhu Yazhou, Xu Huang was still a little surprised, it seemed that he had heard of this place, which was also normal, Liu Zheng had been away for so long, Xu Huang had more exchanges with Shixie during this time, and in order to better understand the Jiaozhou area, he often went to ask Shixie about some things.

I know more about some of the geographical conditions near Jiaozhou.

Hearing Xu Huang talk about Zhu Yazhou, Liu Zheng also nodded.

"Well, that place, not far from Jiaozhou, is rich in natural resources, this time bring people to pacify that place, but it can give us these newly recruited people to train and train combat power, you don't need to go over in person, you just need to ask that guy to bring some new troops over."

Since Liu Zheng is thinking about training, naturally this kind of thought, there is no need to let Xu Huang go over in person, just let some students who graduated from the academy go over and deal with it.

In this way, not only the soldiers and horses were trained, but also those future generals were trained.

Hearing Liu Zheng's words, Xu Huang immediately nodded, and after understanding Liu Zheng's thoughts, he immediately began to go down and make arrangements.

Liu Zheng's side, after explaining all the things he needed to do recently, he planned to go to find Cai Yao, this time when he came back, he hadn't seen Cai Yao yet, on weekdays, knowing that Liu Zheng came back from outside, Cai Yao was always the first to come to find Liu Zheng.

Although it is impossible to stay with Liu Zheng all the time, every time Liu Zheng comes back, Cai Yao still comes to Liu Zheng very actively, but this time, he has not seen Cai Yao for a few days since he came back, which attracted Liu Zheng's attention. When Liu Zheng came to Cai Yao's residence, he found that the door was closed, and it looked like it had not moved for a long time.

After knocking on the door twice and no one responded, Liu Zheng became nervous this time.

Not to mention that Liu Zheng already knew in his heart, something might have happened to him and Cai Yao that night, even if nothing happened, Cai Yao's disappearance in his own territory was a big deal.

Liu Zheng hurriedly walked to Zhang Duyu's courtyard and shouted a few words at Zhang Duyu's courtyard.

Zhang Duyu, the girl, quickly walked out of the courtyard.

"Hey, Liu Zheng, why are you back?"

In the past few days, Zhang Duyu has been staying in Zhang Zhongjing's courtyard, following Zhang Zhongjing to study medical skills, but he really didn't know that Liu Zheng had returned from Xuzhou.

"Dusk Yu, you are at home, have you seen Cai Yao?"

Seeing Zhang Duyu's first sentence, Liu Zheng asked Cai Yao, which made Zhang Duyu, who was still a little excited, immediately have some loss on his face.

"No, I haven't seen Sister Cai Yao for a long time, didn't she go to Xuzhou with you, I thought she left with you."

Zhang Duyu shook his head.

"What did you say?"

"You haven't seen Cai Yao for a long time?"

Zhang Duyu's words were okay if he didn't say them, but as soon as he said them, Liu Zheng was immediately shocked.

"That's right, I haven't seen Sister Cai Yao since you knocked on the door here last time, I thought Sister Cai Yao left with you, you come to ask me now, I also want to ask where you hid Sister Cai Yao!"

After a while, Liu Zheng's face was not good-looking.

At this time, Liu Zheng faintly had a bad feeling.

He didn't stay at Zhang Duyu's place for long, but immediately turned around and left, intending to ask someone else, if there was no news, Cai Yao would really be missing.

A Cai Yao may not be of much importance to others, but it is different for Liu Zhengke.

After all, she is already Liu Zheng's person, and Liu Zheng already regards her as his own woman in his heart.