Xu Xiake looked extremely excited, looked at Guo Zhiyuan with burning eyes and said: "My lord, the grass people have turned around the Datun Mountain Range, and found that there are very few iron ore veins here, which are not of mining value, if you want to find the iron ore veins that you urgently need, you should go inland, please let the grass people return to the inland as soon as possible, I will definitely be able to find the iron ore veins for the adults!" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan patted Xu Xiake's shoulder heavily, and said movingly: "Brother Zhenzhixian, you have worked hard, take a good rest for a few days, wait for me to make some preparations, and then send you back to the inland!" ……”

After sending Xu Xiake away, Guo Zhiyuan was busy in the study, he hand-drew a brief map of China, and then began to try his best 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 crossing, and his memory was really good, and he finally figured out this brief map of China's mineral distribution.

Xu Xiake's eyes lit up as soon as he got this sketchy map, and he said excitedly: "This is my Ming Dynasty's territory map?!" It's amazing, my lord, you actually drew a map of my Ming Dynasty in such a short time?! No wonder Xu Xiake is so excited, the Ming Dynasty was relatively strict with the control of population movement, and many people have never left the place where they were born in their lives, and they don't even know how big China is, let alone seen the full version of the map of China.

Guo Zhiyuan waved his hand and smiled: "This is nothing, the virtuous brother has not seen the "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu" drawn by Mr. Matteo Ricci, a native of Daxi, there is not only a map of the territory of my Ming Dynasty, but all the countries in the world are marked on it, and I have the opportunity to find someone to copy it out and send the virtuous brother a ......."

Xu Xiake's eyes brightened even more when he heard this, and he said with a look of fascination: "If I can travel all over the world in my lifetime, I must draw a more accurate map of all countries, then this life will be in vain!" ”

Guo Zhiyuan was infected by Xu Xiake's ambition and pride, and patted him on the shoulder and said, "There is a chance!" When I rise to China and conquer the four seas, I will definitely let you lead a fleet to all countries and complete your dreams! ……”

Xu Xiake nodded excitedly, and only then did he notice the mineral distribution marks on the map, and said more and more surprised: "My lord, how do you know that there are mineral veins in these places?" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan touched his nose a little embarrassed, and he couldn't explain it, so he had to pretend to be a god stick and said: "I had a dream a few days ago, and I got the guidance of the gods in the dream, there may be mineral veins in these places, brother Xian, you can go and explore, maybe there will be a harvest......

Xu Xiake didn't dwell on this problem anymore, his heart had already flown inland, carefully put away the map, and said with high morale: "With this map, I will definitely be able to live up to the trust of the adults and find the ore veins for the adults!" ……”

Opened up the procurement channel between Dongfan and the inland, and Xu Xiake helped to find ore veins, the problem of limited resources in Dongfan was completely solved, and Dongfan also broke the bottleneck of development and entered a period of rapid development, time flies, in the blink of an eye, Guo Zhiyuan has been to Dongfan for three years, these three years Dongfan can really be described with each passing day, Beigang, Keelung, Dayuan three new cities have all been completed, and now it has begun to expand to the hinterland of Dongfan.

Guo Zhiyuan's immigration plan has also been completed, and now the number of new immigrants in Dongfan has reached 350,000, 50,000 more than Guo Zhiyuan's plan.

The military factory has also formed a scale, and now it can produce 1,000 flintlock pistols a year, and the new plate armor has long been assembled in the whole army, and the current new army can be said to be armed to the teeth, although the specific combat effectiveness has yet to be tested in actual combat, but the new army without equipment upgrades has been able to defeat the Japanese pirate coalition army, and the combat effectiveness of the new army after the equipment upgrade will be poor!

There have been more than 20 warships launched for sea trials in the shipyard, including three giant warships of the thousand-stone class, although there is still some distance from Guo Zhiyuan's goal of building a naval fleet, but Guo Zhiyuan is confident that even in the face of the Spanish Invincible Fleet with strong ships and guns, Dongfan already has the strength to fight!

With the support of strong force, Dongfan's maritime trade business is getting bigger and bigger, and now it has basically monopolized the maritime trade business of the entire southeast coast, and those maritime merchants on the southeast coast who have not joined Guo Zhiyuan's East China India Maritime Trade Company hate Guo Zhiyuan to the core, but in the face of Dongfan's strong force, they can only break their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs, they have also tried to organize armed warships to camouflage pirates to attack Guo Zhiyuan's fleet, but Guo Zhiyuan's fleet is equipped with escort ships, and their armed warships are not at all opponents of escort ships equipped with broadside guns, often a convoy can beat them and flee!

Fortunately, Guo Zhiyuan did not do things absolutely, he drank meat himself and let others drink soup, so he did not prohibit the maritime merchants who did not join his East China India Sea Trade Company to do maritime trade business, but he must abide by the rules he formulated, 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 set, so that Guo Zhiyuan has become the maker of the rules, which can not only make the cake bigger, but also ensure that the largest piece of cake belongs to him forever!

But in this way, the Spaniards and Dutch who trade with them are not happy, in the past they could take advantage of the discord between the Ming maritime merchants to lower the trade price, so as to maximize profits, but now Guo Zhiyuan has become a rule-maker, the price has to be decided, do you like to buy it or not!

The most hateful thing is that Guo Zhiyuan also likes to engage in "innovation", for example, the best-selling tea in the West, in the past they were priced according to weight, but now it is not, Guo Zhiyuan asked the maritime merchants to unify the packaging, switch to exquisite ceramic cans, sell according to the can, and also call it "canned tea, made by the master", the packaging is exquisite, yes, but this thing is expensive, a pound of canned tea is sold for one or two silver, and in the past one or two silver can buy ten catties of bulk tea, which is equivalent to Guo Zhiyuan added a package to increase the trade price of tea by ten times!

There is also Guo Zhiyuan's recent new drum of what "Lao Gan Ma Hot Sauce" is even more expensive, a jar will be sold for five taels of silver, it is said that you sell it expensive, I don't buy it, but Guo Zhiyuan, this guy is a chicken thief, "Lao Gan Ma Hot Sauce" just came out, he made a trial outfit, put the hot sauce in the exquisite purple sand mud jar, don't give it away for free, Daxi people originally looked at this mushy thing and didn't feel much cold, see that this packaging is so beautiful and free to give it away, then try it, who would have thought that this thing is addictive, The feeling of exploding taste buds is really refreshing, and now those aristocrats in the West feel that they don't eat anything if they don't eat this thing for a meal, but when you buy it from Guo Zhiyuan again, this thing will become a can of five taels of silver, do you like to buy it or not, you say arrogant or not!