"How, is sailing as fun as previously thought?" After eating, the three of them sat in the courtyard drinking tea and eating, and Chen Xu asked with a comfortable smile.

"Navigation is indeed as Hou Ye said before, it is extremely exciting, especially when discovering the Korean Peninsula and Yingzhou, everyone was so excited that they almost went crazy, but it's a pity that it's a pity ......" Cao Shen shook his head regretfully.

"Hehe, what's a pity, this is the real situation!" Chen Xu naturally knew what Cao Shen was sorry for.

All the people of the Central Plains believe that there are three ancient legends of the gods and islands overseas, and if you find Yingzhou, you can naturally see the gods, and you may even get the immortal fairy grass, which is simply a knot in the emperor's heart, and now Yingzhou has been found, but it is just an ordinary island scattered in the vast sea, except for a larger area, everything on it is no different from the ordinary barren mountains and mountains, and this disappointment is inevitable.

"By the way, Master Hou, you said that Yingzhou is not a sacred mountain, but we often feel the wrath of the gods on the island, and the earth shakes almost every day, sometimes so violent that people can't stand......" Xiao He said with some trepidation.

"This is not the wrath of the gods, the shaking of the earth is caused by an earthquake, this Yingzhou is located in the deep sea, and it is a long and narrow archipelago with a fragmented terrain, the foundation is not solid, it will shake under the impact of the deep sea water, and sometimes it is too violent and there will be volcanic eruptions......"

"Volcanic eruptions...... Is there smoke coming out of the top of the mountain? Cao Shen asked excitedly.

"Not bad!" Chen Xu nodded.

"Hou Ye really knows a lot, I haven't been to see it with my own eyes, I really saw a mountain top with smoke billowing up in Yingzhou, everyone was scared to kowtow to the mountain peak for a long time, the local aborigines also said that every once in a while you will see some smoke coming out of the top of the mountain, and every time the smoke comes out, the earth will shake, I thought it was the gods cooking on the fire......"

"Make a fart meal, the gods are so unclassy?"

Chen Xu couldn't laugh or cry, but he didn't explain the cause of the volcanic eruption to the two hooligans, this thing is easy to explain, but the listener will definitely be confused, and the more he explains, the more complicated it becomes, and then he has to explain the complex principles of crustal motion such as crustal structure and plate collision, which is an inexplicable theory.

"Master Hou, now Yingzhou has been found, but all of them are barren mountains and mountains, and it doesn't seem to be anything particularly noteworthy, and now the emperor is not very interested, what should I do next?" Cao Shen asked while drinking tea.

"The next step is to get rich!" Chen Xu laughed.

"Rich?" Cao Shen and Xiao He glanced at each other, Xiao He said with a puzzled face: "Master Hou, I have all the products in Yingzhou in the Central Plains, and I also have the Central Plains that Yingzhou does not have, only a group of short and thin natives like monkeys, when they saw our big ship, they were all scared and kowtowed and rolled on the ground, I don't know where to get rich?" ”

"Yingzhou has two kinds of materials that I am in short supply in the Central Plains, one is called sulfur, and the other is silver, sulfur is the main element in the manufacture of Taiyi Shenlei, and it can also be used for medicine and treatment, and silver you know, it is a precious metal second only to gold, it is a treasure of money, now that you have found Yingzhou, you naturally have to grasp this opportunity to make a fortune, let the natives on Yingzhou help mine sulfur and silver mines, and transport them back to the Central Plains to make a natural profit, if you find a silver mine, just silver, you can be rich in a few years!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"Haha, in this way, Yingzhou is still a place to make a fortune!" Xiao He and Cao Shen glanced at each other, and each saw their excited faces from the other's eyes, and the small tongues in the open big mouth could be seen shaking.

"Naturally, Ben Hou spent millions of dollars to build sea ships, it is impossible to pay without return, that Yingzhou is just a desert island overseas, if there is no benefit, Ben Hou will be so expensive, you must get the sulfur and silver back as soon as possible, now I am lacking in gold and copper in the Central Plains, silver is a scarce thing, and now the currency reform is being promoted on a large scale, without enough money, private commerce can not prosper and develop, so as long as the silver is brought back, silver currency can be issued at that time, so as to be sufficient currency scale, Let the common people have money to earn and spend, and Benhou's great cause of making the country rich can be carried out smoothly! ”

"Don't worry, Master Hou, we will definitely get the sulfur and silver back as soon as possible according to Master Hou's instructions!" Xiao He and Cao Shen stood up together, and their faces were serious.

"Well, this matter is up to the two, by the way, the natives on Yingzhou should have formed some gathered towns and even self-proclaimed kingdoms at the moment, you have to conquer all these countries, and when the opportunity is ripe, Benhou will play the emperor to divide the county and rule, and then you may all be able to get a position as a county guard, this Yingzhou must be included in the rule of Great Qin, and the two must help Benhou complete this task!"

"Please rest assured, we will definitely do our best!" Xiao He and Cao Shen's cheeks were red with excitement.

Life in the world, the ambition of ordinary people is only two things, one is to be promoted, the other is to make a fortune, and now a Yingzhou, the two of them will be promoted and rich in the future, this joy is simply too surprising.

"The matter of Yingzhou will be arranged like this for the time being, you will go to the newspaper to find Chen Ping later, and tell him the original story of the discovery of Yingzhou, he will publish this important news in the newspaper and spread it all over the world, and the two of you will soon become hot figures all over the world, and many people may go to Langya to join you at that time!" Chen Xu smiled and nodded.

Cao Shenxiao and He Xiao's back molars were exposed.

Promoted to become rich and famous, this trip back is definitely the most glorious starting point of their lives.

Soon after sending Xiao He and Cao Shen away, Shui Qingrou, Ying Shiyan, Meng Wan and others, who went to Keju to watch the opening ceremony, also returned home under the escort of a group of guards, and Chen Xu told Yu Wuya and Xia Zijin about the situation.

"I don't know if Senior Brother and Sister Zijin can find Sister Beiyan and Xiang Jing!" Shui said softly worriedly.

"Although the area of Yingzhou and the Korean Peninsula is not too large, these two places are still inaccessible and wild places at the moment, and the hundreds of thousands of ink disciples and monks may not all have fled to these two places, so they can only wait for the news of Brother Yu, everything is left to fate, but as long as those ink disciples can land smoothly, the local natives will inevitably only bow their heads and dare not offend in the slightest, you must not worry too much!" Chen Xu held Shui's gentle hand and comforted.

"I really can't imagine that the Yingzhou that Huang Shigong has planned to find all his life is just a wilderness island, I don't know how he would feel if he knew this result?" Shui looked at the red and willow green scenery in the courtyard softly, and said softly with an indifferent face.

"Huang Shigong doesn't know the right time and place, he is stubborn and unpredictable, he is very obsessed with Daqin, even if he finds Yingzhou, he will not succeed after all, and death can be regarded as a relief!" Chen Xu sighed.

Later generations of Japan have always had an obsession with the return of Chinese civilization, and the spirit of bushido deduced may be the traces left by the Mohists.

However, these are unlikely to appear at the moment, now that Daqin's boat has sailed into the Japanese archipelago, dozens of musket teams under the leadership of Yu Wuya and Xia Zijin, everything can only be subjugated to the ground, conquering the Japanese archipelago is not too difficult, and after transporting a large amount of silver back from Yingzhou, it is estimated that more people will build boats and ships to go to Japan to grab mines, and the Japanese natives have no chance to develop.

As for finding Gongsun Beiyan and Xia Zijin, it really can only depend on luck, maybe they have died on the sea.

Two days later, the front page of the latest issue of Daqin Metropolis Daily published a headline in bold bold letters: "The myth is shattered, Yingzhou is alive!" ”

"In the autumn of last year, the Marquis of Qinghe built a three-sail ship in Langya, and Xiao He Cao led the fishermen and boatmen to go to sea, and obtained the land of North Korea thousands of miles away in the East China Sea, which is a peninsula connected with Liaodong, and there are Shang Zhou and Yanhu remnants living in the mountains and wilderness, which is also for the wilderness. Last winter, the sea ship arrived thousands of miles deep sea, you can see the continuous islands scattered in the sea, there are also ancient Central Plains remnants on the island, can plant rice and raise silkworms, knot rope and remember, the sound is the same as the ancient Yue, called Yingzhou, Yingzhou day has vibration, occasionally see volcanic eruptions, there are silver and sulfur out of the Yan......"

The front page of the newspaper used a whole page to introduce in detail the process of discovering Yingzhou, and also described the mountains and rivers of Yingzhou and the situation of the island's residents.

According to the law of Daqin, all minerals in Daqin are under the jurisdiction of Shaofu, that is to say, everything in Daqin is the emperor's private property, but after the slavery system is broken, the land and real estate can be privately owned, but this private property also has a premise, it must be legally obtained, such as the imperial court according to the meritorious reward or the reclaimed grain field, the rest of the mountain and forest minerals can not be private, including the copper ore and iron ore that are currently being vigorously mined, these mines are smelting steel merchants need to obtain a license issued by the Shaofu to mine, Officials in the Shaofu would levy a mining tax based on the amount of mined ore, but the current large-scale promotion of iron tools and agricultural tools was a very low tax, and because iron ore was distributed and produced more than copper, the smelting of iron and steel was greatly developed.

At present, the newspaper suddenly said that it had found the legendary Yingzhou in ancient times, although it was not the Shenshan Xiandao where the gods lived as described by Liezi, but there were two rare minerals in the Central Plains, such as silver ore and sulfur, which aroused great interest among many people.

The output of sulfur in the Central Plains is very low, basically it is the companion of copper ore, it is very difficult to purify, no matter how much it will be forcibly expropriated by the Shaofu, the people are not allowed to stay, the Academy of Sciences is also buying sulfur all the year round, the price is very high, as for the gold and silver mines, but almost all of them are used by the Shaofu to use prisoners in mining and smelting, and the private businessmen have no access to it at all.

And Yingzhou is overseas, not the territory of Daqin, if you can get the sulfur and silver mines back, it will definitely be a huge opportunity to make a fortune.

After receiving Chen Xu's instructions, Chen Ping specially invited Xiao He and Cao Shen to hold a symposium in the newspaper office, invited some scholars and businessmen to attend the meeting, described in detail the process of going to the Korean Peninsula and Japan, and also published the nautical charts of the voyage.