For more than ten days in a row, Chen Daojian spent every day in the banquet, this young scholar, since he was a child, he has never drunk a drop of wine, his family is poor and smart since childhood, he knows what he can do and what he should not do.

Alcohol will only make people's minds swell, and when they are reading, their thinking is not clear, and there are many harms but no benefits.

After serving in the Nan'an Hou Mansion, there is no need to study hard every day, and the Hou Mansion will occasionally have a drinking party, Nan'an Hou Xu Zixian was still a prince at the time, and occasionally convened officials and officials and generals to have a dinner, and there would be a few drinks during the banquet.

It seems that there is a completely different atmosphere here, the elders of the Ouchi family, and the samurai, who are usually shaved their scalps, but have strange buns, wear simple robes, carry knives every day, and have a cold and businesslike expression.

But they had to go to the restaurant every night to drink, and everyone had to get drunk, otherwise they wouldn't be able to talk, including the merchants.

The Japanese people have very little food, only all kinds of seafood and seafood.

In this era, these things were not very sold, and the sales of the Japanese people's seafood in the Great Wei were quite limited, so that many merchants had to stipulate that the Great Wei merchants who came to trade had to leave with a certain amount of seafood before they could trade, otherwise they would be banned.

In this way, the Japanese people can only sell their dried seafood every year, otherwise, in this year, many inland people have neither understanding nor desire for seafood, and the sea is vast, and there are no industrialized fishing methods and equipment, the fish in the sea are extremely rich, and ordinary fishermen can return with a full load in small wooden boats, so why spend money to buy the seafood of the Japanese people.

Because of all kinds of complex psychology, the Japanese became quite enthusiastic after confirming the cooperative relationship, and Chen Daojian went out awake every night, and then came back drunk.

Fortunately, these days are almost over.

After the meeting with the representatives of Muromachi, the other party vaguely expressed his determination to resist the heavens, and then there was an appointment with Ouchi Shengda, and the daimyo of the Japanese people and the prince of the Great Wei officially agreed to a treaty of alliance, and this time it was very concrete.

If Pu Xingfeng came to attack, whether it was to attack the Eastern Domain or to attack Hizen Chikugo, the Ouchi family and the Nananhou Mansion would have the obligation to send troops for their allies and help each other.

Pu Xingfeng is a great enemy, and the covenant of the Ouchi family is also very ingenious.

If Kang Tianqi wants to attack the Eastern Domain, it has nothing to do with the Japanese people, and of course the Japanese people will not help.

In addition, the contradictions and disputes between Liu Dan, Yan Qi and the Eastern Domain, and even the war, were not within the scope of the Japanese people to help.

Chen Daojian didn't quite understand, it was actually a simple matter, but the Japanese people were stumbling and talking, and they just refused to say it directly.

It seemed that it would be embarrassing and embarrassing to say such things directly, and later, after Chen Daojian and others said the other party's intentions, those widows showed a relieved look, as if a big embarrassing matter was solved by Chen Daojian.

In the later stages of the negotiations, big businessmen from all over the country rushed over, cotton cloth, raw silk, including tea, sugar, these items were quite interested.

They also hoped to get more Great Wei iron weapons, the lack of iron on the Waren Island, their armor was seriously insufficient, many soldiers and even samurai wore bamboo hats, wearing bamboo armor or leather armor, only a few high-ranking samurai and daimyos, wearing various armor painted in various colors, decorated with tail feathers or horns, looked hideous...... In Chen Daojian's view, it is nothing more than adding some terrifying atmosphere, and the protective ability of the Japanese armor is really limited.

Recently, the quota of iron tools produced on Fujian Road has been significantly reduced, and Chen Daojian can only tell the other party euphemistically that this matter can not be helped for the time being, and the Eastern Domain itself has also begun to lack iron tools, so it has to be purchased from afar, and there have been a lot of troubles in the production and sales of Fujian iron.

The pig iron output of the Great Wei Dynasty was a peak in the Xuanzong period, about 90 million catties, which was still enough in that year, but now the population of the Great Wei Dynasty has increased by at least three to five times compared with the Xuanzong period, and the output of pig iron has decreased compared with the Xuanzong period.

The Wa Kingdom also had a serious shortage of iron tools, even including household utensils.

The iron kettles, pots, shovels, cups, and fine iron of the Great Wei Dynasty are quite popular, and the Wa Kingdom is also a bitter cold place, and it is quite popular to start a stove in the room and boil water for heating.

Including Luzon, Siam, Champa, Chenla, and other countries also had a serious shortage of iron tools.

The fine iron utensils of the Great Wei Dynasty, like raw silk, porcelain, tea, and cotton cloth, were quite popular with all countries, and in order to obtain these utensils, all countries were willing to trade hot goods such as gold, silver, and spices.

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Under the lights, Chen Daojian unfolded the letter and began to write a letter, recently there was a Zhejiang merchant ship to return to Mingzhou, passing through the Eastern Domain or Penghu, Chen Daojian asked someone to take a few pieces of money to the shipowner, and asked the owner of the merchant ship to bring his letter to the Eastern Domain, and someone would receive it, send it directly to the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and hand it over to the prince Xu Zixian.

Chen Daojian felt that the Eastern Domain had made up his mind to do a good job in the cotton cloth business, as well as sugar, tea, and raw silk, which were the hottest businesses overseas.

But sugar and tea, as well as raw silk, have competitors, and will not form a monopoly like cotton.

It is very likely that fine iron will also become a similar cotton cloth business, and the Eastern Domain can be made into a monopoly pattern, because the iron industry in Jianzhou is almost destroyed, and the output of Tingzhou is insufficient to meet the local needs of the Great Wei, let alone export trade.

Chen Daojian thought that this was a good deal, and in advance it was that the Eastern Domain could make iron in the blast furnace as the prince and the marquis envisioned.

According to Xu Zixian, it is completely possible to erect a blast furnace by itself, and it can also produce high-quality refined iron with coal.

The Craftsman Division of the Eastern Domain had already set up an exploration team and went to the central and northern parts of the country to explore.

Under the lamplight, Chen Daojian slowly finished writing and sealed his mouth, he let out a sigh of relief, feeling a little relaxed in his heart.

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"Two times in a row, both along the coast and the mountains to the north." Fu Qian said to Xu Zixian in the meeting hall of the other courtyard: "The second and third times, we have sent exploration personnel, and they are also old miners over there in Jianzhou, and they are all veterans of prospecting. They have been prospecting for generations, and the mining industry on Fujian Road is developed, and there are not many people in this category. ”

Xu Zixian nodded and said: "The weather is very hot, there are many mosquitoes and poisonous snakes, and they have all worked hard." ”

"It's fine." Fu Qian participated in the third exploration, and his interest was really not low, he unfolded a relatively simple map, and said in a deep voice: "In the west side of Taipei, the north side, and the hilly landform near the sea that the prince said, we found a coal mine, the veins of the coal mine are shallow and easy to develop, and the coal is not deep when dug down. The premise is to build roads and ports along the coast. The coal mine is farther away, and we have found out about indigenous activities, and we hope to send some indigenous people to communicate with us, and if that doesn't work, we can only use force. ”

It is now the middle of June, and the army has been training in the direction of Taipei several times in a row, and the road of more than 300 miles has basically been opened, and there have been several battles with the natives in the mountains along the way, and the scale is not large, and there are no casualties.

After arriving in Taipei, a large number of exploration personnel were dispatched for more than ten consecutive days, and as far as Xu Zixian knew, there were Zhang Fengguo, Lin Jiong, Chen Jigui and other veterans of exploration and prospecting from Jianzhou.

After all, Fujian iron has been developed for more than 100 years, and it is difficult to find large-scale timber resources that are easy to cut down in many places.

After Fu Qian and others successfully prospected, they had set up a station in the north 260 miles, and then the sailors sent over, transported personnel and tools, and began to build a port by the sea.

At the same time, they began to build roads that would extend to the north and east and connect with the exploration sites and vein areas.

The early preparations are almost complete, and all that remains is to actually put in the veins and recruit miners.

"It's not hard to recruit miners." Fu Qian said: "Wang Yue is angry in Jianzhou, now a large number of miners are unemployed, they are anxious to find a job, most of them have no savings, if it is delayed any longer, I am afraid that many people will starve to death." ”

Fu Qian stood up and said, "The two-chamber method and the coal smelting method that Junhou said, we must first get a blast furnace test, otherwise it is easy to have an accident." I'm going to go north and set up a stove first. ”

Xu Zi first planned to name the area from Huaxi to Nan'an as Nan'an, and the area from the north to Taichung in later generations was called Zhong'an, to Taoyuan, and the area of Xinbei was called Bei'an.

The coal mines discovered are close to Taipei, close to the mountain area, and the two iron mines are in the area from Taichung to Hsinchu, which are also the two major iron ore areas in Taiwan in later generations.

Taiwan's coal reserves used to be quite high, but in later generations, the coal reserves were gradually used up, and there were more than 100 million tons, which is not worth mentioning, and most of them were low-quality bituminous coal, which was far from the quality of brown anthracite.

Iron ore reserves are also quite average, only in Taichung Hsinchu there is iron ore, the other is over the high mountains, in the east side of the island in Suao, Hualien area iron ore.

At this time, it is not possible to go to the east of the island to develop, if there is a topographic map, it is easy to find that the middle of the island is a continuous high mountain, and only when you reach Taipei will it be gentle. The remaining plain area is mainly in the area from Tainan to Taichung and Taipei.

The small amount of plains in the east of the island, concentrated in the Suao and Hualien areas, is very narrow, almost a limited amount of land near the sea.

Most of the cities in Taiwan in later generations were in the southwest and northern regions of the island, and only a few were in Taitung, which speaks volumes.

It is also very convenient to follow the ocean current from Fujian to Tainan, and the people's hearts can accept it.

Then around the island to the east, immigrating in a narrow area full of mountains and seas, facing the natives, tsunamis, and typhoons, Xu Zixian did not know how many people could hold on.

"You have to do it." Xu Zixian said to Fu Qian: "This matter is very important. ”

Fu Qian clenched his fists and said, "Don't worry, the prince." ”

Fu Qian is lean, capable, energetic and confident, he is very satisfied with his state, and Xu Zixian is even more satisfied with this.

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Even later, you may take your children out for two days at the beginning of next month, and during the summer vacation, you may take three or four days off.