Except for the crew members of the Jinyuan, they were all stunned by their own discovery!

They didn't expect that it was just a regular landing, and it was actually found gold, and it was a lot of gold, and the dozen or so crew members who landed for the first time brought back more than ten pieces of doghead gold not long after they landed, what does this mean, this means that there must be a big gold mine here!

Wang Shanxi was also pleasantly surprised!

Although they are all members of the Military Intelligence Department and are serious intelligence officers, many times, spying on intelligence is just their part-time job, and the real profession is still ordinary sailors or soldiers, strictly speaking, they are just ordinary people.

It is a person who can't calm down when he sees so much gold, and there is a high probability that there is a large gold mine on it.

Wang Shanxi took several deep breaths in a row, and then carefully inquired about their situation after they went ashore, and after half an hour, he gave the order to organize another landing operation.

This time, the number of people who landed reached more than fifty people!

There are not a few people on the Jinyuan, in addition to more than 100 crew members, there are about 50 marines, this time the people who went ashore are still mainly those marines, but Wang Shanxi himself also took a few officials ashore to check the situation, as for those crew members, they stayed on the ship.

In a foreign country, who knows when they will face danger, even if there are countless gold and silver in front, they also need to maintain the most basic precautions, the landing people can die, but the crew of the ship can not be lost, because they still need to return to Banten, and they also need to return to the Tang Dynasty to pass the news of the discovery of Australia back.

So when Wang Shanxi made the arrangement, he was also very rational.

Of course, the gold is in the front, in order to avoid civil strife, Wang Shanxi also repeatedly emphasized that this time the gold they found will be disposed of according to the spoils of war, except for a part handed over, the rest will be distributed according to each person's position and merit, not that whoever lands and picks up the gold belongs to him.

Wang Shanxi and the others took four small boats and rowed all the way to the shore.

The place where the Jinyuan anchored was not too far from the shore, so it didn't take long for them to reach the beach.

Wang Shanxi, like the others, carried a self-hairing musket on his back, a self-hairing pistol and a waist knife pinned to his waist, but even so, he looked different from the others, because he was wearing the officer uniform of the Tang Western Company.

The armed employees of Datang Western Company also have military uniforms, but their military uniforms are somewhat different from the military uniforms of the army and navy in style.

Because Datang Western Company is only a commercial company, and it is currently a sole proprietorship of the royal family, and has not sold shares to the public or official institutions, there are not too many restrictions on all aspects of action, and you can come as you like, or Li Xuan can come as you like.

The regular uniform of its military uniform is based on blue, and the top of the officer's regular uniform, like the army and navy, is still the traditional right style, and in terms of details, the cuffs have more horizontal stripes, which are used to indicate the high rank of the army, and there are still epaulettes.

The soldiers' uniforms are also dark blue, with vertical stripes on their trousers, white for sailors and red for marines.

After Wang Shanxi came ashore with a ticket of marines, he directly led the team to start the search and remained vigilant!

Because Wang Shanxi knows that the land seems to be uninhabited, but in fact there are indigenous people, but the number is scarce, and there are relatively large indigenous animals here.

They had seen a huge, two-legged, fast animal, and they killed one of them with a musket, and found that there was a bag on the front chest of this animal, so they directly gave this animal a very vivid name, called Kangaroo.

Even if this place is really empty, there is not even a small animal, but in the unfamiliar land, it is still very important to maintain a high degree of vigilance, so after they landed, they maintained a high degree of vigilance, divided into three teams, left and right, and searched forward in a fan shape, and the destination of the search was the place where the first batch of people who landed before found the dog's head gold.

It didn't take long for them to come to a small valley, where, according to the reports of the first landing crews, they found the kobheads.

Wang Shanxi squatted down, and then looked at the ground, what was good on the ground, but since the previous dog-headed gold was found here, then there will definitely be a gold mine here.

So they continued to search, and after about half an hour, they found a river flowing through, this river is not big, only about ten meters wide, and if you look closely, this river flows directly into the sea.

At this time, several Marines suddenly shouted: "Look? Look at the river sand here! ”

Wang Shanxi also walked to the river at this time, looked carefully at these river sands, and found that these river sands were different from ordinary sand, because the river sand here has a lot of yellow reflective things!

Wang Shanxi didn't know much about minerals, but another official who accompanied him did, and he picked up a handful of sand, then picked out a few fine yellow gravel in the sand, and took out a magnifying glass to observe carefully, and finally said with a look of ecstasy: "It's Jinsha, the river sand here contains a lot of Jinsha, and there must be a large gold mine nearby!" ”

Wang Shanxi also took these grains of golden sand at this time, looked at them carefully, and then began to order: "Go and bring our boat moored on the beach, sail in from this estuary, and we will continue to search along this Jinsha River!" ”

"Inform the Jinyuan again, let them search the nearby coastline and draw a chart of the nearby sea area!"

Even if you haven't found the location of the gold mine yet, there must be a gold mine nearby, and if there is a gold mine, this place is absolutely not to be missed.

What's more, this is a plain with plenty of vegetation and fertile land!

I won't talk about how useful it is in the later stage, but it is enough as a colonial development point in the early stage.

Wang Shanxi had already decided to build a foothold here first, and then spread the news back to the merchant house in Banten, so that the country could send more ships and personnel here.

Wang Shanxi's exploration lasted a total of three days, but due to the lack of sufficient tools, they could not find the real gold mine except for some golden sand and a few dog-head gold.

But this impact is not big, I think Wang Shanxi is already very sure, there must be a gold mine here, and the only thing to be determined now is the size and specific location.

After staying for three days, Wang Shanxi left with people, after all, his Jinyuan is an exploration ship, not to colonize and develop, as long as it is determined that this is a good place, then it is enough, as for these dogs' heads and some of the golden sand, except for a small part handed over, most of them were divided as trophies.

Let every crew member and Marine who participated in the operation smile, the amount of doghead gold and gold gold they found was not a few, even after dividing it, everyone could get a lot of gold.

Discovered Australia, and also found a suitable foothold, Wang Shanxi and they are not in the mood to continue to circle around the whole Australia, they are ready to return, otherwise, who knows what dangerous things will happen.

At the beginning of June, Wang Shanxi commanded the Jinyuan to start its return, but not along the way it came, but according to the charts drawn, and then directly use the southeast monsoon, sail in the northwest direction, if the calculation is correct, they will cross a large sea area, and then directly arrive at the western archipelago of the Java Islands, which should generally be the waters near Timor Island, and this is also the sea area from which they departed before.

Once they reached the island of Timor, they would continue their voyage north, expected to cross the straits of eastern Borneo and return to Luzon, where the first colony of the Tang Dynasty, the Luzon Millau trading post.

The reason why they did not choose to go west and return to Banten was because Wang Shanxi felt that it was not safe, although before they went west, they had already established a merchant house in Banten, but the control of the Portuguese in the Indies was not weak, and after such a long time, it is estimated that the colonial fleet of the Tang Dynasty had already discovered that the colonial fleet of the Tang Dynasty had been to Banten.

Although Wang Shanxi also knew that the Tang Western Company would definitely send many fleets to the south in the future, considering the distance and the Portuguese, the first colony operated by the Tang Dynasty should be Luzon, not Banten.

So in order to avoid any potential threat, he decided to return directly to Myonlao instead of going to Banten.

Naturally, he didn't know, and his worries were completely unnecessary!

At that time, after Ying Zihua led the exploration fleet south, Datang Western Company had already sent a total of five fleets south, and the routes they took were all directly across the South China Sea and then to Luzon.

In the first fleet, they sent 500 armed employees of the Tang Western Company with loaded guns, as well as artillery for the construction of the fortress and a large amount of ammunition supplies to the trading post on Minlao Island.

After receiving the replenishment, the trading post of Myerao Island expanded rapidly, and in just a few months, many battles were waged, expelling all the surrounding natives or arresting them as coolies to build forts for them.

It took only a few months for the fortress on Minlao Island to take shape, and it successfully resisted a time called pirates, but in fact it was most likely a Portuguese invasion.

And now, the garrison on Cotton Island has reached more than 1,300 people, and if you rely on the fortress, you can't expect to be able to break through this fortress without 10,000 people to attack it.

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