Under the leadership of the captives, Wang Hui and the others came to the coal mine in half a day.

The mine is small, except for a small hill that leaks out of the surface and is covered with countless leaves, which may not be possible to detect without taking a closer look.

Although Wang Hui and others are not professional explorers, they have also learned some relevant knowledge before coming back.

For example, in the simplest soil collection, they carry that special tool, similar to the Luoyang shovel and the like.

Digging directly around the mountain, the soil of an area was collected.

In some places, you can feel the hard object directly by digging a meter or two down, while in others you don't see anything, so they have to dig as deep as they can and take the soil away.

Never underestimate the wisdom of the ancient working people.

Although they don't have more advanced equipment, they can do things that many people can't do with just manpower.

For example, several exploration experts brought by Li Yuanjing this time have their own set of methods for finding mineral places.

Several people were constantly busy, and it took less than half an hour to complete the analysis of the soil that Wang Hui and the others brought back.

"Your Highness, you can basically determine that the scale of that mine is as big as a thousand steps, and the soil in the edge area is also a little different, according to the experience of the ministers, there should be some around, but it should be deeper."

An open-pit mine is not a mine that is completely exposed, but a mine that can be mined in an open-pit environment.

The storage capacity of open-pit mines is generally not as large as that of underground mines, but it is by no means as large as a thousand steps.

The coal mine currently being mined in Datang found that it was not as simple as they imagined.

"This king knows!" Li Yuanjing nodded.

Regardless of whether the mine is big or small, he wants this mine, and he must pay attention to it.

Even if it's just a small mine, it can slowly replenish the fleet.

In this regard, Li Yuanjing did not feel disappointed, but felt very fortunate that he was found such a mine to solve the problem so easily.

"Order, the fleet will set sail in three days!" Li Yuanjing immediately decided, and immediately looked at the people again, and assigned the tasks one by one: "Xue Rengui, immediately send troops to protect the experts to conduct on-site investigations, and in addition, let the scouts take them to the beach to wait and find a suitable port to dock." ”

"No!" Xue Rengui responded, and immediately assigned a regiment to protect five experts to go to the field to explore, and another brigade was assigned to follow ten scouts to press the prisoners to find a suitable port.

They don't care about the shipping lanes or anything, and they don't have the ability to go deep into the sea to investigate.

But the land port must be found, and the solution is actually very simple, find a high station, and experienced people will probably know how deep the water in a certain area is with a sweep of their eyes.

The smallest ship in the fleet has a draft of more than two meters, the largest Haizhou has a draft of more than five meters, and the draft of the transport ship reaches more than six meters when it is fully loaded.

And such a draft situation means that the water depth of this port must be at least 10 meters or more.

So, it's quite difficult.

Although it is difficult, you still have to try your best to find it for supplies.

When everything is in order, everything is a foregone conclusion.

There was simply no one who could stop the mighty Don Army, no one.

Three days later, the fleet set sail and moved along the continental shelf at a modest pace.

Ten days later, the fleet, which had been closely monitoring the landing, finally found a signal from land.

And at this time, the fleet was almost paralyzed here.

I don't know how many times the coal bunkers on the ship have been cleaned by the soldiers, and I don't know how many times the boilers have under-pressurized to reduce the consumption of coal.

So the journey, which should have been two or three days, was forced to walk for ten days, and although the road was calm, the whole fleet felt a little frightened.

The signal is smoke.

The soldiers in charge of finding the harbor will send people to guard the high ground after finding a place in the designated area.

The black smoke coming out of the huge chimney of the ship is a signal, and the sight of black smoke means that the ship is coming.

At this time, you can also ignite a fire on land to create smoke to tell the fleet where you are.

The scouts had already built a trestle in advance, but due to lack of manpower, this trestle could not meet the needs of the entire fleet.

Therefore, small boats have docked on the trestle, and large ships have temporarily docked outside the trestle.

However, this problem will be solved soon, after all, there are enough people......

"That coal mine is only a day's journey from here, and it's a great place, if you don't think about winter!" Fang Yiai sighed with some regret.

These days, they have been staying with Su Bu, and they have learned a lot about the winter situation here from Ruka.

So I have some understanding of the continent in front of me.

The temperature is not high all year round, and the days in summer are the coolest, but the days in winter are also the hardest.

It's a raging storm at every turn, and even when I wake up, I open the door and see not a white patch, but a white face, and this kind of absurd thing often happens here.

In other words, when I woke up, the heavy snow had already buried the door of the house.

Of course, this is also true for the Inuit.

Their buildings were semi-sunken, with only about a third of the doors on the ground.

In order to ensure that the heat in the house is dissipated more slowly, the doors are generally smaller.

The tents didn't work at all in winter, and in a few days they collapsed under a thick layer of snow.

For the natives here, it is not only the cold that they have to resist in winter, but also the houses that may collapse at any time.

The thatched huts they lived in couldn't bear the weight, the weather, the high mortality rate, and if it weren't for the tribes that couldn't survive anywhere else, they really wouldn't have chosen to come here.

Originally, Fang Yiai and others were still very optimistic about this, but after learning about this, they still felt that forget it, it was difficult to enjoy the blessings.

"Even Su Bu, who is good at farming, has given up farming when he comes here, tsk......" Cheng Chuliang also nodded after that.

It's not suitable for farming, so what does it matter here?

Hearing the sigh of a group of younger brothers, Li Yuanjing couldn't help but roll his eyes: "This is the king's private land, so I won't worry about you and sigh!" ”

It's really a bunch of well-fed goods, and the richness of North America is what you can imagine?

The history of later generations tells me that there is no shortage of anything here, and all the resources in the world are available here, and the quality of the resources is even richer than that of China.

Remember, it was just a US imperialism, and Li Yuanjing was aiming at the whole of North America.

Although there is a long way to go, there is always a memory for future generations, isn't it?