Queensland, which Brisbane radiates, is one of the richest regions in Australia, but for Daming, it is a piece of chicken ribs.

It is rich in resources and has all kinds of minerals, but in the coastal area, there are only a few large coal mines and bauxite.

There is a world-class gold mine in the north, but it is inland. In addition, the gold deposits here also contain uranium, a valuable mineral resource that is simply not available in this day and age.

Similar concerns are the Olympic Dam gold mine in southern Australia, which is rich in gold and copper, but also rich in uranium.

In terms of reserves, the Olympic Dam Gold Mine is one of the largest gold mines in the world. In later generations, this gold mine was developed by Australia for 20 years, and the main deposit has not yet been excavated, and the production of peripheral deposits alone has become one of the largest gold mines in the world.

In terms of resources, development now is a great waste, and the precious uranium ore reserves in the world are very small, and the more it is wasted now, the less it will be in the future.

However, from the perspective of the expansion layout of the entire Ming Dynasty, these gold mines can only play a greater role in addition to economic benefits at this time.

But the others did not have Zhu Zhanji's ambivalence, a continent that was not much smaller than that, was presented in front of everyone like this, and everyone felt extremely excited.

Most of the cooks did not sleep that night, and they spent the night baking flatbread in the base of the fleet.

In order to boost morale, this time, under Zhu Zhanji's arrangement, the logistics department slaughtered 300 pigs at once, and used pork to brand meatloaf and broth for all the soldiers.

Early the next morning, both the officers and men of the navy and the young army began to form detachments and carry out large-scale exploration operations.

Each exploration team broke the original army formation, and in addition to the musketeers, there were also sword archers and baggage teams. In addition to these personnel, each exploration team is also staffed with members who survey the terrain, survey the geology, and survey the organisms.

Yesterday, I caught a kangaroo, although the kangaroo meat is thicker and more fishy, but after suppressing the smell with spices, it also has a different taste.

Anyway, it's all meat!

Moreover, His Royal Highness Taisun believes that this kind of meat is not much worse than beef after being marinated and made into jerky, so he also ordered today that all exploration teams see this animal, catch it and slaughter it and make it into jerky.

But he also knew the foodie nature of the Chinese nation, and he was afraid that this creature would be eaten and extinct, so he also asked that young cubs and lactating kangaroos should not be killed.

As a thousand commanders, Sunan was in charge of five warships, with a total of 1,250 people.

Combined with the fact that they carried 700 young troops and dozens of heralds and paramedics, the total number of their fleet reached 2,000.

In this formation, their fleet was divided into three exploration teams according to the orders of the headquarters and according to different formations.

Sunan was not worried about others leading the team, so he decided to lead the team himself and let Bian Cheng, the deputy commander of Qiancheng, guard the fleet.

This Bian Cheng is also reluctant to go out and take risks, stay in the base, maybe he will be transferred by the headquarters to build the base, and he can show his face in front of His Highness.

Of the six hundred they were two hundred musketeers and three hundred swordmen. The navy did not have a baggage team, only a logistics team, and he also brought half of the ship's navigators, surveyors, and cooks.

When they got ashore, they were assigned 600 young troops, most of whom were musketeers, and a board cart of ten men was responsible for carrying luggage, and they would also use these carts to transport kangaroos.

The 1,200 people were assigned four cadets from Yulin Weixue to lead the team, and Sunan, the thousand president, could only serve as his deputy, but Sunan did not complain at all.

Today's Yulin Weixue has long been deified, although the first fleet is His Highness's personal army, the young army is also His Highness's personal army, and Yulin Wei is His Highness's personal guard.

However, only Yulin Weixue is what His Highness really attaches the most importance to.

The soldiers who learned from Yu Linwei are all civil and military all-rounders, and they can at least be a thousand generals in any army.

Moreover, their phalanx, who was sent, was still the general manager of Yulin Weixue. Yulin Weixue's general, after coming out, at least they are at least the officials at the garrison level.

What's more, this general turned out to be Zhang Wu, the son of Peng Chengbo's Mansion, this is His Royal Highness's cousin, and they are not unconvinced.

And Zhang Wu is not arrogant, he looks very kind, he came to the phalanx with the order of the headquarters, and greeted Sunan, the young army Qianzong Chu Dayun, and a few generals held a meeting together.

"You are all older than me, and although I have been appointed as the team leader this time, in my opinion, the responsibility of this team leader is to be the eyes and ears of everyone. As for marching and fighting, hunting against the enemy, everything depends on you. ”

Seeing Zhang Wu's modesty, Sunan and Chu Dayun were a little unconvinced, and they were much more comfortable at this time.

The eldest Chu Dayun said: "Zhang is always too modest, who doesn't know that the Yulin Weixue soldiers are the third level of the official, and you are not relying on His Royal Highness's favor, you have real materials." In this exploration, I hope to learn something from you. ”

Sunan also clenched his fists and said: "The strength of our navy is at sea, and this time I am active on land, so I naturally have to give priority to the opinions of the two." ”

Seeing that Sunan was so humble, Chu Dayun's originally flat face softened, and he smiled at Sunan with his fists.

The young army was expanded from the original Shenji Battalion, and it was the first all-firearms battalion in the Ming Dynasty. After being transformed into a young army, it became the pro-army of the grandson, which is quite the first in the world.

They are still not convinced by Yu Linwei, thinking that they are the spear of the Taisun, and Yu Linwei will only guard the house, just the shield of His Highness.

As for the First Fleet, although it is also His Highness's pro-army, one is the army and the other is the navy, and there is no comparison.

But in his heart, he was dissatisfied with the navy, and he was still thinking about how to steal the limelight from the navy.

Now there is one more Zhang Wu, which can be regarded as a buffer between the young army and the navy, and Sunan has a gentle personality, which also makes Chu Dayun feel that this person is not difficult to deal with, so his face is much better.

Zhang Wu didn't care about their inner thoughts, and said: "Although the above has been roughly distributed according to the different personnel, but now our 1,200 people have to be grouped in detail, so I hope that the two of you can count the functions of their subordinates, and then report it, and we will carry out detailed grouping." ”

Sunan understood Zhang Wu's words and nodded. But Chu Dayun asked with some confusion: "What is the function?" ”

Zhang Wuleng paused for a moment and said, "It's everyone's role...... For example, scouts in the young army, celestial watchers, navigators in the navy, doctors, cooks, etc. ”

Chu Dayun understood and said, "My young army has 600 people, 500 musketeers, 100 sword and shield men, and 50 carts. Among them, there are ten scouts, and everyone can go into battle to kill the enemy and carry food in the back. But there are no other special personnel ......"

Sunan continued: "We have two hundred musketeers and four hundred sword and shield men, including three doctors, who are proficient in observing celestial phenomena, four surveyors, and one geological surveyor. ”

Each ship of the navy needs at least one person who can observe celestial phenomena and use a sextant, so Sunan brought four people, which did not surprise Zhang Wu.

He said: "I brought three people, everyone will observe the celestial phenomena, positioning, surveying and mapping, and we will reassign personnel in a while, now, let's group us first." ”

This exploration of the eastern part of Nanzhou, with Brisbane as the center, to the southwest and north of the three directions, each exploration team explored a straight-line distance of 400 miles, the time is half a month.

This is roughly a semicircle, and according to the angle of the semicircle, there are a total of fifteen exploration teams in this one hundred and eighty degrees, and each exploration team is responsible for searching the area within an angle of about twelve degrees.

And each exploration team of 1,200 people, no matter what situation they encounter, can easily cope with it.

However, it is impossible for all these 1,200 people to gather together, otherwise, it will be impossible to complete the task within half a month.

Because they not only have to go through it, but also have to make detailed statistics on the topography and landforms, mineral resources, and the gathering of natives in the places they pass.

So their 1,200 men were divided into the front army, the left army, the right army, the middle battalion, and the rear army.

Each department was two hundred men except for the middle battalion, and the middle battalion was about three hundred and fifty men, and another fifty people were responsible for liaison between the various departments.

And the personnel who are proficient in observing celestial phenomena and mapping maps, except for the rear army, are assigned one or two for each department.

By the time they finished marshalling, it was already noon.

At this time, the inner supervisor sent glass beads, cloth, combs, and other small things to each phalanx, and each phalanx received a large cart.

These were made easier for them to trade when they met the natives.

Then it is the distribution of military rations, dry food, meat and vegetables, cauldrons, this time as soon as you go out for half a month, each phalanx must prepare sufficient logistics materials.

Of course, it is also inseparable from the fireworks and smoke bombs used for communication, which can contact each other and rescue in case of emergency.

By noon, thousands of cauldrons on the banks of the river were making hot meals.

As soon as everyone had distributed the meals, Zhu Zhanji appeared, and his appearance also greatly boosted everyone's morale.

Subsequently, the 18,000 men set out in a majestic manner in accordance with the demarcated scope of exploration.

Their team in southern Jiangsu explored the range from 36 to 48 degrees from north to west, and this distribution was that they occupied Zhang Wu's light.

As Zhu Zhanji's cousin, Zhang Wu will of course be treated preferentially in some actions, this is not an unspoken rule, just a favor.

And within this range, there is the Yaleman copper mine that Zhu Zhanji knows about in the later generations.

At this time, they didn't know any of this at all, but because they were assigned this direction, they complained all day after day.

Brisbane is surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing the sea on one side, with the highest mountain being this one to the northwest.

Beyond this mountain range, there is the largest reservoir and two rivers.

Although their large army was able to bypass the mountain, the surveyors did not have this blessing, because they had to record the movement of the mountain in detail.

Although the mountain is not huge, the journey is also difficult for them.

It took them three days to cross the mountain, and by this time the detouring force had built an improvised wooden bridge over the river.

They were unlucky not to encounter a single tribe, and through the scouts' contact with other phalanxes, at least three teams had already discovered the natives.

The natives here were not rampant, one avoided them from a distance, and the other two had initial contact with the exploration team.

Being able to get in touch with the local natives, and according to the release of the mission, this exploration team will be meritorious.

But the most enviable thing is the two teams that are exploring south, they have just set off and found a gold mine not far from the base.

Although the size of the gold mine is uncertain now, the credit for the discovery of the gold mine is not small.

At this time, they encountered a second river in southern Jiangsu, the width of this river reached thirty meters, and it was impossible to build a bridge over the river, so they could only quickly cut down trees and make wooden rafts to cross the river.

Although it is winter here, the temperature is not low, and the personnel can cross the river by stripping naked, but there is no way to cross the river with the board cars and bags, so the wooden rafts must be made.

This work delayed them for another day, and compared to the other exploration teams, they were still fighting against God here, which was no one's luck.

However, since crossing the river, they have not encountered major difficulties, although there are no roads anywhere, but this is a grassland and hilly area, and the carts can pass unimpeded.

And here, too, they met a small tribe, which had very few people, less than three hundred, like a big family.

They, both men and women, wore clothes made of animal fur, and their clothes and legs were exposed.

Faced with the sudden appearance of the army, the people of the tribe gathered together in panic, women and children in the middle, and sturdy men outside.

Their weapons were very backward, and most of them had only sharpened wooden clubs in their hands, but everyone saw that they had gold ornaments hanging around their necks and waists, which looked very much like gold.

In the hands of their strongest men, they also carried golden knives, which were simply hammered, and it was impossible to tell whether they were made of gold or copper.

But Zhang Wu knew that it could only be gold, because these natives had no ability to smelt copper at all.

Zhang Wu ordered the whole army to be stationed, and he only took four of his skilled subordinates and walked towards each other.

Before he got closer, he held a few meatloaf and a string of glass beads in the air, making exchange gestures with the other party.

Seeing that the army did not come, the other party's mood eased a lot, and a few of them also came out, tentatively approaching Zhang Wu.

Zhang Wu put the meatloaf on the ground, and then took a few subordinates back about ten meters and watched the other party's movements.

One of the natives picked up a meatloaf, and Zhang Wu was overjoyed, making a gesture to send it to his mouth.

The native took a cautious bite, and the others looked at him intently, but he suddenly let out a scream that startled both of them.

He grunted and didn't know what to say, and then he ran back to his camp as fast as he could, dividing the meatloaf into several pieces, and giving one to each of the children.

(There is something to do today, I rushed a chapter, and tomorrow I will compensate for 8,000 words.) ）