The later Zelt copper mine is located at about 113.3 east longitude and 46.7 north latitude. It is the confluence of the steppe and the Gobi Desert, located in the heart of Mongolia, and there are also abundant groundwater resources nearby.

And here is about four hundred and fifty miles away from the city of Hulan, where the army is located, that is, the city of Genghis in later generations.

In his previous life, Zhou You launched his own survey satellites, earth remote sensing satellites, meteorological satellites, military satellites. He has some knowledge of most of the world's large mineral resources, and has been to Mongolia to investigate, so he has written down the general location of several large mines.

In later generations, this was a maximum of three hours by car. But in this steppe with no coordinates and no signs, it is not easy to find there.

Zhu Zhanji and his party of 10,000 cavalry, but they were light and simple, except for some iron pots to boil water, they didn't even bring cooks, and each of them carried rice and pancakes for five days.

The army will be ready to set out tomorrow, and by five days at the latest, the forward battalion will arrive at the Tula River with its baggage.

Although Zhu Zhanji did not oppose the withdrawal of troops, he wanted to use his actual interests to attract some troops to stay and form a deterrent to the entire grassland.

The Arabian horse that Zhu Zhanji rode could easily walk 150 kilometers a day, but the Mongolian horse ridden by others could not. So this journey is expected to take two full days to complete.

On the first day, he set out at dawn, rested for an hour at noon, ate and fed the horses, and by the time it was dark, he had traveled almost 120 kilometers.

The next day's journey was only a hundred kilometers away, and before dark everyone arrived near their destination.

However, Zhu Zhanji did not go directly to his destination, but stationed his army near a small tributary of the Tula River.

On the march on the steppe, a clean source of water is always paramount.

Except for Zhu Zhanji, no one actually cares whether there is a copper mine or not. Everyone is willing to come with him, and they pay more attention to having a relationship with Zhu Zhanji, the grandson.

Anyway, Zhu Zhanji said whatever he said, and no one questioned his decision.

Zhu Zhanji likes this state, because if someone really asks him how he knows that there is a copper mine here, he really can't say.

He didn't study surveying in modern times, and when he came to ancient times, he only went to the Ministry of Industry to build horizontal knives again, and chatted with a group of miners about some soil methods for prospecting in this era.

The Zelt Copper Mine was not located on flat ground, but was surrounded by a number of small hills, which were not in the middle of the route of the army.

If you want to say that after a few miles, you can see whether there is a copper mine there, even the old master is not sure, let alone his grandson.

These people don't object, and they are willing to mess around with him because he is a grandson. And Zhu Di probably thought that he wanted to sneak out to play, and he didn't want to detain him, so he let him go.

After two days of journey, everyone was exhausted, and the army cleared a field in the gravel by the river, set up the horses, and everyone coped with some dry rations, wrapped in blankets, and fell asleep in the open air.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji doesn't have to sleep in the open air, and although Li Liang and the others don't bring Zhu Zhanji a big wooden barrel to bathe every day, they still have a lot of hands to bring him a tent.

After a good night's sleep, Zhu Zhanji woke up early the next morning.

After the morning exercise, I drank a bowl of white porridge cooked by Li Liang and them, and ate a meatloaf with white porridge to solve my stomach problem.

Today is June 12, and the people of Si Tianjian first helped Zhu Zhanji calculate the specific time of appearance, and Zhu Zhanji then took out the sextant he made, and calculated the specific position of the current one according to the elevation angle of the sun.

This calculation has a fixed equation, which is much simpler than the popular astrology now, and the error is extremely low, the difference is only about a kilometer.

In contrast, the astrological technique is not only troublesome, but also the error difference of tens of kilometers and hundreds of kilometers is normal.

After testing the specific location of his own location, and referring to the location of the Zeelte copper mine in his memory, he quickly calculated that there was a difference of about three kilometers between the garrison and the copper mine.

After discerning the direction, Zhu Zhanji took 7,000 people and ran in the direction of the copper mine. "It's the low mountain to the northeast, let's go!"

Seven thousand horses galloped, the sound of horses' hooves, not to mention the wild wolves of the steppe, even the rats were frightened and did not dare to show their heads.

It was only a distance of three kilometers, and in a few minutes, Zhu Zhanji and the others had already come to the side of a low mountain with ordinary terrain.

In the eyes of people who don't know how to know, the geology here is not special, but Zhu Zhanji's half-bottle of water can see that the topography here is formed by a variety of different intrusive rocks and ejecta rocks squeezed in history.

Terrain like this generally forms a variety of minerals, and is generally a high-grade vein belt with rich reserves.

After riding on the horse and looking around the surrounding environment, Zhu Zhanji turned over and dismounted. "Spread out and look around, maybe you can find the dog's head gold, whoever finds it is whoever!"

Although most people didn't believe that gold could be found here, since Zhu Zhanji ordered to scatter the prospecting, everyone also dispersed.

Although the area here is not small, it is very easy to find a special place with 7,000 people spread out.

Several forging craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry who came with Zhu Zhanji became interested when they saw the terrain here.

In particular, Cao Daming, who was the director of the Yu Heng Division of the Ministry of Industry, was originally an expert in topographic survey, and when he saw the topography here, he said excitedly: "There is no grass in this place, the ground is green, mixed with bright yellow, and the stone layers are folded and folded, and the layers are distinct, which is clearly the existence of large mines." ”

Only then did Zhu Zhanji deliberately pretend to be complacent and said: "Lone Moon passed by, and when I was galloping, I saw that the terrain here was different. I thought that I had heard the craftsman say that the land of copper mountains was green in color, so I guessed that this was a copper mountain. ”

"Your Highness is not an ordinary person, and the minister passed by a few miles away that day, and he did not notice this place. This is really a blessing of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Don't be a sycophant, since you have found the location, you will investigate carefully, and strive to find the mining belt before the arrival of the army, so that my imperial grandfather will be happy." ”

"Yes!"

As a grandson, Zhu Zhanji certainly doesn't need to come to find mines himself. Now that the place has been found, the professional things are left to the professional people to operate.

In modern times, he manages several giant groups, with nearly 100,000 direct subordinates and more than several million affiliated enterprises.

In the area of decentralization, he did a relatively good job. As long as we firmly grasp the power of personnel management and grasp the direction of development, everything will go smoothly.

However, in modern times all people are for an economic purpose. In this era, it is also necessary to firmly control the military violence group, which is the basis of power.

The guards walked around the nearby grasslands, but they started to move so quietly that all the animals here were scared away, and not a single animal was hunted.

And the soldiers who are looking for mines here and there have found several pieces of dog's head gold in the nearby sand bed area.

Although Zhu Zhanji said that everyone found it and counted it as his own, no one dared to do so.

They are not afraid that Zhu Zhanji will not speak well, but they are afraid that their colleagues will be jealous and their bosses will wear small shoes. Instead of leaving these dogheads and waiting for the uncertain fate, it is better to hand them over directly, and you can also exchange them for military merits.

Of course, this is just those large pieces of dog's head gold, like those golden sands, everyone found a lot of them, and put them in their marching bags.

And not only these 7,000 soldiers, but also the 3,000 soldiers who stayed by the river heard about the gold they found, and they also ran over.

One by one, shirtless, each took up a place and began to dig the ground with knives in the pile of sand and gravel. Attracted by gold, without Zhu Zhanji's mobilization, one by one they became active miners.

"Li Dongbao. Liu Wan. ”

"The slave is here!"

"The two of you take a pair of guards, immediately return to Hulan and lose temperature, and tell the imperial grandfather what you have found here. Han Cheng sent ten people to follow them. ”

Everyone should be. Zhu Zhanji looked at the few pieces of dog's head gold that he handed over, took a small piece and threw it in Li Dongbao's arms. "You and Liu Wangang worked hard to come here, and now you have to run back, and this piece of gold will be rewarded to you."

The two little eunuchs were still a little depressed, but now they immediately smiled.

As for the guards, of course Zhu Zhanji will not miss it, there are ten of them, and Zhu Zhanji picked a bigger one for them.

The remaining few pieces of dog's head gold were wrapped, and Zhu Zhanji wrote another letter and asked them to bring it back together.

There are still a minimum of three days before the army can arrive.

The guards were busy hunting, and all they brought with them were pancakes and rice, and birds were out of everyone's mouths.

Only Zhu Zhan was trained in martial arts, so he couldn't lack nutrition, so he specially packed a bag of bacon and a few live chickens to supplement his nutrition.

Not only these, but also the eunuch specially brought Zhu Zhanji oral tonics, spices for barbecue, and wild hundred-year-old wild ginseng.

However, the number is limited, except for a few close people who follow Zhu Zhanji, and when Zhu Zhanji invites the generals to dinner, several high-ranking generals can only share a little bit each.

And Zhu Zhanji, in addition to fighting with a group of guards every day, is desperately exhausting himself from tossing, and then staying in the tent to meditate.

Since the killing and killing the day before yesterday was a little out of strength, Zhu Zhanji has felt that his body has changed significantly in the past few days.

In the past, according to the special breathing method, he always had to breathe for several weeks before he could feel the dantian, palms, and feet hot.

But these days, fever has become the norm.

In fact, everyone has a sense of qi, but most people can't feel it clearly, let alone drive it.

He has been meditating since he was six years old, and he has practiced for two lifetimes, so it is easy to enter the realm of forgetting things and self in this life.

Now ten years have passed, and it is finally time to accumulate and develop, from quantitative to qualitative change.

(I originally wanted to write some plots about practicing kung fu, but after thinking about it, I still forgot it, after all, it is not a martial arts fairy tale.) ）