Yang Wenli didn't need to worry much about making the bow, he wanted to cast the Yang knife, and if the situation was good, he also wanted to make steel armor. On the battlefield, no matter how good the martial arts are, it is difficult to prevent accidents, and a good armor can significantly improve the survival rate of soldiers.

Making armor is not to cast a few Yang knives, it costs a lot of iron, and there must be iron ore. Therefore, Yang Wenli commanded Yang Rentian, who was in charge of guarding the meeting hall: "Rentian, you go and ask the people in the whole cottage to see if anyone knows where there is an iron mine around Happy Valley?" ”

"Yes," Yang Rentian went to ask someone after the military salute.

There were so many people in the whole village, scattered to work in various places, especially those tuntian soldiers who were still taking care of the crops in the valley below, so Yang Rentian didn't ask all of them until dinner.

"Big boss, I asked, no one knows, no one can even identify iron ore, Shanzhai has never mentioned this matter before." Yang Rentian reported the results of the investigation to Yang Wenli.

"None? That's troublesome, I don't know iron ore either, even if I send people to look around, we can't tell if it's iron ore. Hearing this bad report, Yang Wenli said very sadly.

The iron ore in the Ming Dynasty was basically government-run, and the people who knew how to explore mineral deposits were basically in the government system, and the court had a special mine to supervise this kind of people, and there was no modern developed capital, people could not get in touch with this knowledge, and there were very few people who could identify iron ore.

These bandits are all people who don't know a lot of words, how can they prospect for minerals? Yang Wenli thought about it carefully, and it was clear.

It is not advisable to kidnap this kind of miners, the first is that Yang Wenli does not want to alarm the government and become a traitor who the court wants to get rid of as soon as possible.

Second, although Rentian and his ten family members have a very high force value, which can be said to be perverted, they are all learning the skills of killing people on the battlefield, and if they really want to fight with people in the rivers and lakes or martial arts masters, they are also the targets of instant killing.

That is, sending one or two out alone to carry out the execution, their own lives cannot be guaranteed.

The nearest iron mine to this place is Daye Iron Mine, which is a long way away, which is a difficult thing to complete.

Besides, these ten young family members are his heart, and he can't bear such pain if he loses one, and he won't send them to do anything risky.

Of course! The conditions of the cottage are many times better than that of Maoshan Chong, there are all kinds of weapons in the cottage, as well as iron farming tools snatched from outside the mountain, and the iron material of a Yang knife is more than enough for each person.

But this time is different, at most this time next year, when the training of these slave soldiers and slave tuntian soldiers reaches a certain time, he will lead some people to the north to open up two territories.

This is a long-planned plan, with a strict time limit, and it must not be changed in the middle of the process.

When you go to the north, you are not a bandit like tofu scum, Jiannu is not a good scumbag, their archery skills are also very clever, not to mention a hundred shots, the probability of hitting is also very high, there are many born Jurchens in Jiannu, they are all savage tribes living in the primeval forest, good at hunting, and excellent archery.

When stepping on such an enemy, a good suit of armor is a must. Otherwise, the casualties would be too great for him to bear.

The problem is back to the original point, in the final analysis, you still have to find iron ore, but there is no way to do it for a while, Yang Wenli wants to try his luck by himself.

Although he didn't know iron ore either, at least he knew that iron ore was heavier than ordinary stones, and had color, and finding some ores to come back and smelt them one by one, although it was tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, it was better than being helpless.

……

"Rentian, call Shang Renhong, let's go hunting again today." The next morning, Yang Wenli was already fully armed and commanded Yang Rentian.

"Yes," Yang Rentian went to prepare after saluting.

Hunting is just a poaig, his real idea is to find iron ore, looking for iron ore and hunting are actually a bit contradictory, looking for iron ore has to go to the stone mountains to find it, those places are sparse grass and trees, and there must not be much prey.

There are many stone mountains in Dabie Mountain, the population is extinct, and the beasts are scarce, along the way, Yang Rentian, who was very puzzled in his heart, couldn't help but say: "Big boss, it seems wrong to come in this direction for hunting!" ”

"Huh! The hunting is only incidental, I mainly come to look for iron ore, let's go, let's go to the cliff in front of us. Yang Wenli replied with a smile.

It is indeed looking for a needle in a haystack, Yang Wenli stared at the rock formation for a long time, and he didn't see a name, it seems to be almost the same, blue-gray color, he, a layman, also knows that there is no iron ore.

The day passed like this, and except for a few pheasants and hares, there was no shadow of iron ore.

In the next few days, he still took Rentian and Renhong to shuttle in the mountains, but he still did not see the suspected iron ore veins, but there were also unexpected gains, he found quartz sand and feldspar ore with relatively high purity, which were basically bare on the surface and easy to mine.

Those two ores were the ores he needed to develop bone china, so he knew each other. As for the plaster clay in many places, the raw materials for firing a large number of bone china have finally been found.

However, he has not yet thought about burning bone china, and if he does not find iron ore, he will not be able to sleep well. In the days to come, as long as it wasn't a rainy day, he would take Rentian and Renhong out every day to find iron ore, and he would not give up if he didn't find the iron mine.

The days went by like this, and the time entered June, and the weather became hotter and hotter.

One day, after trekking through mountains and rivers in the mountains, going down the ditch and going up the ridge for dozens of miles, Yang Wenli sweated profusely, and his whole body was soaked. When he happened to walk to a stream in the valley, Yang Wenli said to Rentian and Ren: "The weather is too hot, let's take a shower." ”

Rentian and Rendi are not iron arhats, and they are also so hot that they are sweating profusely, so they hurriedly agree.

Several people stripped naked and walked naked into the creek, which was located in the depths of Dabie, had never been polluted in any way, the water was crystal clear, and the small fish in the river were swimming tirelessly, probably from the place where humans had never been, and these small fish were not afraid of life, and swam at the feet of several people.

Yang Wenli looked at the small fish around him like a strange thing, and thought it was very interesting, but suddenly, he found that the sand in the creek was a little abnormal, it was not yellow, nor white, but strangely black. This is very rare in nature, Yang Wenli was curious, so he fished a handful from the water and put it in the palm of his hand to take a closer look.

This fishing, Yang Wenli noticed that something was wrong, it was completely different from the weight of sand, it was much heavier, and the precipitation was like holding a piece of iron.

Yang Wenli was immediately excited, stepping through the iron sheet and finding nowhere to go, it took no effort to get it, this may be the iron ore he wants to find day and night, no, it should be said that it is iron ore.

…… To be continued