Two days later, the Liang family's fleet secretly set off for Qiongzhou.

For this expedition-like journey, the Liang family made a lot of preparations, and the fleet that set off this time was loaded with materials for the construction of docks and warehouses, more than 30 construction workers, construction tools and food supplies, and more than a dozen guards with guns. Qiongzhou belongs to the tropical mountainous area, although I have not heard of lions and tigers and other fierce beasts, but the necessary force still has to be prepared, the most terrible thing in the tropical mountains and forests is snakes and insects and other poisons, for this reason the Liang family specially brought two snake catchers and a snake doctor in case of accidents, Liang Young Master also deliberately made some snake catching rods, and when the time comes, there is a person who goes into the mountains to explore.

After a day and night, the boat arrived at the west coast of Qiongzhou Island, traveled north along the coastline, traveled 50 or 60 kilometers, and found the mouth of the Changhua River. The northern part of the Changhua River is the station of Changhua Town in the later generations, and now there should be fishermen living there, so Master Liang is going to build a marine wharf on the south bank of the Changhua River, and there are no people to see here now. This marine terminal is only a transit terminal, which is convenient for large ships to dock, and transportation deep into the mainland needs to be replaced by small boats of less than 200 tons, which travel upstream along the Changhua River.

The Liang family's fleet was three large ships of more than 1,000 tons, which could not enter the channel of the Changhua River, but their large ships carried two small wooden boats of three tons, and the explorers could take small boats up the river.

So the young master Liang and the fifth uncle went their separate ways, the fifth uncle took the workers and half of the guards to build a shed on the seaside, and stayed to build a dock and warehouse, while the young master Liang and the master Tieqiao San took the other half of the guards, as well as the snake doctor and the snake catcher, and took two small boats up the river to find a suitable place to build a base. The fifth uncle made an appointment with him that he must return to the mouth of the sea within three days, because there is no modern means of communication, and he can only confirm whether it is safe in this way. This time, fortunately, Tieqiao San was there, otherwise the fifth uncle would definitely not agree to him leading the team on an expedition.

Their small boat is rocked by two boatmen, the speed of the boat is quite fast, convenient and saves physical strength, if you walk to the Shiroku Iron Mine in three days, it is good. At noon, I found the fork estuary of Changhua River and Shilu River, there is a large area of mountains on the east bank of the fork estuary, with a radius of four or five square kilometers, this is the location of the training base that Young Master Liang fancies, the east side of this mountain is leaning on a mountain peak, called Russian Ridge, there are a large number of limestone mines around Russian Ridge and Russian Ridge, there is also a mountain peak on the east side of Russian Ridge, called Jinniu Ridge, and the northern foot of Jinniu Ridge is the location of Shilu Iron Mine.

The boat turned into the Shilu River, drove for about an hour, and encountered a big bend of nearly 180 degrees, this big bend is located in the valley between the Russian Ridge and the Jinniu Ridge, and there is a flat land of three or four square kilometers between the river and the valley, and this location is where the young master Liang is going to build a steel factory, a cement factory and a military factory.

The two mountainous areas found are blessed with unique conditions, close to iron and limestone mines, and have the convenience of water transportation, and it is not realistic to rely on the strength of the Liang family to build railways and roads here at present, and it is too time-consuming. This construction plan was determined after thinking and verifying it in his mind for a long time, and it was the most time-saving and trouble-saving method under the existing conditions

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His master wondered, saying that he was here for an adventure, so why did he become a sightseeing boat tour: "Han'er, have you been here before?"

"I haven't been here, Master, do you think it's too simple, the most important thing for us to find a location is convenient access to transportation, and there is concealment, here are barren mountains and mountains, needless to say, just find a suitable flat land next to this waterway, there may be such a place, but it is too far away for us to be inconvenient."

"Then let's go ashore and have a look," Tieqiao thought to himself, so he had to go down and have a look.

"Well, let's go down. In fact, it is easy to find a place, but it is difficult to build it. Except for stone and wood, everything else had to be transported from Guangzhou, including workers and food, which had to be brought from far away Guangzhou, so we had to look around to see if there were any mountain people, and if they could buy vegetables and fruits, so as to facilitate future supplies."

Tieqiao San thought about it, it was very troublesome to build a base in the barren mountains.

Under the command of Young Master Liang, the group made leggings, tied their sleeves, put on their hats, and each had a snake catching rod, and got off the boat to inspect two flat lands. These two flats are nothing to look at, they are not construction designers, they just walk around the flatland, go around and finish.

Get on the boat and continue to go up the river, more than an hour later, you will see the place where the market looks, this is the location of Shilu Town, the county seat of Changjiang County in later generations, Shilu Town is because of the rise of Shilu iron mine, now the iron mine has not been developed, there is no town here, however, there is a market is already very good, at least you can camp here tonight.

The bazaar is not big, there are more than 30 simple houses, the houses are made of stone and wood, it looks quite solid, there are no decent streets, only a small rectangular flat land, and some stone platforms are scattered on the flat ground, which looks a little like a bazaar. But today, the bazaar was empty, and Young Master Liang looked at it, this might be the smallest and most humble bazaar in his impression.

They found a fellow countryman and inquired about the situation here, but they didn't expect that they couldn't communicate, and the two sides didn't understand the language! This Qiongzhou and they belong to the same Guangdong Province, but the language is not understood, and later the fellow took them to find a younger middle-aged man, who knew a little Cantonese, and the two sides exchanged words and gesturing.

It turns out that this is the largest Li village in the vicinity, just more than 30 families, more than 100 people, all of them are Li people, and there are more than a dozen villages within a radius of 50 miles, and the total population is less than 1,000 people.

Young Master Liang told him that they were sent by the imperial court to open mines here, and that in the future there will be many people living in the mountains downstream, and want to buy some vegetables and fruits from them, and then entrust him to buy vegetables and fruits nearby, and will give him a generous reward, and take out two copper coins and two or three taels of broken silver on the spot, as the accommodation expenses of more than a dozen of them today, and ask him to arrange, but he is required to keep it secret and not disclose it to others, otherwise not only will his client be dismissed, but the court will also arrest his whole family, The man was so frightened by him that he resignedly agreed.

This is also the best way that Young Master Liang thought of in order to keep it secret, he can't kill people, he is not a brute, and he can't do a tragic thing like a Japanese devil slaughtering a village. In this way, you can also find a procurement channel for vegetables and fruits, after all, vegetables and fruits are not fresh from Guangzhou, and the cost is expensive.

If the Japanese had done something, it was estimated that these mountain people would have been wiped out. Although they tried their best to deny the many things that the Japanese had done in China, the sun and the moon were clear, and there were many corpses and bones, and they could not cover them up. Many people who travel to Japan say that Japan is a civilized country and that its citizens pay attention to etiquette, but they do not know that they only see the surface as a tourist. In a shot of the brain, a Japanese man bowed respectfully to another Japanese, offered a sword in both hands, and said in his mouth: "Please go on the road with peace of mind!" "Yes, they're polite to persuade people to die, but are you okay with that? They have cruelty and cruelty in their bones!