Takashi Noguchi and his followers hurriedly ate two bowls of udon noodles in the noodle shop, and didn't care about tasting the taste that was better than Kamakura's, and the price was more expensive, so he went to the whale processing factory.

There they were simply stunned.

The Japanese aristocracy did not eat the meat of wild beasts, but the fish still had to be eaten.

The big nobles mainly ate fresh fish, while the small and medium-sized nobles mainly ate salted fish.

Eating a bowl of chazuke and a dry and salty salted fish is definitely a symbol of status and status.

But it was the first time that Takashi Noguchi had seen such a big giant fish on land, and the giant fish lying on the ground was even taller than him!

And in the so-called whale processing factory, there are as many giant fish on the ground!

The laborers there stood on the back of the giant fish, holding a shiny machete and slashing wildly, cutting through the skin of the giant fish more than a foot thick, and then someone threw two large iron hooks at the bottom, and then a dozen people pulled desperately, and a large piece of whale skin was pulled down, and the bottom was snow-white grease.

Someone swung a knife and slashed off, cutting off pieces of grease, revealing the bright red flesh inside------ in Noguchi's opinion, this whale processing factory exudes a terrifying momentum.

His henchmen's legs were weak------

As they left the whale processing plant, they heard the rumbling thunder in the mountains not far away------ and Noguchi looked up at the sky, where it was cloudless and the summer sun was scorching.

The sky is cloudless and thundering------ this place is very strange!

At this time, he heard a vendor carrying a wooden barrel on his back and shouting: "Flowing for ice and snow sugar water, a cup of three cents!" ”

He immediately felt thirsty, and before he had heard of any begging for ice and snow sugar water, he immediately bought a cup.

Sure enough, it was cold and sweet, and it was very delicious, so I bought another cup.

He asked, "Are you from Jingshui Town?" ”

The vendor said, "No, I bought the crushed ice from the Liuqiu Ice Vault!" ”

"They're ice for the winter?"

"No, I heard that I made my own ice -------."

There are even means to make ice in the summer!

Takashi Noguchi decided to take a closer look at this place, and when he reported to the head of the family, Tokikuni Hojo, he would be able to be more comprehensive.

Unbeknownst to him and his henchmen, a man was quietly following behind them.

Hu Dayang, the head of security at New Oriental, and Hu Zhennan arranged for his younger brothers, Drill Mouse and Hornless Ox, to manage the whale processing factory.

The factory was jointly run by the New Oriental Company and the Shimazu clan of Satsuma and the local Ouchi clan.

When it was first established, New Oriental Company was responsible for the ship, whaling tools, technicians, and management personnel, and the other two were responsible for the distribution and sales of labor and products.

From the time this whale processing plant was set up, the benefits were very good, and there was nothing on the whales that could not be sold for money, and the cost was not worth mentioning.

It's just that due to the lack of whaling capacity, the scale of the factory has not been able to rise.

It wasn't until this year that New Oriental waited for the production capacity of the Liuqiu shipyard to further increase, and ordered a few more whaling sailing ships, and the output began to increase.

One of the drill rats and hornless cattle is responsible for whaling, and the other is responsible for whale processing, and the two brothers have calculated, if they continue to develop like this, their bonuses and shares will be quadrupled within this year!

Follow Brother Hu to Japan to develop on the right path!

Japan is good, as long as a few of them pretend to be a little better, even Japanese samurai will respect them for three points!

They can be said to be from the Great Song Dynasty at any time, or they can be said to be from Liuqiu Island, which depends on the actual situation.

Like Brother Hu, they also built a Japanese-style house here, wore Japanese-style clothes, and of course their hairstyles and eating habits remained the same.

They all bought a few Japanese maids and could serve them well.

The obedience of those maids made them extremely happy!

There are also other merchants of all sizes who have followed them and have opened teahouses and restaurants here, but the location is not in the main shopping street of Iwami, but closer to the Iwami Silver Mine.

In fact, the Iwami Silver Mine is just a general term, and in addition to the silver mine, other minerals have been found there.

One of the most important is a copper-silver complex, which is only two miles apart, making it easy to mine together.

At that time, Hu Zhennan still regretted it, why not a copper-gold community, why not? !

The two sets of mineralized veins produced in the Iwami Silver Mine belong to the same mineralized system.

The ore fluid forms silver-bearing copper veins and mica alteration halos along the faults at depth, and then silver-rich silver mineralized veins and glacial feldspar alteration halos form due to boiling in the shallow areas.

Outwardly, due to the decrease in temperature, further lithification alteration zones rich in mixed minerals are formed, which decrease with the increase of distance from the hydrothermal center.

Compared with gold-silver veins in other areas, the metallogenic hydrothermal in this area has higher oxygen fugitives and salt concentrations.

Oxygen enrichment is good for the precipitation of ore-forming elements, but high salt concentrations are not conducive to gold precipitation.

As a result, only copper-silver deposits and not copper-gold deposits occur in this area.

Of course, he didn't understand the truth in any way.

Hu Zhennan actually wanted to smelt silver locally, the level of silver smelting in Japan at this time was definitely not possible, he could only secretly find the silver smelting craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty, if he could secretly refine some here, presumably the island master Zhang would not know anyway.

However, the craftsman said that it can be refined, but the scale of the factory must be large, and the early payment is not small------ this is not okay, Hu Zhennan thought about it, that would cause the jealousy of the Japanese, not to mention, maybe it would let Zhang Daozhu know, not good.

If Zhang Daoist was angry and ordered New Oriental to fire him and take back their brothers' shares, it would be terrible.

Hu Zhennan was wearing Liuqiu sunglasses, a silk satin kimono, stepping on clogs, and two followers, watching from a distance as the miners blew up the mine again.

It seems that this time there are more mines.

At this time, one of the followers of the Sky Mouse came to him, saying that he had something important to look for him.

Hu Zhennan helped Fuliu to ask for sunglasses, and finally took a look, there was nothing going on in the entire mining area, and there were still many samurai patrolling around.

With the support of two attendants, he pretended to go to the whale processing factory.

After seeing the eldest brother, he didn't care about seeing him, and said directly: "Big brother, I saw two strange people this time!" ”

Brother Hu Zhennan said: "Don't worry, if you have something to say, ------ slowly"

The Sky Mouse is a delicate man who says he saw two strangers next to the whale processing plant and felt something was wrong and sent someone to follow them.

Those two people are not engaged in business shopping, and they are not playing and relaxing, they are bent on looking around for news here, and they ask carefully!

The sky mouse said fiercely: "Big brother, I think they are very suspicious, do you want someone to do them?!" ”

"Hehe, aren't the guys who almost died last few times sent out by other daimyo to observe, and when the time comes, they will come to me in private again, don't care!"

However, Hu Zhennan's optimism did not last long, and about half a month later, a shocking news suddenly came, saying that the Kamakura Shogunate Archon Hojo Tokimune personally ordered that Iwami Province should be taken into custody of the Heavenly Domain, and all business contracts there would be expelled!

Brother Hu Zhennan said angrily: "Damn, it's the first time I've seen such a thing as a robbery!" I'm not convinced!! ”