Listening to Lao Ding's words, Yang Meng was also relieved, this boundary is good, in the valley, dozens of miles of Pingchuan, there are also coal, iron and copper veins, the waterway transportation is good, and the predecessors opened a good mountain road, not to mention, it is still behind Yangjiawuzhuang, as long as you put the valley mouth by yourself, it will be a world of its own.

"Let's go! Let's go and have a look first, bring good food and tents, and if we can't figure it out, we're going to spend the night in the mountains tonight. ”

It takes a day or two to survey a valley, and Yang Meng is familiar with it before, and he has been busy recently in order to build his own industry as soon as possible.

"Third master, let's go back to Wuzhuang at night! Your injuries have not healed yet, and you are afraid that your injuries will recur after staying in the mountains and forests overnight. ”

If it was just in the past, now that Yang Meng is injured, Ding Baojun can't let him sleep in the mountains and forests, in case the injury occurs, it will be difficult to treat in the mountains.

"It's okay! The wound has begun to itch last night, and it will heal in three or two days, and living in the mountains and forests will not get in the way! ”

For his injury, Yang Meng cares more about his injury than anyone else, a wound in the back of his head, after only three days, began to converge, this body is absolutely superb.

Ding Baojun knew that the third master was stubborn, so he didn't say much, but just instructed the swordsmen to start preparing for the next few days.

This preparation was a morning, Yang Meng also changed into a short dress, went into the mountains and wore a horse coat, a fool is so playful!

During this period, there was an episode, Ma Qinghu's sister-in-law Qinglian kept shouting that she wanted to go with her brother, Ma Qinghu doted on her sister-in-law, never beat and scolded, and could only let her mess around.

Yang Meng tried to go up and say a word, but he didn't expect this little Qinglian to be well-behaved, and immediately stopped making noise, a group of old men went out, and it was inconvenient to take a woman, Tang Meiyi was also left in Wuzhuang, just accompanying Ma Qinglian.

Ding Baojun was well prepared, and the group began their journey, Jiang Shu said first that this place is good, this valley mouth is located on the main road into Xishan, the road into the valley is not only flat but also wide, and several carriages are more than enough in parallel.

The mountain entering the valley mouth is steep, and as Jiang Shuxian said, the entire valley mouth can be blocked with iron cannons.

"Uncle Ding, do we have an iron cannon at home?"

Yang Meng's question frightened Ding Baojun, and he asked what the iron cannon was doing, this thing was a forbidden weapon of the imperial court, and in Yang's martial arts, there were a few privately cast small iron cannons, which was the secret of only a few people who knew the Tao!

Isn't this realm a shoe factory? If you put in an iron cannon, you will become a bandit stockade.

Seeing that Ding Baojun was silent, Yang Meng also had a bottom in his heart, this thing the Yang family really has, entering the valley, it is a horse Pingchuan, the land at the bottom of the valley is a little barren, and the grass and trees are not vigorous, except for a few smoke in the mountains, this is definitely a boundary that meets Yang Meng's wishes.

"Lao Jiang, are there only two roads in front and back into this valley?"

Looking at the stretching mountains, Yang Meng didn't want to bother to check it, so he asked Jiang Shu directly to save trouble.

"Third master, except for the front and back valley mouths, there are cliffs on both sides, and it is not impossible to enter the valley from there, but there is no rope on it, and the cliff is categorically impossible to climb."

After a general understanding of the topography of the valley, Yang Meng took people and began to wander around, building factories in the valley, which is a bit eye-catching, and it is best to have a place with many trees and dense forests to block the factory.

"Lao Jiang, is there a wooded boundary in this valley that is easy to hide? It is best to be able to cover the house! ”

This is stumped Jiang Shuxian, the land in this place is barren, and the grass can't grow, let alone the trees, but in the early years, he heard the legend that there is a bottomless cave here, and I don't know if it can satisfy Yang Sanye.

"Third master, there is no place with lush forests, I don't know if the cave can do it?"

This sentence suddenly made Yang Meng's eyes burst into brilliance, what a place! Great place! There are caves, that's the best thing, in the middle of the valley, training people, and it happens to protect their own factories, which is really a good place.

"Where? Take me to see it. ”

Yang Meng grabbed Jiang Shuxian's hand and was about to go, but Lao Jiang was depressed, he had only heard of the rumors of the cave, except for a few mines in front of this valley, other places were barren and inaccessible, so let himself tell where the cave was, isn't it embarrassing?

"Third master, I've only heard of it before, and I haven't seen this cave either."

"That's not bad, at least you gave a clue. Uncle Ding, let people search the mountain, mark the cave when they find it, let's go in and explore. ”

Under Ding Baojun's command, more than 20 knife men rode into the depths of the valley, looking at the more than 30 people around him, Yang Meng urged Lao Dingjia to send people, if he found a suitable cave, it would be perfect.

In order to protect Yang Meng's safety, Ding Baojun left ten knife men, and the rest were all sent to find the cave, most of these knife men are Yi Zhuang mountain people, who are extremely familiar with the mountains and forests, at most a day or two, as long as there is a cave here, they will definitely find it.

"Third master, how is this realm, if you want, I will check if there is a master in this valley, if there is no owner, we can also let the government get a land deed. The cave swordsmen will investigate, so let's go back to Wuzhuang first! The area of this valley is not small, and it will take a day or two to complete the whole exploration, so we can go back and prepare pine torches or something. ”

When Yang Meng heard this, he just went back and asked the shoemaker to make a pair of military boots, and he had to make two sets of clothes.

The location of this valley, Yang Meng was very satisfied, and after going back, he gave Jiang Shuxian two hundred Yingyang, which was counted as a reward, this old Jiang was also fifty years old, without his mother-in-law, with these Yingyang at home, there was nothing to worry about, he simply moved to Wuzhuang, if there was such a good thing, it would be more convenient.

Another one is that the food in Wuzhuang is good, and he lives at home, and he has to spend his own money to get food, but in Wuzhuang, he is still full without spending money, and the living environment is a hundred times stronger than his own thatched house.

Yang Meng's team, so there is another half-old man.

The Golden Triangle is also an opium planting area, and it is close to Yunnan, Yang Meng planned to ask, but when he asked Jiang Shuxian, Yang Meng was angry.

The Golden Triangle was occupied by the British, and most of the opium there flowed into the Qing Dynasty, in order to fully control the Golden Triangle, the British also cut Kokang and Banhong counties in the Jiangning Treaty, and now Burma is also a province of India.

For geography, Jiang Shuxian is very familiar, he is also familiar with the situation around Yunnan, when the Qing Dynasty cut off the four counties of Kokang, it was the old governor Wu Qijun at that time, many people around the country couldn't stand it, the local officials Minzhuang organized their own Blue Flag Army to fight against foreigners, these Blue Flag Army is familiar with the terrain, but also let the foreign devils at a loss, so they hit the idea on the court, the court is also a subordinate, dare not deal with foreigners, but ordered Yungui to suppress the Blue Flag Army, in order to suppress the Blue Flag Army, Jiang Shuxian also went there.

Just after leaving Governor Wu, Lao Jiang's life deteriorated, and he was finally squeezed out of the ranks of scribes and lived a difficult life. Now Lao Jiang also knows that what is not the court is the most important thing is to live well, as long as Yang Meng gives money, there is nothing that cannot be sold in him.

Yang Meng also knew from Lao Jiang's mouth, this old scribe knew that every vein in Yunnan in the Qing Dynasty was needed, and Yang Meng may have paid a lot of money, as long as Lao Jiang recorded these, he would give him a thousand eagles.

But now Lao Jiang's main task is to develop the Xishan Valley with himself, as long as his own drug-making workshop is built and things have a market, then he can encroach on Yunnan step by step.

Although they don't know much about the history of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight-Nation Alliance beat the Qing Dynasty, and Yang Meng still knows it.

If the drug trade goes well, I also have to look at the equipment of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and see what kind of firearms are being used now.

These things are still far away from themselves, the most important thing now is to explore the valley and establish a drug factory, as for opium, it can't be planted yet, it really can't be done, so he will go out and rob it, as for spending money to buy, Yang Meng has no such plan, he also plans to rob those who sell opium, and with his own means, he will ensure that his ancestors are also sold for eight generations.

It took three days to make military boots and clothes, and Yang Meng's team is now equipped with the outfits designed by Yang Meng himself. This design is simple, it is suitable for the military uniform of the Golden Triangle region, it is nothing more than an extra half-length cardigan.

Looking at his body, Yang Meng was still quite satisfied, with a black cotton military uniform, slightly ugly military boots, and a wide armed belt at the waist, the difference was a good gun.

In order to defend himself, Yang Meng found some short swords, but this thing is too unlucky, Yang Meng took the opportunity to draw a few patterns, let Ding Baojun, find a blacksmith to build a few, more than a foot long saber, because it is wrought iron, these knives, made very heavy, Yang Meng's physique is strong, extremely powerful, it is very easy to use, other knife hands think this short knife is too heavy.

There was also good news from the West Mountain, and I searched the entire valley and found eight or nine caves, some of which were mine caves of unknown age, and only three large caves.

The three big caves are definitely good news, Yang Meng got the news, and rushed back to Xishan with everyone.

The three are all karst caves, two of which are suitable for Yang Meng's needs, due to their age, they have long become dry caves, and there is still water in one of them, but it is too deep, and those knife hands can't probe to the end.

The water cave can not be used, the two dry caves, a hole is very large, although the space inside is not small, but the ups and downs are too big, it is not a good place, the hole is a little smaller, it is in line with Yang Meng's mind, this karst cave, is located on the mountainside, it is divided into three sections, each section has thousands of square meters, the place that separates each section of the karst cave is only more than ten meters high, and it is just right to make a wooden fence gate.

The ground of the cave is rugged, Yang Meng also has a solution, in the cave with logs to build a platform, the flat mountain stone is just a fire, and there is a small hole at the bottom of the innermost cave, which just discharges the smoke produced during drug production to the ground, so that the entire drug making workshop is perfectly hidden in the deep mountains.

With this place, you can use the local method to make poison, although the yield is a little lower, the quality of the product is poor, but the harm of this thing is not small at all, and besides, I don't plan to spend money to buy opium, looting is the best way to deal with those drug dealers, with enough raw materials, these are not a problem.

With the territory, the next step is to develop the formula and train the manpower, Yang Meng, who has a lot of things, has a headache, but in terms of manufacturing tools, Yang Meng has encountered trouble.