Fanning and his entourage explored the New World for ten days, traveling thousands of miles, but did not find the local natives on the continent, and determined that this was a vast and unowned continent, at this time the Maori people had not yet entered this continent, and they were still on the Pacific Island, and there were no traces of human activities in the place where they explored.

The Song army erected a three-zhang high stone tablet in the name of the Great Song Dynasty Overseas Economic Strategy at the landing place, describing in detail the discovery of this continent, and at the same time announcing that this continent belonged to the Song Dynasty and was under the jurisdiction of the Great Song Dynasty Overseas Economic Strategy Mansion.

When they returned, the three large ships did not return from the original route, but went north from the east of the new main road, and directly discovered another large island, Irian Island, they traveled west along the coast of Irian Island, and saw countless vast uninhabited islands along the way, which shocked everyone, it turned out that there was still so much land overseas that had not been occupied, and there were so many resources.

Ten days later, when they reached the southernmost point of Mindanao, the captain pointed to the land in surprise and shouted to Fanning, "Envoy, there is another uninhabited continent ahead." ”

Fanning had been perfecting his map, and of course he knew where they were now?

Fanning laughed loudly at everyone: "This is not a no-man's continent, this is the southern island that has not yet been developed in Luzon Province, and it is the territory of our Great Song Dynasty, and we have arrived home." ”

After more than two months of sailing, everyone on the big ship cheered when they heard that they had finally arrived in Luzon.

But they soon found that although they had arrived at the Luzon Prefecture, they were still far from the Luzon Prefecture, and they had traveled north, looking for it, until they finally encountered a patrol ship of the Luzon garrison in the early morning of the third day.

The patrol ship was being brought to see Fanning, and he knelt down on one knee and gave a military salute, "Humble Ding Li to see the envoy!" ”

Fanning nodded and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

"Envoy Qi, under the orders of General Cao and Governor Zhang, draw a map of the whole island of Luzon."

Fanning suddenly became interested, "How many sentinel ships like yours are there?" ”

"Returning to the envoy, a total of twenty-five ships were dispatched, divided into two tasks, fifteen sentinels were responsible for surveying the natives one by one, and the other ten were responsible for drawing maps."

With that, he presented Fanning with a map of the Luzon Islands he was carrying.

Fanning took the picture book and looked at it carefully, the Luzon government has been investigating the entire Luzon Island for the past two years, and the basic outline has come out, and this time the sentinel ship came out mainly to improve the details.

He found a strait in front of him marked with the word 'important' in red, and he asked, "What's going on with this strait?" ”

"This is the task of this trip south, to find the strait to the east, although many islands in Luzon are relatively broken and narrow, but they are connected together, ships cannot pass through, this strait is more critical, if we do not enter from here, we have to detour to the northernmost part of Luzon, and then go south around a big bend to reach the west of Luzon Bay, which will take more than a thousand miles." ”

Fanning nodded and smiled: "If we hadn't met you, we would definitely have to take the wrong road, and the sentinel ship will lead the way in front!" ”

"Yes!"

The team was returning to the sentinel ship and guiding the fleet through the strait and into the inland sea, where they continued to pass through islands large and small, the terrain was very difficult, but after two years of exploration, the islands were largely clear.

A few days later, the fleet finally arrived in Xinyan County, Luzon Province, in the middle of September, three months after the Song army launched a war against the Srivijaya Kingdom.

Zhang Nan personally came to the dock to welcome Fan Ning's return, he saw the black, thin and haggard Fan Ning, and greeted him with a smile, "Fan Envoy, there has been no news for several months, and the imperial court is in a hurry." ”

Fanning smiled bitterly and shook his head, "It's a great luck that we can come back alive, send a pigeon letter to the imperial court!" ”

Luzon and the Song Dynasty also established a pigeon letter system, the carrier pigeon first to the northernmost Xinding County, and then from Xinding County to the southernmost Ryukyu Prefecture to Ryunan County, from the Ryunan County directly to Quanzhou, about two days or so.

"The pigeon letter has been sent, so that you will go with me into the city to rest."

Compared with two years ago, Xinyan County has changed dramatically, with a population of 10,000 households and nearly 60,000 people, and has become the government of Luzon, in addition to the construction of Xin'an County in the middle reaches of the Luzon River, Xinping County in the northernmost part of Luzon, Xintang County on the peninsula south of Luzon, and Xu County on the western coast.

There are five county towns on the entire island of Luzon, with a population of 30,000 households, and there are more than 100,000 temporary laborers.

Fifty thousand Japanese laborers expanded more than 600 miles north along the banks of the Luzon River, cutting down millions of trees and opening up millions of hectares of arable land.

At present, the work of Japanese laborers is no longer infrastructure, but incarnated as grain planters, cane planters, and cotton pickers, and Luzon Province has three largest sugar cane plantations and the largest cotton forest in the Great Song Dynasty.

Agriculture mainly grows rice and sugar cane, as well as the collection of cotton, Luzon has become the largest sugar supply base in the Song Dynasty, sugar technology has been very developed in the Song Dynasty, there is a government-run sugar mill in Luzon Province, this year's input of the Song Dynasty frost sugar up to 700,000 catties, cotton is close to one million quintals, grain output is more than three million stones, gold million taels.

Speaking of gold, we have to mention the mining industry in Luzon, which not only has gold and copper mines, but also discovered a rich iron ore with large reserves and extremely high quality in the south last year.

To this end, the Great Song Salt and Iron Division and the Overseas Economic Strategy jointly recruited 100,000 miners in the Great Song Dynasty to open mines in Luzon, mainly for the development and smelting of gold, copper and iron.

For two days, Fanning, accompanied by the prefect Zhang Nan, inspected the county seat, wharves, farms, mines, and sugar cane plantations.

Fanning sighed: "I didn't expect that in just three years, Luzon Mansion would change so much. ”

"The key is to have the support of the imperial court, so there will be so many manpower to do things."

"It's also profitable, otherwise those guys in the court won't care."

Fanning smiled and said: "This time I go back, the overseas Jiedu Mansion wants to expand the army, like Luzon Mansion, the army must be 10,000 people, the south can be developed, and large oarboats must be developed, this is my biggest experience, without oarboats, just relying on sails, you can't go far." ”

After resting for two days, early the next morning, Fanning's three large ships followed the large ship carrying frosted sugar and grain north.

Autumn in Quanzhou was a little cooler, and Fanning finally returned to Quanzhou after more than five months of absence.

His home was no different from when he left a few months ago, except that his five children had grown up for a few more months, and the mother's kindness, the child's innocence, and the tenderness of his wife had greatly soothed his tired body and soul for several months, as if the delicate and warm spring rain moistened the dry land.

When he got home, he stayed at home and didn't want to come out, of course, he could only think about it.

Early the next morning, Fanning went out to go to the official office of Jinglu Mansion, and he was just about to get into the carriage, but unexpectedly found that the wheels of the carriage had changed, just like the picture he had drawn, with inner tubes and outer tires, and the workmanship was quite exquisite.

Zhu Pei said with a smile: "This is a few days ago Mingli brought someone to get it, with a few pieces of soft skin, saying that it was taught by the husband in Nanyang, it is indeed very comfortable, the car is not bumpy at all, and the speed is also fast." ”

The coachman also gave a thumbs up and praised: "This thing is really good, we drivers know it best, it's so convenient." ”

In fact, Fanning is more concerned about how the valve core is made, and he will go to the commercial house to take a good look later.

Fanning said goodbye to his wife and got into the carriage to go to the official office.

The government office was very busy, and the officials of the Ryukyu Prefecture, Luzon Prefecture, and Baozhou, three new pieces of land, hundreds of thousands of people and laborers, countless materials and wealth, and all kinds of complicated things made the officials of the Overseas Economic and Strategic Prefecture very busy.

However, the return of the envoy still caused a great sensation, and the officials ran out to welcome the envoy back, and the deputy envoy Li Mu stepped forward and saluted: "We received news from the Luzon government that the envoy had returned, who had been missing for several months, and everyone was very happy. ”

Fanning smiled and said, "It's true to find an excuse to drink and party!" ”

Everyone laughed, Fan Ning waved his hand and said: "This time I visited the South Seas, and found a lot of uninhabited islands, rich in resources, vast land, staggering, which means that the overseas economic strategy will have greater achievements, everyone, you must be mentally prepared to go overseas and create a new country in the Great Song Dynasty." ”