Isn't it, just give it a try!

Exploring any county will have a county map reward, right? Let's start with Baigui County.

Xu Yin immediately asked people to find a local map.

I didn't care about eating lunch, so I buried my head in research.

At this time, the map was not as detailed as that marked by later generations, and the silk embroidery map was slightly yellowed, only briefly marking the locations of several major cities that could be reached by the official road, as well as significant mountains and waters such as mountains, rivers and lakes.

At present, she has only been to Yunshanzhai and Fucheng, and made a mark in these two places with charcoal.

But Baigui County has a vast area, and there are many remaining cities, if you want to explore them one by one, it is time-consuming and laborious, but the key is, will King Jinnan allow it?

She is about to marry him, and when she gets married, she runs around in a carriage, which ...... It's unrealistic!

This task is a bit difficult!

Xu Yin pinched her eyebrows with a headache.

"Girl, it's time to eat."

The emperor is big when he eats, Xu Yin puts his troubles aside and eats first.

Soon after eating, the child who sold her iron ore came.

Xu Yin had already heard about his family's situation from the guards:

This child is called Shanwa, his father is a mountain farmer, a while ago into the mountain accidentally broke his leg, the family's savings are not enough for him to treat his leg, his mother walked a night in the mountains two days ago to go back to his parents' house to borrow money did not borrow, but also was scolded by the sister-in-law, went home and fell ill.

"Everything is arranged at home?" Xu Yin asked him.

"It's all right!" Shanwa grinned happily, "The silver I brought back has already asked a doctor to treat my father's leg." My mother heard that this stone is useful to you, so I asked me to come over after eating. ”

"Is that far away?" Xu Yin poured him a cup of hawthorn water, this thing consumes food, and puts some honey, the taste is sweet and sour, children must like it.

"Not far."

Shanwa took a sip of hawthorn water, squinted happily, sweet and sour, delicious and delicious!

"If it's not far away, then let's go now? Mama, you send someone back to the palace to talk to the housekeeper, so as not to worry about the prince when you come back late. ”

After giving the order, she turned her head and saw that the mountain baby was still holding the hawthorn water to drink, Xu Yin couldn't help laughing:

"Don't drink so much at once, bring it if you like, and drink it when you're thirsty."

There was no need for her to command, Mama and Dongxue had already prepared the tea, melons, fruits and snacks to be brought for the trip.

In addition, a box of melon seeds and peanuts was thoughtfully packed to let the girl pass the time on the road.

It was the first time for Shanwa to ride a horse-drawn carriage, and the only means of transportation he had ever taken was an open-top ox cart.

Xu Yin grabbed a handful of melon seeds for him, chatted while snorting, and put small snacks such as peach crisp and cloud cake made by the imperial kitchen in the house brought out by Dongxue in front of him: "Let's talk while eating." ”

Shanwa ate a piece of fragrant and crispy peach shortbread, and ate a piece of soft and glutinous walnut cloud cake, and felt that she couldn't eat the nobleman's for nothing, so she knew everything and said everything she knew:

"My family used to live in that vicinity, and many of the mountains there were bare, and in some places the grass could not grow, let alone the crops, so we called it Bald Mountain. Later, there was a flood there, and many homes were flooded, and my family was too, so I had to move out.

But there is a treasure from my childhood, so every time my father goes back to worship my ancestors, I will go with him, and this red stone was dug in the cliff wall behind the ancestral grave. There are a lot of these stones over there......"

Xu Yin swallowed melon seeds, listened to Shanwa's chatter all the way, and brought him a snack from time to time. The child is sensible, although he is very greedy, but he does not dare to eat more.

People have tea to drink and talk about in the car, and they can't feel how far the distance is.

But in fact, they set out from Fucheng and arrived at the bald mountain that Shanwa said, and walked for at least an hour and a half.

Xu Yin: Isn't this far away?

Shanwa scratched her head: "It's not far, it's much closer than going to my grandmother's house." ”

“……”

Next is to climb the mountain, Xu Yin looked down at her embroidered shoes, eager to take out the sneakers in the double space.

In the end, the eldest brother of the guard went up and found the red stone cliff that Shanwa said, and dug a few stones of the same color with a dagger, and said that the cliff seemed to be full of stones of this color.

Xu Yin nodded secretly: It's hematite. I just don't know if the reserves are large, and if they are not big, there is not much development value.

As evening approached, she was struggling with whether to find a place to stay and continue to explore the bald mountain the next day, or rush back to Fucheng to fetch water and tea by the stream to bring back a group of people.

"Girl, the prince is here."

Catching up with that handsome and gentle familiar face, Xu Yin couldn't help but stand up: "Why are you here?" ”

"The housekeeper said that you came in the direction of Bald Mountain, is there something wrong? It's sparsely populated, so it's not a great place to travel. ”

Yan Kejin glanced at her without a trace as she spoke, except for the hem of her skirt that was a little dusty and the headdress was a little crooked, she looked okay.

He stepped forward and straightened the hair ornament on her head.

"The hairpin is crooked."

“…… Oh, thanks. ”

Xu Yin stroked her hair, a little uncomfortable with him getting so close.

"By the way, I'm here for this."

She squatted down and handed a few pieces of iron ore to Yan Kejin at her feet.

"Ochre?"

Yan Kejin paused, her face surprised.

Xu Yin asked in surprise: "You know? ”

Yan Kejin glanced at her, her eyes were complicated, he should have asked this, right?

How did she know it was ochre?

From that miscellaneous book?

"I asked the guards to go up and take a look just now, and the mountain walls on one side of the cliff are all over, but I don't know how deep it is, if it's just the surface, it won't be able to refine much iron when it is developed."

Seeing that he knew, and seeing that he had retreated from the rest of the people, Xu Yin simply said it.

"I think so, if you can open up iron ore, not only can the curved plow be popularized on a large scale, but you can also build ships, build big ships wrapped in iron sheets, and you will not be afraid of strong winds and waves when you go to sea.

I have heard that the common people of the coastal towns of Nanban are not only poor, but also often harassed by pirates, and if we can build a strong ship and send soldiers to patrol the coastal waters day and night, even if the pirates come to guard against it......"

As soon as Xu Yin opened the chatterbox, she couldn't stop.

Subconsciously, she desperately hoped that Yan Kejin's fiefdom could become rich and powerful as soon as possible, firstly, to let the people get rid of poverty and become rich, and secondly, to slap the face to those people in Beijing.

Yan Kejin thought further.

The use of iron is far more than just making agricultural tools and shipbuilding, and the reason why it is controlled by the imperial court is precisely because it can forge weapons.

However, there is one thing that she thinks of with him, and that is - there is an iron mine in Bald Mountain, and if she doesn't report it, she mines it herself.

Despite the risks, this is his fiefdom, his territory, and he has the final say.

Early the next morning, Yan Kejin asked people to buy Bald Mountain.

The whole mountain, including the land at the foot of the mountain, fell into the name of the king.