At the end of May, Li Xiaohei led the fleet back to Yangang.

Compared with before departure, he looked thinner, but the whole person was more energetic.

After he returned to Meaux with his horse, he was in front of the Red Room and measured the horse's shoulder height.

The results were very gratifying, with the average shoulder height of these horses being around 125cm, and the white horse reaching 138cm.

Yan Zheng didn't know much about horse breeds, but he knew that the standard of modern Chinese cavalry was 1.33 meters high at the shoulder, and the front and back fluctuations did not exceed 5cm.

The reason is that the function of modern cavalry is already equivalent to that of mounted infantry, so small horses are less likely to be hit by bullets.

It will not affect its running speed and leapfrogging ability too much, and even the requirements for endurance are not so high.

And Yan Zheng wanted to form a cavalry, the primary purpose was to communicate quickly.

Because it is not a day's work to assemble cavalry, these horses that can be ridden must first be used for communication!

Only on the entire Dongqin Island, a post station system has been established, so that the news from all over the country can be quickly summarized. In this way, it can be regarded as ruling Dongqin Island in the real sense.

As for the opening of the northern route, it has always been in Yan Zheng's planning.

Every time he saw a map of East Asia, his eyes would involuntarily fall on that virgin land.

This is not only a way to obtain war horses, but also an absolutely golden road, the rich furs, minerals, cattle and sheep, and fertile land of the Far East are all coveted.

If you want to talk about the most profitable route, then this route will definitely be on the list.

The premise is that it must be developed, so that the tribes over there can be subjugated, so that all kinds of products over there can only be shipped out through one port.

In this way, Yan Zheng can ensure that the local exploitation is carried out to the greatest extent. Because of the backwardness of local productivity, all the goods that were wanted could only be produced by Dongqin.

Strategically, it can also obtain a fulcrum to weaken the influence of the Ming Dynasty on various forces and tribes in the northeast.

As for the list of harvests for this voyage, Yan Zheng has also seen it, he didn't expect that in the port of Vladivostok, there were already aborigines.

In fact, not only have there always been aborigines, but there are quite a few!

In history, both in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there have been records of the local aborigines, and to be precise, they belong to a branch of the Haixi Jurchens.

The way of production is not only fishing and hunting, they also know how to farm, and they already know how to boil salt and make some iron tools.

Later, after the Han people entered the northeast, this group of people gradually went completely to farming.

It wasn't until Tsarist Russia created a series of misery that the footprints of this race disappeared in that place.

Alas, Hailan Pao and Jiangdong Sixty-four Tun have to sigh lightly.

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"Your Majesty, this time I traveled from Ryukyu to Fukuoka, searched all the way, and arrived at the place you were looking for! It is a natural deep-water port, and according to Guo Tu's estimate, it will only take about 12 days to reach at the earliest! At that time, we only need to take Jeju Island and Tsushima Island as stopovers, and we can directly save a lot of distance!

So for this route, we have two plans, one is through the Ryukyus, and the other is not through the Ryukyus! On the way back, you have to go through Fukuoka, because Fukuoka also has a strong demand for fur, ginseng, and pearls!

After coming out of Fukuoka, you can reach Shandong in the Ming Kingdom, or you can go back to Yangang directly! If this route runs in, it will definitely outperform all the others! ”

After seeing the horses, Li Xiaohei began to report the results of the voyage in the Red Room.

Yan Zheng flipped through the logbook and said to him with a smile: "You are lucky this time, you can contact the local tribe as soon as you go to sea."

Li Xiaohei smiled and said: "Thanks to the map of the king, otherwise I really don't know, there will be a port in that place!"

"Would you like to name that port?" Yan Zheng asked with raised eyebrows.

"This ......" Li Xiaohei bowed and said, "Let's come up and name it!"

"It doesn't matter, I'll let them draw up a proposal tomorrow, and in the future, any Chinese citizen who discovers a new place can have the right to name it!"

Li Xiaohei thought about it, but finally shook his head.

Yan Zheng smiled and said, "Since that's the case, then I'll come!" That port is called Hailan Harbor, that bay is called Dahan Bay, and the largest island in the inner harbor is called Pearl Island. ”

Li Xiaohei pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "The place named by the king is just good!"

Yan Zheng sighed with a smile: "Although it is named, we still have to fight, otherwise in the future, there may be someone who will erase the traces of our existence and take an insulting place name there!"

"Do you mean the aborigines? I don't think it's possible, although they have war horses, but their weapons are nothing more than that! We just need to build a fortress and we can control it! ”

Yan Zheng shook his head: "The aborigines are not a threat, but we don't have too much energy to build there on a large scale now, and the policy for a long time in the future will be to trade there, absorb the tribes over there at the same time, and buy the population!" At least we don't have to meddle in the disputes on their side, anyway, whoever comes, we will do business with whomever comes! ”

"Why not go for development and construction? The land over there is very fertile, and it can be used for animal husbandry, and Li Fengshou said that the land over there is deserted, which is simply a sin! ”

"Then you went there this time, don't you feel cold?" Yan Zheng asked.

Li Xiaohei nodded and said, "It's cold at night!" It's much colder than we have here! ”

"I'm telling you, it's colder winters over there! So if you can occupy a warmer place, you must first occupy a warmer place! When there is enough population, you can naturally occupy it again, anyway, as long as you don't import technology, that side will always be the same! ”

Li Xiaohei doesn't know how big the world is, but if there can be a warm place, he will definitely be willing to go to a warmer place.

"So, let's open up the route over there just for good profits and horses, and to be able to immigrate there in the future?"

Yan Zheng looked at him and nodded, and said with some emotion: "In fact, that place has always been the hometown of China, but unfortunately when the population of the Central Plains Dynasty exploded, it was always accompanied by a decline in execution and control at the bottom, so there was always no opportunity to emigrate too many people."

The people also lack this concept, and the Confucian scholars and doctors have created a fashion of relocating their homeland and relocating to their homeland in order to maintain stability in the way of clan binding! Therefore, all dynasties have restricted the mobility of the common people! ”

"Xiao Hei, you are crisscrossing the sea, you should understand how big this world is, a nation can't always look at the one-third of an acre at home, when one reincarnation is over, you can't just enter the next reincarnation! Only by going out can this nation have a future! There are many great places in this world waiting for you to discover and explore, and your path should be as wide as the sea! ”

Li Xiaohei listened respectfully, and felt that Yan Zheng's words seemed to be a little sentimental.

"Don't worry, I will definitely explore more land for Huaxia in the future."

Yan Zheng looked at him and smiled, and waved his hand to let Xiao Hei retreat.

Looking at the logbook on the table, for some reason, a wave of irritability rose in his heart.

He picked up the progress sheets from the various research institutes stacked on the side, and the more he looked at it, the more irritated he became.

It's too slow! It's too slow!

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