At this point, Zou Yan was already very sure that this was not the legendary Yingzhou. fall

He had seen Yingzhou once on the sea from afar, there were caves and blessed land, pavilions and pavilions, cranes and auspicious clouds, clear springs and flowing water, and fairy spirits fluttering, it was impossible to be this kind of broken appearance.

"What do we do now?" Yuan Hua looked at the dwarf kneeling on the ground and was speechless!

"What did King Zhao ask you to come over?" Zou Yan walked to the stone next to him and wanted to sit down, but as soon as his butt touched the stone, he was bounced up.

It was the height of summer, the stones had been sun-dried for a day, and the temperature was frighteningly high.

"The king said there was gold and silver here, let's mine it." Yuan Hua said.

Although Zou Yan was a little dissatisfied with Yuan Hua for lying to him and coming to Yingzhou, Zhao Jun saved him at sea, and after thinking about it, Zou Yan still decided to help Yuan Hua.

"You can't just grab it, if there's gold and silver here, then they definitely have it. If there are not even them, then there are no gold and silver mines nearby, at least no silver mines that are convenient for mining. Let's grab it in another place." fall

Zou Yan pursed his lips, just grabbed something, do you still need to speak the same language?

Do you rely on reasoning with the other party, influencing the other party, and taking the initiative to give you gold and silver?

Of course, Zou Yan did not expect to find gold and silver in the village.

In his opinion, the land under his feet is a wasteland, a cursed place, how can there be gold and silver.

When Yuan Hua heard this, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly woke up, yes, why should Lao Tzu use his mouth if he has a fist?

"That's what the old gentleman taught." Yuan Hua bowed, turned his head and ordered, "You guys, go search the village."

The dwarf watched Zhao Jun pour into the village, although he had the heart to resist, but thinking of the other party's majestic body, hard armor, and sharp weapons, he could only continue to kneel on the ground. fall

"General, we've found this." It wasn't long before the soldier came out with a handful of gold nuggets and some silver nuggets.

Although the color is a little grayish, it should be pure natural and unpurified, but it is very terrifying that a small village can find half a catty of gold and a dozen catties of silver.

At least Yuan Hua didn't think that an ordinary village in Zhao State could come up with so much gold and silver.

"Rob! Fuck it!"

Yuan Hua held the gold in his hand, his breathing gradually became heavy, and his pupils emitted a blood-red light, as if some kind of blood in his body had begun to awaken.

"Check out how many of these villages there are nearby."

After speaking, Yuan Hua didn't care about these dwarfs, but turned around and returned to the boat, waiting for news. fall

Soon, the results came out, there were one or twenty villages within a radius of a hundred miles, small with hundreds of people, large with thousands of people, in addition to this island, there were even bigger islands in the north, and there were even more villages on it, and it was said that there were as many as one or two hundred thousand large villages.

However, according to the local dwarves, these villages are called countries.

"How dare you call it a country with this thing? It's really ridiculous, then I, Yuan Hua, can also be called a famous general who has destroyed the country." Yuan Hua sneered and decided to send troops to attack these "countries".

After making sure that there was no threat to the surrounding environment, Yuan Hua left only 500 soldiers to protect the ship and build a military camp. Then he took the remaining 1,000 soldiers to destroy a country in a day, and wiped it all the way along the coastline.

Zou Yan also changed his previous attitude, although this place is barren, but there is indeed gold and silver, along the way they have encountered several small open-pit gold and silver mines, Zou Yan has never seen so many so big.

Not only is the silver content high, but most of it is located in shallow depths, which makes it extremely difficult to mine.

If we talk about gold and silver alone, it is not an exaggeration to call it a blessed land. fall

If there are gold and silver mines in the Central Plains that are easy to mine, it will not be long before a prosperous area will be formed with minerals as the center.

However, although Yingzhou also mines, this thing can't be eaten after all, except for industrial use, to put it bluntly, it is an ordinary metal, but because of its rarity, it has been given value.

Yingzhou is rich in gold and silver,

The value is naturally low, and the crops they grow are difficult to even feed themselves, so how can they vigorously develop mining.

It should be said that all they have left is gold and silver.

"There's a big silver mine in this place!" During the march, Zou Yan suddenly pointed to the mountains under his feet and said.

"Order, the whole army stops." Yuan Hua had already obeyed Zou Yan's words, this old man was indeed as he said, he knew everything, and almost all the gold and silver mines along the way were discovered by Zou Yan first.

"There are such stones everywhere you go, all of them are silver ore, and the silver content is getting higher and higher, this is definitely a large silver mine, but how big it is still needs to be explored." Zou Yan picked up a stone glowing with silver light under his feet and threw it at a larger stone next to him, the gray skin peeling off, revealing the same faint silver light. "Look, this one too. I suspect the whole mountain is a silver mine." fall

Yuan Hua looked at the mountains in front of him in disbelief, and couldn't see the end at a glance, how much silver would be this, if it was all mined, he couldn't imagine it.

"Do you have any tools for refining silver?" Zou Yan asked.

"The tools are complete, but silver refining requires a lot of glutinous rice, so we brought two boats, one of which sank to the bottom of the sea, and now only one ship remains. There's only one shipload of lead." Yuan Hua said.

Silver smelting involves mixing powders containing silver with rice to form pellets, which are layered into piles with charcoal and sintered into crunchy ore masses. The ore pellet and lead are then mixed and smelted to form a lead lump containing silver.

Finally, the lead containing silver is smelted on the plant ash, and oxygen is blown in to remove the lead from the lead block. Blowing away the grass ash yields high-purity gold and silver.

This is the most practical and multifaceted method of alchemy at present.

Before going to sea, Yuan Hua had brought enough tools and materials, but a snowstorm destroyed most of the preparations. fall

"That's enough, you don't need to get too much silver the first time, just find the right place." Zou Yan said, of course, he still hasn't said the second half of the sentence, it's really not enough, he can grab a little from the dwarf.

"I'm going to gather these dwarves together, give them tools, and let them mine." Yuan Hua pointed to the dwarf behind him and said.

Mining has been bitter, tiring and dangerous since ancient times, every mine is stained with blood, even the Central Plains are for prisoners and slaves to do, and the good family is not forced to be helpless, but unwilling to do it.

Therefore, it is impossible for Yuan Hua to let Zhao Jun come to mine, and it is impossible to transport people from the Central Plains.

Although there are no statistics on how many dwarves there are on the island, there are tens of thousands of small villages combined, and there are bigger islands and more villages to the north, and the number of people is always enough.

As for whether these people would resist after gathering together, Yuan Hua didn't think so far, anyway, now this group of dwarves are happier to see him than their own father, and they keep sending him women.