"Lord Song, where is Jinshan City?"

Liu Yifeng's question interrupted Song Yingxing's thinking, and he replied: "This is a map of Dongshan Prefecture drawn five years ago, Jinshan City was built this year, and it is estimated that only private trading houses have the latest map." However, I have heard that it is about 5-10 days to continue sailing south in the city of Ganshan. ”

Liu Yifeng forcibly suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and returned the map to Song Yingxing.

When he heard about Jinshan City, his sixth sense told him that this Jinshan City was San Francisco. I don't know if it's Vancouver or Seattle, but the two places are essentially a region, both plains on the southern bay of Victoria Island, regardless of the border.

The 5-10 day sailing distance from that area is about exactly the middle of the West Coast of the United States, which is San Francisco in northern California.

Less than 100 kilometers east of San Francisco is California's Central Valley, the birthplace of the historic Gold Rush.

Nevada's gold has been found throughout the Central Valley's well-developed network of water systems during tens of thousands of years of topographical movement. And a few dozen kilometers further east, the Sierra Nevada has a gold vein that was rated as one of the top ten gold mines by later generations!

Gold mines in the Sierra Nevada may not have been mined on a large scale until the Industrial Age, but gold in California and some of the small, shallow mines in the Sierra Nevada can be mined now!

Now there is only one last question: "Lord Song, can I ask what the Maritime Safety Bureau will do if those trading houses really discover gold mines?" ”

Song Yingxing is even more sure that this is another person who has been blinded by gold mines, and the irony is that this is still a man without freedom.

"What else can be done, of course, the Maritime Administration has taken over." Song Yingxing said: "Privately mining gold mines is against the law of the Ming Dynasty, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, those who mine gold mines without permission should be beheaded." ”

Liu Yifeng doesn't understand this, so what are those commercial banks doing?

"But that's the Ming Dynasty." Song Yingxing guessed what Liu Yifeng was thinking, and continued: "In Anxi Prefecture and Dongshan Prefecture, the imperial court will reward those who find minerals and take the initiative to hand them over. What those firms want is this reward, and the imperial court has not treated anyone who has taken the initiative to hand it in. ”

It's not what I want most, but it's pretty good.

In Chinese history, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's monopoly on salt and iron, any mineral has always been a national resource monopolized by the feudal regime. In troubled times, there may also be cases of private mining, which is absolutely impossible in prosperous times.

"Lord Xie Song pointed out, there is no problem with the villain. The villain still adhered to the original intention and thanked Lord Song for his favor again. ”

"Liu Yifeng, you ...... Hey, forget it. Song Yingxing completely gave up helping him: "You go." ”

After exiting the room, Wu Sangui, who was standing outside and waiting, saw Liu Yifeng come out alone, and already understood that this unfamiliar man had rejected his teacher again.

"Liu Yifeng, are you sick in the brain? Who would refuse such an opportunity in a normal person? ”

Liu Yifeng didn't speak, and bowed to Wu Sangui.

"Hmph, I don't know what to do!"

After watching Wu Sangui leave, Liu Yifeng sighed. In fact, he is right, normal people will not refuse this kind of opportunity, but the problem is that he is not normal.

He is a black household, as long as Song Yingxing asks the local people to start investigating him, this will be exposed sooner or later. When the time comes, either make up for it with more lies or tell the truth.

More lies mean more loopholes, and sooner or later Song Yingxing will be offended. And to be honest, he doesn't think that just by cooking by himself, Song Yingxing will help him, a black family.

Just don't want this opportunity and survive in this world as a citizen of Dongshan Prefecture.

It is estimated that Wu Sangui confessed something, and the little official who took him out of the Maritime Safety Bureau almost pushed him out of the side door of the Maritime Safety Bureau with the force of pushing, and closed the side door very unceremoniously.

Liu Yifeng didn't bother to care, and he couldn't care about it. But he stood at the door of the side entrance of the Maritime Bureau and found a serious problem: he did not know the way.

He was brought by Wu Sangui, and rode behind a minor official of the Maritime Safety Bureau on the road. Wu Sangui has a young heart, and he is fast all the way, and the little official is naturally trying to keep up, and Liu Yifeng can only desperately hug the little official in front of him so as not to fall down, resulting in him having no time to remember the road at all.

He turned around and knocked on the door and asked someone from the Maritime Bureau to take him back, but his hand hurt and no one paid attention to him.

", do you want to have such a small belly chicken intestines." Liu Yifeng spat fiercely at the door panel: "Uncle, I'll go back by myself!" ”

Although he didn't remember the way, he still knew that all he had to do was find the seaside and follow the coastline to the port. Just along the way, you can also see the first city established by the Ming Dynasty in the Americas.

After Liu Yifeng crossed over, he didn't have a good look at the city of this era, and he woke up in the prison of the Jinzhou government. After selling himself as a man, he just walked to Jinzhou City, and was sent to the camp of Yongdang Trading House outside the city, and then directly pulled to Jinzhou Port.

He had only seen one city in this era: the ghost town of Kamchatka.

The average annual temperature in the area where the ghost town is located is 0-5 degrees Celsius, and all the buildings are mainly practical, completely abandoning the aesthetics.

According to Liu Yifeng's understanding, before the establishment of the city, the city was the economic and political center of Dongshan Prefecture for a long time, and the imperial court and the maritime bureau made great efforts when building the city.

Walking on the streets full of antique, Liu Yifeng finally had the feeling that he had traveled to the Ming Dynasty. However, there are no small stalls and vendors on the streets in the TV series, and there are just hurried people, the occasional donkey cart, and almost invisible women.

There was a shortage of women in Dongshan Prefecture, which he had learned from the ship.

There are three situations for women who go to Dongshan, one is the family members brought by immigrants with assets from the Ming Dynasty. The second is the female slaves bought through various channels, who are generally engaged in the custom industry. The third is that the second type of female slave successfully married a certain Han man and became his family.

But women in all three situations rarely appear on the side of the road, and even if they do, they are definitely not alone.

This Ming Dynasty is full of martial virtues, and the people can talk about living and working in peace and contentment, but the productivity has not reached the level where women can work after industrialization, and women basically still have to live dependent on men. The Song, Ming and Qing dynasties were also well-known dynasties of ritual cannibalism, and ordinary women in TV series were basically not seen shopping.

After strolling around, Liu Yifeng found that he should have arrived at the market. The noise gradually became louder, and the shops on the side of the road were no longer closed. He took a quick look and saw that furs were the most sold.

"Hey, Minfu, go away, don't touch it!"

A man dressed as a shopkeeper saw that Liu Yifeng wanted to touch the fur he hung at the door of the store, and rushed out in a hurry: "You can buy it, you are not allowed to touch it!" ”

This shopkeeper is a whole head shorter than Liu Yifeng, but he is not afraid of the difference in size between the two at all, so he directly stopped between Liu Yifeng and Fur, and unceremoniously pushed Liu Yifeng: "Let's go, let's go, don't do business in front of me." ”

"How do you know I can't afford it?"

"Hey, you're not convinced, you're a folk man who just immigrated, do you have money?"

"How do you know I'm a recent immigrant?"

"What nonsense, you're still wearing an immigration uniform."

Liu Yifeng lowered his head and looked at the cotton clothes on his body. He has 3 sets of these clothes, and he has been wearing them for almost 4 months, and he is used to wearing them, and he has completely forgotten the word "Yongdang" on his chest.

When he was in Jinzhou Port, Liu Yifeng found that all the people wore the same style and color of clothes, the difference was only that the words on the chest of each trading house were different.

Later, he learned that this was a civilian uniform prescribed by the Maritime Safety Bureau, and it was generally worn by the civilian fleet of the civilian fleet. When the people arrived in Dongshan Prefecture, they were sold by the trading houses or assigned to work in other places, and they were given new uniforms. Therefore, Liu Yifeng's style of clothes can only be worn by people who have just immigrated, and they are called immigrant clothes by the people of Dongshan Prefecture.

Liu Yifeng found two more shops to try, although the shopkeepers of these two stores would not drive him away like the one just now, but when he saw that it was a newly immigrant man, he didn't bother to pay attention to Liu Yifeng, unless he was ready to reach out and touch those furs.

After being looked down on several times by the dog's eyes, Liu Yifeng's face couldn't be hung up. Just at this time, the temperature was high, and it felt like it was already 15 degrees, so Liu Yifeng simply took off his cotton clothes and tied his sleeves around his waist.

After taking off the cotton clothes, there was only a shoulder vest left on his upper body, but he didn't care, he was wearing a cotton coat before, and he was sweating and it was hot.

And it is not uncommon for people to wear like him in the bazaar, but most of them carry something on their backs or carry something, and at a glance they know that they are people who do hard work.

As he walked, Liu Yifeng noticed that there were more people dressed like him, and they seemed to be walking in the same direction.

Suddenly, someone grabbed him: "Where are you going?" This way. ”