Wangyu River Temple, side hall.

"This is a map I borrowed from the officials of the Pedestrian Division, let's take a look at it, and by the way, help me with a consultation......" Liang En said, took out a paper map from his bosom and unfolded it and placed it on the table.

Naturally, it is not hard to develop a business, so after getting the documents and completing the formalities, he wrote to his friends to ask them to help with the staff.

His friends knew what the card meant, so three days later, everyone showed up at the River Temple on time to discuss the development.

"First of all, we should exclude the Western Regions or Mobei that are waiting to be allocated." As Tian Zongqi, who once participated in the war on the northern border, no, now it should be called Tian Baihu to make a first move to exclude the lands to the north and west of the map.

"Although the northern border is now slightly dominated by the Great Song Dynasty, the barbarians and the Mughurs are still constantly harassing the border, and if there is not enough military strength to back it up, it is purely to go there to open up and die."

"As for the West, the city-states and nomads of the Western Regions can switch between merchants, herdsmen, peasants and robbers at will, and you can't even tell who is a friend and who is an enemy."

"Of course, it's not just us outsiders, it's also hard for their locals to understand who is the enemy and who is the friend, you dare to believe that in some Western Regions countries, the king's income actually comes from taking his own army to rob the tribes and cities in the country."

"So now these two directions are basically the private lands of several princes, kings and royal families, only they have the ability to organize enough forces to block the enemy's invasion first, and others can't do anything even if they are greedy for profit."

"Therefore, neither the north nor the west is suitable for you to carry out exploration, after all, you are just an ordinary person, and it is impossible for you to mobilize enough people to organize armed forces to block the enemy's attack."

"The south side is just as inappropriate." The mountain ghost Lin An pointed to the land near Southeast Asia and said, "There are many of our kindreds in that land, and they have brought us information about that place. ”

"They told me that there was only a part of the river valley where ordinary humans could live, but there were often separate stockades where the only way to get the land was by force."

"But the people of the valley often have complex marriages, and unless the attackers are strong enough to wipe out those forces at once, there will be only endless wars."

"Unlike the northern and western borders, where the battlefield is not very strong, but once the war starts, there is almost no one who wants to fight a long war with a group of people who are familiar with the terrain in this kind of place."

Liang En's admonition to Lin An naturally listened to it in his heart, because according to the history he knew, whether it was the Ming Dynasty's war against Annam or the Vietnam War, it showed a fact, that is, don't easily set foot in a green hell if you have nothing to do.

This world, in particular, is not a good place to visit because of the extraordinary power of the rainforest, which is more vibrant, and at the same time the level of danger has increased exponentially.

"So we have to go to sea to choose-" Huang Yongnian followed the Yangtze River on the map all the way to see the sea, "I have heard many guests on the ship say that there are indeed people who have made a fortune in the South China Sea in the past. ”

"For example, many merchants from Jianye organized guilds to open up small islands in the South Seas, and then planted spices, fished and logged on them, even if they paid a lot of taxes, but every year they received a few hundred taels of silver and more than 10,000 taels of silver."

"Now the benefits of going to the South Seas are not so big, and those suitable islands that were not developed at that time have been returned to the imperial court, and there are only some islands left that are too big or too small for us to go again."

"The remaining islands are either too big and the threat is so great that it is difficult for us to bear the cost and risk of exploitation, or they are too small and it will take a long time to recoup the cost of exploitation."

"I thought about it and decided that it was not a good idea to go to the South Seas." Liang En shook his head slightly.

Because he had gone to the guild before today's meeting to inquire about the information available in Nanyang, he had reservations about the proposal to go to Nanyang.

"Although the jungle of those islands in Nanyang is not so terrible because they are islands, it is definitely not an easy object to deal with, not to mention that there are already a group of pioneers in that kind of place, and they may still have to face competition."

Liang En's competition doesn't mean that the pioneers will fight each other, and that if it happens once, they will be stripped of their pioneering license and sentenced to a heavy prison sentence, and no one will make that mistake.

The competition he said refers to the competition for resources, after all, the number of people willing to go to sea every year is limited, and the families in the same direction naturally compete with each other, in this case, everyone prefers to go to the cooked land rather than the raw land, so the newly opened territory is not dominant.

"Do you have any ideas?" Seeing that Liang En denied everyone's idea, Tian Zongqi turned his head and asked, "I remember that in this case, the officials of the Pedestrian Division will give some suggestions." ”

"Yes, indeed." Liang En nodded, "He suggested that I go to the north to explore, or I think that the group of people in the Pedestrian Division will make suggestions to everyone who gets a development permit to go to the north to explore." ”

"Your feeling is right, after all, the biggest headache on Nurgandus's side is the serious shortage of manpower, as far as I know, there are more monsters than people in that land, so the new residents are reluctant to move in, the original residents are lost, and in the end all that is left is a group of outlaws who do not train."

Tian Baihu spread his hands, and then said what he knew.

"As far as I know, the Imperial Court is now building some forts in the north and wants to build settlements through them, but now the progress is very slow, and less than ten forts have been built.

"No wonder that pedestrian officer has been mobilizing me to go north." Liang En nodded, then pointed to the North Sea Island in the upper right corner of the map, which is also the location of Hokkaido in the modern world, and said, "But after thinking about it, I do plan to go to the north, so I will go here." ”

"Huh?" "Why?" "What's the situation?"

Hearing Liang En's words, several people present were all stunned, because they didn't expect that Liang En would choose this barren land in the eyes of the world as the target of development.

"The reason is simple, because it's big enough." Liang En pointed to the islands on the map and smiled, "And this island doesn't have too many miasma and plagues, and there aren't many enemies." ”

"What's more, this island is right sandwiched between Yingzhou and Nurkandusi's Kuye Island, so I can play a role as a buffer zone by opening up here, so it is likely to receive some subsidies from the imperial court."

"It makes sense, but what can that land produce if it is to be developed?" Huang Yongnian directly pointed out a problem. "If we don't have output, then we won't be able to stay on this land for long."

"Yes, but I have some special crops on my hands. Maybe it can be used in the bitter cold of the north, so I want to take a gamble. Liang En nodded, and then said the reason for his decision.

"Anyway, I'm still young, and I can afford to lose."