They went down the hill and retrieved the horses that were tied to the tree.

Puff puff,

The sound of horses' hooves was muffled by the snow.

It took a group of people two or three days to get back from this mountain to the seaside dock base.

After returning to the dock housing area surrounded by logs, the prospecting team did not intend to rest at all and went straight to the warehouse.

After receiving charcoal, glutinous rice, and lead from the quartermaster, he planned to smelt the mineral samples first, and determined that it was one of the veins of silver.

Cupellation.

For practicing silver, Zhang Qi explored it through the study of the riding and cutting world and combined with some superficial knowledge he knew.

More sophisticated than any technology used to refine silver ore in the world today.

And the purity of the silver extracted is also high.

It took five or six days for the prospecting team to smelt the 100 catties of mineral samples that came out of the cave.

Eventually, all eyes were on the steaming silver ball.

The thirty members of the prospecting team looked at each other and smiled, knowing that the place had been found.

Cooling, separation.

Captain Li put the still warm silver cake in his hand and weighed it.

The mouth is noncommittally wide open.

"Sixty-six. Six taels! There are six taels in this group! I'm not wrong with my hand, you guys try! ”

As he spoke, Captain Li handed the silver cake in his hand to the person beside him.

This is also a veteran, and he exclaimed as soon as he got started.

"There are indeed six taels!"

For a moment, everyone was surprised, surprised by the silver content of these ores.

"Bonanza!"

"Quick, write a quick letter to the navy, and let them send it to your lord!"

Captain Li trembled with excitement, the silver content of this silver mine is too high, and it is difficult not to be excited when a hundred catties of ore raw materials actually refine so much silver.

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Governor's Mansion.

"Hahaha, I knew that it was a virgin land now, and Iwami Silver Mountain had never been mined at all, and it must contain more silver than it would have been a thousand years later!"

Zhang Qi looked at the letter in his hand and laughed.

The letters of the prospecting team had already been delivered, and the speed of the waterway was amazing, and it took only eight days to reach Tsushima Island from the port of Liaohe Bay, and even faster to reach Iwami Ginzan from Tsushima Island, arriving in two days.

This is also why Zhang Qi cares so much about the three-masted sailboat, sometimes speed is combat power!

Zhang Qi sat down happily and looked at the letter and the piece of silver that had been sent.

"You say, do I want to develop a base there?"

Looking at the white star, Zhang Qi thought for a moment.

He didn't want aborigines, and as far as the current Ryukyu Island was concerned, there weren't many aborigines, all of whom he had scheduled to choose as miners.

Mining is dangerous, and it is appropriate to leave dangerous things to those people.

"What do you mean?"

has been with Zhang Qi for so long, Bai Xing naturally knows that Zhang Qi is not asking her about this matter at all, but has already made a decision.

"I plan to move 20,000 people over, and I want to station a force of 2,000 people, who do you think is better to send over to coordinate it?"

Enclosure, now Zhang Qi's mind is full of the word enclosure, Ryukyu Island is not as close as the Americas, it is too close, and it is still an undeveloped land, although there are people on the island, but Zhang Qi does not intend to treat those people as human beings at all.

"Bai Xing thinks that maybe she can send Sister Hu Ling over, she is a diehard loyalist of the king and has experience in military formations, and Wuhuan is in good order in her hands, so those natives on Ryukyu Island can't make any waves."

Shirahoshi said tentatively.

Zhang Qi's eyes flickered, and he immediately shook his head: "Wuhuan also needs someone to sit down, Hu Ling can't move for the time being, but.

It's time for the wolf cubs under Hu Ling's hands to stand alone. ”

"Pass my order, Hu Qi works diligently, has made meritorious contributions to the governance of Wuhuan, and is now promoted to see the county guard of Yinjun, Hu 14 is promoted to see the city lord of Yincheng, Hu Twenty-one is the city lord, twenty-three, twenty-six, and three-three are the Zhengzhi team.

In addition, 20,000 Xianbei and Wuhuan people were recruited, and 2,000 eagle strike soldiers were dispatched to Jianyin County with the navy. ”

Zhang Qi read while Bai Xing wrote, and soon, a neatly formatted promotion order and dispatch order appeared in Zhang Qi's hand.

After reading it, Zhang Qi nodded: "Add it, send it to Wuhuan, and hand it over to Hu Ling." ”

Bai Xing gave up his hand, took Zhang Qi's seal, and stamped it on the two letters.

Soon, the two letters were delivered.

However, now the only way to Wuhuan is by land, and the great rivers in the northeast are now covered with thick ice, making it impossible for ships to navigate.

Having solved one thing, Zhang Qi looked at Bai Xing again and asked.

"The Liaodong Army calculates the time, and now it's time to go to Wuhuan."

Shirahoshi nodded: "It's already here." ”

"Well, let them take Wuhuan with them now, and come back in May, by the way, what's going on with that?"

"Everything is going well, after the operation of the secret agents, plus the passage of Wang Ze, the culpability of King Yan has been decided, and he has committed suicide in fear of crime."

"Huh." The corners of Zhang Qi's mouth are outlined.

"That guy is really ruthless, but he was despised and insulted when he was a child, and now he directly wants someone's life."

"But this King Yan also deserves it, and it takes too much time to play, his Laozi's women also play, his brother's women also play, and even his own daughters he plays, whether he dies, I can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people."

Zhang Qi adjusted his sitting posture and leaned comfortably in the seat, now the last obstacle to completely occupying Liaodi is gone, just waiting for Liu Che's decree to seal the king, but Zhang Qi can guess that the decree of the king can not even think about it, at most it is to give him a thorough reward, just eat Liaodi.

But that's enough, if you don't have the surname Liu, you can't be called the king, this is set by his ancestors, and even if Liu Xiaozhu is bold, he doesn't dare to mess with the ancestral system.

However, it is necessary to lose the identity of the emperor by going back on his word, so he may be able to plan it here.

Zhang Qi's eyes narrowed.

"How is the intelligence gathering of the princess of the Han Dynasty, is there any suitable one?"

"This" A few traces of embarrassment flashed across Bai Xing's face.

"What? Don't have a suitable one? ”

Zhang Qi asked.

Bai Xing arched his hand: "Indeed, the emperor of the Han Dynasty is only a few years older than the king, and his heirs are mostly young and swaddling, and there is no suitable person. ”

"His sisters, most of them marry other wives, and there is a princess of Pingyang who is widowed and has not been married yet, but her age does not match that of the king."

"Yes."

Zhang Qi touched his chin, he thought that the reason for Princess Shang was to facilitate the future entry into the land of China, and he himself did not carefully investigate the history, so naturally he did not know the specific age of the princesses of the Western Han Dynasty, but he did not expect that there was no suitable candidate now.

"Hey, you can't really be punished."

Forget it, Zhang Qi is not a copper smelting fetish, he can't do this kind of thing that can't pass his psychological bottom line.

"What about the princes and kings?"

(End of chapter)