Exploration is a new word, anyway, Yang Zhaolong saw it from Chen Mu's letter, and this word is very exciting when he hears it.

Complaining is complaining, Yang Zhaolong still has to carry out after complaining, first, Chen Mu insisted that Xinming has a mine that is enough to change the world, and he will send more people to Xinming Island, where can Yang Zhaolong's little arm be more than his thigh; Second, it is Yang Zhaolong's own reasons.

In the Tusi family, only the eldest son can inherit the Tusi, so not only must he receive the education of the family to rule the place, but also go to Beijing Guozijian to learn the education of loyalty to the empire, but Yang Zhaolong, as the second son, is different.

He also had to learn a lot, from how to lead an army to how to rule the people, but the most important thing he had to learn was not leadership, but obedience.

It's obedience.

In such a family, usually the second son has only two ways to go, either learn from the brothers of the Shuixian clan to fight each other, and kill the eldest brother and the second brother to become the eldest brother, or listen to the elder brother honestly for the rest of his life, pointing out where to fight and where to make the clan stronger.

Yang Zhaolong, who is uninhibited and loves freedom, has found another way for himself, but in fact, he has the same path, nothing more than listening to his brother Yang Yinglong in the past, and now listening to the words of his brother-in-law Chen Mu.

Chen Mu's advice to him was to prepare a year's food for 200 people, travel around Xinming Island along the coast, and find a suitable place to live again - in the fleet that sent a letter to Chen Mu, twelve lucky boats full of water and food were left, and two graduates from the Navy Lecture Martial Arts Hall accompanied them to survey and map for guidance, everything was ready, and they could get on the ship with their bags.

Even the worries of the future were relieved for Yang Zhaolong, and the fleet also had a civil official from the top three Tongjinshi sent by Gao Gong, the minister of Nanyang, named Li Hualong.

Chen Muke didn't expect that it was Li Hualong who was transferred, he just wrote a letter to Gao Gong hoping that the minister of Nanyang could select one person from the prefect and county officials in Nanyang to serve as Xinming and govern the people on behalf of Yang Zhaolong.

Yang Zhaolong changed his clothes and put on his armor, the maidservants followed left and right, and Miao Wu Ben carried the box, and was surrounded by people and walked out of the house where the Nanyang Military Mansion issued the plaque of 'Yang Laiwan Weiya', and saw a person with a samurai waiting outside.

He was only in his early twenties, with a short beard just grown around his mouth, a wide forehead, fleshy cheeks, a straight waist, a confident expression, black boots on his feet, a green official robe, and a black veil on his head, and he was holding a book at this time and looking at the strange scene that he had never seen in the distance.

Hearing a strange sound in his ears, he turned his head and saw Yang Zhaolong hugging out of the yamen, a slight discoloration flashed in his eyes, he raised his eyebrows slightly, and in an instant, his demeanor returned to normal, and he arched his hand slightly, and said: "Under Li Hualong, temporarily serve as the magistrate of Yang Laiwan." ”

"So young!"

Yang Zhaolong said to the maid next to him with a frivolous smile on his face, and only after laughing did he bow his hand to Li Hualong, and said: "Although you are very young, don't worry, Yang Laiwan is very easy to govern, everyone is busy with food, there is neither an enemy attacking us, nor a place to rob, it is not difficult to govern here, live with peace of mind." ”

In his eyes, there is no difference between Qipinzhi County and ordinary people, and in his hometown, the chief official is a six-rank chief who runs errands and pays tribute.

That is, seeing that Li Hualong is young, he said a few words of comfort, in Yang Zhaolong's heart, he is already a corporal of Lixian.

He didn't know that twenty-two years later, in another time and space, his brother led the Banzhou rebellion and slaughter, and the young man in front of him had already served as the governor of Liaodong and the squire of the military department, and was appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Sichuan, the governor of the three provinces, and uprooted the Banzhou Yang clan in one fell swoop.

In front of him, Li Hualong didn't have the slightest flattery, and arched his hand: "In the next Nanyang, I will do my best to do my best, and I hope that the commander can spend some time to understand Yang Lai's confidential affairs with me." ”

Li Hualong didn't mean anything else, he just looked at the brother-in-law of the Oriental Minister who looked like he was going out with a concubine, and he felt unreliable.

Coincidentally, Yang Zhaolong also felt that Li Hualong was too young and unreliable.

"It doesn't matter, this voyage is twenty or thirty thousand miles, plus the surveying and mapping map to explore the coastal terrain, as short as half a year or as long as a year, Yang must be to explain to you clearly, the road to the port is very long, send me, talk while walking."

Li Hualong raised his eyes and looked at the port two miles away, and before he could say anything, he saw Yang Zhaolong suddenly say something to the maidservant, and the maidservant walked back to Wei Ya in small steps, and then he said: "Get you a map of the current Yanglaiwan, the farthest east is eighty-seven miles, there is a high mountain, I tried to climb it, but I didn't climb it, and I was too lazy to go around, you can climb up and see." ”

"There are more than 200 miles to the southwest, and more than 4,000 people live along the coast, there are fishermen and loggers, and there are vegetable and grain growers, but this soil is not good, although it is red, but the red soil is only a shovel thick, and the stones below are nearly a zhang thick, but this side is good to dig wells, and digging seven or eight feet can produce water."

"So it's very difficult to grow food here, there is not much land that can grow food, but it is suitable for growing grass, you can build pastures, raise cattle, sheep and horses."

As he was talking, the maidservant had taken out the map, in fact, it was just a piece of paper, not as big as the sub-painting, drawing a 'T' shaped area, marking the Duzhang settlements on the coastline and the protruding terrain extending to the south, Yang Zhaolong said: "That's where I walked, four hundred miles to the south, the south is very beautiful, you will pass through a small grassland, although it looks very large, it is red earth, but the farther place is actually a desert, red soil desert, haven't seen it?" You're going to check it out. ”

Li Hualong held the map and listened to Yang Zhaolong talk about his 'merits', the more he listened, the more his brows furrowed, and finally he couldn't help asking: "Didn't Chen Shuai let Your Excellency come here to find out the land and search for mines, Yang Laiwan didn't seem to do this?" ”

"You'll understand after you've been here for two years."

Yang Zhaolong was not as angry as his brother, at first he still had a smile on his face, but then the smile disappeared, and he opened his arms and seemed to surround this world, saying: "This is a barren land, what is planted and what is dead, it is barren than any piece of land in the country, the natives don't even wear clothes, they don't know anything, and the livestock are extremely stupid, have you ever seen anyone who dares to attack the army formation alone?" Have you ever seen a brute who dares to storm the military formation? This big rabbit dares. ”

"Some time ago, the local people brought me a stone sculpture of the birthday star of the Yongle Year, either the merchant or the Sanbao Gong came and left, the brother-in-law said that there is an iron mine here, it is too ethereal, this is now a place of exile, not all of them are in charge of the rebels and the two bandits, one by one I have to take care of them to eat and drink, I can let them fill their stomachs with all their might, explore the iron ore...... Come on. ”

Saying that, the two had already walked to the port, Yang Zhaolong looked at the fleet docked on the shore, turned back to Li Hualong and smiled, and said, "I'm going to take the fleet around the island!" ”