Chen Mu felt that this kind of thing, no matter how he persuaded Yang Yinglong, it was useless.

The ancestral foundation was ruined, and this matter was enough to be put on anyone, if Yang Yinglong only had three coins of gunpowder, he would definitely be killed if he caught Yang Zhaolong.

If it's six dollars, kill Yang Zhaolong first and then kill yourself.

So Chen Mu didn't want to persuade, he just wanted his brother-in-law to go in a good direction and look forward.

Say...... Shinmyeong has a greater development than Banju.

Chen Mu didn't know about other developments, and he didn't plan to let his brother-in-law raise kangaroos there to make a fortune, so there was only steel.

But when Yang Zhaolong answered his question, the answer almost made him so angry that he killed Yang Zhaolong - he asked about the daily output of Xinming Iron and Steel of several thousand catties.

This is an approximation, and he wants to hear the answer of tens of thousands of catties or even more, so that he can be happy.

Tens of thousands of catties is not an exaggeration, in this era, people can not use metallography to accurately know the composition of steel and iron, but this does not prevent people from being familiar with its physical properties.

In this context, the 'steel' in Chen Mu's mouth is both wrought iron and steel.

The annual output of a province in Guangdong is more than 10 million catties, due to the scale of production, living standards, and the management mode brought by the times, all furnaces are only burned for more than 100 days a year, and this is a tax reversal, and the real output Chen Mu has no way to know.

As far as he knew, Qingyuan Weiqingcheng Qianhu was under the jurisdiction of the Qianhu that he had led troops to suppress, and Lao Bai said that he would be at the disposal of the Qianhu, but because Wu Guifang transferred him to the Yellow Iron Mountain in Xiangshan, he absolutely did not pay taxes.

As a result, Yang Zhaolong, the little rabbit cub, stammered: "Thirty, thirty or forty pounds? ”

The annual output is not enough to burn a blast furnace in Nanyang Weigang for two days?

Even if it's not tens of thousands of catties or thousands of catties, these thirty or forty catties are too careless, right?

But Chen Mu thought about it later, even if Yang Zhaolong was a fool, but Yang Zhaolong didn't handle the iron ore over there, then Li Hualong would not be confused, there must be a reason for such a low output.

There was a reason for this, they found a huge reserve of iron ore and tried to mine it, but the largest vein was in the desert, there were no forest trees around, and the nearest forest farm was a hundred and forty miles away; There is also iron ore on the coast, but it is a very small amount of river iron sand, and the output Yang Zhaolong said is the output of a nearby Miao village.

The old blacksmith used the method of making steel, carburizing, forging and decarburizing, and burying it in the soil for a month; Take it out and then carburize, then forge and decarburize...... It was repeated several times, and after several months, the process was finally completed, and a piece of steel that could be used for clamping and forging was in hand.

Li Hualong did not build a large iron factory in Xinming, and while building roads, he transported mules and horses to the imperial court, and encouraged Fujian and Guangzhou merchants who had contracted mines in Xinming to work hard.

Fortunately, the iron ore composition of Xinming is much better than that of many iron sulfur in the country, so it is a relatively cost-saving method in the short term to simply save ten days and half a month to send a fleet to pull the inventory back to Nanyang Wei Port.

Now there are four banner troops of the Hundred Households Department dedicated to protecting this freight route, transporting more than 120,000 catties of iron ore and coal every month.

Without good road transport and not enough carriages and horses, even the discovery of huge mineral deposits will not help.

Chen Mu also believes that Li Hualong's decision is correct, and it is more cost-effective to use the limited funds in hand to build roads in the short term than to build an ironworks.

Otherwise, with an ironworks, it would be really uncomfortable for the iron ore transportation conditions to not keep up with the output.

The problem is to be solved, roads, livestock, ironworks, these things are not a problem for Yang Yinglong in Chen Mu's view.

The Yellow River, which has broken thousands of times, is not difficult for the people of Chixian Shenzhou, what is it to build a road hundreds of miles long?

Chen Mu not only wants to give Yang Yinglong worship data, but also to draw a big cake for him, Yang Duan, the ancestor of the Yang family, led the army into Banzhou to quell the rebellion and was comforted by Banzhou, which has been 700 years now; Now Yang Yinglong led the army and civilians into the Xinming Dynasty to open up the new Ming Dynasty and serve as the ambassador of the Xinming North, and get a broader land.

Don't care if Chen Muxin can persuade Yang Yinglong, who is far away in Xinming, anyway, after reading the letter, Yang Zhaolong's heart is put back in his stomach, and he has studied North Asian intelligence and sea and land boundaries in a down-to-earth manner.

Chen Mu was also very happy, the Wanshou Festival that won in the seventh year of Wanli was extremely successful, more than 200 indigenous tribes in Asia, and 323 leaders came to the alliance to pay tribute to the emperor in Beijing.

In order to commemorate this event, he specially asked the craftsmen of the stone factory to carve a nine-foot-high giant stone tablet, which recorded the first participation of Asian leaders in the Wanshou Festival on the front, and engraved the names of all the participants on the north side, and also gave Chinese names to all the leaders who came to the ceremony, some were transliterated, some were paraphrased, and some were just raised.

The stele was signed, and Wanli Jimao was Christmas on September 4.

Chen Mu felt that there was nothing wrong with this payment.

A group of colleagues and brothers took this opportunity to gather together, inevitably getting drunk, and after sobering up, their affairs became more and more busy.

The gifts to the emperor should be loaded in a hurry, and if you don't load the ship quickly, it will be bad to miss the return time, not to mention that if you don't vacate the location of the warehouse, the saltpeter on Shao Tingda's ship is still waiting to be put into storage.

Deng Zilong brought information on Panama, Brazil, and the Viceroyalty of Spanish Peru, including Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Venezuela.

All the topics eventually pointed to Peru, which was occupied by Spain, and at this moment, Chen Mu felt that these people were more like warmongers than himself.

Tearing away the conversation, Shao Tingda said: "Mapuche's Lautaro is trained in me, he wants to liberate the suffering people, and when he raises his arms, he will gather from the followers, but he suffers from the lack of armor, and we can't give him the standard armor of the Ming Dynasty, and the armor of the Western Army in Chile is pitiful." ”

"There are always wins!"

Bai Yuanjie was suffocated, thinking that fighting with Fayi on the east coast of North Asia would allow him to move his muscles, but who knew that the French were pitifully weak, he had just read the war report, and the merchant who came back from the north brought back the news that the war had been over.

At this time, when he heard the flames of war, he immediately patted the table with his palm and said: "Chang Sheng, there are Western-made chain mail, cotton armor, spears, arquebuses, Haigong...... Batch? ”

The jealous and hateful Hai Rui lowered his eyes and looked at the steamed fish on the plate in front of him, and replied with a long snort: "Hmm......"

Hai Rui, who is jealous and hateful, has long been unaccustomed to the Spaniards, and the war is really not controlled by him, just like Chen Mu's grain, grass, money and taxes have to go through his hands, war is Chen Mu's duty, and no one has the right to interfere, so he has endured it.

"Then Deng will send out information, Panama, North and South Costa Rica and Colombia, it's uncomfortable to sandwich me in the middle, knock them out, I recommend hitting Colombia in the south, I'm not familiar with the governor of the West, and I don't pay attention to them when they ask me to send troops."

Deng Zilong raised his hand and lit it in the teacup as he spoke, and drew a sketch on the case in a blink of an eye, and said: "The tribe over there is called Musika, and the Kuxi people have been enslaved for a long time...... By the way, in addition to this, I have several Spanish ships in Panama that have been captured in the past. ”

"Ahem!"

Chen Mu, who was at the top, cleared his throat, and the four people, including Hai Rui, looked over, each laughing, you look at me, I look at you, and finally Shao Tingda said: "Dashuai, it's rare to have such an opportunity, don't take the opportunity to beat them?" ”

Chen Mu pouted and shook his head, raised his hand and swept over several people: "Your attitude is wrong, this kind of thing has nothing to do with my Daming." ”

"Even if the army is successful, is the land of the Ming Dynasty?" Chen Mu pursed his lips contemptuously, looked at a few people and paused for a long time before he suddenly raised his head and smiled: "Of course it is!" ”

"I don't mean to give them Spanish ships, the natives have never won naval battles, and we have Spanish ships on the west coast except for the Spaniards themselves."

"What's more, there are quite a lot of garrisons in the port, and I'm afraid there are many dead and wounded. By land, from the land controlled by the Portuguese in the name of the people, maybe the Portuguese would be willing to support them with a few francs. ”