This world needs bad guys, and only the existence of bad guys can make the warriors who defeat the bad guys appear full of honor.

This sentence perfectly fits the changes in the New World in the past decade.

First of all, in North Asia, the easiest place for the Oriental military government to establish a foundation was precisely Mexico City, which was once enslaved by the Spaniards.

The people in those places have a very high degree of recognition of the Ming Dynasty, even better than the people of Majiagang who are freezing in the cold.

In more places, the natives recognized the local governor and the Oriental military government, and the Ming Dynasty was still a distant symbol for them, just as the natives who lived near the Heishui Jianya Islands west of Majiagang also had some copper coins such as Yongle Tongbao in their hands as heirlooms.

The people living in the narrow strip of the west coast were more receptive to the Ming dynasty than the east, and it was easier to accept that there was only one emperor in the world.

But in Brazil, it's a little bit harder.

The commander Lu Feng is doing his best to stop the local people from treating him as a savior.

"It's not good." Zhao Shizhen, the commander of the Oriental Military Government who came to Rio to perform official duties, held a porcelain cup filled with reddish-brown juice and put it close to his mouth, and said with a smile: "The people respect the flag army and worship the commander, isn't this just a recognition of the merits of the Lu commander's expulsion of the Portuguese?" ”

He drank the juice of the local berries, known as acai berries, which grew in the rainforest and were paid by the people as tribute to Riowe.

The mechanical unit was sent by the top boss to Rio Wei to see Lu Feng's current situation, the purpose of which was to observe the possibility of further development of Brazil by the Ming army on the spot, because the northern Makino Prefecture had just sent someone to report to Chen Mu two months ago that the prospecting for the Great Lakes west of Makino County had been basically completed.

The ore reserves are too large, and they have found that there are undetectable coal fields, huge reserves and widely distributed iron mountains, high-quality stone mountains, and a large number of silver, copper, and gold mines, the vast majority of which cannot be excavated or utilized at all with the mining capacity that Makino Prefecture currently has.

Therefore, Yang Zhaolong felt that there was no need to explore any further, rather than letting these limited number of miners spend endlessly here, it was better to send them to other places to discover more unknown ore reserves.

There are many Makino mines, but there are many problems with the unusability of ores, which is a dead end under the current conditions...... A large number of mines are located on the shores of the Great Lakes, far from the coast, and transportation is difficult, even if there are boats and rivers, transportation is also difficult, and the middle few rivers that cannot be navigated by ships need to be repaired, and the effort is not as easy as building tracks.

But the track set by Chen Shuai patted his head needs iron, the track needs to transport iron, and the track needs iron.

On the contrary, the wood-iron composite railway built under the auspices of the domestic imperial court was more in line with their existing technical base.

So now Makino not only has a section of railroad tracks at both ends and a wood-iron composite track is being built in the middle, but the Toyo Military Government also has a group of idle craftsmen who specialize in prospecting, most of them are from Nanjing Craftsman College, have rich knowledge of geological theory, and their work in Makino also gives them sufficient practical experience in the metals they already know, and they are waiting for the reward for the next work.

They are like a bunch of bounty hunters under the control of the Toyo Military, as long as the Toyo Gunfu gives them the command to allow them to prospect in this land, they will self-raise their own funds to hire guards, servants, and apprentices, and lead teams to work in any land...... Because some of the seniors have already returned home by boat.

In the process of prospecting in the Great Lakes of Muye the year before last, Yang Zhaolong, the magistrate of the county, gave the prospector a very generous reward of silver, taking the iron ore as an example, fifty miners for a furnace, each iron ore was discovered, according to the scale of the reward silver, a furnace of ten taels.

As a result, the three old craftsmen who each led the team explored the huge coalfield of 800 miles in length and 50 miles in width, which was more than Shanxi plus a piece, and Yang Zhaolong of Xiaozhi County couldn't hold it anymore, so he could only send a letter of help to Chen Mu, but Chen Mu couldn't hold on to such a big thing, and he really gave it according to the reward set by Yang Zhaolong, and it was not enough for him to fill in the Dongyang Military Mansion for a year.

But he couldn't break his promise, Chen Mu sent the ins and outs of the matter back to the imperial court, his original intention was to do it if he agreed, and wanted to discuss with the imperial court that the military government would spend too much this year, and he would still send two silver taels of the annual income, and he would be rewarded with half of the money in kind, so that the three craftsmen would drive back a fleet full of goods, but the emperor rejected it.

The emperor said that what is the use of just giving money, and the three craftsmen who were not famous and had no support suddenly received a huge reward of silver taels, which was not a blessing but a way to die, and the emperor also carefully calculated an account of how much silver should be rewarded, and each of the three was 534,700 taels.

In the past, it was the ministers who reported the detailed amount to the emperor, but at this time, the Oriental Military Government did not dare to calculate it before the matter was decided, but let the emperor calculate it.

Wanli said, please Jing Haibo first discuss with him, if they want money, the Oriental Military Government will be exempted from income this year, and all will be given; They have to agree to ask for less money, and my Shanxi coal mine lacks three Zhengwupin mine supervisors, each of whom will be given a meritorious archway, and each will choose a descendant and a person to shade three generations of brocade clothes and 100 households, and reward 100,000 taels of silver.

At the end, he added a sentence that Jing Haibo had to give me a good look at the big coalfield.

The reply made Chen Mu's heart burst out...... Wanli still has a mine supervisor?

Don't care what Chen Mu thinks, the news of this matter spread out, boiling in the group of prospecting craftsmen, to be honest, in the eyes of most mortals, there is not much difference between 100,000 taels and 500,000 taels, anyway, it's all someone else's, anyway, you can't spend it in your life, anyway, you really have so much money and don't know how to spend it, anyway, even if you really have it, you have to be afraid that someone will kill you and rob it.

Anyway...... I really want that much money!

As a result, the imperial court really gave, 100,000 taels of snowflake-like silver, a five-grade official position higher than the lord of the county, a hundred households of three generations of brocade clothes that can only be obtained by generals in previous battles, and the emperor's imperial meritorious archway is repaired in his hometown.

The ascension of chickens and dogs, the guarantee of three lifetimes from life to death, is all because of a big mine in North Asia.

This is something that was unimaginable in the past.

Everyone's eyes turned to Colombia and Brazil, and there was no big mine in such a big place on the map?

It's as if all the European explorers of the Age of Discovery were trying to find a route to China, and China didn't think so; Everyone tried to run to Brazil, but Lu Feng, the commander of the Rio Guard in Brazil, didn't seem to think so.

In the face of Zhao Shizhen's praise with a little compliment, Lu Feng's head was bigger, and he spread his hands and said: "Lord Zhao, don't make fun of me anymore, I still want to be promoted, they regard me as a bodhisattva who saves the suffering and saves the living, how will I be promoted in the future, how to go to other places, my grandfather fought two wars with the Portuguese in Shuangyu Port and Zoumaxi, and Lu is now the commander of the district, and he is worshiped by them in the small place of Rio Wei." ”

"I came here to make a contribution, not to be a herdsman, to fight Spain, Portugal, France, England, Your Majesty and the marshal want to fight whoever they want, send me to, horse leather shroud or horseback meritorious service, a hundred years later, my hometown in Zhejiang Province is in Lishui County, the state capital, not only has my grandfather's monument, but also my tomb of Lu Hou, which is what my husband should do in the world."