The war in the Ryukyu Pirate Zone, for Bengang, only attracted the attention of Li Tianyang and them for a while, and soon before the end of the war, they were put aside by Li Tianyang.

At this time, the benefits of joining the Ming Dynasty for Bengang gradually appeared, and the military books learned by the military attachés of the Ming Dynasty, such as "Hundred Battles and Strange Strategies", "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", "Records of Military Training", etc., opened the door to Li Tianyang, so that Li Tianyang soon used his official position to collect a complete set of military books from the previous dynasty and the present.

Although he collected a lot of military books through various channels before, after all, due to the restrictions of the imperial court, many precious books were not so easy to get his hands on, not to mention many new books, such as the "Artifact Spectrum" in the Wanli period, etc., until now Li Tianyang was able to find people to collect these books with great fanfare.

The completion of the military book is of great significance to Bengang, and the children of Bengang Academy also have more books and materials to learn military knowledge, and Bengang also has more references to develop new technologies.

Good things always come one after another, and Li Tianyang has been urging them, and in the past few years, the members of the exploration team have been expanded into four teams, and they will drill in the places controlled by the Bengang Alliance all day long, or look for possible ore veins around the chicken coop.

Naturally, the iron ore has not been found, and the gold vein found is not very far from Jilong Mountain, and it is estimated that it is likely to be an extension of the same vein, and there is no other harvest other than that.

Until today, an exploration team operating around Jilong Harbor suddenly sent a carrier pigeon, saying that a mountain range containing a large amount of sulfur had been discovered in the remnants of the Snow Mountain Range west of Jilong Harbor, which was the second ore variety to be discovered by Bengang after the gold mine.

The discovery of sulfur veins is really a very good news for Bengang, saltpeter farms since Da'an began to breed a large number of cattle, horses and livestock, as well as Bengang, Jilong Port itself farms, the production of saltpeter has reached hundreds of catties per month, and now with the discovery of sulfur veins, the most important raw material for the development of gunpowder Bengang no longer has to worry!

Of course, they have not forgotten to improve the power of gunpowder over the years, and after the entire gunpowder formula has been discovered by them to find the best ratio, and then want to continue to increase the power of gunpowder, then they can only work the purity of these raw materials.

Sulfur purification process, saltpeter purification process, at this time the latest technology of the Ming Dynasty and their research and improvement, so that the gunpowder developed by Bengang is three points more powerful than the outside, including the gunpowder of the Ming Dynasty.

Then, Li Tianyang's granular gunpowder suddenly appeared in the memory of later generations, which reminded Chengcai of their next research direction, and finally finalized the most powerful gunpowder formula that surpassed the entire era.

Anyway, so far, Li Tianyang and his many experiments have not found any place where the gunpowder produced is similar to the power of their own formula, and even the gunpowder of the Dutch and Portuguese Westerners is slightly inferior to the gunpowder of the Bengang team.

The only thing that caused some trouble was that the mountain range where the sulphur vein was located was very steep, the peak was steep and in the middle of the jungle, and even if a usable road was excavated at the mouth of the tooth, it would take some time, let alone dig the vein in that mountain range.

However, these are only minor problems, and since it is not easy to find a useful mine, it seems a pity if it cannot be developed.

Soon, Jilong Harbor received Li Tianyang's order, and a large number of members left the port one after another and began to excavate and build a place that was called Datun Mountain by the natives.

Bengang is not idle here, under the hard work of the Da'an Port horse tamers day and night, the domestication of the first batch of more than 1,000 war horses has been completed, Li Tianyang is asking Wu Jie to take people to Da'an Port in batches to start equestrian training.

As a special operations battalion, there are not many horses and livestock in the Bengang team over the years, but Wu Jie and the others have also spent a lot of effort to find dozens of usable horses, so that hundreds of people in the special operations battalion can learn equestrianism, and thoroughly implement Li Tianyang's positioning of the special operations battalion.

Of course, under the terrain and horse restrictions on the side of Chicken Coop Harbor, the equestrian skills of the special operations camp are a bit clumsy, at most they can barely follow the speed of the horses.

Therefore, this time, when Da'an Port began to organize people to practice equestrianism, where to find so many instructors to teach equestrianism for a while, they could only let this group of half-guys in the special operations camp act as instructors to help newcomers get familiar with war horses.

I was a little dissatisfied with the Goryeo horse before, after all, no matter how you look at it, it is not as tall and mighty as the Dawan horse and the Hetao horse, thick and powerful.

But during the exercise, I found out that these characteristics, which were shortcomings in Li Tianyang's eyes, happened to be the safety guarantee of the recruits when they first learned equestrianism.

Even so, every day, dozens of warriors still fell off their horses, or disturbed the horses, and were carried by them to run wildly, and finally got off their horses and were scarred!

In fact, even the so-called instructors of the special operations battalion were trembling when they were riding on war horses at this time, for fear that the movements would be too big and the horses would run wildly.

The difference between a horse and a war horse is too great, even if most of these war horses in Da'an Port are Goryeo horses, but they are still not comparable to those horses.

However, Gan Dabiao, the mayor of Da'angang, has been following several horse trainers day and night these days, and they have been teaching him everything, and finally let him learn equestrianism, and these days he has changed the horse he fancied before from the snow-white Korean mare to a tall black Hetao horse.

When there was nothing to do, Gan Dabiao rode the war horse he named "Treading Snow" to the training camp, and watched Wu Jie and the others make a fool of themselves, and their lives were very leisurely.

Da'an Port is not as good as the other two places of the Bengang team, and its function and value are reflected in these thousands of livestock, so after the early preparation of a large number of pastures, the task for Gan Dabiao is really not heavy.

Coupled with the hot and humid weather on this Dayuan Island, this grass can grow and reproduce almost all year round, and there is no need to store much winter grain and grass, and it can also meet the daily consumption of livestock.

The results of the first batch of breeding came out, and a total of more than 800 livestock were bred, of which horses accounted for the majority, nearly 600, and the rest were mostly cattle.

During these days, Gan Dabiao focuses more on these horses every day, as long as they are taken care of, for Gan Dabiao, his task is half completed!

(End of chapter)