On the coast, the men continue to study the Three Treasures of the Thousand Islands.

The women were also studying the Three Jewels in their eyes, the Giant Dragon, the Gold Mine, and the Golden Pearl.

Eventually, the ship sent to explore the road returned, and they found Manila Bay without any problems, and then sent a team of people to the north by land.

As a result, the people on land came back one step ahead of the fleet.

The man who came back brought amazing news.

"Bao Liu Juma knows, we saw a stone tablet in the port over there, according to the age on it, it should be left by Soochow during the Three Kingdoms, because of the age, so I can't see what is written on the stone tablet?"

"Soochow?" Yanagi really didn't expect it.

The captain continued: "Also, we have found some other traces, no more than twenty years old. Some of the boards had something carved into them that broke when we touched them, but we wrote down the contents. ”

Liu Mu asked anxiously, "What is it?" ”

"In the former Sui period, someone went to sea and went south along the coast, and it must have been to the place where we have been to the Xigang Shipping Division now, and then to the south, according to the above book, it should have taken a long detour, and then came to that port."

Liu Mu asked the captain in a low voice, "You have seen my chart, what do you think?" ”

"That's how it goes, I guess......" the captain drew a circle. Liu Mu understood, the ship sailed to the Gulf of Thailand, and then kept circling, circling a large circle around the South China Sea, and then around Luzon. The captain didn't have a sextant, and he couldn't tell much direction, so he just walked along the coast.

So he just thought he had been going in a certain direction, but he didn't know that he had almost made a full circle.

Yanagi asked again, "Is there anyone?" ”

"Yes, but the same as not. The largest tribe we see is very similar to the village before the Three Emperors and Five Emperors written in the book, but there are only about thirty people, and they don't even have pottery, and they don't have weapons, they use hard-burned wooden poles, and they don't have bows. ”

"Understood, go and rest." Liu Mu motioned for the pathfinder fleet to go and rest first.

Whether to move to Manila Bay, Yanagi did not expect.

In fact, there is a good wharf within a hundred miles of here, and it is too far to go around Manila Bay, and there is no need to go there at the moment, and even further north, it is good to find a suitable place to build a wharf in the northernmost part of Luzon.

Liu Mu followed Xiao Ling'er's advice to find those old foxes.

The old fox of the Seven Families walked around the surrounding mountains and forests, even if they were carried around with a slide bar, it was very hard for them, after all, the age was there.

When Liu Mu found them, more than twenty old men were gathered in a huge shed, and laughter could be heard from a distance.

Liu Mu went in and sat down, but saw the old men of the Seventh Family, these are all nobles and the top nobles of the Tang Dynasty, they are sitting with many old craftsmen, and they will be placed in Chang'an, it is estimated that even Li Shimin would not dare to imagine such a situation.

But the facts are in front of you, and these people are indeed sitting together.

Zheng Yuanxuan of the Zheng family was laughing with everyone, and he was busy with his hands, and when Liu Mu came in, Zheng Yuanxuan threw a fan in his hand to Liu Mu.

After taking the fan, Liu Mu's heart was full of nostalgia.

This thing was almost non-existent when Willow was a child, but when Willow was very young, it could still be seen in the countryside. This is a fan made of palm leaves, which is extremely low cost and natural.

Zheng Yuanxuan had a loud voice and smiled heartily: "This thing is easier than splitting bamboo pieces, and you can make dozens of them when you speak." In the words of our village, this hard work of selling a mouth can be earned for dozens of dollars, hahaha. ”

The old craftsman was laughing along.

Cui Hong motioned for Liu Mu to sit down, and then shouted at an old craftsman: "Old Zhaotou, you continue to talk about your business." ”

"The little old man has compared with everyone, the one that shakes without the sound of water is small, the slight sound of water is green, and the sound of water is old. The best way to extract oil is to choose between the young and the old, and drinking water is the most suitable for the young. As for the ones we cut down at the beginning, the longest pile has been thirteen days now, and it hasn't broken yet. ”

Thirteen days, this time is important.

With this time, it is guaranteed that the coconuts will be transported to Cixi, and then immediately enter the workshop to start processing.

If the time is too short, then it is necessary to build a workshop nearby.

It was not a good choice to build a workshop in Luzon, it was too far away, and it was impossible to recruit good craftsmen who had left their homes, and coolies who had no skills could recruit some, but these people could not do important things at all.

"Old Zhaotou, when will the first bottle of coconut oil be seen?"

"I'm afraid I'll have to wait, let's come here without the guy who squeezed the oil, find the right stone and wood here, it is estimated that it will take at least five days to make it, and it will take ten days to really produce good oil."

Since I've been busy, it's hard for anyone to rush.

Cui Hong turned his head and looked at another craftsman: "Fu Bo." ”

This is the craftsman of the Cui family, a domestic craftsman, and one of the big foremen of the yarn weaving workshop, and when he heard the question, he immediately pulled a small rattan box from his backpack, took out a few pieces of cloth and handed them over.

"Three elders, take a look. This can be even better, there are no large yarn machines and large looms here, what is brought is a few hand-cranked yarn machines, which have surpassed the high-quality fine linen on the market in Chang'an. I don't know how to dye, we don't have dye on our hands. I found that there are some flowers and fruits that can be used to make dyes, but there are no dye craftsmen who came here this time. ”

"This is a trivial matter, just ask Lingnan to help when the time comes."

The dye is really not important.

Fauber still added: "There is no dye here, I don't know how the coloring and fading are, but it's a pity." ”

"Good material, coloring will talk about it. And that's a few more percent. ”

"It's more than twice as good, this is a very fine and high-quality white hemp material that can be worsted, and the raw materials alone are better than Lingnan's abaca more than once, and they are completely two different hemp materials."

Fauber passed another old craftsman, this is the foreman of the weaving mill from the Li clan in Zhao County.

"Report to the owners that we arranged for someone to cut almost a few hundred stones of abaca, but they didn't pick it along the way. Then he peeled the hemp, almost ten catties of dry hemp. These hundreds of stones of abama are cut from one point of land, and the size of one acre should be able to cut thousands of stones. ”

This number is staggering, but there are all abaca seeds with a height of more than six meters growing densely here, and it is indeed not a problem to cut dozens of tons out of an acre.

"The size of an acre of abacia, the sun-dried hemp is close to a stone up, if it is finely peeled, it will be more."

Yanagi was not surprised to hear this data.

Liu Mu understands the yield of abaca in later generations, and each hectare is almost one ton to 1.5 tons of dry fiber, and one hectare is fifteen acres, so it is normal to have one stone of hemp material per mu here.