So everyone said goodbye to Li Muqing and embarked on the road to Tiandu non-stop. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When he left Yayuling, Xia Nan was still a little sad: "It's a pity that such a rich iron ore and copper are so rich!" ”

"It's okay, when you occupy the entire Qiongzhou, you can use the crowd tactics to develop Shilu openly!" Lin Weiye comforted him.

"That's just as well." Xia Nan felt a little better.

Follow the same path back to Wu Ni Harbor and head south along the coastline again. It took less than three days to get from Changhua to Yazhou, and a huge bay was discovered. The snow-white sand, swaying coconut trees, and blue water on the beach all indicate that this is the Sanya Beach of the future.

Although there is no building as a reference, but the summer south of Sanya Beach many times is still vaguely recognizable, the terrain here is not much different from hundreds of years later, the biggest difference is that there are no crowds of tourists, only a gentle sea breeze through this beautiful beach.

"Great, no tourists, no garbage, we will be the pioneers here, Sanya, I am here, you will be mine!" Summer Nan expressed her feelings to the fullest.

Lin Weiye reminded that Sanya Bay is not the destination of this trip, and he has to continue to move forward to Yulin Port ahead.

Bypassing the famous deer head, two hours later, arrived at Yulin Harbor. As a port, Yulin is far superior to Sanya Bay, which is too open for ships to dock in the event of a storm. The whole Yulin Port is surrounded by mountains, blue sea, white sand, blue sky, coconut grove, beautiful scenery, and it is completely original ecological appearance.

Sailing into the inner harbor, a stockade appeared on land. Xia Nanqi said: "There are still people living in such a primitive place? ”

After going ashore, arrive at this stockade. The stockade is similar to a chopping hill, with a simple fortress built with a two-person high wooden wall, and there are even strong men patrolling.

Someone from the stockade came out to interrogate the group, and Xia Nan brought it over on the pretext of docking for supplies, and then inquired about the situation here.

Originally, this place was called Anyoule Town, and it was said to be a town, but in fact, it was a big village where Han and Li lived together. Because there are often ships going to the South Seas to take shelter here, people have settled here since the Tang Dynasty, because this is the last port before going to the South Seas, and over time it has formed a town-like stockade.

There is a local named Hu Yuan who has the right to rule here, organizes strong patrols, guards against pirates, and usually provides fresh water, food and accommodation to the maritime merchants who go to the South Seas, and is regarded as the owner of the village. The people in the stockade who lived by providing food and lodging for the maritime merchants also needed someone to protect them.

Everyone went around the streets of Anyoule Town, which was quite prosperous, although there was only one street less than 500 meters away, but there were various shops on both sides. Because this is the last stop before going to the South Seas, many ships or to avoid the wind, or waiting for the wind, have stayed here for a long time, and over time, all kinds of sensual dogs and horses are readily available, and even there is a brothel. Xia Nan noticed that there were a lot of blacksmith shops here, and when he inquired, the consumers were mainly the Li people in the vicinity, and there were ships anchored here, which would also be used when repairing ships.

Xia Nan said worriedly: "It seems that the Tiandu iron ore has been discovered. ”

"The Tiandu iron ore itself should not have been discovered, but Yazhou has been famous for iron production since ancient times, and there are some scattered small iron mines." Lin Weiye said.

Xia Nan went to the blacksmiths to inquire where the pig iron they used came from, and the answer was that it was all transported from Yazhou.

"That's good." Xia Nan said, "If the local natives are already mining in Tiandu, we will have to carry out violent demolition and relocation, and we can only open the mine after driving them out." ”

Compared with the twists and turns of Changhua County, it is much easier to find Tiandu Iron Mine than Shilu Iron Mine, as long as you can trace up the Tiandu River to find Huangniling, the famous Tiandu Iron Mine is on this mountain.

The group still found a Li guide in Anyoule Town, and found Huangniling very smoothly. When he arrived at the destination, he was sent to the guide, and Lin Weiye dug out the iron ore in only two places according to the old method of Shiluling. The iron ore here is also on the surface, with only a shallow layer of soil.

After Lin Weiye looked at the ore, he said affirmatively: "The high-quality ore is no less than Shilu." ”

Xia Nan breathed a sigh of relief, if there were any more moths here, he would even have the heart to hang himself.

After the sample ore was mined, Lin Weiye buried the excavated ore layer overburden - a resource that the locals would not know about for the time being. Tiandu iron ore is also an iron ore with a very high iron content, so much so that during the Guangxu period, a local gentry only used a small square furnace and a dozen workers to smelt raw iron in batches to supply the market, and made a lot of profits.

Found the iron mine, the goal was achieved, and the group returned to Lingao, it was almost the New Year, and they had to go back to the town, and the development of Tiandu would have to be after the New Year no matter how soon they were.

When leaving Anyoule Town, Xia Nan looked at the strong man in the stockade and showed a covetous expression, in his eyes, this was a ready-made miner. However, it is a bit laborious to use a rifle to defeat this village of thousands of people, and it is necessary to blast open the gate of the village with small-caliber artillery, and when he goes back, he forces Lin Weiye to get the small cannon out.

Back in Lingao, it was already December 23, and Xia Nan suddenly remembered that in the old time and space, tomorrow would be the New Year, and the customs in the north should eat dumplings.

After traveling to the Ming Dynasty, he has been refraining from thinking about his parents and devoting his energy to building a factory, but as the Lunar New Year approaches, the longing for his family cannot be suppressed.

He came to Tan Shan to discuss the matter of celebrating the New Year. Tan Shan looked puzzled.

"Master, the Qiongzhou Mansion does not celebrate the New Year, only Chinese New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival." It turns out that the New Year, that is, the sacrificial stove, is only a custom in the inland of the Central Plains, and the thirteen counties of the three prefectures of Qiongzhou do not build sacrificial stoves.

Xia Nan was dumbfounded, there was still this stubble, and he really didn't know about it if he didn't travel to the Ming Dynasty. There is no way, only to discuss with Lin Weiye. When Lin Weiye heard about Xiao Nian, he also thought of his parents and his eyes were red.

"Pity my parents for having such a son as me, they didn't give them their entire daughter-in-law, let them hold their grandson, and they came to another time and space so inexplicably, it's not filial!"

On the evening of the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, Xia Nan called the British trio, Lin Weiye, Fu Nanying, Chunlan and other maids to renovate a table of wine and food in the front yard of Hujiazhuang, which was the first small year after the crossing. Maria didn't know the meaning of the stove, but the small gathering made her happy.