These lines or something, Dong Strategy glanced at it, and saw where he and the others were now - according to the map marked, this line exits Shoukou Fort and ends in Guihua City, with a slight twist and turn in the middle, but it is generally a straight line. And the point where he and the others are now is the fourth point on this line from south to north. It can be clearly seen from above that it is almost two hundred miles away from Shoukou Fort.

There are no other Mongol tribes around.

This made Dong Ce very satisfied.

After taking a rough look at the map, Dong Ce couldn't help but sigh, the Fan family is just a businessman, how big can the power be directly deployed? But people can draw such an accurate and detailed map of Saibei, but what about the Ming Dynasty? Rich all over the world, a big country, in the past few hundred years, I haven't seen any progress in this field?

It doesn't have much to do with the size of the force, it's just that you don't care about it.

But what surprised Dong Ce the most was that he swept his gaze a little, but suddenly found that something was wrong. That point was actually a copper coin pattern, and it was not a short distance from the line. Next to this pattern, four words are marked: Copper here.

"There's copper here?"

Dong Ce's heart moved, and he frowned and searched carefully on the map for a while, specifically looking for those points that were not next to the route, but were marked. Sure enough, he found seven or eight, some of them were farther away from the route, some were closer, some were south and close to Daming, and some were not far from Guihua City. These points are very scattered, but without exception, in Dong Ce's eyes, they all belong to resource points.

Some of the standard is that there is copper here, and some write that there is graphite here, and there is iron in the open air here, and there is even a mark that there is a large salt pond here.

Dong Ce walked up to Fan Jienian, pointed to those resource points and asked, "What does this mean?" It is said that there is copper here, could it be that there is a copper mine here? ”

Looking at this, Fan Jienian's face also showed a complex expression of regret, embarrassment, and shame, Dong Ce observed his words and looks, and knew that he had found something amazing. It seems that these resource points are very important in the Fan family.

Fan Jieqiao watched coldly and sneered: "Fan Jienian, you can't even be a villain, do you still want to be a pseudo-villain?" Why did you go earlier? Confided a lot of secrets in the family, and now regret it? If you don't say it, I say! ”

When Fan Jienian heard this, he hurriedly said: "My lord, I said, I said ......."

Dong Ce said coldly: "Shut up." ”

He turned to Fan Jieqiao: "You say." ”

Fan Jieqiao finally seized an opportunity, but he was still a little nervous, he took a breath and said: "These locations are rich in all kinds of mineral deposits, as marked above, what is written is what is abundant." My Fan family has been outside the mouth for so many years, accumulated a lot of experience, and also went to a lot of places. There are a few of these places that we discovered on our own. For example, the iron mine was a caravan that got lost on the grassland, and all the way over, only to find that there was iron ore scattered at the foot of a mountain, and then walked inside, and saw that the ground was full of black, yellow, black and yellow iron ore, and some of them were large pieces of iron. ”

After Fan Jieqiao's explanation, Dong Ce was clear in his heart.

Some of these resource points have been discovered one after another in the past few years outside the Fanjiaxing Koukou, and some are known from the local Mongolian herdsmen. In these years, except for some blacksmith and carpenter workshops in some places around Guihua City, the other Mongolian tribes did not have the ability to mine at all, and even if they stumbled upon it, there was no way, and no one would take it seriously. At most, the tribe that relies on the salt pond can carry some salt back from time to time to solve the salt problem in the tribe.

But the Fan family is very concerned about this, according to Fan Jiejiao's explanation, according to the rules of the Fan family, every caravan outside the export has the obligation to collect information in this regard. Once you arrive in a certain place and come into contact with local herders, you have to turn around and ask for information about this. If they get this phrase from the herdsmen, they will immediately send someone to investigate, and if the inquiry is true, they will mark the location and hand in the information when they return to the clan.

There are a few people in the clan who are responsible for organizing the maps and adding information, and these maps are not unchanged for many years, but change every once in a while.

After Dong Ce listened, he couldn't help but be silent for a while.

From this map and from these marked resource points, he knew that the Fan family was really not small, and it could be described as ambitious.

Among these minerals, there are salt, iron, copper, and coal, and if they are all in the bag, it is the foundation of the king. However, Dong Ce estimated that even if the Fan family had this ambition, they did not have the strength, and they probably wanted to present this map to Jiannu as a great gift. If this is the case, this gift is indeed of great significance and practical benefit to Jiannu.

"Who drew this map?" Dong Ce asked in a deep voice.

"It is an elder in the family, according to the generation, we should also call him the third uncle, he was young and went back and forth inside and outside the mouth, has been running for more than 40 years, these terrain outside the pass, it can be said that he knows everything about it, and he can draw it with his eyes closed. Later, when he couldn't walk, he asked for a few people and began to draw maps, all of which came from his hands. The third uncle's name is Fan Daqiu. ”

This time it was Fan Jienian who grabbed it, and he explained it very quickly.

Dong Ce nodded, rolled up the map and put it in a bamboo tube, and then carefully put it away.

Next, he asked the two of them many questions in great detail, these questions are in all aspects, and some are unrelated, and they are extremely jumpy. After asking for half an hour, the sun was already in the west, and it was not long before it would be dark.

Wang Tong rode his horse over, turned over and dismounted, and stopped talking.

Dong Ce glanced at him, nodded, and the two walked to the side, Dong Ce stared at Fan Jienian and the two, and said in a low voice: "How?" ”

"The carts have all arrived together, and they are piled up. The battlefield has been cleaned, our big arrows have been recovered, two of the cavalry spears have been broken, and three may not be usable, and these have also been recovered. All the things related to our identities have been found and recovered. ”

"Those surviving coachmen guys, after they drove all the carts together, they interrogated them again, they didn't get anything, they all killed, and now only these two and what is called Fan Caibao are left."

"One of us didn't die, but we were injured two, one scratched the thigh, and the other cut off a little finger, and the injuries have been dealt with."

"The property has also been counted, a total of one hundred and seven carts, of which ninety are all grain, fifteen are all silk, almost five hundred, the subordinates took a look, all are the best Shu brocade, Su embroidery, Baixi forging, big red woven gold satin, worth a lot."

Dong Ce nodded, and secretly said that these silks might be what Dolgon planned to give to those widows of Lin Dan Khan, and this thing on the grassland is very precious, and it is a good choice for gifts.

"In addition, there are two cars, each pulling a silver ball."

"Silver Ball?" Dong Ce was surprised.

"That's right." Wang Tong was obviously a little excited, stretched out his hands and gestured: "It's as big as a small urn, I'm afraid there will be seven or eight hundred catties in weight, all made of silver, pure silver." Your Excellency, please come and have a look. ”

"Then I'm going to see." Dong Ce instructed Dong Yongzhen to be optimistic about Fan Jienian and the two and follow Wang Cheng.

The two carts were parked at the outermost periphery, and the boards on them had been opened at this moment, revealing the scene inside, and the family members gathered around to see the strangeness.

Seeing Dong Ce coming, everyone got out of the way, Dong Ce leaned over to the side of the car and took a look inside, and couldn't help but hold his breath.

In front of him was a huge silver ball, about a foot and a half in diameter, the whole body was made of silver, the texture was snow-white and delicate, neither black nor black, nor any magazines, at a glance you knew that it was extremely high-quality. If this ball of silver is melted and cast into a silver ingot, it will be the finest gold and silver.

So much silver was melted into a sphere, as if it had smashed into Dong Ce's eyes, and the visual impact caused was extremely strong.

There was a semicircular depression at the bottom of the carriage, and the silver ball was placed in it, and around the silver ball, four iron plates were fixed, and the bottom was connected to the wall of the carriage. Between the iron plate and the silver ball, there is an unknown number of layers of thick cloth, so that the silver ball is as stable as Mount Tai inside, and it is not afraid to roll around.

Two cars, only two large silver balls were pulled, and nothing else.

Dong Ce stretched out his hand and gently stroked the surface of the silver ball, feeling the cold and delicate texture, and exhaled softly.

Even if these two silver balls are 600 catties each, two are 1,200 catties, which is nearly 20,000 taels of snowflake silver!

Flying windfall, what a flying windfall!

Dong Ce's action this time was originally the main purpose of attacking the Fan family, and the secondary purpose was the purpose of obtaining the Fan family, but he really didn't expect to intercept so much silver, which really made Dong Ce overjoyed.

But then he furrowed his brow again.

Why? Why did the Fan family transport these two silver balls to Naturalization City?

Second, what should I do? How can such a heavy silver ball be carried away? In any case, the cart cannot be taken away, otherwise it will be easily exposed, in this case, it can only be pulled away by manpower and horsepower, but for the war horse, the weight of seven or eight hundred catties is too big. Dong Ce pondered for a moment, suddenly his eyes lit up, and said: "Dismantle these two big cars, remember, only dismantle the surrounding car plates, and keep the carriage boards below and these four iron plates, and there must be no damage, understand?" ”

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