open sea

Chapter 615 Red Clay
Exploration is a new word, anyway Yang Zhaolong saw it from Chen Mu's letter, this word is very exciting to hear.

Complaints belong to complaints. After complaining, Yang Zhaolong still has to implement. First, Chen Mu insisted that Xinming has mines capable of changing the world, and he wanted to send more people to Xinming Island. Yang Zhaolong's small arms could not beat his thighs; Come, it is Yang Zhaolong's own reason.

In the chieftain family, only the eldest son can inherit the chieftain, so he not only has to receive the education of the family to rule the place, but also goes to the Beijing Guozijian to learn the education of being loyal to the empire, but as the second son, Yang Zhaolong is different.

He also has to learn a lot, from how to lead an army to how to rule the people, but the most important thing he has to learn is not leadership, but obedience.

Just be obedient.

In such a family, the second son usually has only two options, either to learn from the Xi’an brothers and fight against each other, and kill the eldest brother and the second brother to become the eldest brother; Clans are stronger.

Unruly and freedom-loving Yang Zhaolong found another way for himself, but in fact, the same goal is the same. He used to listen to his elder brother Yang Yinglong, but now he listens to his brother-in-law Chen Mu.

Chen Mu's suggestion to him is to prepare food for 200 people for a year, travel around Xinming Island along the coast, and find a suitable place to live again—in the fleet of sending letters to Chen Mu, leave twelve lucky boats full of water and food, Two graduates from the Navy Lecture Hall accompanied the surveying and mapping map as a guide, and everything was ready, and they could board the ship with their bags.

Even Yang Zhaolong's worries were relieved, and the fleet also had a civil official named Li Hualong who was sent by Nanyang Minister Gao Gong.

Chen Mu did not expect that it was Li Hualong who was transferred here. He just wrote a letter to Gao Gong, hoping that the Minister of Nanyang would choose one of the magistrates and county magistrates in Nanyang as Xinming to govern the people on behalf of Yang Zhaolong. Perhaps Gao Gong felt that the two The name is appropriate, so Li Hualong, who has served as the county magistrate of Mishima in Luzon for a year, was transferred here.

Yang Zhaolong changed his clothes and put on his armor, followed by his maidservant and Wu Bian, a Miao man, who carried the box. They walked out of the room where the Nanyang Army Mansion issued a plaque of "Yang Lai Wan Wei Ya" and saw a man waiting outside with a warrior.

He was only in his early twenties, with a short beard just growing around his mouth, a broad forehead with fleshy cheeks, a straight waist and a confident demeanor, wearing black boots, wearing a green official robe, and black gauze on his head, and was clutching a book at this time Looking at the wonders that have never been seen in the distance.

Hearing a strange noise in his ears, he turned his head and saw Yang Zhaolong rushing out of the Yamen, a strange color flashed in his eyes, he slightly raised his eyebrows, his expression returned to normal in an instant, he cupped his hands slightly, and said, "I'm Li Hualong, temporarily serving as the county magistrate of Yang Laiwan. "

"So young!"

With a frivolous smile on Yang Zhaolong's face, he said to the maidservant beside him. After smiling, he cupped his hands to Li Hualong and said, "Although you are very young, don't worry, Yang Laiwan is very easy to manage, and everyone is busy eating enough. , there is no enemy attacking us, and there is no place to rob, it is not difficult to govern here, so stay at ease."

In his eyes, the seventh-rank magistrate is no different from ordinary people. In his hometown, the chief officer, Si Zheng, and the sixth-rank chief are just running errands to pay tribute.

That is to say, seeing Li Hualong's young age, he said a few words of comfort. In Yang Zhaolong's heart, he is already a corporal of courtesy and virtuousness.

He didn't know that 22 years later in another time and space, his elder brother led the Bozhou rebellion. He was removed in one fell swoop.

In front of him, Li Hualong didn't flatter at all, he cupped his hands and said: "I'm serving in Nanyang, I will do my best in my duties, I hope the commander can spend some time to understand Yang Lai's confidential affairs with me."

Li Hualong had no other intentions, but simply saw the appearance of the brother-in-law, Minister of the East, taking his concubine and family members out for an outing, and felt unreliable.

Coincidentally, Yang Zhaolong also felt that Li Hualong was too young and unreliable.

"It's okay, this voyage is [-] to [-] miles, plus the surveying and mapping map to explore the coastal terrain, the shortest is half a year, and the longest is a year. Yang must explain clearly to you that the road to the port is very long. Send me off. Talk while walking."

Li Hualong raised his eyes and looked at the port two miles away. Before he could say anything, he saw Yang Zhaolong suddenly say something to the maid. The maid walked back to Weiya with small steps, and he said, "I will give you a share of the current Yang Laiwan. Map, the farthest to the east is 87 miles, there is a high mountain there, I tried to climb it, but I didn’t climb it, and I’m too lazy to go around, you can climb it and have a look.”

"It is more than 200 miles to the southwest, and more than 4000 people live along the coast. There are fishers, loggers, and vegetables and grain growers. However, the soil is not good. Although it is red, the red soil is only one shovel thick. It’s nearly ten feet thick, but it’s easy to dig a well here, and water can come out by digging seven or eight feet.”

"So it's hard to grow food here. There's not much land that can grow food, but it's suitable for growing grass. You can build pastures, raise cattle, sheep, and horses."

Just as he was talking, the maid had already taken out the map, which was actually just a piece of paper, not as big as the second picture, with a 'T'-shaped area drawn, marking the settlements of the Duzhang people on the coastline and the protruding terrain extending southward , Yang Zhaolong said: "That's where I walked. I walked four hundred miles to the south. The south is very beautiful. I will pass a small grassland. Although it looks very big, it is all red land, but the place farther away is actually a desert. , Red Earth Desert, haven’t you seen it? You have to go and have a look.”

Holding the map, Li Hualong listened to Yang Zhaolong talking about his "achievements". He frowned more and more, and finally couldn't help asking: "Didn't Shuai Chen ask you to come here to explore the land and search for mines? Yang Laiwan doesn't seem to be Didn't do it?"

"You'll understand after staying here for two years."

Yang Zhaolong is not as easy to get angry as his elder brother. At first there was a smile on his face, but then the smile disappeared, and he opened his arms as if to surround the world, saying: "This is a barren land. Whatever you grow, you will die. Any piece of land in the country will be barren. The natives don’t even wear clothes and don’t know anything. Animals are extremely stupid. Have you ever seen a man who dared to attack an army formation alone? How about an animal who dared to attack an army formation? What? This big rabbit dares."

"Some time ago, the natives brought me a stone sculpture of the birthday star of the Yongle Year. It was either a merchant or Lord Sanbao who came and went. My brother-in-law insisted that there was iron ore here. The rebel bandits from Guangdong and Guangxi, I have to take care of their food and drink when they are sent here one by one, and it will take a lot of effort to make them feed their stomachs safely, to explore the iron mine... you come."

After speaking, the two had already walked to the port. Yang Zhaolong looked at the fleet docked on the shore, turned his head and smiled at Li Hualong, and said, "I'm going to take the fleet around the island!"

(End of this chapter)