Small Landlords of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 137 172. The End of the Voyage
It took Wang Hao seven days to return to Changsha County from Xiliang. Before returning, Wang Hao had summoned all the principal generals back. Except for a few people like Gan Ning who were guarding overseas and could not come back, everyone else had to return. Jingzhou meeting.

Xi Zhicai: "My lord is going out this time..."

Xu Yuanzhi: "I don't know. My lord was in a hurry along the way and didn't reveal any rumors, but what is certain is that something big may happen this time!"

After Wang Hao returned to the government office, he hurriedly summoned Han Mo from Yuzhang County to come back. The two of them and a group of legal family sons have been hiding in the study room to fiddle...

Spy: "Report..."

Wang Hao: "Let Xi Zhicai and Xu Shu handle something, please don't bother me during this period..."

Xu Shu: "Master..."

Wang Hao: "Wait a moment..."

Xu Shu and the others had not seen Wang Hao for three consecutive days. Even the food was delivered to the room by servants, and Han Mo did not come out after returning.

A team of guards surrounded the room layer by layer, and even Dian Wei couldn't get close to the room. Wang Hao once ordered that anyone who dared to trespass should be killed. Dian Wei and Hu Che'er, the commanders of the guards, did not dare to break in easily, and the military order was like a mountain. It's not just talk.

According to the servant who delivered the food, Wang Hao has been "practicing calligraphy" for the past few days, because Wang Hao didn't do it himself, Han Mo and Wang Hao kept talking, and several clerks were in charge of writing. To revise it, the whole room is full of pens, ink, paper, inkstone and straw...

Tai Shici: "How?"

Xu Shu: "General Ziyi, let's wait for two more days!"

Tai Shici: "But..."

Xi Zhicai: "The lord has spoken beforehand. This time Jingzhou needs a big change. Before this, the lord personally ordered no one to mobilize troops, horses, food and grass in large quantities. Those who violate the order will be punished as rebels!"

Tai Shici: "I can't talk about it, it's a large ore lode..."

Dian Wei: "Sigh...even if it is a mountain of gold and silver, it has to wait..."

Tai Shici: "Why?"

Hu Che'er: "It may be because of Master Guo, or it may be because of the prince..."

In the past few days, high-level officials from the Jingzhou government have been returning. Even those generals and civil servants who are far away in Yangzhou, Jiaozhou, Jiangdong, and overseas have returned to Jingzhou one by one. There are more people than Wang Ningman.

However, the atmosphere in Jingzhou was very depressing. Some new generals Zhan Zhan Keke didn't know why Wang Hao wanted them to return to Jingzhou this time.

Those civil officials such as the prefect, military commander, and master secretary were even more terrified. Hundreds of people fell to the ground due to potato poisoning. A night trial at Changting even pulled down the prefect Zhang Yi. The chief secretary Xu Xian was arrested overnight by the guards. What is Wang Hao thinking this time?
Dian Wei: "My lord has come out..."

Dian Wei hurried out from the inner courtyard, as excited as if he had won five million yuan. Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Wenpin, Huang Xu, Tai Shici, Pang Ju, Zhang Liao, Xu Shu, Gao Shun, Lu Qiling, and others were waiting outside the courtyard. Zhang Ren......

Nearly a hundred civil and military officials, big and small, all heaved a long breath when they heard Dian Wei's shout, and then tensed up again, waiting for Dian Wei's next words. Wang Hao must have some orders when he came out.

Dian Wei: "My lord, let everyone go back and have a good rest. Tomorrow, the lord will summon everyone to come together. General Tai Shici will follow me to see the lord. Everyone else should go back..."

Dian Wei told Wang Hao the news of Tai Shici's return. He didn't have a good rest for several days. Wang Hao originally wanted to fall asleep.

Wang Hao: "Bring tea, Ziyi has worked hard..."

Tai Shici: "This is the job of the subordinates. Compared with the hard work of the lord who forgot to sleep and eat, what is the hard work of Ci?"

Wang Hao: "Okay, stop flattering, tell me about the harvest of this voyage, I heard from Dian Wei that you want to mobilize an army of [-] for a long voyage?"

Tai Shici: "The subordinates dare not, and the matter of mobilizing the army should be decided by the lord, because Ci discovered Malay Island and Banana Island."

When Wang Hao mobilized one hundred thousand troops, Tai Shici was so frightened that he jumped up from his chair, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to admit his mistake. Tai Shici dared not admit this kind of rebellion.

Seeing Tai Shici kneeling on the ground, Wang Hao closed his eyes and said nothing, tapped his fingers on the table rhythmically, not like before, went down to help Tai Shici who was kneeling, and Dian Wei, who was standing behind Wang Hao, knew that the joke was too much up.

Dian Wei: "My lord, to redeem my sins, General Tai Shici didn't say to mobilize [-] troops, but just suggested that the military adviser report to the lord, so that the lord can mobilize [-] people to sail away to mine..."

Wang Hao: "Get up, Ziyi, sit down first, and tell me what kind of big mine needs 10 people?"

After sitting back in the chair, Tai Shici watched Dian Wei behind Wang Hao frowned, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and after collecting his thoughts, he slowly reported the voyage one by one.

Tai Shici: "My lord, according to the map of the world given to me by the lord, Ci set out from the Yue-Thai region and went south shortly after, and I did come across the island of Malay that the lord mentioned.

Because of the barrier of Malay Island, the fleet can no longer go west, and because of insufficient resources, Ci did not go deep into the inland, and it is not clear whether there are other forces, but the resources that the Lord said, Ci found..."

Malaysia is divided into the West Peninsula and the South Peninsula. In his previous life, Wang Hao knew that there were rich tin mines. This time, Tai Shici led the fleet on a long voyage and landed on the coastline of the West Malaysia Peninsula. The prospecting team found three large tin mines on the coastline.

Wang Hao: "It's only been half a year, and it's a great joy for Ziyi to sail once and find a tin mine..."

Wang Hao was not very happy. The Bronze Age had already passed in the pre-Qin period, and the Iron Age had entered since the Western Han Dynasty. Tin played a very important role in bronze ware.

Adding a small amount of tin and other substances to the bronze ware can make the bronze ware harder. If too much tin is added, the bronze ware will become very brittle.

Although this is the Iron Age, tin is also an indispensable metal. Many accessories of equipment need tin, such as the wave wheels of battleships and small objects of carriages. There are also many copper accessories that require a lot of tin.

Tai Shici: "Of course there are also iron ores, including hematite, limonite, and red clay iron ore.

The grade of iron ore is also high, and the preliminary estimate is that the iron content exceeds six layers, but such iron ore is everywhere in Malay Island..."

When Taishi Ci talked about iron ore, he spoke loudly with red eyes. Dian Wei, who was standing behind Wang Hao, began to breathe quickly. Although Wang Hao did not speak, the joints of his hands holding the chair were already numb. White.

Wang Hao had also heard in his previous life that these peninsulas contained a large amount of minerals, but he did not expect Taishi Ci to find them so quickly. Malay Island has iron ore reserves of more than 1 million tons and copper ore reserves of nearly 2 million tons. billion tons of tin ore.

There are also a small amount of gold, silver, antimony, manganese, bauxite, chromium, titanium, uranium, cobalt and other rare metal ores.

As long as Wang Hao wins the Malay Island, the entire South China Sea will become Wang Hao's back garden. You must know that at this time, Australia is still in the Yuan's era, and this virgin land has already beckoned to Wang Hao.

Tai Shici: "My lord, apart from Malay Island, Huangyan Island and Banana Island all contain a large amount of metal deposits. After many veins are discovered, the subordinates and the prospecting team cannot identify them, but we can send people to dig some. return……"

Wang Hao: "Okay, Ziyi's long voyage really did not disappoint me, you go back and rest for a day, and wait for tomorrow to call all the soldiers together to award the reward..."

Tai Shici: "The last general will retire..."

Before Tai Shici entered the door, Wang Hao was still drowsy, but now Wang Hao has no sleepiness at all.

Seeing Wang Hao's smiling face, Dian Wei finally didn't have to worry, because he was punished only because Wang Hao was in a bad mood.

When Tai Shici left, he gave Dian Wei a look, Dian Wei nodded gratefully to Tai Shici, the two looked at each other and smiled, everything was said in silence!
(End of this chapter)