After Yi Feng established that stronghold, he then transferred a bunch of coal mining technicians to detect whether there was coal on the island. Because steamships mainly rely on coal for energy, and daily training and navigation at sea require a large amount of coal. If it had to be transported from the coal mining workshop near the army camp every time, it would be a bit far and very inconvenient. Therefore, Yi Feng planned to ask the coal mining technicians to explore the island to see if they could find coal. If there is, it would be much more convenient to mine it on site.

"General, we have discovered that some of the people who moved the coal and feces found coal cancer on the island." Not long after, soldiers came to report to Yi Feng. "Really? That's great." After hearing what the soldier said, Yi Feng couldn't help but feel happy.

If coal is really discovered on the island, this will definitely be a great thing for them. In the future, the energy problem of this stronghold will be completely solved. "Where did you find it? Let's go to Gu Road!"

Yi Feng then stood up, spoke to the soldier again, and walked outside. "General, this way!"

The soldier also reacted and followed, leading the way for Yi Feng.

It didn't take long for Yi Feng to arrive in front of the coal mining technicians, and then asked them with a smile on his face. "Go back to your lord, this is where the coal exhibition of the mirage is hidden."

The person in charge of the coal mining technical staff pointed to the land under his feet and spoke respectfully to Yi Feng. When Yi Feng heard this, a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

He originally asked these coal technicians to come to the island to explore, just with the attitude of giving it a try, but he did not expect that they actually discovered coal, which made Yi Feng extremely happy.

"Okay, Meng Tian, ​​you take a group of soldiers and drive a few ships back, transfer some people from the coal mining workshop over there, and at the same time, bring the coal mining (bfdc) tools. I want to build a new coal mining workshop here." The coal mining workshop mines the coal here.”

Yi Feng then ordered Meng Tian beside him with a smile on his face.

"Yes, General!"

Meng Tian bowed and responded, his face also full of joy. Meng Tian naturally knew the importance of coal, which was the source of power for steamships.

Without coal, the steamship would not be able to move on its own. At that time, they would have to use the oldest method of rowing to push the steamship forward.

This steamship was built with energy consumption in mind, so there were additional areas for rowing on the steamship to prevent the steamship from running out of coal and being unable to drive on the road.

It can be said that these steamships can be driven by steam engines or can be rowed manually. Then, Meng Tian once again led a group of soldiers and then drove several steamships to leave the island.

The next day, Meng Tian returned to the island again. At the same time, a team of coal mining workers and related tools were brought.

Then, Yifeng built a new coal mining workshop here and ordered the technicians and workers from Huilai Coal to go into the treatment plant and work together. A few days later, the coal mining workshop on the island officially opened the coal, and then after processing, it could be put into use on steam ships.

The base construction work on the island has been completed, and even the coal workshop has mined coal. The island base has been completely stabilized. But Yi Feng's eyes turned to other sea areas, which were places that Yi Feng and the Qin Empire's army had never set foot on, and were full of mysterious unknowns. It is precisely because of the mystery and unknown that makes Yi Feng more interested.

Next, Yi Feng once again led Meng Tian, ​​Meng Yi and others to drive a steamship and continue to explore the surroundings with the island as the center. Yi Feng took Meng Tian, ​​Meng Yi and others on the steam boat at the front to lead the way, followed closely by forty-nine steam boats. In this way, the steamboat was forced to sit on the clear sea and the sun was shining. The reason why Yi Feng's boat was at the front was because Yi Feng was commanding and leading the way. Wherever Yi Feng says to go, he goes. If Yi Feng says to return, he goes back. Because Yi Feng has strong perception ability, he can sense everything within a ten-mile radius in advance. He can sense in advance wherever there is an island or land within a radius of ten miles.

Moreover, Yi Feng always calculated how far the ship could travel with the amount of coal on board. Then, after using up almost half of the coal, he found that there were no islands or land within a radius of ten miles ahead, so he directly ordered the ship to return to avoid running out of coal. But Fang Wu, who wanted to use manual rowing, drove the steam ship back to the hospital.

Of course, at the beginning, Yi Feng was still very careful and cautious, and he only explored the waters around the island. At the same time, Yi Feng also discovered many islands in the nearby waters.

However, they are all relatively small islands, much smaller than the island where Yi Feng is based. Moreover, those small islands are also uninhabited islands. There are few resources on these small islands, so they are called ugly in Hainan dialect.

Therefore, Yi Feng did not station troops on these small islands, nor did he have the idea of ​​establishing bases on these small islands.

They just built a few small wooden houses on those small islands, then dug a well near the wooden houses, and planted the flag of the Great Qin Empire to declare the Great Qin Empire's sovereignty over these small islands.

Yi Feng may not station troops on these small islands, nor may he not establish bases on these small islands, but this does not mean that Yi Feng will abandon these small islands.

Since Yi Feng led his army to these small islands, these small islands have become the territory of his Great Qin Empire, regardless of whether they are inhabited or not.

He wanted that wherever the Qin Empire's army passed, it would be Qin's land.

Regardless of whether it's useful or not, let's occupy it first.

However, because there was little significance in garrisoning troops on these small islands, he did not garrison troops on these small islands.

The purpose of building that cabin and digging a well was that if one day soldiers or businessmen from their Great Qin Empire got lost here, they would at least have a place to stay.

In this way, Yi Feng took the fifty steamships and continuously explored the surrounding areas of the island.

Moreover, after each exploration, Yi Feng would add an area to the map of the Qin Empire. Most of this area was the vast sea, with occasionally some small islands. This is the smallest map drawn by Yi Feng to facilitate the Qin Empire's armies and merchants to use when they go to sea to avoid getting lost in the vast sea. And this is also the purpose of Yi Feng's exploration, to turn the unknown into the known and make the territory of the Great Qin Empire continue to grow. Even if it is a deserted sea, I will not let you go. For Yi Feng, every inch of the Qin Empire must be fought for. And the Great Qin Empire would never despise its own territory for long.


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