Of course, modern shipbuilding cannot be separated from steel, so Zhao Bing knew in his previous life that there was a steel mill in Hainan, and steel mills must be unable to be separated from iron ore. As far as he knew, the quality of iron ore in Hainan was very good.?                                                                                           w  w?w

?b?i    q?u? But I don’t know much about the specific situation. I only know that there is Shilu Iron Mine and Hetian Du Iron Mine in Hainan. Only God knows where it is.

The army's weapons and equipment need to be updated and agricultural development cannot be separated from iron. Zhao Bing has always been troubled by this. Now the iron-producing land in the Song Dynasty has basically fallen, and in Guangzhou it is only a high price to collect some goods. It is impossible to purchase such a large-scale future. And most of these hard-earned irons were quickly consumed in large-scale construction and weapons manufacturing after they arrived in Qiongzhou. He thought that as long as the local self-sufficiency was achieved, this problem could be solved.

But Zhao Bing found that no one in Qiongzhou knew that there was an iron ore here. In modern times, exploration requires a large-scale geological survey of several years or even decades to find a deposit. At this moment, letting oneself, a person with a lack of professional talents, a lack of time, and a lack of equipment, finds an iron ore immediately, which is a dream, and it cannot quench the near thirst!

It is said that "there are always more difficult than difficulties." However, Zhao Bing believes that the methods are forced out. He is now forced to become a strategist, meteorologist, ship expert, weapon expert, and medical expert who knows astronomy and ghosts by this unlucky era. He is now in the process of developing a military strategist. At this time, he thought of a way to find minerals by name, but the place name has changed many times over the past thousand years, and Qiongzhou has changed its name several times, so this method is also very slim, but it is better than waiting.

At the beginning of the relocation of the General Administration to Qiong, Zhao Bing sent five departments of the Bureau of Affairs to join the army to carry out civil investigations and economic information collection. He handed over the task of finding these two place names to them. Because most of the place names in Qiongzhou came from the mouths of the lie people, he asked whether they had similar pronunciations or similar meanings. This search took several months. Before, there was a similar Dutianling, but the two words were still opposite. However, the people from the Bureau of Affairs also reported that there was a place called Tielupo, which secretly smelted iron.

Linking these two seemingly irrelevant things, Zhao Bing concluded that Tielupo was the iron ore he was looking for. Even though the Song Dynasty implemented a salt and iron monopoly and private iron was not allowed, Hainan was full of "no man's land". Who would choose that place far away from the town? Unless these guys who smelted iron privately were fools. The only explanation was that there were iron ore there. They smelted it on the spot after mining, and then transported the finished product for private sale, which would avoid the pain of transportation...

"Your Highness, you have found the place!" Ni Liang was back as he was talking, but there were more people.

"Why, you killed someone?" Zhao Bing frowned and asked when he saw blood on the knife Ni Liang was carrying.

"Oh, your highness, we walked along the road. When we met this boy, we asked where Tielupo was. Unexpectedly, he called for helping people to kill us. I cut a few of them over and caught one. The rest of them fled!" Ni Liang pointed at the person he brought back with a knife and said.

"Take it down and ask carefully, where are they from and what they do, how many people are there in total?" Zhao Bing nodded and said.

It took a short time to ask clearly that these people were mined and smelting iron, but they worked here for several lifetimes. At the beginning, their ancestors accidentally found iron ore here, and they picked up some ore and started to make a furnace for iron for their own use. But soon they found that this was a money-making business, so they gathered their tribe members to work together. Later, they picked up the ore on the surface and had money in their hands, but they still didn't want to give up the business, so they began to collude with pirates to kidnap the population to mine ore for them, and handed the finished product to the pirates and smuggle them everywhere.

Because the General's Office recently entered Jiyang Army and cleared out pirates and cracked down on smuggling, they temporarily stopped, leaving only a dozen thugs here to take care of the mine. Seeing Ni Liang inquiring about the matter here, they thought that some fellow travelers came to grab the territory, so of course they would not show mercy. However, they were not opponents of Ni Liang and others, but were killed and captured by themselves.

"Let's go, take him to lead the way, let's go and have a look!" After hearing this, Zhao Bing's butt no longer hurt and jumped up and shouted.

"Your Highness, you're in danger. There are still fleeing bandits there!" Ni Liang said with a rattle.

"Hmph, they only have more than ten people, and you have more than twenty people, all of them are elites selected. If you can't protect me, it's better to wipe your neck!" Zhao Bing said coldly.

"Your Highness, you..."

"Sir, I am the commander of the army. If these little thieves who are not in a state of chaos are afraid, how can they go to the battlefield to command thousands of troops in the future!" Ying Jieyan Gang was about to persuade him, but he was interrupted by Zhao Bing.

Everyone knew that there might be dangers when they went there, but His Highness's words made them unable to refute, so they could only follow His Highness. Zheng Yong led four or five guards to search, and sent four guards with bows to guard both sides. The rest of them protected them tightly in the middle and would never give His Highness a chance to emerge. Just everyone searched and moved forward. After walking slowly for half an hour, they finally arrived at the place. Zhao Bing thought that even if someone saw them coming, he would have scared him away.

"How many laborers do you have here?" When you entered the mine, you first saw a row of thatched huts made of bamboo and wood. When Zhao Bing walked in, he smelled a sour smell. The ground was covered with thatch, but there was no one there. He turned his face and asked the beating prisoner with a blue nose and swollen face.

"Little...Young Master, there are more than a hundred people at the most in the mine!" No matter how stupid the captors were, they could see that these unknown people were the children in front of them. They might not know that Your Highness was a god-like person, and could only answer with the most noble name they knew.

"Well, but it's about the same! What about that person?" Zhao Bing looked at a straw hut that could sleep with thirty people, and a row of houses was almost the same as he said.

"Now the news is tight, and everyone has been sent to the village by the boss!" the prisoner replied.

"How much ore can be dug in a day?" After walking through the straw shed for only a hundred meters, it was an open-pit mine dug on the hillside. Zhao Bing was delighted that it was an open-pit mine. It was much easier to mine, so he asked again.

"If you keep going day and night, you can dig out ten thousand pounds!" The captive stretched out his fingers and said.

"Why is it just that little?" Zhao Bing said in surprise.
Chapter completed!