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When the North Road expedition team kept walking northward, Li Yixie led the team to the south to the south, there seemed to be no such great gains.

"Li Langjun, we have walked at least three hundred miles south, and almost ten days have passed, but we have not even seen the shadow of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and peppers. It seems that this is not a solution."

Yao Cheng stood beside Li Yixie, looking at the somewhat desolate Grand Canyon in front of him, with a hint of entanglement on his face.

As the grandson of Yao Mosan, the famous teacher of Guanshishan Academy and Yao Yuan's younger brother, Yao Cheng went out to sea with the team to explore this time, just to be able to surpass his brother and Ye Ye in the shortest time.

As long as he participates in discovering any new crop, he can become a famous existence forever.

Although the Yao family is a family of craftsmen, it has achieved financial freedom a few years ago. What Yao Cheng is pursuing now is different from the ordinary children of craftsmen.

"Your Highness the King of Chu has never missed what he said. Since this South America is the same as the location shown on the chart, it is almost certain that there are the crops mentioned by Your Highness the King of Chu here. Although we have explored two or three hundred miles along the coast, the scope is still too small compared to the entire South America and the entire America.

Look at the chart, South America alone is not smaller than the area of ​​our Tang Dynasty. It is normal to find such a few special crops in such a large place, and it is not possible to find them in a short period of time."

Although Li Yixie was a little anxious, he wanted to take the overall situation into consideration and constantly boost morale, so as not to lose confidence.

"What I said is right, just like the ginseng. If someone told us that there was this thing in the Tang Dynasty, but we didn't look for the right direction and kept searching in Guanzhong, then we couldn't find it. Will this potato or sweet potato be neither suitable for living on the west coast of South America?"

Yao Cheng's analysis was not what Li Yixie hoped to see, but for a moment, he didn't know what to say.

South America is so big, it will probably take several months to walk around just by walking around.

However, the fleet is unlikely to have time to wander around South America now. We have to try our best to explore and bring the news of successfully discovering South America back to Chang'an City, so as not to continue to have fleets coming to take risks and make mistakes that should not be made.

"In this grand canyon, except for some weeds and shrubs, there is no way to find a decent tree. It is quite different from the appearance of other places. Yao Cheng, you are the most powerful mining prospecting craftsman in the Tang Dynasty and the only level eight craftsman in the exploration field. Do you think there will be gold mines in this place?"

Li Yixie felt that if high-yield crops cannot be found, but a large gold mine could be found, it would be a pretty good harvest.

So he looked at Yao Cheng with great anticipation.

"Li Langjun, although my exploration skills are far inferior to mine, and I can't compare with my brother, I have learned some basic knowledge since I was a child. If there is a huge natural gold mine here, after years of wind and rain, I have not been disturbed by humans, so I can find some golden sand or gravel with high gold content in rivers or on the beaches. But you see these stones, they will not be gray or black, and they don't look like gold?"

Although Yao Cheng felt that the Grand Canyon in front of him should have a mine, it obviously did not look like a gold mine.

"Yao Cheng, when the Datang Daily reported that the Donghai fishery team found gold mines in Australia, they said that dog-headed gold was found there, but the newspaper also specifically said that pure natural dog-headed gold is very rare, and most of the gold is mixed with other things. Will the gold here also be mixed with other things?"

Li Yixie is still a little unwilling to give up.

In his opinion, the canyon without anger in front of him is obviously a big mine.

"Li Langjun, we can continue walking along the river to see if there are any other discoveries. If not, we should go back to the boat and explore the next place as soon as possible. If we have no gains, we should also return to Port Hope as soon as possible and meet with everyone."

Yao Cheng did not continue to discuss the gold mine with Li Yixie, but instead changed the topic.

The group continued to walk forward in a depressed mood.

"The stones here look really strange, and they have some similarities with the newly emerging marshmallows in West City."

In the crowd, the voice of a team member broke the tranquility.

At his reminder, Yao Cheng couldn't help but lower his head and looked at the stones on the ground a few more times.

He had confirmed that it was impossible for this to be a gold mine, so he didn't pay much attention to the stones on the ground just now.

Now when I look carefully, I really found some stones with advantages like cotton candy.

Yao Cheng couldn't help but bent down and picked up one of the "marshmallows".

However, this piece of "marshmallow" has not yet been completely formed, but it is like a branch, black.

"Crack!"

Yao Cheng broke it with a little force.

This stone is too fragile and doesn't look like a stone at all!

Yao Cheng couldn't help but think like this in his heart.

"Yao Cheng, this stone seems to be strange!"

Li Yixie, who was standing by, seemed to have discovered something.

“Is there something weird?”

Yao Cheng, who had always been disregarded, stared at the "branch" in his hand seriously this time, trying to see what was strange about it.

"You break it harder and then take a closer look at the break."

Under Li Yixie's reminder, Yao Cheng once again broke the "branch"-shaped stone in his hand.

This time, Yao Cheng looked at it very seriously.

I saw that it was clearly a black "branch", but after the break was broken, it was silver-white.

Then it quickly turned gray and black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Yao Cheng quickly recalled what Yeye had taught himself and saw what he could match this.

Ishikan Yinshan!

Suddenly, Yao Cheng thought of Shi Jian Yinshan who made him successful.

"Cheng'er, the stone-saw silver mountain is the largest silver mountain Ye Ye has seen in his life. In some mines, I even found some pure natural silver, which are often flakes or irregular granular and blocky, and occasionally they are as strange as corals."

Yao Cheng's face changed immediately.

According to Aye, wherever pure natural silver can be found, it must be a large mine with a very rich silver content.

Because pure natural silver is more difficult to see than pure natural gold, he has seen it in Shijian Yinshan for his whole life.

And the Shijian Yinshan is now the largest source of profit for the Donghai fishery, the main source of silver coins of the Tang Dynasty royal money house, and the most important source of silver production in the entire Tang Dynasty.

Now, pure natural silver has been found in this unknown canyon, not one or two pieces. What does this mean?

Yao Cheng's face kept changing.

"Yao Cheng, what's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Li Yixie, who was standing beside him, naturally noticed the change in Yao Cheng's face, and thought he was feeling uncomfortable somewhere.

The crew members who went out to sea lost dozens of people during the voyage. Every team member now is a valuable asset for Li Yixie.

Whether it is staying in South America for an adventure or following the fleet back to the Tang Dynasty to teach other crew members experience, they are very valuable.

"Li Langjun, we may be sending it!"

A tremor appeared in Yao Cheng's voice.

A silver mine larger than Shimiji Yinshan?

If it is true, even if this silver mine is in distant South America, its significance will be extraordinary.

Yao Cheng didn't expect that he had the hope of defeating his brother Ye Yehe in the exploration field. He was so excited...

"Hmm? Have you discovered a gold mine? Didn't you say it could not be a gold mine?"

In Li Yixie's concept, only if the East China Sea fishery discovered a large gold mine in Australia is the real development.

Without gold mines, it seems that any mine will lose its meaning.

I heard that in Nanyang, a fleet of ships discovered large coal mines, which were very easy to mine and had a lot of reserves. It was like digging out a basket of coal with just a few hoes.

But, so what?

Except for the nearby transport team supply port to make honeycomb coal for everyone to use, it basically has no other purpose.

The Tang Dynasty is now even short of honeycomb coal.

Besides, the price of honeycomb coal in Chang'an City is so low. If it is transported back from Nanyang, it would be nice not to make money, not to mention losing money.

"It's not a gold mine, but it's also a gold mine!"

"Um?"

Li Yixie was confused by Yao Cheng's words.

Not a gold mine?

It's also a gold mine?

Is that a gold mine?

Li Yixie couldn't help but stretch out his hand and touched Yao Cheng's forehead. Didn't he have a fever?

Why do you feel like you are talking nonsense?

"Silver mine! A huge silver mine, reserves are likely to create a new record! Li Langjun, do you think this is considered finding a gold mine?"

As soon as Yao Cheng said this, the surroundings became quiet.

Everyone's breathing began to become rapid.

Some people immediately squatted in the place and began to look at the stones on the ground to see if they could find a few pieces of silver.

Although silver is only one-tenth of gold.

But gold is still too far away for ordinary people.

Although the Tang Dynasty Royal Money House launched gold coins, one gold coins are equivalent to ten cents of coins, and ordinary people have no chance to use them.

In addition, the output of gold has always been relatively small, so if a large silver mine is found, it will also have a very high value.
To be continued...