In the North American continent, Anchorage in Alaska in later generations, the Ming Navy stationed here and built a simple small city, giving it the name of Wanghai City.

Since setting off at Hokkaido and finally arrived in Wanghai City, Pan Mengyuan and the fleet have been walking for more than three months. Over the past three months, the fleet has experienced countless dangers. Due to the lack of a complete chart, relying solely on sextant and gradual exploration, when crossing the Bering Strait, the fleet even plunged into the frozen Arctic Ocean.

If it weren't for the discovery, if the whole fleet had to be turned around in time, it would have probably disappeared from the snow and ice. Even if it returned to the normal route, the fleet would still lose a transport ship under the impact of the iceberg, making the already inadequate supplies even more tense.

It was not until the Arreshen Islands that the fleet's situation improved a lot. In the following days, the fleet continued to explore with the Arrehen Islands as a temporary base and finally arrived in Alaska.

After arriving in Alaska, the first thing the fleet did was to find a suitable place to stay along Alaska, and finally found Anchorage in the Gulf of Alaska, which is now Wanghai City.

It is almost early summer, which is the best time of the year in Alaska. The weather is still relatively warm. In addition, the rich forest resources and rivers nearby have given the fleet a lot of convenience. Wanghai City was established under this situation.

In the early morning, the chirping of birds in the forest broke the tranquility, and a new day came. Pan Mengyuan pushed open the heavy thick wooden door and walked out of his house.

Because the surrounding forest resources are rich and the Chinese are the most good at using wood in the world, the entire Wanghai City is basically made locally from the walls to the buildings.

Taking a deep breath, the sober air made people feel refreshed and clear-headed. Pan Mengyuan stood at the door for a while, and then walked out. As the supreme commander of the fleet, he was used to wandering around Wanghai City every day.

The Ming Navy has experienced the establishment of a new city. When building Wanghai City, it also chose the original new city model, which saved a lot of trouble. But compared with the new city, there is no one else in Wanghai City except the Ming people who came from afar.

Now, the number of people in Wanghai City is not large. When the departure is made, the total number of people in the fleet is 3,717, including 521 of the armed merchant ships accompanying him. Along the way, the number of people finally arrived was 3,665, and those who were few have been buried in the sea.

The fleet was mooring at the docks of the bay, but not all. Half of the ships had continued to explore southward, and the only one who stayed in Wanghai City was left behind. As for the 3,665 people, less than one-third of the ones stayed in Wanghai City, part of which continued to go south with the exploration fleet, while the other part explored inside the mainland with Wanghai City as the base.

"General!" Walking to the dock, an officer hurriedly saluted Pan Mengyuan.

"How is the ship repairing?" Pan Mengyuan asked. The officer standing in front of him was a technical officer in the navy, and was also responsible for the repair and maintenance of ships. After voyage, he lost a supply ship, and the rest of the ships were somewhat damaged. In addition to the construction of Wanghai City these days, the repair of the ships was also underway.

"It's almost done, and it'll be all in a few days." The officer replied with a smile, reaching out to the newly processed boards piled on the side and said, "General, the wood in these places is really good. It's not surprising that the huge trees in the forest are hundreds of years old, and even hundreds of years are everywhere. In fact, it's a pity to use these wood to make boards to repair ships. If the shipyard in Ningbo can be brought to the shipyard, it's best to use them to build warships."

"Hahaha, your kid has a big appetite." Hearing this, Pan Mengyuan burst into laughter. As the general of the navy, how could he not know that the wood here is all rare and good? As the officer said, it is a pity to make the city boards of these wood. It is best to directly build warships for those wood that have been around for hundreds or even hundreds of years. But the question is where do they have this condition now.

"Don't worry, this tree grows here and will not run away with legs. This shipyard will have to be built sooner or later." Pan Mengyuan patted the other person's shoulder happily.

Pan Mengyuan said this, and the officer also grinned. The two chatted for a few more times, and then Pan Mengyuan left the dock and walked in the other direction.

When Wanghai City first became large, Pan Mengyuan sent people to search around, trying to find the indigenous people here. However, to his disappointment, he searched hundreds of miles away, but no one was seen in this place.

Today, the search continues. In addition to finding possible indigenous peoples, Pan Mengyuan must also understand the geographical situation around Wanghai City, including not only mountains, rivers, water flows, etc., but more importantly, the mineral resources here.

Many of the merchant ships that followed were from Ningbo Commercial Banks. Although these people are private identities, you should know that Ningbo Commercial Banks has a royal background. To put it bluntly, some of these people are still from the Royal Research Institute, but they are just accompanying them as Ningbo Commercial Banks.

During these days in Wanghai City, Pan Mengyuan has confirmed that the land under his feet is what Zhu Yicheng mentioned. Before setting off, Pan Mengyuan was just a vague concept of the New World. Although he had heard about the New World and had maps and incomplete nautical charts about the New World that he had obtained from the UK, when he really set foot on this land, he truly understood why Zhu Yicheng attached so much importance to this place.

After exploring the journey, the Ming Navy was just a small area in Alaska, but this small area alone brought great surprises and shock to everyone.

Not to mention these rich lands and vast forests and mountains, the mineral resources discovered just now are exciting. A few days ago, the exploration team discovered iron ore and copper mines near the mountains more than 100 miles away from Wanghai City, and then coal mines were discovered.

These discoveries surprised everyone. Coupled with the fertile land and abundant forestry and fishery resources, this is really a unique "selected place". What's more important is that there are not many people. Isn't this the best gift God has sent to the Ming Dynasty?

Just when Pan Mengyuan was feeling in his heart and was hoping that the exploration ship heading south would only bring him better news, suddenly a noise came from the north of Wanghai City.

"Go and ask, what's wrong?" Pan Mengyuan gave instructions to the personal soldiers beside him. The personal soldiers quickly ran over, and soon ran back excitedly.

"General, gold! gold!"

The personal soldier ran to Pan Mengyuan with ecstatic expressions and danced happily.

"Gold?" Pan Mengyuan was stunned, and then asked in surprise: "What did you say? Did the exploration team find gold?"

The personal soldier nodded desperately. At this time, Pan Mengyuan was still calm and calm. He immediately walked towards the north of the city.

"General!" As soon as we arrived in the north of the city, we saw many people surrounding us. When everyone saw Pan Mengyuan, they hurriedly saluted. Pan Mengyuan didn't bother to say hello to his subordinates, and walked straight over, and soon saw the exploration team that had just returned.

This is a small team, with less than thirty people in the whole team, two of which were professional geologists. They all looked happy. One of the elderly was holding a fist-sized thing in his hand and let everyone see with a smile.

"Master Zheng, have you found gold?" Pan Mengyuan knew this man, of course, and he found the iron ore and copper ore he had discovered before. Unexpectedly, he brought another surprise to himself not many days later.

"General Pan, fortunately, I'm not disgraceful. Come and see!" Master Zheng smiled and handed the thing in his hand to Pan Mengyuan. Pan Mengyuan felt a heavy feeling as soon as he started. After a closer look, he found that the size of this fist. From a distance, the guy who seemed inconspicuous was actually a piece of dog-headed gold. Although the whole piece of gold was not very pure and had some impurities inside, he looked carefully and reflected an attractive golden light under the sunlight.

"Good guy!" Pan Mengyuan weighed the weight. This piece of dog head weighed more than 60 or two, no wonder it was so heavy.

“Where did you find it?”

"We continued to move forward along the mountain where the copper mine was discovered. After walking more than thirty miles, we found it in a valley." Zheng Master Zheng said excitedly: "Not only is this piece of dog-headed gold, but also a lot of golden sand was found in the streams under the valley. If I was right, as long as I went up the river, the golden veins would be in that mountain. General, this is a truly worthy mountain of gold!"

"Okay! That's great!" Pan Mengyuan was so excited that he couldn't find the gold mine by himself. What this means is to imagine. If there was a whole mountain of gold as Master Zheng said, it would almost make everyone in the world go crazy.

As the highest commander of North America this time, Pan Mengyuan knew his mission very well, and the discovery of the gold mine was even more exciting. He could imagine how shocks it would bring to the entire Ming Dynasty when the news was sent back to the Ming Dynasty. In the future, the development of the new continent based on Wanghai City will soon emerge.

Master Zheng and others did not conduct in-depth exploration. After all, they had been in the wild for some time, and the supplies and so on were insufficient. Moreover, after discovering the gold mine, Master Zheng only conducted a little investigation around and returned. First, he wanted to bring back the good news, and second, he planned to organize more people to go deeper again.

Pan Mengyuan had no meaning in this regard, so he immediately mobilized personnel to organize a larger exploration team. This time, more than 100 adults were awarded. If Pan Mengyuan's identity was considered, he even planned to go to the mountains to take a look.

After the second investigation, Master Zheng's judgment was initially determined. There was indeed a gold mine with a huge storage capacity there, and it was accompanied by silver mines. If mined, the gold and silver obtained every year could be said to be astronomical. Of course, given their current personnel structure and actual situation, they could only wait for a large number of immigrants to slowly solve this problem.
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