Black and gray palm jays are flying in the deep blue sky, while golden, red, blue and purple stone mountains are shining on the emerald green field. In the background of the green mountains and forests in the distance, this colorful exposed hill seems to hide the divinity of the earth, so it is so eye-catching.

"This is the stone mountain with divinity in the local legend?"

Priest Tomat walked to the edge of the colorful stone mountain, his expression became serious. He squatted down, picked up a heavy rock, and checked it over and over in his hand. After a while, he finally came to a solemn conclusion.

"Witness of the Lord God! These brightly colored stones must be some kind of ore..."

Hearing this obvious conclusion, the old militiaman Chivaco shook his head with a smile. He first looked at Tikalo with a questioning face.

"Tikalo, in your fleet records?..."

"In the records of the royal fleet, there is no mention of what kind of mountain this is..."

"Old Pu, what do you think?"

"Huh? Hmm...my back hurts and I can't see clearly."

"Pooh!"

The old militiaman spat, turned his head and looked at the only god-inspired priest who could distinguish ore among the crowd.

"Priest Mecate, please take a look..."

"good!"

Mekat nodded and stepped forward. After searching for a while, he also took a piece of gold-plated ore, weighed the weight of the ore, and tested its hardness. Afterwards, he stared at the slightly green surface of the ore, and fell silent. After a while, he took out the small bronze hammer that he carried with him, knocked some blue-green powder from the surface of the ore, and tasted it in his mouth.

"...Bitter, very smelly. With an obvious smell... This is copper green! This big mine must be a large copper mine, and the quality is not low!"

"Huh? It's a copper mine? It's dark red with yellow, and blue, purple, black and gray. It doesn't seem to resemble the copper mines in the south of the alliance..."

Hearing that this is a large open-pit copper mine, Priest Tomat raised his eyebrows. He and the old militiamen exchanged a glance, both of them were a little disappointed. There are large copper mines in the two southern counties of the Kingdom of the Lake. And higher-quality red copper can be easily obtained on the northern continent's commercial roads.

"These red, blue and purple markings... are very special. I always feel that there is not only copper in this copper mine!"

The old militiaman thought for a while, scratched his head, and made a decision.

"Praise the Lord God! We're all here, let's inspect it carefully for a day, and dig some ore to go back!"

Soon, the large group of warriors accompanying the team scattered and got busy. But when it was getting close to dusk, the setting sun cast rays of light, and the prospecting that lasted all day came to an end.

As judged by Priest Mecate, the entire mine, including the surface for several miles, is a large copper ore belt. Roughly judged, the tonnage of this large copper mine is at least millions of tons of reserves!

There was a little frustration on everyone's face. Compared with the open-pit iron mine that the kingdom eagerly desires, a distant high-quality copper mine is nothing. After all, in the vast and rich American continent, there is never a shortage of "copper".

They didn't know that the copper mountain discovered by the expedition team at this time was the largest copper mine on the island of Cuba, the Coba Copper Mine (greatining)! This amazing copper mine was once one of the largest mining mines in the world at the end of the 19th century, and the copper mine it contains is a high-quality rich ore of tens of millions of tons!

In later generations, this large copper mine has been excavated to more than 400 meters underground, and still has ore output. And in this era, if this large copper mine can be developed by the Ming Empire, as long as the monetary income brought by this large mine is enough to solve the financial problems that have begun to appear in the entire empire during the Chenghua period!

"Witness of the Lord God! It's really a big copper mine, bigger than any copper mine in the kingdom!...Hey! What a pity!"

Priest Tomat looked around, saw the traces of the mine belt several miles away, and sighed. Puap rubbed his waist, looked down for a long time, and then picked up a dense and heavy hard stone with black stripes from the ground, and took it with him.

In the world at this time, no one knows the true face of this hard rock. No one could have imagined that another precious mineral next to this copper belt is a gift from the Paleocene period, high-quality nickel-manganese ore.

Yes, the Coba copper ore belt and the Bayamo manganese ore belt are closely connected geographically, and even partially intersect. According to the surveying and mapping data of later generations, the manganese reserves in the Bayamo manganese ore belt are 7 million tons.

"Lord God bless! In the logbook, write down the location of this large copper mine. The kingdom is expanding rapidly, and even the copper mine on Cuba Island will soon have the opportunity to mine. The fleet can find this unmanned mine. The large copper mine is also considered a great achievement!"

Priest Tomat lowered his eyes, and when he opened them again, he was already excited and happy. He encouraged everyone in the fleet and looked towards the east.

"Praise the Lord God! The next goal of the fleet is Guata, two hundred miles to the east. We will stay there for two days, preach the glory of the Lord God, and leave the scriptures of the Lord God! Then, go on for three more days. Within a hundred miles, we arrived at Cuban Snake Island, the easternmost point of the long snake's tip!..."

"From there, the fleet will turn northwest and head home from the other side of Snake Island in Cuba! According to the records of the Mayapan royal family, the large open-pit iron mine is just north of Snakehead, Cuba. Mayali on the side! The Lord God bless us, found iron ore, set foot on the way home!"

"The Lord God bless us! Discover the iron ore, let's go home!"

Hearing this, everyone cheered up and prayed devoutly. Chihuaco, an old militiaman, exchanged glances with Tikalo, a Mayan businessman, with thoughts flickering in their eyes. After a while, Chivako looked at Puap who was shouting happily and clamoring to go home, lowered his eyes, and felt a trace of unbearable in his heart.

"Old Pu! My old friend for so many years, I won't harm you... It's just that the mistakes you made, you always have to suffer more before you can expose them in front of Your Highness..."

As dusk fell, bonfires were lit on the field, bringing rare vitality to the mine that had been silent for tens of millions of years. And the vitality of this population went away after the rising sun, and finally boarded seven dilapidated and repaired longboats ~lightnovelpub.net~ to go to the easternmost part of the fertile land of Cuba.

The sea and sky are vast, and the lonely sail goes east. A few days later, the kingdom's expedition fleet passed by the mighty Guata tribe and stayed there for two days, narrating the doctrine of the Lord God, spreading the prophecies of the white people, and replenishing enough water. Guata is located in the bay of a seaside lagoon. It is also a natural deep-water port with abundant water, flat terrain and converging rivers.

In later generations, the location where the Guata Department is located has another "majestic and terrifying" name called "Guantanamo".

Half a month later, the rain in the late July was coming, and the first hurricane in August was already brewing. The kingdom's exploration fleet finally arrived at the easternmost corner of Cuban Snake Island. Looking towards the east sea from here, you can occasionally see strong canoes, carrying brave Taino fishermen, and carrying cassava pieces that can last for several days, heading towards the opposite coast.

Just on the opposite side of the coast, within less than two hundred miles of the sea, is a large island with a thriving population and thriving tribes. This large island is home to hundreds of thousands of Taino people and has the common ancestral land of all Taino tribes, the land of waters. The name of this big island, in the mouth of the local Taino people, is called "Land of High Mountains", also known as "Haiti" (haiti).

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