As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chapter 214 Buying Iron Stone
Jiang Ran said: "The lord wants to recruit another 100 warriors. Among them, the navy will recruit 100 people, the border guards will recruit 50 people, the knights will recruit 50 people, and the medical soldiers will recruit [-] people..."

"Lin Qing's family, it's up to you to lead the officials of the official department to publicize the recruiting. General Tian, ​​at the beginning of October, a martial arts ceremony will be held to select warriors. The location will be on the first and second floors of the South Crown Secret Realm. Phantom layer!"

Tian Jing, Lin Sha and the two took the order, thinking about how to get things done, and Jiang Ran called another person's name, "Wang Zhuo."

Wang Zhuo, who was wearing a dark crimson official uniform, was concentrating on it, and immediately took two steps forward when he saw the call from the lord.

Wang Zhuo is a relatively low-key person, but his knowledge is not bad. He was one of the eight people who stood out in the exam and belonged to the Ministry of War.

Tian is currently the only general in Suling Town. He is the chief of the Ministry of War, but his main focus of work is how to lead troops to fight, while Wang Zhuo is in charge of the "arsenal" in the rear, ensuring finances, and in charge of weapons, food and medicine in the rear. .

There is no iron material, and the production of bamboo deer bows and arrows stopped ten days ago. This is what Jiang Ran is most worried about. Without iron, weapons, boats... Suling town can't be built.

Moso bamboo spirit insects have grown to a certain extent after several months of nourishment. It is obvious that the quality of the spirit bamboo is light but hard, which is more suitable for forging bamboo deer bows and arrows. Now, [-]% of the bamboo deer bows and arrows in the weapon shop are made of this spirit bamboo. Made of bamboo.

Jiang Ran: "How is the situation in the military warehouse?"

Wang Zhuo was stunned, thought quickly in his mind, and said skillfully: "Currently, there are [-] bamboo deer bows, [-] arrows, [-] iron knives, [-] iron swords, spears, etc. Two hundred, two hundred wooden shields..."

"One hundred bottles of Huiqi Pill, ten bottles of Condensing Fire Pill, ten bottles of Quza Pill, ten bottles of Lili Pill, ten bottles of Spirit Pills of each line..."

Since Jiang Ran handed over the alchemy furnace rewarded by the system to Muxi for use, the efficiency of making alchemy has been much faster.

It's just that Muxi has just obtained the pill formula, and he is not very proficient, and the rate of discarding pills is a bit high, so there are very few pills in the military warehouse.

"My subordinates have already contacted Miss Yunxiu and ordered a batch of Puhuang herbs, but according to Miss Yunxiu, even if there are Puhuang spirit insects, it will take at least one month..."

The army is the place that burns the most money, but Jiang Ran is not stingy about investing. After two months of accumulation, it can be regarded as a little bit, at least it won't let the soldiers go to the battlefield with a big wooden stick.

But at present, Suling Town only has the ability to forge mortal weapons, and these things are not enough to deal with territories above the county level.

Fortunately, there is a craftsman in the town, especially Jiang Ran, who has also fooled Bai Lifei with the manufacturing methods of low-level magic weapons such as toothed blades and meteor hammers. Jiang Ran intends to create one for each of the monks in the town set.

But if we don't attract more talents, Bai Lifei alone will have to equip every soldier with a toothed blade, and it will be a long time.

Jiang Ran nodded, and asked the officials below: "Suling Town is short of iron. I have sent someone who is good at digging holes to explore various places, trying to find minerals by chance, but unfortunately, nothing."

"Without iron, agriculture, construction, and implements will all suffer. How do you think this should be handled?"

Wang Zhuo said: "Before, our iron was basically purchased from Xinheng Town and Lingqiao Town. How about importing iron and stone from these two towns this time?"

Yun Xiang from the Ministry of Rituals seemed to have felt the gift of meritorious service, and he, who has always been low-key, immediately cupped his hands and stepped forward, "How much iron is the lord planning to buy?"

Yun Xiang was over half a hundred years old, but ordinary people in this world also lived longer, Yun Xiang was in his prime at this time, and he was in good spirits.

Yun Xiang was also one of Jiang Fucheng's officials when he was in power. Later, he took part in the official selection examination and entered the Ministry of Rites relying on his solid knowledge.

He had followed Jiang Fucheng to other places to discuss the sale of salt and iron before, so he knew more about this kind of thing.

"At least [-] catties of iron and stone."

Jiang Ran had already calculated that the weapons workshop and boat workshop needed a lot of iron!
According to the blueprint of the ship rewarded by the system, a castrated ship with a load of [-] tons would consume a thousand catties of iron conservatively!
The Lingnong Division also needs to manufacture a batch of iron farm tools, and distribute some farm tools to the villagers by village. In addition, Jiang Ran needs to keep some iron daily necessities for circulation in the town, such as iron pots...

Fifty thousand catties? !

To buy so much iron at one time? !

The officials present were taken aback.

Fifty thousand catties of iron stone can only extract about twenty thousand catties of refined iron, which will be exhausted in a month if it is really used.

So Jiang Ran felt that she was already very conservative.

Others, however, don't think so.

Yun Xiang deeply felt that he was careless, and froze in place for a moment.

He dared not speak.

To import iron in Xinheng Town, a catty of iron and stone costs about [-] silver dollars. Of course, if you want to buy [-] catties in Suling Town, you can certainly afford it.

But the point is not whether you can afford it, but whether you can afford it.

And even if you buy it, transportation is another problem.

Suling Town is okay, with convenient transportation, but the road leading to Xinheng Town is rugged...

And what tools did they use to transport the [-] jin of iron and stone back?

Is it possible to rely solely on manpower?How can it be transported to the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

With a bitter face, Yun Xiang said awkwardly, "Lord Lord, let's not talk about transportation... Maybe no town is willing to sell us so much iron."

Fantie is an important strategic material in the lower-level territories. Suling Town is making such a big move, and the people in other towns are not idiots. They will definitely be afraid, wondering whether their town is manufacturing weapons wantonly, and then refusing to sell iron stones...

Yun Ping and others told Jiang Ran about the inside ways, and Jiang Ran stroked her eyebrows. She thought that there were a lot of troubles in buying an iron, so she asked the officials to discuss it together, but she didn't expect that there were so many problems.

With a headache and stroking his eyebrows, Jiang Ran planned to solve the problem of the source of purchase first: "How many nearby territories with Fan Iron Mine?"

The officials looked at each other, and at this moment, Chen Mao took out a booklet and presented it.

Li Fusheng presented the folder from Chen Mao's hand, Jiang Ran lowered her head and turned it over.

It is the distribution of Fan Mine, Ling Mine, and Ling Zhi in dozens of nearby territories.

She looked up in surprise, she didn't expect Chen Mao to be so powerful, and to do so many things in just a few months.

Glancing at the dark circles under Chen Mao's eyes, Jiang Ran was a little moved.

Where do you find such good men? !
promotion!raise!
But Jiang Ran hopes that the other party can work and rest in order to be her wage earner for a longer period of time.

The first thing Jiang Ran noticed was not iron ore, but other minerals highlighted by Chen Mao.

Hawkeye Stone from Yajin Town, Huobei Flower from Beiyuan Town, Xuanhan Iron and Yingfan Wood from Zhuoli County, Xiujing Copper from Zeyan County, Qingsong Stone from Qingsong County...

These are all good things.

(End of this chapter)