Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 98: Camp and Artisan Workshop
Of the four difficulties, the first three, in Xia Hong’s opinion, are not so difficult.

Such a huge wooden house would definitely require a huge amount of Jinlin trees;
The basic mortise and tenon structure of the Mudong Society must have required the creation of a number of different iron tools to coordinate with it;

Since the wooden house is so large and has so many functions, it is necessary to supplement the key parts with a certain amount of iron.

"The hardest part is driving the stakes into the ground, right?"

"It's fifteen meters high, and the structure uses a whole piece of golden wood. The depth of the piles must be at least two meters. If the side length is two hundred meters, then we need to dig a trench that is eight hundred meters long, three meters wide, and two meters deep."

After hearing Mu Dong's answer, Xia Hong's eyes darkened slightly.

During this period, he dug pits and set traps for hunting. Each time, he only dug a circular pit half a meter deep and one meter in diameter, and this would take more than an hour.

The trench is three meters wide, two meters deep and eight hundred meters long. If he were to dig it alone, it would probably take him one or two years, even if he worked day and night.

The idea of ​​building a new wooden house was based on the radiation range of the iron smelting furnace. According to his estimation, once it was actually built, it could accommodate at least 8,000 to 10,000 people. He didn't think it could be completed immediately.

But several years of effort is a bit too much.

"Leader, there is a way to shorten the time of ground staking!"

"any solution?"

Mu Dong pointed at the iron smelting furnace and said, "The high temperature of the burning coal can soften the ground. Once the ground is softened, the woodcutters can dig it. We can place the iron smelting furnace along the route where we want to drive the piles, and move it after a period of time. If the coal can be dug continuously, I have calculated that it will only take more than four months to dig out most of it."

Xia Hong realized that this was indeed the only way, and his brows suddenly furrowed.

It’s not that this method is bad, but the problem is that it brought him a shortage of coal. The iron smelting furnace consumes 20 units of coal for one day, which is a full 400 kilograms of coal.

In fact, if you burn wood, you only need 5 units a day, and the radiation range and temperature raised by burning wood in an iron furnace are the same as those of coal stone.

But the problem is that softening the ground depends on the heat emitted by coal stone, just like melting iron ore, which cannot be achieved with wood, so coal stone must be used.

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In the past few days, timber resources have accumulated rapidly. He also went to the coal mine several times while hunting. Just as he had heard before, with his current strength, he could only mine about 200 kilograms a day at most, not to mention iron, which was mined even slower.

The method proposed by Mu Dong, which requires an uninterrupted consumption of 400 kilograms of coal every day, is simply unrealistic, but it is currently the only way to speed up piling.

You can't really rely on him to do the piling alone!
There still needs to be enough people at the Logging Realm and Digging Realm.

Without strength and resources, nothing can be accomplished.

"Let's do it this way first. When Chengfeng leads the logging team out to cut trees during this period, try to pick golden trees. Mu Dong will tell you how big and thick the trees are. I won't be in charge of this matter for now. If you need any iron tools, Mu Dong, just tell me anytime and I'll make them for you when I have time."

"Yes, leader!"

Mu Dong and Cheng Feng nodded, turned around and left together.

Driving piles into the ground is definitely the most difficult part. Other preparations are easy. But if you want to live in a spacious house, it is definitely not possible in a short period of time.

As soon as the two left, Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng came up again.

"Chief, the cold beast meat has been sent out tonight. We currently have a reserve of 11300 kilograms of cold beast meat, all of which has been stored in the mine on the south side of the valley." In six days, plus the extra 1640 kilograms from the first day, the reserve of cold beast meat has reached more than kilograms, which is completely within Xia Hong's expectations.

During these six days, the hunting team was able to bring back two to three prey every night, but the consumption was only six or seven hundred kilograms, so overflow was normal.

In an extremely cold environment, it is naturally not a problem to preserve the meat of cold animals for a long time.

However, thinking that the reserve of cold beast meat would continue to increase in the future, Xia Hong thought for a moment, looked up at Xia Chuan and the others, and said, "The wood, cold beast meat, coal, iron, tools, and weapons in the camp will all need someone to manage them in the future. I plan to set up a camp supply station. At present, I only need two positions of camp supply officer, chief and deputy. Can you two be qualified?"

Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng looked at each other, a hint of excitement flashed across their faces, and they nodded at the same time to Xia Hong.

Xia Hong did not act pretentiously. He called everyone together and announced the positions of the two quartermasters, Xia Chuan as the chief and Yuan Cheng as the deputy.

Xia Hong would naturally entrust the crucial task of managing all the necessary supplies in the camp to the person he trusted the most. Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng were the best choices.

After seven consecutive nights of distributing cold beast meat, Xia Hong's prestige has been completely established. Not to mention the ordinary people in the camp, even Luo Yuan, Hong Gang, Huang Yong and others, when they heard of his appointment, did not show the slightest objection on their faces.

"In addition, in addition to the camp supply station, we will set up an artisan workshop with Mu Dong as the owner, responsible for all construction matters of the camp. In addition to the treatment of the hunting team and the logging team, the three of you can also enjoy a job treatment of 30 kilograms of cold beast meat per month."

At first, when people just heard the appointment, they had no reaction. But when Xia Hong mentioned the final salary of the position, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Captain, can we enter the barracks and the craftsman's workshop?"

Xia Hong turned around and saw that it was a young man in the reserve who asked the question. He shook his head and said, "You must be a member of the logging team to apply to enter these two institutions. Whether you can enter or not, firstly, needs to be confirmed by the head of the institution, and secondly, you must obtain my approval. The conditions for the craftsman workshop can be relaxed. If you have special manufacturing talents, you can also enter. After Mu Dong's review, report to me for approval."

With the current reserves of Daxia, Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng are enough for the camp, so there is no need to add more people.

The craftsman's workshop doesn't matter. Even if you don't have the cultivation level of a lumberjack, as long as you have iron tools in your hands, you can still make some wooden tools.

After hearing the conditions of the craftsman's workshop, many ordinary people in the camp immediately became interested. They could not break through the lumbering realm in a short time, but if they could find another way to enter the craftsman's workshop, they could get a little more cold beast meat every month and improve their own cultivation speed, which would also be a good thing.

Special manufacturing talent.

Everyone began to ponder.

Seeing that everyone was lost in thought, Xia Hong also felt a little excited.

The only iron tools the camp currently has are saws and iron knives. In fact, there are already quite a few wooden tools that can be made. However, the camp has recently been united, and the blow it suffered some time ago was too severe, so the wood is not yet sufficient.

So apart from some small necessities of life, such as wooden barrels and wooden spoons, no other big items were made. Even the wooden beds were only available to the hunting team and the logging team.

But as logging teams continue to go out and bring back more and more wood, and with the existence of the craftsman workshop system, I believe more and more wooden products will emerge.

"The ten saws are now being used by the logging team, and the three iron knives are basically used to cut the cold beasts. It seems that I have to help make a batch of iron woodworking tools. Let me think about what woodworking tools I had in my previous life, measuring tools, small hand saws, woodworking planes, files, hand chisels..."

Although Xia Hong was not a carpenter, he was able to think of some carpentry tools based on his memory, and then used a grinding stone to copy the original, so it wasn't a problem.

These things only need a start.

With these tools and so many people in the camp, we will continue to innovate.

(End of this chapter)