Lord Highlander

   Chapter 909 895. Territory recruitment

  The Thunder Rhino Merchant Group in Malacombe successively transported the refining furnaces to the Invercargill Forest. It took more than a month just to transport the components of these furnaces.

   After the magician Victor entered the mine with the first batch of main structural parts, he lived in the mine.

  Aung San’s Aboriginal Labor Group specifically undertook the infrastructure work for these refining furnaces. As early as four weeks ago, the foundation construction drawings for this large metallurgical furnace had already arrived in Aung San’s hands, and some preliminary preparations had been completed.

  When these furnace components arrived at the mining camp, Aung San led more than 300 aboriginal laborers to use Lei Tingxi's huge gantry shelves, and under the guidance of Victor Magician, they quickly assembled the main structural frame.

  Afterwards, various accessories were transported to the mine one by one, and Victor has been on-site to guide the installation.

When the weather gradually started to cool down, the leaves of the trees in the woodland began to turn yellow, and they swirled and fell to the ground one by one. The three huge melting furnaces finally stood on the top of the mountain at the southernmost end of the copper mine vein, just like three steel behemoths Crouch above the camp.

  Because it is an open-pit mine and there is no large-scale earth-digging equipment, Surdak does not plan to excavate the entire mountain at the foot of the mountain, but conducts preliminary mining directly from the southernmost mountain top.

  These three furnaces were built on a platform built on the top of the hillside.

Now the native miners only need to push a cart of ore into the feeding port of the furnace. With the help of the slide rail and cableway car owned by the furnace itself, these ores can be continuously conveyed downward under the action of gravity, and they can be manually beneficiated at the same time, and then enter different places. Grind into stone powder in a grinding machine that stops rotating, and then enter the three-stage interpretation tank for stirring, sedimentation, and finally fill in the catalyst to precipitate copper sand. smelting.

  Although many places still rely on manpower, ingenious magic devices have been designed in many places.

For example, the main power shaft for grinding is the magic wheel, the blast for melting is also a magic rune board, and the furnace is the core device. It is said that a third-level lava surge magic rune board is installed in it, and it consumes at least five yuan a day. magic spar.

Copper sand flowed into the furnace, turned into copper water, and then flowed into the cast iron molds under the furnace. Watching the molds filled with copper water one by one, they were pulled out by the miners from the furnace outlet and thrown into the cooling pool piece by piece. The local laborers fished them out from the bottom of the pool and placed them neatly on wooden pallets. A refining furnace can condense about four pallets of copper ingots per day, and each pallet can hold almost five tons of copper ingots. The furnace smelts twenty tons of copper ingots every day.

  Copper mine mining and smelting are finally on the right track.

About two hundred and forty gold coins can be brought to Suldak every day. Although the ore does not cost Suldak a penny, it has to exclude labor costs, magic crystal loss and equipment loss of the refining furnace. Labor costs accounted for almost only one-tenth of the total revenue, and accounted for a relatively small proportion in cost accounting.

  The magic crystal stone consumed every day is more expensive, and the magic crystal stone burned by the magic rune board is about 100 gold per day.

  The depreciation of the refining furnace equipment is also 20 gold coins per day. Calculated in this way, this copper mine can bring about 100 gold coins to Suldak every day.

Recently, Victor is thinking of a way to transform this furnace. The main reason is that the power source of the furnace is going to be changed from magic spar to cheaper sunglasses fragments. Once this transformation is successful, it will save Suldak every day. A magic spar worth fifty gold coins.

  However, this requires a special person to stand by the gemstone base, and a magic crystal fragment must be replaced every half an hour.

  The refining furnace is built on the top of the mountain. The biggest advantage is that the entire assembly line composed of suspended cable cars can automatically run down the mountain through gravity.

  Businessmen waited at the foot of the mountain every day, and the cable car continuously transported the copper ingots down, and the empty cable car would be pulled up to the top of the mountain again by the traction rope. It can be said that the pulley block mechanism and conveyor belt of this refining furnace were used by Victor to the extreme.

  The copper mine soon entered a profitable stage, and many businessmen went to the copper mine to find Suldak, hoping to become a distributor of the Invercargill copper mine.

  However, the largest dealer in the copper mine is the Lei Tingxi Merchant Group. Only when their business group is short of capacity, will they sell copper ingots to other merchants.

   Malakom fully supported Suldak's construction of the copper mine during this time, so he deserved this big contract.

  …

Every morning, more than 2,000 aboriginal miners marched up to the mine. They rested in the mining area at noon. After lunch was prepared by more than 40 aboriginal women in the camp, each of them held a big wooden basin on their heads. , carrying a wicker basket, sent to the mining area.

  The cheapest meat product in Dodan Town is the jerky meat of the ghostly red ants, and now these jerky meat has become a delicacy in the soup pot of the indigenous miners.

   Miners are heavy physical laborers. Surdak requires the mine to have meat for every meal, so as to supplement the large amount of physical strength that the miners consume every day.

   In addition, Suldak advocated that miners have rest days.

   One day off for every five days of work. Of course, indigenous miners who are far away from home can also work ten days and two days off. In this way, the indigenous workers in the mines can often go back to the tribe to have a look after work.

  Although it has caused certain difficulties to mine management, it has made more local aborigines hope to join the mine.

After the magic assistant walked into the mining camp, he realized that he was so out of tune with the place. He was crowded in the crowd. He found that there were aborigines everywhere, and only some adventure groups gathered in the corner of the market to form an independent transaction. In the area, the prices of the items here are relatively expensive, and the natives will not come here.

  The magic assistant squeezed in, and there were indeed some **** monster leathers, many of which hadn't even been cooked.

   There are also some warcraft fangs, horns, claws and other goods. He squatted in front of a stall, reaching out and fumbling with a piece of magic core of a junior warcraft.

   Only the magic core of this kind of primary monster is worth gambling, and there must be magic crystals in the magic core of the second-level monster.

   "Do you want to buy the fur of the maned beast?" The stall owner sitting behind the stall asked enthusiastically.

  He looked at the bookish look on the magic assistant's face, then at his hands and the magic belt around his waist, and said with a smile:

   "Now there are less and less monster materials here. If you want to hunt these junior monsters, you have to go to the Sanhe Plain to find the traces of these monsters."

  The magic assistant didn't speak, and reached out to touch the animal teeth on the booth.

  The stall owner continued to ask: "You are a magician, do you want to join our adventure group?"

  The magic assistant raised his head and asked calmly:

   "Are you going to Sanhe Plain?"

  The stall owner thought for a while before saying, "No, our adventure group probably won't be going there in the near future."

  The magic assistant asked suspiciously: "Didn't you say that you can only hunt monsters there?"

   "Of course." The stall owner nodded affirmatively.

  The magic assistant asked casually: "Then where are you going?"

The stall owner smiled triumphantly and said, "Hey, it's okay to tell you. We are preparing for it soon. Have you seen those cavalrymen? They have been defending activities in the northern part of the Invercargill Forest recently, and now many adventure groups are going there Looking for opportunities, I heard that ghost-striped red ants can be found there, ghost-striped soldier ants are simple-minded, and we have rich hunting experience here, although the hard armor is not very valuable, but the magic core is a hard currency."

  The magic assistant said in surprise: "Do you want to hunt ghost-striped soldier ants on the edge of the Dark Insect Valley?"

  The stall owner warmly invited and said, "That's right, are you interested in joining us?"

   "Forget it, I don't like taking risks very much." The magic assistant shook his head, put the animal tooth back on the booth, and refused.

   "Actually, there is not much danger, we have a lot of people..." The stall owner saw that he was a magician, and he was unwilling to give up just like that.

"I really don't have those ideas." The magic assistant refused again, he was a little impatient, and planned to stand up and leave the booth, but seeing that the stall owner was so talkative, he stopped after thinking about it and asked, "By the way, Do you know when the three refining furnaces here were built?"

"Shouldn't you come here just to inquire about information?" The stall owner saw his ruthless appearance, and the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed, and he screamed, "I know that your Magic Union and Sulda Lord Ke disagrees, but since you are not planning to join us, we are not companions, even if I know all these things, I am sorry, but I cannot tell you..."

Seeing the shield warrior turn around and leave, the magic assistant rolled his eyes angrily. Seeing the nearby stall owners and passers-by looking at him with vigilant eyes, he knew he had been noticed, and hurried into the crowd In, quickly leave the market.

  …

At this time, a group of armed Thunder Rhinoceros loaded with cargo came down from the foot of the mountain. These Thunder Rhinos were covered with thick armor pieces, and each of them looked majestic and majestic. Each of them was extremely large in size, and they always made low-pitched sound waves. That strange sound easily resonates with the board.

  In order to prevent these wooden houses from collapsing, they usually can only stay at the foot of the mountain.

   Lei Tingxi stopped at the foot of the mountain, and immediately someone dragged a cart of hay mixed with beans to the open space.

  The riders quickly padded the shelves and took away the thunder rhinos under the shelves. They first let them go to the river to drink water, and then let them graze in the open space. Their appetites are very big, and it takes quite a long time to eat each time.

   At this time, the riders still have to fetch water from the river, and use extra-long brushes to scrub the bodies of these armed thunder rhinos.

They are covered with a thick layer of hard armor. The gap between the hard armor and the skin is moist and warm, and some dirt will always settle. This is also a paradise for parasites. Every time the driver takes advantage of the thunder rhinoceros to rest, Use this long brush to clean them of dirt and sprinkle some white lime powder to kill the parasites.

  A huge Thunder Rhinoceros needs to be busy for most of the day.

  Suldak jumped off the platform of Thunder Rhinoceros.

  He came back from the northern border of the Invercargill Forest because many young natives in the copper mine wanted to join his private army.

The army currently stationed in Dodan Town is nominally a cavalry battalion of 500 soldiers, but in fact he still has 18 armed thunder rhinos, 1,000 archers, and 500 indigenous reserve infantry. The reserve infantry was not even issued armor, but the total strength he had was already two thousand.

   According to the laws of the Green Empire, all citizens of the empire who have reached the age of sixteen are obliged to perform military service.

  These indigenous tribes are currently considered subjects of Suldak, and naturally they are citizens of the empire, so they also need to perform military service.

Because of this, many natives want to join Suldak's army recently. This time he hurried back from the northern border of the forest, and he was also planning to discuss this matter with the chiefs of the thirty-seven tribes in the territory. thing.

  Andrew and Malacolm strode forward together.

  Samila followed closely behind Suldak, and Suldak asked Andrew: "The patriarchs of all tribes are here."

  Andrew said: "We have been arriving here one after another since yesterday, and the last one arrived at the mine at noon today."

   "These patriarchs can't leave the tribe for a long time, so gather them up and stay in the vacant work sheds in the camp!" Suldak said to Andrew.

   "Okay, boss!" Andrew agreed, and with a few squadron leaders behind him, he went to the camp to gather these indigenous patriarchs.

  …

  Recently, a large number of young natives have joined the copper mine, making the number of miners in the copper mine close to 3,000.

   This has formed a trend among various indigenous tribes. Young indigenous people now generally form a consciousness that only by joining Lord Suldak's army or mines can they live a good life.

  A large number of young natives have left the tribe, and many tribes have already experienced a serious empty nest phenomenon, which is what Suldak does not want to see.

  That's why he hurried back from the northern border.

  Walking up the street, the natives along the way all knew Lord Suldak, and retreated to both sides of the stone street.

"Viscount Suldak, the bed crossbows and catapults you asked me to purchase last time have arrived in Dodan Town. These ordnance were all brought from San Carlos City." Merchant Malakom and Sur Dake walked together and said as he walked, "When I passed by the imperial capital this time, I also got a batch of magic crossbow bolts."

  Suldak asked the merchant Malakom: "I asked you to go to the Imperial Capital Auction House to buy the magic pattern structure last time. Is there any new news?"

Malakom replied: "The primary magic pattern structure can still be bought in the Imperial Capital Auction House. This time I will bring back a set of magic pattern structures that emphasize agility according to your request, but the second level magic pattern structure is basically It is not circulated in the market, and I heard that only the second-rank powerhouses who have been to the big battlefield have the opportunity to obtain the second-level magic pattern structure in the big battlefield."

   "The big battlefield..." Suldak repeated, then turned around and said to Samira who was following behind, "It seems that you and Andrew really need to go there once..."

   Saying that, a group of people walked into the shed of the mine.

  At this time, the indigenous patriarchs came in one after another, and greeted Suldak one after another.

  (end of this chapter)