Zhou Yu made a look like he had seen nothing. He glanced at Gan Ning, who was carrying a huge stone tablet excitedly. He saw that the stone tablet that he had been picked up from somewhere was engraved with two large-character boundary monuments, and then a line of small characters in the lower corner of the Han Navy commander Gan Xingba!

Well, the boundary marker, and then Gan Ning, who held the boundary marker high, suddenly exerted force and thrust the huge boundary marker towards the mine below. With a roar, the boundary marker was stuck by Gan Ning in the place where there was an iron ore, which was very ugly.

"This guy Gan Xingba..." Zhou Yu, who was standing on the cliff, said with a twitching corner of his eyes. This behavior seemed too embarrassing to Zhou Yu.

At this time, a gust of wind and sand swept through, and a smell of fishy rust appeared on the smell of several young old men who were squatting on the ground, who were squatting on the ground, and they were verifying in depth. Their faces were immediately shocked.

Everyone looked at each other and saw the horror in each other's eyes.

"Brother, I think there is something wrong with this place. What about you?" Wang Heng looked at a few acquaintances around him and asked, "It's not just wrong. The smell of rust in the wind and sand is an open-pit mine, and it must be an extremely large open-pit mine to do this."

"I'm afraid this place is full of iron." The old man next to him said with a serious expression. He could smell the rust in the wind and sand. When he looked at the fine dust on the ground, he could feel a red feeling at first glance.

Before, this group of people thought that the soil environment of this place was like this, but after thinking about it, everyone was shocked. This place probably was no longer a problem with iron ore, but should be put in another way, this place is probably a huge mine buried by sand and stones.

Seeing that the few people were all like this, Wang Heng was very confident. If it was as expected before, the iron content of this iron ore might be terrifying.

"Take Si Nan." Wang Heng waved to the servant beside him. The servant quickly took out Si Nan's box from the side, and then, as expected, Si Nan was killed on the spot.

"Hirite above, magnet below?" The little old man next to him carefully pulled a layer of red dust off the ground, and then slowly fell from his hands. The fine dust naturally fell towards Si Nan, and everyone's face was solemn.

"This place is full of mines, which is likely to cover hundreds of miles..." Wang Heng said with his eyes twitching. Only in this way can those exposed open-pit mines float out of such a large amount of hematite powder during the years of wind and sand attacks.

"I'm afraid there is only one explanation." Wang Heng said to himself, and the others were shocked. Iron ore of this size was simply rare in the domain.

Wang Heng and others climbed up a mountain with difficulty and looked around. The red reflection made them fully understand that they were not stepping on earth and rocks, but iron ore.

"Governor Zhou, please find a way to occupy this place." After Wang Heng and others confirmed the situation, they informed Zhou Yu as soon as possible, and also took a lot of iron ore that they knocked down from the open-pit mine with their eyes closed and crushed ore that had rolled down after wind and sand erosion.

"Uh, why do you need to occupy it? Because of the iron ore?" Zhou Yu looked at the old men with confusion. These were the older generations who knew how to steer the geomantics. Although they were not considered wealthy families, they belonged to the kind of family that could do well anywhere, so Zhou Yu would give him face.

"This place cannot plant fields, grow trees, and even grass cannot grow well. However, in our experience, this place is full of iron, and this iron ore," Wang Heng took out a piece of iron ore from the box beside him, weighed it and said with an incredible look, "With our years of experience in ore dressing and forging, it can be thrown directly into the furnace and used for casting."

Iron ore does not need to be processed, but can be used after being peeled off. It is very difficult in the Central Plains, because the iron ore in China is basically poor ore, and the grade is not very good. It takes a lot of time to process ore mining, which is very energy-consuming.

However, Wang Heng picked up a piece of the world in this place. With the influence of his family since he was ten years old and his experience of touching ore everywhere over the past forty years, Wang Heng knew that the ore hematite was not as good as iron ore as iron as it was not as stone!

Wang Heng closed his eyes and slapped more than 20 pieces. According to his feeling, the iron content was basically about 60%, the high ones were even 70%, and the low ones did not fall to 55%.

This is just picked up with your eyes closed, which means that the slags in this place can be thrown directly into the furnace for smelting, which is simply crazy.

It is completely different from the ore that needs to be processed after mining in the Central Plains. The quality of the ore here is simply unbelievable to Wang Heng and others.

What's more important is that several old men climbed the mountain and estimated the mine's range based on their feelings. Finally, they came to a conclusion that the estimated iron ore value of this mine would probably be calculated in 100 million yuan, and almost all of this color is within the range of sight.

Although the estimated value by Wang Heng and others is 100 million jin, which is still hundreds of thousands of times the difference between the tens of billions of tons scientifically estimated by later generations, hundreds of millions of jin of high-grade iron ore is enough for these people to make up their minds. They understand this, so they understand the importance of these ores.

After all, if you pick it up, you don’t need to be ore-draw it directly into the steel furnace, and what’s even more terrifying is that it is an open-pit mine. The difficulty of mining is how to pick it up.

Simply put, you can build an iron smelting plant here, and you can practice steel by cutting ore on the spot and throwing it into the furnace. As for technology, the iron content of the ore here has exceeded 60%. If you need a ghost technique, it is basically a piece of iron oxide!

Zhou Yu was stunned when he heard this. Since the smelting technology was improved to the ability to cast iron, iron was very important in any era. Therefore, Zhou Yu also understood how high-quality the iron ore that could be thrown into the furnace was.

The problem is that no matter how high quality is, it is useless. It is not a joke to say that this broken place is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains. If it is near the South China Sea and not across the Strait of Malacca, Zhou Yu feels that there is also the meaning of building a casting point on site and transporting the finished steel back every once in a while. This place is nearly 20,000 kilometers back and forth!

In Zhou Yu's opinion, this distance may be like a Kushan fleet squatting in the middle, even without this fleet, it is not worth it.

Although it is indeed easy to obtain finished iron by smelting high-grade iron ore on site, with this terrible distance, there is no use for it immediately. Even if the iron is produced, it cannot be transported back. The transportation cost has exploded.

Besides, even if we smelter is smelted on site, we still need blast furnaces and coal. This is the most sophisticated technology obtained by the technicians dug from Chen Xi. We can easily smelter steel on site. However, even so, we need coal!

This is not the place in the Central Plains. You can pick up coal balls from a very close place by just a few slapping. You can’t play with blast furnaces without coal balls. If you can’t play with blast furnaces, you can’t produce steel on a large scale. You can’t just transport the ore back, this is even more pitiful!

Who is so mentally retarded when transporting ore back to the Central Plains? I wonder if most ships now only have a load capacity of hundreds of tons. Including drinking water, dry food and other things, transporting ore from 10,000 kilometers away, the designer of this plan is simply mentally retarded!

Transporting hundreds of tons and hundreds of tons back is simply a sinkhole, okay, there are not even people in this broken place. Do you have to transport people over? What a joke? The cost explodes instantly? Zhou Yu decisively rejected this mentally retarded plan.

As for the seventh-generation ship, the carrying capacity is calculated based on three to four thousand tons. If smelting is included, the cost can be barely covered. The problem is that each seventh-generation ship is 100 million yuan, with such a large investment and such low efficiency. Zhou Yu said that the cost will explode.

"But if such a high-quality mine is wasted here, it is a pain for us who are experiencing the earth!" Wang Heng said with his conscience touching his conscience, it was really painful.

Although Zhou Yu was also a little interested, he still refused to calculate the cost. In his opinion, even with the familiarity of sea transportation, the speed of ships traveled faster and faster, and it took nearly a month to get from Jiangdong to this place.

Zhou Yu said that the drinking water and dry food required for one month of shipping should be washed and sleep. Nowadays, small boats cannot afford to travel to ocean mines. Although Zhou Yu's mathematics is not very good, based on a rough estimate, he also understands that unless the carrying capacity can exceed 10,000 tons, if you want to transport the iron ore from Australia to Jiangdong, you should take a shower and sleep.

Of course, if Lu Bu's move to tear the space through a fixed point, Zhou Yu would not mind occupying the place at all, but it would be enough to open a channel to connect the Central Plains and Australia, etc.

In short, Zhou Yu decisively rejected the proposal of a group of people who were geeking and geomantics, but Gan Ning became interested. The so-called thief did not leave the empty space, Gan Ning decisively asked his pirates to get off the ship to move ore.

Anyway, Gan Ning still has more than 30,000 pirates. The plan to destroy the entire army failed, and more than 40,000 pirates were killed by Kushan, and more than 600 pirate ships had sunk by more than 200, and the spare capacity was tens of thousands of tons.

What's more, although the large ships of the sixth-generation ship level sank half after the war, there were still more than a dozen ships left, which was a capacity of just over 10,000 tons.

Gan Ning is now a long way to go for more ships and fewer people. A retired warship that is equivalent to a fourth-generation ship will have a capacity of about 100 tons as long as it does not load things.

Therefore, Gan Ning drove all the pirates off the ship and ordered them to dig open-pit mines. Each person needed to dig two thousand kilograms, which is a ton of the new weights and measures.
Chapter completed!