Under the gaze of a group of mine supervisors, the young aboriginal miner suddenly looked a little flustered on his face, and said with some stumble: "Eat once every few days... Oh, that's right... Two days of vegetarian food, one day of meat!
"
He remembered that his father in the tribe had asked the same question, so he added another sentence.
Surdak nodded slightly and let the aboriginal miner leave. Then he walked to the big iron pot, grabbed a copper spoon and handed it to Gulitem.
The two-headed ogre happily became a taster. He was not afraid of being burned. He directly stirred the soup from the bottom of the soup pot with a copper spoon, then scooped up a large spoon of soup with offal and put it to his mouth and blew it.
Take a breath, and then drink it into your stomach.
"Not bad, the offal is cooked very soft..." Gulitem commented.
There are a lot of braised offal on the plate next to the soup pot, which have been sliced thinly. There are onions, mint leaves, etc. on the side.
It seems that all kinds of snacks have been prepared quite well. Suldak nodded and said: "As for the food in the cafeteria, I only hope that you can do something, you must be able to eat it yourself!"
The mine manager, who had been following Surdak closely, wiped the sweat from his face and made a promise: "Lord, please rest assured that you have set such high food standards.
If the food is inedible, then I will definitely ask the entire team of cooks out of the mine..."
This mine manager was personally selected by Surdak. He was among the first group of people in Dodan town to follow Surdak to the copper mine to open up wasteland. If we say how capable he actually is, he actually has none.
But it has a great advantage, that is, it can complete the tasks assigned by Surdak firmly and without compromise.
The miners who were eating in the canteen saw that the big shots had left the canteen, and then they dared to speak loudly.
The cooks and cooks in the cafeteria also breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, today's offal soup was the best among meat dishes.
At this time, everyone began to discuss:
"Who is that person? He actually asked our mine manager to accompany him personally. I didn't expect that our mine manager could bend his waist like that..."
A miner from Dodan Town sighed.
The miner who came from Duodan Town with him drank the delicious broth and responded without raising his head: "I don't know, he must be a great big shot."
"Could it be the Lord of Invercargill?" the previous miner guessed.
The miner who was concentrating on drinking soup finally put down his soup bowl, raised his head, looked around, and said: "That Lord Surdak..."
The miner from before snorted before saying: "Apart from him, who else can make our mine director follow behind so respectfully?"
"It must be him." The miner who was drinking the soup said excitedly: "Oh my god! Our lord actually just passed by me, and I didn't even raise my head to look at him..."
…
After walking around the mine, Suldak was quite satisfied with the current status of the mine.
Afterwards, the atmosphere became much more relaxed.
In particular, the mine director took Surdak to see the mine's output of magic copper this month. Magic copper, as an associated mineral deposit of the copper mine, is very rare.
This type of magic metal is widely used in the field of magic, so it is almost equivalent to gold.
Since last month, the output of magic red copper in the Invercargill copper mine has suddenly increased nearly ten times. The reason is that the seventh group of miners dug a vein. If this vein continues to extend inward, there will be this
A very precious magical red copper.
A wooden box in the room contains a lot of red copper metal pieces, and there is even a record book next to the box, which records in detail the time when each piece of magic red copper was discovered.
"What's the reason for this?" Surdak didn't expect such a thing to happen again, so he couldn't help but turn to the two Dodan Town blacksmiths who invited him to ask.
One of the blacksmiths stood up calmly and said:
"Reporting to the lord, it is very possible that this vein is a rare copper-rich vein, and it may also be a magic copper-rich vein. The method to confirm whether this is a copper-rich vein is also very simple. You can follow
To check the trend of the mineral vein, dig a hole in the middle of the mineral vein to check..."
Hearing what the blacksmith said, Suldak suddenly remembered the alchemist he was competing with for this copper mine. When he killed his student in a crack in the ground in the middle of the mountain range, it was only with the help of Count Faunak that he found the alchemist.
The remains of a magical assistant.
"I remember that there seemed to be cracks in the ground over the middle mountain range." Suldak said, "When you look back, remember to find someone with flexible hands to explore there!"
"I understand, Lord." The mine manager immediately agreed.
An assistant caught up from behind and whispered a few words in the mine director's ear.
The mine director immediately said to Suldak:
"Lord, the leaders of the indigenous tribes have almost arrived. When are you going to capture them?"
Suldak thought for a moment, and then he said:
"Let's go there now!"
…
Surdak sat on the main seat in the center of the conference hall. This was the only building in the mine that seemed to have some interior decoration. The triangular beams on the top of the hall still made it look very rough.
Thirty-seven tribal leaders have arrived at the council hall one after another. Everyone is sitting casually and loosely in various corners. Familiar tribal leaders are huddled together and talking, and there are also several feudal lords who are sitting far away from each other.
Suldak knocked on the table with his hand, and the room suddenly became quiet.
"I invite you here this time because I want to discuss the future development direction of Invercargill Forest." Suldak said to the tribal leader.
When everyone's eyes turned to him, Suldak paused deliberately, and then said: "You must have felt it. With the influx of a large number of caravans and adventure groups into Invercargill, the land here has been injected into
Vitality and new business opportunities.”
"Then next, I want to discuss with you whether we should cater to outside business groups and adventure groups to enter Invercargill Forest, or whether we should keep them out of our living circle!"
The tribal leaders all looked at each other, and one of them boldly said: "Our tribe still welcomes these outsiders, but only if they abide by the rules."
"Actually, many young people in our tribe have become guides for these foreign adventure groups." Another tribal leader admitted frankly: "The young people in our tribe are also willing to accept them, but the older people in the tribe are not very willing to accept them.
Love these adventure groups.”
Suldak nodded and said: "I can understand this. After all, the predecessors of some adventure groups may have been slave traders who haunted the Invercargill Forest."
"Then this question is before us. How should we cater to these outsiders who are pouring into Invercargill? What should we pay attention to in daily life? This is what I want to discuss with you."
"As for the previous grievances, I hope everyone can treat them calmly and apply for legal sanctions from Duodan Town, but they must not use private armed forces to launch large-scale armed fights, let alone human lives. After all, we all have to accept the imperial civilization.
"
The tribal leaders looked at each other, and the room began to become quiet.
"Let me first talk about the benefits of their coming here..." Surdak looked up and looked around, and said to the tribal leaders: "Then I will talk about some of the disadvantages that their arrival has brought to us."
"The advantage is that their arrival will allow the young people in the tribe to accept the outside world as quickly as possible, and will also bring outside knowledge and materials."
"But there will also be some disadvantages, that is, when they use generous benefits to attract young people from the tribe, as the brain drains, the tribe will soon intensify its aging, so I need the tribal leaders to make some positive responses to this.
.”
"For example, to speed up the reform process of the tribe and make the tribe rich, in addition to hunting and gathering in the past, you also need to rely on rich land resources to develop animal husbandry and forestry, raise livestock, and cut wood. But there is one thing I want to remind you.
Everyone, I hope you will try not to waste the cleared land. If you really don’t plan to cultivate it, then transplant some saplings. When your children grow up, you can continue to cut trees on this land..."
When Surdak said these words, the tribal leaders listened quietly.
It wasn't until Surdak finished saying this that a tribal leader stood up and said:
"Lord Surdak, I have a proposal!"
Surdak was slightly moved. He had said so much. It was rare for a leader to listen to everything and understand it.
"Please speak!" Surdak said.
The tribal leader immediately stood up and took the opportunity to say: "Lord, can you expand the scale of the copper mine and recruit more miners? There are many young people in our tribe who hope to come to the mine..."
"..."
Surdak looked at the tribal leaders below with some speechlessness, and finally felt like a chicken talking to a duck.
He then thought about preparing to build an iron mine, and then said to these tribal leaders again:
"When I call you here this time, I want to talk about this matter."
"The copper mine is restricted by the refining furnace, so the scale of the mine can only remain at the current level, and it is temporarily unable to continue to recruit miners."
"Next, I will build an iron mine, but the miners may have to work harder at the beginning and the monthly salary will be slightly lower..."
Before Surdak could finish speaking, the tribal leaders below exploded, and someone stood up first and shouted at Surdak:
"In terms of hard work and hard work, who can compare to our Nakan tribe..."
"Our Yekiki tribe is not bad either!"
"Shut up and wait until the lord finishes speaking."
Suddenly a quarrel broke out in the tent, and the sound could almost pass through the high roof and fly into the sky...