Nearly a hundred tribal young people are left behind at the iron ore mine, and they are preparing to build some wooden houses and sheds at the foot of the mountain in advance. The future mineral processing and grinding machinery will be built at the foot of the mountain.
Iron mines and copper mines have slightly different topography.
The three refining furnaces were originally built on the top of the first ridge of the copper mine because the ore veins behind them were much higher than the first ridge. It was more like a narrow mine than a vein.
The entire mountain range near the iron ore mine is full of iron ore, and in the future miners will dig in from the foot of the mountain.
Surdak returned to Bena City this time and ordered these large-scale magic machines from the local mineral trading house.
In the Grimm Empire, many machines originated from the Hextech era of the ancient Goblin Dynasty. Many mechanical drawings have been lost in the dust of history, but there are also many Hextech technologies that have been passed down. The goblins designed and built a
The most classic machine is the magic airship, which is widely used in almost all parts of the empire.
The magic airship beats the Astrologer Guild's teleportation hall with its low transportation cost.
In addition, the magic cannons that have been in the hands of the Imperial Magic Guild are said to be products of the Hex technology era. Countless magicians have always wanted to imitate these magic cannons, but the performance of the imitated magic cannons is far inferior.
Not as good as the magic cannon.
The core of the grinding machine is said to be Hex Technology, but the design drawings were probably changed several times in the later period. Now this kind of mineral processing and grinding equipment has been simplified to look like a huge windmill. Many mining trading firms are agents of this kind.
Large machinery.
Marquis Luther didn't know much about this aspect, but Count Clay Cushing knew it very well. He recommended this mining trading firm in Bena City to Suldak last summer.
Originally, Suldak planned to use old equipment from the steel workshop, but this part of the grinding machinery had long since rusted into a pile of scrap iron in the mining area. Many of the removable parts were even dismantled by local villagers and taken home.
Forged into knives and axes.
So Surdak needs to purchase these out of his own pocket.
This time when Surdak came to the iron ore mine, the first thing he did was to confirm whether the iron ore mine was worth vigorously mining. The second thing was to determine the construction site of the iron ore mine. Now there are more than a hundred people left.
A young man from an indigenous tribe wanted to level the foundation in advance.
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It took Surdak and Gulitem another day to reach the bridgehead camp of the chain bridge.
Andrew and Wolf Rider Tago had already arrived here in advance. In the two days since they arrived at the Qiaotou Camp, they started patrolling the northern coast of the Great Rift Valley with the cavalry stationed here.
It mainly attacks two aspects.
In the first aspect, in order to avoid the tolls of the cable bridge, some adventure groups privately set up ropeways in other narrow areas of the Great Rift Valley and secretly entered the areas north of the Great Rift Valley to hunt ghost-marked red ants.
This is absolutely not allowed.
The first point is of course tax evasion, which resulted in the loss of money that should have been put into Suldak's pocket.
The second point is that it also leaves some safety hazards. Once the ghost-striped red ants follow the railway and enter the Invercargill Forest, it will be the most troublesome thing.
Several commanders in the garrison camp were absent, and the cavalry just turned a blind eye to this. Now that Andrew has returned to the military camp, these matters immediately entered the category of severe crackdowns.
In addition, because of the addition of Wolf Rider Tiger and Bonita, they are very good at tracking ghost-marked red ants and finding hiding places...
The second aspect is that some adventure groups are also engaged in slave trading. Although the Green Empire has strictly prohibited the indigenous tribes in the occupied areas from becoming slaves, some adventure groups like to sneak into the edge areas of the occupied areas and arrest some slave traders.
to other provinces.
Once these slaves enter the slave market and put slave collars on their necks, it is equivalent to having their slave status authenticated. According to the laws of the Green Empire, noble lords are allowed to own slaves.
These slave traders captured slaves in other areas, and Surdak had no control over them, but this kind of thing was not allowed in Invercargill Forest.
The specific reason is also very realistic. A large part of these young people from the indigenous tribes will join the army of Surdak for military service in the future. In addition, almost all the indigenous young people hope to work in the two mines of Surdak.
Work.
When slave traders hunted slaves in Invercargill Forest, they were essentially poaching Suldak.
Therefore, this matter is not allowed. When these adventure groups enter Duodan Town, the town’s sheriff will officially notify these adventure groups. However, there are still adventure groups willing to take risks for this. This is not a slave trade.
How profitable, but the prejudice against the aborigines in their hearts is almost deeply ingrained in their bones.
The wolf knight Tago also hates those slave traders. In the past two days, Andrew and the wolf knight Tago have discovered two ropeways hidden in the dark, and Bonita also followed the smell left by the ropeway and found them.
Two adventure groups sneaked into the northern region of the Great Rift Valley for hunting, and one of the adventure groups was a slave-catching team.
Faced with Andrew and Tago, two powerful second-level players, chasing them from behind, the two adventure groups had no choice but to catch them without help.
In fact, given the characters of Andrew and Tago, they do not want these adventure groups to surrender, because only resistance can lead to killing. Bringing prisoners back to the Iron Chain Bridge camp is far less straightforward than killing them directly.
When Suldak arrived at the Qiaotou camp, the two members of the adventure group were tied to wooden crosses outside the camp by Andrew. They had been hanging here all day, and now they didn't even have the strength to cry out for mercy.
, both arms were completely dislocated, and the person became unconscious under the severe pain.
Surdak came to the camp and first asked the guards guarding the crosses about the basic situation before entering the camp.
However, Andrew and Tago were not in the camp. They led a cavalry squadron into the west side of the rift valley to capture the slave-catching team hiding there.
As soon as Suldak arrived at the military camp at Qiaotou Camp, the leader of the adventure group asked to see him outside the camp.
"Lord Suldak, this is Job Hurst, the leader of the Phoenix Adventure Group. I am here this time for all the members of the Stone Castle Adventure Group to pray that the Lord can pardon their crimes. For this reason,
The Stone Castle Adventure Group is willing to pay a certain amount of fine."
The leader of the adventure group walked in, saluted Suldak and said.
Suldak sat on the chair, rested his elbows on the armrests of the chair, put his fist on his chin, and stared quietly at the regimental leader named Job Hester.
"Then tell me what mistake the Stone Castle Adventure Group made?" Suldak asked casually.
"They entered the hunting area in the northern part of the Great Rift Valley without permission through the ropeway." Captain Job Hester said immediately.
"As far as I know, they were not only arrested for this, but they also arrested some women from the indigenous tribes in the Invercargill Forest. These people completely ignored the warning of the Sheriff of Dodan Town, and after my explicit order
Even though it is prohibited, they are still catching slaves..."
Suldak's tone kept rising.
Captain Job Hearst saw Suldak's angry look and knew that his visit would be in vain, so he said unwillingly:
"Lord, they are just local aborigines, and they are also a resource that can be used by the adventure group. Besides, the women in the tribe are now in surplus. They captured some tribal women, which will not have much impact on these tribes.
Impact……"
"So this is the reason why they captured the slaves?" Suldak lowered his arm and asked sternly at Captain Job Hester.
"...Well, many adventure groups have always done this, but no lord or mayor had such a request before!" Captain Job Hester said in a neither humble nor condescending manner.
"So you think I, like other mayors, should have a silent attitude towards the slave-catching adventure group?" Suldak looked coldly and said to Captain Job Hester: "I can
I’m responsible for telling you, that’s impossible, just back off! You can leave before I change my mind!”
When Captain Job Hester heard what Suldak said, he immediately left Suldak's room in despair.
Surdak turned pale with anger and violently threw a silver teacup off the table.
The ogre Gulitem poked his head out from outside and looked into the room. When he saw that there were no traces of fighting in the room, he immediately retracted his head.
"Go ahead and tell me that anyone who is caught catching slaves in Invercargill Forest will be tied to a wooden cross and left to dry in the sun for three days. Then they will be tied to Dodan Town for trial like slaves!" Suldak called to Qiaotou.
The squadron leader of the cavalry battalion on this side of the camp gave the order casually.
"Yes, Commander!"
The squadron leader was a veteran of the cavalry battalion, and he still used his previous title when facing Surdak.
Captain Job Hester never expected that the slave traders outside would hang on the cross for two more days just because of his request for permission.
The squadron leader of the cavalry battalion received the order and was about to leave.
Suldak thought for a moment and called him back: "As for the adventurers who just smuggled here, let them pay some fines and put them down!"
"Yes, Commander!" the squadron leader replied loudly.