Suldak and Aung San were standing on the roof of the townhouse.
The housing reconstruction project in the slum area has been completely completed, and all the indigenous people in the town have moved into these small townhouses.
In the past few days, the imperial immigrants in the town who had been watching this matter finally came forward and kept looking for Mrs. Luna. Since the town can demolish the aboriginal shacks and rebuild townhouses, then
Ask her to renovate their houses as well, and preferably build them into beautiful townhouses.
Surdak brought Aung San here this time just to discuss this matter.
The two of them stood on the second-floor terrace of the townhouse, discussing the feasibility of this matter. Mrs. Luna wanted to get some benefits for these imperial immigrants, rebuild the townhouse for free, and the land squeezed out would be returned to them.
All in town.
However, Aung San was not very interested in this matter. The main reason was that this time he was building small townhouses and had to deal with imperial immigrants.
Aung San is very prestigious among the aboriginal people. When he builds these small townhouses, no aboriginal people will jump out to find fault. But if he builds small townhouses for the imperial immigrants, Aung San is not sure that they will not find fault.
If something goes wrong, it will cause trouble later, it is better not to take care of it now.
At present, the Twin Goddess Temple is about to be completely completed. Aung San is planning to follow Surdak's plan. There is still a large area of land south of the Dodan River to plan for some higher-end residential areas. Although it will not be built immediately, it will be dug in advance.
Drainage culverts, paved roads, planning housing sites, etc. These things are much simpler than renovating imperial immigration residential areas.
Moreover, Aung San is also preparing to allocate some manpower to participate in the construction of the Invercargill Forest Copper Mine.
There are only so many Aboriginal workers on hand, and there is no way to spare any extra manpower.
Surdak learned of these situations and didn't say much.
Seeing a few young magic apprentices standing on the street in the distance, Aung San smiled "hehe" and then said to Suldak:
"Mr. Mayor, I heard that some new neighbors have arrived near your territory."
His eyes fell on the magic apprentices and he said:
"It seems that these newly awakened magic nobles. When the Wilkes Magic Guild allocates baronies this time, they will be sent to Invercargill Forest. Do you want me to inform the indigenous chiefs privately and send them to Invercargill Forest?"
Are they all going to be squeezed away?"
Surdak turned to Aung San and asked, "Why do you want to squeeze them away?"
"I think it would be good to have some magician neighbors near the territory!"
Looking at those young faces, Suldak smiled and said to Aung San:
"There is so much useless land in Invercargill Forest. Rather than letting it lie idle, it would be better for someone to develop it..."
After saying this, he was about to leave, but after taking a step he stopped, patted Aung San on the shoulder and said:
"Oh, by the way, the sedimentation pond your people built at the mine this time is very good! That's what we should do, lead the people in the town to create value together, and then improve everyone's living standards."
After saying that, Suldak slowly walked down the townhouse and walked along the noisy street towards the town hall.
He soon disappeared into the crowd of people.
…
At the end of September, a large refining tank has been built next to the creek.
This pool is built a bit like a swimming pool. The bottom and side walls of the pool are riveted with iron plates. In order to prevent the spliced iron plates from leaking, the pool has been repeatedly tested for leaks.
Subsequently, large amounts of copper ore powder were pushed into the pool one by one by the indigenous miners.
Recently, five or six tons of copper sand can be fished out from the pond almost every day, and the mine has finally managed to maintain a balance of payments.
However, due to the increase in the production of copper sand, so much copper sand cannot be consumed by the small copperware workshop in Duodan Town.
In fact, the blacksmith workshops are also aware of this problem, and their workaround is very simple. They smelt the copper sand essence in time to make copper ingots that are more convenient for transportation.
The businessman Malacom then led the Thunder Rhino caravan to transport these copper ingots to Wilkes City.
Surdak knew that this was not a long-term solution. When the refining furnace customized from Helensa arrived in Dodan Town, standard copper ingots could be extracted directly at the mine without the need for a blacksmith.
The workshop smelts copper ingots.
At that time, the blacksmith workshop will still have to return to its original path of making copper utensils.
As the Invercargill Copper Mine began to continuously deliver copper ingots to Wilkes City, the nobles of Wilkes City discovered that this copper mine had caused the price of copper utensils in the city to drop in one day.
Thirty percent.
Many people who originally planned to stand aside and watch Suldak's show now shut their mouths.
They didn't want to have any grudges with a noble lord, especially a lord who held military power and kept getting richer.
Everyone did not expect that Surdak would move so quickly. In just two months, the copper mine had already produced a large amount of copper sand.
Among them is Zazaks, the largest slave owner in Wilkes City. He has been feeling a little anxious recently because the dwarf slaves that were supposed to be sold to Viscount Suldak are currently on the road, and the Invercargill Copper Mine
Everything seems to be on track over there. If these dwarf slaves are shipped here and the auction price is too high, it is very likely that Surdak will not participate in the bidding.
The magicians in Wilkes City did not hold any ironic celebration party this time.
They were very unhappy with Viscount Suldak, and at most they called on the people around them to boycott copperware. However, even among the magician nobles, there were not many families in Wilkes City that could afford gold and silverware.
Copperware is still an indispensable part of everyone's life. Compared with cheaper sub-lead tin kettles, many middle-class families prefer to buy copperware that maintains its value.
This time, the magic apprentices took over their baronies in the Invercargill Forest. Viscount Suldak did not deliberately make things difficult for them because of his grudges with the magic union. At the same time, these territories did not deviate greatly from those noted on the map.
The location and boundaries are extremely clear.
In particular, certain rivers in the forest are important water sources. Surdak did not rely on the advantage of "territory first selection" to include all rivers into his territory. Many rivers exist as boundaries for territorial division.
The benefits of this are also obvious. The small lords who will be allocated territories later will at least be able to find water sources in their territories.
This kind of generous aristocratic behavior also won the favor of some neutral-minded magicians for a while.
…
By October, the refining furnaces shipped from Helensa through normal channels passed through the portal smoothly and were piled in the warehouse in Wilkes City.
Along with these three furnaces, which cost a total of 4,500 gold coins, arrived in Wilkes City, along with Scholar Ferdinand’s magical assistant Victor.
Surdak hurried from Dodan Town to Wilkes City and met up with the businessman Malacom and the magician Victor.
They were marching in a hurry along the way. All the horses in Surdak's cavalry battalion had been strengthened by magic patterns. The physique of each ancient Bolai war horse was at least twice as strong as before. They could even march in a hurry all day long.
Suldak galloped to the gates of Wilkes City with a cavalry squadron of sixty men. Only four days had passed since he received the news that Victor had arrived in Wilkes City.