Malacom's Thunder Rhino Merchant Group successively transported the refining furnaces to 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 components, he took up residence in the mine.
Aung San's Aboriginal labor group is specifically responsible for the infrastructure construction work of these refining furnaces. As early as four weeks ago, the foundation construction drawings of this large metallurgical furnace had already been handed over to Aung San, and some preliminary preparations had been completed.
After these furnace components arrived at the mining camp, Aung San led more than 300 aboriginal workers to quickly assemble the main structural frame using the huge gantry shelves of Thunder Rhinoceros and under the guidance of Victor Magician.
Then various accessories were shipped to the mine one after another, and Victor was on site to guide the installation.
Waiting until the weather gradually started to get colder, the leaves of the trees in the forest began to turn yellow, and pieces were swirling and falling to the ground. Three huge furnaces finally stood on the top of the southernmost mountain of the copper vein, like three giant steel beasts.
Lying down above the camp.
Because it is an open-pit mine and there is no large-scale earth-moving equipment, Suldak does not plan to excavate the entire mountain at the foot of the mountain, but directly conducts preliminary mining from the southernmost mountaintop.
These three furnaces are built on platforms built on the top of the hillside.
Now the indigenous miners only need to push a cart of ore into the feeding port of the furnace. With the help of the sliding cableway car owned by the furnace itself, the ore is continuously transported downwards under the action of gravity, so that the ore can be manually selected at the same time, and then enter the furnace.
The stone powder is ground into stone powder in the grinding machine that stops rotating, and then enters the three-stage precipitation tank, where it is stirred and precipitated respectively. Finally, the catalyst is filled in to precipitate copper sand. These copper sand flow out from the outlet at the bottom of the tank and are transferred to the furnace for processing.
Smelting.
Although many places still rely on manpower, many places have designed ingenious magic devices.
For example, the main power axis for grinding is a magic wheel, the blast for smelting 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 inside, which consumes at least five pieces every day.
Magic crystal.
The copper sand flows into the furnace, turns into copper water, and then flows into the cast iron mold under the furnace. Watching the molds being filled with copper water one after another, the miners pull them out from the furnace outlet and throw them piece by piece into the cooling pool. Finally,
They are fished out from the bottom of the pond by indigenous workers and placed neatly on wooden pallets. A refining furnace can condense about four pallets of copper ingots every day. Each pallet can hold almost five tons of copper ingots, which is a refining furnace.
The furnace refines twenty tons of copper ingots every day.
Copper mining and smelting are finally on the right track.
It can bring about 240 gold coins to Surdak every day. Although the ore does not cost Surdak a penny, it does have to exclude labor expenses, the magic crystal loss of the refining furnace and the equipment loss.
Labor costs account for almost only one-tenth of total revenue and account for a relatively small amount in cost accounting.
The magic crystal stone consumed every day is relatively expensive. The magic crystal stone burned every day for the magic rune board is about one hundred gold.
The depreciation of the refining furnace equipment is also twenty gold coins per day. Based on this calculation, this copper mine can bring an income of one hundred gold coins to Surdak every day.
Recently, Victor is thinking of ways to transform this furnace. The main purpose is to change the power source of the furnace from magic crystals to cheaper sunglass fragments. Once this transformation is successful, it will save Surdak money every day.
A magic crystal worth fifty gold coins.
However, this requires a dedicated person to guard the gem base and replace a magic crystal fragment every half hour.
The refining furnace is built on the top of a mountain. The biggest advantage is that the entire assembly line composed of suspended cable cars can automatically move down the mountain through gravity.
The merchants wait at the foot of the mountain every day. The cable car continuously transports the copper ingots down, and the empty cable car is pulled up to the top of the mountain again by the traction rope. It can be said that the pulley mechanism and transmission belt of this refining furnace were used to the extreme by Victor.
The copper mine soon entered the profit stage, and many businessmen went to the copper mine to find Suldak, hoping to become a dealer of the Invercargill copper mine.
However, the largest dealer in the copper mine is the Thunder Rhinoceros Merchant Group. Only when their business group's transportation capacity is insufficient will they sell copper ingots to other merchants.
During this period, Malacom fully supported the construction of the copper mine in Surdak, so he deserves this big contract.
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More than 2,000 indigenous miners board the mine every morning. They rest in the mining area at noon. Lunch is prepared by more than 40 indigenous women in the camp, and each of them carries a large wooden basin on his head.
, carrying a wicker basket on his back, sent to the mining area.
The cheapest meat product in Dodan Town is the dried meat of red ants with ghost stripes. Now these dried meats have become a delicacy in the soup pots of the indigenous miners.
Miners are heavy manual laborers, and Suldak requires meat in every meal in the mine to replenish the large amount of physical energy consumed by the miners every day.
In addition, Suldak advocated that miners have rest days.
You can have one day off for every five days of work. Of course, indigenous miners who live far away from home can also work for ten days and have two days off. This way, the indigenous workers in the mines can often return to the tribe to take a look after work.
Although it has caused certain difficulties for mine management, it has made more local indigenous people want to join the mine.
After the magic assistant walked into the mining camp, he found that he was so incompatible with the place. Squeezing in the crowd, he found that there were indigenous people everywhere, and only some adventure groups gathered in the corner of the market to form an independent transaction.
District, the prices of items here are relatively expensive, and the natives will not come here.
The magic assistant squeezed in and saw some bloody monster leather, many of which had not even been cooked.
There were also some warcraft fangs, horns, claws and other goods. He squatted in front of a stall and reached out to fiddle with a piece of the magic core of a junior warcraft.
Only the magic core of this kind of primary magic beast is worthy of gambling. The magic core of the second level magic beast must have magic crystals in it.
"Want to buy the fur of a maned beast?" the stall owner sitting behind the stall asked enthusiastically.
He looked at the bookish look on the magic assistant's face, then looked at his hands and the magic belt around his waist, and said with a smile::.
"Now there are less and less Warcraft materials here. If you want to hunt these low-level Warcraft, you have to go to the Three Rivers Plain to find traces of these Warcraft."
The magic assistant did not speak, but reached out and touched the animal teeth on the stall.
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 the Three Rivers Plain?"
The stall owner thought for a moment and then said: "No, our adventure group probably won't go there in the near future."
The magic assistant asked doubtfully: "Didn't you say that you can only hunt monsters there?"
谷/span> "Of course." The stall owner nodded affirmatively.
The magic assistant asked casually: "Then where are you going?"
The stall owner smiled proudly and said: "Hey, it doesn't matter if I tell you. We are preparing for the near future. Have you seen those cavalry? They have been defending activities in the northern part of Invercargill Forest recently. Many adventure groups are going there now.
Looking for opportunities, I heard that you can also find ghost-marked red ants over there. Ghost-marked soldier ants are simple-minded, and we have rich hunting experience here. Although the hard armor is not very valuable, the magic core is hard currency."
The magic assistant said in surprise: "Do you want to hunt ghost-patterned soldier ants at the edge of the Dark Worm Valley?"
The stall owner enthusiastically invited me and said, "Yes, are you interested in joining us?"
"Forget it, I don't like taking risks." The magic assistant shook his head, put the animal tooth in his hand back on the stall, and refused.
"Actually, there isn't much danger. We have a lot of people..." The stall owner saw that he was a magician and was unwilling to give up just like that.
"I really don't have those thoughts." The magic assistant refused again. He was a little impatient and planned to stand up and leave the stall. However, seeing that the stall owner was so talkative, he stopped after thinking about it and turned around and asked, "By the way,
Do you know when the three refining furnaces here were built?"
"You are not here just to inquire about information, are you?" The stall owner saw his ruthless appearance, and the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed, and he screamed: "Do I know about your Magic Guild and Surda?"
We don’t get along with Lord Ke, but I am now making a living in someone else’s territory. Since you are not planning to join us, we cannot be considered companions. Even I know all these situations, but I am sorry that I cannot tell you..."
Seeing the shield warrior turn around and leave, the magic assistant rolled his eyes angrily. When he saw nearby stall owners and passers-by looking towards him with vigilant looks in their eyes, he knew he had been noticed and hurriedly got into the crowd.
Medium, quickly leave the market.
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At this time, a group of armed Thunder Rhinoceros loaded with cargo came down from the foot of the mountain. These Thunder Rhinoceros were covered with thick armor pieces. Each of them looked majestic and extremely large. They always emitted low sound waves.
That strange sound easily resonates with the wood.
In order to prevent these wooden houses from collapsing, they usually can only stay at the foot of the mountain.
The Thunder Rhino stopped at the foot of the mountain, and immediately someone was dragging cartloads of hay mixed with bean feed into the open space.
The drivers quickly padded the shelves and took away the thunder rhinoceros under the shelves. They first let them drink water from the river, and then went to the open space to eat fodder. They have a very big appetite and each meal takes a long time.
At this time, the drivers have to fetch water from the river and use extra-long brushes to wash the bodies of these armed thunder rhinoceros.
They are covered with a thick layer of hard armor. The gaps between the hard armor are 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, he will
Use this long brush to remove dirt from their bodies and sprinkle some white lime powder to kill these parasites.
A huge thunder rhinoceros needs to be busy for most of the day.
Surdak jumped down from Thunder Rhino's platform.
He came back from the northern border of Invercargill Forest because there were many young natives in the copper mines who wanted to join his private army.
The army currently stationed in Dodan Town is nominally a cavalry battalion of 500 warriors, but in fact it currently has 18 armed thunder rhinoceros and 1,000 archers, as well as 500 indigenous reserve infantry. This group
The reserve infantry is not even issued with armor, but its current total strength is already 2,000.
However, according to the laws of the Green Empire, all citizens of the empire who are over the age of 16 are obliged to perform military service.
These indigenous tribes are currently considered subjects of Surdak, and are naturally citizens of the empire, so they also need to perform military service.
Because of this, many natives have recently wanted to join Surdak's army. This time he hurried back from the northern border of the forest and was also preparing to discuss this matter with the chiefs of the thirty-seven tribes in the territory.
thing.
Andrew and Malacom strode over to greet him together.
Samira followed closely behind Suldak. Surdak asked Andrew: "The chiefs of each tribe are here."
Andrew said: "We have been arriving here since yesterday, and the last one arrived at the mine at noon today."
"These clan leaders cannot leave the tribe for a long time. Gather them together in the vacant work sheds in the camp!" Suldak said to Andrew.
"Okay, boss!" Andrew agreed, and with several squadron leaders behind him, he went to various parts of the camp to summon these indigenous chiefs.
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Recently, a large number of young indigenous people have joined the copper mines, bringing the number of miners in the copper mines to close to 3,000.
This has formed a trend in various indigenous tribes, and young indigenous people have now generally formed a consciousness that only by joining Lord Surdak's army or in the mines can they live a good life.
A large number of young natives have left their tribes, and many tribes have experienced a serious empty-nest phenomenon, which Surdak does not want to see.
That's why he hurried back from the northern border.
Going up the street, the natives along the way all knew Lord Surdak and retreated to both sides of the stone street.
"Viscount Suldak, the crossbows and catapults you asked me to purchase last time have arrived in Dodan Town. These ordnance are all shipped from San Carlos City." Businessmen Malacom and Suer
Dak walked with him and said as he walked: "When I passed by the imperial capital this time, I also got a batch of magic crossbow arrows."
Surdak asked the businessman Malacom: "Last time I asked you to go to the Imperial Capital Auction House to buy the magic pattern structure. Is there any new news?"
Malacom replied: "The primary magic pattern structure is still available at the Imperial City Auction House. This time I brought back a set of magic pattern structures with attributes that focus on agility according to your request. However, the second level magic pattern structure is basically
It is not circulated in the market. I heard that only the second-level experts who have been to the big battlefield will have the opportunity to obtain the second-level magic pattern structure in the big battlefield."
"The Great Battlefield..." Suldak repeated, then turned to Samira who was following behind and said, "It seems that you and Andrew really need to go there..."
With that said, a group of people walked into the working shed of the mine.
At this time, one after another indigenous tribe chiefs came in from outside and greeted Surdak one after another. We provide you with the fastest updates and free reading.:.