Master Hendrick looked at Polu with expectant eyes: "I'll solve this problem for you. You can use the snacks on the cargo ship. Hurry up and get your little gunboat running. When it's adjusted, let Zhu Yiwei send me a message. By the way.
, does your little gunboat have a name? How will you tell them apart if there are more of them in the future?"
"We don't have a name yet. After the inspection is completed, are you going to tow the cargo ship?"
"Yes, someone will explain this to you later. I'll leave as soon as I have something else to do. Come on!"
Master Hendrick left a domineering figure behind Party A, opened a portal and left. Next, it was time to test the supplier's ability!
When retreating from Hongshan, Bolu once seriously thought about a question: How long will it take for an almost completely abandoned mine to enter normal production?
It has been confirmed that the small-scale mining carried out by previous immigrants had almost no impact on the mineral deposits. The ore they dug out of the topsoil was pitiful from the traces left behind. But the ore that only exists in the mine is meaningless.
You have to find a way to crush the ore and transport it to the furnace.
There are only so many manpower on the island, even if we include the bear hands, it is not enough. If you want to rely on manpower to grab time to build industrialization, you cannot accumulate enough manpower. Without manpower, you will naturally have to think of ways to overtake in corners. Fortunately, now
Compared with Blue Star, there is an alternative path to choose from: relying on magic.
Bolu decided to first try to increase the labor force through magic.
For example, ask the mages if there are any good men in the summoning system that can be used: "Zhu Yiwei, I want to summon a group of elemental creatures to be miners, do you think it can be done?" - After all, the summoning system sounds like perfection for free.
As for thugs, it seems that it would be okay if we just send them to mine?
But this idea was immediately nipped in the cradle by Zhu Yiwei: "Where did you get half a bucket of water knowledge? Do you think elemental creatures are something to be bullied? Are they summoned just for mining? Elemental creatures can be summoned.
, are the ones who can be beaten most, they come here to calculate working time by the minute, and they want to get high compensation! Just paying for the crystals burned for their magic power to exist in this world is enough to make you bankrupt!
Digging for iron ore? It’s not worth digging anything!”
"Are there any particularly familiar elemental creatures that you can owe a debt to?"
"Of course I didn't! You don't plan to owe it first if you can't pay it, right? But don't do this. Elemental creatures don't have a good temper. If you anger them, they will have to pay first if they don't get the reward this time.
If I rub you a little, the scene will be ugly."
Bolu thought about it and thought it made sense. After all, he only wanted to find professional thugs because he couldn't beat him. If he was hung up and beaten by these professional thugs because he couldn't pay the salary, it would be too dangerous. Well, reality and
The gap between imagination is a bit big, and elemental labor cannot be counted on.
"Then what other things should I get? Mining is not my major. Is there any suitable method? I only know a chain bucket machine and a blasting mining machine. The problem is that I don't know the next batch of crystals yet.
Where is it? Let’s forget about the blasting. How about we consider the machine? But the chain bucket machine is also very difficult.”
Early the next morning, Boru followed Leonardo to the open-pit mine. The knights were driving the bugbears to dig holes in the ground. Today he specifically asked the knights not to go into battle in person so that he could observe
Mining difficulty, and compare the efficiency of several new tools you made with Xiong Li's mining, and then think about ways to increase the mining speed.
It was a rare occasion for the knights to stand in the mine today wearing robes. The wind on the island passed over them, making their robes rattle. Bugbears were in groups of two, one holding a steel drill and the other wielding a sledgehammer.
The drill was struck hard, and the trembling sound of chiseling into the hard ore echoed over the mine.
“duang! duang!“
The sound made Polu's heart tremble, and he said to Leonardo:
"What kind of ore is this? Although it is also iron ore, it is different from the one in Hongshan. It doesn't look like it can be dug at will with a steel pick."
Polu put down the steel pickaxe in his hand. He had just tried swinging it a few times, but the wooden handle made his hand numb. Looking at the slightly deformed pickaxe tip, and then at the shallow pit, he sighed.
Take a breath.
"No, this efficiency is unbearable. The teacher has gone to work on choosing a location for his laboratory again. Besides, the methods the teacher comes up with every time are not cheap. What should I do? It's impossible to really keep the knights here all the time.
Digging rocks here.”
"What else can you do? When you encounter difficulties, sweep the iron rod across. When the difficulty increases, the iron rod becomes thicker. If a small hammer can't hit it, use a bigger hammer! For example, your current hammer is still too small."
Leonardo kicked a cylinder that was thrown aside: "This thing can cut slits, and it can cut quite deep, but what's the use if you can't dig it out?"
"The seam is too thin, the dust is too big when cutting, and the attenuation is a bit severe. But if the power is increased, the weight of this thing will be too heavy for normal people to carry, so wouldn't my work be in vain?"
Bolu felt a little uncomfortable and rubbed his hair, which had not been washed since he came to the island.
"Why do you have to worry about whether an ordinary person can carry it?"
"How can I use it if I can't carry it around? Is it possible to push..."
Suddenly feeling that he had grasped something key, Polu raised his hand: "Wait!"
"Now they are also four people... four bears in a group, one pushing the cart, one holding the drill, one wielding the hammer, and one shoveling. Can't you just make it as heavy as four people can carry it?"
"Nowadays, as long as the topsoil is dug out, mines are basically open-air, right?"
"right."
"I thought about it, I thought about what to do, hahaha! I'm leaving first! See you in two days!"
He lifted the equipment from the ground and walked towards the town.
"Hey! So you won't be here these two days? Then can we still dig?"
"I've figured it out! It's up to you!"
"I was really stunned when I saw them doing violent mining alone. Why does such a big open-pit mine have to be made into something that one person can use!"
As he walked, he was thinking excitedly. As he walked far away, he saw Geola among a group of workers, lowering his head and stirring up something. When he got closer, he discovered that his face was covered with black ash, his eyes were sunken, and his hair was covered with hair.
The clothes he was wearing were so dirty that it was hard to tell what they were, and he was tapping the molding sand in the wooden box with a mallet.
The whole image was even more haggard than his own. Seeing him like this, Bolu was a little embarrassed to speak.
"Geora, why are you so haggard? How long have you not rested? We are not in such a hurry. Someone rushed you?"
“It’s not that anyone is urging me, it’s mainly because the speed of the iron making me impatient!”
"When I first came to Hongshan, weren't you able to produce a small bucket at a time? Why, now that I have seen the big scene, I don't like the speed of this small stove anymore?"
Geola curled his lips: "You have to get a few packs of molten iron to cast a large piece. I haven't been wronged like this for a long time! People are asking me for demands. Last month, I was given as much iron as I wanted. Now I really want to throw away the slag.
I broke it and sifted it again. Oh, how did I get this uncomfortable now in the past so many years?"
Polu was amused by his expression.
"Stop laughing, little steward, let's set up the big stove quickly. I've found the soil that can burn bricks! Mix it with some of the slag we've dug down now, it'll be enough."
"Can we supply mines with large furnaces now? Once the furnace is turned on, it will stop?"
These words were like a needle, pricking Geola's heart into a deflated rubber ball. He was about to go back to sand sanding in despair. However, Bolu stopped him: "Don't go, build a big building."
Have you prepared the materials for the stove? Hurry up and collect a batch of materials. Don't let others misappropriate them! The island is windy! Prepare more supporting materials."
Geola suddenly became energetic again: "Don't worry, I'm almost ready!"
Just as he finished speaking excitedly, he hesitated again: "But this mine..."
"I came here to make something that solves the problem of mining efficiency. Where are Smith and Case? Where are they? I need their help with this thing!"
"Where's our tractor? Bring one over here too!"
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Polu found two wooden boards and started making models.
When Case and Smith came together to find it, a strange-looking model appeared in front of them.
"This is?"
"Gun machine."
"I don't know, young manager, you'd better tell me directly, how to make this thing?"
Polu divided the model into two parts and began to explain.
"This is the chassis of the tractor. From here, extend a steel beam bracket and add two pairs of wheels. Is that okay?"
Case nodded: "This is simple and can be done. It mainly depends on what the bracket needs to support."
"A steam hammer powered by a tractor cylinder."
Smith was furious on the spot: "No! I just brought a few babies here, and I don't agree!"