Bruno pushed open the door, wincing at the biting cold wind outside. He wrapped himself tightly in his leather jacket and sneered disdainfully behind him. The room was noisy and the ping-pong was making noise.
The situation has been made clear, but the dozen or so dwarf leaders each have their own ideas, and they have new ideas every moment.
They are all rock-headed, just like a quarrel in a QQ group. They argue so much that they only talk about their own ideas, and no one can convince anyone.
"Sooner or later these guys will give in."
The gray dwarf closed the door and mocked.
"Kobolds have no choice. If they are taken in by a lord, they are lucky. But the dwarves in the North have not experienced the pain and still feel that they have a bargaining chip."
The cold wind mixed with ice particles made my face hurt.
Bruno wrapped himself in a towel, squinted against the wind and snow, and walked towards the forging field. His location was in the prosperous area outside Hanfeng City, adjacent to the river, and rows of workshops had been built.
The dams planned at the beginning of the year have all been built. The amount of work is not large, it is simply to intercept the river channel that is ten to twenty meters wide. The water level has been raised from two to three meters in the past to four to five meters.
In terms of this magnitude, the difficulty is not high, but the water flowing out from the black forest has been stored. The water storage capacity has been increased by more than ten times, fundamentally increasing the amount of irrigable farmland.
To go to the forge, you have to cross a river named "Fuqiang River", and the bridges above are also simply named "Fuqiang First Bridge" and "Second Bridge".
The lord plans to build dams, irrigate along the river, and build bridges along the river. Using the precious water resources, industrial areas will be built on both sides of the river bank, and agricultural areas will be turned into agricultural areas within ten kilometers around it.
Every time he crossed the bridge, Bruno would look at the blocked river and sigh. When he was in the Underdark, all he could think about was gods, power, fighting, and escape. When he came to the ground, he also thought about how to seek help in a strange place.
live.
It can be seen that after seeing Lord Hugo's ability, the gray dwarves felt that their past rigid pursuits were ridiculous, even absurd-those dark elves in the underground should really come out and take a look and see what powerful power is.
The matrons of Menzoberranzan are scheming and cunning every day. But they are too low-level. The so-called artifacts must be blessed by the Spider Queen in order to be powerful.
But in Cold Wind City, the Lord is preparing to build everything he wants. He is practicing a truth - knowledge is power.
The family guards of the dark elves wear sophisticated magic armor. Each set is carefully crafted and consumes countless resources. A certain family has accumulated only dozens of sets of high-end weapons for hundreds of years.
However, the same level of technology can be mass-produced in Cold Wind City. It takes half a month to produce a set of high-end products that require master craftsmen to spend several years and kill dozens of slaves for blood sacrifices.
As for ordinary products, Cold Wind City beats them all. The forge currently has an annual output of more than 15,000 tons of steel, and it has also developed a crucible furnace to produce magic metal materials.
"I really hope that one day the lord can lead an army to invade the Dark Territory, and make all the black-skinned women kneel down and sing the song of conquest. Let them understand that it is useless to fight in a small place."
Bruno had suffered enough from the abuse of the dark elves in the Underdark. He never thought about going back after escaping. But now he has a vague idea - if you don't return home if you are rich, you will walk at night like a brocade.
"I have such a shocking experience but not many people know about it. It's really a shame. I need to show those bitches who looked down on me in the past how powerful the lord I am following now is!"
Just thinking that one day he might be able to whip the butts of those black-skinned girls, Bruno would be so excited that he could not sleep all night, trembled endlessly, and was even willing to pay the price with his life.
After a year of development, Cold Wind City's manufacturing industry has improved rapidly. The output of various commodities can be equal to that of other cities in the North combined, and the quality can be beaten. At most, there is still a long way to go in terms of inventory.
Currently, what limits Cold Wind City is the production of ore and food. To open more mines and plant more land, your lord's power will naturally grow rapidly.
Why does Bruno want the dwarves in the North to become the citizens of Cold Wind City? Why does the Lord give special treatment to kobolds with mining skills? Why does Cold Wind City continue to reclaim wasteland and build water conservancy projects?
This is a process of getting ready to go.
Close to the forge, the cold wind cannot stop the steaming heat. There are several closed coke ovens that are performing high-temperature carbonization of coal.
Arcee is building a real blast furnace, replicating technology developed by the British in the 18th century.
Blast furnaces can directly produce molten iron, which is a revolutionary improvement in controlling the quality of steel. It is much better than the small furnaces that burned charcoal in the past.
The annual steel output of a blast furnace can easily exceed 50,000 to 60,000 tons, and the production efficiency is more than ten times or even hundreds of times higher than that of other unknown products such as local steelmaking.
But the requirements for blast furnace smelting are also high, and the most basic fuel must be coke. Its prerequisite technology is high-temperature carbonization of coal.
If you want to retort, you must have a stable high temperature of 1,000 degrees. So there are several brick kilns next to the coke oven to produce building bricks and refractory bricks. This is also a front-end technology.
Bruno was extremely shocked by the interlocking technology.
Because it is impossible for ordinary tribes to have such a detailed division of labor, nor to click on each branch of the technology tree. But in large-scale production, a bunch of supporting pre-technologies are needed.
Even a piece of toilet paper thrown away has complex technical nodes behind it.
There are currently more than two thousand workers in the forging yard. The detailed division of labor and cooperation require a huge amount of knowledge reserves and superb management skills.
In order to maintain his position as foreman, Bruno has gone to the point of looking for someone to buy intelligence potions and chewing books every day. The more he learns, the more boring he feels that his past life is, and the more he wants to seek revenge on a black-skinned woman one day.
Fan.
Since the forging works three shifts, the gray dwarf has to take a look at it at night. He is very afraid of problems in production. Because the forging is no different from other places, if there is a slight carelessness, problems will occur, and if there is a problem, people will die.
The forging ground is relatively calm tonight. The night shift workers are all experienced and the training over the past year has paid off. After all, after a year of elimination, unqualified workers are basically either dead or disabled and will no longer be available.
appeared.
Listening to the wonderful sound of the forging hammer, the gray dwarf felt relaxed. Every metal product bursting with sparks from under the forging machine meant that the road to revenge against the black-skinned girl was one step closer.
Hahaha..., the satisfied Bruno felt that he could go to sleep for a while. He drank a lot tonight, and he started to feel sleepy as the alcohol got stronger.
Only then did he turn back and walk out of the forge. Suddenly there was a strange noise on the road outside, and a large mechanical spider emerged from the corner of the street.
The great and wise Lord Hugo was riding on the spider's back, and he was complaining disdainfully, "Arcee, is this an advanced individual vehicle with high off-road performance that you created?
Have you read too many steampunk science fiction novels?
This thing is too bad, really too bad. When my cavalry goes out on this thing from now on, there will be no need to fight, and the enemy will be laughed to death."
'Shiying' poked half of his head out of the shadows of the street, looked at the weird posture of his master twisting and turning on the mechanical spider, and sighed: "Alas... finally there is a piece of equipment uglier than mine.