Wang Qi, who had lived in the royal city for a long time, had completed the first stage of intelligence work. He happened to feel that his pig brain was overloaded recently and decided to go out for some fun.
The area around Red Rock City is not marked by straight lines and is not considered its own territory. There are a total of seven towns within a hundred kilometers that can be called towns.
Most of them are limited in scale. There are five smaller than the original 30,000 people in Red Rock City, and three of them don't even have 10,000 people. They may be afraid of themselves. The city is more like a large fortress.
If we count the villages and villages with less than 1,000 people, there are more than 20 defense forces in total, and the situation is more complicated.
The only cities with railway value are Blackwater City and Elte City. Compared with each other, Blackwater City is more valuable.
Elte City is located southeast of Red Stone City. Compared with Blackwater City, its biggest problem is that it has no characteristics. Plant fibers are grown here to produce fabrics, and there is also a certain amount of fishery and animal husbandry, but the scale is very limited. Except for fabrics, other industries have no product output capabilities.
Wang Qi sent a task to the small businessmen in Red Stone City, asking them to organize prospecting around Elte City. If a large-scale mine can be found, they can consider bringing a railway there.
He does not intend to expand his territory through aggression because the consequences will be greater.
It is easier to stimulate the other party to take the initiative, and there are many methods.
Building railways is a good idea, but the current conditions are far from mature.
There are many bandits in the area, and due to the productivity and governance capabilities of the surrounding cities, if one wave is destroyed, new ones will pop up.
Wang Qi planned to give them some time to absorb most of them into the population of Hongshi and Xincheng.
Regardless of their status as bandits, except for a few leaders and a few two groups, most of them are ordinary people who can't survive. Before the red stone merchants came out in force, they mainly made a living by farming, and their income was robbed. It can only barely keep up with farming.
As for whether their becoming citizens would lead to a decline in public security, Wang Qi did not consider it. Urban management would take care of it.
Taking advantage of the recent stability in all aspects, Wang Qi wanted to go out to play.
Of course there is something to do along the way.
Most of the matters in the royal court are left to the civil servants in the palace area. Elena can make a small number of decisions. Only a few matters that are not suitable for her to handle will be sent to Wang Qi by Jin Scorpion.
This time the destination is the underground caves to the west.
The guard only took Akeem with him. After the growth of guarding the two outposts was completed, the local work was handed over to the city guard.
There is also a large group of people accompanying him, including two expedition and exploration teams, several mages from the Magic Weapons Research Institute, an exploration team from the Railway Bureau, and a thirty-man garrison responsible for everyone's safety.
With magic guns and stamped armor, the garrison has become more presentable, no longer a group of rough men in rough clothes.
The standard armor of the garrison also has patterns, but they are not decorative and complicated patterns, but means to enhance the armor.
Because the steam stamping machine is relatively weak and cannot process too thick steel plates, the machinery factory thought of a way to make another chest stamping part and rivet it to the breastplate. This skill provides a decorative effect and can also effectively increase the frontal defense. .
The total weight of the chest armor is 26 kilograms, and the maximum thickness of the front cardiopulmonary defense zone is 1.3 centimeters. This thickness combined with the stamped arc surface can effectively defend against most long-range weapons. There's nothing you can do about it being heavier. After all, the enemy's army must also have the responsibility to deal with monsters, and it cannot be measured by the abilities of ordinary people.
In addition, the possibility that the enemy is fully equipped with magic firearms is infinitely close to zero, but Solaris has specifically reminded that the enemy has magic technology and may be able to drive a Magic Gundam on the battlefield.
Unfortunately, the Magic Weapons Research Institute is not strong enough and it will take time to develop heavy weapons.
The group of people walked slowly and stopped for a night's rest on the way. When they arrived at the entrance of the underground caves, Li Xiang asked Wang Qi to go hunting.
There was someone next to her, but Wang Qi didn't do anything, just looked at her.
I killed two little monsters, the total weight is about 400 kilograms, too much is not good, it will smell bad due to the high temperature.
While they were having a barbecue, someone came out of the cave excitedly. It was Caroline from the institute, the inventor of magic firearms.
"Your Majesty, the crystal inside is a fire magic crystal!"
The crystal in this cave will generate heat. I suspected it was some kind of magic material for a long time, and it turned out to be true.
“Is it safe to mine and transport?”
Caroline felt like she had been poured cold water on her: "I...I don't know."
Although I have lived a normal life for a long time, it is still too short compared to the days of being a slave.
Wang Qi didn't show any face, but was a little helpless with this quail character, and reminded: "Please investigate carefully and pay attention to your own safety."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The people outside finished the barbecue and put the remaining meat near the fire to dry, leaving about ten people watching the camp. Wang Qi and Li Xiang also rode on Bai Xiaojiao and entered the cave.
The first two spaces are both mineralized poop layers. In order to calculate reserves, many small holes have been drilled by prospectors to take samples, and tags have been inserted at each point.
The preliminary estimate is that it is more than 300,000 tons, but if it is just for this convenience, it is not cost-effective to build a railway.
The two of them rode a bear and watched the flowers to the fourth hall. There was a magician here, the brightness was relatively high, and several people were chatting around the crystal cluster.
The two of them did not get close, but touched the crystal at a relatively far distance.
The color of the crystal is between orange and brown, and the clarity is okay. Through the 30-centimetre-thick crystal cluster, you can barely see the hand swinging from the opposite side, but the deformation rate is very large, and the shape of the hand cannot be clearly seen.
The temperature is not too high, about forty degrees, but this location is at the edge of the ice forest, and the forty degrees is still a bit higher than the surrounding temperature.
"It's a pity that it can't be used to boil water."
Li Xiang was very surprised: "Don't you use firewood and charcoal to boil water?"
"It would be great if we could stop burning firewood."
"That's true."
In fact, even if it can boil water, it is very troublesome. Wang Qi does not think that this thing can have infinite energy, so it still needs to be made into a very complicated device before it can be used.
After looking at and touching each other, the two left here and went to the fifth hall.
There are the most people here, and most of the garrison is here to protect the prospectors.
Underground, the 0.3 square kilometer hall appears extremely huge.
Of course, 300,000 square meters is already very large, and it can fit into more than ten or twenty large retail supermarkets.
Get close to the prospector, no need to speak, the team leader will take the initiative to report.
"Your Majesty, there used to be a small tribe living here, with a population of more than two hundred. The footprints left behind are very strange. The depth and size are a little inconsistent. They may not be humanoid."
You can see the footprints because there is a layer of mud, which is suspected to be derived from skin scraps, poop, and food residues.
"Is there anything of value?"
"They can make bone tools and stone tools, and they found a few fragments of clay bowls, which seem to have not been fired. But it's strange that they used steel arrows, you see." The prospector said, taking out an arrowhead, and he was kind-hearted. Light a low light bulb.
There was no plastic bag, and the arrowheads were wrapped in cloth. There were about a dozen large and small ones inside, most of which were rusted to a bad extent. Judging from the cross-sectional characteristics, it was indeed steel rather than pig iron or wrought iron.
"It's too old. Just look for it and prepare to go deep inside."
"yes."
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