The industrial zone in the east of Yeqicheng has been under construction for three days. According to the recent express delivery of Lant, the official name here is Yeqicheng Industrial New Zone to distinguish it from the workshop area in the east of the city.
The busiest person in the new industrial zone every day is Kuryagan. As the only person in the team who has some experience with iron smelting, he stood in a huge cave and guessed the smelting scene in this space hundreds of years ago.
Originally, Kuryagan wanted to bring Soyaku with him. This half-dwarf had just come from the Horned Tribe not long ago, but after a few days, both Ben Call and himself discovered that this Soyaku Ku is an expert in iron armor, but knows nothing about iron-making. But now that the territory is in dire straits, it is better to let him take charge of the blacksmith shop in the east workshop area of the city than to bring him over.
When everyone first arrived at this place, they first discovered that it was a hilly area. A forest on the west side completely covered the undulations of the terrain. Only at the foot of the mountain could one feel the slopes tens of meters high.
When we entered the interior of the former ruins, we discovered that the hill seemed to have been completely hollowed out, and a few meters of ground had been dug to leave a flat foundation.
Everyone who has just arrived is shocked by the magnificence of the new industrial zone. There are still some tracks and rock formations in the iron smelting ruins. The copper smelting workshop can also see the foundation of a furnace, glass workshop and The brick kiln is relatively well preserved.
"Mr. Master, the lord asked me to restore iron and copper smelting here. He said he wanted to build a blast furnace, but I don't think there was a furnace here before?" Koryagan touched the back of his head, looking confused. The question book.
"It's not your fault. The former glory here was built by the empire gathering the strength of all parts of the country. If you think about our current strength, we can't recover it." Ben stared at the broad foundation in the Yetie Mountain Cave, and his eyes seemed to reflect the Phantoms of the Golden Age.
The iron-making blast furnace here was once designed by the God-Emperor himself. It was presided over by the legendary mage Klein, the legendary rune master Caul (Ben's ancestor), the legendary dwarf Sherman, and participated by many legends and magisters, as well as two goblin queens and 5 A big goblin joined in to complete it.
On the Galloping Horse Plains, it is very difficult to build a building suitable for a large-scale magic circle, and there are no magic furnaces left by previous civilizations, or natural woods and mountains to improve the magic environment.
Not only that, as Yeqi City is a transportation hub, there are no mines, coal or other resources around it. It is almost impossible to build an iron smelting plant here.
However, thousands of years ago, the security environment on the plains was complex, and industrial facilities needed support and protection from large cities. After several weighings and explorations, the Emperor chose to build an epoch-making iron-making blast furnace here.
Both here and the mountains where Yeqi City is located are the remains of ancient volcanoes. The remaining fire elements in the ground were used to create a super-large heating array.
Above the heating array, in the huge rock blast furnace, the iron ore and limestone are fully mixed by the magic of wind and fire. The molten iron formed falls due to gravity, and the ashes are carried away by the hot wind.
Looking at the barbarian blacksmiths next to him, Ben Call did not believe that Lant's people had any way to restore production here, let alone whether he could get his iron ore. It still needed to be seen on the face of another very large tribe on the plains. .
"I think" Ben was about to remind Kurya Gan. "Rand doesn't mean that iron smelting can be resumed in the next two days. You should prepare to build a dock first and wait for the arrival of a new batch of iron ore."
Neil's team is still stationed around the brown bear tribe, and has captured 4 medium and large barbarian tribes so far. After several annexations, the number of his knights, cavalry, black-scaled horses and beasts of burden are all increasing, but the grain is about to run out. After running out, Ye Qicheng has organized a fleet to transport grain eastward and then transport the iron ore he harvested back.
"You're right." The honest Kuryagan remembered that Lant's request to him was to stay down first and recover whatever he could. "Then I'll go see the glass workshop and brick kiln first, and then go to the river bank."
Outside the remains of the workshop, a group of local residents who made bricks in the original territory have begun to clean up the brick kiln. Brick making involves multiple processes including material preparation, mud turning, embryo making, drying, and brick firing. It takes 2-3 months from material preparation to completion. The remains of the cave dwellings are relatively intact, and there are also clay mines in the surrounding area. This is a process that can resume production as quickly as possible.
Copper and glass workshops are more difficult. These two crafts are in the hands of the nobles of the royal capital. Even if there are ready-made ruins, there are no business backbones and skilled workers who can manage production.
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Outside the production area, Luen was leading the people to build a camp.
Because stone and wood are relatively scarce, the locals need to dig a cave of about one meter first, and then build an earth wall around the cave. A small amount of wood is used as the pillars of the house and the skeleton of the thatched roof.
As early as the beginning of the year, Lant had discussed with Laniya and others how to build such underground houses, and trained some specialized construction workers so that they could build underground houses with stoves, fire pits and drainage. .
Naturally, such a primitive earth house cannot be directly inhabited. After the demon-free people complete the initial construction, magic fairies are still needed to reinforce the walls and floors. The magic fairies can even make stone pillars to replace the wooden pillars.
In Yeqi City, there were ready-made houses that could not be used. Now in the new industrial zone, large-scale construction has begun for the non-demon people to live.
With the help of Miss Centaur, the earth-type fairies built a stone wall of about 1 meter outside the camp according to the scale of the camp. The rock wall built stone pillars of about 3 meters at regular intervals and separated some square stones from the rock and soil. brick. The low rock wall is just the baseline for the future engineering team to build the wall with earth, and the stone pillars are the height standard for the wall.
The rock bricks are used to prepare for the subsequent construction of the blast furnace: the fire elves will affect the surrounding environment. The objects covered around the fire elves will also form very good insulation materials after a month or so, and the ground bricks are used to provide fire protection. The elf is making a nest, preparing to become a brick in the iron-smelting blast furnace in a month.
The materials for firing bricks this time are mainly coal brought from the territory. Although there are forests near the new industrial zone, it is currently recognized that the forest can effectively improve the magic turbulence, which is crucial for the future use of goblins to burn kilns. Therefore, these acres of land The forest cannot be destroyed at all.
In the evening, Kai, Kuryagan, Luen and others reported their day-by-day progress to Ben Call, which made the mage from the imperial capital sigh, "It's really like playing house here. With the current progress, even if all 3,000 people are sent here, I’m afraid we won’t be able to resume iron smelting here.”
Ben Call left the ruins of Yeqi City and came here to preside over the construction of the new industrial zone. He was commissioned by Lant, mostly because he wanted to explore the ruins here. However, after a day of research, he confirmed that the remains here The traces of the magic circle were all newly drawn by humans within the past 1,000 years. Most of them have information in the imperial capital, so there is no need for him to waste time. What he is most interested in here now is how Lant Gallop plans to restore this industrial relic into a new industrial area that can be produced.
(End of chapter)
