Gavin walked and counted eighteen knots.
The steam rail car has a total of eighteen sections, and each section has a standard load capacity of twenty tons.
This number was not a random estimate by Gavin himself, but it was written on the carriage with runes unique to dwarves.
The cargo capacity of this rail car is actually less than half the annual output of Yandi Heijing Iron Mine.
The output of the Colossus Iron Mine at its peak can be imagined.
You know, they are only in the first mine of this iron mine, and there are seven more mines waiting for them below.
Even those seven mines do not have anything new. They are just copies of this mine. As long as they are all put into operation, Gavin will become the largest steel tycoon in Faerûn. He is an iron ore owner. The output can equal the total steel output of less than half of Faerûn.
The reason why I didn’t tell them all is to save my face for the other dwarves, especially the Golden Dwarf Kingdom in the Great Rift Valley. There are millions of Golden Dwarves there, and they may have mining technology comparable to this place. .
Sometimes, Gavin couldn't help but suspect that he had lived as a dog in his previous life. He always thought that being able to hang out with a legendary warrior was already quite remarkable.
As a result, in this life, it took less than a year to open many things that had not been opened in the previous life, and the things I am exposed to now are not at the same level.
The legendary warrior can provide less and less useful things in that life. The only thing left is the direction of future development, and it can only be in areas and fields that he has not been involved in. Wherever he interferes, this Seeking foreknowledge is not only an advantage, but a disadvantage, and can easily lead to misleading oneself.
Gavin quickly ignored this emotion and couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise, "It's really a high-pressure gas tank!"
There was still some distance from the front of the car, and Gavin noticed it at a glance. It was a round stainless steel tank that was larger than the two carriages put together.
The whole thing is round and uniform, with no traces of welding visible at all. It looks like it was poured directly, with a large number of huge valves and knives.
The dense dwarven runes are not engraved on it, but forged on it, indicating that it is not an ordinary item, but a giant magic item.
Once it becomes a magic item, some common sense of physics will no longer apply to it. Both the safety factor and the amount of high-pressure steam that can be stored are estimated to be beyond imagination, and the endurance and power will be greatly improved.
A bright light lit up in Gavin's hand, and he pressed it directly on the high-pressure gas tank, hoping to read its properties and intuitively understand its strength through identification techniques.
But unfortunately, although the light of the identification technique was submerged in the high-pressure gas storage tank, no detailed data was fed back.
This is not a failure in casting, but rather beyond the scope of identification.
The high-pressure steam gas storage tank is not a separate item, but a part of the rail car, and there is no way to identify it individually.
If you want to see its capabilities, you can only wait until it is fully operational here.
The wandering dwarf king Jiharin who followed Gavin opened his mouth several times, as if he wanted to discuss something with him.
Gavin didn't give him a chance at all. While walking forward along the railway track, he took the lead and said: "What's the matter? Let's wait until we check everything here and have a complete concept. We are just taking a peek now, and what we see is only the extreme After discussing a small part for a long time, I found that there is a better one inside, isn’t it a waste of time?”
"What the lord said makes perfect sense." Jihalin nodded involuntarily, "I am ashamed to say that, I have always been proud of the semi-automated production level of Tesyama Mine, and I think our technology in this area is Even if it is not the top of the dwarves, it can still be ranked in the top three, at least surpassing those ancient technologies.
Now it seems that this is purely arrogance. Our technology has not advanced, but has regressed. What we have shown now is far beyond the peak of Tesyama Mine. Next, we are afraid that we will have to learn a lot from here. thing. "
Compared to Gavin, the wandering dwarf king has a deeper impression of the ancient dwarf technology sealed in the mines of Colossus City. After all, he has the Tethyama mine in his memory as a comparison.
The whole person was once again enveloped in a sad atmosphere, but this time it was no longer just for the fall of Tesyama Mine, but also for the lost glory of the dwarves.
Compared with the prosperous short-lived race of humans, whether they are giants, dragons, or long-lived species such as elves and dwarves, they are all in decline.
Needless to say, the first two have already withdrawn from the ruling stage, leaving only their ancient echoes.
The glory of the elves ended because of their own Crown War. In recent decades, because of the soul call of Evermeet Island, most elves chose the Great Migration and went to the isolated elven holy land, leaving all of Faerûn to the rest of the world. Race.
Although in recent years, many elves have chosen to return due to various reasons, the elves are not known for their numbers, their influence is not as good as before, and it is very difficult to stick to the forest where they are.
As for the dwarves, especially the Northland dwarves, except for Mithril Hall, which has just been restored, the most famous one is probably the wandering dwarf king. The rest are all small clans with no climate, or they are hiding in their own country. In small mines, they are either dependent on others and serve as vassals of human forces.
Now the ancient dwarf ruins have been restarted. Unfortunately, this glory does not belong to them.
"The clan leader is out of touch when he says this. Next, when we restart this place, we still have to rely on the Iron Clan in many places. You can't let me use those kobolds to operate these complicated dwarf equipment, right?"
Gavin had already made up his own little calculation in his mind, "You have also seen the situation of the silver smelting production line in South Clypt. It is a hundred times more complicated than there. I don't want a small explosion in three days. The sky exploded.
The number of gray dwarves in the Colossus dungeon is limited. Once the entire mining area is operating at full capacity, just one dungeon will be enough for them to work, and it will be difficult to recruit more people.
At that time, we have to count on you, the clan leaders, to be able to fully understand the technology here and fully operate it. "
The legacy of the dwarves has to be operated by the dwarves. They have more advantages in terms of thinking mode and technical basis.
The Iron Clan is not only the only dwarf clan Gavin is familiar with, but both parties also share the same interests.
Before the restoration of the Kingdom of Tesyama, they were still in a wandering state of exile, with no territory of their own at all.
The True Shield Trading Company that Gavin visited earlier was just the core base they rented from the Kingdom of Cormyr. There were less than a hundred dwarves stationed there, and the Kingdom of Cormyr would not be happy if there were more.
Most of the Iron Clan dwarves are scattered throughout Faerûn in the form of families.
Loyalty and cohesion are often based on living together.
The exile time of the dwarves in the Kingdom of Tethyama is too long, even for the dwarves. Many of the older generation of dwarves who once lived in the mines of Tethyama are gradually getting old or even dying. Those in exile The dwarves born during this process are not as nostalgic and identified with their homeland as their parents.
When the older generation of Tesyama Kingdom led by Jihalin is completely dead, the restoration of Tesyama Kingdom will really be just a dream, and it will still be the dream of Jihalin. The other dwarves will Gradually taking root in the new land, leaving this dream behind, just like their ancestors left the Shanatar Kingdom into historical ruins.
But before that, there was a place that could accommodate all the dwarves of the Iron Clan, especially the mine, and all the dwarves were summoned to work, live and train together.
This belief in restoration will not only be easier to pass on, but will also play a greater role in promoting the restoration of the country. At least they know clearly how many dwarves are willing to fight to regain their former homeland.
Moreover, the news of the restart of Supreme Shanatar will be very tempting to the shield dwarves scattered in the North. If we can take the opportunity to invite them, it may be a help to the Iron Clan.
Gavin, a bystander, could think of things that the wandering dwarf king Jiharin could not think of.
After listening to Gavin's promise that was not a promise, Jihalin kept rubbing his gray beard and said: "With the Lord's words, I feel relieved. Let's go, let's continue to see the dwarves of the Supreme Shanatar." What did our ancestors leave to our descendants?"
The wandering dwarf king was more concerned about the next exploration than Gavin, because there was a high probability that the iron mine would be handed over to them for operation, so they naturally had to fully understand it.
They are like those treasure hunters who explore treasure places. They will go around every fork in the mine and every mine to make sure nothing is missed.
Although those forked roads are of different depths, they are all mines, and there are more or less stone thorns that have just awakened from the seal. Even without the supervision of the dwarves, they are working very hard and consciously to mine.
For them, mining is not a job, but an innate instinct, a way for them to grow and the greatest meaning of survival.
If they were simply mining, they would not need supervision.
But if you want them to cooperate with the kobolds' flutter bomb explosions, specialize in fragmentation, or if you want to maximize their production capacity, you will need the coordination of the dwarves.
After all, the intelligence of these elemental creatures is not high, especially those of medium-sized stone thorns, which have only four or five points of intelligence. They are typically a little stronger than beasts, not even comparable to kobolds, and cannot understand even slightly complicated things.
However, there is no need to do this in a short period of time, because the number of stone thorns here is terrifying. Counting all the way, there are more than a hundred in this mine tunnel alone. Super large ones account for 10%, and large ones account for 10%. Three, the rest are medium-sized.
Just relying on their endless hammering day and night, the amount of ore mined is not a small amount. To further increase production capacity, it is based on digesting their output.
If the iron ore in the mine is piling up like a mountain, and they still try to increase the mining speed, then there is something wrong with their brains, unless they want to sell iron ore directly.
This was definitely no longer a priority for Gavin.
It would be a good choice to deploy these stone thorns into other mines, such as the Black Well Iron Mine, to speed up the mining there.
Even if there is massive steel output here in the future, it does not mean that the iron ore there will stop. On the contrary, it is possible that the iron ore will continue to be sold, but it will no longer be purely for profit, but to revitalize the surrounding economy.
The position of steel in Colossus City will be mainly for personal use in the future, and a small amount will be used to make equipment and sell it for profit. This ultra-modern existence from iron ore to refined steel or equipment will not even promote the local economy as much as An ordinary iron ore is as big as a black well.
Because the work points that originally required a large amount of labor are gone.
In the end, it was just an isolated city with a lot of wealth. This was the real reason for the city's fall. It had no mass base.
This city, which only requires 8,000 to 8,000 dwarves to fully operate, can support at least a million people if it is replaced by ordinary production methods, but not much more.
Of course, this has something to do with the fact that the original dwarves were not good at using their own advantages. This is best proved by the fact that they used the remaining fine steel to make load-bearing columns.
And this is what Gavin is best at. He has a lot of things he can use to further amplify the wealth he can create.
Infrastructure, equipment forging, and some relatively modern equipment.
Everything can use a lot of steel. If there is really too much steel to consume, the worst possible outcome is to build a bunch of armored ships or steel battleships to traverse the endless sea, completely conquer the pirates who dare not say, but definitely fight, and open up relatively safe sea routes. .
Hoarding of anything is the least valuable. Only when it is circulated and used can more new value be created. This is true for steel, and so is wealth.
It is true that Gavin has the habit of hoarding things, but his kind of hoarding is a planned reserve in case of emergency needs. Compared with quantity, he pursues variety more, and then lets them create at key points. Greater value is not just hoarding for the sake of hoarding, it is of a different nature.
At the end of the track is another steel warehouse of astonishing size. Inside is a mountain of iron ore crushed to a size no larger than an adult's head. The exact amount cannot be estimated, but there are hundreds of tons.
Obviously, after the connection between the mining area and the smelting area of the dungeon was cut off, before the ore vein sealing technique was performed, the place still operated for a period of time, so a pile of raw ore was accumulated.
In this original ore warehouse, Gavin and the others discovered another amazingly sized, steampunk-style device—a diagonally downward ore conveyor belt.
Driven by high-pressure steam, this conveyor belt will transport these ores to the Colossus Dungeon for smelting, and may even undergo preliminary screening and further crushing.
After the previous series of shocks, when facing this conveyor belt, everyone was somewhat numb, even a little taken for granted.
If not, it would be extremely inconsistent and would not match the ultra-modern mining and transportation ahead.
If any link is missing, their production speed will be greatly reduced.
There are also a large number of giant-sized mining tools abandoned here.
Gavin still faces a huge problem if he wants to operate this ultra-modern industry.
Because those giant slaves are an important part of this industrial chain.
Whether it is loading the ore with broken stone thorns or sending the ore here to the iron ore conveyor belt, the main force is the giant slaves, especially the former.
Without them, the entire operation would be extremely unsmooth.
Gavin could replace part of it with those enlightenment trees and tree men, but he couldn't cover the gap.
What they are visiting now is only the first layer, and there are three more layers of this mine.
The second, third, and fourth floors all belong to the vein layer. Although there are great differences in the distribution of mine caves, the overall layout is the same.
They are all run through by a huge ore transport track, and are then composed of mine tunnels of different numbers and sizes. Most of them are parallel, and a small part of them are diagonally upward or downward. They are completely based on the distribution of the iron ore. When piercing the hole, follow the ore rail.
Even for the dwarves of High Shanatar, building such a track and building a rail car is a big project, and it must be fully utilized.
The number of stone thorns distributed in the four mining areas is similar, indicating that the output of the four mining areas was similar at its peak.
It is worth mentioning that these four mining areas are not stacked on top of each other, but belong to different directions, one each in the southeast and northwest.
This is naturally done to reduce the pressure in the mine and prevent dangers such as large-scale collapse in one from affecting the other three.
Zalanda, who had been following the team, suddenly raised a question: "Since this place is still in operation on the eve of the implementation of the mineral vein sealing technique, where are the giant slaves who maintain it?"
Once this question was raised, it lingered in everyone's minds.
Yes, where are those giant slaves?
Could it be that when the dwarves moved away from this place, they took the giant slaves with them?
Judging from the scale of the four mining areas they visited previously, the number of giant slaves here is not a small number, there must be 800 if not a thousand.
It's one thing to trap these giant slaves in mines, but it's another thing to bring them to the surface to enslave them.
As an extraordinary race, giants have extraordinary life dice when they reach adulthood. As long as there is a chance to resist, they will never let it go.
They found the answer to this question on the fifth floor.
(End of chapter)
