Coal mine base!
Ye Qiong rode the Mustang King for a walk around the foundation of the second line of defense in the cave, and then came directly to the coal mine base.
The current development direction of the coal mine base is still to mine the coal below and reinforce the area below with stones and wood.
The purpose is not to prevent the collapse of the coal mine space, but to expand an underground castle!
This underground castle plays a very important role in the future of the tribe. If conditions permit, Ye Qiong even wants to directly let the soldiers build an apocalyptic underground fortress that can withstand nuclear bomb explosions.
Anyway, just expand downwards in this direction. Once the scale increases, it can be temporarily used to hoard supplies and food for the central tribe...
As for the tribesmen in the central tribe, they are protected by the pyramid in the residential area. There is no need to move to the coal mine base for the time being. Unlike the residential area above the ground, the underground castle has much higher requirements for some equipment necessary for daily life. Eating, drinking, and defecation are all a matter of course.
Here at the coal mine base, there are basically second-line warriors, and some are adult male tribesmen from various tribes who were expanded later.
They were originally warriors in their own tribe, but their overall strength was a bit unsatisfactory. Compared with the Ye Qiong tribe, they had not even reached the strength of the second-line warriors, so the older ones were dismissed. Unified arrangements were made to the coal mine base.
The younger ones still have potential after receiving warrior training from the central tribe, while the older warriors can only do some physical work to contribute to the tribe.
Although they seem to be doing coolies, in essence they are completely different from the coolies in the feudal dynasty or the slaves in the slave society. First of all, mentally, there is no need to supervise or spur these old warriors. They are mobile and never lazy. Their year-round migration life has made them adapt to high-intensity hunting and gathering work.
Those small tribesmen who have survived until now, especially the men, have experienced countless life-and-death battles with monsters. Their strength may not be top-notch now, but mentally, they are still very tenacious and resilient. !
It is impossible for such elderly small tribesmen to enslave them. They are the kind who would rather die than surrender. For some of them, living is indeed meaningless...
But after having a direction, their relatives and children can have a safe place to live. For this, they are willing to sacrifice everything. The physical work in the coal mine base is completely worthless compared to the life-and-death battles with Warcraft in the summer. carry.
The second is the material aspect. Although the coal mine base is not a battlefield, the daily workload is the largest among the tribe, and it is also relatively hard. Therefore, in terms of food, the tribe does not treat the soldiers and tribesmen here badly. Three meals are taken care of. There is no problem with being full, and the meat of some low-level monsters and high-level monsters will also be delivered in rations every month.
Now, as the meat of the gray-white giant beasts is being continuously transported back to the tribe, the food storage warehouse at the coal mine base has also been filled up.
The soldiers and the tribesmen in the coal mine base are all now fat and round, and they are completely different from the emaciated state when they first arrived at the central tribe.
This is also a virtuous cycle. Only after you have eaten and drank enough can you maximize your work efficiency.
After arriving at the coal mine base, Ye Qiong took a walk around the underground fortress of the coal mine base. This time, he was a little shocked.
More than a year has passed since the discovery of this coal mine, the establishment of the coal mine base, the location selection of the new base here, and the plan for the underground castle.
In just one year, the coal mine base expanded a large space underground.
Now it is generally a two-story space. The height of each floor is about three and a half meters. There are many pillars built with a mixture of clay soil and stone in the middle. With the support of these pillars, the entire space looks very solid.
The construction of this underground castle does not need to consider the construction cost and time cost. It will be as strong as it is!
Therefore, each stone pillar is an astonishing three meters thick!
If you want to hug it, you have to hold hands with a dozen adults to hold it. There is still some room for expansion on the outside of the stone pillar.
The surrounding walls are now all made of stone and clay. They look very thick. There are wooden barrel grease lamps hung every five meters, so the whole space does not look dark, but it does not look dark either. It is considered bright, after all, it is a small burning flame light source.
From the very beginning, Ye Qiong had been bothered by a ventilation problem. This problem could not be solved for a while, so he simply asked the soldiers to leave some more diagonally upward vents to wait until the technical conditions improved later. Just optimize it slowly.
After those vents were raised to the ground, they were not directly exposed to the open air. Instead, they were designed by Ye Qiong to look like smokeless stoves. They were directly grouped in groups of three or three and covered with wooden boards and branches. The ventilation effect was in addition to comparing In addition to being rough, the air flow underneath can be guaranteed.
The more important point is that you can prevent gas and toner explosions...
In a relatively confined space, when flammable powder reaches a certain amount, it can explode with great power. If there are humans inside, you can imagine what will happen.
Therefore, it is very important to maintain an unsealed ventilation environment in underground spaces.
The disadvantage is that this coal mine is close to the surface and is not very deep. Otherwise, it would be much more difficult to mine.
The coal mine fortress on the underground level now feels empty. There is nothing inside. What the soldiers are doing now is to strengthen the main load-bearing walls and pillars as much as possible. Only these two things are absolutely stable. Only then can the future expansion of the underground castle proceed smoothly.
After walking along the stairs to the second underground floor, the scene became a little messier, and the sound of soldiers digging coal could be heard.
The efficiency of coal collection is limited without the use of gunpowder.
If you have gunpowder, just keep blowing it up, and then pull the scattered coal out through the wooden cart.
Without gunpowder, the coal mines squeezed together would be like dark walls with no end in sight, requiring soldiers to slowly smash them with pickaxes.
There is actually an advantage to not using explosives, and that is safety!
It doesn't matter if it's slower, the current mining speed is enough for the central tribe and the outer base to use coal, and it can even make them richer, which is stored in the coal mine base.
On the second underground floor of the coal mine base, there is no light on the ground at all. All light sources come from the burning of wooden barrel grease lamps. The temperature on the second floor has also risen a lot and has reached above zero.
The second floor of the messy coal mine is about three and a half meters high. It feels quite high when you walk in at a human height. There are some supplies and food piled on the ground, and some messy things are piled in the corners.
Ye Qiong walked down with several soldiers. After scanning around, he suddenly found something interesting.
Beside a stone pillar, some yellow-looking stones were piled up...
