The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 138 Special Metal Mines

Feng Yu smiled and said, "What's the problem? Let them cultivate near the rest stop along the river near the magnetite mine. They have already started clearing the surrounding wild animals there, so it's safe too.

Besides, that is our supply point, and they can get whatever they need from it.

However, the winter there should be a little colder than here, but it’s not a big problem.

They can open up farmland south of the supply point, and we can develop our farmland to the north. When the two sides meet, our three tribes will never go hungry again."

Dick said happily, "Yes, and the other side of the river from that supply point is the road leading to our royal city, so transportation is relatively close."

Feng Yu said: "When there is more steel, I will make a steam train that can run on the road. Then we can build a road along the Lengshui River, and we can all live together along the Lengshui River. How lively it will be!

However, we need your kingdom to provide copper and iron ingots for making steam engines and water pipes, since we don’t have much copper and iron in our camp. But forget about the processing fee, we will ship it to them once we are done.”

Dick said: "That's not a problem at all. I'll have someone pass the message to the king right away. Ahahaha, I may be able to make another contribution to the Dwarf Kingdom."

Feng Yu naturally hoped that the dwarves could come down to the Great Wasteland to open up wasteland and cultivate the land. If nothing else, they could stay together for warmth. The wasteland was so large that it was more than enough to accommodate the three tribes.

Besides, since they are all in the wilderness, they can better participate in the industrial economic circle dominated by the camp and contribute to industrial development.

"Then it's settled. Whether the dwarves come or not, we have to keep the farmers. The steam engine processing plant has to produce steam pumps, and the lumber mill has to produce more housing materials.

In addition, a small number of surplus workers were assigned to the salt fields, and the rest were distributed to the glass factory, ceramic warehouse, brick factory and stone powder factory. "

Johnson asked, "Teacher, don't you want the machining department anymore?"

Feng Yu said: "That's enough for now. After all, what they need there are experienced people. Besides, we don't have much to process except steam engines and weapons. There are not many weapons, so we can take our time.

By the way, how are the managers of those factories performing?"

Illya said: "After many times of guidance and correction from Johnson and I, they now have no problems following the regulations."

"That's good. Then you should slowly adjust the regulations according to the industrial 3.0 vision I gave you. Give the workers and managers some time to adapt. Don't take too big a step or you'll mess it up... Just ignore what I said.

Also, pay attention to those workers with better talents and give priority to transferring them to the corresponding research and technology departments."

Illya and Jason listened and took notes in their own notebooks.

Feng Yu said, "By the way, as our camp becomes more and more famous, more goblins will come. I see that it is very difficult for their airship to dock and load and unload every time. You can design some wooden platforms specifically for docking airships, which will also facilitate cargo loading and unloading.

Forget it, let's also build some simple houses for them to rest. We also need to be humane and let these goblins who send money experience the hospitality of Cattail City."

Dick laughed and said, "Is the passion of Cattail City to empty the pockets of the goblins?!"

Everyone laughed.

Dick was busy delivering messages to the Dwarf Kingdom, and Anthony returned to the camp first.

Old man Anthony hasn't been back for the past few days. After all, the Cattail City Guard is a team mainly composed of elves, and they are rookies. In addition, Feng Yu didn't go either, so he felt uneasy if he didn't take charge in person.

However, after patrolling the wilderness for a week and finding nothing that could threaten the guards, he returned early.

Nicole stepped forward to ask about her well-being, and Feng Yu was not idle either. After all... being the grandson-in-law is not easy!

Without saying a word, the old man took out a piece of ore and threw it to Feng Yu.

Feng Yu stared at the black broken stone for a long time before he remembered that he had to find someone who knew about it.

Dick was a pretty knowledgeable guy. He picked up the ore, took a look at it, then found a small hammer to knock it, and finally picked up a small piece of the ore and licked it.

"You won't chew it up and try it?"

"Pfft, it's iron ore, but there are other metals in it. Great Sage, where did you find this ore?"

Anthony said, "In a cave of an armored beast. As for the location, I have marked it on the prospecting team's map, and they will rush over."

Dick said, "That's pretty close, after all, it's an armored beast."

Feng Yu asked: "What is the Iron Armored Beast? Is it the Iron Armored Little Treasure?"

Dick said: "A small to medium-sized magical beast that likes to dig holes in mountains. A part of their diet is ore. They rely on a small amount of edible metal ore to increase the hardness of their body scales to resist strong enemies.

Therefore, the caves where the iron-clad beasts live are generally metal mines.

However, the main food of the Ironclad Beast is insects such as ants, and it rarely attacks large animals such as humans."

Feng Yu understood and said, "Grandpa is thoughtful. Our camp is in need of steel."

"I met him by chance. I'm tired, so I went back to rest."

Dick looked at Anthony's back as he left and said, "What happened to the Great Sage?"

Feng Yu smiled and said, "You are so arrogant. It seems that this treatment cannot be discontinued!"

Dick and his friends usually hang out together, so they naturally understand Feng Yu's jargon. This time, they really couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Go ahead and insult me. You even made up stories about Nicole's grandfather."

"Don't talk nonsense. Hurry up and take people there. If there really is a mineral vein, we can ask Master Mason to come and take a look."

Dick looked at Feng Yu and said, "Don't be too anxious. If it's all this kind of ore, you'll have a headache."

Feng Yu didn't understand what was going on and asked, "What do you mean?"

Dick said, "This ore contains a lot of very hard metals. It has always been the favorite of alchemists. It is the ore they use to process alloy tools. Our steelmaking furnaces are difficult to smelt this ore."

Feng Yu was delighted, thinking of the large manganese-titanium iron ore in the southwest of the Land of Abundance. The test results given by Big Brother Mao also showed that it was impossible to smelt it. Unfortunately, it was still settled by China and turned into a super-large steel supply base.

"It's okay. We can overcome all difficulties. We couldn't produce steel directly before, but now our steel furnace can produce molten steel.

If the heat of flint can't smelt impure metal ore, then we should be happy. With stronger metal, we can produce better quality gun barrels and hit enemies farther away."

Dick said, "I want you to be mentally prepared. If you can really smelt the metal ore on a large scale that requires alchemists to smelt, there is some in the Snow Summit Mountains."

(End of this chapter)