The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 51 The Arrival of Cheap Labor
The temperature drop has not delayed production. Although the efficiency of salt drying has slowed down, it is a good opportunity to mobilize the salt drying workers to participate in the construction of salt fields and speed up the digging of water diversion channels leading to the coast, so that the half-orc brothers can save the effort of transporting seawater back and forth.

Although five water tankers have been deployed to continuously transport seawater, they can only barely meet the needs of the salt fields that have been built. As the salt drying slows down, the construction of salt fields is accelerated. Once these salt fields are built and the temperature warms up, vehicle transportation alone will no longer be able to supply the salt.

Besides, human transportation is also dangerous. Anthony had to send a group of elven archers riding on horned deer to protect along the way to prevent the halflings from encountering wild beasts or murlocs. In addition, the lack of hard road surface further increased the difficulty of transportation.

Fortunately, Feng Yu promised to provide the elf archers with a certain amount of salt wages as compensation, which shut the elves up and allowed the salt drying to proceed smoothly.

As the temperature dropped, production activities in the northern region had stopped. The Dwarf King received a hundred kilograms of high-quality salt from Dick, and understood the importance of Feng Yu. He not only sent a thousand workers with their own food to help, but also brought a lot of the dwarves' magic weapon "Wrath of the Earth" to Feng Yu.

The so-called wrath of the earth is a kind of high explosive that looks like rock powder. It will explode when ignited by open flame or violently impacted. Not only does it react violently, but it can also generate very high temperatures.

A certain amount of Earthfury can even melt iron, which is the fundamental reason why dwarves do not use this thing as dwarven muskets.

In addition to the Wrath of the Earth, the dwarves also have another kind of explosive, which is a black granular substance with a very special name, called Sleeping Demon. Dick introduced that this thing is very easy to produce and more powerful than the Wrath of the Earth, but it is not easy to detonate.

Dwarves usually use the relatively expensive Earth's Wrath to detonate sleeping demons, awakening them and releasing huge amounts of energy.

This thing is not considered a good thing in the eyes of the dwarves, but it is different in Feng Yu's eyes. As a top hacker, he has learned some sensitive things that are not available on the Internet through some means.

Feng Yujue's so-called sleeping demon is the alien version of TNT, which is safe and powerful.

The arrival of the Sleeping Demon gave Feng Yu hope for building modern military thermal weapons. Although high-efficiency gunpowder had not yet been developed, the combination of the Sleeping Demon and the Wrath of the Earth also allowed Feng Yu to put together a large number of modern thermal weapons blueprints in his mind, waiting for him to verify them one by one.

Soon after the dwarves came, hundreds of thousands of elves and halflings went south along the Lengshui River, bringing tents and food to spend the winter in Xiangpu City. This made Xiangpu City lively, and Feng Yu became the monkey being watched for a while.

However, there was still no elf who challenged him for Nicole to slap him in the face to establish his authority, which made Feng Yu very uncomfortable. The elves just watched him in class, and when they saw him and Nicole together, they looked regretful. That expression always made Feng Yu feel as uncomfortable as stepping on dog shit.

However, the elves' respect for Anthony and love for Nicole also meant that Feng Yu, a senior hacker who had not been wronged for a long time, could not use any cruel tricks against those elves who looked at him like cow dung.

Feng Yu endured the depression and even changed the location of his class. He originally wanted to go to Yantian for class, but there were more elves watching at Yantian, and there were a constant stream of people there every day.

In the end, Feng Yu could only arrange the class location next to Anthony's tent, because the elves generally would not come to greet Anthony, the great elf sage, which also gave Feng Yu a moment of peace.

Nicole smiled and comforted Feng Yu, who looked depressed but helpless: "Okay, they will stay here for three months and then go back, don't be unhappy!"

"Why don't they all come?"

"That won't work. Without the elves' activities, large herds of beasts and magical beasts will return to the areas where the elves lived before they were driven out. Then we will have to fight the magical beasts again next year.

Besides, there are more complete cold-proof measures there, but the winter is a bit boring.

These fellow tribesmen and halflings who didn't mind the trouble came all the way here just because they didn't want to be trapped in the snowy mountains. They had no ill intentions."

"How can the Great Wasteland be better than the world of ice and snow?"

"At least they can still produce here. They can hunt and fish in the wilderness, collect some plants to supplement their daily necessities, and it won't be too cold."

The little girl pulled his arm and acted coquettishly, and Feng Yu felt half of his body softened. He didn't care what the elves thought of him.

However, although Feng Yu was not a vindictive person, nor was he a gentleman who won people over with virtue, he taught Nicole how to dry salted fish for easy storage, and asked Nicole to give them to the idle elves, let them go to Lengshui River to fish, and then go to Feng Yu's salt fields to work and earn salt.

Feng Yu temporarily created some jobs, but they were all distributed according to work, and the price was three times lower than that of the workers in the camp. However, they were paid in cash salt, unlike the workers in the camp who were always paid only one-third of the salt salary.

In this way, the elves who came here to avoid the cold received the same amount of salt as the workers in the camp, and the output of salt could barely meet the demand. For the part that was insufficient, Feng Yu used some exquisite porcelain that had been improved by the elf craftsmen.

He discovered that the elves were very fond of porcelain, and quite a few elves who sought shelter from the cold even worked for free in porcelain kilns just to witness the clay they had made being fired into exquisite porcelain.

A large-scale porcelain production kiln is under construction, with ten kilns and a clay embryo production site. These elves who are working for free will soon be given clear arrangements by Feng Yu.

Feng Yu had inquired with Dick and Allen and learned that starting from early spring, a lot of large ice blocks would be washed down the Lengshui River. This made him write down the construction of the cold storage in his little notebook.

Although there is no ice or snow in Xiangpu City all year round, and it does not affect fishing and fruit growing, there are still many benefits to building a small ice storage. After all, the spring, summer and autumn here are very hot. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a plate of cold iced fruit to eat at this time?

The massive increase in manpower has greatly boosted the progress of various projects. Compared with those elves who are just playing around, the simple halflings are much more hardworking. Many of them will even help their fellow people with their work without any compensation, not to mention the work of distributing salt arranged by Feng Yu.

Feng Yu pushed the arrangement of the halfling to Allen, so that he could save face in front of his teammates.

(End of this chapter)