Black Iron’s Glory

The 177th chapter of Baimucheng

The road in Limassolya is a bit poor, the pits are sloppy, the carriage is very difficult, and Uncle Oske cursed while driving the carriage and turning left and right to avoid the large pits and raised water on the road. stone.

There was a heavy rain from last night to the early hours of the morning, and the road became very muddy. Limasosos County is a mountain highland here, and the carriage is very difficult to trek on the mountain road, moving forward step by step.

"This road is too bad, why can't it be repaired?" Claude is already sitting next to Uncle Oske. This kind of mountain road is sitting in the carriage and it is simply being sinned. No one can stand it. That bump.

"It’s not a good repair, it’s not that no one is repairing, but it’s not going to happen until after the repair. Limasos County is a mining county. It’s almost like this on all roads, mainly by those. The trucks that transported the ore were crushed, and the road repair fees they charged to the mining companies were barely able to repair the roads around the towns, and there was nothing they could do if they were farther away," Uncle Oske replied.

Claude understands that the current road construction in the world is basically based on stone powder, that is, the foundation is first made, the rock is placed, the gravel is filled, then the clay slurry is poured, and finally a layer of stone powder is applied. real. There is nothing wrong with the general passenger carriage and the carriage. But for those trucks that transport ore, the load-bearing capacity of this road is not very good, and it is easy to be crushed for a long time.

Although the world also has construction materials such as cement, the production of cement is not large, and the cost is also high. It is nothing to build a house and a yard, but the cost of building a road is no longer acceptable. In addition, it is said that even if cement is laid on the road, it still cannot withstand the pressure of many carriages.

Wangdu once had a very prosperous street in business. The bosses used to cement the floor in order to attract more customers. After only half a year, the cement pavement was still crushed into pieces by the coming and going carriages. Many pits appeared, which hindered the pedestrians' passage. Finally, the bosses had no choice but to re-lay the stone pavement...

"We have to go to the front to stop, you see that the two horses of this cart are covered with a large group of slime, I have to help them scrape, so that they can run easily. And the road is too Wet, rest for two hours, wait for the sun to dry the road, and we can go somewhere." Uncle Oske frowned and said to Claude.

"Nothing, we have time, it doesn't matter if we report back one day later." Claude comforted.

"Well, then we went to Baimucheng tonight. I planned to arrive in the city of Ben Tario in the evening and I will be able to get to the city of Kanigarda in Kafilezit tomorrow. You can go to Fuke the day after tomorrow." It’s reported in the hill camp. It’s just a six-day trip, but now it seems to be a long delay. The mountain road here is too difficult to go...” Uncle Oske was very annoyed at the unexpected situation in the plan.

After another section of the mountain road, the carriage stopped in an open space next to the road. Uncle Oske took a small piece of wood to the mud of the two horse-drawn horses. Crowder was not idle, looking for it. The root branches picked up the sticky soil on the wheels.

"Uncle Oske, are you familiar with this Limassolya county?" Claude said nothing.

"Familiar, the troops I was in were stationed here for five years, and then a second war broke out with the Nasri Kingdom. At the beginning of the war, a force in the Nasri Kingdom hit the city of Ben Tario. At that time, the battalion was ordered to go to the garrison. The result was on the wall. Without a shot, I was wounded by a shell and blew a lot of blood. After I woke up, I was sent to the battlefield treatment center. After half a year, I was raised. The wounded, the war is coming to an end, my troops have been ordered to withdraw from the Nasri Kingdom, I still have not got the chance to make a contribution on the battlefield..."

This is one of the three wars that Uncle Oske has participated in in this life. He went into battle, wounded, recuperated, and the war ended. However, Uncle Oske said that he was very fortunate, when the battalion he was in after the Battle of Ben Tario City, the reduction of up to two-thirds. Uncle Oske was injured at the beginning of the war, and there were enough people to send him to the battlefield treatment facility for the pharmacist to treat. It is said that the casualties of the defensive war were heavy, and many of the injured soldiers died because they could not withdraw from the battlefield and bleed alive...

"When I was retired as a caravan guard, I used to run here several times a year. I escorted the caravans to buy ore and transport various goods here. I didn’t come after the caravan guards. I have been here for three years. That is, the country that escorted a family to the Krydadaro County in the previous year, the male owner seems to have been hired as a manager by a large mining company here. I heard that there is a high salary of Jin Kelang every month, which is very enviable. what."

"Right, Uncle Oske, you said that this is a mining county. What mineral resources are produced? When I read, the geography book said that there are more than ten kinds of mineral resources produced here. Is there so much?" Asked.

"This is much more, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, coal, these are very common, as well as limestone, granite, nitrate, etc. Anyway, your geography is right. Just saying that there are fewer than ten kinds of mineral resources, there are more than ten kinds of precious mineral resources here. I once heard the leader of the caravan talk about the white root powder, blue and white stone, and fluoranth produced here. Hongshijing has always been in short supply, and it is robbed of how much it is produced every year. The price is rising every year..."

The blue-and-white stone is actually a marble-like stone with a delicate luster and is known as the best carved stone. And Yinghong Shijing has a name, which is the soil crystal, the soil attribute magic crystal.

Uncle Oske pointed to the front of the mountain road: "Going along this road for more than 20 miles, it is Baimucheng. The white root powder produced there is the most famous in the kingdom. It is said that the workers who mined the mine dug the fossils. When the plants are still smashing, they think that this underground is all waste and garbage, not the gold, silver, copper and iron ore they want to find.

The miners’ dwellings built at that time also started the name of a white grotto because of the excavated fossil plants. Until a pharmacist listened to the miners who bought the goods, he talked about it and quickly rushed to the mountain to see that these fossil plants were The raw material of white root powder. The garbage suddenly became a baby, so the White Grotto began to become a town, and later upgraded to a city..."

So the white root powder used in the pharmacy test and the alchemy magic test is produced here. Claude can't help but come up with interest: "Uncle Oske, do you know the price of the white root powder produced here?"

Uncle Oske shook his head: "I don't know too much. I am not interested in these. Anyway, the price seems to be not very cheap. However, be careful when buying white root powder in Baimucheng. There are many scammers. Some scammers hire children and use other powders. When it was sold as white root powder, it was said that the adults at home were stealing from the mine. Now they are selling cheap and subsidized households. Many people who are unclear are very easy to get rid of. The caravans I used to go to are those big businesses. And the store opened by the mining company, although the price is more expensive, but the quality is guaranteed."

After resting for nearly two hours, the muddy mountain road was sunk by the sun, and Claude and Uncle Oaks ate some dry food for lunch, then put on the carriage, driving the two horses to continue on the road in the afternoon. When I was around, I arrived at Whitewood City.

At the gate of the city, Claude was once again severely questioned. The garrison soldiers carefully inspected the blue-legged corps drafts issued by Claude and the seals on the passes, and finally they were allowed to pass the pass, Baimucheng. The seal of the battalion camp, put the carriage into the city. Uncle Oske, sitting on the carriage with his national identity card, smiled and waited for Claude to check in and get on the bus.

However, Claude found that the guards in Whitewood City seemed to be very strict. There was a small battalion battalion soldier on duty at the gate. In addition, it feels that these soldiers are more guarded in the city than outside the city. Only four soldiers in the city were in charge of the inspection, while the other eight soldiers who remained vigilant were facing the city. In addition, there is also a small team of soldiers on the wall to keep patrolling, and they are also in the direction of the city. The most important thing is that the fire ropes on the guns of all the soldiers are ignited, they can shoot at any time...

Uncle Oske did not agree. In this case, he experienced a lot when he was a soldier. Nothing was wrong with the city. For example, fugitives were found sneaking into the city, so the soldiers stepped up their guards to prevent their dogs from jumping into the wall and forcibly breaking through the gates.

"The vast majority are shocked and dangerous. Several fugitives want to break through the city gates. The guarantee is self-seeking." Uncle Oske said: "When I was a soldier, I was an underground gang that arrested private casinos. The boss gathered more than forty people to attack the gates of only a small group of soldiers. As a result, a row of guns passed and only killed four or five. The rest of them were crying and shouting on the ground. ..."

This way, Claude also knows a lot of things, such as the inspection and stamping of his pass. He is responsible for the patrol team in the town. In the city, it is checked by the guard battalion guarding the gate. stamp. As for the local garrisons, such as the garrisons formed by villages or towns, they can check but have no power to stamp the passes.

Uncle Oske’s pub with Claude is called the big-plate pub, which is the favorite place for the coachman who transports the ore to the mining company. Crowder sees the large open space in the backyard of the pub. More than ten trucks. The three rows of stables built with logs next to them are all the powerful horses pulling the carts. Five or six grooms are busy feeding and adding water to the horses.

It was still early, and it took more than an hour to eat at night. Claude decided to go out for a walk. He didn't want to have a glass of ale like Uncle Oske sitting in the pub hall to listen to the coaches who had been blowing for more than an hour.

Go out and turn left and walk to Mario Street, two streets away. Uncle Oske told Crowder that the mining company and the shops of the big merchants are all on Mario Street, very close to the big board pub, and it takes ten minutes to walk.

However, just after passing through a street, Claude was entangled. A thin guy with a sinister eye appears on Claude's side: "Brother, do you want white root powder?"

Claude smiled and shook his head.

"A very cheap brother, a box only needs a gold krona, I am privately made out of the mine, quality assurance. To know that those big businesses can be sold at the price of three gold krona, the profits are those The greedy mineral company and the boss of the business bank earned it, and we mined the money to buy a black bread. Because it was too unfair, we secretly got a little secret from the mine. We are not Greedy, as long as you can eat a few full meals..."

The thin man lingered around Claude, and Claude stopped helplessly: "Do you think I can afford a box of Jin Kelang? And I don't know what is Baigen powder... ”

"I said that you can't afford it, it hurts me to go with you for so long, and said so much." Thin man shouted: "Hey, silly boy, that gives a silver tale to let the brother buy a cup." How about apologizing to your brother?

Claude held back his anger: "No, why should I apologize to you?"

"Oh, silly boy, you are still not convinced, do you want me to call some people to let you kneel on the ground and ask for mercy, you have to pay so much saliva and kung fu, of course, to buy wine to apologize to brother! Take the money out..."

In the eyes of Claude, the flash of light flashed, and the murderous smoldering, cold and cold spit out a word: "Roll!"

The thin man was scared to go back and forth, but his mouth was still stubborn: "You, you give me waiting..."

Claude ignored him, turned and left, inexplicably wrapped up in the second goods, deceiving people still want to blackmail, it seems that Uncle Oske said that there are many scammers here are true.

The thin man saw Crowder go far, and he gritted quietly behind him, staring at Crowder far away, ready to see where he went...