Castle of Black Iron

"The Gozdari Plain, where the Great Ice Bear is located, lacks the large-scale steel and coal resources necessary to complete industrialization. Except for the two large-scale coal mines and iron mines near Eskil City, the entire ice and snow No other part of the wasteland has coal mines and iron ore developments of this scale!"

Elder Gulas, who had been in charge of civil affairs in the icy wilderness, muttered for a while before speaking.

"The entire ice and snow wasteland is such a big place, and there are no large-scale coal mines and iron mines in other areas?" Zhang Tie felt a little unbelievable about this. On the map, the ice and snow wasteland covers almost 20 million square kilometers. He thought it was just the relatively bad weather here, but did not expect that the natural resources here are so scarce.

"It's not that there is no, but there are no conditions for mining. The climate and living conditions of the ice wasteland are very bad. Even if there are resources, many places cannot be exploited on a large scale. Take the Huolong Coal Mine outside Eskil City as an example. A coal mine requires almost seventy to eighty thousand coal miners. These seventy to eighty thousand people are convenient to feed near Eskil City. If these seventy to eighty thousand people are thrown into the wasteland further north of Eskil City, To solve the food problem of these seventy to eighty thousand people, it is possible to drag down a bear-class tribe. This is equivalent to a tribe that has to support an army of seventy to eighty thousand people who wander outside all the year round. Its daily expenses will be very high. Horror! It will far exceed the value created by these workers."

Elder Nicholas continued to add.

"Large-scale industrial development must rely on a sufficient population base as a prerequisite, and a sufficient population base must have enough food and suitable living conditions to solve it. Workers need to eat, drink, start a family, establish a family, and live. They may be able to dig out the endless resources of ore by throwing them to the place where there are ore. What is most lacking in the ice and snow wasteland is that there is food and suitable living conditions. When each tribe chooses its own territory to live, solve the tribe. Food and food issues are the first priority. Instead of choosing places where there are minerals, all tribes will have the strength to try to find some minerals and do some development within their capacity, but the scale It’s not too big, as long as it’s basically enough."

"Whether it is the development experience of human society before the catastrophe or the objective summary of people in this era, a population of more than 40 million is the basic prerequisite for the completion of industrialization in a country and region, and the bear-level tribes on the ice and snow wasteland have the largest population. Our ice giant bear tribe, the total population of our tribe is less than 20 million. With this population, it is really difficult to complete industrialization in the ice wilderness.

Zhang Tie rubbed his eyebrows and forced himself to face reality, "So, under the current conditions, the only coal and steel resources we can rely on now are the two mines controlled by Eskil City? "

"This is indeed the case. Before the basic living conditions of the ice and snow wasteland cannot be improved, and before the ice and snow wasteland cannot produce a large amount of food to meet people's most basic survival needs, to deal with jihad, we can only maximize the resources at hand. Utilized it!" Elder Rudolph replied.

Zhang Tie thought for a while, "But based on the current output of the Eskil Steel Plant, the annual production capacity of less than 300,000 tons is too low. How much can the Eskil Steel Plant's production capacity increase? "

“The capacity of the Eskil Steel Plant can be increased to more than two million tons. In the past, because the entire ice and snow wasteland did not have such a large market and demand, each bear tribe could solve most of its own steel needs. So we have not expanded, and expansion requires a lot of money. If we want to expand the production capacity of the Eskil Steel Plant, it is possible to expand the mining scale of coal and iron ore outside the city as well! In addition to money, we also Enough workers and technicians are needed to ensure the smooth operation of the steel plant!"

"Money is not a problem, let people make the plan first, see how much is needed, and then we can think of a solution!" Zhang Tie glanced at a few elders, "I have a principle here and a statement, although I am now in Ai Skile City can harvest seven or eight million gold coins, but I will not spend any of these money on myself, nor will I use it in places other than the icy wilderness. All of this money will be invested in the two tribes in the future. In preparation for the holy war, it is used to consolidate our foundation!"

Several elders nodded secretly.

"In this case, we will then proceed with the capacity expansion and transformation of the Eskil Steel Plant. This transformation may take about two years to complete! The entire transformation may require more than 10 million gold coins..."

"Even if it is completed later, it is better than not done! This is a priority project. The money I can use must first be used in this place! To use the power of steel and steam, it is not enough to increase steel production. This is the first step. With steel, the most important question is what we want to turn this steel into and where to put it in order to maximize our strength. I now want to ask a few elders a key question , If the army of the demon race in the future will hit the ice and snow wasteland one day, do you judge where the demon race will come from, is it the sky, the sea, the ground, or the underground? I have heard some sayings about this before, but now I I want to confirm."

"The sea, it can only be the sea!" Elder Thors said with great certainty, and the other elders nodded, "The location of the ice and snow wasteland is very special. The deepest part of the entire ice and snow wasteland is a sea of ​​lava. It is impossible to enter through an underground passage, and in the sky, we have the devil's north wind belt. This north wind belt also isolates all airships. The icy wasteland faces the sea on three sides. Only the north is the frozen continent, and the frozen continent is one piece. The infinitely vast no man’s land is hundreds of times larger than the entire Blackson Corridor. Many parts of the frozen continent have very extreme climates. After entering the frozen continent, at night, most areas of it The temperature is below minus 50 degrees, and there is a very terrible ice storm. Even if a knight does not have enough preparations to go deep into the frozen continent, he may not be able to come back alive, let alone a large army, so the army of the demon race If you really want to come, you can only come from the sea, there can be no second way!"

"If the demons are destined to come over from the sea in the future, then we can't just watch it come over and do nothing. Therefore, we must be prepared for this now. With the expansion of Eskil Steel Plant's production capacity, The production scale of Beifeng Shipyard will also be expanded. At present, Beifeng Shipyard is unable to produce steam turbines. We can’t put this hope on the outside forever. On the day the Demon Race came from the sea, who could sell us things, so My second thought is, in any case, whether you spend money, hire people, or just buy the steam turbine factory on Gantiadu Island and relocate it to the ice and snow wasteland, we must use this technology. When you get it, the steam turbine is the most complex steam power equipment. As long as you get this technology in hand, Eskil City’s entire technical strength will rise to a big step!"

"I have a few friends on Gantiadu Island. I will go to Gantiadu Island in a few days. I will come back with the equipment and technicians for steam turbine production!" Elder Turing said in a calm tone. Speaking, it's like saying a trivial thing.

"Did the Spencer family ever think about mastering this kind of production technology of steam turbines before?" Zhang Tie asked.

"Our relationship with the Evandara Islands is very special. Most of the big families and business groups on the islands are our business and partners, but they are also worried about us, afraid that we will not be reconciled one day. If they want to go out in the icy wasteland, they will be the first to bear the brunt. Therefore, they have some reservations about this key technology for building large ships. In Evandara, the big forces and big forces with powerful maritime power There is also a secret agreement in the family. Once the Spencer family or the Slavs’ armed fleet crosses the Oro Strait, they will unite and strangle the fleet. Therefore, in order to avoid excessive stimulation of Evandala’s Those people, although the Spencer family has other channels to obtain steam turbine manufacturing technology and equipment, we have been buying from them all the time. They also know that we are doing this as a compromise, so they have always sold us steam. The prices of turbines are relatively fair, and they are cheaper than those produced by ourselves, so everyone is in peace."

Elder Rudolph answered Zhang Tie's question.

Now the time has passed, the holy war is imminent, the demons and their lackeys are becoming more and more rampant, and the Spencer family’s vitality is greatly injured, as long as Evandara is a person with a normal head, no one will doubt Eskil City at this time. Will the armed fleet be used to fight them. What's more, although the technology of steam turbines is complicated, it is not difficult to achieve, let alone someone's unique patent. This kind of thing is on the road, and there should be many countries that can produce it. Since Elder Turing has spoken, then this matter It's almost fixed.

In the next few minutes, Zhang Tie said his third thought, or decision, and the whole venue fell silent again.

Because Zhang Tie wanted to build a railway from Eskildo to the Gozdali Plain. This railway runs through the entire ice wilderness from north to south, with a total length of more than 9,000 kilometers. The two ends of the railway are connected by the ice giant bear tribe. And the iron bear tribe, and where the railway passes, it will also connect many small and medium tribes.

This is Zhang Tie's real plan, and Zhang Tie gave this plan a name-the axis of the tribe!

As soon as this ambitious plan was proposed, even several elders were shocked.

"To build such a railway requires at least 50 million gold coins or more of investment!" Elder Rudolph swallowed and replied, "It is difficult to support such a plan with our two tribes alone!"

Zhang Tie smiled, "It's okay, I don't need a penny from the two tribes to repair this railway!"

After hearing Zhang Tie's words, several people looked at him suspiciously. This kind of thing, even a miracle is impossible...

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