My Empire War Game

Although Hathaway has mastered the spell specialization of casting free materials, some spells bring effects that cannot be achieved by casting free materials.

Just like the oil used in the greasy technique, Hathaway's carefully formulated rose ointment is much more effective than the oil-free cast.

Several boxes of this rose oil ointment are consumed every day, and Chrissy also praised this rose oil repeatedly.

During this time, the strength of Hathaway and Chrissy has grown rapidly, and both of them have learned a lot of spells. Of course, in this regard, Chrissy is not as good as Hathaway, after all, they are orthodox wizards. But she also has strengths of her own, such as the flexibility of a demon's body, and her otherworldly art of binding, which Sullen often indulges in.

After the troll tribe was wiped out, Zhenbeibao returned to peace again. Now he was thinking about how to conquer the drow elves next. At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Your Excellency, the caravan steward Gene asks to see you." A servant said respectfully.

"Bring him here," Sullen said after signing a document.

"Please wait a moment." The servant bowed respectfully, took a few steps back, and then turned to leave. Soon, Gene walked in with a man in his thirties. The man was wearing a custom made by Zhenbei Fort. His body was not strong, and his face was a little old. There were many calluses on his left hand. Only the sleeves are empty.

"Your honorable lord, your servant Gene greets you." Gene, the caravan steward, saluted respectfully.

"Okay Gene, don't be so polite." Su Lun pointed to the seat next to him and motioned for the two to sit down. After the two were seated, Su Lun asked, "Gene, do you have anything to report this time?"

"Your Excellency, this is Marshall, this time he has something important to report to you." Jean pointed to the man next to him and said. "He's a slave I bought from Cartel City this time."

Suren glanced at Marshall, then motioned for him to speak.

"Respected lord, I am a prospector, and I found a mineral vein near your territory." Marshall was a little nervous at first, but soon became excited, and his eyes became bright.

"Minerals?" Su Lun, who was looking at the documents, stopped, "What minerals?"

"Coal mine! I found that there is a coal mine in your territory, and the quality is not bad." Marshall said excitedly.

"Did you find a coal mine? Where is it?" Su Lun immediately asked. A coal mine is very important to the territory. Although charcoal can be used for iron making, he will naturally not let go of better coal. Charcoal and coal are cheaper and more versatile.

"I have estimated the approximate range, and the specific location needs to be further explored." Marshall said with a blushing face.

Listening to his story, Su Lun also knew the history of the coal mine discovery, and had to admit that Marshall was a caring man. As a prospector, he was young, promising, experienced, and his monthly salary was also very good. An accident made him disabled, and after this accident, he was immediately fired from the mine, and he was not even paid for the month’s wages. After losing his job and becoming disabled, he felt that his future was bleak.

He borrowed alcohol to relieve his worries every day, and even got into the bad habit of gambling. The final result was that his wife divorced him. He became impoverished and owed a lot of money to the casino. In the end, he was unable to pay the money and was sold as a slave by the casino. .

After coming to Zhenbei Fort, under the compulsion of survival, he had to go to work if he wanted to have enough to eat, and after hearing that he had the opportunity to recover his freedom and get rewards such as land and housing, he immediately cheered up again. .

In order to get rid of slavery as soon as possible and have his own house and fields, Marshall began to use his best skills to earn points. In a small talk, he heard about the ogre forging weapons, which made him notice a detail, the ogres used coal for forging weapons.

Since there is coal, there must be a coal mine nearby, and Marshall managed to determine the approximate location of the coal mine based on these few clues.

After getting the news of the coal mine, Su Lun was also surprised and promised directly: "Marshall, if the coal mine there is real, then I can make the decision to pardon your slave status, and reward you with housing and 20 acres of fertile land, and I will hire you to be Zhenbeibao's mineral consultant."

"Thank you for your kindness, esteemed lord, I am willing to work for you and help you find underground minerals." Marshall said excitedly.

Next, Suren arranged for some people to follow Marshall to explore the coal mine. Two days later, the news came that they had found the mineral. The good news was that the coal mine was actually an open-pit mine, which reduced the difficulty of mining. to the lowest.

Marshall sent back the samples from the mine, and Suren found that the quality of these coal mines could only be said to be average, and they were not suitable for forging weapons. If they wanted to use them, they needed to be processed to turn the coal into coke.

The method of making coke from coal is very similar to the method of making charcoal. It is also isolated from air by dry distillation. This is not difficult for Zhenbeibao, which already has a rich carbon production process. It is directly improved and made according to the charcoal production process.

Then, when using coke to make steel, the temperature that coke can provide is much higher than that of coal and charcoal. Originally, it took several days to melt ore in an iron-making blast furnace. Now, with coke, the world is almost the same in one day.

In order to dig coal, Surun specially took his troops to the surrounding wilderness to capture kobolds. As one of the best miners in the wilderness, second only to the gray dwarves, these kobolds are the main force in mining. Fortunately, the kobolds are a wilderness tribe. The number is still good, Su Lun easily caught more than 200 kobold slaves.

First throw these slaves to the instructors who are proficient in training, and then take the barbarian warriors to escort the prisoners after a simple training.

Su Lun arrested a total of three batches, about five or six hundred people, and all of them were sent to the coal mine for mining.

Originally, Suren was still worried about the heating of slaves and refugees. After all, the cost of charcoal was high and the output was limited. Some of the charcoal distributed to each family was not available, but now that coal is available, the demand for charcoal will be greatly reduced.

In addition to large pieces of coal, coal mining also contains a lot of cinder, which is just used to make briquettes. It is not difficult to make a stove specially used for burning briquettes. Su Lun intends to make all these directly. As for gas poisoning, Just install a vent.