My Empire War Game

The cost of open-pit mining is very low, and it is far safer than a mine. If this mine appears in the Kingdom of Florence, it will definitely make the surrounding nobles go crazy. Although this is only an iron mine, the input is low, and the profit of the output is higher than that of ordinary silver mines.

After confirming the location of the mine, Suren opened the strategic map to see the map from here to the territory. He was going to find the nearest route.

Soon Suren found something on the map. About one kilometer away from the mine, there was a river flowing through it. Suren went to check it out. The width of the river was between eight and thirteen meters. The water depth is two or three meters, and the flow is normal, just an ordinary small river.

However, this small river is a tributary of the Baishui River. It continues to extend northeast for about three kilometers from here, and it will merge into the Baishui River, and then go upstream along the Baishui River. Finally, it can return to the pier of the territory. With This river, the ore mined from the mine can be transported to the territory by water.

Compared with land transportation, water transportation has many advantages, not only the transportation volume is large, the speed is fast, and the cost is also low.

The three-meter-deep and eight-meter-wide river can't pass through large ships, but it is enough to transport iron ore. Slaves are also used to mine the ore, and the cost is equally low. In addition, the territory of Sulun has already used it. For the hydraulic forging machine, the labor cost is reduced again, as for the blast furnace and fuel for smelting the ore.

The cost of this part is also very low. There are trees everywhere in the wilderness, and slaves can also be used to cut trees. In this way, the cost of forging a piece of refined iron is outrageously low.

It's like a piece of equipment forged by Suren for his barbarian guards. If it was in Carth City, these equipment would cost at least 200 gold nars, but in Suren's territory, the cost of this equipment is only 30 gold at most. nar.

In addition to the labor cost and transportation cost of the mine, the most expensive forging cost was also replaced by a hydraulic forging machine. The new blast furnace used in the territory reduced the cost once again while increasing the output. Therefore, the minimum cost of the final set of equipment will be so low.

Even if Su Lun sells each set of equipment at a price of 150 gold nars, he can easily make a lot of profits, and such a low price can also attract businessmen willing to take risks to trade here.

With a decision in his heart, Su Lun did not stay here any longer, and let the two barbarian warriors direct the kobolds to build houses here, while Su Lun rushed to the territory.

There are now 1,500 goblins, kobolds and gnoll slaves in the territory. Among them, goblins have the largest number, about 700 people, kobolds have more than 500 people, and the rest are big goblins and gnolls. , about two hundred people.

Although the kobolds are not very powerful, this race is good at mining. Su Lun plans to send all the kobolds of more than 500 people to the mine for mining. Kobolds, nearly 800 kobold miners, are almost enough. In addition, a team must be formed to protect the mines.

It's just that, the territory that was originally well-populated has become scarce again.

With the development of the territory up to now, Su Lun has already felt that his barbarian guards are somewhat understaffed. There are few free people in the territory, and it is impossible to recruit human soldiers. As for those barbarian women and children, some children can participate in the reserve, and there are many barbarian teenagers. Will be an adult next year.

But even so, it is far from being able to quench thirst.

This situation cannot be changed for a while. The recruitment order used last time has not even recruited a ghost shadow. Su Lun has completely given up. He plans to mine some iron ore first, and then transport it back to forging. arms.

After the weapon is forged, let Gene take the caravan to transport the weapon to Carter City for sale. With the low cost here, even if the selling price is reduced, he can still make a lot of profit. The slave market buys serfs or other slaves.

In addition to using these slaves to fill the lack of population in the territory, Sullen also intends to promote his territory in these surrounding cities, attracting civilians who want to acquire land to act as freemen.

Because there has been no war in the vicinity of Carter City for decades, the population has surged, and many people are born without land. It must be known that the inheritance of property in this world is inherited by the eldest son, and other sons will become independent when they become adults.

This situation has caused many people to have no farmland and no money, and can only go to the city to work. Most of the mercenaries are such people. Those who own industrial farmland rarely migrate, and Su Lun's territory has no attraction to them. Only those who have nothing will be willing to take risks, willing to travel hundreds of miles of wasteland to live in Su Lun's territory.

Su Lun's goal is these people, recruit these people to the territory to become his free people, although most of these people have no assets, but as long as they work hard in the territory, Su Lun will pay them wages to allow them to buy family businesses in the territory. Or sell the farmland to them in installments.

In fact, Su Lun was already considering restoring the serfs under his command to freedom, but of course he would not do so now.

He plans to let these slaves work for a few years, and then gradually cancel their slave status and make them free people. Although Su Lun's release of the slaves seems to be a loss for him, and the loss is heavy, in fact, the account is not calculated like this.

When they were slaves, these people naturally wouldn't work hard. Even if they were forced to work, their efficiency would be high. Although they saved money, they didn't create much value. But if Su Lun and them agreed to work for him seriously In a few years, he can be forgiven his slave status and become a free man.

Then there will definitely be a leap forward in the positivity of these slaves. After a few years, after these slaves became free people, they naturally wanted a better life, so they would definitely work harder and then contribute taxes to Suren.

In this way, the value they create is much stronger than those of the slaves. Of course, Su Lun didn't do this kind of thing from the beginning, after all, the power of tradition in this world is still very strong.

At least he was prepared to wait until he was stronger to do so. If it is done in the south of Su Lun, it is estimated that the influence of the surrounding territories will be scrutinized, but basically no one will care about the mountains and the emperor's distant territories like the Northland Wasteland.

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