Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

Zhou Yu acted as if he hadn’t seen anything, and glanced blankly at Gan Ning, who was carrying a huge stone tablet excitedly. Two large character boundary markers, and a line of small characters in the lower corner Gan Xingba, Commander of the Han Navy!

Well, the boundary marker, and then Gan Ning, who was holding up the boundary marker, suddenly exerted force, and ruthlessly stabbed the huge boundary marker towards the mine below. With a burst of roar, Gan Ning stuck the boundary marker there. The place where it is said that there is iron ore is very ugly.

"Gan Xingba..." Zhou Yu, who was standing on the cliff beside him, said with twitching eyes. In Zhou Yu's eyes, this kind of behavior was really embarrassing.

At this time, a gust of wind and sand swept by, and a rusty smell appeared in the senses of several little old men who were squatting on the ground suspecting that there was something wrong with this place, and who were doing in-depth research. His face was startled.

Several people looked at each other, and they all saw the horror in each other's eyes.

"Brother, I think there is something wrong with this place, what about you?" Wang Heng looked at a few acquaintances around him and asked, it's more than wrong, this kind of rusty smell in the wind and sand, open-pit mine, and it must be a super large Only open-pit mines can do this.

"I'm afraid this whole place is a piece of iron." The old man next to him said with the same serious expression. The wind and sand can smell the rust, and look at the fine dust on the ground, there is a red feeling at a glance.

Before this group of people thought that the soil environment of this place was like this, but after thinking about it, everyone was shocked. I am afraid that there is no problem with iron mines in this place, but it should be another way of saying that this place is afraid It is a huge mine buried in sand.

Seeing that several people had such expressions, Wang Heng had a high degree of confidence. If it was as estimated before, the iron content of this iron ore might not be as scary as usual.

"Bring it, Sinan." Wang Heng beckoned to the boy beside him, and the boy quickly took Sinan out of the box beside him, and as expected, Sinan was played to death on the spot.

"Red iron on the top, magnets on the bottom?" The little old man on the side carefully picked off a layer of red dust from the ground, and then slowly poured it down from his hands. The fine dust naturally fell towards Sinan, and everyone looked solemn. .

"This place is full of mines, and it is likely to cover hundreds of miles..." Wang Heng said with twitching eyes. The scale of red iron powder.

"I'm afraid there is only one explanation." Wang Heng said to himself, and the others were also shocked. Iron mines of this scale are rare in the region.

Wang Heng and others climbed up a high mountain with difficulty and looked around. The red reflection made them fully understand that what they were stepping on was not earth and rocks, but iron ore.

"Captain Zhou, please find a way to occupy this place." After Wang Heng and others confirmed the situation, they immediately came to inform Zhou Yu, and also took a lot of iron ore and Crushed ore rolled down after wind and sand erosion.

"Uh, why do you want to occupy it, because of the iron mine?" Zhou Yu looked at a few little old men with a puzzled expression. A family that can get along well, so Zhou Yu will give face.

"This place can't grow fields, trees, or even grass, but based on our experience, this place is full of iron underneath, and this iron ore," said Wang Heng, taking out a piece of iron from a box beside him. He weighed the ore and said with an unbelievable expression, "Based on our years of experience in ore dressing and forging, it can be cast directly into the furnace."

Iron ore does not need to be beneficiated, and it can be used after being scraped. It is very difficult in the Central Plains, because the iron ore in China is basically lean ore, and the grade is not very good. It takes a lot of time to be processed, which is very difficult. Take energy.

However, in this place, Wang Heng picked up a piece of Kuangshi casually. With the influence of his family since he was ten years old, and the experience of touching ore everywhere in the past forty years, Wang Heng knew the moment he got the hematite ore. This ore is not so much a stone, it is better to say it is iron, six points of iron!

Wang Heng picked up more than 20 yuan with his eyes closed. Based on his feeling, the iron content was basically around 60%, the high ones were even as high as 70%, and the low ones did not drop to 55%.

This is picked up casually with eyes closed, which means that the worst ore in this place can be directly thrown into the furnace for smelting, which is simply insane.

It is completely different from the ore in the Central Plains that needs to be processed after being mined. The ore here is of good quality, which makes Wang Heng and others unbelievable.

The more important thing is that several little old men climbed the mountain before and estimated the scope of the mine by feeling, and finally came to a conclusion that the estimated value of the iron ore in this mine is probably calculated in billions. Almost all of them are in this color.

Although the value estimated by Wang Heng and others is 100 million jin, there is still a gap of hundreds of thousands of times between the tens of billion tons estimated by later generations of science, but the high-grade iron ore of hundreds of millions of jin is enough for these people to make up their minds. This, so they understand the importance of these ores.

After all, this is the high-quality iron ore that is directly thrown into the steel furnace without beneficiation. What's more frightening is that this is still an open-pit mine. The difficulty of mining is how to remove it.

To put it simply, just build an ironworks here, pick up ore on the spot and throw it into the furnace to produce steel. As for technology, the iron content of the ore here has exceeded 60%. Chunks of iron oxide!

Zhou Yu was taken aback when he heard this. Ever since the smelting technology was upgraded to the ability to cast iron, iron is very important in any era, so Zhou Yu also understands how high-quality this kind of iron ore can be directly thrown into the furnace.

The problem is that no matter how high-quality it is, there are ghosts. It is not a joke to say that this place is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains. If it is near the South China Sea and has not crossed the Strait of Malacca, Zhou Yu feels that there is still a casting point on the spot. The meaning of transporting finished steel back, this place is close to 20,000 kilometers back and forth!

In Zhou Yu's view, this distance, not to mention the possibility of a Guishuang fleet squatting in the middle, even without this fleet, it is not worth it.

Although high-grade iron ore is smelted on-site, it is indeed easy to obtain finished iron, but with this terrible distance, it is useless immediately. Even if the iron is produced, there is no way to transport it back. The transportation cost has exploded. All right.

Besides, even if iron is smelted on site, blast furnaces and coal are still needed. This is the most sophisticated technology obtained from the technicians dug from Chen Xi's side. It can easily smelt steel on site, but even so, coal is still needed!

This is not the place in the Central Plains. You can pull out briquettes in a very close place with just a few strokes. Without briquettes, you can’t play blast furnaces. If you can’t play blast furnaces, you can’t produce steel on a large scale. You can’t just transport the ore back. It's even worse, okay!

Who is so mentally retarded to transport ore back to the Central Plains? Don’t you know that most ships now have a carrying capacity of several hundred tons? Counting drinking water, dry food and other things, transporting ore from a place 10,000 kilometers away, the designer of this plan simply It's mentally handicapped!

Transporting hundreds of tons and hundreds of tons back is simply a tiankeng, well, there are no people in this shitty place, why should people be transported here, what a joke, the cost exploded in an instant, Zhou Yu resolutely rejected this mentally handicapped plan.

As for the seventh-generation ships, the carrying capacity is calculated based on three to four thousand tons, including smelting, which can barely cover the cost. The problem is that each of the seventh-generation ships costs 100 million yuan. With such a large cost and such low benefits, Zhou Yu said that Let's wash and sleep, the cost has exploded, okay?

"But such a high-quality mine is wasted here, it is a kind of pain for those of us who know the world!" Wang Heng said feeling his conscience, it was really painful.

Although Zhou Yu was also interested, he still refused after calculating the cost. In his opinion, even with the familiarity of sea transportation, the speed of ships is getting faster and faster. It will take nearly a month to get from Jiangdong to this place.

Drinking water and dry food needed for a month's shipping, Zhou Yu said, wash and sleep, the current small boats can't afford ocean-going ore transportation, although Zhou Yu's mathematics is not very good, but relying on rough estimates, I also understand that unless the carrying capacity It can soar over 10,000 tons, otherwise, if you want to transport iron ore from Australia to Jiangdong, you should go to sleep.

Of course, if Lu Bu's technique of tearing the space can be fixed, Zhou Yu doesn't mind occupying it at all, but it's enough to think about opening a channel to connect the Central Plains and Australia.

In short, Zhou Yu resolutely vetoed the proposal of a group of people who knew the world, but Gan Ning became interested. The so-called thieves don't go empty-handed, so Gan Ning decisively let his pirates disembark to carry ore.

Anyway, Gan Ning still has more than 30,000 pirates. The plan to wipe out the entire army failed. Guishuang killed more than 40,000 pirates, and only two hundred of the six hundred pirate ships sank. Tens of thousands of tons.

What's more, after the war, although half of the large ships of the sixth-generation ship level sank, there are still more than a dozen ships left after all, which is a carrying capacity of just over 10,000 tons.

Gan Ning's thing right now is that there are too many people on the ship, and a decommissioned warship equivalent to a fourth-generation ship can carry about 100 tons of cargo as long as it doesn't carry anything.

So Gan Ning drove all the pirates off the ship and ordered them to dig open-pit mines. Each of them needed to dig two thousand catties, which is one ton of the new weights and measures.

Fortunately, there are a lot of people, and the mine is open-pit. The legions attack everywhere, cut open the open-pit mine, and there is no need to sift it. More than 30,000 people will fill the empty ships of the fleet with iron ore in two days. Gan Ning is very concerned about this. Satisfied with the speed, Zhou Yu once again expressed helplessness towards Gan Ning.