The Queen's Engineering Army

Chapter 14 Discovery of Iron Ore
The ancients said that if you survive a catastrophe, you will have a future blessing.

That night the wolves attacked the camp Surin escaped, and now the camp is surrounded by wooden fences, so the wild beasts will never come in again.

The next few days went well, and there were even surprises.

The exploration team discovered iron ore a few kilometers northwest of the camp, and Surin was ecstatic when he heard the news.

You must know that iron ore is a very important military material.

Weapons, armor, etc. all need iron ore, and even many daily necessities need iron to craft.

Blacksmiths have been idle because there is no iron, so they produce some short bows. Without iron, feather arrows cannot be produced, and short bows cannot be used after they are manufactured.

Well now, iron ore is found, some weapons can be crafted, and more military facilities can be built.

Greatly strengthen the defense force of the camp.

Su Lin couldn't wait to follow the villagers who came to report to the iron mine to have a look.

The mountain road is difficult to walk, and the straight-line distance between the place where the iron ore was found and the camp is not far.

But you have to go back and forth, turning left and right, wasting a lot of time.

"I have seen my lord."

Seeing Su Lin coming, the villagers in the exploration team put down their pickaxes and went forward to salute.

"Exemption."

Su Lin waved his hand slightly, all his attention was focused on the few pieces of iron ore that had just been dug out.

The size of the iron ore varies, the big one weighs about tens of catties, and the small one weighs less than half a catty, and they are piled up scattered on the ground.

"How much iron ore can be produced in one day?" Su Lin picked up a piece of iron ore and asked casually.

"My lord, if we are mining in one team, we can mine about 300 catties a day." Liu Dayuan, the leader of the exploration team, stepped forward to answer.

"10 points for 300 people?" Su Lin muttered to himself, the output is not too small, an average of [-] catties per person.

"The main reason is that moving to the camp is more laborious. It takes at least two round trips to transport the mined iron ore to the camp, which wastes a lot of time." Liu Dayuan said.

"I see." Su Lin nodded, lost in thought.

It is indeed a waste of time to transport the iron ore mined here to the camp. If a blacksmith shop is set up here, the mined iron ore can be smelted directly to make finished products.

Wouldn't it save a lot of time and improve efficiency?

Su Lin decided to build a branch of the camp here. Instead of just building a blacksmith shop, he had to build a few more residential buildings.

The geographical location here is higher than that of the camp, and the lack of water source is a troublesome thing.

So the number of people can not be too many.

In addition to the villagers who specialize in mining and the peasant women who cook, a few militiamen are arranged to do defensive work to prevent wild beasts from attacking.

Just do it.

Su Lin chose a place close to the iron mine to build a blacksmith's shop, which was convenient for smelting.

Three villagers with primary crafting skills were drawn from the camp to help.

The villagers started with four basic skills, but they could learn other skills, so Su Lin arranged for five villagers to be Ou Tiezi's apprentices, and they learned the basic skills in a few days.

The basic skills are not difficult, you can learn them in a few days, the difficulty lies in improving the skills.

There must be sufficient proficiency, so the villagers are divided into different types of work in order to improve their skill proficiency.

After the construction work was arranged, Surin returned to the camp.

Go back and call the villagers and blacksmiths from the construction team to help.

However, there are only more than 100 people in the camp, and Su Lin feels that there are many things to be busy. If it is expanded in the future to reach a scale of thousands of people, it is estimated that he will be exhausted.

It is necessary to train one or two assistants, the first villagers recruited by Ma Yun and Ma Huateng.

It's okay to let them work, but it's a little bit close to being a real leader. I am an honest farmer, and I don't know how to plan, so how can I hand over the command power with confidence.

Su Lin thought about it.

Just work hard, there is nothing else to do anyway.

If you are really idle, you may not get used to it.

In three days, the branch camp on the side of the iron mine was also built.

A blacksmith shop and four houses were built for two classes of villagers.

As for the food problem, Su Lin considered that if a mill is built here, it will not be easy to collect food, and it will be easy to disperse human resources.

It is better to prepare meals in the camp and send someone to deliver them to avoid wasting manpower.

really.

Establishing a branch point near the iron mine has greatly improved the mining efficiency of the miners. Originally, a shift collected 300 points of iron material a day, but now it has increased to more than 430 points, an increase of 130 points per day. Over time, that is an astonishing number.

Su Lin also gave the blacksmith a task to make 150 pairs of short bows, as for how many bows and arrows can be made.

Bows and arrows are consumables, so it's better to prepare more goods to rest assured.

The blacksmith shops on both sides have different divisions of labor. The blacksmith shop on the camp side does not need to consume iron materials to make short bows, but only needs wood.

A few more people were arranged to be apprentices, and ten people were gathered to form a crafting class.

From now on, they will be full-time blacksmiths, and Ou Tiezi will be the monitor of the forging team.

The blacksmith shop on the other side of the mine is responsible for making bows and arrows, which require wood and iron.

In the deep mountains, everything is lacking except wood. Now that both resources are available, the blacksmith shop can be built like crazy.

There are five blacksmiths on each side, and they can make 10 pairs of short bows and 40 wooden arrows a day. Maybe the skills are not skilled enough, and the speed is a bit slow. With the improvement of skills in the future, the efficiency will gradually increase.

Every day, two villagers and two militiamen are still recruited, and more and more wooden houses are opened in the camp.

now.

The camp already looks like a bustling village, and each villager has his own duties and positions.

Work at sunrise, and rest at sunset.

As long as the couple can be assigned to a wooden house, it is believed that the next generation will be born soon.

It will be more lively then.

Su Lin thinks it's time to give the village a name. It's easy to remember if you have a name. Otherwise, although the villagers love their village, it feels like there's something missing without a name.

What should I name it?
"Han, let's call it Dahan Village." Su Lin didn't have a better choice, so let's use this.

In this era, there is no concept of the Han nationality, at most it is the concept of the country, you are from Qin, I am from Chu, and he is from Zhao. Before Qin Shihuang was unified, the common people had at most the concept of region and clan.

On this day, Brother Chen Fu came over.

"Miss Su, I told the elders in the village about this, and they are all willing to move here." Chen Lu said happily.

"Yes, we will live closer together in the future, and we will take care of each other."

Chen Fu glanced at his excited younger brother, a bit dumbfounded.

For this matter, Chen Lu jumped up and down in the village. For the old people who disagreed with moving, he would go to the house every day and tell the various benefits of moving here.

Chen Fu knew the little Jiujiu in Chen Lu's heart.

As long as everyone in the village agrees, he has no problem.

In the end, even the most stubborn old guy in the village couldn't stand Chen Lu's stubbornness, so he agreed.

Those old guys are masters who don't see rabbits and hawks. They only agree to move after seeing the newly built residential buildings. Otherwise, why move there if there is no place to live?
After doing the work of helping the elderly in the village, Chen Lu and his brother rushed over excitedly and told Su Lin.

By the way, I would like to ask about the construction of private houses.

"That's great. Don't worry, the things I promised will be done. After seven days, the twenty houses will be built. When the time comes, you will bring the old people from the village to inspect and accept them." Su Lin laughed.

Although it seems a loss to help them build residential houses for free, as long as they move here, integrate in, and live in the way of Dahan Village.

Once the account is calculated, it is profitable.

(End of this chapter)