Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

The huge floating airship landed in the pioneering base in the eastern basin, attracting busy workers around to stop and stare at the slowly descending flight vehicles in the sky in a daze.

Harvey walked down from the airship pod first, but the Fantasy Eye following behind him was a little sluggish, while the other three undead mages who experienced the test flight were also staggering.

"Vomit...Vomit..." Michelle, who had a pale face, couldn't bear it, and retwed a few times with pain in his expression, apologizing to Harvey, "Sir, I'm really sorry, I've never experienced the feeling of flying... ...I didn't expect it to be so uncomfortable."

The Eye of Illusion hurriedly said, "For some reason, when I used magic to fly, everything was as usual, but I just sat on this airship that could go to the sky without magic. I felt dizzy... Could it be that Mr. Michelle and I are born Not suitable for flying spellcasters?”

Harvey couldn't help laughing. He had heard of it in the past that some people had the kind of "difficult physical condition of driving without dizziness". They could not solve it with drugs or treatment, and they could only rely on hard work to adapt.

"I heard that a saline-alkali land was found near the mountains southwest of the basin, and large areas of saltwater reeds grew?" Harvey summoned the city hall official who was temporarily stationed in the Dongtuo base and asked with great interest.

Although it was a test flight attempt for a floating airship, visiting the pioneer base to inspect the development work is Harvey's main purpose.

The northern wasteland is rich in copper and iron ore. At the beginning of its development, Xinghuo City also used mining as its pillar industry. However, people's livelihood industries such as salt and sugar have always been weak, forcing Harvey to rely on many chambers of commerce in the southern region to travel thousands of miles from the distant southern coast. "Imported" sea salt and sucrose are extremely burdensome to urban finance.

Later, although a special salt-pressing crop, a specialty of salt water reed in the northern region, was discovered, since most of the fertile land was used for grain cultivation and the salt production scale was not expanded for a long time, large salt mines were lucky to be discovered in the eastern basin. It is truly an unexpected joy.

"Mr. Lord, the area of ​​saline-alkali land covers a wider area than the green water swamp next to the Xinghuo City..." The official in charge of surveying mineral resources in the city hall was also happy, "We first arranged for workers to cooperate with the alchemy beast to harvest the saline-alkali land in a concentrated manner. Natural The saltwater reeds grown were sent to Dongtuo Base for processing on-site..."

"What about the salt mine? How to mine it in the future? What is the quality?" Harvey did not understand the salt industry in this era. He used the preconceived common sense cognition in his previous life to judge it, and subconsciously believed that the quality of sea salt was better than mine salt.

A salt worker who had served the nobles in the Grizzly Bear Leader in the past took the initiative to stand up, "Return to the city lord, I used to mine salt brek through drilling salt wells. The salt production method is slightly different from the coastal areas. It mainly uses boiling method.”

The northern border is not like the southern coast. There is no sunny day and night sea breeze and high temperature sun exposure, so naturally, it is impossible to use the salt-salt method to make large quantities of sea salt. The two salt wells in Shuanghua Town and Mofang Town, Grizzly Bear-led, can only barely produce well salt. Supply the entire border area of ​​the Principality...the output is not even enough to be sold to other places.

"No wonder the market salt prices in the central countries have been high..." Harvey touched his chin and sighed.

The salt worker sighed and complained to his city lord in a low voice: "It's too difficult to get salt out of the deep well by relying on manpower... The entrance of the salt well is small, and it can't be put into a bucket and put it in a container. Every time you collect salt water, First, a large amount of hot water must be poured into the well, and after the brine is melted into the clean water, then scoop it up little by little with a special pointed copper cylinder."

Harvey ordered the servant to take paper and pen, and instructed the salt worker to draw a simple diagram of the salt well and the salt removal tool. After a glance, he was puzzled and said, "Why do you have to make the wellhead so small? Just expand and dig it open directly? "

The salt worker laughed and said, "The city lord, the salt layer is deeper than the metal ore layer. If you dig like a well, you only need to dig half the depth to collapse... But now it will be much easier, and there is For your magic power machine, we can rely on copper pipes to continuously extract brine from the salt well. The two pipes are in and out, and the output efficiency is incoming and out of the same way."

So that's how to collect well salt by injecting water and brine, it seems that it was a method that was forced to choose in this era due to technical limitations, but it is always an effective empirical means. Since we have the mechanical assistance of magic power, the collection efficiency energy can be achieved. With a significant improvement, there is no need to spend more time on technological innovation.

If sufficient salt output can be obtained from the eastern basin, it will not only bring the urgently needed large amounts of high-quality salt to Xinghuo City, but it will also greatly alleviate the financial pressure of the city hall to import sea salt from the southern coast - the people's livelihood issues of food, clothing, housing and transportation As for, Harvey is absolutely unwilling to pass on the cost to the people, and the stability of food, salt and sugar prices is the bottom line principle.

"I got it... Let's talk about sugar making."

The cultivation of sugarcane in the south and the grinding of grains in the north to make maltose... is completely in line with the world where Harvey lived in his previous life, but it is also a completely unchangeable fact that sugarcane cannot be grown in the cold north.

Even the half-elf Egno, who is proficient in plant transformation and seed enchantment, is powerless to do so... The means to completely change the growth habits of crops are not easy for the caster of mortals. I am afraid that they really have to rely on the power of the gods.

Fortunately, the vast land of the northern wasteland, which is rich in resources, can always bring Harvey some special surprises at critical moments.

Harvey was still shocked when he saw the pioneer officials happily pushing a wooden cart and bringing a huge plant fruit as big as a washbasin in front of him.

"Melon?" He raised his hand and patted the huge fruit that was still covered with mud, and found that it didn't feel like a fruit.

"It's not a fruit... City Lord, this is something dug out from the ground, like a cassava tuber." The official took a small knife and inserted it into the fruit tuber in front of everyone. After stirring it around, he pulled it out. The broken part of the tuber immediately gurgled out a sticky but slightly yellow juice like honey.

Before Harvey reached out, the captain of the guard, Tommy, took out two fingers and dipped them in the thick juice, then quickly put them in his mouth and sucked, "So sweet! But unlike honey, it's not that sweet..."

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In the southern and northern parts of the country, where sugarcane cannot be grown for sugar production, honey is a rare commodity with a low production volume. Only noble families can afford it, and ordinary civilians cannot afford it at all...

The pioneer official said quickly: "But it is better than honey in terms of production volume! This thing is the rhizome of a woody plant in the middle of the basin... The reserve is as much as a forest that stretches as far as the eye can see!"

Harvey clapped his hands and smiled with satisfaction: "Then call it a sugar tree! Saltwater reeds like sugarcane... Trees whose rhizomes can be used to extract sugar. The northern wasteland can really bring us unexpected surprises everywhere."