"Lord, the train thing ......"

"I don't know, it's mostly anvil, I'm just offering some trivial advice. ”

At the other corner of the site, Duke and Vlavic, who had just been separated from Anvil and Randy, were walking towards Anvil's temporary residence.

As the main person in charge of the road repair project, Anvil once again showed his stubbornness in the studio, and directly said that he would live on the construction site until the entire road was repaired, so he temporarily set up a tent to live here.

Arriving at his destination, Duke lifted the curtain of the door, and the familiar smell of alcohol made him and Vlavich cough.

"Ha, this anvil's temperament has really not changed. ”

Finally stopping coughing, Duke complained with some tears and laughter that the dwarves really didn't need anything other than wine, and the whole tent was full of the smell of alcohol as if it had been pickled in alcohol.

The furnishings in the tent are unusually simple, even simple, except for the necessary daily necessities, there are some bottles and cans and drawings, and nothing else can be called decoration.

After clearing a vacant seat, Duke and Vlavic sat down separately, and as for the drawings next to them, they did not dare to move them, for fear that a small movement would destroy what the anvil had been studying for a long time.

"I think this train can save so much manpower and material resources, and the dwarf's skills are really superb!"

After sitting down, Vlavich still remembered the train, after all, the steel monster with such an epoch-making capacity was really a bit more serious than him, so he couldn't help but sigh.

"It's one thing to have good capacity, but it's also useful for a lot of things. ”

"For example?"

"Think about it, what would happen if I didn't use this train to transport things?"

"It could have been used as a means of transportation between two places, but as far as I can see, the speed is quite different from that of a horse-drawn carriage, and it will be even less useful when our road is repaired......"

As the Minister of Civil Affairs, Vlavich immediately thought of the role of life, and only thought of using it as a means of transportation like a horse-drawn carriage, but soon he was keenly aware of another meaning of Duke, and realized its role in other ways.

"What if...... If you use it to transport troops and supplies, it seems to be an excellent tool for quickly moving in and maintaining the battle line!"

"Yes, it does. Duke nodded, "But at present, the main role is to assist in defense and transportation in our territory, and its requirements for road conditions are too high." ”

"Requirements for road conditions?"

"Have you noticed the steel bars on the ground?" Duke reminded Vlavic, "the two rails on the ground are its path, and wherever it goes, the rails must be laid." ”

"It takes so much steel!" Vlavich quickly thought of the silver light he had observed, "and it takes a lot of effort to protect and maintain it." ”

"So at the moment we're all still experimental. ”

Suddenly, the curtain of the tent was lifted, revealing the fat face of the anvil.

"Why did you come back so soon?

Duke was surprised that the anvil had returned so quickly, but was also a little worried that the trip would end early because the displaced representatives were not satisfied with the arrangement.

"How could they not be satisfied?" until now he remembered the expressions on the faces of the delegates who had seen such a wonderful craft product for the first time, and the anvil felt a little amused, "It's just that other things that are not technical do not need my explanation, and I asked my deputy to take them on the next tour." ”

"That's not bad, either. Duke nodded, "What's the progress on the construction site lately?"

The anvil fished out a large iron cup from the bottles and cans, and poured a large glass of wine "tons and tons" before replying: "With the help of the train, the progress is much faster, but we are still short of manpower, not to mention starting from both ends at the same time, more than 100 people from this side alone cannot support such a large amount of labor." ”

"I can't help it for the time being. ”

Duke said helplessly, the only people who can be used now are the young men brought down by Randy, and the number of people is only more than a hundred, which cannot meet the needs of the construction site at all.

As for more manpower, it will eventually fall on the representatives of the displaced people who came to visit today, each of them has dozens or even thousands of people behind them, as long as they are kept, then the population behind them will naturally be captured by Duke.

"If all these representatives of the displaced people are left behind by us, how many people do you estimate will be there by then?"

Thinking of this, Duke asked Vlavic, who was in charge of this, to get a more specific number from him.

Fortunately, Vlavic had been prepared for this, and he had learned about the situation on the night Randy returned, and when Duke asked him, he replied fluently: "I have roughly estimated that these people will be able to bring us more than 4,000 new people, and at least 1,500 of them will be able to go to the construction site, which is barely enough to meet the requirements of both of us to start work at the same time." ”

"That's 1,500 people!" Duke touched his chin, still quite satisfied with the number, and then he quickly thought of another question, and asked, "We only planned to make a resettlement area for 3,000 people before, do we need to expand it now?"

"We're arranged, and we'll be able to finish it before the new homeless people arrive. ”

Vlavic has some confidence in this, so that Duke no longer has to worry about the resettlement of displaced people.

"That way, we don't have to worry too much about manpower. Anvil breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with some jokingness: "I was going to ask if the boys of our clan have any time to come here to eat, after all, the food here is not bad, and there is still wine to drink." ”

"You'd better do what I said earlier, and you'll have Vlavic to help you out. Duke smiled and shook his head to deny the anvil's claim, and then sighed a little, "We must seize the time of winter to make all our plans come true!"

Hearing his lord say this, both Anvil and Vlavich saluted in solemnity, promising that they would complete all the reservations this winter.