Chapter 173: New Developments

Today, the total population of the new workshop has reached more than 65,000 people.

Among them, there are more than 7,000 people who can be trained to become warriors, and the number of newborns in these months has reached more than 200. All the slaves who joined the new workshop have been given a new lease of life, most of them have joined the ranks of agriculture and light industry, and more than 600 have already found their partners.

Although there are some reasons for being arranged, Zhou Fatzi patted his chest and said that it was useless, and as long as the other party did not agree, there would be no problem. Zhou Fatzi even found a childcare according to Tang Doujiao's method, so that those frightened slaves knew that even if they didn't marry, they wouldn't have any problems.

Under such circumstances, the slaves have begun to settle down in earnest. They know that in this paradise, this fantasy land, they can work and live with their own hands.

They don't have to please men, they don't go out to sell their bodies, they don't have to belittle themselves. Anyone who dares to bully them, who insults them, will be punished, and they can live with their heads held high, as long as they are willing, even if they are alone, they can live very safely.

Nearly 7,000 slaves have been added to the new workshop, and for various reasons, these slaves are not very old, and they have a long future.

In addition to more than 600 people who have accepted the arrangement or found their other half, about two-thirds of them have an interest.

Still, a third of people don't want to be subservient to men anymore, and they don't even want to see men.

According to Tang Dou's request, Zhou Fatzi also divided a special living area for these poor women and let them live in it by themselves.

Tasks such as weaving, washing, and food in the new workshop are entrusted to them, so that they can live freely and freely.

The current new workshop is under the control of Tang Dou and the control of a cadre management, and there are already many shadows of Tang Dou's previous life, and now it is far from enough to say that the new workshop is a country, but a community is almost the same.

The new workshop is now divided into five areas: heavy industry, light industry, agriculture, animal husbandry, and military training.

Heavy industry refers to the manufacture of rune puppets, the creation of weapons and equipment, and the development of various weapons of war. This part is in charge of the West Factory led by Master Gulyode, and all the people who have been selected and have the ability to learn in this area are basically joined by the whole new workshop, which is the industry with the heaviest manpower investment in the new workshop.

Light industry is textiles, the production of daily necessities (such as large quantities of bamboo products), as well as the construction of living quarters and mining. The reason why the latter two are considered light industries is because all the strength work is done by rune puppets, and what people need to do is the overall planning of command, so they are counted as light industry.

Needless to say, agriculture and animal husbandry are the foundation for the people of the new workshop to live, but because the life energy in the source of life space is abundant, these two aspects can have a good harvest without investing too much manpower and material resources.

This part is managed by Father Crane and the old people, who have extremely rich experience in these areas, and Sha Yunyue has also summoned a group of ingenious women, who are responsible for planting a large number of commonly used herbs under the guidance and help of the old people.

Part of the military training continues to be the responsibility of Morrian, who is now the military director of the entire new workshop, including the new training and exploration team.

The expedition team has now reached 2,000 people, divided into ten detachments, and its members are recruits who have completed the first phase of training, and the exploration is also a long-distance training mission for them.

This kind of training itself is not available in the Thousand Souls Spirit Realm, and after Tang Dou mentioned it to Morion, Morion, who has rich military experience, immediately discovered the benefits of this kind of long-distance training, so he happily joined the training plan.

Pulling training itself is a kind of tempering of people's will, and it is a kind of training to enhance the physical fitness of fighters and strengthen their combat effectiveness. During the training process, everyone will grind themselves under a disciplined pressure, so that the whole team becomes more united and cohesive.

In the Thousand Souls Spirit Realm, the increase in physique by military training is not obvious, after all, this is a high-martial world, and the physique improvement obtained by cultivating the kung fu with training is much greater, but improving the physique is originally an additional role in the training.

What really trains the training is the will and the cohesion of the troops.

On the basis of understanding this, Morian agreed with Tang Dou's opinion, and regarded the exploration mission as a daily training for the recruits.

Today's source of life space has spread to a considerable extent, starting from the central lake, extending more than 2,000 kilometers in all directions, which is almost equivalent to the area of Tang Dou's motherland in his previous life.

In such a huge environment, the area used by the new workshop can be said to be less than one millionth. Even if you add the exploration range, it's only one ten-thousandth.

Eight deposits have been discovered, including three iron mines, two coal mines, and a tungsten steel mine (tungsten steel in the Thousand Souls Realm is a natural alloy ore), an energy spar mine, and a black iron mine.

Except for the black iron ore, the other seven places can be regarded as rich mines.

In particular, the three iron mines, Master Guljod himself went to see them, and thought that if they were all mined and made into a hundred steels, they could arm all the armies of the inner ring of Arsa to the teeth, and this would only be half of it at most.

You must know that generally speaking, the raw ore and iron output of iron ore are three to one, that is, three parts of iron ore, one part of refined iron, and then the ratio of refined iron to 100 steels is 1.5 to 1 (100 steels are highly compressed steel, with extremely high hardness and toughness, and are the most widely used military metals in the Thousand Souls Spiritual Realm. Arranged according to the most commonly used properties in the Thousand Souls Spirit Realm, from top to bottom are black iron, tungsten steel, and hundred steel).

With such a high consumption ratio, it can be used to arm all the armies of Arsa to the limit with less than half, which shows how high the content of these three iron ores is.

Master Guljod is now crazy with joy, Tang Dou has given him a lot of new inspiration, and there are countless good things around him, and his desire to create is like a blowout.

The steam engine sledgehammer has been expanded from one to ten. Coupled with the rune version of the magic 10,000-ton water press, the speed of the West Factory's production of 100 steels is about to catch up with the mining speed of the three iron ore and the rune puppets day and night.

The discovery of the two coal mines also gave the new workshop new usable energy, Tang Dou listed some of the products related to coal mines that he knew in his previous life, some of which he knew how to get, and some of which he directly threw to Master Guljod to study.

Although it is a bit of a donkey's lips to let a great master of craftsmen study energy, Master Gulyod actually doesn't have to do everything himself, he only needs to master a general direction, and naturally there is a group of apprentices who are desperate to study.

Although Guljod's current parents and sons were chosen from the former slaves, who said that there were no geniuses among the slaves?

Tang Dou's requirements for coal mine research are not high, one is to make a kind of daily life energy with low pollution and high combustion ratio. In the absence of a way to develop gas, solid combustion is still the most important resource for life.

Ninety percent of the West Plant's fire power is ground fire, which does not require a special smelting fire source, which gives the new workshop enough time to slowly study the energy problem, and there is no need to rush to study what accidents will occur.

As for the energy spar mine, it was indeed a bonanza, but now Tang Dou's center of gravity was not placed on it, that thing wouldn't run anyway, Tang Dou just sent less than a hundred rune puppets and two people to keep an eye on it, and then he didn't pay attention. Anyway, there aren't many places for him to use those energy crystals now, and he will talk about it when he needs it in the future.

Don't forget, he also got half of the vein's energy spar from the country of Regis.

As for black iron ore, although it is important, it is not used much, although black iron is the metal with the best physical properties in the Thousand Souls Spirit Realm, but it is precisely because it is the best, so there are not many places where it can be used.

Only real high-level equipment can be used, Tang Dou has sent people similar to the energy spar mine to mine, and at present, as long as there is enough for Master Gulyod to engage in research and development, it is enough.

The development of the new workshop is currently only these, and for the source of life space, in fact, Tang Doubu has a lot of things that he doesn't understand.

For example, how did the veins come about, these veins seem to have "grown" on their own, such as the black iron mine, which was discovered only a month ago, and the location of the discovery was in a place that had already been explored, and it was certain that there was no black iron ore there at first.

On the other hand, the alternation of day and night in the Source of Life space is synchronized with the outside world, but you cannot see the sun, moon and stars in the Source of Life space.

The people of the new workshop call it the Passive Light, and it has all the properties of sunlight, with the only difference being that you can't see anything that can be called the sun in either direction.

Of course, the same goes for the moon at night. You can clearly feel the moonlight shining on the earth, but you can never see the moon.

In addition to these most obvious anomalies, there is also the fact that it will rain here, but it will also appear out of thin air, there will be no clouds in the sky, and you can't see where the rain is coming from.

In addition, there are more and more animals in the Source of Life space, but no one knows where these animals came from, as if they suddenly appeared overnight.

And it's also interesting that as long as there are people, there will be no animals out of thin air, but where no one directly observes them, a large group often appears overnight.

One of the most typical examples is Baili to the north of the new workshop, near the valley where the Snow Maiden lived when she couldn't make contact with her. Overnight, a herd of no less than 500 calves appeared.

This kind of calf is actually a special product of the Barbarian Yuan Continent, and it is only produced in the Theo Prairie of the Barbarian Yuan Continent, and even if it is introduced into a live breed, it cannot survive in other continents.

But in the vicinity of that valley there were more than 500 cows overnight, and they lived freely, and when the people of the new workshop found out and brought them back to the vicinity of the new workshop, they were still at ease.

Cattle are very important livestock labor, and they are also a high-yielding breed of dairy products, but their meat is slightly poisonous and can cause diarrhea when eaten.

The calf can be said to be an important property of the major tribes in the Barbarian Yuan Continent, and its main role is to improve animal power and dairy products, the milk of this strange guy whose meat is slightly poisonous is extremely delicious, and it is the only material for the milk wine of the demon clan.

Moreover, the calf has an extremely tame personality, as long as it is not deliberately abused, they are also willing to work, and they are completely optimistic.

There is no shortage of labor in the new workshop, and the heavy physical work is replaced by mechanical and rune golems, but the oxen are still irreplaceable labor.

Especially when it comes to farming, a calf is worth a dozen rune puppets.

With more than 500 calves, the old man Mo, who is in charge of agriculture, patted his chest and assured Tang Dou that he could triple the industry this season.

Although the old man had lived in Arsa all his life, and although he had seen it for the first time, his experience and wisdom in agricultural production led him to make such a judgment after only seeing the characteristics of the oxen's work.

Of course, the output of agriculture is not determined by more than 500 livestock, but the quantity and efficiency of cultivated land are related to these more than 500 calves.

In the Thousand Souls Spirit Realm, where there are no large machines, the quantity, efficiency, and quality of the wasteland are completely determined by the ability of the wastelander.

Tang Dou had been using rune puppets to replace animal power before, but rune puppets were not specialized in this, and their effects were really not good, at most they liberated some manpower.

But with hard-working, strong, teamwork-good, and tame calves, it is simply the gospel of the Ministry of Agriculture. For the Source of Life Space, a place where you can open up wasteland and plant anytime and anywhere, as long as you have enough animal power, Mo dares to let his farmland be reclaimed to the end of the prairie.

So after 500 calves joined, Mo reclaimed 10,000 acres of fertile land. Determined to feed the whole of Arsa with the output of the new workshop.

Tang Dou himself also had the intention of exchanging grain for several other countries, so there was no way to stop Mo's "ambition", just to let people look at this old man, lest there be any accidents in such a precious human-type agricultural treasure.

Mo is now followed by seven or eight "disciples", all of whom have learned from the old man his rich agricultural experience. The old man couldn't read a word, but he thought clearly and was good at speaking, and his disciples were learning while sorting out those things and preparing to publish a book.

Tang Dou spent almost three hours listening to Zhou Fatzi's report, and listened carefully to every item. He usually doesn't dictate the specifics of the new workshop, but only suggests a general direction. But after a while, Zhou Fatpang will still make a relatively detailed report.

After listening to Zhou Fat's report, Tang Dou nodded with satisfaction: "The development is good, continue to do so." You'll need to prepare for another explosion of population growth in new workshops. Among them is O'Neill and his group of fighters who are willing to follow us, and they will be added to the direct combat effectiveness of our new workshop, which can be regarded as allowing the new workshop to establish a complete military system. We will not continue to be overstretched by our current direct forces. ”

"Of course, the old rule, you and Mr. Morian want to summarize the cultivation techniques and combat skills of these people, and there is no need to force them, they can hand them over voluntarily, and the reward they should give should also be sufficient!"

"Then we will use troops against Duvese in the future, and when the time comes, there will be a new batch of people to join, and I will control the number to about 10,000, and you must plan and prepare your living quarters in advance. I don't want to see a big group of people without a place to live like last time! ”

Zhou Chupang nodded his head at Tang Dou's orders, recorded them in detail, and dealt with them one by one when the time came. (To be continued.) )