Zhou Yu made a look as if he didn't see anything, and glanced at Gan Ning, who was happily carrying a huge stone tablet, only to see that the stone tablet that I didn't know where it came from was engraved with two big characters - boundary monument, and then a line of small characters in the lower corner - Gan Xingba, the commander of the Han Water Army!

Well, the boundary monument, and then Gan Ning, who held the boundary monument high, suddenly exerted his strength, and fiercely pierced the huge boundary monument towards the mine below, and with a roar, the boundary monument was pierced by Gan Ning in the place where it was said to have iron ore, and it was very ugly. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Gan Xingba, this guy ......" Zhou Yu, who was standing on the cliff on the side, said with a slight twitch in the corner of his eyes, this kind of behavior is really embarrassing in Zhou Yu's opinion.

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

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

"Brother, I think there's something wrong with this place, what about you?" Wang Heng looked at a few acquaintances around him and asked, why is it not right, this kind of rust smell in the wind and sand, an open-pit mine, and it must be a super large open-pit mine to be like this.

"I'm afraid this place is a piece of iron." The old man next to him also said with a solemn face, the wind and sand can smell the smell of rust, and then 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 deeply, everyone was shocked, this place is probably not a problem with iron ore, but should be put in another way, this place is afraid that this place is a huge mine buried by sand and gravel.

Seeing that several people were all looking like this, Wang Heng also had a high degree of certainty, if it was really as previously estimated, the iron content of this iron ore was not an ordinary horror.

"Sinan, bring it." Wang Heng beckoned to the little guy on the side, and the guy hurriedly took out Sinan from the box on the side, and then sure enough, Sinan was killed on the spot.

"Hematite above, magnet below?" The little old man on the side carefully picked up a layer of red dust from the ground, and then slowly fell from his hand, and the fine dust naturally fell towards Sinan, and everyone looked solemn.

"This place is full of mines, it is very likely to cover hundreds of ......miles," Wang Heng said with the corners of his eyes twitching, only in this way would those exposed open-pit mines waft out such a scale of hematite powder in the process of years of wind and sand invasion.

"I'm afraid that's the only explanation." Wang Heng said to himself, and the others were also shocked, an iron mine of this scale was simply rare in the region.

Wang Heng and the others climbed a high mountain with difficulty and looked around, the red reflection made them completely understand that what they were stepping on was not soil and stone, but iron ore.

"Governor Zhou, please find a way to occupy this place." After Wang Heng and the others confirmed the situation, they came to inform Zhou Yu as soon as possible, and also took a lot of iron ore that they knocked down from the open-pit mine with their eyes closed and the crushed ore that rolled down after the erosion of the wind and sand.

"Uh, why occupy, because of the iron mines?" Zhou Yu looked at a few little old men with a puzzled expression, these are the older generation of Wu Di who understands Kanyu, although they are not considered wealthy, but they belong to the kind of good family that can mix anywhere, so Zhou Yu will give face.

"This place can't grow fields, can't grow trees, and even grass can't grow well, but in our experience, this place is full of iron underneath, and this iron ore," Wang Heng said as he said that, taking out a piece of iron ore from the box on the side, and said with an incredulous look, "With our years of experience in mineral processing and forging, we can use it for casting directly into the furnace." ”

Iron ore does not need to be beneficiated, it can be used when it is picked down, which is very difficult in the Central Plains, because the iron ore in China is basically poor ore, and the grade is not too good, and it takes a lot of time to mine it, which is very energy-consuming.

However, in this place, Wang Heng casually picked up a piece of Kuangshi, with the experience of touching ore everywhere since he was ten years old, and the moment he got the hematite, Wang Heng knew that the ore he touched in his hand was not so much a stone, but directly said that it was iron, six points of iron!

Wang Heng closed his eyes and picked up more than 20 pieces, and by feeling, the iron content was basically about 60%, the high one was even 70%, and the low one did not fall to 50%.

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

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

The more important thing is that the previous few little old men all estimated the scope of the mine by feeling, and finally came to a conclusion that the estimated value of iron ore in this mine is afraid to be calculated in billions, and within the range of the eye, it is almost this color.

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

After all, this is a good iron ore that is thrown directly into the steel furnace without beneficiation, and what is even more terrifying is that this is still an open-pit mine, and the difficulty of mining is how to pick it off.

To put it simply, it is to build an iron-making plant here, and throw the ore into the furnace on the spot to make steel, as for the technology, the iron content of the ore here has exceeded sixty percent, and if you want a ghost technology, it is basically a piece of iron oxide!

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

The problem is that no matter how high-quality it is, this broken place is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, and it is not a joke at all, if it is near the South China Sea, without crossing the Strait of Malacca, Zhou Yu feels that there is still a point to build a casting point on the spot, and the meaning of transporting the finished steel back every once in a while, this place, back and forth is close to 20,000 kilometers!

In Zhou Yu's opinion, this distance, not to mention that there may be a Kushan fleet squatting in the middle, even if there is no such fleet, it is not worth it.

Although it is indeed easy to obtain finished iron by smelting high-grade iron ore on the spot, but with this terrible distance, there is no use for it, and even if the iron is produced, there is no way to transport it back, and the transportation cost explodes.

Besides, even if you make iron on the spot, you need a blast furnace and coal, this is still the highest sophisticated technology obtained from the technicians dug by Chen Xi, who can easily smelt steel on the spot, but even so, you need to have coal!

This is not the Central Plains that place, you can pull out the briquettes in a very close place with two casual pulls, you can't play the blast furnace without the briquettes, you can't play the blast furnace can't produce steel on a large scale, you can't directly transport the ore back, this is even more pitted!

Transporting ore back to the Central Plains, who is so mentally retarded, I don't know that most ships now have a carrying capacity of several hundred tons, counting drinking water, dry food and other things, transporting ore from 10,000 kilometers away, the designer of this plan is simply mentally retarded!

Hundreds of tons and hundreds of tons of backing this is simply a sinkhole, okay, there are no people in this broken place, do you still have to transport people over, what are you kidding, the cost exploded in an instant, Zhou Yu decisively vetoed this mentally retarded plan.

As for the seventh-generation ship, the carrying capacity is calculated according to three or four thousand tons, counting the smelting, it can barely cover the cost, the problem is that the seventh-generation ship is 100 million, the cost is so big, such a low benefit, Zhou Yu said wash and sleep, the cost has exploded.

"But such a high-quality mine is wasted here, which is a pain for those of us who are worthy of the land!" Wang Heng touched his conscience and said, it was really painful.

Although Zhou Yu was also a little interested, but calculating the cost, he still refused, in his opinion, even with the familiarity of shipping, the speed of ships is getting faster and faster, and 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 boat can't afford to transport ore from the ocean, although Zhou Yu's mathematics is not very good, but by a rough estimate, he also understands that unless the carrying capacity can soar over 10,000 tons, he still wants to transport iron ore from Australia to Jiangdong or wash and sleep.

Of course, if Lu Bu's move to tear through the space can be fixed, Zhou Yu doesn't mind occupying this place at all, but opening a channel to connect the Central Plains and Australia or something, it's enough to think about it.

In short, Zhou Yu decisively vetoed the proposal of a group of people who were worthy of public opinion, but Gan Ning became interested, the so-called thieves did not go empty, and Gan Ning decisively let his pirates get off the ship to move ore.

No matter how much Ganning still has more than 30,000 pirates, the plan to destroy the whole army failed, and more than 40,000 pirates were killed by Guishan, and more than 200 pirate ships were sunk by more than 600 pirates, and the spare carrying capacity was tens of thousands of tons.

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

Gan Ning is now properly equipped with a small number of ships, a retired warship equivalent to a fourth-generation ship, as long as it does not load things, it also has a carrying capacity of about 100 tons.

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

Fortunately, there are many people, and the mine is open-air, and the legions attack everywhere, cut the open-pit mine, and there is no need to screen, more than 30,000 people will fill the empty ships for the fleet with iron ore in two days, Gan Ning was satisfied with this speed, and Zhou Yu once again expressed helplessness to Gan Ning.