North of Croatia, outside the city of Red Gravel.

The wide, gravel road runs through the mountains like a giant snake, and the road is extremely smooth, and the road is covered with thick gravel and is not muddy.

A long convoy of horse-drawn carriages moved smoothly along the road, and some of the carriages had iris flowers on them, indicating that they were the motorcade of the Mosenye Chamber of Commerce.

The Mosine Chamber of Commerce, which specializes in clothing and furs, started its home in Verga, but in recent years has shifted its focus to the north, where the raw materials are produced closer to the Gufia steppes, and the cashmere coats and cardigans they produce are mainly sold in the north.

The convoy was carrying a number of finished garments and would travel to Red Gravel City, and then follow the Laijian River all the way east, through Amenas, to transport the goods to the verdant empire in the east.

The middle of the western continent is separated by the Sigh Mountains, only the Laijian River in the middle crosses between the mountains, and then the golden plains south of the Sigh Mountains can pass. Among them, because the Laijian River is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Emenas is also a permanent neutral place, and if you want to attack the Seven Kingdoms of Xuehua, you usually take the golden plains in the south.

In addition to the carriages of the Mosenye Chamber of Commerce, there were also unmarked carriages at the tail of the caravan, which carried some passengers, and also went to the Red Gravel City, and for fear of unstable roads, they often paid a sum of money, and then were allowed to move behind the large caravan and be protected by it.

In one of the carriages, there were six people, some dozing off tiredly, some closing their eyes to recuperate, and some turning out their packages and carefully checking their luggage.

A young girl in a light brown trench coat leans against the car window, she has a black skirt and stockings inside, and her black eyes look at the scenery outside.

The tall mountains almost obscured the entire view, and the mountains hundreds of meters high seemed to be cut open as if they had been cut into a cake, revealing the dark red rocks inside, and the layers of rocks were of different shades of color, dark red, light red, and brown red, constantly changing like a mille-feuille.

At the foot of the mountain, there are also many miners who dig directly in the open air, putting stones into baskets and then carrying them away by ox carts. If you're not mistaken, this red gravel is iron ore.

There is a unique open-pit iron mine near Hongli City, rich in iron and steel, and close to the Blue Stream River, which used to be an important town in the north of the west wind, but since the independence of Ned County, it immediately sent troops to take the city of the neighboring county province, and now it is also an important industrial town planned by Clancya, many manpower and material resources are concentrated here, and the iron ore output is much higher than before.

"Is this the first time the little girl has gone far away?" An old man sitting across from the girl asked, his face was full of wrinkles, his arms were thick and powerful, and his hands were scarred and calloused.

"Yes." The girl nodded.

"How brave, I have a granddaughter about your age, I don't dare let her go out alone at this age." The old man sighed.

"Now, how is Clancy's security?" The girl asked with some hesitation.

"Well, compared to the time of the west wind, the group of people in charge now is indeed different, and those soldiers can be seen patrolling in the city every day with neat steps, and the security is very good, but it is not easy to say in the wild."

"Are there robbers in the wild?" The girl asked with a little curiosity.

"Yes, those people were originally a group of ruffians and hooligans, and they used to eat and drink together when the west wind was blowing, and if you let them go to work, they couldn't stand it, so they ran out and conspired with those former soldiers and unscrupulous mercenaries, and started a business of intercepting roads and robbing them."

"Does the official of Clencia care?"

"Anyway, they will send a patrol team to clean up, but this group of people are all local land snakes, they escape quickly, and they often change places, and the situation in the mountains is also complicated, so they are often allowed to escape." The old man's tone also seemed a little helpless.

"That's right......" the girl thought.

"Is Grandpa going to work in Red Gravel City?"

"Yes, the Clancy official has recently summoned a lot of skilled blacksmiths to Red Gravel City, and I heard that they are going to hold a conference, and they want to brainstorm ideas to improve the craft."

"Isn't that great?"

"It sounds good, but who knows. The west wind has also been done before, but later the fruits and benefits were all taken by those nobles, and we craftsmen were even more tired. The old man shook his head.

"Not this time, I heard that they will reward craftsmen who come up with effective ways to improve, and they will also improve the treatment of excellent craftsmen." The girl said firmly.

"Oh, little girl, I'm sure, are you from the royal capital?" The old man didn't care much about the results of this conference, anyway, he had experienced a lot of similar things, and he was just working.

"I'm from a small mountain village on the border, but I've seen a lot along the way, and everyone's life is better than before."

The girl recalled what she had seen and heard along the way, and the smiles on people's faces could not be faked.

"This is true, so is that kid in my family, who used to fight swords for people in a noble family, and took up to 15 silver coins a month, but now he works in the workshop, 30 silver coins a month, which has doubled." The old man smiled heartily when he said this.

"Thinking about it this way, I really have to look forward to this conference, I hope to see the old guys from before, haha."

In this way, the carriage slowly turned around a few mountains, and a magnificent city appeared in everyone's eyes.

The city built on the mountain, the city is divided into several huge stairs, the towering chimneys in the workshops come out of the billowing black smoke, there is a deafening roar in the city, at the foot of the city is along the river to build several tall waterwheels, about 200-300 meters in diameter, driven by the flow of the river, these waterwheels turn, the truckloads of ore and black coal are transported to the workshops in the city, and then some finished steel products are also rotated with the waterwheels, are put into the cargo box and transported down.

There are wide wharves along the river, and some large inland river ships dock on the shore, constantly unloading boxes of black coal, and then loading boxes of steel products onto the big ships.

As the carriage approached the city gates, passengers could hear the sound of molten iron pouring and cooling, and the chimneys of some workshops emitting intense white steam.

After entering the city, the sound of steel can be seen everywhere, and among the stone slabs on the street, many of them are black cinders and ore powder, and the air is also filled with a smell of soot.

Smelling this somewhat pungent smell, the girl couldn't help but sneeze as she stepped out of the carriage.

"How's it going, isn't it a little uncomfortable? Haha, but people like me have long been used to it, and they basically can't smell it. ”

The old man looked at the little girl with black hair and black eyes and smiled, and then continued to ask.

"Okay, it's time to get to the destination, old man, I guess I'll have to get busy again, my name is Ambo, if you want to create any protective swords in the future, you can come to me, I don't know what your name is."

"Thank you, Grandpa Ambo, my name is Loran."

The girl waved goodbye to the old man, and then walked to the other side of the street, where there was a clearing halfway up the mountain, where a beautiful white airship was parked.