"Chapter 317: Strategic Resources of the Territory"
We stayed in Sameer for two days, during which time our troops repaired and cleared the surrounding area of bandits and local lords who did not want to submit to us, making them pay the price and stabilizing the situation. www.biquge.info The supply problem still exists at this time, although Sameer is a big city, but the grain reserves are not very large (the grain reserves have been levied by the kingdom's army before) but fortunately, we are now in our own territory, and the transportation is much easier, and those robbers do not dare to attack our strong transport team guards, so at least we can sit here and chat with peace of mind, instead of worrying about how to solve the next meal of the troops.
"It was a very good fight, and although we lost a little bit, at least we won. Panpan, I'm thinking of building a branch in my newly acquired territory so I can control it too. Thanks to you, that land doesn't border my territory at all. If we don't have such a relationship, I'm afraid you'll have to collect tariffs. Fiddling with the map on the table, Fang Zi glanced at me and said in a somewhat dissatisfied tone.
"Why do you blame me, isn't that what you meant?" I am very dissatisfied with Fang Zi's statement. Because when the land was allocated, Fang Zi's territory did not border the territory in the south of the kingdom, so I also thought about taking out a part of my land before, so that Fang Zi had a territory connected to my own territory in the north. However, Fang Zi rejected my proposal, and instead carved out a few pieces of land by himself, and named those places. Although I knew there was something wrong with this, I agreed directly in the spirit of host-friendly principles. But now she's using this reason to attack me, and I can't stand it.
"Hey, Pan Pan, why can't you tell the difference between joking and telling the truth as before?" Fang Zi shook his head and looked at me with the eyes of a mother who can't see a son. "Can I not know? I want that site for myself, can I forget it? Fang Zi said with a frown.
Frankly, I generally have a hard time understanding jokes, perhaps because I sometimes think too little about it. Although Fang Zi's statement made me a little embarrassed and confused, just like before, I could only smile awkwardly, and then casually defend myself. Of course, I'm also curious about what is in those lands that can attract girls like Fang Zi who value important issues very much.
"Little house, what's there?" For Fang Zi, I don't need to beat around the bush, and the question is very direct.
"There's something good there." Fang Zi smiled and approached us, deliberately making a mysterious appearance, although it didn't make people feel it at all.
"There's a saltpeter mine here, there's a magic crystal mine that hasn't been discovered in the kingdom yet, the veins are small, but they're of high purity. And here, there is a special kind of Warcraft, many parts of that Warcraft can be used by our factories to process into high-quality weapons and armor, and even fat can be mixed with the previous bio-oil to make mechanical lubricants, you must know that our lubricants have not been enough. ”
Fang Zi pointed to the locations on the map and introduced them to us one by one. I was amazed because these are really useful things. In particular, the saltpeter mine, which has a large estimated reserves, is worth more than the magic crystal mine to us. The land of the Freedom Alliance is too small to produce saltpeter, so our gunpowder is high-quality and high-priced goods from the system, and the price point is hateful. Because of this, Fang Zi and I didn't go well with the idea of building a large army of musketeers. Because of the preciousness of gunpowder, the native militia spent much more time fighting bayonets than they trained to shoot, so we were disappointed in this battle. Although the era of queuing for shooting is indeed a time when the accuracy of muskets is not high, what is the situation of one out of ten shots, and do you think you have too many bullets and waste ammunition?
But now it's different, with saltpeter mines, after properly importing some sulfur, plus the gunpowder formula we have already obtained (Fangzi factory has the best ratio formula of black powder), we have inexhaustible gunpowder, so that we really have the capital to enter the gunpowder age. The other two resources are also very much in line with Fang Zi's current needs. The war is over for the time being, the time for development is coming, and we must have enough momentum for development.
However, I naturally have a question, how did Fang Zi know that there were resources under these lands that he needed? Even the kingdom hasn't been discovered all these years (of course, because they don't care about some resources at all), how did Fang Zi know?
"Don't think about it, Xiao Pan, Fang Zi has workers, engineers and exploration teams, these people have followed her since we entered the territory of the kingdom. And I also have the welfare information of the kingdom here, so it's OK to go on a field trip with those experienced field exploration teams. Zeng Qiang seemed to see through my thoughts, and before I could ask, he had already finished answering for me.
It dawned on me that Jason was a geo-engineer, and I had forgotten about him. In his previous expeditions to the Freedom Alliance, he discovered many resources that no one had discovered for hundreds of years, and even commanded the miners to dig up a high-quality iron ore mine in the mountains to the north, and came up with a steel smelting method before our mine level was sufficient, allowing us to make better and better weapons (but because the equipment was not good enough, it still did not achieve the desired effect). And armor.
With such an excellent geographical engineer and that exploration instrument, it is estimated that even the vast land we have newly conquered can be explored in a month or two. In the past, there were many bio-oily minerals in the southwest of the kingdom due to the geographical and biological environment, and those oils mixed with blue crystals were an important resource for us to refine electric oil. Although the current production is not enough, it is not wrong to start exploring and hoarding these resources now. Before, the Freedom Alliance found so much land, and now that we have such a large piece of land, there will definitely be no shortage of resources. If I want to develop into an electric power society, the consumption of these power generation resources will be obvious.
And Zeng Qiang also told me that he actually hid something from me. The land he chose was small, but it was the essence. That land has an abundance of life force, which is very suitable for the development of an effect host like Zeng Qiang. And there are plenty of plants and monster resources there, and there are quite a few people, so Zeng Qiang chose that.
Of course, he didn't hide it from me because of this, but because it was a small treasury of the kingdom, and he blacked it afterwards......