Chapter 62: Commencement of Construction
Locke was now looking at the weapon in his hand, the result of his hard work for several days. When these weapons came out, his excitement was unimaginable. It's been a few days, and he's still smirking there with his weapon. Thinking back to the exertion of this time, it was all worth it.
Ten days ago, when Ling Feng came over with a large group of people, the people who were waiting for him were all stunned. Although Ling Feng said that he would bring people over to transport things, and guessed that there would be many people, he didn't expect that there would be so many people, and there were tens of thousands. But soon they found out that not all of them had come to carry things, but only a hundred or so people came out, and took out a bag and swept the scrap metal, which had been there as if they were not satisfied. As a result, the scrap metal, which had just been like a mountain, rapidly decreased at an unimaginable rate, and it did not take long for it to disappear completely.
Seeing this, Locke remembered a word - space bag. He guessed who were the people who were using the space to load scrap iron, they were the army's logistics department, and they were supposed to be the people of the transportation department. He knew that every army had a logistics department, and they had some space and equipment in their hands to facilitate their transportation and storage of things, and the number of them depended on how much strength they had and how much military money the state had given them. Seeing this number of space bags, Locke sighed that the Tianxiang Empire deserved to be one of the four major empires in the continent.
At that time, it was strange to everyone what the other people did. Originally, I thought it was to come to transport scrap iron, but now that this is not their luck, it overturns everyone's speculation. Everyone thought that maybe these people were soldiers, because Ling Feng had just returned from the barracks, but the soldiers' equipment should not be so bad, especially the soldiers of the Tianxiang Empire, they would definitely not wear such tattered equipment. But if it wasn't for the soldiers in the barracks, how could Ling Feng have so many people, this was tens of thousands, how could he find so many people in a short period of time.
Locke asked Ling Feng, asking him what the tens of thousands of people were and who they were. The answer he received surprised everyone, Ling Feng actually said that they were soldiers, soldiers of the Tianxiang Empire, he brought them back from the barracks, and he would serve as a guardian in Black Stone Mountain in the future.
Everyone didn't expect that these tens of thousands of people were really soldiers. When did the Tianxiang Empire have such soldiers, did it deliberately give Ling Feng like this, or did the Tianxiang Empire have no military funds.
Today is destined for these people to have accidents, when they came to Black Stone Mountain with Ling Feng, they saw a place that was completely different from what they imagined. In the middle of a small plain surrounded by mountains, there are two tall buildings with circular columns. One of them is also surrounded by a wall that encloses it in the middle. This was later learned by them, it was a chimney, which Ling Feng used to make steel and burn bricks.
Not to mention two, what surprised them the most was that in one place on the plain, there was a group of buildings, neatly laid out and beautiful in appearance, which made them want to live in it. They've been here before, it's completely uninhabited, and now the complex suddenly appears, and it's still such a heart-warming building. Locke, in particular, who had been here for less than a month and was even more surprised by the changes in the place.
Locke saw that there were people on this plain, busy there, and these people were building houses, and it was obvious that they had built them. Could it be that they were called by Ling Feng, this idea came to Locke's mind first, because this was his territory, and no one else could build a house without his consent. If that was true, then this Ling Feng was too surprising, and he was able to build these things in a short period of time, completely changing the Black Rock Mountain.
Locke saw Ling Feng bring the man to the middle, into the middle of the wall, and let the scrap metal be put in a place. After all the scrap metal was poured out of the space bag, Locke found that the scrap metal only occupied half of the wall, so you can imagine how big this wall is. According to what Ling Feng said later, there was originally only a quarter of the space here for scrap iron, there were other things to put in, and the steel to be placed, and finally there was space left to keep it from being crowded. This time, he put so much scrap iron, which was already unexpected. But that won't be the case in the future, because as soon as they start making steel, the amount of scrap metal will plummet.
Locke began to ask Ling Feng what the use of all this was, the scrap iron and the things from the Black Stone Mountain made him very confused, but the answer he got was that you would know when the time came. A few days later, Ling Feng explained everything with practical actions.
However, at this time, Locke was very unhappy, because Ling Feng was still selling Guanzi there. Just as he was upset, a man came in, holding a bag, and ran to a pile of black ore, and poured out some black ore, which Locke guessed should be the same as the pile on the ground.
The crowd watched him finish pouring things, and he completely ignored the presence of the crowd. After pouring he ran away, running up the hill behind, and after a few steps, he finally noticed that something was wrong, and he saw half of the scrap metal in the wall. He has been coming and going here for the past few days, the last trip was just before noon today, and now it has only been a few hours, how can there suddenly be more of these things, and there are so many of them, which makes him wonder if he is dreaming.
But soon he saw a man, and some of them were standing next to the scrap metal, smiling at him. So he immediately ran over and called out to the man, young master. This is what Ling Feng asked them to call, Ling Feng didn't like people to call him master, it sounded like some kind of slave owner, although in fact he was.
Watching Ling Feng talk to him, Locke knew that these people were indeed Ling Feng's people, so everything here was Ling Feng's doing. After Ling Feng finished talking to the man, he asked the logistics department to leave a few space bags, and then let them go back to the barracks. Originally, the people in the logistics department were reluctant to leave the space bags, but Ling Feng said that either a few space bags should be left, or all the people would stay, when they hadn't finished transporting things. Because this mission is to help Ling Feng luck things, if Ling Feng says that he has not completed it, this mission cannot be regarded as completed, so they will have to spend it here.
In addition, the logistics department knew that Ling Feng was the son of the marshal, and Ling Feng said that these space bags were left for them to transport back weapons in the future, which was a follow-up to this mission, so they left five space bags.
Locke asked Ling Feng again, asking him what was the use of leaving the space bag, and what was the use of those black ores. But unexpectedly, after Ling Feng said again, he would know when the time came, so he walked away and arranged for those soldiers to camp and rest in a clearing in the small plain. Then I saw Nicholas leave with those soldiers, and set up tents in the open field, and as for how to tie them, and where to tie them, Nicholas will make arrangements. Let this camp form a favorable defensive formation.
When Locke came over, he talked to Nicholas and knew that these soldiers were slave soldiers. Even Nicholas is still Ling Feng's slave, but Ling Feng has already torn up the contract and will soon become free. also knew that they had just been taken out of the barracks by Ling Feng, and when Ling Feng took them away, he didn't forget to let them take some supplies, and he also went to ask Long Jue for some tents and other marching items.
At dinner time in the evening, Ling Feng summoned the person in charge and arranged some things to go down so that they could know what they were going to do in the future. Locke was naturally assigned to build a piece, and the rest of the people were divided into mining, steelmaking, building houses, and training soldiers (this was Nicholas's business, he was going to train the slave soldiers). And a burnt brick that he didn't understand. Ask Ling Feng only said that it was a building material, and he would know when he came out.
That night, everyone was arranged to rest in the house of the complex, and Locke saw that Ling Feng's room was lit all night, and he didn't know what he was doing.
At dawn, Ling Feng took out a large bundle of paper and distributed them to the person in charge of everything, the most was in charge of construction, he had the most drawings, and the others were much less than him. At that time, everyone looked at the paper that Ling Feng gave him, and there were things written on it that they couldn't think of, these were obviously the pieces they were responsible for, teaching them how to operate, there were many things they didn't quite understand. They all raised questions to Ling Feng, the others were okay, they already had high achievements in this area, so they somewhat understood. But the person in charge of the construction, who was originally just a slave who knew a little bit about building houses, suddenly gave him so many drawings that he couldn't understand, which made him confused.
Ling Feng's answer was very simple, "I will be here in the future, if you don't understand anything, just come to me directly." "Then he said that today he started smelting and making steel, and the steelmaker used to know first-hand how he made it. Before making steel, Ling Feng asked the person in charge of mining to lead those who had mined to mine, and gave him four space bags and slave soldiers who were willing to mine.
Nicholas asked the 10,000 slave soldiers yesterday to think about the future development, and told them that they didn't have to worry about their slave status here, because most of the people here were slaves of the young master just like them. However, the young master did not treat them as slaves, but only as people who did things for him, and gave them better than those who hired people to do things, and hired the master to the employed. Now there are two choices for them, one is to continue to be a soldier, and the other is to do things for Ling Feng. Of course, if you do things for Ling Feng, you will get the corresponding remuneration and due living treatment.
In this way, more than 7,000 of the slave soldiers wanted to help Ling Feng, and only more than 2,000 were willing to continue to serve as soldiers. It's no wonder that they, they knew that as soon as the war began, they had to die, and they were afraid, so they chose to leave. Some do not want to fight for this country because they are not soldiers of this country and have been captured because of defeat.
The ones left behind were slave soldiers who had been through many battles, and they would not know anything but fight for battle. They can't do without the battlefield all their lives, and even if they are replaced, they will continue and obey the new commander's arrangement. It's not that they're unfaithful, it's that they're faithful and will never betray. It is the duty of soldiers to obey orders, and they will only obey.
Nicholas asked the 7,000 people to choose the industries they would or were interested in to join, so some people chose mining, some chose steelmaking, and some chose to build, anyway, all the people who could do here joined Lingfeng, and how many people joined.
The reason why Ling Feng made such a decision was because he felt that there was no need for so many people to guard here, and secondly, it was inconvenient for many people to train, and it would consume a lot of materials, which he couldn't afford now, and finally and most importantly, everything in his current Black Rock Mountain needed manpower, a large number of manpower.
In this way, Ling Feng prepared everything and began to make steel, build weapons, burn bricks and build houses, mine and build roads, and grow food. Of course, Ling Feng explained these things one by one, so that things could be carried out best and faster.
When the first piece of steel was smelted, the dwarf in charge of steelmaking was so excited that he couldn't speak for a long time, this was the best thing he had ever made. He didn't expect scrap iron to be used like this, he had already heard Ling Feng explain how the open-hearth furnace was used to make steel, and he had also seen how Ling Feng operated it once, and now he knew that with such a refining method, scrap iron and good iron were essentially no different, they were both materials for steelmaking. Let's talk about the coal used by Ling Feng, which can make steelmaking reach higher temperatures than they ever imagined.
When Locke got the steel, he was also excited, but he quickly calmed down, he knew that he was going to use it to build weapons, and he couldn't be so excited when building weapons, otherwise he wouldn't be able to build a good weapon, and he would waste such a piece of material. Locke used the furnace that Ling Feng had prepared for him, used the tools he brought, and built his first steel weapon according to the drawings that Ling Feng gave him.
Locke succeeded in creating a steel weapon, he didn't know what the effect of this weapon was, only a blade, only Ling Feng said that this was called a "knife". This steel knife made Locke also very excited, took out a previously built big sword, and slashed it with this knife, only to see that the big sword was cut open, and this knife did nothing at all. In this way, Locke stared at the knife in front of him in a daze, and Ling Feng saw this situation and left. Anyway, today is just a trial work, and it has not officially started. In addition, there was still brick burning that had not been carried out, so Ling Feng continued his teaching, teaching people how to burn bricks, how to open coal mines, and how to build houses.
In the next few days, Ling Feng had been there to arrange how people to do things, so that they could slowly get used to their jobs. In the beginning, he was asked questions all day long, either this person or that person, either steelmaking or building houses, all kinds of mess. For this question, Ling Fengdu answered carefully and explained to others. Later, there were fewer and fewer problems, although there were still them, but they were slowly normal. Everything doesn't need him to operate normally, except for architecture, this is not said to be possible, there is no way, Ling Feng can only take over this matter for the time being, while doing it, while teaching the person in charge, wanting to train him to become a master builder.
Things were going on in an orderly manner, time was passing quickly, and Ling Feng had been busy here, but it was very calm. But he didn't know, because of his reasons, the imperial city was already boiling now.