Surdak and Aung San stand on the roofs of the townhouses.

The redevelopment of the houses in the slums has been completely completed, and the indigenous people of the town have moved into these townhouses.

In the past few days, the imperial immigrants in the town who had been watching this matter have finally come forward and been looking for Mrs. Luna recently, since the town can tear down the aboriginal shacks and build the townhouse again, then ask her to renovate their houses as well, and it is best to build that kind of beautiful townhouse.

Surdak brought Aung San this time to discuss the matter.

The two of them stood on the second-floor terrace of the townhouse, discussing the feasibility of this matter, and Mrs. Luna wanted to get some welfare for these imperial immigrants, rebuild the townhouse for free, and give the land to the town.

However, Aung San was not very interested in this matter, mainly because he had to deal with imperial immigrants by building a townhouse this time.

Aung San is very prestigious on the aboriginal side, and when he builds these townhouses, none of the aborigines will jump out and find faults, but if he builds townhouses for those imperial immigrants, Aung San is not sure that they will not find faults, and when the time comes, it is better not to pick them up now.

Now that the Temple of the Two Goddesses is about to be completely completed, Aung San is ready to follow Surdak's plan, and there is still a large area of land south of the Dodan River to plan some more upscale residential areas, although they will not be built immediately, but digging drainage culverts in advance, paving roads, planning homesteads, etc., these things are far simpler than renovating the residential areas of imperial immigrants.

Aung San is also preparing to deploy some of his manpower to participate in the construction of the Invercargill Forest copper mine.

There are only so many aboriginal laborers in hand, and there is no surplus manpower at all.

Surdak learned about the situation and didn't say much.

Seeing several young magic apprentices standing on the street in the distance, Aung San smiled 'hehe' and said to Surdak:

"Mayor, I've heard that some new neighbors have come to your territory."

His gaze fell on the magic apprentices, and he said:

"It seems that these newly awakened magical nobles, when the Wilkes Magic Guild assigned the baronies this time, they all stuffed them to the side of Invercargill Forest, do you want me to inform the indigenous patriarchs in private and squeeze them all out?"

Surdak turned his head and asked Aung San, "Why do you want to squeeze them out?" ”

"I think it's nice to have some mage neighbors near the territory!"

Looking at those immature faces, Surdak smiled and said to Aung San:

"There are so many useless lands in the Invercargill Forest, and it is better for someone to develop them than to let them be left unused......"

After saying this, he just wanted to take a step away, but after taking a step, he stopped, patted Aung San on the shoulder, and said:

"Oh, by the way, the sedimentary pond your guys built over there this time is a nice one! That's how we should do it, lead the people in the town to create value together, and then improve everyone's standard of living. ”

With that, Surdak walked slowly down the townhouse and along the noisy street towards the town hall.

Soon it disappeared into the crowd.

……

Entering the tail of September, a large refining pond has been built next to the creek.

The pool is built a bit like a swimming pool, the bottom and side walls are riveted with iron plates, and the pool has been repeatedly tested to prevent leakage from the spliced iron plates.

Subsequently, large quantities of copper dust were pushed into the pool by truckloads of indigenous miners.

Recently, five or six tonnes of copper sand have been scooped out of the pond almost every day, and the mine has managed to break even.

However, due to the increase in the production of copper sand, so much copper sand is not something that the small copper workshop in Dodan Town can eat.

In fact, the blacksmith workshop is also aware of this problem, and their workaround is very simple, and the copper sand is refined in time to smelt the copper ingots, which are more convenient to transport.

The Thunder Rhino Caravan led by merchant Malacombe transported the ingots to Wilkes.

Surdak knew that this was not a long-term solution, and when he arrived in Dodan Town from the custom-made refining furnace of Hylansa, he would be able to refine standard copper ingots directly from the mine, without the need for a blacksmith's workshop to smelt copper ingots.

When the time comes, the blacksmith workshop will have to return to the original path of making copper utensils.

As the Invercargill Copper Mines began to deliver a steady stream of copper ingots to Wilkes, Wilkes' aristocrats discovered that the mine had reduced the price of copper utensils in the city by 30% in a single day.

Many of the people who had planned to stand on the sidelines to watch Surdak's show now shut their mouths.

They didn't want to have a grudge against a noble lord, especially one who had military power and was getting richer.

Everyone didn't expect Surdak to move so fast, and in just two months, the copper mine has actually produced a large amount of copper sand.

Among them is Zazaks, the largest slave owner in Wilkes City, who has been in a bit of a hurry recently, because the dwarven slaves who were supposed to be sold to Viscount Surdak are currently on the way, and everything seems to be on the right track at the Invercargill copper mine, if this batch of dwarven slaves is transported over, and the auction price is too high, it is very likely that Surdak will not participate in the bidding.

The magicians in Wilkes didn't throw any more sarcastic celebrations this time.

They were very unhappy with Viscount Surdak, and at most they called on the people around them to boycott the bronze utensils, but even the magician nobles, the families who could afford to use gold and silver utensils, did not have many in Wilkes City.

Bronze ware is still an indispensable part of everyone's life, and many middle-class families like to buy copper ware that retains its value more than those cheaper lead tin pots.

This time, the magic apprentices received their barony in the Invercargill Forest, and Viscount Surdak did not deliberately make things difficult for them because of the grudge with the Magic Guild, and at the same time, these territories did not deviate much from the map notes, and the location and boundaries were extremely clear.

In particular, some rivers in the forest are important water sources, and Surdak does not take advantage of the 'territorial selection' to include all rivers into its own territory, and many rivers exist as territorial demarcation boundaries.

The benefits of this are also obvious, so the small lords who are later assigned to the territory can at least find water sources in their territories.

This kind of generous aristocratic style also won the favor of some neutral magicians for a while.

……

By October, the refining furnace that had been brought in from Highlanza via the normal route had passed through the portal and was piled up in the warehouse in Wilkes City.

Along with the three furnaces of 4,500 gold coins, arrived in Wilkes City and Victor, the magical assistant of the Scholar of Ferdinand.

Surdak hurried from Dodan to Wilkes to join up with the merchant Malacombe and the magician Victor.

All the horses in Surdak's cavalry battalion have been strengthened by magic patterns, and the physique of each Gubolai horse has been at least doubled compared to before, and they can even march all day without sleep.

Surdak galloped under Wilkes with a squadron of sixty cavalry, only four days after he received the news of Victor's arrival in Wilkes.