Malacombe's Thunder Rhinoceros caravan transported the refining furnaces to Invercargill Forest, and it took more than a month just to move the components of these furnaces.

Victor the Wizard settled in the mine after following the first pieces of the main structure.

Aung San's Aboriginal Labor Corps has undertaken the infrastructure work for these refining furnaces, and four weeks earlier, the drawings for the foundation of the large metallurgical furnace had already arrived in Aung San's hands, and some preliminary preparations had been made.

When the furnace components arrived at the mine camp, Aung San led more than 300 Aboriginal laborers to quickly assemble the main structure frame under the guidance of Victor Magician, using the Thunder Rhino's huge gantry shelves.

Subsequently, various accessories were successively transported to the mine one by one, and Victor has been guiding the installation on site.

It was only when the weather began to cool down, and the leaves of the trees in the woodland began to turn yellow, and the trees swirled to the ground, and three huge furnaces finally stood on the southernmost hilltop of the copper ore vein, like three steel beasts lying above the camp.

Because it is an open-pit vein and there is no large excavation equipment, Surdak did not plan to excavate the entire mountain at the foot of the mountain, but to carry out preliminary mining directly from the southernmost summit.

The three furnaces were built on a platform built at the top of the hillside.

Now the indigenous miners only need to push a truckload of ore into the feeding port of the furnace, through the slide ropeway car owned by the furnace itself, under the action of gravity, these ores are continuously transported downward, and then enter the rotating grinder to grind into stone powder, and then enter the three-stage release tank, respectively, stirring, precipitation, and finally fill in the catalyst to precipitate copper sand, which flows out from the bottom outlet of the tank and is transferred to the furnace for smelting.

Although many places still rely on human power, many places have designed ingenious magic devices.

For example, the main power shaft of grinding is the magic wheel, and the blast of smelting is also a magic rune plate, and the furnace is the most core device, which is said to be installed with a third-level lava surging magic rune plate, which consumes at least five magic crystals every day.

The copper sand flows into the furnace, turns into copper water and flows into the cast iron mold below the furnace, watching the molds fill with copper water one after another, being dragged out of the furnace by the miners, thrown into the cooling pool piece by piece, and finally fished out by the indigenous laborers from the bottom of the pool, neatly placed on wooden pallets, a refining furnace can condense about four pallets of copper ingots every day, each pallet can hold about five tons of copper ingots, that is, a refining furnace smelts twenty tons of copper ingots every day.

Copper mining and smelting are finally on track.

It can bring Surdak about 240 gold coins per day, although the ore does not cost Surdak a penny, but it has to remove the labor costs, the loss of magic crystals in the refining furnace and the loss of equipment, which only accounts for one-tenth of the total income, and accounts for a small proportion of the cost accounting.

The magic crystal stones consumed every day are relatively expensive, and the magic crystal stones burned by the magic rune board every day are about 100 gold.

The depreciation of the refining furnace equipment is also twenty gold coins per day, so that the copper mine can bring Surdak about 100 gold coins per day.

Recently, Victor is trying to find a way to transform this furnace, mainly because the power source of the furnace is ready to be changed from magic crystals to cheaper sunglasses fragments, and if this transformation is successful, it will save Surdak fifty gold crystals worth of magic crystals every day.

However, this requires a special person to guard the gem pedestal, and a magic crystal fragment must be replaced every half hour.

The refining furnace is built on the top of the mountain, and the biggest advantage is that the entire assembly line of the suspended ropeway car can automatically run down the mountain by gravity.

Merchants waited at the foot of the mountain every day, the ropeway car continued to transport the copper ingots down, and the empty ropeway car was pulled back up to the top of the mountain by the towrope, so it can be said that the pulley block mechanism and conveyor belt of this refining furnace were used to the extreme by Victor.

The mine soon became profitable, and many businessmen went to the mine to find Surdak in the hope of becoming a distributor of the Invercargill copper mine.

However, the largest dealer in the copper mine is the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group, and only when their business group is short of capacity, will copper ingots be sold to other merchants.

Malacomb fully supported Surdak in the construction of the copper mine during this time, so this big contract is what he deserves.

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Every morning, more than 2,000 indigenous miners ascend to the mines, and they rest in the mining area at noon, and lunch is prepared by more than 40 indigenous women in the camp, and each carries a large wooden basin on his head and a wicker basket on his back, and sends it to the mining area.

The cheapest meat in Dodan is the jerky of the ghostly red ants, which is now a delicacy in the soup pots of the indigenous miners.

The miners were heavy manual laborers, and Surdak required meat for every meal in the mines to supplement the large amount of physical energy that the miners consumed every day.

In addition, Surdak advocated that the miners have rest days.

For every five days of work, they can take one day off, and of course, the indigenous miners who are far away from home can also work for ten days and take two days off, so that the indigenous workers in the mine can often return to the tribe to visit after work.

Although it has caused some difficulties in the management of the mine, it has made more local indigenous people want to join the mine.

When the magical assistant walked into the mine camp, he found that he was so out of place in the crowd, and he found that it was full of natives, only a few adventuring groups gathered in the corner of the market to form a separate trading area, and the items here were relatively expensive, and the natives would not come here.

The magic assistant squeezed in, and sure enough, some bloody monster leather could be seen here, many of which had not even been cooked.

There were also some monster fangs, horns, claws and other goods, and he squatted in front of a stall, reaching out to rummage through a piece of the magic core of a primary demonic beast.

This is worth betting on with the magic core of this primary demonic beast, and there must be a magic crystal in the magic core of the second-level demonic beast.

"Do you want to buy the fur of the Maned Beast?" The stall owner sitting at the back of the stall asked enthusiastically.

He looked at the bookish look on the magic assistant's face, and then at the magic belt on his hands and waist, and said with a smile:

"Now there are fewer and fewer magical beast materials here, and if you want to hunt these primary magical beasts, you have to go to the Three Rivers Plain to find the traces of these magical beasts."

The magic assistant didn't speak, and reached out again to touch the beast's fangs on the stall.

The stall owner continued to ask, "You're a magician, do you want to join our party?" ”

The magic assistant raised his head and asked calmly:

"You're going to the Three Rivers Plain?"

The stall owner thought for a moment before saying, "No, our adventuring group probably won't be going there anytime soon." ”

The magic assistant asked suspiciously, "Didn't you say that you can hunt demonic beasts over there?" ”

"Of course." The stall owner nodded affirmatively.

The magic assistant casually asked, "So where are you going?" ”

The stall owner smiled proudly and said: "Hey, it doesn't matter if you tell you, we are preparing in the near future, I saw those cavalry, they have been defending activities in the northern part of Invercargill Forest recently, and now many adventure groups are going over there to look for opportunities, I heard that there can also find ghost red ants over there, ghost pattern soldiers are simple-minded, we have rich hunting experience here, although the hard armor is not very valuable, but the magic core is hard currency." ”

The magic assistant was surprised and said, "You want to hunt ghost soldiers on the edge of the Dark Worm Valley?" ”

The stall owner warmly invited and said, "That's right, are you interested in joining us?" ”

"Forget it, I'm not too adventurous." The magic assistant shook his head, put the beast tooth in his hand back on the stall, and said no.

"Actually, there isn't much danger, we have a lot of people......" The stall owner saw that he was a magician, and he didn't want to give up just like that.

"I don't really have those thoughts." The magic assistant refused again, he was a little impatient, and was about to stand up and leave the stall, but he saw that the stall owner was so talkative, he thought about it and stopped and turned his head and asked, "By the way, do you know when the three refining furnaces here were built?" ”

"You shouldn't have come here just to ask for information, right?" The stall owner saw his ruthless appearance, and the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed, and he shouted sharply: "I know that your magic union and the Surdak Lord are not in agreement, but I am now making a living in other people's territory, since you are not ready to join us, we cannot be regarded as companions, even if I know these situations, I'm sorry, I can't tell you......"

Seeing that the shield warrior turned around and left, the magic assistant rolled his eyes in anger, and saw that the nearby stall owners and pedestrians were looking at him, and his eyes were full of vigilant eyes, and he knew that he had been noticed, and hurriedly got into the flow of people and walked quickly out of the market.

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At this time, at the foot of the mountain came a team of armed thunderrhinos full of goods, these thunder rhinos were covered with heavy armor pieces, each one looked majestic, each of them was extremely large, they always emitted low sound waves, and the strange sound easily resonated with the planks.

In order to avoid the collapse of these wooden houses, they usually have to stay at the foot of the mountain.

The Thunder Rhino stopped at the foot of the mountain, and immediately someone dragged a cart of hay mixed with soy feed into the clearing.

The riders quickly pad up the shelves, take the thunder rhinos from the shelves, and let them go to the river to drink, and then go to the open field to eat forage, their appetites are very large, and each time they eat, it takes quite a long time to eat.

At this time, the riders also have to fetch water from the river and use extra-long brushes to scrub the bodies of these armed thunder rhinos.

They are covered with a thick layer of hard carapace, and the crevices connected to the hard carapace are moist and warm, and there is always some mud and dirt, and this is also a paradise for parasites, and every time the rider takes advantage of the thunder rhinoceros to rest, he must use this long brush to remove the mud from his body and sprinkle some white lime powder to kill these parasites.

A huge thunder rhino needs to be busy for most of the day.

Surdak jumped off the platform of the Thunder Rhino.

He had returned from the northern border of Invercargill Forest because of a number of young natives in the mines who wanted to join his private army.

The army currently stationed in Dodan is nominally a cavalry battalion of 500 warriors, but in reality he currently has 18 armed thunder rhinos and 1,000 archers, as well as 500 native reserve infantry, which are not even armoured, but the total strength he has at present is already 2,000 men.

However, according to the laws of the Grimm Empire, all citizens of the Empire who have reached the age of sixteen are obliged to serve in the military.

These indigenous tribes are currently considered subjects of Surdak, and are naturally citizens of the Empire, so they are also required to serve in the military.

Because of this, many natives have wanted to join Surdak's army recently, and this time he hurried back from the northern border of the forest, also to discuss this matter with the chiefs of the thirty-seven tribes in the territory.

Andrew and Malacombe strode over together.

Samira followed closely behind Surdak, who asked Andrew, "The chiefs of the tribes have arrived."

Andrew said: "I've been here since yesterday, and the last one arrived at the mine at noon today. ”

"These patriarchs can't leave the tribe for a long time, gather them together, and just be in the empty hut in the camp!" Surdak said to Andrew.

"Okay, boss!" Andrew agreed, and took a few squadron leaders behind him to gather these indigenous patriarchs around the camp.

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Recently, a large number of young indigenous people have joined the mines, bringing the number of miners to nearly 3,000.

This has become a trend among the indigenous tribes, and there is now a general awareness among the young natives that they can only make a good living if they join the army of the Surdak lord or in the mines.

A large number of young natives have left the tribes, and many of them have experienced serious empty-nesting, which Surdak does not want to see.

That's why he hurried back from the northern border.

Walking up the street, the natives along the way, all known to the lord of Surdak, retreated to both sides of the stone street.

"Viscount Surdak, the bed crossbow and catapult you asked me to buy last time have arrived in Dodan Town, and all these ordnance have been transported from the city of San Carlos." The merchant Malacom, who was walking with Surdak, said as he went, "When I passed through the imperial capital this time, I also got a batch of magic crossbow arrows. ”

Surdak asked the merchant Malacombe, "Is there any new news about the last time I asked you to go to the Imperial Capital Auction House to buy the Demon Pattern Fabric?" ”

Malacombe replied: "The Imperial Capital Auction House can still buy the primary magic pattern structure, this time I will bring back a set of magic pattern construction with attributes that focus on agility according to your request, but the second-level magic pattern construction is basically not circulating in the market, I heard that only the second-level powerhouse who has been to the big battlefield has the opportunity to obtain the second-level magic pattern construction in the big battlefield." ”

"Great battle...... "Surdak repeated," Surdak repeated, then turned to Samira, who was following behind, and said, "It seems that you and Andrew really need to go over there for a ......"

With that, the group walked into the mine shed.

At this time, one after another, the indigenous patriarchs walked in from outside, and greeted Surdak one after another.