When Surdak talked about the development of the Invercargill Forest, few tribal leaders were willing to talk about it, but when he talked about opening iron mines, almost all the tribal leaders rushed to their feet to get more mercenary shares for their tribes.

Everyone has clearly tasted the benefits of the miners, but none of them are willing to exploit Invercargill Forest.

Surdak made it clear that because the value of iron is far less than that of copper, there is no way for an iron mine to have such a high salary as a copper mine.

These tribal leaders preferred to cut their salaries in half in order to secure their share of the hiring.

After negotiating the hiring of men, Surdak stayed at the copper mine for only one night, and then continued north with his group to the iron ore vein near the edge of the rift.

Now that a bridgehead camp has been built on the north bank of the Great Rift Valley, the ghost red ants have little chance of crossing the Great Rift Valley.

There are very few magical beasts in this jungle, and the adventure group hunts everywhere in the jungle, which also makes the beasts in the jungle flee immediately when they see humans......

On the way to Surdak, in addition to seeing many birds in the forest, even snakes, ants, and poisonous insects are rarely seen.

The entire forest was covered with lush vegetation, and before the group reached the mountains of the iron ore vein, some tribal leaders had already mobilized a group of young people from the tribe to follow Surdak to explore the iron ore vein.

Surdak walked for two more days from the mines, and after passing through a valley, he came across a red mountain range where the trees of Invercargill Forest had become thin.

When the two blacksmiths from the town of Dodan saw these red rock formations, they hurriedly walked a few steps forward quickly, came to the foot of the mountain, took out the hammer stone from their waists, and knocked some pieces down on some of the gravel that had rolled down from the mountain.

When Surdak came over, the two blacksmiths nodded heavily to Surdak and said, "Lord Lord, this mountain range is indeed an iron ore vein......

"Are these ores rich in iron?" Surdak asked the two blacksmiths.

"This ore doesn't contain a lot of iron, but it's quite normal, and the excavated iron ore has to be beneficiated and ground to become a smeltable iron ore......," one of the blacksmiths said to Surdak.

Several tribal leaders followed Surdak to the Red Ridge Ridge, and they heard from the blacksmith that there was indeed a vein of iron ore here, and their expressions of excitement seemed even more excited than Surdak.

If it weren't for the boundary monument not far away, it clearly stated that the mine belonged to the lord of Surdak.

Seeing their happy appearance, others may mistakenly think that iron ore veins have been found in their territory.

Surdak immediately arranged for men to set up a makeshift camp at the foot of the mine.

These young people of the indigenous tribe have lived in the Invercargill Forest since childhood, so they are very well adapted to the environment here, even if the area of the iron ore field is just a barren mountain, for these young tribesmen, they can build the most basic wooden houses in just a week.

Because of the water-gathering metal rune plates, there is no need to think about drinking water in the forest.

The monsters in this forest were almost hunted by the adventure group, and there were no monsters around, just a few simple sentry posts set up at random.

The last time Surdak was here, it was when he and the Wilkes City Bureau of Land Management officials were making boundary markers here, and the Iron Ore Ridge was what it is now, and the Land Management Bureau official said with some regret that it was too far away from the Dodan Gorge to be transported out of the iron ore.

Surdak directly led a group of people to climb up the Red Ridge Ridge, until they reached the top of the mountain, only to find that there was a large rift valley behind the mountain, and between here and the Great Rift Valley, there was only a dense forest a few hundred meters wide.

"Is there a way to replicate the model of a copper mine and use a refining furnace to smelt iron ore directly into iron ingots here?"

It seems that whoever sees those three huge furnaces in the copper mine and then looks at this iron ore vein can't help but ask this question.

Surdak shook his head and explained to the group of people around him, "It's impossible, the added value of iron ingots is not so great, and the iron ingots that are refined can't be exchanged for the magic crystals that are burned. ”

Hearing Surdak say this, the blacksmith also nodded again and again, and echoed on the side:

"Many iron ore owners are expanding the scale of production, extremely suppressing the cost of mining and transportation, as long as the income in the mine is flat, they will continue to mine, they mine iron ore regardless of the cost, mainly in the hope of being able to dig magic black iron in the core veins of the vein, as long as this kind of associated magic metal can be found, then the mine owner will be able to earn."

Surdak said to the crowd around him:

"I'm going to build an iron ore mine here, and I'm also going to build a large grinding plant here that integrates beneficiation and grinding, and when the time comes, we're going to ship some selected ore ...... from here."

In order to build an iron mine, Surdak also specially communicated with the magicians of the Alchemy Guild in Bena City.

There are no steel resources in the Grimm Empire, but there are many iron ore mines in other planes, and many iron ore mines will build large-scale grinding equipment on the mines, and after screening and grinding, those high-quality iron ore will be transported back to the Grimm Empire.

Surdak plans to relocate the steel mill in Ruyt to the town of Dodan, where high-quality iron ore will be turned into ingots.

A group of people were talking about the iron ore mines at the top of the hill when they saw an attendant climb to the top of the hill and report to Surdakyu:

"Lord Surdak, a merchant from Malacombe wants to see you."

Surdak was shocked, waved his hand at the attendant and said:

"I've been waiting for him for a long time, let him come over ......"

……

When the merchant Malacom, panting and climbing to the top of the mountain, he saw Surdak and a group of directors of the copper mines gathered around a rock with many stones on it, gesturing and saying something.

The merchant of Malacombe gritted his teeth and walked briskly.

After climbing such a long mountain road, I almost tore my intestines out.

When Surdak heard footsteps behind him, he turned around, and when he saw Malacombe approaching, he immediately opened his arms and said to Malacom:

"We haven't seen each other in over a year!"

Malacom, with some emotion, leaned in and hugged Surdak, a great honor for a businessman.

The other mine directors looked at Malacombe differently again.

"A full year and four months, Lord Surdak." Malacombe replied.

"See? This is ......" Surdaklam stood at the edge of the rock, pointing to the ridge that stretched to the east at his feet, and said to Malacom: "I plan to build an iron ore mine here, but due to the geographical location, I only plan to build the steel mill at the northern exit of the Dodan Gorge, so there will be a huge amount of iron ore shipped from here in the future." ”

Malacom's heart was slightly cold, and he asked with some concern, "You want to set up a large transport team?" ”

After all, this cake is too big, and now he is in charge of transporting copper ingots from the copper mine to the outside world, you must know that it is only the refined copper ingots, and it has already accounted for ninety percent of the orders of the Thunder Rhino Caravan.

It is estimated that if Surdak wants to make a profit, the transportation volume will be at least several times that of the copper mine, or even more......

That's why Malacomb thought that Surdak was likely to set up his own convoy.

Surdak laughed and said:

"Hehe, I don't have the energy to manage the transport team, if you are willing to accept this commission, then I can hand over all this consignment bill to you!"

The merchant Malacombe seemed to be knocked unconscious by the pie falling from the sky, and he didn't react for a while.

"What did you say?"

"I mean, I want to hand over the iron ore shipping bill to you, but I want me to hand over this order to you, and there are some conditions!" Surdak said to Malacom.

"What conditions do you have? If I can say yes, I will say yes......" said merchant Malacombe.

Then he felt a little weak in his heart......

"Build a big road from the copper mines to this side in this mountain, and I mean a flat road with four-wheeled carriages." Surdak said to Malacom.

"Is that all?" Merchant Malacombe was slightly stunned and asked uncertainly.

Once this waybill is handed over to him, even if Surdak does not make this request, Malacomm will pay for the construction of this road, and he is not prepared to use the Thunder Rhino to carry the iron ore out of the mountain.

There are many pastures on the White Forest plane, and horses are abundant.

Therefore, as long as you build a mountain road and purchase a large number of four-wheeled carriages, you can reduce the transportation cost, after all, the demonic beasts in the mountain are almost extinct.

Thunder rhinos are more suitable for transportation in barren meadows without any roads, and they do not like to live in the mountains and forests.

"Yes, as long as you are willing to build a flat road and take care of the daily maintenance of the road, I will give you the order to transport iron ore!" Surdak said firmly.

"In a word, what are you going to do to start construction of your iron ore mine?" Malacomb asked Surdak.

"Just this month......" Surdak replied.

"Then I'll go and build this mountain road at once...... Merchant Malacombe agreed cheerfully.

After discussing the transportation of iron ore, Surdak walked around the iron ore mines for most of the day accompanied by a group of people, and by the evening the young men of the indigenous tribe had set up a camp at the foot of the mountain, and in addition to the proposed tents, there were three wooden houses.

Young hunters from indigenous tribes hunted a few grouses and a deer in the mountains, and the two-headed ogre Gullitum volunteered to take on the cooking.

Early the next morning, several of the stewards and merchants of the copper mines, Malacom, and two blacksmiths hurried back to the mines.

Surdak and Gulit were going to inspect the bridgehead camp, and when they heard that something was going on there, Andrew and Tygo had already rushed over to deal with it in advance......

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