No sooner had Frix's caravan made its way back to the orc court than the dwarves of Narondo arrived. The team stretched for a kilometer www.biquge.info hundreds of carts loaded with all kinds of mining and smelting tools, and the last few carts were covered with pitch-black tarpaulin, and it was impossible to see what was inside. Tucker welcomed everyone into the temporary camp near the water, and then quietly transported the five carts to the lord's mansion under construction, and the dwarven warriors took advantage of the moonlight to carefully carry the wooden boxes from the carts into the underground dark room that had been dug, and assigned special personnel to take turns on duty, so they reported to Liang Ke with confidence.

"My lord, my father said that your territory was newly established and there was no city to defend, so he hastened to build some useful equipment for you, including a total of 1,000 longbows, 500 magic blasting arrows, 100 repeaters, and 2,000 grenades you had stored in Narondo. ”

"How much?" Liang Ke couldn't help but change color when he heard the last number.

"Two thousand. Tucker replied affirmatively, and when he saw that Liang Ke seemed a little suspicious, he scratched his head and added.

"Actually, there should be some, but the road is too far, our capacity is limited, and the road is not good, so we didn't bring them all. ”

Liang Ke took a breath and sat back in his chair. These dwarves are really equipment maniacs, if so many powerful thermal weapons and equipment are put into a war, I am afraid that a division can be wiped out in the blink of an eye, Liang Ke's eyes turned a few times in his sockets, and said solemnly: "These things must be kept strictly secret, each time they are used, they must be signed by me, and you must receive them personally, the amount must be strictly controlled, and the share of the collection must be consumed in every battle, and there can be no one left, and no one else is allowed to touch, remember?"

Of course, Tucker knew the power of those alchemy products, which were definitely a weapon of war to subvert the era, and he immediately nodded seriously.

The dwarves entered a state of efficient work the next day, and these natural metallurgical experts quickly found a copper mine, a gold mine, two iron mines and a coal mine.

The mining of the mineral deposits has greatly stimulated the employment of the inhabitants of the territory, whether they are natives or newcomers, they have their own jobs, there are fewer disputes to do, and the security team in Sibbins can also free up their hands to help the residents improve their living conditions. Although Grufender's team has been displaced for so many years, there are many capable people with professional talents, coupled with excellent physical fitness, the speed of building houses is really fast, but what makes Liang Ke a headache is that the dense coconut groves on the coastline are cutting less and less, the houses built by coconut trees are rough and ugly, and the ability to resist wind and rain is much worse. Liang Ke hurriedly found dwarven craftsmen and studied countermeasures with some residents who knew how to build.

There are two main materials used to build houses on this continent, one is stone and the other is wood, but either way, it is not easy to find it in the Gallic wasteland.

Liang Ke was shirtless, shaking a fan made of banana leaves in his hand, still hot with beads of sweat, and the gentle sea breeze could not dispel the high temperature brought by the scorching sun in July. He put down the fan, picked up a coconut and poured a few sips of coconut water, and then felt that the fire in his throat and eyes had been extinguished a little.

"Master Qilumu, do you have some refractory materials in your iron-making blast furnace?" Liang Ke casually threw the finished coconut shell into the wooden barrel beside him, and asked a dwarven craftsman leader next to him, wiping his mouth.

"Of course, otherwise the hot molten iron wouldn't melt the furnace. The middle-aged dwarven craftsman also opened the placket of his coat and fanned the cool breeze with the hem of his coat.

"Are those refractory materials made of soil?" Liang Ke's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and he hurriedly asked.

"yes! The lord wants to ......."

"Burn bricks with soil!" Liang Ke didn't wait for Master Qilumu to finish speaking, and then said his thoughts.

"Brick is a word that comes to mind, it doesn't matter what it's called, I just thought, if we can use the soil dug out of the mine and fire it to make a rectangular material of the same size, so that they can be stacked neatly together, and they can be firmly dipped with some special adhesive, wouldn't it solve the problem of building materials?"

Everyone was stunned by Liang Ke's "whimsy", everyone look at me, I look at you, they don't know how to answer. Liang Ke didn't care about everyone's surprise, and then said: "Master Qilumu, I don't know how to burn this kind of thing, but I feel that it is mainly made of clay, plus some slag, charcoal ash or something, you can take someone to test it a few more times, I will give you the size of a mold, you try to burn it first, and we will study it if there is a problem, the difficulty is that even if we burn this kind of brick, there is no way to glue them together." ”

An elder next to Liang Ke, a village elder, touched his beard and said, "If it is a stone house, it is made of a kind of sticky rice water mixed with sand, so that the stones will be glued together very strongly." However, we do not produce sticky rice here, and it will be very expensive to buy it from the mainland, so it is not suitable for large quantities. ”

Liang Ke also knew this truth, he didn't say a word, touched his chin, stared at a small insect that came in and out of the sand under his feet, and searched his limited knowledge of building materials in his head, but he couldn't think of a formula for cement.

"I have a way!" Liang Ke was pondering when he was suddenly frightened by a thunderous sound and slid from his chair to the ground. An old man on the side hurriedly stretched out his hand to help Liang Ke up, then glared fiercely at the black-faced man who spoke, and said apologetically to Liang Ke: "Lord Lord!

Liang Ke patted the sand off his buttocks, shook his head, and then looked at the black-faced man and asked, "Just now you said you have a way?"

The big man blushed, looked at the old man beside him, bit his lip and didn't dare to make a sound.

"When you are asked, you should answer well, and don't speak so loudly. The old man said angrily.

The big man grinned awkwardly, then suppressed his voice before he said his idea. "My lord, when I was fishing in the swamps to the west, I once came across a strange thing, which was black and yellow in color, and it was very sticky, and it was difficult to wipe off when it got on my body. I feel like I can use that thing to bond the materials called bricks. ”

Liang Ke frowned after hearing this, and after thinking for a while, he immediately asked some crucial questions.

"What you just said is good, but there are a couple of crucial issues. One is whether the reserves of this thing are large enough and whether they can be mined in large quantities, the second is how to collect and transport them, and the second is that the materials must not be afraid of water, and the wall will not be washed down by a rain, which is bad. ”

The father of the big man stood up, glanced at his stupid son approvingly, and then said to Liang Ke: "This is easy to do! I will take this stupid boy to see it first, and then report it to the adults in detail when I come back." ”

"That's fine! Then there will be two of them. Liang Ke acted decisively, turned around and called Tucker and said, "Tucker, go to the construction site and find two experienced masons, and ask them to go and see them together, and you must solve those problems." ”

"Yes, sir. ”

A few days ago, Tucker and the dwarven warriors took out the nests of the sandworms on the Shanka-Gobi, and the battle went very well, and the dwarven warriors successfully completed the mission without any injuries, for the simple reason that powerful grenades are the best weapon to destroy those bugs. In the past few days, the civil servants of the newly established City Hall Transportation Bureau have already pulled the migrant workers into the Gobi, and Liang Ke gave Mo Lun a death order, to be sure to build a gravel road that can allow two large carts to run in parallel within a month, and the standard of acceptance is that the four-wheeled carriage must not have obvious bumps when walking on it.

It is not difficult to build a road out of the Gobi, which is full of stones the size of birds' eggs, and the people first sprinkle the clay pulled from the Gallic wasteland evenly on the road, and then pull huge stone mills to compact the road. The difficult part is the northern section of the Gallic wasteland, the section into the coast, the road is full of sand, step on a footprint, need to mine stones to pave the roadbed, the island is scarce stones, Liang Ke made a big determination to allow the construction team to mine the stones on the low mountain.

Before the road was halfway built, the first wave of expeditions from the imperial capital arrived, which included both the personal entourage of Archbishop Kai Tak Ans and the butler of Dean Krupp, in addition to a few aristocratic stewards attracted by the advertisement, the most unexpected thing for Liang Ke was that Prince Conrad's old butler also came here.

Liang Ke personally received this luxurious inspection group, and he took everyone to taste the special seafood and river fresh food with baking as the main cooking method, and left a deep impression on everyone. After tasting the food, Liang Ke accompanied the members of the delegation along the coast to introduce the advantages of the territory one by one, and he memorized the words that Joanna had prepared a long time ago, and talked endlessly to everyone.

"Everyone, please look!" Liang Ke pointed to the cliff on the west side of Lancer Bay, and said through the rhythmic sound of the waves: "This Lancer Bay is a natural safe haven, and large merchant ships can float in from the Haikou on the south side by the high tide, and they don't even need to be swayed by manpower. This cliff may seem difficult to climb and hinder the transportation of goods, but it also has the effect of sheltering from typhoons. Investors only need to build a sturdy boardwalk along the low ground below and build a deep-water pier under the cliff, which will inevitably become a seaport that can replace the neighbors. I can tell you the news, the Gallic wasteland has obtained the right to underwrite the goods of the sea tribe and the beast tribe, and the materials here will be greatly abundant in the future, and the scarce materials of all kinds will inevitably impress those shipping merchants, so the demand for deep-water docks is imminent. ”

Liang Ke was wearing a more formal dress today, and the cumbersome dress had already made him sweaty, he took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, and continued: "You may have seen that we attach great importance to the construction of roads, at most in two months, the roads here will be repaired, and I will always repair the roads to our feet, and never let investors spend a penny more." ”

Liang Ke stomped his feet, his eyes looked at everyone firmly, he saw the fire of desire and the rolling gold coins in their eyes, Liang Ke felt that it was almost enough, put his hand behind his back, and coughed lightly.

"Of course, the dock is a special industry that is exclusively operated, and the profits are huge, and all of you are elders and friends of Aragon, I really don't know who to give this golden doll to, I don't think it's better to do this, when our infrastructure begins to take shape, and after Aragorn has done what he promised, I invite you to come again, and then we can sit together and negotiate, and compete fairly for development rights." Rest assured, the Gallic wastelands will establish a principle of fair competition for all. ”

In this way, a group of investors became pitiful competitors in Liang Ke's words, and Liang Ke did not give everyone much time to react, and continued to lead everyone to the beach.

"What a beautiful beach this is!" said Liang Ke's scholar, a wandering poet.

"You see how clear the water is, you can even see the fish and shrimp hidden in the corals of the seabed, and how beautiful those spirits are, I really can't describe them as a clumsy and coarse man. You can imagine how irresistible it is to stroll on the golden sand beach with beautiful girls dressed in short clothes of scarce fabric like the Sea Tribe, with their breasts held high and swaying their slender waists, and the men diving to the bottom of the sea with transparent frog mirrors, rubbing shoulders with those graceful and charming Sea Tribesan girls, and the children roaring happily from the high slides into the blue waters. How many gold coins do you think the tourists from the north are willing to pay for this pleasure? 10 or 100? It's like spring all year round, and if our seaside casino can accommodate 100,000 people a year, that's 10 million gold coins. Think about it! When you drive the cart full of gold coins back to the imperial capital with the Conca Behemoth, will the nobles let you take a few boxes from the cart? What's more, the Gallic wastelands won't charge you a penny, the only condition is a small share. ”

What can tug at a man's heartstrings the most is nothing more than gold coins and women, which Liang Ke knows very well, so when he told this line that he had memorized vividly, those housekeepers have begun to leave saliva, if Liang Ke is willing, I am afraid that he can get their investment commitment now.