And when they reached the mouth of the canyon, they could feel the temperature in the valley, as if they were approaching a large furnace.

Soon in the castle guarding the valley mouth, several horses rushed down.

A moment later, they came to the front of their team, and it was supposed that someone from the valley had come out to answer them.

The leader is a tall bearded man, this guy's size, among these local aborigines, it can definitely be counted as the number one.

The height is actually close to Yang Yinuan, who can be more than one meter eight and weighs more than two hundred.

His arms can be thicker than ordinary people's thighs, and this guy is also Gao Peng's son, called Gao Jian.

The group followed Gao Jian into the castle, and Yang Yinuan and Ticondero were also arranged to a room.

At noon, everyone had a meal together in the hall of the castle.

Then, in the afternoon, Yang Yinuan and Ticondero were taken by Gao Xin and Gao Jian to visit the valley.

Unlike the Qianshan Ranch seen before, the area of this valley is much smaller, only a few square kilometers in size.

And the environment here is much worse than that of the Thousand Mountains Ranch.

Because of the perennial mining, the valley can be described as a lack of grass.

The ground level in the valley is dozens of meters deeper than the outside.

And in this pit dozens of meters deep, there are countless human beings covered in grizzled faces, who are constantly digging the pit on the steps at the edge of the pit.

The whole pit feels like a hole spiraling downward.

It's all reddish-brown ore, although I don't know how much iron can be in these powders.

But looking at it this way, the Gao family has been mining here for at least a few decades.

Because with the rudimentary tools used by these people, it is certainly not possible to dig such a deep hole in the ground in ten or eight years.

Even the surrounding mountains, many of them, have been split in half.

This shows how much has been excavated here.

And the generation near the valley pass has countless shacks.

These shacks should be the resting places for those miners on weekdays.

And next to the shack, there are several iron-making furnaces, which are in full swing at this time.

The iron ore mined from the pit is processed here.

Crushed, burned, and quenched, after which the most rudimentary iron ingots were obtained.

These ingots will then be loaded into trucks and transported to the Iron City.

In the workshops over there, they were crafted into a variety of iron farming tools, weapons, and armor, and then sold throughout the North.

Of course, compared with Qianshan Ranch, this pit is really not interesting.

Not to mention, these primitive metallurgical refining techniques of the local natives.

They haven't even mastered the art of blacksmithing, and they don't even know what blast furnace steelmaking is.

They are still in the Iron Age, and although steel is a material that also appears locally, it is produced in very small quantities.

So they still have a long way to go before they enter industrial civilization.

Yang Yinuan took a general look, and after their mining was also smelted, he had a judgment on the local metal processing level.

However, compared to these superficial techniques, what worries him more are the miners who work in the pits.

These people are dirty, unclothed, skinny, and they don't know how long it has been since they have taken a bath, and they don't have to think about having a full meal.

And the overseers who patrol the pit don't think so much.

Once you find that someone is slow, you will go up and whip them down, and those who beat them will cry wolf.

And among those miners, many of them collapsed and then couldn't get up.

When the overseers found out, they went over to inspect it, but they didn't rescue it.

Once it is found that there is no salvage value, they will directly let the person be carried away and carried to an abandoned mine at the foot of the mountain on the other side.

Just drop that guy down......

To be honest, even though I have been to this world many times, I also know that this is a semi-civilized era of ignorance.

But when he saw such an inhumane act of cannibalism, Yang Yinuan still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

This kind of picture also reminds him that this is not the era of the rule of law in which he lives after all.

He still needs to be more vigilant and careful!

"Ha, brother, the usage of your slave is a bit wasteful! If you use it like this, the cost is very high! ”

The dwarf beside Yang Yinuan suddenly smiled and said.

Looking at his expression, it seems that he is used to such a situation.

And Gao Xin next to him shrugged his shoulders indifferently: "It's okay, it's a big deal that the next time I go to Nanyun Country to deliver goods, I just buy some back." ”

"Otherwise, before autumn every year, Gao Jian will also take people to the grassland to fight the grass valley and catch a group of strongmen back..."

"And every year in winter, there will be a lot of wild people who can't stand it and run back from the wasteland in the north of Qianshan."

"Just bring them here to replenish them when the time comes!"

When Ticondero heard this, he suddenly became interested: "Oh? Do you catch a lot of such wild people every year? ”

"Can you sell us some, we have been suffering from a shortage of manpower in recent years!"

As soon as he heard this, Yang Yinuan's previous good impression of this guy was all ruined.

I originally thought that this guy was an indigenous person who was close to modern civilization in terms of thinking and could talk to himself.

But at this moment, you see him talking with Gao Xin and talking about the slave business, which suddenly made Yang Yinuan shudder.

However, although he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, Yang Yinuan also kept warning himself in his heart.

You're not a savior, you're a second-class dealer.

You're here to make money, not to save the world!

Under such constant hints, his heart was finally much better.

In the afternoon, Gao Xin wanted to invite himself to their blacksmith shop, but Yang Yinuan casually found an excuse to shirk it and went back to the room to rest.

Next, the convoy stayed at the iron mine for another day.

The inventory here is very fast, the accounts are reconciled, and then the rough smelted iron ingots are directly filled with five wagons.

The convoy turned and hit the road, and they were on their way back, with four more dock forts to check on the way back.

And after inspecting the last few dock forts, they have to pay homage to their ancestors.

Therefore, the convoy did not linger too much in this Iron Mountain City, but turned around and hit the road.

Gao Jian also sent someone to follow them all the way to see them off, but when this guy was leaving.

His eyes were staring at Yang Yinuan's side, and Yang Yinuan's heart was furious.

Because from this guy's eyes, he saw a hint of playfulness.

This guy seems to have some ideas......