After combing her hair, Lester tied a simple ponytail for the girl, wiped the girl's lips with a pale pink magic lipstick, and finally applied a little mage-specific skin cream to the girl's face, making the girl's rough skin extremely moisturized......

Gray mist pupils, small and straight nose bridge, seductive pink lips, aura ears, shallow curvature......

After the makeup was over, Margaret stared blankly at the big-eyed blonde beauty in the bronze mirror with her mouth half-pursed, and pointed at the strange girl in the bronze mirror stupidly.

"This, is this me?"

The voice came out, and then, the girl saw that the beauty in the bronze mirror had an incredible expression.

"That's you, Margaret."

After putting Rose's makeup back in its original position and making sure the cap rotated at the same angle as before, Lester closed the drawer.

"You're a pretty girl, but you don't usually pay attention to grooming and maintenance, trust my eyes, my general."

Awkwardly getting up from the stool, looking at her completely changed version of herself in the mirror, Margaret's movements subconsciously softened a little, no longer as big and resolute as before.

"Lord Lester......"

Patting the girl on the shoulder, Lester smiled.

"My general, could you please accompany me on a tour of the southern mining areas?"

"Yes!"

After a hard blow to her chest, Margaret realized that she was not wearing armor now, but fortunately she didn't hit anything with this punch, only a little pain.

"You don't have to salute me today, just relax and treat yourself as an ordinary person, okay?"

"Good ......"

……

Before the Emerald Realm was established, the Mombians discovered a total of two natural caves in the Norkmerch Plains, one in the foothills of the Urus Mountains in the north and the other in the Glittering Silver Mountains in the south.

After the establishment of the Emerald Collar, the two mines were naturally inherited by the Emerald Collar.

Due to factors such as insufficient population, insufficient labor, and the establishment of war workshops in the south, the Emerald Collar chose to prioritize mining in the southern mining area located in the Shining Silver Mountains.

Every day, the Emerald Lords received their mining tools and food from outside the pits, and mined minerals in the caverns reinforced by stone pillars or wooden beams by skilled miners and builders.

Under Leicester's orders, the safety of the miners was put first, so that the shallow tunnels could be seen everywhere in the shallow tunnels for lighting oil lamps made of thermal insulation.

Miners were also told that it was absolutely forbidden to mine minerals in unfortified or undiscovered areas, or to light open fires in the mines at will, and that if discovered, they would be permanently deprived of the qualifications to go to the mines, and in serious cases, they would be expelled from the Emerald Collar, and those who caused harm to others would be imprisoned.

As for the deeper mines, Leicester is not ready to send people to mine them without exploration and without enough mining equipment, after all, the various minerals in the shallow caves alone are enough for the current Emerald Collar to develop for more than ten years.

In the end, the main problem of the Emerald Collar now is that there is not enough labor, and the most important thing is to support the displaced people to join and encourage the people to have more children.

For this reason, Lester is also working hard, but unfortunately I don't know why, the stomachs of several women have not moved, and it seems that the scale has to be expanded.

Soon, Lester and Margaret were in a horse-drawn carriage to the southern mining area, which was marked as 'Cave No. 1'.

"Your Lord!"

The soldiers of the Noxian Black Iron Guard, who were guarding the entrance of the mine, saluted Leicester, and then looked at the expressionless beautiful woman behind Lester with a puzzled expression.

How does it feel familiar? Wait, is this strange woman intimidating herself? How do you feel cold?

"Go and call the person in charge of the mine."

"Yes!"

The aggrieved soldier who withdrew his doubtful gaze and did not dare to say or ask turned around and ran away.

Soon, a shrewd middle-aged man with a mustache and a rather elaborate clothes trotted all the way over, bowed to Lester, and spoke respectfully.

"My lord, are you going to inspect the mines today?"

"Billlister, take me to the latest mine stabilization point."

"Yes, my lord."

Walking through the large minerals warehouse set up at the edge of the mine, nodding to the soldiers guarding the warehouse, the three of them walked into the dark mine.

The torches at the entrance of the cave were blazing, and the visible tunnel began to become wide and complex, with wooden beams supporting the top of the cave, and there were many traces of pickaxe mining around it.

The three of them walked deeper into the mine.

"Tell me about recent mineral production."

"Iron ore is the mainstay, supplemented by copper ore and tin ore, and under the orders of adults, the silver ore in the depths has not been mined for the time being, of which the daily output of iron ore is about 3.4 units (one unit is equivalent to the output of ten adult men, a day's normal labor in a rich mining area), 1.8 units of copper ore, and 1.3 units of tin ore,

After satisfying the smelting needs of the War Workshop, there are currently 125 units of iron ore, 95 units of copper, and 120 units of tin ore and the rest of the ore (including quartz, sulfur ore, mica, pyroxene, etc.). ”

"Haven't there been any accidents lately?"

“…… My lord, there is no big problem, but there is a middle-aged miner named 'Gut' who did not come back from the third branch of the mine last night, and seems to have disappeared.

Yesterday, I organized people to search for the third branch of the mine, but unfortunately they were not found, and the search team is still looking for the missing Gut. ”

"Missing?"

While speaking, the three of them had already arrived at the middle work area.

Dozens of miners divided into small groups and struck hard stones with pickaxes and hammers in the light of oil lamps.

Most of the broken stones are ordinary stones, and a small number of hematite with red 'spots' are picked up by the miners and placed in the wooden baskets next to them, and when the baskets are filled or when working hours are reached, the miners will leave with the baskets on their backs and deliver the ore to the ore warehouse.

In the opinion of Lester, who is accustomed to seeing modern large industrial mining machines, such low work efficiency is outrageous, but with the current mining technology of the Emerald Collar, this is already very efficient, unless the mage is allowed to use magical magic to mine, but this is impossible.

"My lord, I don't think it's a big problem, after all, there have been cases of miners getting lost before, but in the end, they were successfully found by the search team because they got lost...... Two more forks in the road will lead to the latest support point, which is also the third branch of the mine where Gut has disappeared, and the road conditions are extremely complicated. ”