Chapter Seventy-Two: Opening the Road
"Get out of the way!"
When several farmers were digging upwards, suddenly, the soil above loosened, and Zhu Zi saw this, and hurriedly pulled the farmers underground over.
Sure enough, in the next second, the farmer's location was buried by the soil, directly blocking their way forward.
The hard work just now, the road that was opened up, fell short, and it was directly filled, and not only that, but their original space was greatly reduced.
The good news is that because of the collapse above, the flat bottom above collapsed, and they can barely see what it looks like above.
"Wang Zhi, let someone bring some ropes over, let us go up and dig from below, it's not realistic, we have to dig from above."
Zhu Zi thought about it and shouted at it.
Obviously, if you want to dig up, it is impossible, and if you can't dig up, you can only let the people above drop the rope down, and they can climb up along the rope, and this is the only way.
"Yes! Your Highness, you will wait below, and I will arrange it. ”
Wang Zhi's voice came from above, and after a while, it fell silent.
"Let's dig down while they're coming."
"Look at how big this iron ore vein is."
Zhu Zi saw that there was no movement above, and knew that Wang Zhi had also left, so he gave an order to the peasants around him.
When several farmers heard this, they also started directly and dug around, digging from all directions except for the place where the collapse had just occurred.
When they get to the rock layer, they are fixed a lot, and they will not collapse as easily as soil, and they can be dug from the side, so that the space they are in is a little wider.
With the passage of time, several peasants, no, now they should be called miners, have dug out a lot of space underneath, not only rocks, but also iron ore, all of them, in order to facilitate the expansion of their working area, and also to see how big this iron ore vein is.
But despite the large amount of space they had dug up, there were still a lot of iron ore mines on the periphery.
"Your Highness! Here we are, are you still down there? ”
Just then, a shout was heard from above.
"Here, drop the rope."
When Zhu Zi heard this, he hurriedly walked to the bottom of the cave and shouted to the top.
As soon as the words fell, a thick rope fell, and it was not until it reached Zhu Zi's front that Zhu Zi stopped above.
"I'll go up first."
"Pull the rope!"
Zhu Zi pulled the rope and said to several miners behind him.
"Yes!"
"Pull the rope!"
Wang Zhi, who was above, immediately beckoned the soldiers and pulled up the rope.
Several soldiers, almost subconsciously, lifted the rope with force, and little by little, pulled the rope upwards.
It didn't take long for Zhu Zi's head to poke out of the hole, and then with one last kick to catch the power of the wall, Zhu Zi jumped up and landed on the ground.
"Go on, there are a few more people down there, all pull them up."
After Zhu Zi came up, the first thing he did was to ask the soldiers to pull up the miners below.
The way to dig down still has to be done by the miners, digging from the top down, they have just come up from the bottom, they know which way to go, which way to dig, and they will be much more handy when digging.
Hearing this, several soldiers nodded, and threw the rope in their hands down again.
"Your Highness, how are you, is there anything wrong?"
Wang Zhi asked with a worried face, for fear that Zhu Zi would jump down and make some mistakes.
Jumping so high, but if you are a normal person, you will be useless if you don't die, but Zhu Zi actually looks like nothing has happened, which is too strange.
"I'm fine, from today onwards, we in Qiongzhou also have our own iron ore veins, with iron ore veins, the development of Qiongzhou will advance by leaps and bounds."
"After you go back, arrange some people who can endure hardships, remember, they must be able to endure hardships, let them go down to mine, the treatment must be good, working under the dark pit is already very difficult, and the treatment cannot be bad."
"Construction also needs to be built here, this is left to you, it doesn't have to be too complicated, the living environment and food of the people are not bad, it's good."
Zhu Zi shook his head, and then said with a serious face.
Iron ore veins were discovered, so naturally they had to be excavated, and digging required manpower, a huge iron ore vein, with just a few miners, the efficiency was definitely not enough, and it would not be able to keep up with the needs of Qiongzhou in the future, and it was inevitable to recruit new ones.
Since you want to recruit new people, the conditions in all aspects must not be bad, miners, not ordinary people can do it, not only to be able to bear hardships and stand hard work, but also to be strong enough, otherwise it is too difficult to dig stones.
"Yes!"
Wang Zhi smiled and agreed excitedly, this matter is not complicated, it can be handled easily, and what Zhu Zi said is reasonable.
He didn't have any hope that there would be an iron ore vein in Qiongzhou, and it was an iron ore vein that others had searched for and excavated, but had not found.
brought Zhu Zi over, purely because Zhu Zi was King Qiong and his boss, if it was someone else, he might have ignored it, after all, there were too few things that everyone thought were impossible, and they still insisted on doing it.
However, it was also because of Zhu Zi's persistence that they succeeded in finding an iron ore vein, and he knew very well what an iron ore vein meant to Qiongzhou.
At least for a long time in the future, the development of Qiongzhou will rise to more than one level, an iron vein, enough for them to use Qiongzhou for more than a few decades.
Soon, several miners came up to the land.
"You follow the path you just saw, dig from the top down, and dig a way down."
"From today onwards, your job is to dig iron ore here, and you don't have to do other work."
Zhu Zi said to several miners.
Before there was no need to mine, these miners were treated as ordinary farmers and did the same thing as other farmers, but from now on, it is different, these miners, with their own jobs, can play their special attributes.
"Yes!"
Several miners also hurriedly agreed.
After saying that, without a single ink blot, several miners picked up their shovels and pickaxes again, found a place, and began to dig down, this time downward, not vertically as before, in the direction of the pit they had just dug, and slowly dug downward.
It didn't take long for a simple cone to come out, and I have to say that these miners are still not ordinary, and they use shovels and pickaxes to dig the soil into steps, and go down, just need to go down the dirt steps, and it becomes extremely convenient in an instant.