The industrial zone in the eastern part of Yeqicheng has been under construction for 3 days, and according to the latest express delivery from Rand, it is officially known as the Yeqicheng Industrial New Area to distinguish it from the workshop area in the east of the city.

As the only person in the team who has some sense of ironmaking, he stands in a huge cave and guesses what it was like to smelt in this space hundreds of years ago.

Originally, Kuryagan also wanted to bring Soyaku with him, This half-dwarf had just come from the Longhorn tribe not long ago, but after a few days, both Ben Kaul and himself found out that this Suoyaku was an expert in iron armor, but he didn't know anything about iron smelting, but now that the territory was in ruins, it was better to let him preside over the blacksmith shop in the east of the city than to bring him over.

When everyone first walked to this place, the first thing they found was that it was a hill, and a forest on the west side completely hid the undulations of the terrain, and only at the foot of the mountain could you feel the slope of a mountain tens of meters high.

When I entered the interior of the former ruins, I found that the hill had been completely hollowed out, and a few meters into the ground were dug to leave a flat foundation.

Everyone who has just arrived is shocked by the magnificence of the new industrial area, there are still some tracks and rock walls left in the remains of iron smelting, the foundation of a furnace can be seen in the copper smelting workshop, and the glass workshop and brick kiln are relatively well preserved.

"Master Mage, this lord asked me to restore iron smelting and copper smelting here, saying that I want to make a blast furnace, but I don't think there was a furnace here?" Koryagan touched the back of his head and asked Ben with a blank expression.

"It's not your fault, the glory here was built by the empire gathering the strength of all over the world, and if you want to test our current strength, we can't restore it." Ben stared at the wide foundations of the iron-smelting cave, and his eyes seemed to reflect the phantom of the Golden Age.

The iron-smelting blast furnace here was designed by the Emperor himself, presided over by the legendary mage Crane, the legendary rune Kaul (Ben's ancestor), and the legendary dwarf Sherman, with the participation of many legends and magisters, as well as two fairy queens and 5 great goblins.

On the Galloping Horse Plains, it is very difficult to build a suitable large-scale magic circle, and there is no magic furnace left over from the previous civilizations, or natural woods and mountains to improve the magical environment.

Not only that, as a transportation hub, Yeqi City is surrounded by no mines, no coal or other resources, and it is almost impossible to build an iron-smelting plant here.

However, thousands of years ago, the security environment on the plains was complicated, and the industrial facilities around the need for the support and protection of large cities, after several trade-offs and explorations, the Emperor chose to build an epoch-making iron-making blast furnace here.

Both here and the mountain range where Night Qicheng is located belong to the remains of an ancient volcano, and a super-large heating circle was created using the remaining fire elements underground.

On top of the heating circle, in the huge rock blast furnace, the iron ore and limestone are fully mixed with the magic of the wind and fire systems, and the molten iron formed falls due to gravity, and the furnace ash is sent away by the hot wind.

Looking at the barbarian blacksmith on the side, Ben Kaul didn't believe that this little man of Rand had any way to restore production here, let alone whether his iron ore could be obtained, and he also needed to see the face of another super-large tribe on the plains.

"I think," Ben was going to remind Kuryagan. "Rand doesn't mean that iron smelting can be resumed in two days, you prepare to build a dock first, and wait for a new batch of iron ore to arrive."

Neil's army is still entrenched in the periphery of the Brown Bear Tribe, having so far taken down 4 medium and large barbarian tribes, and after several annexations, his knights, cavalry, black-scaled horses, and pack beasts are increasing in number, but the grain is running out, and Night Kir City has organized a fleet to transport grain to the east, and then bring back the iron ore he harvested.

"You're right." The honest Kuryagan remembered that Rand's request to him was to be stationed first, and what he could recover was to recover first. "Then I'll go to the glass workshop and the brick kiln first, and then I'll go to the riverbank."

Outside the remains of the workshop, a group of people who made bricks in their original territory have begun to clean up the brick kilns. It takes 2-3 months from material preparation to fabrication in multiple processes of brick making, mud turning, embryo making, drying, and brick burning. The remains of the cave are relatively intact, and there are clay mines in the surrounding area, which is a process that can be used to resume production as soon as possible.

Copper and glass workshops were more difficult, as these two crafts were in the hands of the nobles of the royal capital, and even if there were ready-made ruins, there were no business backbones and skilled workers who could preside over the production.

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Outside the production area, Lune is leading his people to build a camp.

Because stone and wood were relatively scarce, the lords had to dig a crypt of about one meter first, and then build an earthen wall around the crypt, and a small amount of wood used as the pillar of the house and the skeleton of the thatched roof.

At the beginning of the year, Rand had consulted with Lanniya and others about how to build such a crypt house, and trained some specialized construction workers so that they could build a crypt house with a stove, a ondol, and drainage.

Such a primitive earthen house naturally cannot be directly inhabited, and after the initial completion of the construction of the demonless one, the magic goblins also need to strengthen the walls and ground, and the magic goblins can even make stone pillars instead of wooden pillars.

There were ready-made houses that were not needed in Night Qi City, but now they have begun large-scale construction in the new industrial area for the demonsless to live in.

With the help of Miss Centaur, the earth elves built a stone wall of about 1 meter outside the camp according to the scale of the camp, and built stone pillars of about 3 meters at fixed intervals on the rock wall, and separated some square stone bricks from the rock and soil. The low rock wall is only the baseline for the future engineering team to make the wall out of earth, and the stone pillars are the height standard for the wall.

The rock bricks are used to prepare for the construction of the blast furnace later: the fire fairies will affect the surrounding environment, and the objects covered around the fire elves will also form a very good thermal insulation material after a month or so, and the grinding bricks are used to make nests for the fire elves, ready to become bricks for the iron-smelting blast furnace after a month.

Although there is a forest near the new industrial area, it is currently recognized that the forest can effectively improve the turbulence of magic, and it is essential for the future to rely on the goblins to burn the kiln, so the forest of these acres cannot be destroyed at all.

In the evening, Kaye, Kur Yagan, Lune and the others reported the progress of the day to Ben Kaul, and couldn't help but make the mage from the imperial capital sigh, "I really played here, with the current progress, I sent all 3,000 people over, I'm afraid I won't be able to return to ironmaking here." ”

Ben Kaul put down the ruins of Night Qicheng and ran here, presiding over the construction of the new industrial area, and was commissioned by Rand, more because he wanted to explore the ruins here, but after a day of research, he confirmed that the traces of the magic circle left here were all newly drawn by humans in the past 1000 years, and most of them had information in the imperial capital, so he didn't need to delay time. What interests him most now is how Rand Galloping Horse plans to restore this industrial heritage into a productive new industrial area.

(End of chapter)