Today's brick kiln factory in Haaland territory has reached 70 percent production efficiency, producing more than 600,000 bricks per week.

It will take about thirty-six weeks to complete Baron Sharp's order.

Bulk building materials such as bricks need to be transported over long distances and consume a lot of money. Even if the cost is low, it simply cannot compete with local adobe kilns.

The brick kiln factories in Haaland's territory can seize the market of up to 100 kilometers nearby, and they also need to compete with the brick kiln factories of Fort Flame, Fort Black River, and Harden Castle.

On the contrary, the market for soil cement is larger, and the project is more promising.

Richard has been on the Dawn Continent for ten years and has not seen cement.

Although there is no cement, there are magicians in the Dawn Continent, and magicians can use the spell of turning mud into stone to turn mud into stone.

The important buildings of the Dawn Continent are all involved in magicians.

The building that the magician participated in was structurally integrated without leaving gaps between the stones, much stronger than the one that was glued with cement.

But the number of magicians is limited.

Especially in the Grant Kingdom, the number of magicians is very small, and if cement can be produced, it will have very good sales prospects. However, the efficiency of producing soil cement in Haaland's territory is very low, and the production capacity is basically used for the construction of the territory, and it is difficult to sell a large amount of it for money in a short period of time.

Since two or three years ago, Richard has sent prospectors to search for ore in the territory.

It's just that the prospecting technology of the Dawn Continent is very primitive, and there has been no good news.

When Baron Sharp and his slaves entered Richard to build a road, six kilometers southwest of Sophia Castle, they dug up the iron ore on the surface.

After receiving this news, it was already mid-April, and Richard and Sophia had just finished their spring ploughing and had a little free time.

With excitement, the two took the prospectors and led the metro to the vicinity of the mine, carefully surveyed the mine, and found that in addition to the iron ore with high purity, this vein was also accompanied by some precious blood steel.

Blood steel, orichalcum, mythril, and pure gold are all precious super-magical metals. It can be used to craft enchanted weapons and magical equipment.

The reserves of blood steel are the largest, and the market price is six silver coins a catty.

Six silver coins can buy more than 500 catties of grain, which is enough for the family to save for a few months.

The prices of orichalcum, mythril, and pure gold have risen step by step.

The price of orichalcum is three gold coins a catty, the price of Mithril is a hundred gold coins a catty, and the price of pure gold is more than two thousand gold coins per catty.

Blood steel and oraldrites are often used to craft enchanted weapons for the most elite soldiers.

Mithril and Adamantite forge high-level enchanted weapons and magical equipment for high-level professionals and magicians.

Sophia has three pieces of magic equipment on her body, some of which increase mental power, and some of which have spell effects.

The price of each piece of magic equipment is more than a few hundred gold coins, which is enough for an ordinary family of four to live for more than a hundred years.

The discovery of iron ore greatly increased the economic value of Richard's collar.

The development of iron ore has become the most important thing for the Haaland family.

The development of iron ore requires a large amount of labor, from mining to building earth blast furnaces to make iron.

In addition, the expansion of cement kilns is also on the agenda.

To carry out all of this work, it will take at least 3,000 people.

The population that Richard now controls can draw 3,000 people.

However, the transfer of labor will affect other projects.

The construction of Sophia's Castle will slow down and will affect agricultural production.

Sophia's Castle is a matter of security for the territory, the progress of construction must not be slowed down, and the production of food is a top priority.

Therefore, to develop iron ore and build cement kilns, you can only buy people from outside.

With 10,000 gold coins in cash, 6,000 have been consumed to buy slaves, and the remaining 4,000 gold coins are simply not enough.

Fortunately, Baron Sharp brought a part of the deposit for the purchase of bricks, and finally solved the urgent need.

The brick kiln factory is now operating at full capacity, and all men, women and children are in battle. In addition to the construction of Sophia's Fort, the remaining bricks were supplied to the Chapraphael Union in exchange for much-needed development funds.

The Dawn Continent has not developed a machine revolution, and mining is a labor-intensive industry, from mining, mineral processing, smelting, and casting, a series of links require a lot of labor.

Without enough labor, it will be difficult to burst out of production capacity before the next orc invasion.

The territory does not have much money now, and its main income is from the sale of grain. A large number of young and middle-aged laborers are used in planting and clearing wasteland.

Food is a strategic material in the Dawn Continent and a guarantee of territorial stability.

For a territory to grow rapidly, population is the most important factor.

As a result, food reserves increased, and the cash income of the territory decreased rapidly.

Although the sugar extraction industry has prospects, it will take some time for it to develop.

The current Haaland leader is desperately short of funds.

For this situation, Richard and Sophia are also at a loss.

You can't solve things in a hurry. It was in this state of urgency that Haaland spent April in his territory.

In May, Baron Sharp had the funds in place, and Richard arranged for his uncle Soros to go to the slave markets of Fort Black, Fort Flame, Fort Flying Bear, and Fort Leyte to buy people.

Although the slave market of these castles is small, they are relatively close to the territory.

If you buy a small number of slaves, it is more cost-effective to buy them nearby.

In this way, the slaves were gradually put in place, although the number was far from enough, and the barracks were initially erected.

In order to protect the mining area, Richard also asked the army to expand the patrol area to the vicinity of the mining area.

In addition, he also transferred half of the squadron veterans to the mining area to avoid the destruction of the mining area by the monsters.

In June, although the living conditions in the mining area are still poor, they have finally gotten rid of the embarrassing situation of sleeping in tents.

Food had been stockpiled, forests had been cut down, and barracks had been built for slaves.

The conditions of the veins are not bad, and many areas can be mined in open pits.

Under Richard's command, a masonry furnace was also built.

In Richard's previous village, there was a small steel mill that could produce 6,000 tons of steel per year.

In the 90s, this small steel mill was shut down and rectified, and became an abandoned steel factory.

At that time, the adults were not at home, and the children liked to play in the abandoned steel factory.

In his previous life, when he was a child, his favorite thing was to climb up to a ten-meter-high steelmaking furnace and hide in it.

The structure of the blast furnace Richard still understands that although there are no conveyor belts and ventilation equipment in the Dawn Continent, Richard has a large number of workers in his hands, and he can use large bellows to let humans complete the replacement.

In late June, under the command of Richard, the smelters who had completed their preparations began the first blast furnace ironmaking in the Dawn Continent.

(End of chapter)