395. The mine owners on the plateau
The Harold mine owner looked at the half-elf boy opposite who was not much younger than himself, although Roy looked more like a human, but many places still had elven characteristics, standing in the distance may not be distinguishable, but sitting face to face, the Harold mine owner could still see it.
Although the Harold mine owner is now a prisoner, he sits in a chair, and the kind of mine owner should have is still there.
He lowered his posture and offered to greet Roy, saying a greeting.
Roy didn't say any of those disappointing words, but sat down calmly and whispered to the Harold Mine owner:
"On the Pajisto Plateau, there are half-blood elf warriors and dark moon elf warriors along my way, and I took over these mines because I wanted to establish a new order in these mines, so Harold mine owner, I may not be able to promise you anything."
Roy said this, paused and then said:
"Stay in the castle honestly, and wait for the logistics regiment's pack team to take you away, and I promise that no one will disturb you."
The owner of the Harold mine didn't expect Roy to get straight to the point and say the bottom line directly.
"I know that I will definitely be tried in the Inquisition this time, whether it is the previous slave trade, or the later instructing the half-blood elf miners to work in the mines, these are all my own actions, if the Roy mine owner wants to write a report, I hope you can write this information."
The Harold mine owner said, pushing a jewelry box in front of Roy and lifting the lid of the box.
Roy glanced at the chest, which was also filled with silver metal ingots, which, unlike Mithril, emitted a softer aura of magic.
Roy knew, but it was just a manifestation of the metal ingot's greater affinity for magic.
'A magic metal that's better than Mithril, probably Thorium. Roy guessed to himself that he didn't reveal his thoughts.
"I received the North Mithril Mine, and the report on the North Mithril Mine, I will only list the materials, the number of miners, buildings, etc. I received from the North Mithril Mine, and I will not write anything else."
Roy was reluctant to write something in the report that he did not understand, so he decisively refused.
The owner of the Harold Mine did not continue to insist, took back the metal box, and said without changing his face:
"Roy's Mine Owner, if you have any problem in managing the Mithril Mine, you can come to me. I am extremely familiar with every hole in the mine, and I have decades of management experience to handle any problem in the mine. ”
Roy stared at the Harold Mine Owner, wondering if the Harold Mine Owner had any intention of making such a gesture......
There was a faint wry smile in the eyes of the Harold mine owner, he glanced around, and said:
"I do it...... Just so that the family can suffer less. ”
With that, the Harold mine owner frowned and drank the wine from his glass.
Roy took out a piece of breadfruit from the basket and said casually:
"Because you are involved in the elven slave trade this time, you are destined to be sent to the Inquisition for trial, and no one can change this matter......"
Knowing the consequences of his imminent consequences, the Harold Mine owner's eyes became calm, and he smiled self-deprecatingly, poured himself another glass of fruit wine, and then drank it again.
There is no death penalty in the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom, and the worst situation is to serve the sentence in the most difficult prison......
Although Roy did not accede to any of the Harold Mine owners' requests, he did so to make the Harold Mine owners look a little different.
Harold stopped talking about these disappointments, and he said to Roy:
"When I first built this furnace, I invited two inscriptionists from the city of Buenos and spent a lot of magic circles around the furnace, hoping that the furnace would be built more delicately and that more Mithril ingots would be melted every day.
Although the structure of the furnace has not changed much, the furnace was originally designed to smelt twenty Mithril ingots per day, and the furnace is not currently at its peak capacity......"
"This Mithril vein of Sudasso Sam is not bad, although it is not a Mithril-rich vein, but this vein is located under the rock crust of the Sudassol Mountains, and if you dig it from both sides, as long as you are careful, you will definitely not dig the mine hole."
"The reserves of Mithril Mine are also extremely rich, and at the current rate of excavation, it can be mined for at least a few hundred years."
The Harold Mine owner continued.
"The biggest problem you have in managing this mine at the moment is the release of the half-blood elf miners, and the supply of ore in the mine will be insufficient, and then there will be a series of reactions, and finally affect the speed of smelting Mithril ingots."
The Harold mine owner looked at Roy and said gently.
"That'...... What can be done to keep this mine profitable? Roy suddenly became interested, and asked the Harold mine owner.
The elves in the restaurant had eaten lunch and left.
There was no one else at the table where the Harold Mine Owner was but Roy and the Harold Mine Owner......
Roy looked at the Harold mine owner, confused.
The Harold Mine owner looked a little smug and said to Roy:
"To expand production capacity, this kind of Mithril mine is, of course, the larger the production capacity, the more profitable, so that other costs can be amortized."
After stopping the Harold mine owner's words, Roy gained a lot.
Then the two talked about the private army in the North Mithril Mine, and the Harold Mine owner was a little embarrassed and said:
"On the first day the Silver Pegasus Warriors arrived at the North Mithril Mines, they officially broke up."
The Harold mine owner said a lot, and those words were useful to Roy as well.
"Where did you recruit these private soldiers? As far as I know, your private army here is not a half-blood elf on the plateau......"
The owner of the Harold mine wiped his face with a handkerchief, and then said: "Almost all of these private soldiers escaped from Padstow City, after the Lord of Jarvis was captured, they came to the plateau from Padstow City, because they were the elves who were trading slaves before, and they often deal with us, this time they came to join me, I asked them to join the private army in the mines, but I didn't expect them to be the first to slip away after seeing the silver Pegasus warriors......"
It turns out that there are many slave traders in these mines......
Roy continued to chat with the Harold Mine Owner for a while, and from the chat, Roy discovered that he was a very business-minded Elven Mine Owner, and was very familiar with the Northern Mithril Mine.
The furnaces in the North Mithril Mine are significantly more efficient than the South Mithril Mine.
In addition to these, the Harold mine owner also paid great attention to the mining efficiency of the half-blood elf miners, and Roy benefited a lot from the exchange.
Probably on the part of the Harold mine owner, Roy gained a deeper understanding of how the Mithril mine should be managed.
The owner of the Harold Mine told Roy that the biggest expense of the Mithril Mine was the cost of maintaining the furnace and hiring private soldiers, because the half-blood elves and grey dwarves were bought, and there was almost no additional cost to mine Mithril ore and smelt ingots.
Therefore, the Mithril mine is profitable every day, but the Partington plane has been in lockdown in recent years, and the Mithril ingots smelted in the mine have accumulated and have never had a chance to sell.
……
When talking about this, Roy was clear about one thing.
The owners of these mines on the Pajisto Plateau were originally backed by the mountains, and they were not some rootless duckweeds that floated casually on the Pajisto Plateau.
All along, Roy didn't know who was secretly supporting the miners so that they could drive the mines to the Pagisto Plateau.
Now Roy has finally figured it out, these mine owners must be from Padstow City.
And the construction of these mines should have been secretly supported by the nobles of the city of Padsto.
The backers behind these elven mine owners are actually the elven nobles of Padstow City.
If so, then the slave trade in Paddestow should be related to that......
Lord Jarvis ventured to sell half-blood elven slaves to the Pagisto Plateau, also because the mine owners were his men.
Thinking of this, Roy also understood that Lord Jarvis had accumulated a fortune, in addition to the trade of elven slaves, in addition to the Pagisto Plateau Mine had a large amount of gray income.
It was the mines on the Padesto Plateau that brought so much wealth to the Lord of Jarves that the little baron was a little flustered in the Partington plane, and he spent a lot of money to buy a large piece of land south of the city of Padusto, the southern end of the land almost reached the foot of the northern slope of the Barrier Mountains, and the east was closer to the Blackwater Marsh.
Such a large forest land occupies the living space of all the half-blood elves at once.
A large number of half-blood elves were displaced, and many half-blood elves didn't even know where to flee, and Lord Jarvis also took this opportunity to capture a large number of half-blood elves on the Pagisto Plateau and throw them into various mines on the plateau.
It's just that the mine owners on the plateau definitely didn't expect that there would suddenly be a problem on the side of Lord Jarvis, and all the captains would go to the inquisition to participate in the trial.
As for most of the inheritance in the hands of the lord of Jarvis, it was taken over by the Earl of Swinburn......
Unexpectedly, the mine owner of the Pagisto Plateau still has the shadow of Lord Jarvis.
Wait until Roy has figured these things out......
Watch Roy scramble as he deals with mine work......
There was always a hint of schadenfreude on the smile on the face of the Harold mine owner.
(End of chapter)