The owner of the Jerome Mine is a half-blood elf who has lived on the Partington plane for nearly two hundred years, and was a member of an adventure group called the 'Tree of Impressions', and has traveled a lot on the plane when he was younger.

As the members of the party gradually left the party and new members joined, Jerome had a different philosophy from the new members, and he later left the Tree of Impressions party.

He traveled extensively in Partington, catching fishmen in the Bay of the Isle of the Sun, hunting dragonflies in the Black Marshes, living for a time in the Griffon's Barrier Mountains, and later as a magical herb merchant on the Pagetto Plateau.

It was also by chance that he knew that the Pagisto Plateau was actually a natural rich mineral group, so he also had the plan to open a mine.

At first, he wanted to open a silver mine in the Kartim Mountains, but later learned that the three silver mines were all owned by the Lord of Arvis, and outsiders would never be allowed to go to the Kartim Mountains to share the oil and water here.

The owner of the Jerome mine had no choice but to venture north, and finally found an iron ore vein in the northern part of the plateau.

The most important thing is that this place should belong to the sphere of influence of the highland headhunters, and the power of the lord of Jarvis does not extend to this side, so to create a mine in this area, as long as the surrounding headhunters can be dealt with.

The owner of the Jerome mine actually made an agreement with the local headhunter tribe that every year he would provide a dagger and a blade to the young headhunters who participated in the coming-of-age hunting ceremony.

As for the elven miners, the other mine owners are also buying and selling at will, and the biggest seller in the Partington plane is Lord Jarvis, when something becomes a habit, everyone no longer bothered about whether it is right or wrong......

Like the other mine owners, he transported iron ingots to the city of Padstow, where the largest trading house was owned by the Lord of Arvis, and when they sold their iron ingots, elves peddled elven slaves to them.

The owner of the Jerome Mine remembers vividly that he first bought half-blood elf slaves in the city of Padstow.

Later, Lord Jarvis had an accident, and not only the supply of half-blood elf slaves was suspended, but even the sales channel for metal ingots was cut off.

When the mine owners heard that the lord of Jarvis had been sent to the Inquisition of Buenos City and would be judged with the highest punishment, the mine owners were also so frightened that they cowered in the mines, not daring to have any contact with the city of Padesto, for fear that they would also be involved, and only hoped that this matter would be over quickly......

Unexpectedly, the Silver Pegasus Army banned the Partington plane, and this seal was more than four years.

There was no sales channel for the iron ingots produced in the mines, but the mines still had to be maintained, and almost all the mine owners in the Pagisto Plateau were in a dilemma.

At this time, some mine owners did not dare to go to the city of Padstow to trade, so they made some deals with the headhunters in the northern part of the plateau.

As a result, these mines can barely stay afloat.

The owner of the Jerome mine has bought some half-blood elf slaves, but these elf slaves are all bought back from the city of Padsto, and these half-blood elf mine slaves actually live a very stable life in the mines.

He hadn't bought half-blood elf slaves from headhunters, but at most he had traded some blades and spear tips for gathering rights in the mountains, where they could gather berries and magical herbs at will in the mountains around the mines.

A few months ago, the Silver Pegasus Legion entered the northern part of the plateau, and also included his iron mine in the ranks of mines waiting to be received, but before they could receive it, those Silver Moon Elf warriors hurriedly evacuated here.

Later, a large group of headhunters ran into his mine and extorted some warblades.

Fortunately, after all these years, he was very familiar with the chieftain of the headhunter tribe in the vicinity, and with that chief interceding, the owner of the Jerome mine did not suffer much loss.

Immediately afterward, I heard that many headhunters had fled to the southern part of the plateau and launched a series of retaliatory actions against the half-blood elves there.

In fact, Jerome also thought about what he had to do in this matter to help those half-blood elves.

It's just that before he could figure it out, the headhunter was defeated again, and this time the half-blood elves in the southern part of the plateau were killed in one go, and under the banner of liberating the half-blood elf mining slaves......

In fact, he also thought about whether he should escape from the mine and whether to resist in the face of the half-blood elf army, as a mine owner who had bought and sold half-blood elf slaves......

If you resist, you will most likely be killed by those half-blood elf warriors.

Escape......

Where else can his family flee to?

Once he leaves this iron mine and loses his identity as the owner of the mine, he is no different from other half-blood elves, in the eyes of the headhunter, he will lose the last bit of value, and at that time, he may be a half-blood elf slave in the eyes of the headhunter.

So when Roy arrived at the mine with the mine guards, the owner of the Jerome mine chose to surrender.

At this moment, he looked nervously at the half-blood elf mine slave standing opposite Roy, for fear that he would say something unpleasant and anger the young half-elf officer opposite.

The owner of the Jerome mine finally realized that it was really unpleasant to put your fate in the hands of someone else.

……

"We have seventy half-blood elf miners here, all of them are currently working in the mines, and a few of us are responsible for transporting the mined ore to the outside, and then screening the ore here, the poor ore can only be used to build walls, and only the rich ore can be put into the furnace for smelting."

The half-blood elf miner who spoke was called Cooper, and when he stood in front of Roy to answer the question, he seemed neither humble nor arrogant.

"What's your name?" Roy asked suddenly.

"They call me Cooper Jr., sir." Cooper Jr. replied.

Roy saw that the half-blood elf miner was dressed in tattered linen clothes, but his hands and feet were not shackled, and there was no overseer following them.

It seems that the miners are also in good spirits and have not suffered any particular abuse.

Roy didn't see the Grey Dwarves or Darkmoon Elves miners in the mines, so he asked, "Do you have any Grey Dwarves or Darkmoon Elves in this mine?" ”

"No, we're all from Padstow and we've been living here for a long time." Cooper Jr. said.

……

Call......

The owner of the Jerome mine, who was standing on the sidelines, felt that the breath in his chest was finally spit out.

Cooper Jr. didn't say anything nasty, and was obviously trying his best to defend him, which made him a little touched.

……

Roy glanced quietly at the owner of the Jerome mine, and he was worried that the little Cooper looked like a miner, but was actually a close confidant of the owner of the Jerome mine.

Roy was a little surprised by Cooper's words, there were no gray dwarves in this small iron mine, no Dark Moon Elves, and no half-blood elf slaves bought from headhunters, some were just half-blood elf slaves bought from Padstow City.

He knew what Lord Jarvis had done, and he knew that Lord Jarvis was the biggest slave trader in the entire Partington Plane.

Luo didn't continue to ask the other miners, but asked little Cooper to take him for a casual stroll around the mine, at this moment the iron mine has fallen into a state of suspension, after the half-blood elf warriors entered the mine, they asked the half-blood elf miners to call out the other half-blood elf miners in the mine.

Roy, on the other hand, followed Cooper into the stone house where they lived.

Little Cooper lived in the row of stone houses to the east, and Roy walked into the stone houses only to find that there were some partition walls made of ore, and there were only two half-blood elf miners living in one room, and many of their personal belongings were still in the room, and Roy even saw a recorder and a simple organ, and some carved stone carvings in a mess.

Obviously, these half-blood elf miners have a little time of their own in addition to their labor, and have some spare time.

Roy was back in the half-blood elf miner's dining room, and the only food on the table was a few red berries.

This berry is very common on the Pagisto Plateau, and Mu Lin and her sisters actually eat this berry on a regular basis.

There was also a tool room next to the dining hall, which was stacked with a large number of pickaxes and stone hammers, some waiting to be repaired, some repaired, and a half-blood elf was repairing these tools in the room.

So he casually asked the half-blood elf:

"Does the mine owner ask you how many tools you have to repair per day to meet the standard?"

"No, some tools are badly damaged, so it's hard to repair, and some tools can just be replaced with wooden handles, and it's very easy to repair, so there's no way to judge how much work has been done by quantity......," the half-blood elf finished, and he despised Roy with some subtle disdain.

Roy went to the row of stone houses to the west, and found that the owner of the Jerome mine actually lived in such stone houses, but his room was more private and elaborate, and that was it.

After walking this lap, Roy's sense of the Jerome mine owner was already very good.

Roy felt that the mine owner didn't seem to be so harsh on the half-blood elf slaves, and although the half-blood elves lived here were not so good, they were not very bad, at least countless times better than the spinel mines.

Moreover, the half-blood elf miners heard that the army of the Silver Pegasus Legion was coming again, and this iron mine would soon be handed over, and some of the half-blood elf miners even had some resistance, even if they knew that they had been freed......

"Even if we are free, there are headhunters everywhere, where else can we go if we leave the mine?"

This is probably a common problem in the minds of the half-blood elf miners, who are not residents of the Padesto Plateau, and do not want to return to Padstow City, or even say that there is nowhere to go.

I was also worried that the new mine owner would not be able to compare with the Jerome mine......

Walking out of the mine, Roy suddenly had an idea, that is, he occupied so many mines, and he was in urgent need of some professional mine managers, seeing that this Jerome mine owner had a good position in the hearts of the half-blood elf miners, he wanted to communicate with him.

"What's your name?"

Roy stood in front of the mine's only small furnace and asked the half-blood elf mine owner.

"Jerome."

The owner of the Jerome mine replied.

"Can you tell me how long you've been running this iron ore mine?"

Roy looked at the small furnace in front of him, which looked like it was used to smelt iron ingots in a blacksmith's workshop, and it couldn't smelt large amounts of iron ore at all.

Obviously, the benefits of this iron mine should not be very good, which means that there is no need to pay the wages of this group of half-blood elf miners, otherwise just paying the weekly salary of this group of half-blood elf miners can make this iron mine collapse in an instant.

The owner of the Jerome mine watched Roy staring at the small furnace and did not tie him up, but asked him how long he had been running the iron mine, and sensed that Roy did not seem to be hostile to him or hateful to him.

Far from the group of half-blood elven warriors around them, their eyes were full of hostility.

The owner of the Jerome mine had to talk about some of his experiences in running the mine, he knew what Roy wanted to hear, and he tried not to talk about trading half-blood elf slaves, and occasionally talked about those things, but also simply passed them aside.

Roy nodded his head and then said to the owner of the Jerome Mine:

"This mine will belong to the Silver Pegasus Legion in the future, and I will be the mine owner of this mine.

Due to my limited energy, I can't manage the mine, and now ...... I think I can give you a certain amount of trust, and I want to hire you to manage the mine, and of course, I will leave you a 10% stake in the mine. ”

The Jerome Mine was also speechless when he heard Roy say this.

"Robbed my mine, and asked me to continue to manage it, it's really like the style of the Silver Moon Elf......

But on second thought, it didn't seem to be a bad thing, as if I didn't have to be sent to the judgment center.

Thinking of this, the hanging heart of the owner of the Jerome mine also fell.

Hearing Roy say that he could still leave him ten percent of the shares, the owner of the Jerome mine forced himself not to show a smile on his face.

Then Roy continued:

"Of course, it will definitely be impossible for the half-blood elf miners to have them in the future, and all the half-blood elf miners will be free.

The problems of the miners in the mines, the sales of iron ingots, these are all solved by me.

You just need to manage the mine, and you don't need to be so pessimistic or feel like you're at a loss.

You can think of this as an annexation, when the larger mines on the Pagisto Plateau swallow up your small iron ore.

I was able to bring this mine to life......

More resources will be invested in the mine in the future.

The iron mine will slowly grow in size, and I have a license to trade in the Partington Plane.

You have to understand this, and the iron ore mines will not be bothered by the sale of iron ingots in the future.

I'll also throw in a larger magic furnace to smelt iron ingots.

Oh, by the way, the immediate need to solve the problem is to release all the half-blood elf miners in the mine, and find a new batch of miners to replace them. ”

After saying this, Roy stepped forward and patted the owner of the Jerome mine on the shoulder, smiled at him, and said:

"Maybe you can't figure it out right now...... But in the future, you will slowly understand that what you give up now may not be the real loss of ......"

The owner of the Jerome mine glanced at Roy, and only muttered in his heart:

'I hear you very clearly......'

(End of chapter)