Chapter 61: Bison Territory Iron Mines
Chapter 61 – Bison Collar Iron Mine
After clearing his mind of useless distractions, Owen arrived at the entrance of the Devil’s Horn Forest Avenue.
This was the first place to redeem the Super Farmland, and was naturally the most deeply affected and representative, so he would check it every time he came.
Grabbing a handful of soil, Owen instantly frowned as he realized that the soil’s stickiness had once again decreased, and it had changed from the original fertile humus with a pinch of oil to dry, crumbly, yellowish soil with a single pinch, so he stood up and then said to the Goblin General.
“Stop planting all the farmland in this stretch of distance, next time once you find out that the soil around you is deteriorating badly stop it immediately, then bring in humus from around to increase the fertility of the land, and plant soybeans to feed the land in the ordinary way after spring, in addition, when the weather warms up start building a wooden wall immediately to block this place off and forbid anyone from entering it, violators will be killed on pain of death. ”
The reason for stopping the cultivation of part of the super farmland is because Owen’s purpose is not to destroy this forest, in fact, the magic horn tree is a rare and precious resource, it is impossible for him to kill the chicken to get the eggs, instead, he will try to maintain the surrounding environment to make sure that the magic horn tree around it won’t die in a large area.
As for prohibiting outsiders from entering, it was just a precautionary measure to prevent adventurers and dark forces from discovering the relics in the depths of the Magic Horn Tree Forest.
Who knows what is inside the relics, treasure is okay, in case of what is sealed with the Great Demon King, and then released by those cheap adventurers, they caused trouble to pat the ass away, Owen can be pitched to cry, so in advance to strictly guard the adventurers to enter.
Through this inspection, Owen found that the kobold tribe development is good, the potential is good, he is very satisfied with this, so he rewarded the kobold general, and let it continue to work hard, if the performance is good, promote it to be the kobold leader, caused the kobold general immediately kneeled down to show loyalty.
Then Owen not only built a new dungeon chamber as a food storage warehouse, but also asked the kobold general to transport a batch of food to the Magic Horn Forest Wooden Village, and then he would send his territory’s people to escort the food back.
Taking advantage of the freezing cold and uninhabited land, Owen was ready to secretly increase the grain reserve of his territory, firstly, he wanted to increase the absorption of the population at the beginning of spring next year, and secondly, it was also for the purpose of preparing for the war.
Although Owen estimated that he still has at least one year, but the problem is that this is just his guess, not a prophecy, he will not put his hope on his own thinking, so the best way is to prepare for the worst in advance.
Under the system’s might, the heavy snow did not stop the territory’s development completely, instead, it flew strong where it could not be seen.
Thanks to the large amount of food provided by the Goblin Tribe, Owen let go of letting the territory’s soldiers go for training, while bags of food were baked into hard, solid bread and sent to the peasants’ homes to fill up their deficient bodies from their time as serfs and make them more robust.
In fact Owen was ready to make the peasants a reserve force, to be immediately sent into battle when necessary.
But this was not enough, besides soldiers, he also needed to stockpile more weaponry and production tools, so the iron ore mine in the Bison Territory was a must for him.
As soon as the ice melted, Owen couldn’t wait to lead his men down the North Boundary River to the Bison Territory.
The North Boundary River is said to be the result of the melting glaciers in the far north, spanning half of the Northland, and suddenly cutting an arc near the border, turning eastward and becoming a natural demarcation line.
Most of the barbarians initially lived on the south side of the North Boundary River, only to be ambushed several times by the Imperial Border Army, and after being killed or injured, they were forced to cross the North Boundary River and migrate further north.
Because the wide North Boundary River was simply a natural borderline, the initial footsteps of the Northland Exploitation Corps stopped here.
Water is the source of life, no territory can do without water, and irrigation of farmland alone is a threshold that cannot be bypassed. Although the North Boundary River can provide sufficient water, but this place is too far from the border of the empire, who knows when the barbarians who were forced to migrate will come back, and then they will be the first wave of victims, so there are a lot of people, but only dozens of people decided to stay here to establish a territory, and only five of them finally insisted on or survived to become a lord.
Of course, now only Viscount Hydra and Baron Swan are left.
The Bison Territory wasn’t too far from Owen’s territory, it only took half a day on horseback and a day in a caravan, so he arrived at his destination before his patience ran out.
In order to facilitate the irrigation of farmland, all the territories are built according to the river, the Bison Territory is no exception, but the terrain here is a little special, in the flat mainly northern land, the Bison Territory froze raised a piece of hill, this hill shape is strange, the center of the high rise, the two ends of the downward trend, because of the curved forward in the shape of the horn of the bull, so there is a Bison Territory name.
Bison collar mining pit in the middle of the bull’s horns concave place, here has been dug open a large pit, but a closer look, you can find that was dug out of the iron ore is not much.
Owen went up to check it out, a shallow layer of soil below all the dark iron ore, knocking on the sound of metal, visible purity is how high, no wonder the Bison Baron occupies so many years but mining is very little, because of the loss of tools is too large.
And even if mining more iron ore and how, no refining means is useless, as for transport to the empire for money, huh, if there is a direct railroad through the empire is more or less, single carriage transport, pants can lose a bottom off.
However, this is not a problem for Owen, he has a blacksmith, there is fuel, and now the iron ore is also there.
Now that the value of the iron ore was clear, it was time to take possession of it.
It was just that Owen had wanted to build a defense building here, but no matter how he looked at it, there was no suitable place.
Ox horn mausoleum is not high, the top is not wide and flat enough, can not build too big building, unless the top of the shovel level, just the mound of soil is only a foot thick, the following is full of gravel, want to build a foundation to build, consume too much manpower.
Owen simply take a shortcut, in the location behind the ox horn mausoleum to find a hidden place to exchange for the dungeon tunnel, deep down to the bottom to find the vein, directly exchange for the dungeon chamber, to create an underground living space, and then send a group of farmers stationed here to mine iron ore.
This is not only convenient, but also won’t be easily discovered.
Just farmers although hard-working and very loyal, Owen is not heartless to the extent that they work in the dark place to death, so not only in the underground construction of a small garden, but also planted fruits and sunflowers, so that the farmers do not have to stay underground for a long time to lead to depression.
In addition, the underground mining peasants are rotated once a month, while the caravan has to mine the previous pit as a cover every time they come, so that even if they leave any traces, they will only think that they only come once in a while to mine iron ore.
Of course it was very troublesome to do so, but also to squeeze out some of the already tight progress value, Owen’s hair became greasy and his face broke out in pimples.
Although this kind of change is normal for his age, the problem is that he has a woman’s OK, even if the exuberant hormones have been smoothed out for you, how can there be room for acne.
(End of chapter)