My Empire War Game

The cost of open-pit mining is very low, and it is much safer than mines. If this mine appears in the Kingdom of Florence, it will definitely let the surrounding The nobles snatched wildly. Although this is only an iron mine, the investment is low, and the output profit is higher than the average silver mine.

After confirming the location of the mine, Suren opened the strategic map and looked at the map from here to the territory. He was about to find the nearest route.

Soon Suren found something on the map. About one kilometer away from the mine, there was a river flowing by. Suren deliberately checked it. The width of the river was eight to ten. Between three meters, the water depth is two to three meters, and the flow is average, just an ordinary small river.

But this small river is a tributary of the Baishui River. From here, it extends to the northeast for about three kilometers, and then it merges into the Baishui River, and then goes upstream along the Baishui River, and finally you can return To the wharf of the territory, with this river, the ore mined from the mine can be transported to the territory by water.

Water transportation has too many advantages over land transportation. Not only is the transportation volume large, the speed is fast, and the cost is low.

The river is three meters deep and eight meters wide. Although it can't pass too big ships, it is enough to transport iron ore. Slave is also used to mine the ore. The cost is equally low and pitiful, plus Hydraulic forging machines have been used in the Upper Suren Territory, and labor costs have once again been reduced. As for the blast furnace and fuel for smelting ore.

The cost of this part is also very low. There are trees everywhere in the wilderness. Slave can also be used to cut down the trees. In this way, the cost of forging a piece of Hundred Refinements iron essence is horribly low.

It is like a piece of equipment forged by Suren for his Barbarian guard. If it is in Carter City, these equipment will cost at least two hundred golden dinar, but in Suren territory, the cost of this equipment is only 30 at most. A golden dinar.

The cost of manpower and transportation in the mine is removed, and the most expensive forging cost is also replaced by hydraulic forging machines. The new blast furnace used in the territory increases production while reducing costs again. Therefore, the lowest cost of the final set of equipment will be so low.

Even if Suren sells each set of equipment at the price of one hundred and fifty golden dinar, he can easily make a lot of profits, and such a low price can also attract businessmen willing to take the risk to trade here.

With a decision in his heart, Suren did not stay here anymore, letting two Barbarian warriors direct the kobolds to build houses here, and Suren rushed to the territory.

There are now 1,500 goblins, kobolds, and gnoll slaves in the territory. Among them, the number of goblins is the largest, about 700 people, and the second there are more than 500 kobolds, and the rest It is hobgoblins and gnoll, there are about two hundred people.

Although the kobolds are not very powerful, this race is good at mining. Suren is going to send all these five hundred kobolds to the mine for mining, plus where is the mine? The original more than two hundred kobolds and nearly 800 kobold miners are almost enough. In addition, a team must be formed to protect the mine.

It's just that, the territory that was originally well-populated has become scarce again this time.

Up to now, Suren has felt that his Barbarian guards are under-staffed. Freedmen are scarce in the territory and cannot recruit human soldiers. As for the Barbarian women and children, some children can participate in the reserve. The young Barbarian will reach adulthood next year.

It’s just that even so, it’s not far away to quench the near thirst.

This situation cannot be changed for a while. The recruitment order used last time has not even been recruited for a ghost shadow. Suren has completely given up. He is going to mine the iron ore first. Come out some, and then transport them back to forge weapons.

After the weapons are forged, let Gene take the caravan to transport the weapons to Carter City for sale. At the low cost here, even if the price is lowered, he can also make a lot of profits. After getting the money, go to the slave market to buy serfs or other slaves.

Use these slaves to fill up the lack of population in the territory. In addition to these, Suren also intends to publicize his territory in the surrounding cities to attract those civilians who want to obtain land. To act as a free man.

Since Carter City has not experienced war for several decades, the population has increased sharply, and many people are born without land. You must know that the property inheritance in this World is inherited by eldest son, and the other sons are in adulthood. Then it will go out independently.

This situation has caused many people to have no farmland and no money, so they can only go to work in the city. The overwhelming majority of the mercenary profession is this kind of person. Those who own industrial farmland rarely migrate. Su Lun’s territory is not attractive to them. Only those who have nothing will take risks and travel through hundreds of miles of wasteland to live in Suren’s territory.

Suren’s goal is these people, recruiting these people to the territory to become his free people, although most of these people have no assets, but as long as they work hard in the territory, Suren will pay them wages so that they can be in the territory Buy a family business. Or use the installment method to sell the farmland to them.

In fact, Suren is already considering restoring freedom to the serfs under him, of course he will not do so now.

He is going to let these slaves work for a few years, and then gradually cancel their working status and let them become free people. Although Suren seemed to have suffered a great loss when he released the slave, he actually suffered a lot from the calculation.

When they are slaves, these people will naturally not work as slaves. Even if they are forced to work, their efficiency will be high. Although they save money, they do not create much value. But if Suren and them It was agreed that as long as he worked hard for a few years, he could be pardoned as a slave and become a free man.

Then the positive development of these slaves will definitely improve by leaps and bounds. After a few years, after these slaves become free citizens, they naturally want a better life, so they will definitely work harder and then contribute taxes to Suren.

Calculated like this, the value they create is much stronger than those of slaves. Of course, Su Lun did not do this kind of thing at first, after all, the traditional power of this World is still very strong.

At least he is prepared to wait until he becomes stronger before doing so. If it was in Suren in the south, I would probably worry about the influence of the surrounding territories, but in the northern wasteland, where the emperor is far away from the mountains, basically no one cares.

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