Mining ore has been a very physically demanding thing since ancient times, so in order to mine a vein, in addition to a certain degree of technical personnel, there is also a certain amount of money invested to equip the mine with mining tools, and the most important thing is to obtain a large number of cheap labor.

First of all, the plan to use those human slaves purchased from other regions of the King Continent, or to recruit the imperial lords to mine here has not been proposed, and it has been rejected in everyone's heads, not to mention how much it costs to transport these manpower here, the development project of the Northwest Continent and the reconstruction project of the Western Continent alone will "die in the brain" of this plan, after all, the human race is superior to other races in terms of learning ability, as long as a group of technicians are dispatched to explain the truth, and then take it to actual operation, It is estimated that those human slaves and commoners at the bottom of the empire will soon become excellent farmers, planters and gatherers of luxury raw materials, textile workers, etc., and they will also be able to pass on these skills to more people of the empire.

Secondly, the Empire's orc and orc people were also vetoed, and the reason was very simple: the giant gold veins in the Western Continent, the silver mines in the New Delhi Peninsula, the Azure Gem Mines in the Northwest Continent, and even the asphalt collection yards in the Northwest Continent were not enough to fill the gap with human slaves.

So in the end, Leo and the others only need to focus on the orc tribes that haunt the surrounding areas of the Red Fortress, if it is before the second offensive and defensive battle of the Red Fortress, Leo and the others really dare not fight the main of these orc tribes, this is not only because the strength of the orc tribes living here is dozens of times stronger than those orcs who live in the rear of the New Delhi Peninsula and on the southern continent of the Ancient Continent, the main reason is that these orc tribes generally have one or two, or even dozens of huge war beasts, Fighting these war beasts in the wild is all about seeking death (do you think these orcs who still live in a tribal way really know how to build so-called walls). But now there is nothing to do, although after the second Red Fortress attack and defense battle, the number of evacuated strong orc warriors is 6 figures, but the most threatening war beasts in the field have all been annihilated, so the sun does not set now It is completely possible to send soldiers to capture these predetermined strong orc slaves, so that the hundreds of ore veins around the Red Fortress can be fully mined.

However, two new problems have arisen in this way, first of all, if the sun never sets and wants to go to those orc tribes with more than 6 figures of regular warriors alone to capture slaves, it is impossible to rely on the 40,000 half-orc warriors who are less than 40,000 to guard the red fortress, and even if it is possible, if all these more than 30,000 half-orc warriors are sent out, who will guard the red fortress? Could it be that the 100,000 troops of Western Qin? As long as you are a fool, you know that this is impossible; Secondly, although the existence trend of the ore veins around the Red Fortress does not have a tendency to extend inland, so that Leo does not have to worry about the ore veins he is going to fight will be in the area obtained by the orcs, but these ore veins have a tendency to extend to both sides of the Red Fortress, which leads to the fact that if the Red Fortress Continent develops mining to the surrounding continents in the future, the defense line against the Orc invasion will continue to extend, and it is obviously impossible to rely on the more than 30,000 half-beast warriors guarding the Red Fortress alone.

So Leo finally decided to let the Western Qin people solve this problem, because the Western Qin people have the strength to capture strong orc slaves for the sun never sets, and in the future, as long as the 100,000 troops are equipped with some good fortifications, these 100,000 Western Qin soldiers will definitely be able to resist the invasion of those orc warriors, and the most important thing is that this can also drive the 100,000 Western Qin soldiers out of the red fortress, although the Western Qin Empire is already a hardcore ally of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, but the side of the couch will not allow others to sleep, As long as the leader is not stupid, it is impossible to have an elite army stationed in his own important military fortress, especially if the opposing side has several times more soldiers than his own.

However, if you want to let the Western Qin side work for yourself obediently, and even let it work for yourself for a long time, it is impossible not to give it some sweetness, but it is impossible to give more rare ore mining rights, not to mention that giving the Western Qin Empire too much tin mining rights will make the Western Qin feel useless, after all, it is not good if there are more precious ores, and the Western Qin is now in the post-war recovery stage, and they value more grain, grass, construction tools and other things than these useless luxuries. Just giving the Western Qin Empire more rights to benefit from tin mining will make the sun's economic income go wrong, etc., it is enough to make this plan that may shake the lifeline of the sun never set be abandoned by Leo and others, so in the end, how will Leo hire these Western Qin Empires for a long time, and even let the idea that the Western Qin people will definitely only invest more troops here to get more benefits hit the Uzi steel ingot.

It is true that the current production of Uzi steel ingots is almost at a medium level, which is only enough for the needs of the army of the Great Empire, but the conversion unit is calculated in the case of replacing the regular troops of the sun without setting (although the 2nd line troops are miscellaneous troops, they are also regular troops, and only the militia and conscripts are not regular troops) must be replaced with Uzi weapons.

"That is, you will exchange 1,000 orc slaves for 50 Uzimo knives, or 70 Uzi horizontal knives. Or the price of 100 war heads, let our Western Qin soldiers grab slaves for the sun never sets. After getting the so-called "highest" price in Leo's mouth, although Wu Cheng frowned, he did not object. Seeing this, Leo continued: "And in the meantime, as long as you work hard to carry out this transaction, we are willing to repair your weapons for free, and crossbow arrows will also be provided free of charge, in addition, on a monthly basis, we will also provide you with an additional price of 1 ton of Uzi ingots per month, of course, if you want the blacksmiths guild to forge Uzi weapons for you, we can't afford it, because this is already our big bottom line." ”

"Okay, deal, but you have to advance 200 Uzimo knives first."

"Of course, but on a monthly basis, it must be calculated from the moment you leave the border of the Red Fortress."

"Yes!" In this way, the young Wu Cheng and the 10 Western Qin army in his hands were finally deceived by the cunning merchants on whom the sun never sets.