Chapter 398 Cultivated land for steelmaking
Of course, in the initial stage, these blacksmiths will not be wasted, because Emperor Shi Tian needs them to make all kinds of supplies.
For example, all kinds of iron tools for farming, all kinds of iron tools for mining, pots, bowls, and even spoons for eating all need to be manufactured.
In particular, Emperor Shi Tian will take over more than 10 million people, and the daily necessities they need alone are an astronomical amount.
If you add in their tools of labor, such as mining pickaxes, the number is even greater.
Therefore, it is impossible for these hundreds of thousands of dwarves to be idle, they have endless work.
In the beginning, they only need to make the simplest things, but as their skills increase, they will be allowed to craft more complex items until they become full-fledged alchemists.
There are mining orcs, minotaurs, and dwarves who strike iron, so naturally there will be a need for steel-making manpower next.
If you want to turn iron ore into steel, it is not a simple matter, and the specific work of providing the fuel of earth fire must also be worried about by Emperor Shitian.
In order to speed up the speed of steelmaking and improve the quality of steel, Emperor Shi Tian made up his mind to use the best magic steelmaking furnace.
And this is what Aladdin is good at, and Emperor Shi Tian naturally thought of him first.
In fact, since the surrender of the Overlord Flower, Aladdin has also collected his troops and returned to the city, and is training his students, and now with the order of Emperor Shitian, Aladdin appeared in Earth Fire City with his gods and monsters as soon as possible.
Then, on the basis of the original foundation, the construction of the magic steelmaking furnace began, with the help of earth monks and dwarven blacksmiths, and their work went very smoothly.
Especially after Yaslian returned to the team, the work process is even faster.
The blast furnaces of several tens of meters were endless, occupying almost half of the place in Earth Fire City.
And the reason why Yaslian was able to return smoothly was because the other three heavenly kings finally couldn't hold on.
After inquiring that Emperor Shi Tian had let go of the Overlord Flower, they hurriedly went to the Overlord Flower to inquire what was going on, so they knew that Emperor Shi Tian was short of food here.
I have to say that the Three Heavenly Kings are really simple, and immediately contact Emperor Shitian, willing to pay the same huge alchemy ranch, just to let them go.
But at this time, Emperor Shi Tian was no longer short of meat, so he told them that at least they had to use a silver alchemy farm to buy their lives.
In fact, strictly speaking, the price of the alchemy ranch is a little higher than that of the alchemy farm, so this condition of Emperor Shi Tian is not only not harsh, but also takes good care of the three of them.
The Three Heavenly Kings were overjoyed and hurriedly used various methods to finally gather three silver high-grade alchemy farms for Emperor Shitian.
These are all good, complete alchemy farms, in which there are tens of thousands of farmers alone, and there are all kinds of small workshops, such as wineries, chicken farms, bakeries, alchemy mills, small lumber yards, etc., almost all of which are self-sufficient.
Emperor Shi Tian calculated that if the resources could keep up, each alchemy farm would be able to meet the food needs of 1 million orcs or minotaurs.
The sum of the three is equivalent to solving the food gap of 3 million in one fell swoop.
greatly reduced the pressure on Emperor Shitian's food, and coupled with the massive amount of food exchanged for magic metal, Emperor Shitian finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although there is still a shortage of food, it can be supported for at least a while, and with time, it should definitely be able to fill the gap later, and at least in two or three years, it will be self-sufficient.
In order to achieve this goal, Emperor Shi Tian also fought hard, and even found a piece of land that could be cultivated on the second floor of the dungeon, and sent 500,000 minotaurs to be responsible for farming.
It was not easy to find this flat land that could be cultivated, as it was originally a dense mushroom forest with many small rivers in between.
Emperor Shi Tian chose this from many forests, and leveled this forest, and the land is fertile, unlike other forests, the land contains more or less toxins, and the crops that grow are afraid that they cannot be eaten.
The first thing the 500,000 minotaurs do here is to cut wood, and then to farm.
During this period, Emperor Shi Tian was also worried, and he didn't even dare to bring the slaves over directly, for fear that something would happen here.
Therefore, the minotaur who brought in the farming was basically selected in the Imperial City, tamed, and believed in his men.
And I made some selections, and I wanted smart children, after all, farming is also a technical job.
The next logging scene was particularly spectacular, with hundreds of thousands of minotaurs wielding huge axes and cutting giant mushrooms more than one meter thick.
Not only that, but they also had to dig out the roots of the trees so that they could plant the land.
If it were an ordinary human, it would be very inefficient, and God knows how long it would take to start farming?
But the minotaur is different, those guys are so strong, with a shake of their arms, they must have at least two or three thousand catties of strength.
Especially among them, the masters who have cultivated their fighting qi can cut the mushroom tree with one axe, and one person can carry the mushroom tree around.
These mushroom trees are actually not very useful, and they are not used to build houses, so Emperor Shi Tian simply used them as fuel, and used this thing to cook for 500,000 people every day, and the consumption rate was really not slow.
As a large area of the forest was cleared, the number of minotaurs who cut down the trees decreased dramatically, and they began to cultivate.
Not to mention, with these powers, the powerful Minotaur farms the land, which is really too convenient.
Others still have to use oxen to plough the ground, but they can go up directly by themselves, pull three plows by themselves, and walk like the wind.
Tens of thousands of minotaurs cultivated the land together, and hundreds of thousands of acres were completed in a few days, which was convenient to death.
Then a lot of seeds are planted, and then the watering problem begins.
Undoubtedly, it is certainly not possible to irrigate by pulling water, it would be too laborious.
Therefore, Emperor Shi Tian finally decided to build an irrigation ditch, anyway, there is an underground river with abundant water, which can fully meet the needs of farming, which is why Emperor Shi Tian chose here.
Anyway, the crops here will not be harvested until more than half a year later, unless they are spawned by spells, but that would be too much trouble, and Emperor Shi Tian definitely didn't have that extra magical power.
After all, this is only a temporary cultivation land, and Emperor Shi Tian only plans to plant here for ten years.
In fact, if it weren't for Emperor Shitian's own Jiangshan Sheji space, which was not suitable for large-scale cultivation for the time being, Emperor Shitian would not have bothered to bother with this matter.
In short, with the gradual end of the war, Emperor Shi Tian can finally devote his main energy to the construction of his own territory.
Whether it is Earthfire City or this cultivated land, there will be good changes every day, which makes people look so comfortable.
Especially the Earth Fire City, after Emperor Shi Tian immigrated here, with a population of nearly four or five million, it directly became the largest city in the underground city.
More than 2 million people are in charge of mining, and the ore mined is really piled up, in addition to iron ore, there are copper ore, aluminum ore, and rare silver ore, and the area is really rich in minerals.
In addition, millions of people were in charge of smelting, and with the help of the earth's fire, Emperor Shi Tian directly built thousands of steel-making furnaces.
Almost every moment, a large number of freshly cooled ingots are sent into the warehouse.
Among them, most of the iron ore and all the silver ore will be sent to the Jiangshan Sheji space to be used to make munitions.
Aluminum ingots are naturally used to produce dog-headed aluminum bats, and Emperor Shi Tian attaches great importance to this type of troops, and even dissolves the collection of other metals, but also gives priority to ensuring the production of aluminum ingots.
As for the remaining steel and copper mines, they were digested by a large number of dwarves and craftsmen in Earthfire City.
More than a million dwarven blacksmiths worked day and night to build all kinds of tools, from swords to armor, from iron boots to helmets, from shovels to hoes, and even arrowheads.
Among them, the part required by Emperor Shi Tian only accounts for a small part, because the previous crazy production is almost enough, and the rest is a small work of tinkering.
And most of the other output is for other lords.
Ever since they knew that there were a large number of blacksmiths in Earthfire City, the lords of the first and second floors of the dungeon had begun to buy various metal materials from Emperor Shitian.
Emperor Shi Tian has a large output here, good quality, the most important thing is that the price is low, and even the delivery is free, anyway, Emperor Shi Tian has a large amount of magic power stored there, it is better to use it for home delivery.
In fact, even the lord on the second floor of the dungeon, with a blacksmith shop in hand, could not meet the needs of millions of people, and almost every lord had a large gap.
Especially the daily utensils, pots and pans, these things, the lords are even more scarce to death.
Because most of their metal is used to forge weapons and armor, there is almost no excess metal, and then used to make spoons and large bowls for their subordinates.
So in the past, the lords' subordinates were very pitiful, and the bowls and spoons for eating were made by themselves, that is, they were cut out of wood with knives.
Not only is it broken, but it is also very easy to break, and once it is broken, it has to be re-sharpened.
And now it's different, Emperor Shi Tian really sells it at the price of cabbage, one black iron coin can be exchanged for a spoon, two can be exchanged for an iron bowl, and ten can be exchanged for an iron pot.
In the eyes of those lords, the price was almost like giving it away for nothing.
In fact, Emperor Shi Tian couldn't help it, who told him that there were too many blacksmith apprentices?
Anyway, they have to build things to cultivate blacksmith skills, so it is better to make something that can be sold, and recoup a little of the cost.
As a result, Emperor Shi Tian did not expect that this business would be extremely hot, because many lords really did not have so much effort to make daily necessities.
And these daily necessities, in fact, are particularly related to the morale of the army, and now they can be solved for a small amount of money, which is really cost-effective for the lords.
Of course, the slaves under the lords are still not qualified to use iron tools, but those bronze-level regular soldiers can't eat with wooden spoons all day long?