blenderwars Chapter 189 The Baby in the Wooden Box (Part 1)
Chapter 189 The Baby in the Wooden Box (Part 1)
Chapter 189 The Baby in the Wooden Box (Part [-])
As Xiao Qi led his own soldiers and killed all the supervisors sent here by the Furuoya family in the gold mine, he found that the miners who were digging did not seem to be affected in any way.
There are more than 500 miners here. They watched Xiao Qi and the others finish killing the supervisors in a daze, and began to search the cabins and caves here one by one.
These people didn't seem to have any emotional fluctuations, and they still went in and out of the gold mine in an orderly manner to dig.
Xiao Qi doesn't have a translator with him now, so he can't communicate with these people.
However, looking at the appearance of these people, these miners may have suffered a lot of inhuman torture. They had no intention of running away, and no one came to ask Xiao Qi and others for help to let them go.
Perhaps after working as slave miners here for a period of time, they have understood that no matter who controls this place, they will not let any miner who knows that there is a gold mine here alive.
There is only one possibility for them to leave here without mining anymore, and that is death. Only dead people will be taken out of here, otherwise they will have to mine here all the time.
Xiao Qi saw that these miners were still going in and out of the mine to dig, no one took advantage of the chaos to escape, and no one talked to them, everyone was doing what they should do in a daze.
Seeing these people like this, Xiao Qi understood how many cruel tortures these people had suffered before they became the walking corpses they are now.
But he doesn't think this situation needs to be changed. These islanders have been made into the best managed miners of this era by their own compatriots.
It's a good thing for me, not a bad thing. I just need to let them eat better than before and help me dig gold better.
He is here to plunder riches, not to be a Madonna here.
It didn't take long for the [-] brave troops sent by Pan Hu to arrive here, and this Pan Hu even sent over the Japanese translator that Pan Hu sent to him at the beginning.
Xiao Qi ordered people to find a few slave miners here, and asked about the mining situation here, as well as the place where the ore was initially processed.
The few miners who were brought in answered all their questions, and when they learned that the primary refining site of the gold mine was in a mountain depression not far away, Xiao Qi asked them to lead the way to this mountain depression.
After arriving at the col, Xiao Qi found that it was indeed the most primitive smelting workshop composed of more than a dozen refining furnaces.
The refined waste has piled up a small mound of more than [-] meters in radius and [-] to [-] meters high in one corner of the valley.
Xiao Qi knows that with the current refining technology, there is still a lot of gold in these wastes that has not been refined, but the refining technology here is still too poor.
In the future, I will transport a large amount of coal and build a better refining furnace here. It is estimated that I will be able to extract a lot of gold by refining these waste residues again.
After writing down the areas that needed improvement and the coal matters, Xiao Qi arranged for these two thousand brave troops to clear out the cave not far away so that the people who would be sent to garrison in the future could live there.
He left the mountain with dozens of personal soldiers and returned to the station.
Let the dozens of soldiers who followed him into the mountain go to rest. When he was resting on the couch after washing himself, he remembered the small box that he hadn't seen yet.
I took out the long box from the warehouse and opened it, and inside was a map made of unknown animal skin and a bulging cloth bag.
Opening the bag, he found various gems of different sizes inside. Xiao Qi was not interested in these things, so he put them back in the box and planned to give them to his wife Zhang Xiu.
He reached out and took out the roll of animal skin, unfolded it, and it turned out to be a map similar to a treasure map!
However, this map was made very finely. First, a small carving knife was used to carve fine lines on the leather, and then black dye was used to trace these lines.
The reason why Xiao Qi defined this map as a treasure map is because he saw a lot of Chinese characters in the simple characters on the map.
For example, every place marked as a black dot above has some characters carved beside it to explain, most of which are the place names of several islands, and the characters of gold, silver, and copper appearing in the characters next to it, these Chinese characters make Xiao Qi understand.
Not only people from other places are thinking about the gold here, but people from the Guoya family have also been collecting information on mineral deposits on several other islands.
Perhaps the Guwei Valley family has more money and has collected more information. This map actually shows the locations of many gold, silver and copper mines on other islands.
I wonder if the Tanweigu family plans to seize resources and land on other islands one day when their troops are strong.
It is not difficult to see from this map that the head of the Furuoya family carefully kept it like a treasure, they definitely have such thoughts.
But now it has fallen into Xiao Qi's hands, for Xiao Qi who is eager to find the mine here.
This picture is just like when I was dozing off, someone sent me a pillow, it’s so awesome!
He drew the locations of the gold and silver mines above on several pieces of paper, and prepared to wait for the army to completely occupy this area.
They began to send soldiers to protect the prospecting workers, to take over the small mines that had been dug in these places, and to explore the specific direction of these mines and the places where it was easier to excavate.
Of course, Xiao Qi's first choice now is gold, silver and copper. These three things are what Xiao Qi urgently needs, especially the copper, after the steel refining becomes more and more advanced.
When casting steel cannons in the future, some copper will be added in a certain proportion to make the steel that is too hard and easily shattered more resilient.
The service life of the cannon cast in this way will be extended many times, so now Xiao Qi urgently needs a large amount of copper.
What gave Xiao Qi a headache was that on this map, it was actually marked that the northernmost island also had gold mines.
This made Xiao Qi very unhappy, because the temperature there was too low, and it was okay in summer, but once it entered the long winter.
With the current human capabilities, it is simply not suitable for outside labor there. If a mine were to be opened there, a large number of miners would freeze to death every winter.
Xiao Qi decided not to develop the gold mine there for the time being, and even if it needs to be excavated, it must be planned well. It is best to only excavate there for half a year every year, and withdraw the miners to other mines for mining in winter.
The weather became warmer in the second year, and those miners were sent to dig for half a year.
After calculation, Xiao Qi gave up this method because transporting people twice a year was a waste of manpower and material resources.
With that time and energy, those miners can dig a lot of minerals on these islands in the south, and they can also save various transportation expenses.
Deciding to give up the excavation of the gold mine on the northern island, Xiao Qi focused on several other islands, as well as the surrounding small islands.
As we all know, the reason why this island country lacks resources and still has these precious metal deposits is that various volcanic eruptions brought the deposits deep underground to the surface, and these deposits were formed.
If you carefully explore the numerous volcanic islands outside, you will definitely find many mineral deposits.
However, the main energy now is to quickly take down these four big islands. Don't worry about the others, it's better to firmly control these places in Da Song's hands first.
Thinking of these exhausting things, Xiao Qi, who had been exhausted for many days in the mountains and forests, fell into a deep sleep.
God will always give you a burst of chestnuts when you are the happiest so that you will not get carried away.
Ma Shoucheng was carried away because of his complacency. On the way to attack the island, he was attacked by those islanders who were hiding around like rats, and his half-life wiseness was almost destroyed by these wretched islanders.
It turns out that since Ma Shoucheng led [-] infantry troops and [-] musketeers to land on the island, he has been looking down on everything.
All the islanders' troops who dared to collide with him were quickly defeated by him and hacked to death.
This made Ma Shoucheng, who was eager to quickly occupy the largest of the four islands, so as to fulfill his promise to Qin Tu Linzheng as soon as possible, and send [-] concubines to their soldiers, a little flustered.
For this reason, after sweeping half of the main island, he felt that the major forces on this island had been almost wiped out, although there were still many small forces.
But those small forces are not large in number. If you send a thousand-man brigade here, you can easily defeat any small force. They have no threat to these own soldiers.
Therefore, Ma Shoucheng ordered all the soldiers to speed up and strive to completely capture the largest island as soon as possible.
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