The Sacred Ding Chapter 188: Lake mud sand mine

This time with Shen Kun supporting Juquanling, there are dozens of young disciples such as Shen Xiu and Zhou Qingyun. They are young, and they all practiced in Huanglongyuan Taoist Academy before, and they have cultivated to the Profound Realm at the age of sixteen or seventeen. In the middle and late stages, even stepping into the Spirit Realm, it is inevitable that there will be arrogance standing on top of all living beings, but after more than a month of hard work, they have matured a lot.

At this time, they knew that since they were martial artists in the same realm, their strengths still differed by heaven and earth. Although Shen Xiu and Zhou Qingyun had stepped into the Spirit Realm, they were still not rivals to those veterans in the Profound Realm. Even if they can win one-on-one, the old pawns have too much experience in teaming together, and they can still teach them rich experience and lessons in the unpredictable fierce battle.

Of course, Shen Xiu and Zhou Qingyun participated in the actual combat drills with the demon crocodile, and they grew extremely rapidly.

During this period, every two or three days, after regaining his true vitality, Chen Hai would sneak into the bottom of the lake to fight the demon crocodile. However, he did not intervene in the defense and alert in Juquan Ridge, and gave it to Wu. Meng and Ge are in charge of training troops with them.

This kind of life, even Su Ling, feels very worried. I don’t know when Wu Meng and Ge Tong’s security cordon leaked, and the demon crocodile directly reacted to the stockade. So many ordinary people. People of the tribe will inevitably suffer serious casualties.

In the end, when Zhou Jingyuan took the name of Chen Hai, and the spokespersons of the Tu and Fan in Tongbei were unable to borrow the pill, the training was considered to be over, and Chen Hai personally dived into the bottom of the lake for nearly thirty Mi's demon crocodile carcass dragged to the lake.

Even during this period of time, this monster crocodile has been exhausted and scarred by Chen Hai and more than two hundred elite guards. Chen Hai's ability to kill the monster crocodile at the bottom of the lake still made Su Ling unbelievable. .

At the same time, in the later stage of the Spirit Realm cultivation base, does Chen Hai really want to surpass Wu Meng and Ge Tong so much?

Is this the true strength of the Northwest Territory's No. 1 election?

She waited for Chen Hai personally, and Chen Hai went to the bottom of the lake to fight fiercely with the demon crocodile. She waited on the shore with her clothes and armor, knowing that Chen Hai did not use magic weapons, only relying on the frost-hardened golden halberd to fight fiercely. After two days and two nights, the demon crocodile was finally beheaded.

How tenacious is the vitality of the demon crocodile? Everyone has a common goal. Chen Hai's strength can last for two days and two nights. Is he still human?

With such a miracle of taking Jiaosui Pill, Chen Hai’s physical strength can really be compared to Jiaolong?

Su Ling didn't know that Chen Hai fought this monster crocodile for nearly 20 times in more than fifty days, that is, when he dived into the bottom of the lake for the nineteenth time, he had already mastered the complete counter-current true meaning, even when The turbulent undercurrent of the lake, facing the ferocious demon crocodile, already has a crushing advantage.

However, Zhou Jingyuan wanted to cry without tears. If Chen Hai were not for the Si Cheng of Tongbei Dacang at this time, he could borrow a lot of resources, and Juquanling would have long been unable to survive bankruptcy. He had harvested from the corpses of two monster crocodiles. None of the extremely rare materials can make up for the consumption that lasted for nearly two months.

At this time, Juquanling defaulted on Tu's and Fan's large amounts of pill, and also borrowed 600 extra halberds from Tongbei Dacang, two hundred halberds, and two troop carriers were almost exhausted. , They also need to smooth out the account a little bit...

Chen Hai didn't take it seriously. The resources are developed only to be used; and only when they are used can they become invisible strength.

In this battle, the two demon crocodile slayed, the materials that can be collected can make up for the consumption at most, and there are even debts, but apart from the two hundred guards, both personal and battle formation strength must be substantively crossed.

In terms of other resources, it is definitely worth it.

Slay the demon crocodile, and no demon beast in Juquan Lake will make waves, and it will completely open up the waterway to Tongbei Prefecture to facilitate the transportation of bulk materials.

At this time, the ore, wood, tung oil, gum, medicinal materials and other products in the mountains near and west of Juquanling can be transported to Tongbei Prefecture on a large scale, and a large amount of grain and conventional ironware can also be transported from outside the mountain. , Porcelain, etc.

Once such a large-scale exchange of materials is carried out, more ordinary people can be settled and multiplied in Juquan Ridge and the mountains to the west.

After slaying the demon crocodile, in addition to opening secluded fishing ports and hunting fish and beasts, lake banks and river banks can be built along the banks of the lake and many tributaries, and a large number of grain fields can be cultivated. Tens of thousands of hungry people outside the mountain were guided to Juquanling for resettlement. In the past, there were a large number of lakesides and river valley beaches around Juquan Lake that could not be reclaimed because the monster crocodile was a monster, let alone fishing in the lake.

Juquanling wants to develop the resources of the western foothills of Qintong Mountain on a larger scale, and it needs a lot of manpower support.

Like a large mine, it requires three or four thousand young and strong labors. Now Juquanling has only three or four thousand people, including the old, weak, women and children. Where can so many young and strong labors be available?

Many of the mountains in the upper reaches of the Tonghe River are rich in gold and iron veins, but these mountains have been divided by other clan forces one after another, and Chen Hai has no way to reach out and mine for mining materials.

However, over the centuries, the ore rocks in these deep mountains have been eroded and weathered into fine gravel. With the stream, there will eventually be a large amount of gold and iron ore with a relatively high density. Spring lake, and accumulated in the muddy bottom of the lake with intricate terrain.

These lake mud are actually more easily collected placer materials; there are even many natural rare gold and iron deposits at the bottom of the lake, waiting for everyone in Juquanling to mine.

The deep mountains and old forests at the western foot of Qintong Mountain are richer in resources, but roads are not accessible, manpower is scarce, and many resources cannot be developed, but Juquan Lake is a treasure house right under your nose.

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After a simple transformation, a troop carrier turns into a sand mining ship, and soon a ship of gold-iron ore-rich lake mud ore is dug up. After several previous processes of washing and filtering, Directly into the furnace.

Because the composition of lake mud ore is too complicated, it is much more difficult than ordinary iron and copper smelting. The furnace even needs to be smelted into a large flame-collecting talisman array to greatly increase the temperature of the flame before the ore can be burned and melted.

If only ordinary iron is produced, the cost is too expensive, but it is precisely because the composition of the lacustrine ore is too complicated, and the resulting iron is quenched.

Because the veins flowing through the upper stream of the Tonghe River are all fixed, although the composition of the lake mud ore is complex, it is very stable, and the composition of the gold-quenched iron is also extremely stable.

Looking at a furnace of gold-hardened iron material directly cast into shape, but repeated forging to make the internal composition evenly distributed, Zhou Jingyuan touched the unpolished but already-shaped hardened halberds, hardened golden spears and hardened scales. They are all excited to shed tears.

Here, the cost of smelting gold-quenched iron is ten times higher than that of ordinary iron materials, but it is less than a quarter of the price of gold-quenched iron obtained by sects and sects through infiltration. .

The rich ore mud accumulated at the bottom of Juquan Lake will not be used up for a hundred years. What a terrifying wealth is this?

At this time, Zhou Jingyuan was convinced that Chen Hai chose Juquanling after careful consideration, and he came from the mud and sands of the lake from the beginning—these two monster crocodiles, how qualified to follow this lake full of pits? Mud ore is on par.

It's just that he doesn't know, how did Chen Hai know that this lake mud ore is so precious?

Chen Hai naturally does not explain the formation principle of alluvial placer deposits to others. This is not a profound knowledge on the earth. You can learn geography in middle and high school, but in Yanzhou, no one knows, or only a few The land reconnaissance monopolized by the clan clan.

Of course, Juquan Lake can be enriched with placer deposits. There must be a large number of gold-iron ore veins in the upstream. It is just the magic of nature that gathers gold-iron ore in Juquan Lake.

Zhou Jingyuan knew too well the significance of their ability to smelt quenched gold and iron on a large scale in Juquanling.

Compared with ordinary precision wrought iron, the performance of quenched gold iron has been greatly improved in all aspects.

Mysterious body protection spells or magic weapons, spirit armor, defense power is not unlimited, just ordinary iron arrows, the penetration power is limited, a hundred bows and crossbows must be fired to form a suppressive rain of arrows in order to attack at close range The yellow protective spirit armor and shield pose a threat.

The penetrating power of the quenched gold arrow made of quenched gold iron is seven or eight times that of the ordinary iron arrow; if it is engraved with a seal that can increase the penetrating power, it will be more powerful.

The iron arm bow made of fine-forged iron can only shoot three or four hundred steps; while the two gold-hardened iron arm bows made by Chen Hai previously used hardened iron to shoot 1,500 steps, the arrow is slightly less powerful. attenuation.

If it is replaced with a large bed crossbow or cart crossbow, it will be even more powerful.

At the same time, the gold-hardened halberd is a warrior that will be used in the spirit-exploring realm and even the Ming-Aperture realm martial arts; and the gold-hardened shield and scale-hardened armor pieces made of hardened iron are far from ordinary fine-forged iron armor pieces and iron. Shield can reach.

It's just that the output of quenched gold and iron is too sparse. Chen Hai cooperated with Li Xianghai to fight out Yulong Mountain and made the first effort before he was given a pair of quenched halberd and gold quenched scales; and even then, Juquanling two hundred Elites, none of them can be a hardened armor.

However, because of the fierce battle with the monster crocodile lasting for nearly two months~IndoMTL.com~, more than 500 pairs of gold-hardened armors borrowed from the Okang branch in Tongbei were destroyed, and it is no wonder that Zhou Jingyuan was in a hurry to hang himself.

Now it’s good, don’t worry about not having enough gold-hardened iron to repair these armors, and after a large amount of gold-hardened iron can be smelted, Juquanling will be able to build an organ chariot and other things that can really charge on the battlefield. Weapons of war.

The car body made of fine-forged iron plates is extremely heavy and has poor defense. All of them are replaced with hardened gold iron. The body weight is reduced by more than half, while the protection power can be increased by five or six times.

At this time, the Juquanling foundry mainly built armor for Tongbei Okura, but the construction materials drawn by the Taiwei Mansion or the Xiyuan Army General Manager Mansion were fine wrought iron and black iron, black placer gold, and red marrow. The rare gold and iron such as copper are all separated and sent to Juquanling to be made into quenched gold iron by infiltration casting.

At this time, Juquanling can smelt hardened iron on a large scale, but fine forged iron is nothing else. Taiwei's Mansion and Xiyuan Army General Manager's Mansion drew out rare gold and iron such as black placer gold and red marrow copper. It can be accumulated a little bit, and then it can be used to cast armor-piercing arrows that are more powerful and penetrating to make the Dao Dan realm strong.

The casting of armor-piercing arrows does not have much technical content, but fist-sized fine iron or black placer gold, mixed with other materials, are enough to make a yellow-level high-grade spirit sword, but only two With three armor-piercing arrows, which sect in Yanzhou is willing to cast armor-piercing arrows on a large scale?

The Wolf Slashing Sword given by Chen Haide's Taiwei's Mansion is a Xuan-level low-rank Xuanbing. The real black placer gold component of the black steel casting material used is enough to cast a dozen armor-piercing arrows.

Juquanling monopolized the supply of soldiers of the Xiyuan Army at this time. Even if the Taiwei Mansion and the Xiyuan Army General Administration Mansion supply a small amount of rare gold and iron each year, they can build one each year. The armor-piercing arrow was approved.

Zhou Jingyuan calculated that the back mountain must be designated as a forbidden area, and all irrelevant people will be prohibited from entering or leaving.