Lux's Farewell

On Lux's side, the plan for artificially cultivating saffron has been finalized. Fuquelin and her plant breeding team, with the support of many other groups, will begin to study the artificial cultivation plan of saffron.

On Yin Nuo's side, the improvement of blue ochre processing is still under intensive investigation.

Lacus has been dealing with hunters and herb gatherers all winter, so she already knows about the industry in this area.

But on the side of the blue ochre mining industry, things are about to start from scratch - the blue ochre industry is located in the village of Vero in the east, and Lux's understanding of this place is very limited, and the data from the primary report alone is not enough to support the mining industry renovation plan.

In order to find out the situation of the blue ochre industry, Yin Nuo, who came back from the Freljord, came to Vero Village alone after handing over the matters of the northern border trade, and conducted a detailed investigation of the blue ochre industry here.

Then, when Yin Nuo came to Weiluo Village in early spring under the guidance of a guide, she immediately discovered the difference between this place and Fossbarrow.

Fossbarrow is the mountain pass of the Dragon's Ridge Mountains, and Weiluo Village is not far from the mountain pass, but the geographical environment of the two sides is completely different-in the north of Weiluo Village, the two branches of the Dragon's Ridge Mountains seem to plunge into the ground. The roots of the mountains generally spread, and the village of Weiluo is between these two mountains.

And it seems that because of geological movement, the two mountains on both sides of Weiluo Village, one east and one west, are both facing the side of Weiluo Village with a lower altitude, thus forming a long strip with a wide top and a narrow bottom around Weiluo Village. trapezoidal basin.

Unlike the hot melt lakes around Fossbarrow, there are strong winds whistling all year round near the village of Vero, and the valley winds are constant in all seasons. There is almost no soil on the ground, and rocks can be seen everywhere, and blue ocher is produced. The mine is located on the mountains on both sides of Weiluo Village.

Different from the criss-cross mines seen in Zaan, the mines here are all drilled on the stone wall, every few tens of feet, densely packed like a honeycomb.

Yin Nuo had never seen this kind of mine before, so he couldn't help but raised his head and looked at the hives carefully.

And at this moment, the president of the mining association who had been waiting at the entrance of the village stepped forward.

"Miss Yin Nuo, right?" He smiled expectantly, "Come on, come on, welcome to Weiluo Village!"

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Compared to Granny Nadine's prudence, Mr. Gillam, the president of the Mining Association, is undoubtedly more eager - he looked at Yin Nuo with anticipation in his eyes, as if he was waiting for Yin Nuo to come up with a solution, and raised his arms. , Vilo Village will be able to take back the ore processing industry from Seka Town in the southeast.

If Granny Nadine relied on her personal prestige to influence the herbal pickers' guild, then Gillam, as the president of the Mining Association, was the one who spoke for the entire Vilo Village.

The mining industry is a labor-intensive industry. Individuals can produce herbs and hunting, but if mining is done by only one person, nothing can be mined. Therefore, the miners in Weiluo Village naturally have a high Organization and collective consciousness.

Working together and selling mines for money is the way of life of the miners in Vilo Village. Individual work needs to be organized to be effective. This makes Gillum's voice higher than other associations by more than 01: 30 o'clock.

Although the production structure is quite advanced in Yin Nuo's view, in fact, the life of these blue ocher miners is not good.

Blue Ocher Dye is expensive, but Blue Ocher Ore is cheap.

After all, the blue ochre ore dug out cannot be used directly. It needs to go through a series of complicated processing steps to become an expensive blue ochre dye. In this process, as the most upstream mining workers, they can't earn much.

Therefore, for the miners in Vero Village, the idea of ​​"relocating ore washing and broken industries" proposed by Lux is undoubtedly very popular.

During the Spring Day speech, when Lux finished this part, the miners who followed Gillam to the speech all cheered excitedly.

They have long been dissatisfied with the vampires in Seka Town. It is clear that the blue ocher is the source of everything, but they always lower the price!

It's just a pity that Weiluo Village doesn't have the ability to process it, nor does it have the manpower to process it, which makes those bastards in Seka Town earn a lot of money.

In the past, Fossbarrow had no lord, and the miners of Vero were on their own.

But the situation is different now, the new Lord Lord has a solution!
Although they haven't had much contact with Lax, after seeing the artificial lake built in the winter, the miners in Vero Village understand the energy of the lord better than those who often chat with Lax.

Such a large lake that can block glaciers can be dug out. If we have this problem, is it still a problem?

It was based on these judgments that Gillam took a very positive attitude when he heard that Miss Yinuo, the political officer, would come to Weiluo Village to find out the situation in person.

With this positive attitude, Yin Nuo's work became much easier. After having a meal with the foreman of the mining association headed by Gillam, Yin Nuo directly proposed to go down to the mine to have a look.

"This, isn't that good?" Hearing this request, he hesitated facing Gillam, "The mine is really dirty and messy. The mine was just opened a few days ago and work resumed yesterday. Yes……"

"I still know a little bit about mining." Yin Nuo took out Kalya's slightly understanding state very familiarly, "Come on, let me see, at least I want to know your production scale?"

Seeing Yin Nuo's resolute attitude, Gillam could only wink to the left and right, asking them to go down the mine to make a stop first, while he led Yin Nuo to come later.

In this way, not long after, Yin Nuo came to the cliff to the east of Weiluo Village together with Gilam, and entered the blue ocher mine that was in use.

This is a straight mine without any turns. It was excavated from the cliff outside the mountain, and then slanted down all the way.

Inside the mine, Yin Nuo didn't see any structures used to support the mine, nor any permanent lighting facilities. What he could see depended entirely on the miner's lamps in people's hands.

Judging from Gillam's performance, the miners did not seem to have any safety measures. Once an accident occurred in the mine, everyone would not be saved.

The combination of these messy things made Yin Nuo couldn't help frowning. During those years in Zaan, she saw many terrible production accidents. Judging from the situation of this mine, the accident happened The possibility is very high - if it wasn't for the fear of the ripples of magic power causing the turmoil of the earth element, she would have started to investigate the structure of the earth element in the mine at this time and evaluate its mining safety!

Due to the lack of lighting, Gillam, who was leading the way in front of Yin Nuo, did not notice the change in Yin Nuo's expression. He was still talking about the mining experience of Weiluo Village for generations in a proud tone.

According to him, the blue ochre was first exposed to the open air. Later, the local people discovered that digging holes into the mountain could dig out ores with high blue ochre content, and the village of Weiluo gradually took shape.

Weiluo is actually a slang term in the north, which means "a group of people gather together". Weiluo Village is not a natural village, but a village that gradually formed with the mining of blue ochre.

"I saw a mound under this mine." When the other party was talking, Yin Nuo finally couldn't help but interrupted, "Is that an abandoned and buried mine?"

"That's right, counting it, two layers of mines have been abandoned." Gillam nodded and said, "Don't worry, this mountain is huge, and there are still a lot of blue ocher to be mined."

Hearing this, Yin Nuo finally couldn't help but put her hand on her temple—what the hell, she was never worried about how many blue ocher mines were left, but that if you mine like this, the mine will collapse in the next moment !