Working Prophet.

Chapter 588
It wasn't just Ilea who was busy after returning to the green field, Li Yu also had a lot of things to do.

First of all, I gave the accompanying people a long vacation. This time I went out for a long time, and spent most of the time on the road. Li Yu arranged for a secretary to record all the rest days owed, and make up for it when I came back. .

In addition, he selected 16 people from the five major departments of the church, including Hughes, referees, craftsmen, merchants, and black dog guards who were responsible for protecting them.

Led by Fabre, who won No.7 in the first green field open wheat missionary activity, they went to Beze, Ferdinand's territory.

The latter has converted to Saturday, but the rest of the Bathory family and the people in the territory are still believers of the silver moon goddess Picia.

Of course, Li Yu couldn't let go of these beliefs. He sent 16 people there this time to build a branch there.

Fabre and others not only want to preach in the territory of the Bathory family, call on everyone to believe in Saturday together, and build a kingdom of gods on land, but also help Ferdinand develop agriculture and economy, and monitor whether anyone violates the commandments.

And this is also the first time that Shuangxiu religion has really taken root and developed outside the green field.

Li Yu also attached great importance to the group of 16 people. Before they left, he called Fabre to his residence, chatted with him for a whole morning, and helped him formulate an action plan for him after he arrived in Beize.

He was allocated [-] Golden Lions as the first start-up capital, and he was also equipped with a radio station so that he could keep in touch with Lvye and ask for help in time if he encountered any difficulties.

In the afternoon, Li Yu and Ilea went to see the hematite mine that Lu Weijia found.

The ore lode was behind a small hill, and Lu Weijia found the iron cap under his feet when he passed there.

The so-called iron cap refers to some metal sulfide ore bodies exposed on the surface. Under the action of weathering, most of the metal sulfides will turn into easily soluble sulfates and carbonates and be carried away by rainwater.

Limonite, which is difficult to tolerate, is left attached to the upper part of the oxidation zone of the ore body, usually with many holes.

Iron caps are an important symbol of metal deposits, and many mineral deposits are discovered through iron caps.

Since this part of knowledge is relatively professional, and Lu Weijia's common language is limited to daily communication, involving some more complicated vocabulary, especially vocabulary that does not exist on the continent of Bratis, he directly chooses to speak Chinese.

So what Miss Rabbit heard was in the clouds, but she still couldn't hide the excitement on her face.

At the beginning, Philip Snowpaw helped Alexandro, the Angry Lion, win the battle of the Blood Dragon's Wail and became the Lord of the Western Region.

Sealed part of the territory to a group of warriors under his command. Although the area of ​​the green field is not small, due to the special terrain, barren land, and the threat of the lizardmen in the swamp, no one cares about it.

Later, it became the fiefdom of the Arias family, but the Arias family could barely survive on this land.

There are many previous heads of the family who worked hard to rule the country, but no matter how hard they worked, they still couldn't find any other means of sustainable income except selling radishes.

And this further confirms the barrenness of the green field. Although this territory has developed in the hands of Ilea now, it mainly relies on the special commodities taught by Shuangxiu.

Until the discovery of this hematite, it seems to have broken people's prejudice against this land hundreds of years ago.

Li Yu then asked Lu Weijia, "How do you plan to mine?"

"Considering our existing technical conditions, I think the fire mining method combined with the wedge splitting quarrying method is the most suitable." Lu Weijia replied.

"To put it simply, first light a fire on the mine, and then water it immediately. The ore will become fragile after being cooled and heated. At this time, inserting a wedge into the crack will speed up the fragmentation of the ore."

Li Yu nodded.

The appearance of iron ore is of course a good thing, which means that steel can be refined later. No matter in any era, people have a lot of demand for steel.

Weapons, agricultural tools, and construction all use steel. Even if it is just some trained militiamen, as long as they can provide them with a full set of armor and weapons, they can also display good combat effectiveness.

However, these weapons and equipment are too expensive in Bratis Continent. Even if you don’t buy the first-class goods from those dwarf profiteers, just find a human or half-orc blacksmith and ask him to help build a set, and you have to pay a lot of money. Fee.

Except for those extremely wealthy big families, ordinary nobles, even the guards under them don't all wear iron armor.

But if Lvye can smelt iron, especially high-quality steel, the cost of producing weapons and armor can be greatly reduced.

The significance of it is self-evident.

However, mining iron ore, including subsequent smelting, requires a lot of manpower. Fortunately, this trip to the capital brought back more than 2 people.

Li Yu intends to offer a high salary to recruit a group of miners from among them.

The Prophet of the Shuangxiu Sect is still discussing with the female lord the selection criteria and the location of the subsequent iron factory.

Miss Rabbit wants to put the iron factory in the new city to increase its popularity, but Li Yu is worried that the pollution will be too serious.

At this moment, the female lord saw a guard of the Arias family riding towards this side.

"What's going on, why do you look so anxious?" Miss Rabbit asked the visitor.

"Master Ilea, the envoy of the Figuerola family has arrived. He said that he has something very urgent to ask to see you."

"People from Figueirola?" The girl was a little surprised, but she didn't think too much, and said to Li Yu, "Then I'll go back to the castle first."

"En." Li Yu nodded.

But not long after they finished speaking, another group of people came here.

But this time there were seven people coming, and the leader was also a guard of the Arias family, but the six people who followed were wearing the cloaks of the Figueirola family.

"Sir Ilea, Sir Ilea!" The leading knight shouted as soon as he saw Miss Rabbit, "Thank God, you are finally back, please call your vassals and soldiers immediately!"

"Why, is the Marquis of Cullen looking for me? But it might be too late for me to go there now, their battles are probably over."

"No, Sir Ilea, Lord Marquis and they are missing." The knight brought an unbelievably sad news.

The female lord could not react immediately, and it took a while before she said, "Missing? How could it be, this is the Western Region, and the Marquis has a full [-] troops with him."

"Six days ago, they chased the fleeing savages into the Dragon's Back Mountain Range, and then Sir Morse, who was in charge of logistics, lost contact with the army ahead." The knight said with a serious expression.

(End of this chapter)