After ten years of sharpening the sword, one sword shocked the sky!

Chapter 40 [Tricky in the mine]

After handing over, Qiao Mo left.

Lin Lin stood on the high platform with a calm expression, facing the gaze of thirty mine supervisors and more than five thousand miners, without any sign of stage fright.

Even in the face of thousands of troops, he dared to charge alone, let alone watch.

"I am Lin Lin, an elite disciple of Baihua Valley, and I will be the chief steward of the Han Iron Mine from today on."

"Everything is business as usual, please work hard to mine today."

Lin Lin spoke, although the voice was not loud, but under the blessing of internal strength, it spread throughout the audience with great vigor.

When seeing Lin Lin, a young man, came to serve as the chief manager, everyone didn't underestimate him because of his young age, on the contrary, they felt even more uneasy.

Compared with adults who have made up their minds, this kind of young people who don't know the importance may be more likely to cause trouble, making their already difficult life even more difficult.

Now that Lin Lin said that everything was business as usual, this also relieved the nervousness of many miners.

It is already a very good result to be able to keep everything as usual, and everyone hurriedly bowed and promised in a messy manner: "Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Manager, we will definitely do our best to ensure the production."

After that, many miners began to enter the mining area under the leadership of the supervisors.

There are also two leader-level supervisors who will report to Lin Lin.

"Senior brother Lin, Xiachi Bencheng is a disciple of the deacon of the outer sect of the sect. He is responsible for supervising the production and mining of the miners. This is the account book of the production of cold iron ore in the past. Please have a look at it and give me some pointers."

"Senior brother Lin, in Xiashiyou, he is also a disciple of the outer sect of the sect. He is responsible for all kinds of expenses such as food, lodging, tools, fuel, etc. in this mine. This is the account book of various expenses of the cold iron mine. Please have a look at it and give me some pointers."

The two deacon disciples of the outer sect are already middle-aged, perhaps because of the wind and sun exposure in the mine all year round, their skin looks a little red.

At this moment, both of them were smiling at Lin Lin, a young boy, calling them senior brothers, and handing over the ledger to Lin Lin respectfully with both hands.

Lin Lin took it, looked at it casually, and threw it back.

Although Lin Lin doesn't have much professional knowledge in accounting, but thinking about it with his ass, he should know that the accounts should be a bit tricky.

Lin Lin said calmly, "Take me to the mine."

Shi You and Chi Bencheng looked at each other, not knowing what the young senior brother was thinking, so they honestly followed Lin Lin and began to show him around the entire mining area.

The entire cold iron mining area is divided into two places: the mining area and the camp area.

The camp area is a resting place for many miners, all of which are Chatong shops.

Barely able to live in people, there is definitely no comfort and privacy.

In addition to the accommodation area, there is also a livestock area, where many large livestock such as cattle, donkeys, and horses used for transportation are stored.

Then there are the warehouses for storing ore and various materials, the blacksmith's shop for making various production tools such as shovels and hoes, the canteen where many miners cook, and places like bathhouses. Lin Lin took a look at them all.

Then, went to the mining area.

This is where mining is done, divided into several mine tunnels.

The more than 5000 miners were divided into two groups, one group went to the left and the other group went to the right to dig and collect ore, and the supervisors who were the deacon disciples of the outer sect watched the work of these people.

Seeing Lin Lin, both the miner and the supervisor bowed down respectfully, and Lin Lin nodded to signal that they should not care.

Lin Lin stood by and watched these miners work for a while, and found that these miners first took coal, charcoal, etc. to ignite the place where they were going to dig, and after burning for a while, they took mining picks, awls, hammers, etc. to go up to chop the ore. .

After a long time of hard work, some ice-blue ores were finally brought down.

Then use things like poles and baskets to carry it out of the mining area. After being transported outside the mining area, the cold iron ore will be melted and smelted directly to extract the cold iron in it.

After the refining is completed, other people will drive the cattle and horses to the warehouse in the camp to store and record them.

Those miners in shackles were digging normally. If they were digging normally, it would be fine. If they were a little lazy, they would whip them hard.

The normally hired miners are treated better, and they don't know how to use a whip, but they still yell at them constantly, and if they don't obey, they will throw stones at them.

These supervisors are all martial arts practitioners. Although they don't use much strength, it is enough to make these lazy miners feel pain and dare not be lazy.

In this regard, Lin Lin watched quietly all the way, without expressing any opinions.

At this time, he also understands why these miners will change shifts. If they stay in this mining area for a long time, they will freeze to death. After working for a period of time, they will be transported outside to smelt iron. In the mine.

But even taking these into consideration, mining in this mining area is an extremely hard work.

Lin Lin took a pickaxe and dug the cold iron ore by himself. It was okay at first, but as the digging time got longer, a biting chill would come back along the pickaxe that was in contact with the cold iron ore. , making Lin Lin, a martial arts practitioner who is not weak in martial arts, feel extremely uncomfortable.

Even he is like this, let alone those miners who are ordinary people.

"It's just right to use it to assist in the practice of body protection magic skills to temper the body." Lin Lin muttered in his heart.

After trying the feeling of digging cold iron ore for a while, Lin Lin now has an understanding of the operation mechanism of the entire mining area and the difficulty of collecting cold iron.

"Is there anything you want to tell me about the operation of the mine?"

On the way to the outside of the mining area, Lin Lin asked the two supervisors beside him about their affairs.

At the beginning, both Shi You and Chi Bencheng thought that Lin Lin was young, and although he was strong in martial arts, he could still be fooled by his immature mind.

But at this moment, seeing that Lin Lin did not practice martial arts on his own like the previous managers, but would take the initiative to inspect the work in the mining area, he knew that he might not be a child to be fooled.

Because of this, the two honestly confessed some hidden information that they hadn't said before.

"Senior brother Lin, there is a lot of money in the purchase of food and supplies for the miners, and what can be distributed to you, senior brother Lin, is about 100 taels of silver per month." Chi Bencheng said.

On the side, Shi You said: "There is also a lot of money for the purchase of slaves and the recruitment of miners. There are some people who are not paid. This part is allocated to you, Senior Brother Lin, and there is about 100 taels of silver. "

Hearing this, Lin Lin had a slight smile on his face: "Is it really only 200 taels?"

He looked at the accounts before, and the salary of the miners and support staff in the entire mine fluctuated around 6000 taels of silver per month, and the consumption of various food tools, fodder and other materials fluctuated around 5000 taels of silver per month.

The salaries of the supervisors are paid directly by the sect, and all expenses add up to less than 5000 taels a month.

For the sect, it is very cost-effective to pay more than 1 taels of silver per month to obtain cold iron resources worth at least more than 20 taels of silver, so they turn a blind eye to the tricky things below One eye, as long as the production of cold iron does not decrease.

Anyway, the total reserves of the entire Cold Iron Mine are only that much, and the difference between early mining and late mining is not very big.

And a steward just came here to contribute to the sect, so these tricks don't matter, as long as the production of cold iron does not decrease, it will not delay his contribution to the sect.

But if the steward of the Cold Iron Mine intends to increase the production of Cold Iron and earn more contributions from the sect, then these tricks will be a huge obstacle.

It is a problem that must be solved.

(End of this chapter)