Full Time Mage Lord

  Chapter 170 Three mines

  The three-month winter is neither long nor short, but it is enough to drive ambitious people crazy.

When there was nothing to do, Xiuyin often went to and from Lexingburg, but the snow in winter made the traffic very inconvenient. There were no snowmen on the roads in this era, except for a few major roads in the Heidel Dominion. There are no serious roads between Morrowind and Lexingburg. The only simple road was hard-pressed by Xiu Yin, who often hired horse-drawn carriages to transport supplies, in late autumn. .

  Shuke's body is indeed getting worse day by day. The last time Xiuyin saw the old baron, the baron's hair was already full of white hair, and he started to need a cane to walk...

  In January of spring, when the ice and snow on the earth began to melt, everything on the Haider Plain began to wake up slowly, with green sprouts embellishing the spring with a white unexpected color of life.

  Spring In mid-January, the snow on the three mountains around Chenfengling, Wugu Mountain, Daogu Mountain and Daguling, had already melted, and the mountains were replaced by emerald green.

  In the northern part of Morrowind Territory, more than 200 people gathered outside the small town. They were all the mine entrances of the original Laixing mining area. On this day, Xiuyin gathered them all because he had something important to tell them.

"If the Morrowind Territory wants to develop better, it needs resources. We are surrounded by three gentle hills. I think there must be mineral veins that our Morrowind Territory needs in these three hills. Everyone, take the Tools, let us find hope for the future together, as long as there are mineral resources, Morrowind can immediately become the next Lexingburg, and even become a wealthy town like Araki Town in the north!"

  Following Xiu Yin's appeal, the people began to divide into three teams and searched for the hills on three sides.

  In this era, there is no good way to mine veins. We can only adopt a relatively stupid idea, that is, start to build a mine on a hillside, and then dig down layer by layer, and then expand the search around the ground.

   Such efficiency is indeed extremely low, but there is no way out of it.

  Of course Xiuyin knew the exact location of the ore vein, but he couldn't let someone dig there directly, otherwise Xiuyin would not be able to explain why he knew where the ore vein was, and this was also his most important secret.

   Needless to say, the result of the first day must have been nothing.

   On the second day, three mines had been built on the three short mountains. On this day, a large number of miners were required to dig deep into the mountains.

  The miners worked very hard, because Xiu had prepared enough meat to relieve their fatigue as much as possible.

   A week passed, and the three mines also began to spread a certain distance underground, but this distance cannot be too far, because the underground structure will not be able to support it.

  In the end, no valuable resources were found, except for a lot of gravel.

Although crushed stone is a resource for construction as stone materials, and can be sold at a high price, but this price is different from the entire Morrowind leader that Xiuyin wants to manage, and this income is not comparable to that of his subordinates. The labor paid cannot be matched.

   What can bring great benefits to the territory are various metal mines and the most precious soul spar mines.

  No one knows how the soul spar mine evolved, or whether there was a soul spar mine before the great scholar Mafa established this set of soul spar theory.

  The only statement that can convince most people is that the soul spar mine is a product left by God, and it is a gift from God to the people on the mainland.

  It's a pity that there is no soul spar mine in Xiu Yin's territory. According to Alice's scan, all three mountains contain metal mines, but Alice still can't find out which kind of metal mines they are.

   "I really look forward to being a gold mine!"

   Xiu Yin licked his lips, "But it's not the time yet, just bear with it..."

  On a new day, the miners dug a new mine, and the original mine that did not find any resources was buried with soil, and the stones dug out could not be wasted, and were used as roads or low walls for building towns.

The location of the new mine is naturally not a location with resources. If the real resource point is so easy to find, the countries on the whole continent will not worry about resource problems. The depth of resources is also unknown, and mines often opened on resource points , if the depth is not enough, there is no way to discover the existence of resources, so you miss the resource point and miss it from now on.

So Xiu Yin is not worried that they will discover the resources here prematurely. He will study with the mines where there may be resources every day. Originally, he thought that if the miners really choose the resource point, then that time You can raise an objection.

   As a result, Xiu Yin realized that he was worrying too much. Although the three gentle hills were not big, the extremely manpower-intensive excavation method made finding the existence of resources really like finding a needle in a haystack, not that easy.

   Half a month has passed, and the people of Morrowind are still looking for their ore veins and their hope.

  The end of the first month of each quarter is the time for all lords to report to the lords at the next level.

  Shuyin's Morrowind Territory is under the direct control of the kingdom, so he wants to give King Bonaventure IV a good report on the Morrowind Territory.

   It was the first time to write a document to communicate with His Majesty the King. Shuyin was still quite nervous. Fortunately, his father, Shuke, had been a baron for 20 years. After Xiuyin asked Shuke for advice from Lexingburg, the problem was easily solved.

   The fastest way to send a contact document to the capital is to have the courier bring the document to the deserted bone city, and then use the emergency teleportation circle of the deserted bone city to send the document directly to the royal capital. This is the fastest method.

  Of course, to use the small teleportation circle in Desolate Bone City, you need to pay a certain fee to the Marquis of Fell. After all, the opening of the teleportation circle requires the consumption of soul crystals. Fortunately, Xiu Yin has more money at this time.

  The Marquis of Fell was also very interested in inquiring about Xiu Yin's recent situation. After all, the territory was separated from his own territory. Although there were no resources, it also made the Marquis of Fell feel a heartache.

   "Huh? Are they looking for veins there? Hahaha—"

  When Marquis Fell heard that Xiuyin was simply digging holes in the mountain to find mineral veins, he laughed out loud.

   "If there is a vein of mine, would I give it away?! Haha, what a fool!"

  The Marquis of Fell knows the situation there better than anyone else. Since it was not a ruin, there have been no minerals there. It used to be, it is now, and it will be in the future.

   "Forget it, let that little guy toss for a few years and then fend for himself..."

  (end of this chapter)