Chapter 748: Opportunity for in-depth cooperation with the Iron Clan

Gavin counted as he walked, eighteen.

There were eighteen steam rail cars, each with a standard load of twenty tons.

This number was not estimated by Gavin himself, but was written on the carriage in the dwarven rune language.

The cargo capacity of this rail car alone was equivalent to the output of the Black Well Iron Mine in the Rockland for half a year.

The output of the Colossus Iron Mine at its peak can be imagined.

You know, they are only in the first mine of this iron mine now, and there are seven more mines waiting for them below.

Even if there is nothing new in those seven mines, and they are just copied as this mine, as long as all of them are put into operation, Gavin will become the largest steel tycoon in Faerun. The output of his iron mine alone can equal the total output of all steel in half of Faerun.

The reason why he didn't say all of them was to save face for other dwarves, especially the Gold Dwarf Kingdom in the Great Rift Valley, which has millions of Gold Dwarves and may have mining technology comparable to this place.

Sometimes, Gavin couldn't help but doubt that he had been reborn as a dog in his previous life. He always thought that being able to hang out with a legendary warrior was already quite remarkable.

As a result, in this life, in less than a year, he had opened up many things that he had not opened in his previous life, and the things he was exposed to now were completely different.

The useful things that the legendary warrior could provide in that life were getting fewer and fewer. The only thing left was the future development direction, and it could only be in the areas and fields that he had not involved in. Since he had interfered with the places, this kind of foresight was not only not an advantage, but a disadvantage, which could easily mislead himself.

Soon Gavin didn't care about this feeling, and couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise, "It's really a high-pressure gas tank!"

There was still some distance from the front of the car, and Gavin noticed at a glance that it was a round steel tank that was larger than the two carriages combined.

The whole was round and there was no trace of welding at all, as if it was directly cast, with a large number of huge valves and gate knives.

The dense dwarf runes were not engraved on it, but forged, indicating that it was not an ordinary item, but a giant magic item.

Once it becomes a magic item, some physical common sense will not apply to it. Whether it is the safety factor or the amount of high-pressure steam that can be stored, it is estimated that it will be beyond imagination, and the endurance and power will be greatly improved.

Gavin's hand lit up with a bright light, and he pressed it directly on the high-pressure gas tank, wanting to read its properties through identification and intuitively understand its strength.

But unfortunately, although the light of the identification technique sank into the high-pressure gas tank, no detailed data was fed back.

This is not a spell failure, but it is beyond the scope of identification.

The high-pressure steam gas tank is not a separate item, but a part of the rail car, and there is no way to identify it separately.

If you want to see its ability, you can only wait until it is fully operational here.

The wandering dwarf king Jiharin, who followed Gavin closely, opened his mouth several times, as if he wanted to discuss something with him.

Gavin didn't give him a chance at all. He walked forward along the railroad tracks and said first: "If there is anything, wait until we check everything here and have a complete concept. We are just glimpsing the tip of the iceberg now. We have only seen a very small part. After discussing for a long time, we found that there are better ones inside. Isn't it a waste of time?"

"What the lord said makes a lot of sense." Jihalin nodded involuntarily, "To be honest, I have always been proud of the semi-automatic production level of the Taeserama Mine. I think our technology in this area, even if it is not the top dwarf, can be ranked in the top three, at least surpassing those ancient technologies.

Now it seems that it is purely arrogance. Our technology has not advanced, but regressed. Just based on what we have shown now, it has far surpassed the peak period of the Taeserama Mine. Next, I am afraid we will have to learn a lot from here."

Compared to Gavin, the wandering dwarf king was more impressed by the ancient dwarf technology sealed in the Colossus City Mine. After all, he had the Taeserama Mine in his memory as a comparison.

The whole person was once again enveloped in a sad atmosphere, but this time it was not just because of the fall of the Taeselama Mine, but also because of the lost glory of the dwarves.

Compared with the thriving and short-lived human race, giants, dragons, elves, dwarves and other immortal species are all on the decline.

Needless to say, the former two have long since withdrawn from the ruling stage, leaving only the ancient echoes.

The glory of the elves ended because of their own crown war. In recent decades, because of the call of the soul of Evermeet, most elves chose to migrate to the isolated holy land of the elves, leaving the entire Faerun to other races.

Although in recent years, many elves have chosen to return for various reasons, but the elves are not known for their numbers, and their influence is not as great as before. It is already very difficult for them to stick to their own forests.

As for the dwarves, especially the northern dwarves, except for the newly recovered Mithril Hall, the most famous one is probably the wandering dwarf king himself. The rest are small clans that are not influential. They either hide in their own small mines or live under the protection of others as vassals of human forces.

Now the ancient dwarf ruins have been reopened, but it is a pity that this honor does not belong to them.

"It's too polite for the chief to say this. To restart this place, there are still many places that need to rely on the Iron Clan. You can't let me use those dog-headed people to operate these complicated dwarf equipment, right?"

Gavin had already made his own calculations in his mind. "You have also seen the situation of the silver refining production line in Nankleput. It is more than a hundred times more complicated here than there. I don't want a small explosion every three days and a big explosion every ten days.

The number of gray dwarves in the Colossus dungeon is limited. Once the entire mining area is fully operational, just one dungeon is enough for them to be busy. It is difficult to transfer more people.

At that time, we have to rely on you, the chief, to understand the technology here and fully operate it."

The dwarf's legacy still has to be operated by the dwarves. Whether in terms of thinking mode or technical foundation, they have more advantages.

The Iron Clan is not only the only dwarf clan that Gavin is familiar with, but both sides have the same interests.

Before the restoration of the Kingdom of Taeserama, they were still in a state of exile, wandering and displaced, and had no territory of their own.

The True Shield Trading Company that Gavin visited earlier was just the core base they rented from the Kingdom of Cormyr. There were less than a hundred dwarves living there. If there were more, the Kingdom of Cormyr would not be happy.

Most of the Iron Clan dwarves were scattered throughout Faerun in a family model.

Loyalty and cohesion are often based on living together.

The exile time of the dwarves in the Kingdom of Tessamar was too long, even for the dwarves. Many of the older generation of dwarves who had lived in the mines of Tessamar were gradually getting old or even dying. Those dwarves who were born during the exile did not have as much nostalgia and identification with their homeland as their parents.

When the old generation of the Kingdom of Taeselama, led by Jiharin, completely died out, the restoration of the Kingdom of Taeselama would really be just a dream, and it was the dream of Jiharin's branch. Other dwarves would gradually take root in the new land and leave this dream behind, just like their ancestors left the Kingdom of Shanatar into the historical relics.

But if there was a place that could accommodate all the dwarves of the Iron Clan before that, especially the mine, all the dwarves would be summoned to work, live and train together.

This belief in restoration would not only be easier to pass on, but would also have a greater role in promoting the restoration of the country. At least they knew clearly how many dwarves were willing to fight to regain their former homeland.

Moreover, the news of the restart of the Supreme Shanatar would be very tempting to the scattered shield dwarves in the north. If they could take the opportunity to invite them, it would be a help to the Iron Clan.

What Gavin, a bystander, could think of, how could the wandering dwarf king Jiharin not think of it.

After hearing Gavin's promise that was not a promise, Jihalin kept rubbing his gray beard and said, "With the Lord's words, I feel relieved. Let's go, let's continue to see what the dwarf ancestors of the Supreme Shanatar have left for future generations."

The wandering dwarf king is more concerned than Gavin about the next exploration, because this iron mine is likely to be handed over to them for operation, so they naturally have to fully understand it.

They are like treasure hunters exploring treasure places. They will go into every branch and every mine in the mine to make sure nothing is missed.

Although the depths of those branches vary, they are all mines, and there are more or less stone spikes that have just awakened from the seal. Even without the dwarves' urging, they are also working very hard and consciously to mine.

For them, mining is not a job, but an innate instinct, a way for them to grow, and the greatest meaning of survival.

If it is just mining, they don't need to be urged.

But if they are to cooperate with the Kobolds' vibration bomb blast, specialize in crushing, or want to maximize their production capacity, then the dwarves need to coordinate and deploy.

After all, the intelligence of these elemental creatures is not high, especially those medium-sized stone spikes, whose intelligence is only four or five points, typically a little stronger than beasts, and Kobolds can't compare to them, and can't understand anything slightly complicated.

However, there is no need to do this in a short period of time, because the number of stone spikes here is frightening. Counting all the way, there are more than a hundred in this mine alone, with super-large ones accounting for 10%, large ones accounting for three tenths, and the rest are medium-sized.

Relying solely on their hammering day and night, the amount of ore mined is not a small amount. Further increasing production capacity is based on digesting their output.

If the iron ore in the mine is piled up like a mountain, and they still try to increase the mining speed, then they have a brain problem, unless they want to sell the iron ore directly.

This is definitely no longer Gavin's priority option.

It is a good choice to transfer these stone spikes to other mines, such as the Black Well Iron Mine, to speed up the mining there.

Even if there is a large amount of steel output here in the future, it does not mean that the iron mine there will stop. On the contrary, it is possible to continue to sell iron ore, but it is no longer purely for the purpose of profit, but to revitalize the surrounding economy.

The steel positioning of Colossus City will mainly be used for self-use in the future, and a small amount will be used to make equipment and sell for profit. This ultra-modern existence from iron ore to refined steel or equipment has a greater role in promoting the local economy than an ordinary iron mine like Black Well.

Because the work sites that originally required a large number of laborers are gone.

In the end, it was just an isolated city with a lot of wealth. This is the real reason for the fall of this city. It has no mass base.

This city, which only needs 80,000 dwarves to fully operate, can at least support millions of people if it is replaced by ordinary production methods.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the dwarves were not good at using their advantages at the time. This is best proved by the fact that they used the remaining fine steel as load-bearing columns.

And this is what Gavin is best at. He has a lot of places to use, which further amplifies the wealth he can create.

Infrastructure, equipment forging, and some more modern equipment.

A lot of steel can be used for all of them. If there is really too much steel to be consumed, at most a bunch of ironclad ships or steel warships can be built to cross the endless sea. I dare not say that they can completely conquer them, but they can definitely beat the pirates to flee in panic and open up relatively safe sea routes.

Anything is the most worthless when it is hoarded. Only when it is circulated and used can more new value be created, such as steel and wealth.

It is true that Gavin has the habit of hoarding things, but his hoarding is a planned reserve in case of emergency. Compared with quantity, he pursues more variety and then makes them create greater value at key points. It is not just hoarding for the sake of hoarding. The nature is different.

At the end of the track is another steel warehouse of astonishing size. Inside is a mountain of iron ore that has been crushed to a size no larger than an adult's head. The specific amount cannot be estimated, but there are hundreds of tons.

Obviously, after the connection between the mining area and the dungeon smelting area was cut off, before the vein sealing technique was performed, it was still in operation for a period of time, so a pile of raw ore was accumulated.

In this raw ore warehouse, Gavin and his team found another astonishingly large steampunk-style device - an ore conveyor belt that tilts downward.

Driven by high-pressure steam, this conveyor belt will transport the ores to the Colossus dungeon for smelting, and may even be initially screened and further crushed.

After a series of shocks in the past, when facing this conveyor belt, everyone is somewhat numb, and even a little bit taken for granted.

If not, it would be very inconsistent and would not match the ultra-modern mining and transportation in front.

If there is any missing link, their production speed will be greatly reduced.

There are also a large number of giant-sized mining tools abandoned here.

Gavin wants to operate this ultra-modern industry, and he still faces a huge problem.

Because those giant slaves are an important part of this industrial chain.

Whether it is loading the stone-crushed ore or sending the ore here to the iron ore conveyor belt, the main force is the giant slaves, especially the former.

Without them, the entire operation will be extremely unsmooth.

Gavin can replace part of it with those enlightenment trees and tree people, but the gap is too big.

They are only visiting the first layer now, and there are three more layers of such ore layers.

The second, third, and fourth layers are all ore vein layers. Although there are great differences in the distribution of mine caves, the overall layout is exactly the same.

They are all traversed by a huge ore transport track, and then consist of a number of mine holes of varying sizes. Most of them are parallel, and a small part is diagonally upward or downward, completely according to the distribution of iron ore, but when passing through the hole, they follow the ore transport track.

Even for the dwarves of Supreme Shanatar, building such a track and a rail car is a big project, and it must be fully utilized.

The number of stone spikes distributed in the four mining areas is similar, indicating that the output of the four mining areas is similar at its peak.

It is worth mentioning that these four mining areas are not stacked on top of each other, but belong to different directions, one in each of the east, south, west and north.

This is naturally done to reduce the pressure on the mine pit and prevent a large-scale landslide from occurring in one, thereby affecting the other three.

Zaranda, who has been following the team, suddenly raised a question: "Since this place is still in operation on the eve of the ore vein sealing technique, where are the giant slaves who maintain it?"

Once this question was raised, it lingered in everyone's mind.

Yes, where are those giant slaves?

Could it be that when the dwarves moved away, they also took the giant slaves with them?

Judging from the size of the four mining areas they visited earlier, there are not a small number of giant slaves here, at least 800 if not 1,000.

It is one thing to trap these giant slaves in the mines, but it is another to bring them to the surface and enslave them.

As a supernatural race, giants have supernatural life dice when they reach adulthood. As long as there is a chance to resist, they will never let it go.

They found the answer to this question on the fifth floor.