Chapter 123 The Beginning of Industry (Part 1)

When Mal Karen led the Idar Navy to kill people everywhere, Idar Territory once again experienced a population surge!

However, this population surge had nothing to do with the propaganda carried out by Idar Territory before.

Due to the threat from the Odin Empire, the nobles in the north of the empire continued to forcibly conscript civilians into the army, so that a large number of civilians originally living in the north began to flee to other inland areas of the empire.

Therefore, since the beginning of summer, the number of foreigners pouring into Idar Territory has increased dramatically, which caught Bruno off guard.

These civilians from the north of the empire first rushed southeast and entered the Valens Plain in the east of the empire.

However, so many more people meant many more mouths to feed, so the nobles living in the Valens Plain continued to drive all the civilians to the south.

After all... they don't have so much food and land to feed these penniless civilians.

The noble lords south of the Valens Plains naturally would not accept these disgusting civilians, so they drove them away elsewhere.

As a result, a small number of unlucky people were captured by these noble lords and taken back to the north to serve as soldiers, while the other part was constantly expelled in various directions by many noble lords.

In short, just don't stay in your own noble territory! From the Eider River to Heisenberg, from Heisenberg to the Dale Hills, and then all the way south to Soren Territory.

Finally, after being driven away again and again by many nobles, these displaced civilians finally arrived at the banks of the Sauron River in midsummer.

Compared to when the Solon River port was just opened, the number of ferries on the Solon River has doubled, and the number of members of the Idar Immigration Administration has tripled. Lister finally has more than thirty formal officers under his command.

But even so, there are still a large number of civilians from the northern border of the empire waiting to cross the river on the north bank of the Sauron River, and their number is increasing with the passage of time.

Bruno welcomed all these refugees! After all, population has always been the most important factor restricting the development of Idar Territory since he crossed over.

A large population requires a large amount of food to support it, but for the current Idar Territory, the thing that is least lacking is actually food.

Because potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn will soon be ripe! This means that Idar Territory will soon usher in the most crazy grain harvest in history!

Moreover, due to its location on the border, Bruno's land area was much larger than those nobles living inland! So... if the population increased, he could just continue to cultivate the wasteland, and there was no need to worry about food shortages.

However, no matter how the number of refugees gathering on the banks of the Soren River who want to enter the Idar Territory increases, the Idar Immigration Administration cannot allow all of them to enter the Idar Territory immediately.

After all, under Bruno's strong urging, every refugee entering Idar territory must undergo detailed registration and strict inspection, and the Idar Immigration Administration must arrange accommodation for them.

This is also for the sake of public security in Idar's territory.

After all, from the beginning of this year to now, the number of civilians pouring into Idar Territory has exceeded the number of indigenous people here, and there are nearly 20,000 refugees distributed in the newly opened working communities in different locations in Idar Territory.

The small town of Glen, located in the Glen Heights, is one of the larger working-class communities.

The Gran Highlands have extremely rich mineral resources, and this is the root cause of the Battle of the Gran Highlands between the Idar Territory and the Soran Territory.

But before that, due to the general shortage of manpower in Idar County and the intensive construction of various projects, Bruno had to temporarily shelve the plan to mine iron ore on the Gran Heights.

However, temporarily not carrying out large-scale mining of the iron ore in the Gran Heights does not mean that Bruno will ignore the huge benefits that mining iron ore and smelting steel can bring to the Idar Territory!

Therefore, Bruno had already exchanged detailed records about "Steel Refining" in the system mall.

He also specially arranged several trusted craftsmen, and with the full cooperation of the mage apprentices, tried to build the relevant industrial facilities needed for steel making on the Gran Heights.

When it comes to steelmaking, we have to mention the level of ironmaking in this world.

To this day, the most commonly used method for making iron tools in the Norman Empire is still the "block iron smelting" technology.

The "block iron smelting" technology does not require a high level of technical skills. You only need to throw rich iron ore and charcoal into the furnace together to easily smelt iron.

This is because the iron content in rich iron ore is very high, while the content of other impurities is very small.

Therefore, even if there is no limestone, iron cannot be smelted.

All the impurities are mixed with iron, and after repeated forging, the impurities can be gradually removed and it becomes wrought iron.

And the most important thing is that it does not require high temperature. Even at only 800 degrees Celsius, iron can be smelted. This is undoubtedly a method of iron smelting that is extremely in line with the current level of productivity.

After all, in this era, if there is no bonus from the magic circle, it would undoubtedly be extremely difficult to maintain too high a temperature.

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However, although the "block iron smelting" method is extremely simple, this method of iron smelting also has an almost fatal flaw!

That is, the iron refined by this method is even softer than copper! And this is the most important reason why Idar soldiers and Norman Empire soldiers generally use daggers!

It’s not that people don’t want to use longer weapons, but if the weapons are lengthened, they will probably break after just a few hits!

Therefore, the dagger and shield are the standard equipment for Norman soldiers today.

However, the steel produced using the iron smelting method exchanged by Bruno completely avoided this problem!

With the support of the magic unique to this world, Bruno can make Idar's iron smelting industry leap forward to the early stage of industry!

You know, for these methods of forging steel, Bruno spent as many brilliant points as he did when he built a three-masted warship! A full seventy points! This is equivalent to half a wonder! However, it is expensive for a reason, and the information provided by the system mall is also very powerful! There is no shortage of methods for forging pig iron, wrought iron, and steel, and all kinds of reference materials are also extremely complete!

When the craftsmen responsible for building the relevant facilities saw the information provided by Bruno, they were stunned by these unprecedented forging methods!

Thanks to "Xia Niu Fansandou", "Xing Xia Ming Mo", and "Book Friend 20200818120142730" for the reward of 500 points!

Thanks to "Deshiqi who loves eating pears" for the reward of 100 points!

(End of this chapter)