Chapter 1524 Island Work
"Come closer, come closer, yes, right here, put it down slowly!"
It's a new day. In the central area of the tropical island, their construction work of the Great Zhou is proceeding in an orderly manner.
At this time, a small village has been built in the central area of the island.
Unlike normal villages and towns, this one has a certain military nature, and many defensive facilities have been deployed on the periphery.
After all, at the beginning of its establishment, they had to consider the possibility that the army of the Patton Empire would attack and they would have to retreat to the depths of the island to defend it.
But now it seems that their Great Zhou fleet has basically gained a foothold at sea, so this backup plan will probably not be needed anymore.
At present, this small village has become the daily living and working place of various departments on the island.
Each department confirmed their needs in advance, and then simply planned the land and divided the areas. In daily work, they focused on not interfering with each other.
Autumn is a busy season for the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Agriculture now on this tropical island is no exception.
In an area not far from a small village, they have reclaimed a large tract of land, and this is not even the first time they have harvested crops.
Of course, at present, we are still far from self-sufficiency, but we have been able to effectively reduce the transportation of food in the rear and leave the freed-up transportation capacity for more needed materials.
Based on this efficiency, they plan to further reclaim more land and grow more food this winter.
For this purpose, the limited number of manpower they have now is definitely not enough.
If you want to improve efficiency, the easiest way is to send them a few oxen.
Oxen are actually nothing. For the current Great Zhou, years of breeding have meant they have basically no shortage of oxen.
The main problem here is that transporting oxen will take up a lot of space on the ship.
Therefore, in the early stage, when putting various resources together and making choices, the priority of oxen was continuously lowered.
However, this time this matter has been confirmed. According to the calculation, it should be delivered this winter, which is just the right time.
At the Ministry of Agriculture, work is still busy. During this period, the geological exploration team headed by Zhang Xuemei has successfully locked the location of the mithril vein after a long period of exploration.
“It’s been dug out! It’s been dug out!!”
On this day, in the mineral vein area, a dusty member of the geological exploration team was waving a fist-sized piece of ore in his hand with excitement.
Hearing the sound, Zhang Xuemei, the team leader, did not have time to think about it. She hurried over, took the ore from the other party, and then confirmed it personally.
[Eyes that pry into secrets! ]
"Yes, it's Mithril Ore!"
Zhang Xuemei's 'Eye of Secrets' scanned and read the introduction panel of the mithril ore. After confirming that it was correct, she became excited.
This time, their task of searching for mithril veins was still extremely difficult even with the assistance of the 'Eye of Secrets'. The time and energy invested in it could be said to be far more than they had expected at the beginning.
The fundamental reason for this situation is not only the size of the island, but also the fact that the content of mithril ore in this vein is too low, even lower than the fire crystal on the previous volcanic island.
To give a simple example, if you identify a location and dig hard for most of the day, but in the end you don’t dig out a single piece of mithril, shouldn’t you suspect that you have found the wrong place?
Then you might think, 'Should I try somewhere else?'
That's the reality.
I don't know if this is the case with all mithril veins, or if the one they discovered is indeed relatively poor. From the current perspective, the output of this mithril ore is probably not optimistic.
However, no matter how pessimistic they are, they still have to dig. As of now, this should be the only relatively stable way for their Great Zhou to obtain mithril at this stage.
After a period of hard work, with the assistance of the construction team, the mine has been built.
As for the subsequent heavy mining work, it naturally fell on the prisoners of war of the Patton Empire.
The main job of the members of the geological exploration team is to study geology and find mineral veins, rather than to mine the mineral veins.
After successfully confirming the location of the mithril vein, they also discovered some other veins on the island, such as coal mines, iron ore and other resource veins in the process of searching for the mithril vein.
Although these are ordinary mineral veins that are not rare, their value cannot be ignored. Once the resources are mined, they become hard currency in the international market.
Once all the follow-up tasks are processed and arranged, their geological exploration team's work here will be completed, and they can then return home.
If nothing goes wrong, they will get a bonus and a one-month vacation at the same time.
Just thinking about this, the team members' work enthusiasm began to rise.
Afterwards, prisoners of war were soon assigned to work as miners and mining operations.
Ever since the last time Patton's navy was annihilated by them in the outer waters, these prisoners of war have obviously become much more obedient.
Under this premise, they did not hide the news from the prisoners of war that their Great Zhou Fleet took the initiative to annihilate the North Sea Fleet of the Patton Empire and at the same time destroyed the East Sea and West Sea support fleets on the opposite side.
Or rather, they are being told consciously.
Needless to say, the purpose is to further strike them down so that these prisoners of war will give up their unrealistic fantasies and work honestly.
During this period, as the only prisoner of war on the tropical island who did not have to work and even had enough food and drink to some extent, Charlie Blazer had recently fallen into deep anxiety.
Because he found that the whole situation had completely gotten out of control.
According to his initial analysis, the Great Zhou Fleet was obviously inferior to theirs in strength, but it won every battle against their Patton Navy.
In this process, Charlie could also clearly feel that he was gradually losing his value.
The biggest reason why the other party is still supporting me right now is probably because he wants to use me to restrict his father, Marshal Blaze.
However, will this really work? Charlie dare not make any guarantees.
Thinking of this, Charlie gritted his teeth and made a decision resolutely.
"I want to see Colonel Bai Tu!"
Although Charlie's value as a hostage has become lower and lower as the war progresses, Bai Tu still doesn't mind meeting him when he learns that the other party wants to see him.
"I heard that Lord Blaze wants to see me?"
Looking at Charlie who came in, Bai Tu spoke slowly.
Unexpectedly, in the next second, Charlie walked in, gritted his teeth, and then fell to his knees with a thump.
"I, Charlie Blazer, am willing to give up my family name, submit to the Great Zhou, and work for the Great Zhou! Please take me in, Colonel!"
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Updated, thanks to book friend 'Bai Di' for the tip (end of this chapter)
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