Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 69

North Ridge, the largest iron mine controlled by Earl Ronin Fisherlow, is also the largest iron mine in North Ridge.

After years of development, it has been riddled with holes, and the entrances to the mines can be seen everywhere, some of which have been abandoned, and some are still in use.

Resting workers are everywhere. These mine workers are dangerous and busy every day.

They have to enter the dark mine, then dig out the iron ore, put the ore into their own bamboo baskets, and then carry it out of the mine with difficulty.

Then carry these ores back to a fixed collection location, get the corresponding vouchers, and only after accumulating enough vouchers can they be exchanged for the corresponding day's wages.

Such a system can not only ensure the work efficiency of the miners, but also to a certain extent ensure the reasonable allocation of time by the miners and maintain the efficient operation of the mine.

A miner sitting on the side of the road wiped his sweaty neck with a dusty towel, and complained: "Recently, work is really getting more and more hopeless. Although the Earl pays a lot of money, but The work in this mine is definitely getting more and more tiring."

Now they are required to work 12 hours a day, which can be said to be very demanding working hours.

But the workers here are just complaining, because if they go to work in the mines of other nobles, it is not uncommon to work 14 hours a day.

Another worker also complained, he was out of breath, obviously he had just recited a basket of ore: "Isn't it? I was asked to work for an extra hour yesterday... When I got home, I just dumped it on the ground .”

An old man with gray hair next to him snorted, and in the already very cold weather, he opened his clothes to reveal his inner muscles: "You've got it right, my son and the others worked until midnight yesterday! Holding the gas lamp Go to the mine! I'm almost exhausted."

Many of the people here are three-generation miners. The grandfather is also a miner, the father is also a miner, and so is the son.

They do the same job, and their ancestors rarely leave this land for generations, watching with their own eyes that the mountains here have been dug full of holes and lost their shape.

While talking, the old man sighed: "There is no way, the Earl needs to use a lot of steel, so we can only do more and help him."

What he said was also the voice of many miners, because they knew that the earl took care of them, so they helped the earl to speed up the production of steel at this time.

Even if they are unwilling, even if they are tired and ashamed, they still use the simplest actions to respond to the ruler's inadvertent kindness.

This is the simple people, this is the kind people, this is the power hidden in the common people - even if it is only revealed a little, it is enough to change the dynasty!
"Oh, this damn day, when will it be the end." Among the crowd, a voice expressed everyone's aspirations.

Ever since, there were more sighing voices, unknowingly connecting together.

"Have you heard? Another mine collapsed yesterday. After more than an hour of rescue, the passage was dug. Seven people inside were injured. Everyone was scared to death." At this time, another topic was on someone start with the query.

Another miner beside him nodded with lingering fear: "Of course I heard that the mine over there was originally dug temporarily, and now it is continuously mined, so how can there be no trouble."

Since people began to learn to use minerals and began to mine mines by means of digging, mine disasters have always been the nightmare of miners who rely on mining to live.

Once a mining accident occurs, the collapse will bury the life in the mine, directly paralyze the work that the miners rely on for their livelihood, and make people extremely desperate.

Fortunately, the collapse of the mine lode in North Ridge was not serious this time, and the work resumed soon without any loss of personnel.

An old miner sighed, for himself and for everyone around him: "Well, the old mines are getting deeper and deeper, and there are more and more new mines. This is a certain thing, and there is no other way..."

The team leader walked over with a gas lamp, and reminded his subordinates who were resting on the side of the road, "Stop talking, take a good rest, and wait for a while to go down the well."

His words made more sighs, and everyone was oppressed by life: "Alas..."

Suddenly, not far from the next door, a shout like a mountain roar and a tsunami burst out: "Oh!"

Everyone heard it clearly, they stood up from the ground one after another, and looked in the direction of the shout.

Then, they heard a more real shout, as if the people over there were going crazy: "Long live!"

The miners here also began to have small disturbances. Everyone was in the lobby with each other, and some curious questions came from the crowd from time to time: "What are you shouting over there?"

"No, I don't know...why did you cheer all of a sudden?" More people were in a dazed state. They looked at each other, not knowing what happened there.

Therefore, in addition to those who asked questions, more people could only cast puzzled looks at each other and asked together: "It's strange, what's going on?"

"Over there, isn't that the No. 3 pit? What's going on?" The old miner, who had identified the direction, asked the foreman who was still standing beside him.

The foreman knew a little bit, and replied, "A lot of carriages came this morning, and they said they brought a so-called machine."

He tried hard to recall the appearance of the machine, only saw a chimney-like part, some wheels and iron bars.

In short, based on his experience, he couldn't see what that thing was.He only knew that there were many workers following that thing, and there were more than a dozen carriages transporting it.

Then, he saw those workers who were not familiar with him move many parts from the carriage, and some gears looked very large.

As he recalled, he described what he saw: "Those workers have been assembling that machine, and I don't know what it is for."

"Old Jamie took people over to look, and said that he saw a lot of people moving pieces of steel into the mine pit, and he didn't know what they were doing." Another miner who knew something also spoke. road.

In short, the No. [-] mine has become mysterious since this morning.Now, a day has passed, and there are cheers over there, which is actually not too strange.

"Anyway, it was a mess, and then it started burning coal again, and I don't know what it was doing." The worker who knew something about it gestured again, and after he finished speaking, he felt that what he said was inexplicable, so he shook his head. Shaking his head, curling his lips, he stopped talking.

The old miner frowned, looked in the direction of the cheers, and muttered, "But, where did the cheers come from?"

"Who, who knows? Maybe, maybe the mine collapsed and I don't have to work anymore?" A young miner thought he was a wise horse.

"Are you stupid? What are you cheering for when you don't have to work? What do you eat when you don't work? You idiot!" The foreman next to him gave the idiot a disdainful glance.

The old miner also felt that the wise young man next to him might be incurable: "We just don't want to work 3 hours a day, and it's not that we don't want to work! You idiot!"

"Let me tell you what's good about you? Pig brain... No, no, no, pigs are much smarter than you, hahahaha!" The miner who knew a lot of news also glanced at his colleague and laughed wickedly.

At this moment, in front of the No. [-] mine, a not-so-huge machine was spinning rapidly.

Its flywheel rotates so fast that it makes people nervous.Under the rapid operation of the machine, through a series of gear transmissions, the metal chain over there began to rotate little by little.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, mine carts were sent into the mine shaft one by one, and turned out from the other side with piles of ore in a short while.

On the rails that are spliced ​​together one by one, these mine carts are very efficient. Only a few workers are needed to continuously unload the ore from the mine carts and stack them on the open space beside them.

It is like a bull that never gets tired, can replace humans, and tirelessly transport the ore out of the mine.

From now on, the miners in Shaft No. [-] don't need to go to and from the mine frequently, they just need to keep digging in the mine.

With this machine, miners can complete the original workload without having to work overtime.They could even do it three times faster if they were willing to go the extra mile.

As long as such a machine is installed on every mine, the speed of mining ore in Earl's mine will be several times that of other mines!
Alice, who was standing aside, had a pair of beautiful eyes full of brilliance.When she saw that the equipment was assembled and started to work, she had another idea in her mind, an idea to visit Bunas.

She was really curious about what kind of person could design such a sophisticated device.

The machine that kept turning in front of her was like a huge money printing machine, working continuously.

This feeling is really wonderful-at this moment, she has seen many pictures: the textile machine shuttles back and forth driven by the steam engine, the grinding disc is constantly rotating under the drive of the steam engine, Driven by the steam engine, the hammer kept hitting the anvil...

And these non-stop sounds of friction, knocking, and impact mixed together in her ears and turned into the sound of gold coins hitting... To her, this is really the best sound in the world up.

(End of this chapter)