Heroes of Silver Moon

Thousands of skinny barbarian slaves were mining stones with all kinds of crude equipment, and a hundred or so barbarian supervisors were watching over the group of slaves with whips in their hands.

This is what Deborah saw when she came to Stone Mountain.

The stones mined are not large, usually the size of a fist, and occasionally the size of a human head. Deborah feels that it is meaningless to mine such small stones, because they cannot be used to build a city at all.

In his fortification knowledge, he either fired bluestone bricks to build the city wall, or quarried large stones, and then carved these stones. It took several people to barely lift the square stones. These stones were accumulated together. A wide and thick city wall.

Either way, there is no need to use such small stones.

Deborah watched very patiently. He didn't believe that Simon was an idiot. On the contrary, in his knowledge, no one was as smart as Simon.

Therefore, these small stones must have another use.

Mining small stones is far easier than mining large stones. It didn't take long for these barbarian slaves to mine more than a dozen boxes of stones. Those strong barbarian supervisors took all these stones to one place. place.

The place was very flat, covered with airtight wooden boards, and there were some new army soldiers guarding it around. Deborah walked over, and the soldiers hurriedly saluted the logistics minister.

After waving her hands casually, Deborah was about to walk into this mysterious compartment.

The soldier guarding the door stopped him, and the soldier said solemnly: "My lord, Sir Simon has ordered that no one can enter this place without his permission!"

Deborah glanced at the soldier, and he didn't reprimand or force him. He was very aware of Simon's dominance, and no one could play petty temper in front of this man.

Silently coming to the side, Deborah waited patiently. Within a few minutes, the group of barbarian supervisors who carried small stones into the compartment came out again carrying a dozen large baskets.

After stopping them, the barbarian overseer stopped with a blank expression.

Simon's order to them was to guard all barbarian slaves and not to harm other humans. As for other things, Simon didn't say anything, because these barbarians whose minds were controlled couldn't understand it at all.

Deborah stopped in front of these barbarian supervisors, first looked at them curiously, and after confirming that they would not harm her, she immediately marveled. Although necromancy is evil, it is indeed as useful as Simon said.

Walking in front of the big wooden frame, the stone that was originally the size of a fist has now become a little bigger than a finger bone.

Deborah nodded thoughtfully. It seems that Simon needs this kind of small stone, and the things in the compartment are to turn the mined stone into this kind of small gravel.

"Where is Sir Simon?" Deborah walked up to the soldiers and asked.

"Go back to your lord, it's in the closed cave not far away." The soldier didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly replied.

"Yeah." Deborah turned his head and looked, and he found a man-made sealed cave. He walked to the closed cave and began to call Simon's name loudly.

In less than half a minute, the sealed cave stone bricks came loose, and Simon, who was covered in blue-gray dust, walked out of it.

"I'm back!" Simon said with a smile, patting the dust off his body and taking off the simple mask on his face.

"What are you?" Deborah asked suspiciously.

Simon is not a particularly clean person, but he is not a particularly sloppy person either. If it is not really helpless, he will never make himself so dirty!

"Oh." Simon smiled and continued to slap the dust on his body, explaining to Deborah: "I'm making cement, which is convenient for building a city."

"Cement?" Deborah was very puzzled, it was the first time he had heard of such a thing.

"It's very troublesome to make, mainly because it's too difficult to fire, but it's no problem for a master mage like me. It can be fired with high-purity fire elements, and you can get more A convenient building material, concrete!" Simon explained triumphantly.

Deborah shook his head helplessly. He still firmly believes that Simon's plan to build a defensive circle is simply whimsical, and the amount of work is really too big.

"Let's not talk about that, the Royal Chamber of Commerce has no problem with purchasing quilts, right?" Seeing that Deborah still didn't believe it, Simon asked helplessly.

When it came to business, Deborah's expression became serious, and she said, "Of course there is no problem with the royal family. They wish you could spend more money on them!"

"Heh, the money is worth it." Simon patted the cement dust on his hand, then patted Deborah's shoulder, and said with a smile: "There is one more thing you need to do now, I need a lot of iron now ore!"

"Iron ore?" Deborah frowned. In this era of undeveloped governance and mining technology, metals and metal ores are definitely valuables.

"It needs to be used to build the city wall!" Simon replied succinctly. How can a reinforced concrete structure work without steel bars as supports?

"Do you still have any money?" Deborah asked suspiciously without asking why iron was used to build the stone city wall~www.readwn.com~.

According to his calculations, the gold coins in Simon's hands will never exceed 4,000, and metal ore is very expensive.

"Going to Alpine Castle this time, how do you think the Hawke family is doing this year?" Simon suddenly asked an irrelevant question, which made Deborah very upset.

"This year our new army is in front of the high mountain territory, and the territory of the Hawke family has hardly been plundered by barbarians, so this year's life for the Hawke family should be very good!" Deborah replied calmly.

"That's right!" Simon nodded as if I knew it a long time ago, and then said: "Then you need to make another trip. I remember that the Hawke family has an iron mine."

Deborah's face was slightly moved. An iron mine is the foundation that supports the prosperity of the family. No wonder the ancestors of the Hawke family were able to successfully develop their territory here.

"Ask them directly? Or?" Deborah asked a little embarrassed.

Simon was indeed the heir of the Hawke family, but since he left the Hawke family, except that his parents still recognized this son, he basically has nothing to do with the Hawke family. The Hawke family will never give them free money. supply of iron ore.

"It's a loan. We will settle the payment with them when the income from the paper workshop arrives in the spring of next year!" Simon said very indifferently.

In fact, the Hawke family has borrowed five thousand gold coins from him now, but Simon never thought of asking the Hawke family to use iron ore to pay off the debt, because his father came to ask him to borrow money, and it was not an exchange of benefits. .

If he used iron ore to pay off the debt, he always felt that it would be unethical.