Master of Thermodynamics

On the fifth day of the exploration team exploring the Misty Sea, the exploration ship finally encountered an insurmountable obstacle-a huge island.

According to the crew’s preliminary exploration, it is at least the size of Odin Island. Counting the long-distance reefs near the island, the total area may not be less than 300 square kilometers.

Of course, if Renault is willing, with the help of the strongest migrant worker in history, he can dig a trench with his bare hands and let the exploration ship pass through the island and reach the sea on the other end of the island.

But it's so stupid to do so.

Why not abandon the boat and go ashore?

Renault did that.

After personally leading the team to the island and doing some simple exploration, he felt a pity from the bottom of his heart. If this island is not in the misty area, it would be great...

Not only is its area large enough to greatly ease the territorial tension of the tide, but also because the team discovered a copper mine!

What's more, it is an open-pit copper mine accompanied by rare metals.

Several tall, copper-yellow peaks stand alone in the boundless mist, like guards of eternal silence, looking at this lonely and quiet island.

When you get closer, you can see a large number of blue and purple-brown spots on the surface of the mountain, as well as criss-cross green and black streaks.

This is obviously chalcopyrite.

What's even more exciting is that many locations are actually shining with dots of silver light.

A prospector walked into the mountain and took out a magnifying glass to observe carefully. His expression became more and more excited, and finally he cried out happily:

"My lord, this copper mine seems to have an accompanying magic silver mine..."

Renault was shocked and asked:

"Flambeluge, how much magic silver is contained in, can you estimate a rough range?"

The middle-aged prospector named "Flambeluge" suddenly showed a look of embarrassment.

Renault glanced at the opponent, shook his head with a grin, and said:

"I'm too anxious, let's explore slowly... Don't worry too much, follow the formal process..."

"Okay, Lord Lord." Flamberujie bowed respectfully. He pondered for a moment and gave a surprising number, "However, in my personal experience, the magic silver content should not be low. At 50 grams per ton..."

Renault calculated it for a moment, and smiled satisfied.

In today's ocean tide collar, magic silver has become a shortage of materials.

With the advancement of magic technology, more and more rune groups are mastered by the Rune Research Institute. Correspondingly, the structure of the rune groups on various rune magic machines has become more and more complicated.

The more runes there are, the more magic silver is consumed when making the rune board.

Take the giant "roadbed weather magic sensor" built on Odin Island last year as an example. The rune components of the core system, plus the rune components of the subsystems, use a total of 26 rune squares.

The largest rune square board has an astonishing more than 12,000 runes, and the smallest rune square board also has more than 800 runes. This project consumed a total of 1.2 tons of magic silver.

This number does not sound like a big one, but Magic Silver is not a Chinese cabbage.

Due to its extremely low output, its value is quite high, and its selling price is calculated in "kg".

Coupled with other magic machinery produced by various factories, such as powerful weapons such as fighters, battleships, and armored vehicles, as small as household equipment such as refrigerators and fans, Haichaoling consumes more than 350 tons of magic silver each year.

Due to the huge demand, the price of magic silver has soared 7 times in just three years, from the original 3 jinnars/kg to the high price of 22 kinnals/kg.

As long as the nobles and merchants who own the associated magic silver mines, in this wave of silver mines, they have made a lot of money.

Had it not been for the Haichao Chamber of Commerce to use various methods to purchase several small associated magic silver mines and use the "magic energy smelting method" to greatly increase the output, I am afraid the price of magic silver on the market would be even higher.

The associated magic silver mine in the misty sea is definitely a rich mine.

Just by visual observation, we can judge that the total reserves will not be low, even if it is only a small-scale mining, it should not be difficult to extract hundreds of tons of magic silver each year, not to mention there are thousands of times more by-products-copper.

If calculated based on the annual output of 100 tons of magic silver and 300,000 tons of copper, the annual income will reach more than 6 million Kinnars.

Renault has made up his mind that no matter how dangerous sea monsters are here, he will also develop this associated magic silver mine.

Hmph, it's a big deal every three months, the master pulls in an armored unit, plus dozens of fully armed extraordinary men, to clean the mining area from start to finish...

Hey, there are vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns, the saturation washing of the "Katyusha Rocket Launcher", and the bombing of large incendiary bombs such as the "preserved egg", the master does not believe it, and who else dares to wander around the mining area...

...

After listening to his lord’s latest plan, Ottore asked cautiously:

"My lord, how do you plan to transport the refined metal?"

Renault gave a plan without hesitation:

"It's very simple. The magic silver can be transported by air. The Air Force's new "Silver Goose-2" magic transport aircraft has a carrying capacity of more than 20 tons. It only needs to run a few times a year to easily transport 100 tons of magic silver. ."

"As for copper ingots, there are too many of them to be transported by ship..."

He frowned, his eyes drifting a little unconsciously.

"The transportation of copper ingots is a bit troublesome. If you use shipping, you first need to open up a wide enough waterway and send a special **** fleet. There are too many water monsters in the mist.

"However, casualties may be unavoidable. The abilities of these sea monsters are really weird... Well, let me think about it, maybe there are other transportation methods..."

Under the gazes of Ottore and Ezio, Renault suddenly patted his head, laughed a few times, "hehe", and started talking to himself:

"I'm so stupid, I forgot this artifact... Well, when I finish exploring the gates of hell, I will start related design work as soon as I go back..."

"As long as you create a big guy with a large enough load, you can transport hundreds of tons of copper ingots at a time, and this master doesn't need to dig a water channel harder..."

Probably because of the fact that Renault has engaged in more scientific research in the past two years, as long as Renault is thinking about professional issues, he looks like no one, even looking a little silly.

However, this did not detract from the awe of the subordinates.

Everyone knows that whenever the lord looks a little stupid, there will often be one or several great inventions that shock the world, which is born, profoundly changing the world and changing the way of life of ordinary people.

What's more, in the face of a terrifying existence that can squeeze you to death, even if the other party is really a fool, who dares to show a little bit of contempt? Are you bored with life?

"Lord Lord." Seeing that Lord Lord seemed to be in a good mood, Ezio asked curiously, "What can transport hundreds of tons of copper ingots at a time?"

This sentence interrupted Renault's thoughts. He glanced at Ezio unhappily, and the guy was so scared that he immediately lowered his head and did not dare to breathe.

Renault was not interested in answering Ezio's question, and said to himself:

"It seems that I underestimated the importance of the gates of hell...To extract the magic silver in this copper mine, you need enough energy, and the gates of **** are the best source of energy."

"It is inexhaustible and inexhaustible. It can be called unlimited energy and can reduce smelting costs by at least 60% or more."

"So, in the next two days, the exploration team must speed up, find the gate of hell, and draw a detailed map."

"Once you return to the territory, immediately start relevant planning, building factories for mining and refining ore, and a road connecting the mines to the gate of hell..."