Black Iron’s Glory

The 177th chapter of Baimucheng

The road in Limassolya County is a little poor, the pits are sloppy, the carriage is very difficult, and Uncle Oske cursed while driving the carriage and turning left and right to avoid the large pits and raised water on the road. stone.

There was a heavy rain from last night to the early hours of the morning, and the road became very muddy. Limasosos County is a mountain highland here, and the carriage is very difficult to trek on the mountain road, moving forward step by step.

“This road is too bad, why can’t it be repaired?” Claude was already sitting next to Uncle Oske, and the mountain road was sitting in the carriage. It was just a crime, no one could stand it. Bumpy.

“It’s not good to repair, it’s not that no one is repairing, but it will not be much after it has been repaired. Limasos County is a mining county, and all the roads to the outside are almost like this, mainly by those. The load trucks that transported the ore were pressed, and the road repair fees they charged to the mining companies were barely able to repair the roads around the towns, and they couldn’t do anything further,” Uncle Oske replied.

Claude understands that the current road construction in this world is basically based on stone powder, that is, the foundation is first prepared, the rock is placed, the gravel is filled, then the clay slurry is poured, and finally a layer of stone powder is compacted. There is nothing wrong with the general passenger carriage and the carriage. However, for those trucks that transport ore, the load-bearing capacity of this road is not very good, and it is easy to be crushed for a long time.

Although the world also has construction materials such as cement, the production of cement is not large, and the cost is also high. It is nothing to build a house and a yard, but the cost of building a road is no longer acceptable. In addition, it is said that even if cement is laid on the road, it still cannot withstand the pressure of many carriages.

Wangdu once had a very prosperous street in business. The bosses used to cement the floor in order to attract more customers. After only half a year, the cement pavement was still crushed into pieces by the coming and going carriages. Many pits appeared, which hindered the passage of pedestrians. Finally, the bosses had to re-lay the slate pavement…

“We have to go to the front to stop. You see that the two horses of this cart are covered with a large mass of mud. I have to scrape them so that they can run easily. And the road is too Wet, rest for two hours, wait for the sun to dry the road, and we can go some more.” Uncle Oske frowned and said to Claude.

“Nothing, we have time, it doesn’t matter if we go to the day and night.” Claude comforted.

“Well, then we went to Baimucheng tonight. I planned to arrive in the city of Ben Tario in the evening and I will be able to get to the city of Königada in Kafilezit tomorrow. You can go to Fuke the day after tomorrow. It’s reported in the hill camp. It’s just a six-day trip, but now it seems to be a long delay. The mountain road here is too difficult to go…” Uncle Oske was very annoyed at the unexpected situation in the plan.

After another section of the mountain road, the carriage stopped in an open space next to the road. Uncle Oske took a small piece of wood to the mud of the two horse-drawn horses. Claude did not idle, and found the branches. Pick up the sticky soil on the wheel.

“Uncle Oske, are you familiar with this Limassolya county?” Claude said nothing.

“Familiar, the troops I was in were stationed here for five years, and then a second war broke out with the Kingdom of Nasri. At the beginning of the war, a unit of Kingdom of Nasri hit the city of Ventario. I was then The camp was ordered to go to the garrison. The result was on the wall. Without a shot, I was wounded by a shell. I had a lot of blood. After I woke up, I was sent to the battlefield treatment center. After half a year, I was injured. As a result, the war is coming to an end. My troops have been ordered to withdraw from the Kingdom of Nasri. I still have not got the chance to make a contribution to the battlefield…”

This is one of the three wars that Uncle Oske has participated in in this life. He went into battle, wounded, recuperated, and the war ended. However, Uncle Oske said that he was very fortunate, when the battalion he was in after the Battle of Ben Tario City, the reduction of up to two-thirds. Uncle Oske was injured at the beginning of the war, and there were enough people to send him to the battlefield for treatment by a pharmacist. It is said that the casualties of the defensive war were heavy, and many of the wounded soldiers died because they could not be withdrawn from the battlefield.

“When I was retired as a caravan guard, I used to run here several times a year. I was escorting the caravans to buy ore and transport various goods here. I didn’t come after the caravan guards. I have been here for three years. It is the Krydadaro County that escorted a family to the country a year ago. The male owner seems to have been hired as a manager by a large mining company here. I heard that there is a crown with a high salary every month. It is very enviable. .”

“Right, Uncle Oske, you said that this is a mining county. What mineral resources are produced? When I read, the geography book said that there are more than ten kinds of mineral resources produced here. Is there so much?” Claude asked. .

“This is much more, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, coal. These are very common, as well as limestone, granite, nitrate, etc. Anyway, your geography is right. Just saying that there are fewer than ten kinds of mineral resources, here are more than ten kinds of precious mineral resources. I once heard the leader of the caravan talk about the white root powder, blue and white stone, and fluorescent Hongshijing has always been in short supply, and it is robbed of how much it is produced every year. The price is rising every year…”

The blue-and-white stone is actually a marble-like stone with a delicate luster and is known as the best carved stone. And Yinghong Shijing has a name, which is the soil crystal, the soil attribute magic crystal.

Uncle Osker pointed to the front of the mountain road: “Going along this road for more than 20 miles, it is Baimucheng. The white root powder produced there is the most famous of Kingdom. It is said that the workers who mined the mine dug the fossils. The plants are still smashing, thinking that the ground is all waste and garbage, not the gold, silver, copper and iron ore they want to find.

The miners’ settlements built at that time also started the name of a white grotto because of the excavated fossil plants. Until a pharmacist listened to the miners who bought the goods, he talked about it and quickly rushed to the mountain to see that these fossil plants were The raw material of white root powder. The garbage suddenly became a baby, so the White Grotto began to become a town, and later upgraded to a city…”

So the white root powder used in the drug test and the alchemy magic test is produced here. Claude can’t help but come up with interest: “Uncle Oske, do you know the price of the white root powder produced here?”

Uncle Oske shook his head: “I don’t know too much. I am not interested in these. Anyway, the price seems to be not very cheap. However, be careful when buying white root powder in Baimucheng. There are many scammers. Some scammers hire children and use other powders. When it was sold as white root powder, it was said that the adults at home were stealing from the mine. Now they are selling cheap and subsidized households. Many people who are unclear are very easy to get rid of. The former caravans are all going to those big businesses. Buying in a shop opened by a mining company, although the price is more expensive, the quality is guaranteed.”

After resting for nearly two hours, the muddy mountain road was partially sunk by the sun, and Claude and Uncle Oaks ate some dry food for lunch, then put on the carriage, driving the two horses to continue on the road, around 4 pm At the time, arrived in Baimucheng.

At the gate of the city, Claude was once again rigorously inquired. The garrison soldiers carefully inspected the blue feathers corps recruiting orders issued by Claude and the seals on the passes, and finally they were allowed to pass, and the seal of the Whitewood City Guard Camp. Put the horse into the city. Uncle Oske, sitting on the carriage with his nationals ID card, waited for Claude to check in and get on the bus.

However, Claude found that the guards in Whitewood City seemed to be very strict. There was a small battalion battalion soldier on duty at the gate. In addition, it feels that these soldiers are more guarded in the city than outside the city. Only four soldiers in the city were in charge of the inspection, while the other eight soldiers who remained vigilant were facing the city. In addition, there is also a small team of soldiers on the wall of the city patrolling, they are also in the direction of the city. The most important thing is that the fire ropes on the guns of all the soldiers are ignited, they can shoot at any time…

Uncle Oske did not agree. In this case, he experienced a lot when he was a soldier. It was nothing more than a problem in the city. For example, fugitives were found sneaking into the city, so the soldiers stepped up their guards to prevent their dogs from jumping into the wall and forcibly breaking through the gates.

“The vast majority are shocked, and several fugitives want to break through the city gates. The guarantee is self-defeating.” Uncle Oske said: “I was a soldier who was arresting a private gang for an underground gang. The boss gathered more than forty people to attack the gates of only a small group of soldiers. As a result, a row of guns passed, only four or five were killed and wounded. The rest of them screamed and shouted at the ground. …”

This way, Claude also knows a lot of things, such as the inspection and stamping of his pass. In the town, the patrol team is responsible. In the city, the guard battalion guarding the gate is responsible for checking and stamping. . As for the local garrisons, such as village or town-built garrisons, they can check but have no power to stamp the pass.

Uncle Oske’s pub with Claude is called the Big Plate Tavern, which is the favorite place for the coachmen who carry the ore to the mining company. Claude sees more than 20 loads on the large open space in the backyard of the pub. carriage. The three rows of horses that are built with logs are all the strong horses pulling the cart. Five or six horsemen are busy feeding and adding water to the horses.

It was still early, and it took more than an hour to eat at night. Claude decided to go out for a walk. He didn’t want to have a glass of ale like Uncle Oske sitting in the pub hall and listening to the coaches who had been blowing for more than an hour.

Go out and turn left and walk to Mario Street, two streets away. Uncle Oske told Claude that the mining company and the shops of the big merchants are all on Mario Street, very close to the big plate pub, and it takes ten minutes to walk.

However, just after a street, Claude was entangled. A thin guy with a sinister eye appears next to Claude: “Brother, do you want white root powder?”

Claude smiled and shook his head.

“A very cheap brother, a box only needs a crown, I am privately made out of the mine, quality assurance. To know that those big businesses can be sold at the price of three crown boxes, the profits are greedy The mining company and the owner of the business bank earned it, and we mined the money to buy a black bread. Because it was too unfair, we secretly made a secret from the mine. We are not greedy. As long as you can eat a few full meals…”

The thin man lingered around Claude, and Claude stopped helplessly: “Do you think I can afford a box of crown people? And I don’t know what a white root powder…”

“I said that you can’t afford it, it hurts me to go with you for so long, and said so much.” Thin man shouted: “Hey, silly boy, that gives a silver thale to let the brother buy a glass of wine.” Run the scorpion, how can you apologize to your brother?”

Claude held back his anger: “No, why should I apologize to you?”

“Oh, silly boy, you are still not convinced, do you want me to call someone to let you kneel on the ground and ask for mercy, you let the brothers spend so much saliva and effort, of course, to buy wine to apologize to brother! Take the money out…”

Claude’s eyes flashed, murderous, and a cold word spit out: “Roll!”

The thin man was scared to go back and forth, but his mouth was still stubborn: “You, you give me waiting…”

Claude ignored him, turned and left, inexplicably wrapped up in the second goods, deceiving people still want to extort, it seems that Uncle Oske said that there are many scammers here are true.

The thin man saw Claude walking away, and he gritted quietly behind him, staring at Claude far away, ready to see where he went…