Zhang Tie stood on the outer wall of the castle and watched as the construction crew operated a rail trailer and pushed a huge steam boiler from the distant material stack to the castle gate, and then the steam boiler was slowly lifted by the rail crane.
Several construction workers of the Changfeng merchant group wearing hard hats used several steel ropes to tie to the hanging plate to control the balance of the big guy, and at the same time communicated loudly with the person who operated the rail crane on the high platform.
"Slow down, slow down, slightly to the left, right, a little later to the left, okay, keep going up, keep going up, right" After the completion of the main project of the castle, there are a large number of follow-up projects to be carried out, the most important thing is the installation and commissioning of the castle's steam power unit and various defensive weapons, as well as the interior and exterior decoration and greening of the castle.
The current castle, although it already has a look, is too ugly, it is completely a concrete lump with no half of beauty, and there are bare cement and all kinds of thick steel components everywhere.
Liu Gong, the person in charge of the construction team of the Changfeng Merchant Group, and another steward of the Changfeng Merchant Group accompanied Zhang Tie to inspect the construction progress of the castle on the wall of the outer fort of the castle.
"Is this steam boiler the main boiler of the castle?"
Zhang Tie asked, pointing to the big guy who was lifted into the air by a crane.
"Yes, this is the main power boiler of the castle, the output power is 9600 horsepower, this main boiler is usually mainly responsible for the power output of the castle's anti-air weapons and the two main ballistas, with this, there are two conventional power boilers with slightly smaller output power, the output power of the conventional power boiler is 3400 horsepower each, which is mainly used to drive several scattered strike systems and small machine crossbows that will be installed on the castle" As soon as he heard Zhang Tie's question involving his own specialty, Liu Gong immediately replied.
Zhang Tie pointed to the tallest defensive arrow tower in the castle, "Is this main power boiler installed under that arrow tower?"
"Yes, this main power boiler is installed in the power room of the arrow tower, and the other two boilers are secured in this position and this position," Liu Gong pointed to the two places of the castle's outer and inner forts.
Zhang Tie thought of the explosion of the steam boiler that he had heard before, and couldn't help but be slightly worried, in this era, in addition to the alchemy bomb made by the alchemist, the steam boiler is the only thing that can still explode, but although the explosion of the steam boiler is amazing, but strictly speaking, it is not actually an explosion, but the rapid release process of high-pressure steam energy in a very short time is different from the explosion of the alchemy bomb.
But if this thing really explodes, it will be enough to make this castle drink a pot, Zhang Tie is the one who has watched this castle be built day by day, although until now, even if he touches the cold, hard and rough concrete walls on the wall of the outer fort, Zhang Tie still has some unreal feelings in his heart, and he still feels a little illusory about the fact that he will soon have a castle, but there is no doubt that Zhang Tie still has a lot of feelings for this castle.
These feelings, in addition to the debts of four or five hundred thousand gold coins that can make ordinary people feel desperate, are also mixed with some other things.
Because Lan Yunxi has a cloud character in his name, and this place is also called Yunju Mountain, Zhang Tie chose the place where the castle was built here. is also because owning a castle is a dream that almost every man in this era will have since he was a child, and this castle will also be Zhang Tie's career in the future.
"Will these boilers explode?"
Zhang Tie asked seriously.
"Hehe, the kind of boiler you said will explode is an old-fashioned steam boiler, this castle uses a relatively complex structure of the new water tube steam boiler, its thermal efficiency and output pressure are higher than ordinary boilers, and there are water level, temperature, pressure triple automatic protection switch, whether in safety or in the use of performance, you can be absolutely assured" Liu Gong swore to pat his chest.
Hearing this, Zhang Tie finally put his mind at ease.
"What we need to consider here now should actually be the issue of the guards and personnel stationed in this castle" The European steward of the Changfeng Business Group who accompanied Zhang Tie took over the conversation, "This castle will only take twenty days to complete at most, and after completion, it will be able to produce full-effect potions here, and it will definitely attract many people to spy here, to support the complete defense and security system of this castle, the guards here also need at least 70 people, this is still on Qianlong Island, if it is on land, the personnel exchanges are more complicated, as an important place, The guards here are at least doubled, I don't know what you're going to do."
Zhang Tie groaned slightly, "I don't know what advice the European manager has."
"The fastest, of course, is to directly hire armed guards, and the Changfeng Merchant Group has the service of hiring armed guards.
If you are thinking about long-term development, you can also directly consider recruiting family samurai."
The suggestion of "recruiting family warriors" made Zhang Tie's heart move.
Steward Ou smiled, "To be able to own a castle, such a net worth, you already have the qualifications to recruit family warriors, as long as the conditions are good, there are many free warriors who are actually very willing to find a promising family and master to take refuge and eat a stable meal, so it is not difficult to recruit family warriors."
"But in this case, the loyalty of these newly recruited family warriors will be a problem," Zhang Tie said.
"The loyalty of newly recruited family samurai needs to be cultivated, but if you buy slaves and trade slaves directly, as long as you give them hope, loyalty can be easily cultivated."
Since coming to Huaiyuan County, Zhang Tie has heard for the first time that slaves can be bought and sold here, and the term slave trade is quite new.
"Is there still a slave in Huaiyuan County, and what is a slave trafficker," Zhang Tie asked with interest.
"There are no slaves in the entire Jinyun country, or there is no mechanism for forcing slaves, but Jinyun and Huaiyuantang do not prohibit slaves and human trafficking, there are many countries in the Weiyi subcontinent that recognize slavery, and there are many countries on other continents that recognize slavery, and the population and slave trade is a very important way of population flow and exchange between the continent and the country, the so-called slave trafficking refers to those who voluntarily give up and sell their personal rights and sell themselves to others as slaves.
Those people are common in both Huaiyuan County and Jinyun Kingdom, after all, not everyone in this world can live a nourishing and valuable life, some people even have a problem eating and surviving, when they meet such a person who is willing to sell themselves, in exchange for a chance to eat and live, this kind of thing you are willing to do, no one cares" Hearing this, Zhang Tie was silent, remembering the general history of the human race that he had been reading in the past two days, according to the general history of the human race, human beings have actually been priding themselves as the most developed in science and technology and civilization before the catastrophe, serfdom has actually always existed, but it has been changed to a nice and more confusing name.
Before the cataclysm, there were serfs in many countries, and in some so-called democratic countries that practiced apartheid, those serfs did not have any means of production of their own, nor did they have any political rights, they did not have the right of free movement, they did not have the right to property, and sometimes even their bodies were not theirs.
They have been confined to work silently on land that does not belong to them all their lives, and have endured all kinds of unfair economic exploitation, political oppression, and personality discrimination imposed on them all their lives.
According to the price of the era, after the serfs in some countries of that era were killed and taken away from their lives at will, the compensation that their families could receive was only about 20 to 30 gold coins.
At that time, the price of many expensive dog breeds had reached thousands of gold coins, and dogs with hundreds of gold coins abounded.
Considering that slavery still existed in various disguises before the cataclysm, it is not surprising that there existed in this era.
Zhang Tie was relieved all of a sudden, and felt that reading more books could really broaden his horizons.
"Is there such a thing in this Huaiyuan Hall?"
"That's a joke, if the descendants of Huaiyuantang are all slaves, they can sell themselves, then what do you want the Zongren Pavilion to do, what do you want the family to do, as the descendants of Huaiyuantang, the most poor, the family also has a help, otherwise, if you want to work, there is not much problem in finding a job to make a living in the relationship of the family, this kind of willing to take the initiative to be a slave trafficker has strict management in all Chinese countries, the kind of slave trafficking from the big family and the big surname, there is no such thing, and no one dares to buy this kind of person" "Where can I buy slaves and trade slaves in Huaiyuan County?"
"The largest population trading market in Huaiyuan County is in Stargazing City, and it is also managed by the family, and the price of ordinary slaves and slaves is about 50 gold coins, children are cheaper, beautiful women and skilled men are more expensive, and the price of slave warriors above level 6 is generally more than 600 gold coins."
The European steward explained.
"Are there many slaves and slave traders in Huaiyuan Hall?"
"Hehe, there are basically a few rich people Zhang Tie's heart was turned around, and he suddenly made a decision, he smiled, "Since the Changfeng Merchant Group has ready-made armed guards to provide, then it is good to hire eighty guards first, and let the castle run first, all of them are from Huaiyuan Hall, so that you can rest assured, when I have time, I will go to Yunzhou City to have a look."
Steward Ou also smiled, "Since you want to hire an armed escort from the Changfeng Business Group, then I'll bring the agreement tomorrow for you to see first."
"Expensive or not" "It may be expensive for others, but for you, it's a little drizzle," said Steward Ou.
Zhang Tie laughed, enjoying this compliment, he found that as long as a man has money, he can gain more respect.
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It feels really good to be rich In the next half an hour, Zhang Tie walked around the castle with great interest, looked at the construction progress of the castle, especially stared at the various pipes laid in the castle and prepared to connect several steam power units, and finally came to Black Dragon Town with satisfaction, ready to go down to the island dragon cave to condense the seventh-level battle qi totem of the hundred-legged centipede.
Today's weather is very good, the sun is shining, the gift given to Lan Yunxi two days ago was not thrown out of Fengqi Pavilion by Lan Yunxi, which made Zhang Tie very happy, he felt that life has come to this moment, love, and career have begun to go in a good direction, more and more prosperous, just went to his own castle to take a look, Zhang Tie is also in a good mood today Zhang Tie first went to Yang Yuankang's pharmacy that sold all-effect potions in Heilong Town, and found that it was just noon, and the pharmacy was already closed, and there was a sign hanging on the door of the pharmacy The store has all sold out today's all-effect potions, and the store will open at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, with a limit of six sticks, one person is limited to one, please queue up to buy Although the sign was hung out, and even the number of all-effect potions that could be sold here tomorrow was clearly written, there were dozens of people queuing up outside the store, and some people simply waited outside with benches and bunks, chatting while waiting.
Seeing Zhang Tie probing his brain at the door of the store, some of the people in line shouted, "Boy, if you want to buy a full-effect potion, go to the back and queue up, don't you see so many people waiting here?"
"Let me ask, hasn't it been made clear here that there will only be six all-effect potions for sale here tomorrow, what's the use of you big bunches of people queuing up here" Zhang Tie glanced at the long line questioningly.
"Ha, if it doesn't work tomorrow, there will be the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow will not be the day after tomorrow, anyway, as long as you line up for three or five days, you can always take your turn, here eight gold coins a full-effect potion, as long as you buy it, you can sell it with one or two gold coins at will, we are all ordinary people on the island, if we want to change and do something else, how can it be so easy to make money and you can earn one or two gold coins by queuing up for a few days" The man in the queue who had just stopped Zhang Tie replied.
"That's it, I heard that this all-in-one potion was made by an elixir master in Qianlong Hall, and people just take some time to prepare a few potions every day, which is enough for us to earn a year," said a person next to him.
Master of Pills, when did he become a Master of Pills, he is not even a fellow of herb apprentices, Zhang Tie secretly felt a little funny, the information in the Qianlong Hall, as soon as it was transmitted outside, it was a little out of shape.
"Ask me again, who do you sell these potions to after you buy them?"
"Of course it's those women who came to the island" The guys in line looked at Zhang Tie with idiot eyes one by one, "Don't you know, although those women who came to the island are very powerful, but as long as they talk about the effect of this all-effect potion, they are no different from ordinary girls at home, and their mouths are full of words such as what makes skin whitening and renewal, anti-aging, etc., I met a woman that day, and I added three gold coins to a bottle of Manshu Sawa in my hand, and she bought it without blinking an eyelid, It still seems to feel like it's cheap."
"Then why don't you add a few more gold coins," the person next to him also regretted it.
"How did I know that girl was so rich" In a lot of discussions about the all-effect medicine scalpers, Zhang Tie left from the door of the store, women, women, how come these women heard things that could make them beautiful and young, one by one, they were like flies seeing rotten eggs, this was the case in Ling Tianyuan, I didn't expect that it would be the same when I came out of Ling Tianyuan, and if it continued like this, the all-effect medicine I made would become a special cosmetics for girls.
Yang Yuankang and the shops they opened are all like this, needless to say, Ma Aiyun's situation is not much better, I heard that the store that Ma Aiyun and they were looking for in Lanlong Town was not open at all, and the first batch of full-effect potions he took them from them had already been digested among the girls in Ling Tianyuan.
Where else can the medicine flow out?
Zhang Tie estimated that such a situation would not improve until at least a little more than a month later, after the fermentation of the batch of medicines brewed by himself was completed.
However, thinking that the things he made were so popular with girls, Zhang Tie was also happy to see it, and was secretly proud, and there would be one more reason to get close to Lan Yunxi in the future.
Leaving the pharmacy here, Zhang Tie casually walked around Black Dragon Town, and his mental power and induction, which were too much beyond ordinary people, suddenly discovered an abnormality.
Zhang Tie felt that he was actually being followed: