Accompanied by Long He's supervisor training officer, Xu Chen carefully inspected some places inside and outside the valley where they had begun to dig and explore ore.

At the same time, he also demonstrated the mining skills on site with a stone hoe.

After all, before traveling through time, he did this specifically.

He has been exploring in the field with a pickaxe for many years. Mining and vein exploration is his professional skill. Although he has various advanced instruments to assist him, manual mining is the most common method.

While digging, he also summoned a group of prisoners and supervisors to carefully distinguish which ones are good ore and which ones are inferior ore. After digging, they are sorted and stacked so as not to be mixed together. After being sent to the Ba people, it will take a lot of manpower and time to resort them, especially rare and precious minerals such as malachite and original copper ore. They are required to be collected separately and not mixed in the ore.

After a busy hour, I was exhausted and sweating profusely. A group of Wu tribe hunters and a group of prisoners who were going out to hunt also came back with two wild beasts.

At this time, the sun was about to set, and it was time to finish work and have supper.

Xu Chen threw down his stone hoe and went to the place where a group of miners lived and rested.

The valley where copper ore flows out is about two or three miles deep, with thorny gravel mountains on both sides. This terrain will not form large rock caves, so it can only live on the river beach where the main river channel meets outside the valley entrance. It is a simple wall with stones imitating the Ba people's kiln factory, and then a row of shacks were built with wood and thatched vines. There are stone nests next to each other, covered with hay and leaves, which looks similar to the situation of an ordinary savage cave, but it is even more simple.

There is a fire pit surrounded by a pile of stones, with a large amount of burning ashes inside, but it has been extinguished now and it seems that it has been extinguished for a long time.

Xu Chen asked a few questions and learned that the fire was still burning for warmth in the cold winter, but after the beginning of spring, there were several rains that were not too big or small. After the fire pit was extinguished twice, the Wu people were too lazy to help get the fire.

Besides, after the beginning of spring, the temperature gradually became warmer, and the demand for fire has also decreased a lot. At present, a group of prisoners basically eat raw and cold food. As for the hunters and supervisors of the Wu tribe, they all return to the tribe to eat, or bring roasted dry food.

Eat raw and drink blood, and eat raw and cold diets, which are still the norm for most primitive tribes at present.

It was only after he invented pottery after traveling through time that the Ba people slowly got rid of this eating habit.

Therefore, Xu Chen was not dissatisfied with the diet of a group of prisoners. After all, the conditions were limited, and the Wu tribe was still in the stage of raw and cold diet.

What he was worried about was the accommodation conditions.

The rainy season is coming soon. Once this big river and small rivers start to rise, there will definitely be no way to live near the river beach. You must choose a safe place with a high terrain. In addition, with the arrival of the rainy season, there is no way to mine the valleys and river beaches, and you must move to the hillside.

In addition, after the water rises, the big and small rivers cannot pass normally throughout the summer, and the ore dug is difficult to transport, and it is even more impossible to transport to the Ba people. So should the mining continue?

Although there are many prisoners, the Gonghuo Clan and the Cha clan will definitely redeem most of them within one year. There are probably many prisoners left in the Ji clan and Cang clan. After all, the distance is closest and the most convenient.

The Wu tribe is closer to the Ba tribe, and there will inevitably be a lot of them in spring and summer, and there are not many left in autumn and winter.

Therefore, Xu Chen felt that he should take advantage of the fact that he had enough manpower and try to dig out as much ore as possible before these free miners were replaced.

But safety issues and ore delivery are big troubles.

This is back to the first question to think about. The best solution is to mine on site and smel them into copper, which is both convenient and simple.

Even if there is heavy rain in summer, water rises, as long as food supply is ensured, it can be an isolated industrial and mining area.

In fact, most mining areas and smelting and processing plants in the world are in areas with few people, and ultimately lead to the formation of a unique factory and mine culture. Once the ore is dug, a town born from the factory and mine will soon be abandoned and desolate.

This is the inevitable experience of the development of human civilization.

At the beginning, I was afraid of the strength of the Wu tribe and refused to cooperate, so I didn't invest much energy. Although I have controlled this copper mine through several Wu tribe families that I defected to, the internal conflicts have not been completely resolved.

If there is profit, there will be struggles.

The families of the Wu tribe that have not yet surrendered will definitely not see that this huge interest that belonged to them, which fell into the hands of a small number of people. The greater the benefits generated, the longer the time, the deeper the conflict will be.

Although Xu Chenle thought that there were many conflicts within the Wu tribe, if such conflicts threatened his own interests, he would not be happy.

If you die, if you don’t die, you will be allowed to do so.

Therefore, if you want to mine on the territory of the Wu tribe or even complete smelting and processing on the territory of the Wu tribe, you still need to completely settle a group of dead and hard-working elements represented by the Wu tribe leader.

Although they have begun to show weakness, they have not completely obeyed after all.

Once they want to make trouble secretly, no one can resist it. Any negligence may lead to huge casualties if they want to cause trouble. If it happens every now and then, even the families they surrender will be so scared that they give up.

Therefore, if you want to truly build the Wu tribe into a copper mine mining, smelting and processing base, you must give up some of the interests to appease a group of tribe leaders, including the Wu tribe leader.

As long as there are sufficient interests, the Ukrainian tribe will definitely be very willing to cooperate in completing excavation and smelting.

In time, the entire Wu people's habitat will become a huge copper mine smelting and processing plant, and may become the most important core industrial area of ​​the Dachen Empire.

Copper ore is continuously transported by rivers and ships, and then smelted in the valley outside. Then a wharf is built at the estuary outside the valley to build a river boat. Go down the river and transport copper to the vast downstream plains.

There will be a huge city with lead-tin charcoal transported from all over the world, smelting into bronze alloys, casting weapons, axles, kings and chimes...

The trajectory of the five thousand years of Chinese civilization will unfold again, thus opening the prelude to the brilliant Bronze Age.

"Long live His Majesty the Witch King!"

Thousands of great witches holding staff and cloaked wizards and saints leaned over and knelt down to the heroic man sitting on a dragon throne.

There are no chariots, cavalry, infantry phalanxes, and dense flags like forests.

The Dachen Empire unified the world and threatened all races. His Majesty Chen made the unprecedented king of witches...

"Gudong~"

Xu Chen couldn't help swallowing his saliva and wiped his mouth full of saliva with his hands.

Looking back at the dilapidated and simple habitat in front of him and the large areas of barren rivers and wilderness around him, he forcibly suppressed the hustle and shouts of the Witch King, and took a deep breath to calm down his mind.

Dreaming is not a problem, daydreaming is fucking.

It seems that I have been too inflated recently because I have dealt with the Gonghuo Clan and the Wu Clan.

This mentality is becoming less and less controlled.

This is not good.

What's more, such a big copper mine, with dozens of captive miners who will be redeemed soon and their broken wooden sticks, it is a dream to complete a large-scale mine development.

To truly open this copper mine, at least hundreds or thousands of miners are needed, and a large number of strong and sharp metal tools, mining, logging, burning charcoal, smelting, transportation...

Everything is difficult at the beginning, difficult in the end, and difficult in the end.

Faced with the poor start in front of him, Xu Chen instantly had the urge to return to the Ba tribe to continue to live.

What's more, he had never thought about how to deal with the Uk tribe leader and the group of Uk tribe leaders who followed her.

Two not-so-big wild beasts were thrown on the river beach, and a group of prisoners rushed up and began to break their stomachs and divide their meat. Each of them sat on the ground and started eating with blood.

The rich smell of blood drifts away in the evening breeze.

Xu Chen thrust his face and summoned the Long and Wu tribe supervisors and three training commanders who led the hunting to hold an interim guidance meeting.

Although the conditions are harsh, the management is too chaotic at the moment, and the accommodation and diet conditions also require some major improvements. Of course, the most important thing is to carry out smelting work on the spot to reduce the unnecessary consumption of transporting ores.

First of all, in response to the shortcomings of management, Xu Chen asked the Wu tribe to strengthen the reward and punishment mechanism, include all miners in military training, and conduct militarized management in accordance with the daily training of hunters.

Food cannot be allowed to be scrambled to grab food by themselves. It must be managed in a way that will be distributed according to work and get more money.

If you are trained, you can actively assign relatively easy work, and you can even be assigned to a hunting team or supervisory team, and promote and appoint some small leaders to achieve the purpose of self-opposition and management.

This is not a prisoner of war concentration camp, but a punitive labor reform. To put it bluntly, it is to plunder labor force. These prisoners must be proactive.

Only by taking a two-pronged approach to discipline and rewards and punishments can we change the current messy situation.

In addition, accommodation conditions also need to be improved. In order to prevent the dangers caused by the rise in river water after the rainy season, it is necessary to choose a safe area with a higher terrain to rebuild the house.

The house is as strong as possible. Combined with stone houses and tents, it can be built with mixed wood, stone and mud. It does not require much spaciousness, but it requires it to be able to shelter from wind and rain.

In addition, spring and summer are also a period of rampant activities of snakes, rats, insects and ants. Parasites and diseases are also important. The living environment should be kept clean and hygienic. The food should be cooked as much as possible. The excrement should be kept away from life as much as possible. It is best to excrete centrally in a fixed location and be isolated from the living area to reduce the risk of infection of pests and parasites.

In case of missing people, patrols around the mining area should be strengthened, the two-mile area nearby should be included in the monitoring scope, and ferocious beasts such as wild wolves should be expelled, so as to strive to ensure the safety of life in the mining area.
Chapter completed!