Lord of Industrialization

Frederick did not forget what he was doing here because he picked up a queen, and Catherine did not ask him to send her back. Every day, he just chopped wood, cooked, and fed the bighorn deer with the logistics staff.

For many years, prospecting was a matter of luck. People first found ore exposed on the surface and used it as a basis to look for veins around.

A few years ago, geologist Georg Bauer wrote a book "The Complete Book of Mining and Metallurgy", which classified rocks and listed the relationship between different minerals and different rocks, pointing out a new direction for prospecting.

When Frederick appointed him to form the Land Resources Bureau, he also read the book for a while and had some understanding of finding shallow iron ore.

By the campfire in the wild, there were more than 30 pieces of ore in front of Frederick. These black ores were black and magnetic, and they were obviously magnetite ores.

This was the harvest of their fifth field trip.

Previously, Frederick searched in different directions for five to six days each time with the camp as the center. This time, he harvested more iron ore than the previous four times combined.

He Li was cooking instant noodles on the campfire, and sighed again: "I didn't expect you could find minerals on the ground."

Several Aurora warriors who were traveling with her nodded in agreement.

Now it was snowing lightly, and the forest was covered with a thin layer of snow and thick pine needles, and you couldn't see anything on the ground at all.

In the past, when the people of the Deer Horn Tribe came here to release deer, they could only pick up some after the snow water from the spring melt washed away the pine needles and exposed the ground.

Frederick just smiled. He was also a quasi-god of magic. With the rough domain released, every blade of grass and every tree around him was under his control, and the ore was even clearer.

He always felt that it was too wasteful for the sword saints and magic gods who had broken through the limitations of human strength to just fight and kill, and they should play a big role in production and life.

But I didn't dare to say this casually, for fear that my master would use it to make a nest.

The fragrant braised beef noodles were cooked. The calories of food when going out cannot be reduced. Whale oil and whale meat were added to the noodles, as well as some dehydrated vegetables.

Frederick also brought a good thing-capsaicin, which was extracted from peppers with alcohol.

/*I forgot that I had gotten the peppers in the previous two chapters, so I changed it*/

Due to the climate, the yield and quality of peppers in the Principality of Wessen are not high. Most of the peppers on the market are grown in Frederick's territory east of Constantine and imported from the Kingdom of Kush in the south. The market is in short supply, and the price is high because they are shipped from far away, so cheap instant noodles are unaffordable.

Another important reason why peppers are in short supply in the food market is that it is more profitable to use it as medicine than as a condiment. The smoke bombs made by Springfield Armory with capsaicin are even more crazy.

Frederick only added a little capsaicin to the noodles, and everyone was sweating profusely while eating, which was very comfortable in this season.

After dinner, a girl said to Frederick, "This is great. It would be great if I could eat it every day."

Frederick immediately shook his head and said, "No, if you eat too much, your throat will hurt, and it will also make you more likely to get hemorrhoids."

"Hate it!" Heli reached out and hit him on the shoulder, "How can you talk about these things with a lady?"

Frederick looked at a young bear lying next to him. It was attracted by the smell of braised beef noodles. Heli rushed over and jumped behind it and scratched its neck with her finger, and the bear's head almost fell off.

He said to the lady who could easily kill a bear, "These things must be made clear first, otherwise someone will think it was poisoned."

Another girl smiled and said to him, "If Heli is poisoned, you can help me apply the medicine."

Heli jumped over to hit her, and said, "How about letting him hold your shoulders with both hands to help you apply the medicine."

Then the girl blushed and fought with her.

While the two were fighting, someone cleaned the pot, drew water from the newly dug well, and put in dried pine needles to boil water to drink.

There is a lack of vitamin intake here in winter, so we do everything we can to supplement it. In summer, we pick pine needles and dry them in the sun, and in winter, we boil water to drink, which can be regarded as a little supplement.

Now the nights are getting longer and longer, and it will be dark soon after dinner.

Frederick fiddled with a box the size of a computer case, put it on the ground, and opened it. A beam of light shot straight into the night sky.

More than 30 kilometers away, there was a thicker beam of light between heaven and earth, which was the location of the camp.

This beam of light can not only be used for positioning, but also for simple transmission of messages and reporting safety to each other.

Frederick checked the light magic crystal that powered the equipment, and the energy was enough for one night.

There are many ice elements around here, and after absorption, they need to be converted into light elements through a specific magic circle before they can be charged and used.

It’s just that the efficiency of magic element conversion is too low, only 30%, and the speed is slow, so you have to prepare several magic crystals to use at the same time.

Frederick had no choice. He offered 100,000 gold coins to solicit high-efficiency conversion plans, but no one has come to ask for the money until now.

When everyone was drinking pine needle water around the campfire, Frederick pointed to a mountain more than 200 meters high one kilometer away and said, "Let's go there tomorrow. I suspect that the surrounding iron ore was washed down from the mountain."

The girls nodded, and followed his instructions during the day and their instructions at night.

The next morning, everyone cooked the best meat of the bear from last night with dehydrated vegetables. The broth was used to soak the dehydrated mashed potatoes. After eating, there was a glass of orange and carrot juice made from juice powder. Finally, they packed up the tent and set off with the bear skin.

When they reached the top of the mountain, Frederick said excitedly, "Let's camp here first. There is a big discovery here!"

Then he started to use his big moves.

With Frederick's current strength, the waterfall technique he used was enough to wash away half a football field of land.

Even so, the iron ore belt on the ground still had no end in sight, and the entire top of the mountain was magnetite ore!

This made Frederick very happy, and he felt like he had won the jackpot!

A few days later, Jin Li brought a convoy to deliver supplies and exchanged people back.

She saw from a distance that trees on the mountain fell in large numbers, which only happened when mudslides occurred.

But now is not the rainy season or the snowmelt season, where did the mudslides come from?

When they went up the mountain, they found a lot of traces of mudslides on the hill. When they approached the top of the mountain, they saw Frederick laughing and picking up He Li and the others one by one and spinning around.

When Frederick saw Jin Li and the others coming, he also went over and hugged them one by one and spun around twice.

Some girls had steamed in the sauna with Frederick and didn't feel anything, but some of them were thin-skinned, and their faces turned red after being hugged.

However, before the blush on their faces faded, Frederick laughed and went over to hug the big-horned deer pulling the cart, and rubbed his face.

"He... is crazy!"

"It's okay, just knock him out and wake up."

Before Jin Li and others could come up with a solution, a big-horned deer gave Frederick a hoof and kicked him down the mountain, startling a group of grouse looking for pine nuts in the forest.

That night, Frederick happily made a roast chicken for everyone, and capsaicin was added to the wine and smeared on the venison, which everyone praised.

When they started to rest, Frederick took notes in his tent. Just now, he calculated the longitude and latitude here by measuring the stars in the sky, and recorded the scale of the mineral deposits he found.

It was Jin Li who went into Frederick's tent tonight. After she sat down next to Frederick, she asked, "Did you really find the iron ore?"

She was a little bit unbelievable. So many people had come and gone on this land, and they could only pick up some iron ore. Only he could find the veins.

Frederick wrote as he said, "This is the largest iron mine in the world, with an iron content of more than 60%."

"The ore of this iron mine is like a flat plate inserted into the ground at an angle of about 60°. The shallow vein is more than 3 kilometers long and about 100 meters wide. The depth is unknown, estimated to be one or two kilometers, or even deeper."

"I plan to look for it on both sides along the ore bed next, and there is a high probability that I can find shallow veins."

"There is a lake not far to the north of the mountain. I plan to build the tribe between the mountain and the lake, and then build a railway to where we get off the ship."

The ore here is easy to mine because the vein is inclined. You only need to dig up the soil above, and you can use explosives to peel off the ore layer by layer and pull it away.

Frederick made a lot of money this time going north. Not only did he find high-quality iron ore, but he also heard that there was a coal mine in the Grey Crow's territory. When the time comes, he will naturally send troops to kill and avenge the Deer Horn Tribe.

At that time, with these two places as bases, his hands can reach far away.

Jin Li leaned against his shoulder and whispered, "That's great."

Frederick held her in his arms and asked softly, "Have you really thought about that?"

Jin Li blushed and lowered her head and said, "We must have children."

Frederick finally nodded slightly, let them do it, it depends on God's will.

In the following time, Frederick started a new exploration work with this mountain as the center, and then discovered some small mineral veins.

When Frederick was looking for minerals in the north, many things happened in the south.