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The next morning Henry stood on a temporary high platform made of wooden barrels, under which were densely packed with countless slaves with numb expressions. He used a ghost sound to amplify his volume and said loudly: "You are all slaves I bought back, and I can make you work until you die without payment. But I am a benevolent lord, and I will give you One chance. Twenty people who work the best every day can get out of slavery and become a commoner who gets a salary and a piece of land to farm after the city is built. Now tell me do you want to be my subjects? "The slaves in the audience began to stir slightly. They wanted to speak, but they dared not speak for fear of being whipped or killed. Henry saw some effects and said loudly: "Don't you want to obtain the status of civilians? If no one answers within ten numbers, I will take back what I just said. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four. When he counted to four a teenager shouted: "Me! I don't want to be a slave. I want to be a commoner."

Henry looked at the young man. "Very good, you stand up now. Tell me your name." The boy walked up to the stage slowly with some fear and said to him: "Master, my name is George. I am one of your slaves." Henry patted him on the shoulder . "Very good George, I now announce that you are no longer a slave, and here I grant you the status of a commoner. You are now my subject, as long as you work hard, you can earn one silver coin a day." Hearing George couldn't believe this sentence, he twisted his arm hard and found that he was not dreaming. Then he said loudly to Henry with tears in his eyes: "Thank you for rewarding my lord, I will work hard for you in the future." Henry looked at him with satisfaction and said to the others in the audience: "I believe you all see Now, I am a person who pays attention to commitment. As long as you meet my requirements, I will not be stingy to give you the status of civilians. Now go to work hard, and I look forward to promoting 20 people to become my subjects tonight. "After having a role model, the slaves cheered loudly, and their numb eyes began to be full of hope.

According to the customs of this world, Henry named the two islands before starting construction. The largest one was called Emerald Island and the smaller one was called Hart Island. Then according to yesterday's arrangement, Cagan, Amy, and Robert all led their own people to work. Hawke sent two boats and forty sailors to go fishing, and began to direct the slaves to start building the pier according to the drawings. . Because of the promise just now, they are very enthusiastic about their work, and they are rushing to work desperately. After Henry saw that everything was on the right track, he blessed himself with a flying technique and flew into the sky, and began to find a hidden place on other surrounding islands. After wandering around for two hours, he found a relatively remote island, which has about 350 square kilometers and most of it is made of shale. On one side of the island there is a relatively high mountain, and on the other side is a large piece of very smooth rock washed by the sea. There is no beach on the whole island, as long as the large rocks on the seaside are slightly processed, it can become a very good salt field.

The recent large expenditures have seriously shrunk the gold coins in Henry's dimension bag, and he began to consider the need for a trade to make up for his losses. After much deliberation, there is only one way to dry the salt. Before time travel, even in modern times when the price of salt was so cheap, sun-dried salt was still a profiteering industry monopolized by the state. And most places in Faerun still rely on seawater to boil salt or salt mines and salt lakes to obtain salt, which is an opportunity for him. For him, who owns a territory with a large number of islands, this is the best way to make money. As long as this is operated for a few months, there will be a steady stream of gold coins that can be used for territory construction. After choosing the location and making a magic mark, he began to plan to arrange spells around the island to hide the entire island. This is a big project, and it will last at least three months. At that time, as long as a small number of residents are left on the island to dry the salt, and Amy carries the dimensional bag to transport it regularly, the salt island can be prevented from being discovered by others.

At noon, he flew back to the village and asked Captain Hawke for a boat and 300 men and 300 women, and commanded the slaves to drive the boat to Salt Island. After arriving on the island, he asked the slaves to start digging a diversion channel with tools equipped with magical weapons to lead the seawater to the rocks. When the seawater was introduced, it gradually turned into inlets of different sizes according to the shape and size of the rocks. . In just one afternoon, a large area of ​​salt fields was built. After a few months, a large amount of coarse salt can be harvested here, and then it can be eaten after drying on the stones behind.

In the evening, Henry and six hundred slaves returned to the village by boat, and the people who had been busy all day began to eat dinner. Henry asked all the slaves to start electing each other, and selected 20 people who they thought worked the hardest, and publicly pardoned them as slaves to make them civilians. The slaves became excited when they saw that he had kept his promise, and many of them said that they would definitely work hard tomorrow and strive to become a leader as soon as possible. After all the slaves returned to the house to sleep, Hawk walked up to Henry and asked curiously: "Boss, what did you take six hundred slaves for during the day?" I can't answer you, but I can tell you that it is a very profitable thing. You will see the results in a few months." The old captain was a little puzzled, but he didn't continue to ask. He knew that people who like to ask for secrets usually don't live long. Who cares, as long as you can earn gold coins, it doesn't matter.

In the following days, Henry took people to dig new salt fields every day. Cagan also cleared the forest around the mine and began firing refractory bricks to build blast furnaces. The brick factory in the suburbs fired a large number of bricks 24 hours a day, and the method of making earth cement was also brought out by Henry. With all kinds of building materials in place, Hawke quickly built the pier and let all the ships dock in. A large number of wooden houses around have been demolished and replaced by three-to-four-story brick buildings. The whole city slowly began to take shape. Three months passed quickly, and a large number of slaves were given the status of commoners. Henry paid them a salary of one silver coin per day, which made everyone's enthusiasm for labor even higher. After a long period of magical arrangement, Salt Island has been hidden by Henry, and only a vast ocean can be seen from a distance. If you approach this area, you will be changed by the power of magic to bypass the island unknowingly. The six hundred slaves have all become civilians and he placed them on this island to work on drying salt. The construction of Kegan's blast furnace was not going well. When it was ignited for the first time, the whole furnace collapsed because the clay in the furnace was not heat-resistant. He has now found a better clay and is rebuilding.

The construction of the entire territory was in full swing, but was soon interrupted. Salt is produced for the first time on Salt Island. Henry packed almost thirty tons of salt in his dimensional bag. Came to the city under construction to find Hawke and took him to the warehouse. "I remember a few months ago you asked me why I took six hundred people away, and now I will give you the answer." After speaking, he poured all the salt on the ground, gradually forming a hill. The old captain was dumbfounded and didn't even notice that the pipe in his hand had dropped. After Henry poured out all the salt, he gently grabbed a little and added it. Then he grabbed Henry's shoulder excitedly. "My God! My God! These are all salt? Did you find a natural salt mine? Or a salt well?" Henry smiled and broke free from his hand. "Calm down Hawke, I just used some special methods to turn sea water into salt. Now I need to go back to Baldur's Gate with the fleet with you, and transport the salt back to be exchanged for gold coins."

The old captain picked up the pipe on the ground and tried hard to calm himself down. "No problem, I will arrange for someone to take over from me to direct the city construction. Tomorrow I will have people transport all the salt to the ship in wooden barrels, and we can set off the day after tomorrow. The salt can be exchanged for at least 300,000 to 400,000 gold coins." Henry looked at the captain's still trembling hand. "Then we'll leave the day after tomorrow. In addition, the construction of the city's sewers should start as soon as possible. I don't want my city to become full of feces and dirty water." After speaking, the two left the warehouse. Henry was inspecting his territory along the newly built street, when the dwarf ran over panting and shouted: "I succeeded! I finally built the blast furnace. Come with me to see it will be out soon The first furnace of molten iron."

"Really, take me to see it." Henry was also a little excited when he heard the news that the blast furnace finally succeeded after several failures. The two soon arrived around the mine. Henry saw the huge furnace at a glance. The slaves stepped on several iron fans vigorously along the protruding iron box next to the blast furnace to pour air into the smelting furnace. The surrounding heat was beginning to become unbearable. A lot of smoke came out of the chimney above the blast furnace, and everyone around looked at the huge iron furnace with stunned expressions. The dwarf walked over to watch the temperature in the furnace carefully through the small hole. After a while, he turned his head and shouted: "Open the gate!" The strong men who had been waiting nearby began to turn the iron winch to tighten the thick iron chain. Tight and straight. The huge furnace was slowly pulled out, and the bright red molten iron emitted intense heat. Soon the molten iron was poured into the pre-prepared mold, and each steel block was quickly formed. Kegan danced excitedly and shouted at Henry: "Did you see it! Did you see it! The steel ingots we smelt at one time are equal to the output of Nasikai in four months." Henry hugged the black and gray dwarf. "Yes, we succeeded. Now you clean up and hand over the work here to other people, we need to go home. I plan to take over my mother and sister, and it's time for your heavy hammer blacksmith shop to move. "

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