After briefing Aileen, Chun glanced at the pit being mined in the pumpkin field, feeling like his main account was completely being wasted there.
Just then, Tie came over excitedly to greet him: "City Lord, we've made great progress, look—"
He pointed to a row of blazing things nearby that could hardly be called buildings: "These ten are crude ore smelting furnaces. To speed up progress, they were casually plastered together with mud bricks. Each furnace has three layers, separating the low melting point silver and copper first, then using copper to make parts, forge bellows, and prepare to build refining furnaces for full-scale iron smelting…"
Chun nodded repeatedly, his scalp tingling.
It felt like evolving from the Stone Age to the Iron Age was just a matter of commandeering two boats overnight!
But even so, Chun felt an urgent crisis, like the progress wasn't enough!
Chun remembered something: "We can't afford wages right now, everyone's working like this—"
