Chapter 1022 A Multi-Purpose Solution

"Big brother, eh, big brother, can you please stop looking at me like this? I feel cold all over..."

Brian looked at Tang En with a horrified expression. Every time Tang En showed this expression, he felt like an animal waiting to be slaughtered.

Especially now that he is hanging upside down from the ceiling...

Tang En suddenly laughed: "I have to thank you and let you down."

"What?"

A chill ran down Brian's back, and besides the cold sweat on his forehead, he hurriedly said: "Brother, please don't do this, I feel quite scary."

"Well, it seems you still want to stay, so let's hang up for a while."

Tang En retracted his hand, rubbed his chin and said, "The problem now is that the mine's production capacity cannot keep up with the production demand..."

Brian wanted to cry now and echoed Tang En: "Yes, and we don't have any extra manpower to send for mining."

"Manpower..."

Tang En smiled: "It's actually easy to find enough manpower. We'll talk about that later. Now let's talk about what we need to do here."

"You speak and I listen."

"Tell Edgar and ask him to contact the factory to squeeze out some manpower and seize the time to produce magic drills and mining sets. We must complete the technical upgrade of all existing mines as soon as possible."

Tang En's plan is very simple. Start with the technical aspects first. There are not many mines that have completed technological upgrades. The Maneng Machinery Factory will squeeze out some time to produce mining sets, which are maneng drill rigs, mine cars, tracks, and cranes. After that, other existing mines can be technologically upgraded.

After the technology upgrade, the production capacity can be increased at least fifteen times with the existing manpower, which will definitely be enough in a short time.

As for the transportation issue, regardless of cost, Tang En can lay a small teleportation array for each mine, as long as it can supply Ellington transportation personnel to enter and exit. By allocating space equipment, they can complete the ore in a short time transportation.

Since the core of all development revolved around Ellington, he did not even consider the issue of transporting and selling the ore to other countries.

After all, if you want to sell it externally, you will need to further improve the existing cargo transportation system, and perhaps also need to lay a dedicated freight railway line. The time and cost are too high.

Although the railway is the economic bloodline of the power hub with amazing transportation capacity, Purandar is a vast area with a sparse population and the cost of laying a railway is too high. The rigid demand for both passenger and freight transport is not strong, so Tang En is not considering laying a railway for the time being.

Besides, there is no extra steel to make rails now...perhaps he will consider it again if necessary in the future.

"There are three plans to increase raw ore production capacity. One is to upgrade the technology of existing mines, and the other is to increase the basic number of miners."

Brian looked confused: "Didn't we agree that the population is too small and the labor force is insufficient? How can we increase the number of miners?"

"The population is too small, but the labor force doesn't necessarily have to be humans, right?"

Tang En showed a devilish smile: "I remember that when we were in Slag Village, the dwarf's old friend left a very deep impression on me."

"An old friend of the dwarf?"

After Brian was stunned for a moment, he blurted out: "Kobold!?"

"Congratulations, you got it."

Tang En snapped his fingers: "I remember the village chief of Durum said that kobolds have an amazing reproductive capacity and have a very strong need for food, so they frequently attack dwarf villages, right?"

"That's right..."

"And kobolds are natural miners. Their mining ability is as good as that of dwarves, and their ability to dig holes is even better than yours, right?"

Although Brian was a little unhappy with Tang En comparing dwarves and kobolds together, he still said honestly: "That's true."

"Isn't this the end? The fertility is amazing, the numbers are huge, and they are born miners. This is a labor force tailor-made for us!"

"But," Brian couldn't help but remind Tang En, "brother, you have overlooked one point. Kobolds are despicable by nature and have low intelligence. They hate almost all humanoid creatures, especially dwarves and dwarfs, and they will attack anyone. Intelligent creatures that enter their territory will literally eat anything, including captives. Most creatures don't trust them. How do you make them work for you honestly?"

"This is simple."

Tang En smiled: "If you can't communicate with intelligent creatures, then you can communicate with them by taming wild beasts."

"Taming the beast?"

Brian was dumbfounded.

"Well," Tang En thought for a moment. Kobolds are somewhat wise, so he added, "I think it might be simpler than taming wild beasts?"

Although the dwarves also had hunters who were good at taming wild beasts, Brian couldn't figure out what Tang En was going to do.

"You don't need to worry about the specific matters. You go back to Forgehammer Castle first and collect information about the area where the kobolds gather. I will go find you later."

Tang En snapped his fingers, and Brian fell down with an "ouch!" and got up from the ground shivering, his legs trembling.

Tang En glanced at him lightly: "What are you telling the truth about when you say that you are talking nonsense all day long...ah, I mean, don't spread rumors all day long."

Brian felt that he was wronged: "I didn't make any rumors..."

Tang En said sinisterly: "Next time you can't control your big mouth when drinking, I will make you never drink a drop of wine in your life!"

Never drink a drop of wine in your life! ? This is great! ?

Brian's face changed and he said very seriously: "I swear! I will never tell the truth that I know again!"

"Huh? The truth?"

Brian immediately changed his mind: "I mean, things I know."

"Go quickly!"

Tang En didn't believe that this guy would get rid of his bad habits so quickly. From what he knew so far, the dwarf's two bad habits, talkativeness and alcoholism, would probably never get rid of him.

He didn't expect Brian to completely change his ways, but he only hoped that he could restrain himself a little in the future. This guy was really good at causing trouble.

After Brian left, Tang En thought for a moment and teleported directly to the Red Stone Cave.

"Yo? My friend! Why do you think of coming to my place as a guest——"

Before Barrod finished speaking, Tang En grabbed him and teleported him directly to Salhera.

"Honey!?"

Luo Lin, who was bored sitting on the throne and playing with her silver hair, saw Tang En suddenly appear. She cheered and rushed over.

With a "snap", she lost her balance again and fell to the ground.

"Woo!"

Luo Lin held her nose and floated up. Her long silver hair hung behind her like a waterfall. She simply flew over.

"Dear, why are you here?"

However, just when she was about to throw herself into Tang En's arms, the ghostly Laura seized the position one step ahead. Her slender white fingers gently touched Tang En's cheek, with a charming smile on her face: "Isn't that right? Miss me?"

"Mother!"

Luo Lin screamed in protest: "How could you do this!"

"My daughter, you have to admit that your charm is far inferior to mine."

Tang En said a little unnaturally: "Don't be like this, I have something to talk to you about."

"Is there anything we can talk about slowly in bed...Barrod?"

Only then did Laura notice Barrod next to her: "I'm sorry, your height hasn't changed at all, so it's hard to notice you."

Barrod's face became very ugly: "You damn——"

Considering that Tang En was beside him, Barrod abruptly changed his words: "——Asshole, do you want to fight with me?"

"We have fought so many times and when have you ever won? If I hadn't let you go, you would have died countless times."

Laura is a legendary powerhouse. Although Barrod's strength is also very strong, he is still far away from becoming a legend. Therefore, he has never defeated Laura. This time, Laura opened the wound again, which made Barrod even more angry. .

Seeing that their rivals were about to start a fight again, Tang En had no choice but to say: "Okay, be quiet."

"My dear, I listen to you."

With just one word from Tang En, Laura immediately turned into a well-behaved little lamb.

Even though Barrod's teeth were itching with hatred, he closed his mouth at this time.

"How is the situation in the underground world recently? Is the food supply sufficient?"

Tang En first talked about an unrelated topic to lighten the atmosphere. After all, the dark elves and red stone dwarves are now concerned about food.

Luo Lin rushed to answer: "Of course there is no problem. The food supply is very abundant. Our people can now have enough to eat and live very comfortably."

Our people?

Tang En felt very awkward about the word she used.

Barrod said: "As the little queen said, everything is fine in the underground world now, and the mining of light crystals is also stable. Thanks to the abundant food, we are now further exploring the underground world."

Laura spread her hands: "That's true. If there weren't those nasty lizard people, our life would be better..."

Tang En smiled: "I came here this time to talk about the lizard people."

Laura was stunned: "What can the lizard man say..."

"It depends on how you look at them."

Tang En said with a smile: "Although they are like wild beasts, they are somewhat intelligent and easier to tame than wild beasts."

Even Barod was scratching his head at this time: "You want to tame them? What's the use of lizardmen?"

"Since they live in the underground world, it means they are very good at digging holes, right?"

"That's true."

"With such special skills, if we tame them and help me mine in the mines, wouldn't they be a very good labor force?"

Tang En said with a smile: "The lizard people are also very capable of reproducing. This can reduce their harm to the underground world on the one hand, and indirectly control them on the other. It can also solve the problem of labor shortage under my men. It can be said that it is One stone kills many people.”