Chapter 114 Industrial Zone
"I don't tell lies." Luis smiled at the merman.
"That's good!"
After saying that, the middle-aged merman and the merman woman named Luo Li jumped into the water with a "splash" and disappeared.
Looking down from a high altitude.
The dark group of mermaids under the sea gradually moved away and finally disappeared.
Half an hour later.
Luis who was basking on the sun lowered the anchor of the cargo ship and headed inside the Vortex.
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Fantasy World
Hartmann Permanent Vortex Military Base
After Luis arrived here all the knights stood still and saluted him.
"Greetings, Boss!"
"No need to greet me, everyone."
Luis waved his hand and looked towards his father.
"That merman had an uneasy face, he must have noticed something through his Spiritual Sense." Felipe said to Luis.
Luis nodded deeply as he walked along with father.
"Father, some plans needs to change now. We will trade both with mermaids and humans. Humans dominate land, Mermaids dominate sea." Luis played with his flying sword as he spoke.
"Also, For mermaids to play freely some modification should be made. In sea flying wont help much."
Felipe didnt say anything, let his son handle everything.
"Father, lets go to the Hartmann Island in Cultivation World."
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Sirius Gang Meeting Room.
There was a little conflict going on between the trade between them and Mermaids.
Some supported trading with mermaids while some strongly disagreed.
Seeing the conflict getting bigger and bigger, Olivia interjected.
"This matter is already final, Luis has already agreed with the Mermaid Clan."
After hearing Olivia, the room became silent. In term of military, in the barony Felipe is supreme but in management no one dares to go against Olivia.
"Blogs, you will try to create a Spiritual Weapon which will be suitable to use in the sea."n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Yes, Miss Baron." Blogs, the Blue Goblin replied.
Olivia waved her hand and said, "Luis and Felipe stay, the others can leave first."
Everyone looked at the three heads, then looked at each other and said, "I will take my leave."
Wait until everyone leaves.
The only people left in the meeting room were Luis, Felipe and Olivia.
"Luis, in these 1 month you were gone we have already taken control of the whole island. All the kingdom were abolished and only the Hartmann Family rule remains."
Olivia said with a smile, Hartmann family knights are already very strong and taking this island under control was very easy.
"What about Pipi and industrial zones?"
Luis has not seen pipi for more than month and he missed her a little.
"She is with her little fairy friends. They stay with the Tree men most of the time." Olivia said, "You can meet her later, she misses you. Also Blacky is with them."
"As for industrial zones it is already built. Blogs is in charge."
After that Luis talked with them for some more time before heading out.
According to his priority he first headed towards the spiritual field where Pipi is staying.
As he reached there, he instantly noticed the difference the spiritual energy here was very dense and different kind of trees and plants were thriving. The most being Spiritual Sunflower and Spiritual Moonflower.
According to his instinct, these normal trees should be tree men too.
As he walked deeper, fairies came and surrounded him.
They began to tug his hair and shout at him with a pout.
Luis obviously couldn't understand them.
"Cuties, can you tell where is Pipi"
The fairies nodded and pointed towards east direction. Luis followed them and finally saw Pipi.
"Pipi"
Pipi rushed toward eyes full of tears after seeing him.
Luis felt a little sad after feeling her emotions. It seems she has missed him a lot these one and half month.
"Ok, ok. don't cry. I will take you with me this time."
Since, birth she has always been by his side so long departure of him made her sad.
"Pipi" Her mood was instantly lifted.
"Let's go to the Industrial Zone. After everything is done here i will take you with me"
After that he and pipi headed towards the industrial zone.
For this he rode on his Blacky.
However, the industrial zone was not here. It was made far away from town and villages.
It is a huge factory and it is not suitable to make near human population as there will be problem of expansion later on.
He enjoyed the scenery as he rode on Blacky.
After more than 3 hours, he reached the industrial zone.
Blogs, the blue goblin was there to receive him.
"Welcome, Boss."
Luis looked at Blogs with a smile and said, "Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long."
Hearing this apology, Blogs was immediately flattered and said, "Why do you say that, Boss? I also just arrived here."
"Take me around this place."
"Yes, Boss."
After that Blogs took him around the place where some young men were being led by old men and some blue goblins.
"Are these the apprentices you found?"
"Yes, Boss."
"These young men can read and write, and they are all very smart. They should be able to work perfectly here."
"Hmm, once they are loyal. You can send them to the vortex and give them qualification."
This was the plan, he and his mother planned. Once people are judged to be loyal they are given the qualification of two worlds.
Few moments later.
"Squeak!"
Pushing open the heavy bronze door of the underground fire room, Blogs turned around and said, "Boss, Come in."
Luis came in after hearing this.
As he approached the underground fire room, he felt a wave of heat coming towards them.
Luis saw a group of people inside working on machineries.
"Is this the new underground fire room?"
Underground fire is the place where a fire burns in underground and Cultivators mostly refine the weapons here. They were lucky to find one here.
For mortals this place may be unbearable but Blogs and the ministers of Barony chose this place as Industrial Zone.
Glancing at everyone, Luis looked straight to the silver-white soul-melting furnace placed in the center of the underground fire room.
"Blogs, only 2 people are needed to operate one Furnace. Why are there so many people here?"
"These are for training young master. They are trained to operate to the furnace. Qualified stays others are eliminated."
"We need Furnace Operators and they are difficult to train among."
He paused and said, "A soul melting furnace will be equipped with two workers, a filler and a furnace operator.
The filler is responsible for screening, weighing, and proportioning the spiritual ore before placing it into the feed port. The furnace operator is responsible for controlling the temperature of the melting furnace, refining the spiritual ore, and transferring the refined products out of the furnace in a timely manner.
"As you can see from the operation process, the job of the filler is relatively simple and anyone can do it, but the job of the furnace operator is difficult.
The furnace operator not only needs to adjust the temperature of the melting furnace according to the time, but also needs to take out the finished materials from the furnace at the right time. Otherwise, the spiritual ore will become waste after being refined in the furnace for a long time."
After listening to Blogs narration, he immediately realized the importance of furnace operators.
And as expected, no one wanted to be a filler, and everyone rushed to the position of furnace operator, especially after it was announced that the monthly salary of the furnace operator was three taels of silver, which was twice that of the filler.
"Hmm, It is indeed to hard to become Operators. Why is there no Knights on this position." Luis questioned.
Blogs smiled wryly after hearing this.
"Boss, according to the Baroness, the knights will be stationed across various islands in this world once they're under control.
She believes that tasks manageable by regular people should be left to them. We knights shouldn't be taking their jobs. Just a few knights overseeing the work should be sufficient."
Luis nodded after hearing this. It seems mother has already begun to plan to capture the surrounding small island.
Then, Luis spent some of his time in the underground fire room, watching the fifteen young men control the soul-melting furnace.
Next, He walked out of the underground fire room to look at other places in the industrial Zone.
The environment here is not very friendly to the workers. There were not much infrastructures here.
Although, there were underground fire room here most of the Soul Furnace were built on factories.
The internal structure of the factory is total of ten separate compartments, each of which is about 100 square meters.
All the compartments are connected to each other, making it convenient for workers to move from the previous workroom to the next.
In each compartment there was Soul Furnace energy supplied by Spiritual Sunflower, Moonflower and the Underground Fire Room.
"Impressive. Do you have a name for this industrial zone?" Luis was very satisfied after roaming around the place.
"Yes, it's called the Hartmann Industrial Zone," Blogs immediately replied.
"I had a better name in mind, but since it's already named, let's leave it as it is."