First Year of the Great Xia, April 21
The wooden building is finally completed!
The notice from the Craftsmen Department was issued during the day, so once night fell, a large crowd flooded to the wooden building.
"These four walls have a lot of iron materials mixed in, they look so sturdy!"
"I heard that all the joints used for connections in this wooden building are made of iron. Each wall alone used an average of 120,000 jin of iron."
"Hiss... 120,000 jin? When we were over at Five Ape Mountain, the annual mining output was only over 200,000, and just one wall used up this much!"
"Hehe, can your Zhuhe compare with Great Xia? Do you know how much iron ore was mined just in the past month in Great Xia?"
Hearing this number, Zhu Meng’s pupils trembled greatly. Turning around, he found that even his father, Zhu Xing, was stunned, his mouth open and not closing for a long time.
No wonder, though Zhuhe Camp has 21 people in the Earth-digging Realm qualified for mining, they do not have Chewing Teeth Chisels. On average, each person can only mine about a hundred jin a day, and it’s impossible to mine every day, so the annual output of tens of thousands of jin is already quite good.
900,000 jin of iron ore in a month, what kind of concept is that!
"I’ve heard that there’ll be even more this month. Lord Yu Wen established a rule before: every Earth-digging Realm must pay 5,000 jin of coal and 2,500 jin of iron monthly. Do you know how many we have in the camp now?"
Everyone turned their heads to look at the person speaking, with curiosity in their eyes.
The person slowly extended a hand, spread out five fingers, and said with a smile: "I heard it’s almost 500, so think about it. In the next month, what will our camp’s iron and coal output be?"
Earth-digging Realm members!
Before anyone even started calculating, they were already shocked by this number.
Especially those like Zhu Xing, Xiao Kangcheng, Chen Hua, and others who recently came over from Five Ape Mountain, they were amazed, and a trace of complexity appeared on their faces.
They’ve all been leaders before and know very well what this number represents.
"2,500,000 jin of coal, 1,250,000 jin of iron, hiss..."
Someone calculated the quantities of iron and coal, creating a commotion among the crowd.
"No wonder this wooden building could use so much iron; forty-eight thousand jin for all four walls adds up to about a third of a month’s mining output."
"I heard that this wooden building can even withstand a Cold Beast tide, so in the future, it can be brightly lit even during the day. I wonder if we can each get a room."
"We should all be able to get a share. Let’s go in and have a look!"
"Let’s go, let’s go in. We can look around freely today."
"Look, Lord is already leading people inside, we’ll get our allocation soon."
A large crowd flowed through the main entrance and filled the entire wooden building, which stretched 200 meters in length.
The overall structure of this wooden building is actually the same as the previous one.
The biggest difference is in the materials used.
This is particularly evident inside the wooden building.
Therefore, whether it’s the original more than a thousand people from Great Xia or the over twenty thousand people coming from Mirror Immortal and Five Ape Mountain, they all couldn’t help but exclaim in wonder after entering the wooden building.
"Except for the first floor, the floors of the second and third floors are all laid with a mix of iron sheets and wood."
"The circular suspended stairs in the center are also forged from iron."
"The twelve load-bearing pillars are all made of pure iron, tsk, how heavy that must be!"
"The Fiery Sun Tripod is directly suspended in the center and can move up and down."
"Hiss, such thick iron chains. The ones we used before to defend against the Cold Beast tide weren’t even half this thick."
"Director Mu said earlier that this wooden building is more than ten times stronger in defense than the previous one!"
"No wonder we won’t need to fear even during the day; living here, we won’t be afraid even if the Cold Beasts come."
The story of Great Xia’s resistance against the Cold Beast tide has been spread widely over these days.
The three thousand or so people from Mirror Immortal are still okay, but nearly twenty thousand from Five Ape Mountain, they haven’t even seen a Cold Beast tide, let alone groups of more than three Cold Beasts. Knowing that the wooden building they will be living in can withstand a Cold Beast tide, their excitement is understandable.
Except for the top floor, the first and second floors are open for visitors. The more than twenty thousand quickly dispersed throughout, examining everything on their own. Some even started to figure out which room might be more comfortable to live in.
While everyone was visiting the first and second floors, Xia Chuan, accompanied by the Six Department Directors, was showing Xia Hong around the newly completed third floor.
The central hall on the top floor.
No, it shouldn’t be called a hall.
This should be called a great hall.
A vermilion main door; wooden floors carved with beast patterns; above, a golden ceiling painted with lacquer made from powder ground from Golden Frost Wood; around the great hall, sixteen two-meter-high Cold Beast statues carved from beast bone, each uniquely and vividly colored;
In the very center of the great hall is the Fiery Sun Tripod, with the access point of the suspended stairs blocked, clearly intended to prevent casual entry.
Aside from the suspended stairs, there’s only one entrance and exit to the great hall, the vermilion main door on the west side where Xia Hong and others entered before.
Surrounding the Fiery Sun Tripod are four load-bearing pillars running up from the first floor, different from the other eight pillars throughout the wooden building, these four have a layer of gold lacquer, just like the top.
If these details lend the great hall a bit of solemnity;
Then the five-meter-wide raised platform with ten steps on the eastern side inside the great hall adds to its majesty;