" let me explain hewer , your the man responsible for our iron mine right "

the man was confused he didn't understood what the lord wanted to say did he want to fire him "yes my lord ,what do you want to say by that ?"

"im talking about how much we produce we have a very big vain but we still can't mine a large amount of metal " the man got scared "my lord.... its not my fault please forgive me i will do better " the man was at his knees begging for his life

"get up im not accusing you i know that it was impossible until now " hewer got up he looked at the lord with a complicated expression "my lord what do you mean with until now?"

las smiled and took a paper from his drawer "do you know how to read hewer ? " "yes my lord i do " las passed him the paper the experienced man looked at the paper for a minute and he smiled with excitement he spoke "my lord please give me the contract that you talked before "

"hahahahaha you are smarter than i tough you would be you understand what it is , right ?"

"of course my lord this is a new method to mine metal , with my experience i can tell it would likely work how could i not thought of this you are really smart my lord aren't you you are the one to come up with this , right ??

" yes i am " hewer stopped being anxious he understood very well what the lord wanted now

"now mr.hewer shall we talk ? " the man didn't respond for a minute "ooo yes my lord yes "

las put a paper at the table " let me tell you what the contract is about , we soon will expand our mines with this contract you will be put under surveillance soldiers will protect you , you can't talk about our method and you must make sure that no one will learn it , outside of helstain and your pay will be double what you have now "

" so my lord i should make sure that i never talk about our methods ? i can do this but about the workers this is a little difficult "

" i know don't worry i would handle it , i just want you to speak with them about this you have their trust after all " [our guards will be able to keep every spy out when their training ends for now there is no reason for them to spy besides our enemy viscount and baron it would be fine as long as i keep my head down ]

las looked at the door "guards come in " two knights came in "one of you call me oliver and noz and the man who was responsible for the first paper factory right now" the knights saluted and left

hewer was confused so he asked "my lord why are you calling someone else is there something else ? or is just the paper work "

"you will see hewer wait " a knock was heard "come in gentlemen " " greetings to the lord helstain "

"greetings , i assume than all of you know who mr.hewer is ,he is responsible for all of our metal ores "

" i would like to start producing a large amount of iron weapons and tools with a new method , first i have work for all of you lets start with oliver " las passed a paper "my lord this is ...... too large " las smiled "i know its so large because we will change all the production method "

none of them spoke they knew now that the lord had always great ideas

las gave another paper to noz " oliver and noz you two must work together to build all of this " noz looked at the paper "my lord this thing is huge what is that ???? and you want 5 of them ?? " oliver looked at the paper he seem to understand why the building was so big

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" calm down noz i will explain how have you been smelting metal all this time "

noz was confused "i will make a furnace melt the iron destroy it and do it again my lord ?" las smiled "right this is the problem , with this we will not need to build and destroy all the time we can produce a large amount of iron and we will use others methods to make a large amount of iron work " las explained how he will produce a large amount of tools and weapons

las then looked at the man who was responsible for the first paper factory "so your one of the people i bought with me from the motherland ,right" las hade gave the order for all of his people to not reveal where they are from " i have another job for you "las gave once again a paper "the man looked at it again and again "my lord this is ..... just a hole isn't it ?"

las smiled "read the instructions , this is a method to produce a fuel called coke this will be used for the huge furnace from now one i give you the responsibility for our production of coke "

las turned his gaze towards oliver "there is something more for you oliver we have 900 prisoners right ? sent 500 of them into the mine and the others to make coke and force them to help build all of the things we need the bandits are to do the hardest labour but the soldiers that belonged to james will be freed after 5 years of service but if they try to give informasion around they will be forced to work forever there but if you find that some of the bandits haven't done much they can too earn their freedom "

oliver looked at las "my lord why not make them slaves or soldiers they have experience ?"

las spoke in a calm tone " first i can't trust them so they will not became soldiers and i can give them a motive to work this 5 years after those years i can have men who will have experience and help the economy with their money , but some of them can't be forgiven i need the support of the people im not going to let the men who destroyd their lives work for me this is what this bastards deserve "

oliver understood but he spoke back " my lord our population is small with all those buildings that you order to build at the same time , we have run out of manpower and winter will come soon more will die our food supply is small with this coke we may be able to keep them worm but their houses have holes many will die "

las knew those things the people had stopped working on the farms when they did their energy was spend for nothing the bandits always took everything many commoners run to other houses las needs to spend a large amount of money to feed and buy clothes for so many people and pay the soldiers [ it should be fine i will just bleed money for this year but with the new iron production i should recover fast , but from where will i buy ?the people who produce the most food are the orberg and elberg my worst enemy and close relatives with each other i too have some pride i can't give money to my enemy winter will come in 5 months ]

" i know oliver go to the work that i have given you i need it done in 2 months you can take the army if you need more hands ooo and hewer i heard in the past that many of the miners know one or two things about iron work sent them into our current forge 1 or 2 times a week to learn more not all of them at the same days sent them in groups i want them to have some experience they would be better smelting iron when all of the captured men start to work as miners "

"i will do as the lord commands "

"and call me samuel , hewer don't leave for some time " las talked with samuel for the knights and soldiers that we need "aaa i will handle it my lord but we don't have more resources to spend my lord we need more men "

" i know i know please sent some knights for now with mr.hewer for now "

"yes my lord " when all had left las looked around [ we have 1900 soldiers 400 of them are in our biggest city in our east 500 of them are the guards of the capital some of them are new and another 1000 are normal soldiers i pay them 3 silver a month this is 28.500 until winter i have the knights who will cost me more and i need to give food this will be more money should i lower the pay no no i heard that many didn't came in because they thought it was lying even with my seal if i lower the pay i will never be able to get new soldiers ,with all the money and the buildings that are made i will end up from having 114.000 to only a 68.000 silver coins if i put in the pay for 5 month for the soldiers for 5 months and the 5 new factorys together with the place for the griffins i need to feed and give clothes to 25.000 people i will be fine i will sale more paper with my 10 factorys and books and porcelain with the new 5 factorys and i may be able to sell some iron weapons and tools in october ]

[i should be fine i will start the new year with a very good income i will be able to build all the things that i need and feed my people im fine and the next year with the land that i have give they should be able to survive fine and i will give them another method to farm they will have tools too it should work just fine ]