These devices aren't particularly advanced, but the process flows smoothly, everyone knows what to do, and they also know which part of the work cannot be overlooked.

A daily output of over ten tons is ground out in this way.

Even more valuable is that this setup does not rely on imports or external assistance, as all parts, structures, and processes can be replicated and expanded locally in the Star Forging Territory.

Of course, a factory is not just a place filled with magic energy equipment and iron furnace pipelines.

To Louis, those who operate the hammer furnace, push the mine carts, and adjust the valves are the true "heart" that keeps this energy factory running.

Without people, there is no capacity. Let alone any assembly line.

So Louis immediately ordered that all new workers must undergo basic training, otherwise, they are not even allowed near the mine tunnels.

So, the training camp was set up in an old wooden shed on the north side of the factory.

There was no blackboard and no profound knowledge. What was taught was the most basic content.

How to wear goggles, what is meant by combustible block overheating, how to brake the mine cart, which color of Qi Vein Stone should not be touched.

"Take a look at this," the instructor held up a bluish-glowing stone, "When the Qi Vein Stone is hot, it shines white, not red. Red means it's about to explode! Once placed in the furnace, the whole line stops. Then it's not just you, everyone nearby suffers."

A group of newly arrived slave workers gulped and nodded quickly.

"Don't think it's a small problem, one explosion, and your life is gone," the instructor patted his chest, "This system is personally set by Lord Louis."

During breaks, the workers gathered by the furnace to munch on dry rations, some lit up tobacco sticks, smoking as they whispered, "Isn't it strange, someone actually cares about the lives of us slaves."

"Yeah," the person next to him nodded, "We've been here three days, and we've received equipment, clothes, meals, and yesterday someone even came to look at the burnt injury on the foot."

Not far away, the small house built with thick stone slabs was brightly lit.

That's the infirmary, inside were cooling stones, anti-inflammatory ointment, and several pharmacists took turns sitting on duty.

Usually, there's hot soup, and when a worker gets frostbitten, they can get a bowl.

It's not a matter of great favor, but to them, it's like rain from heaven.

No whips, no curses, no one forcing them to work non-stop.

They ate well, wore warmly, received pay for more work, and their families also lived safely in town.

To those who had drifted through chaotic times for too long, this was already an unimaginable way of life even in dreams.

So they remembered this kindness in their hearts.

Not everyone spoke words of gratitude, but instead expressed it through their actual work.

They got up earlier, moved faster, chose stones more meticulously, and maintained the furnace temperature more carefully.

Some people started to actively maintain equipment, some self-taught how to read the pressure gauge, and others cleaned and neatly put back tools on the shelf after each work break.

In this way, the three-shift rotation kept going, and the factory operated like an old clock, precise to the second.

With their rough hands, they worked with shovels and hammers, cart by cart, pushing the daily ore processing volume to nearly fifty tons, steadily refining over ten tons of standard Qi Vein Stone fuel blocks.

And this reward for their effort happened to become the foundation for the rise of the Star Forging Territory.

Thus, as of now, it is only in a preliminary scale, but Louis has already drawn up sketches for the second and third-phase plant areas.

Moreover, this mining area does not only contain Qi Vein Stones; geological exploration has also found several rare resources such as Marrow Oil, Demon Marrow Ore, and Fuel Ember Sinking Iron.

However, Louis is well aware that in times like this, the most taboo is to bite off more than you can chew.

Each mineral's extraction and processing technology differs, often involving an entire independent industrial chain.

He does not want to throw the resource system of the Star Forging Territory into chaos before it has even got its feet firmly on the ground.

Thus he decisively chose to focus on Qi Vein Stone alone.

Qi Vein Stone is currently the most urgently needed energy mineral, suitable for use as high-heat fuel, and can also provide energy for primary magic energy equipment, making it the most appropriate catalyst for initiating the entire territory's industrial startup

"First, do one thing the best." This is the phrase he has repeated the most recently.

Therefore, in the planning of the first stage, all resources were concentrated and invested in the extraction, transportation, screening, smelting, and compaction of Qi Vein Stone.

No splitting of lines, no trying to do both — even though the value of other mineral veins is tempting, they are all temporarily sealed and unmoved.

Once the miners became familiar with the workflow, furnace temperature control becomes gradually standardized, and the factory production lines stabilize, even starting to have a certain self-maintenance and expansion capability, he plans to gradually introduce more types of workers.

Soon, a batch of slave support dispatched by the Empire will arrive, most of whom are prisoners of war, debtors, or displaced persons.

Although they are nominally slaves, in the Star Forging Territory, they will not be exploited to death like elsewhere, but rather trained as workers to fill the continuously expanding labor gap in the mining area.

By then, he will consider gradually opening the other mineral veins and constructing corresponding refining and transportation lines for different categories of materials, truly entering a stage of industrial expansion with multiple parallel lines.

Of course, Louis does not only focus on mines and factories.

In the overall blueprint he planned personally, mining is just the pillar, while living is the foundation.

Around a radius of a few kilometers from the main mining area, a mining residential area, medical stations, canteens, school houses, and nurseries were sequentially constructed as basic infrastructure.

Not only providing workers with work, but also giving them a place to stay, food to eat, medical care when ill, and raising their children.

Even those entertainment venues often overlooked such as taverns, bathhouses, theaters, and markets were set up one after another.

The miners and workers did laborious work and got paid, but they also needed somewhere to spend and relieve stress, otherwise, problems would inevitably arise.

Thus, he encouraged outsiders with handicraft skills or commercial talents to reside, rent small plots of land or houses, and run their own businesses, also invisibly building a gradually self-circulating small economic system.

With basic faculties being perfected one by one, external population steadily flowing in, and the output of Qi Vein Stones continuously rising, an industrial territory centered around mining is steadily emerging from the Northern Territory's Frozen Tundra.

It's one of the few stable high-energy resource production strongholds in the Northern Empire.

And in Louis' further vision, it will be the first step for the future magic energy technology system, the starting point for his entire strategic industrial layout.

The construction of the Qi Vein Energy Zone has lasted for more than three months so far.

From the initial rocky wasteland to today's forest of smokestacks, tracks in operation, and factory furnaces roaring, the once-forgotten frozen tundra mining land of the Star Forging Territory has finally gotten on track.

Daily it can produce a stable twelve tons of standard fuel blocks!

Such achievements might even surpass those of some old established mining territories, as the Star Forging Territory could be considered the top mining district in the Northern Territory now.

However, not all the daily production of Qi Vein Stone fuel blocks is stockpiled.

A portion is purchased by the Calvin Commerce Association and transported along the southern trade route to territories in the southern Empire that are large consumers of magic energy, used as fuel to exchange for urgently needed materials and population.

Another portion is used as Star Forging Territory's own energy, allocated to the smelting furnace group, winter residential heating rooms, and the upcoming machine processing plant.

In this way, it relieves storage pressure while establishing an initial external trade cycle, providing the necessary funding return and energy support for the steady growth of the Star Forging Territory's industrial ecology.

This signifies that the four foundational systems in the first phase of planning, the residential area, main road traffic, smelting workshop, and basic education institutions have all been deployed and are operational.

The entire mining area has evolved from a temporary station to the embryonic form of a structurally clear and functionally clear energy town.

It is now mid-August, and Louis is finally preparing to leave temporarily.

He will return to the Red Tide Territory to rest and personally oversee the upcoming autumn harvest preparations.

But this mining land will not stop.

The next phase of construction has already commenced.

The Empire's first wave of supporting slave populations will transfer to this territory independently.

Three new factory buildings are scheduled for expansion, more alchemy technicians and grassroots management personnel will be introduced, and a more complete standardized production line gradually established.

The industry of the Star Forging Territory will fully enter the second phase of industrialization.

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