In the time that followed, the assignment and resettlement of the large number of dwarves kept Zhou Xu so busy that he was completely frazzled.
Of course, if one had to put it another way, this wave of work was a case of pain and pleasure for Zhou Xu.
Although this batch of dwarves numbered less than a hundred thousand, their composition was exceptionally impressive. They were, without a doubt, a high-quality ethnic group.
There was no need to mention the many researchers among them who possessed research and development capabilities. There were also large numbers of outstanding mineral experts and blacksmiths, and even the least capable among them were excellent laborers with exceptional mining abilities.
The dwarves' stature allowed them to venture more easily into mine shafts that ordinary human miners could not reach. Their powerful limbs also allowed them to carry out ore extraction with relative ease.
Besides that, they possessed greater physical strength and endurance, enabling them to adapt to harsher mining environments.
In this area of ability, they could be said to completely overwhelm human miners.
Under such circumstances, Zhou Xu felt it would be a waste to have these dwarven miners dig only ordinary ore.
He had already made up his mind. First, he would let the dwarves adapt to life in Great Zhou. Once Great Zhou had fully absorbed this population, he would arrange for the dwarven miners to go overseas and extract fire crystal ore and silver ore!
Special ores like these, which were difficult to mine and produced in small quantities, were exactly where the dwarven miners needed to show their strength.
Just as Zhou Xu was mulling this over, a team of dwarven workers began toiling outside Yuan City.
Zhou Xu had previously fought that monster here, leaving the surrounding land