Seeing Li Peng Again

The Li Family's iron mine was located on a great mountain more than a hundred miles from Cloudflow County.

The mountain stood five hundred meters tall. There was not a single large tree on it, only weeds and thickets.

At the foot of the mountain, the Li Family had built a camp capable of housing several hundred people.

Stone walls five or six meters high surrounded the camp, with spikes mounted atop them to prevent anyone from climbing over.

At regular intervals, teams of guards patrolled around the stone walls.

It could be said that this camp was not much different from a prison.

The camp was filled mostly with wooden and stone houses.

The wooden houses were for people to live in. Some of the stone houses served as warehouses for iron ore and coal, while the rest were workshops for making charcoal and crudely refining ore.

The surrounding area was all mountains. Gathering timber to make charcoal could not only supply the ironworks, but any surplus could also be sold.

The camp itself covered quite a large area. Its only flaw was that it lacked manpower.

People were needed to mine ore, chop wood, burn charcoal, and crudely refine iron.

For the entire operation to function normally, it would need nearly a thousand people at minimum.

Yet at present, there were only a little over three hundred people in the entire camp capable of mining, chopping wood, refining iron, and making charcoal. The shortage of manpower was severe.

That was why the Li Family had constantly been trying to send more people here.

But not many people were willing to come here and suffer. Most of them had simply run out of ways to survive.

"Li Peng, fifty jin of ore mined. You pass."

Li Peng numbly accepted