After taking the mining area, Liu Qian ordered Qyburn to send ships to transport pig iron and iron ore.
The Grey Mountains held astonishing reserves of iron ore. The Lys men had worked here for a long time, but they had yet to exhaust the veins.
He had also received Qyburn's report on the iron ore.
According to Qyburn, the iron ore from the Grey Mountains was of excellent quality, with a high iron content. Even though the Lys men’s iron-smelting techniques were inferior to Tyrosh’s, the pig iron they produced still sold well in every country.
Liu Qian could not help lamenting how terribly the Lys men wasted their resources.
He instructed Qyburn to build a blast-furnace ironworks near Crown Town. In the future, iron ore would be transported directly from the Gray Hills mining area to the ironworks to be smelted into pig iron.
Afterward, Liu Qian left a hundred soldiers and the captured slave soldiers to guard the mining area, while he led the rest of his soldiers back along the road to Outpost Tower.
Because the roads through the Gray Hills mining area were rugged, anyone entering had to pass through the valley southeast of Outpost Tower. With Liu Qian's main force stationed at Outpost Tower, it would be difficult for the enemy to slip into the mining area undetected.
Over the past dozen or so days, Mezzo's ravens had arrived in Liu Qian's hands in an endless stream.
Their messages all contained intelligence suggesting that Lys and Myr were about to join forces.
Liu Qian was not surprised by Mezzo's information.
Lys and Myr surely understood that when the lips were gone, the teeth would feel the cold.
However, their slave soldiers were far too weak, so they would certainly hire large numbers of mercenary