Chapter 177: Select mine

After leaving Markborough, his family and his family did not go directly to the address of the fiefdom, but first brought the documents sent by the Prime Minister of the State of Mark to the Huffman Manor, and they were entertained and delicious.
Then, Marin and his family discussed the choice of adding a new land. Originally, the old Huffmans planned to choose arable land. However, Marin's opinions must be heard.
Because, in the final analysis, John II was willing to promote Adler to be a knight in advance this time, and rewarded the Huffman family with a lot of land. In fact, it was all in the face of Marin. Otherwise, how can John II care about a little knight family like the Huffman family?
Marin wants to choose a coal mine, naturally the Huffmans and Adlers can only agree ...
So, Marin sent some prospecting engineers from Dortmund to start exploring coal veins near Huffman ...
At the beginning, Marin asked prospectors to explore around Huffman Estate. Because the anthracite produced by Huffman Manor is of very good quality and it is also very suitable for fuel. The key is that anthracite has less smoke and air pollution is not as heavy as bituminous coal. You know, when bituminous coal is burned, it not only has thick smoke, but also emits a pungent odor, which is very polluting to the air.
So if the prospector can find out the vein direction of the anthracite coal mine at Huffman Manor, it is also a good choice to take down the anthracite coal mine as a whole.
However, several prospecting engineers explored for several days, and with the help of workers, they made many eyeballs and did not find any large coal mine veins in the surroundings. In other words, even if the coal mine extends underground to other places, it is still deep underground. At least, you can't see a hole in the ground. Because these days, the eye punches are all artificial eye punches, not machine eye punches. It is good to be able to dig down to a depth of ten or twenty meters. Such a depth, I can't see any results ...
Of course, for Marin, this depth is enough. Because, the difficulty and cost of mining open-pit mines and deep mines are completely different.
In this era, coal has not been valued, and most coal mines have not been developed, including many open-pit coal mines. Therefore, it is not necessary for Marin to spend high costs to mine those underground mines with deep burial, but can choose those with shallow burial or wrongly-open pits.
Moreover, deep coal mines are also very dangerous. If you are not careful, there will be a gas explosion or something. Because flammable gas gathers down the well, it is easy to blow up in the presence of open flames. However, deep coal mines do not work without ignition, otherwise there is no light. Because there are no miner's lamps these days, only torches can be used for lighting. The torch encountered gas ...
And open-pit coal mines do not have such a danger. Above open-air or shallow burial, those flammable gases will easily dissipate and will not gather together for deflagration. In addition, the cost of mining varies according to the difficulty of the mining. Therefore, as long as it is not a fool, you must understand that it is better to choose an open-pit coal mine than to choose a deep mine. In the Ruhr area in this era, many open-pit coal mines have not yet been mined, and they are also considered as rotten land because they can't be planted ...
Marin, with a few prospectors, began to search for horses near Huffman's estate. Of course, they had a permit for exploration issued by the court of the Mark Bo State. Otherwise, in some places, the landlord will not give in ...
As for the place found by Marin, if there was an owner, John II promised that he could exchange another piece of land that was not worse than the original one and had more arable land.
In this way, Marin, with several prospectors and a group of strong serfs responsible for digging and digging holes, ran on the land belonging to the territory of the Marke country in the Ruhr area, looking for the legendary open-pit coal mine ...
It is said that there are many coal mines in the Ruhr area. Marin and his team actually found several open-pit coal mines nearby. But what makes Marin depressed is that the two best open-pit coal mines are in the hands of local nobles. Nobles are not civilians, and they have the confidence to refuse to change land. John II promised Marin that if he found a coal mine, he could exchange the cultivated land. But that was aimed at civilians. Besides, civilians dare not refuse John II. However, the aristocracy is different. The ancestral fiefdoms, even John II, cannot move without sufficient reason. If people are not willing to change places, John II cannot force chaos.
The other three open-pit coal mines can be replaced. However, Marin took the craftsman to the site and found that the coal quality was not good. Simply put, these three open-pit coal mines are not anthracite, but bituminous coal.
Speaking of which, if the iron and steel industry is developed, bituminous coal is an indispensable raw material for coking. However, this year, you have vigorously developed the steelmaking business. To whom is the steel produced?
You must know that in the agricultural era, even if a lot of steel is made, it can only hit agricultural tools and weapons. In other aspects, it has very few uses. Unlike in the industrial age, manufacturing machinery required a lot of steel.
So, this year, the iron and steel industry does not need to spend so much effort to engage. To do it, we have to wait until the steam engine is invented ...
In other words, anthracite, which is more suitable as a fuel, is more important than bituminous coal nowadays ...
As for Marin, the small-scale steel industry also needs a bit of bituminous coal. In this regard, Marin need not worry. Because, in Gelsenkirchen, where his eldest son Liv's maiden house is located, there is a smoke coal mine. Need bituminous coal, buy directly from the Hamler family, and it is still a friendly price.
So, what Marin needs more now is anthracite, not bituminous coal ...
Feeling helpless, Marin continued to lead the team to survey, and gradually far away from the Huffman Manor ...
Finally, half a month later, Marin found a large-scale open-pit coal mine in the southwest of Bochum, and it was a high-quality anthracite coal mine ...
This place belongs to a local gentry family. This gentleman was actually a descendant of the knight, but it was not the firstborn son. He had lost his noble status and became an ordinary squire.
Moreover, the family did not develop and use this large coal mine, just digging coal for home use, such as cooking and cooking.
The gentry immediately agreed when the documents of the court of the Mark Bo State expressed their willingness to exchange them with the cultivated land along the Ruhr River.
In fact, this gentleman is not unaware that coal can sell money. But the big question is, who do you sell to?
In this era, there were fewer people buying coal, and the Ruhr area was full of coal mines. Therefore, even if you own a coal mine, there is no way to sell it. Coal cannot be sold, nor can it be exchanged for money. Therefore, it is better to change the cultivated land. After all, there is no such thing as selling food ...
In this way, Marin successfully got a large-scale coal mine that produces high-quality anthracite, which is much larger than the coal mine at Huffman Manor.
煤矿 This coal mine is in the southwest of Bochum, only seven or eight kilometers away from the Ruhr River, and it is easy to pull coal to the Ruhr River. Of course, the premise is that Marin must first build a stone road leading to the river. Then, build a pier for coal loading ...
Alas, Marin is not in a hurry to develop this coal mine. Because, although he has expanded the number of salt cauldrons in Yancheng ~ EbookFREE.me ~, he needs more coal. However, Huffman Manor's coal mine has more miners, and the output can still be supplied.
After all, the coal mines at Huffman Manor have produced output and various facilities are relatively complete. More miners can increase production in a short time. Unlike the newly acquired coal mine, it takes at least a few months for production to take into account paving roads and developing mines. By then, the daylily was cold.
So, for now, it is better to let the coal mines at home increase production first. As for this newly won coal mine, it can be occupied first, and then developed when needed. Of course, road construction and dock building can be done in advance, but coal mining development can be said later.
Moreover, this new land, which was named "Mrs. Mary's Manor" by the old Huffman for courting his wife, also has 100 acres of arable land. Moreover, the squire who had moved away left a row of houses. However, he took all the serfs. If you want serfs, you have to recruit them yourself. But now the most important part of the German region is the surplus population. Otherwise, German mercenaries will not develop.
However, the time has entered March and spring ploughing has begun. Whether it is the Huffman estate or the newly purchased Madame Mary estate, spring ploughing must be carried out. So it was really fast for Mrs. Mary to recruit serfs.
As the owner of the Wadden Islands, Marin had to rush back to the Wadden Islands to oversee spring cultivation. Therefore, after confirming the new coal mine, Marin paid for it, sent away the prospecting craftsman, returned to the Huffman Manor to clean up, and was ready to return to the Wadden Islands ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Welcome book friends Come and read, the latest, fastest and hottest serial works are all at ~ EbookFREE.me ~ mobile users please read.