Chapter 120: ?

Because he had cement, Virtya had started constructing better houses for the slaves in Pollow district. It was not that Virtya was forced to construct these houses but he was using this chance to train his construction workers and see if they were fit to construct tall structures.

One should know that this trial for the construction workers costed 1 million.

Of course, only seven apartments could be constructed with the budget of 1 million since Virtya was using the cheap labor from the slaves.

The apartments were coming up very quickly since there was enough labour and the construction materials. Virtya was expecting that by the end of October, all these apartments would have been completed.

But to the slaves working at the cement plant, these structures before them were like something out of this world. They could not help but wonder how such a building was erected since it was almost impossible to build such a tall building in this backward world. Not that it could not be built but it wouldn't last longer because of the unreliable materials used to construct such structures.

Pollow cement plant was producing 500 bags of cement per day and this was because it was taking too much time to get the raw materials, if Virtya could get the steam vehicles to quickly fetch these raw materials, then the cement plant could work at 100% and produce close to 1200 bags of cement per day. Of course, Virtya was using the bags made of linen for the cement bags, these bags were only carrying 50 kilos of cement each.

Additionally, the cost of a 50 kilograms of cement was 70 silver coins. It was expensive because of the high cost of production but when Virtya would bring the steam motors to replace the human labour, then the cost of production would plummet which would create a chance for Virtya to reduce the cost of a bag of cement. This price could even be brought to 40 or 30 silver coins for a bag if things went for Virtya's favour.

The ongoing construction of the apartments in Pollow district was going on and it could be seen that one of the apartments had already reached fifteen floors. It's height towering above all the buildings in Pollow district but it was yet to be finished, even when the slaves heard from Virtya that these apartments would be theirs to stay in, they didn't believe it and this was what was making them work hard so that Virtya would select them as the first inhabitants of these heavenly buildings that went up to the sky.

One sould also know that the cement plant had also enabled the blacksmithing guild to receive revenue after the sale of the steel for construction. Still, there were not many people that came to buy the steel because the cement was still unknown to many people.

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Somewhere in Whiddiff city, a woman who was riding a horse could be seen. By her side, there were two teenage boys with a disoriented look on their faces as they seem like they were too tired than their horses and even opening their eyes seemed to be painful to them.

Dark circles could be seen around the eyes of the woman and these boys.

"I think we should rest a bit. We have been traveling for a week now and you didn't gave us a chance to sleep well. I feel like my head is splitting." One of the boys said before he yawned. He leaned forward and relaxed on top of the horse.

"I will not rest until we arrive at our destination." Nadya Kudnetsov said with a laid back voice. She was also tired but when she remembered the huge profits that she obtained from selling the plough that she made by herself, she could not rest.

Six months ago, Nadya Kudnetsov came to Azuhai to do business but she didn't expect to chance upon the plough and that was how she fought her way among the farmers and obtained a plough which were so few at the market that time.

Using that plough as a prototype, she produced many copies of it and sold them to the farmers in Litkesh kingdom where she came from.

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