章 150: Speeding up

2nd May 1574

"Sir, we have marked the area. Now all that's left, is to plant the explosives!"

With the implementation of the steam engine, influx of the workers and materials brough all the way from Tarnow and the nearby villages by Elia and almost continuous supply of all sorts of tools and parts from the Sandomir, everything suddenly turned from great mountains that we only could slowly scale, to nothing but a small hill that could be jogged through!

"Good. Proceed just as planned. Meanwhile, how is that belt work going?"

Since along with everything mentioned previously, Elia brough a few fat pouches filled with all sorts of coins, paying off the miners just as promised could be finally done. After the wait they had to endure without any repayment for the ore that they all saw constantly swallowed by the open mouth of the blast furnace, they could finally see that I never lied to them when I proposed much greater price for their haul than what they could get from the merchants!