Chapter 373 - 10: Given the situation, let’s start farming.
In the fifth year, in early winter.
When the army returned, Roman was busy expanding the production of the mining veins, as the original scale of production was gradually failing to meet demand.
Mining efficiency was indeed considerable, but processing efficiency was not.
For the current era, these processing positions were all technical occupations. Workshop-style production was very stable, but once the scale expanded, there was the dilemma of a shortage of skilled workers. After all, training talent is a lengthy process, and Roman couldn’t possibly invest all the Angel Envoys into it.
The production direction of Coal Iron Town now mainly focused on steel agricultural tools. Roman had to not only sell these externally but the internal consumption was also enormous.
Reclaiming wasteland was inherently a task that severely wore down agricultural tools.
Just this year, nearly a hundred humanoid agricultural tools had died in the process of land reclamation. Some perished from disease, some drowned, some were carried off by wild beasts, and some reached the end of their service life; the accidents varied.
As for starvation or freezing to death, there were none.
Of course, the attrition rate of another kind of agricultural tool was even higher.
This year, Roman issued them with several hundred thousand pieces of various agricultural tools. The most common ones were hammers and scythes, axes, hoes, shovels, etc. The less common ones included steel wedges, Cross Pickaxes, and scythes.