Five thousand pounds of coal, four thousand pounds of iron?
Xia Hong's disbelief was not without reason.
As far as he knew, when Rogel Camp previously had five Earth-digging Realm cultivators, their daily coal stone output was only a thousand pounds.
A thousand a day might sound like a lot over time.
But considering that back then, Rogel Camp had a total population of over a thousand people.
These thousand or so people lived in five large wooden houses, each requiring one hundred and fifty pounds of coal, plus wood, to maintain one day's heating.
In other words, just for heating, they consumed seven hundred and fifty pounds of coal daily, almost three-quarters of the daily output.
Not to mention, heating was a minor expense compared to iron smelting, which was the major one.
So five thousand pounds of coal was absolutely no small number for Rogel Camp, and Xia Hong even suspected that their usual reserve wouldn't be much higher than that.
