520 Chapter 520: Bundle Sales

After all, many key technologies cannot be produced by relying on knowledge. If they are only produced by magicians and alchemy, the price will be prohibitive even for nobles.

For example, the gun sticks currently used by the Kingdom of Cleveland, although they are completely self-sufficient, are obviously just air cannon sticks, which are much less powerful than electromagnetic gun sticks, but their price is the same as the G43 gun stick in Merlo City. More than double.

This is the importance of a sound industrial system.

Although the industrial system of Mellow City is still gradually improving, for the Kingdom of Cleveland, it is more than a little bit advanced.

The real and most critical reason why Aslan did not hand over the magic phone to the agent of the Royal Academy of Magic was the communication monitoring of the magic phone.

After all, the first batch of people in Kyoto to use the magic phone will be the nobles of Kyoto, especially the ministers of the court. Once they get used to using the magic phone to communicate, they can easily obtain a lot of information.

After all, the people in Sino Continent do not have the awareness of communication privacy.

"The Marquis of Aslan is really refreshing! I believe it will not be long. Our magic communication business will spread throughout the entire kingdom." Duke Durandal said with a smile on his face.

Aslan did not continue to answer this question, but said directly: "Duke Durandal's visit to Merlot City this time is not just for the business of magic communication!"

The Duke of Durandal nodded without any embarrassment, and said generously: "It's about our alliance, with business contacts."

"Oh!" Aslan replied noncommittally, without mentioning anything about the alliance.

"Business and trade are fine, but can you provide products that satisfy me? I am very picky now, and I don't like ordinary products." Aslan said slowly.

The former Duke of Durandal would only scoff at Aslan's arrogant words.

But when he saw the prosperity of Merlot City, he didn't know what to do.

The textile and cloth business is not even mentioned. Now the linen and cotton cloth produced in Merlot City have been sold well all over the kingdom, and both nobles and commoners can afford it. Many old textile workshops in the kingdom have completely lost their living space and replaced them with other textiles. make a living.

Now many aristocrats have started to change jobs to grow flax, sell raw materials to the Balance Chamber of Commerce, and then buy discounted goods from the Balance Chamber of Commerce, and a solid supply and demand relationship has been established.

The Tianping Chamber of Commerce has always only purchased various industrial raw materials, and rarely purchased products produced by the Kingdom of Cleveland and the Ten-Party Alliance, which caused quite a lot of criticism from the nobles who came to run workshops.

Fortunately, because of transportation costs, the cheap goods produced in Merlot City are not very competitive, so these small workshops can continue to operate.

Duke Durandal took out the list of goods he had prepared in advance, and the old man couldn't help but blush.

Aslan just glanced at it briefly, and couldn't help laughing out loud.

9,000 tons of pig iron ingots, 1,500 tons of refined iron ingots, and 98 tons of steel ingots.

Seeing this value, Aslan couldn't help laughing.

"These are your output this year?"

Duke Durandal took a look, nodded and said: "The steel in the hands of the nobles in the northern provinces is here except for making weapons and equipment."

After all, the main iron-making process in the mainland today is not like Mellow City, which has furnaces of molten iron. The melting point of pure iron is as high as 1538°C. Without the use of coal mines, kilns that burn firewood and charcoal cannot melt it. , but iron ore can only be reduced to sponge iron full of impurities.

Then blacksmiths stuffed plant ash and other solid solvents into its gaps, and repeatedly smelted and forged, so that impurities such as silicon could be turned into glassy slag and knocked out.

When the impurities in the iron are cleaned up through such repeated tempering, the carbon content in the iron generally drops below 0.2%, and it becomes too soft wrought iron, which cannot be made into weapons. It is necessary to increase the carbon content in the iron to disturb the excessively neat crystal lattice , so that the purer wrought iron becomes hard alloy steel.

The method that has been used the longest in Sino Continent’s history is the ‘carburization method’. Cast iron is beaten into thin sheets and calcined in a charcoal fire. Carbon elements will seep in at high temperatures to form a hard surface with high carbon content.

However, in order to obtain a satisfactory steel, that is, an iron-carbon alloy with a carbon content between 2% and 0.2%, the process of tempering has just begun. or merged.

Then take wrought iron with less carbon content and fully carbonized pig iron and repeatedly fold and forge according to the ratio, so that the two alloys can be mixed fairly evenly to form a fairly tough steel.

This kind of steel surface can always see the black and white layered pattern of two iron alloys, so it is often called "patterned steel", which is also a watershed between noble knights and ordinary knights.

The armor and weapons used by noble knights are almost all made of patterned steel, while ordinary knights can wear ordinary steel. As for the armor of soldiers, they are usually made of wrought iron and pig iron, and the defensive effect is worrying.

"What about the iron ore output?" Aslan asked slowly.

Compared with these 'expensive' iron ingots, he prefers cheap iron ore.

"These are not included in the trade list." Duke Durandal said doubtfully.

He is not Yitzhak, and he is not aware of the terrifying steel output in Merlot City. This is why Merlot City has always only imported iron ore, but rarely exported steel products.

"I'm not interested in the steel produced in the kingdom at all. The price is expensive and the quality is not as good as our own steel." Aslan shook his head and refused.

Duke Durandal suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said with a smile: "It is not out of the question to buy iron ore. Now the Maxim Empire restricts the kingdom's import and export trade, and the northern nobles have a lot of iron ore in their hands, but for Guarantee that the steel industry of the nobles in the north will not go bankrupt, and one ton of iron ore is bound to one hundred catties of iron ingots."

Aslan closed the list leisurely and said, "Ten catties!"

"No, eighty catties!"

In the end, under the stalemate between the two sides, the ratio was set at one ton of iron ore to fifty catties of iron ingots.

Aslan did not expect that Duke Durandal was so familiar with bundling sales.

As for all kinds of materials, this is also indispensable. Even in the end, Aslan had to turn over the table, so he restrained himself a little.

The two parties initially signed a trade contract worth 10 million gold coins, and at the same time purchased 2 million tons of grain from the Melox province, which was enough to solve the urgent needs of the Kyoto area.

After all, the relief food used for refugees cannot be pure food. Most of it is boiled with a small amount of wheat and leaves and grass roots, as long as it does not kill people.

All the 2 million tons of food used for refugee relief can be used as 10 million tons of food.