After all, many key technologies cannot be produced by relying on knowledge. If they can only be produced by magicians and alchemy, the price will be prohibitive even for nobles.
For example, the gun staff currently equipped by the Kingdom of Cleveland, although it is completely self-produced, is obviously just an air cannon gun staff, which is much less powerful than the electromagnetic gun staff, but its price is the same as the G43 gun staff in Merlo City.
More than double.
This is the importance of a sound industrial system.
Although the industrial system of Merlo City is still gradually improving, for the Kingdom of Cleveland, it is more than a little bit advanced.
The most critical reason why Aslan did not hand over the magic phone to the Royal Academy of Magic's agents was because of the communication monitoring of the magic phone.
After all, the first people in Kyoto to use the magic phone will definitely be the nobles of Kyoto, especially the ministers of the court. Once they are accustomed to using the magic phone to communicate, a lot of information can be obtained easily.
After all, people in Xinuo Continent have not yet realized the privacy of communications.
"Marquis Aslan is really happy! I believe that in the near future, our magic communication business will spread throughout the kingdom." Duke Durandal said with a smile on his face.
Aslan did not continue to answer this question, but said directly: "Duke Durandal will not come to Mero City just for the magic communication business this time!"
Duke Durandal nodded, without any embarrassment, and said openly: "It's about the alliance between us, and it comes with business dealings."
"Oh!" Aslan responded noncommittally, not mentioning a word about the alliance.
"It's okay to do business, but can you provide me with products that satisfy me? I'm very picky now, and I don't like ordinary products either." Aslan said slowly.
The former Duke of Durandal would only sneer at Aslan's arrogant words.
But when he saw the prosperity of Mero City, he himself had no confidence.
We dare not even mention the textile cloth business. Nowadays, the linen and cotton cloth produced in Mero City have been sold all over the kingdom, and both nobles and commoners can afford them. Many old textile workshops in the kingdom have completely lost their living space and have been replaced by other
make a living.
Now many nobles have begun to switch careers to grow flax, sell raw materials to the Tianping Chamber of Commerce, and then purchase discounted goods from the Tianping Chamber of Commerce, establishing a solid supply and demand relationship.
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 many nobles who came to run workshops to complain.
Fortunately, due to transportation costs, the cheap goods produced in Merlo 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 couldn't help but blush.
Aslan just glanced at it briefly and couldn't help laughing.
There are 9,000 tons of pig iron ingots, 1,500 tons of refined iron ingots, and 98 tons of steel ingots.
Looking at this value, Aslan couldn't help laughing.
"This is your output this year?"
Duke Durandal took a look, nodded and said, "Except for making weapons and equipment, the rest of the steel in the hands of the nobles of the northern provinces is here."
After all, the mainland today mainly focuses on iron-making technology. It is not like Melo City where there are furnaces of molten iron. The melting point of pure iron is as high as 1538°C. Without the use of coal mines, kilns burning firewood and charcoal cannot melt it.
, but can only reduce iron ore into sponge iron full of impurities.
Then the blacksmith stuffs solid solvents such as plant ash into its gaps, and repeatedly smelts and forges it, so that impurities such as silicon can be turned into glassy slag and knocked out.
When the impurities in the iron are cleaned up through such hard work, the carbon content in the iron generally drops below 0.2%, making it too soft wrought iron to be made into weapons. It is necessary to increase the carbon content in the iron to disturb the overly neat crystal lattice.
, turning pure wrought iron into hard alloy steel.
The longest-used method in the history of Xinuo Continent is the 'carburization method'. The cast iron is cut into thin slices and burned in a charcoal fire. The carbon element will penetrate at high temperature to form a hard surface with high carbon content.
However, if you want to obtain satisfactory steel, that is, an iron-carbon alloy with a carbon content of between 2% and 0.2%, the tempering process has just begun. By stacking the iron sheets together and burning them until they are soft, and then forging them repeatedly, you can make the two
merging together.
Then take wrought iron with less carbon content and fully carbonized pig iron and repeatedly fold and forge them according to the proportion, so that the two alloys are mixed evenly to form a very tough steel.
The black and white laminated patterns of two iron alloys can always be seen on the surface of such steel, so it is often called "patterned steel". This is also the watershed between noble knights and ordinary knights.
The armors 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 generally made of wrought iron and pig iron, and the defensive effect is worrying.
"Where is the output of iron ore?" Aslan asked slowly.
He prefers cheap iron ore to these 'expensive' iron ingots.
"These are not included in the trade list." Duke Durandal said doubtfully.
He is not Yitzhak, and he does not know the terrifying steel output of Merlo City. This is why Merlo 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. It's expensive and the quality is not as good as our own steel." Aslan shook his head and refused.
Duke Durandal suddenly had an idea and said with a smile: "It is not without problems to buy iron ore. Now that the Maxim Empire restricts the kingdom's import and export trade, the northern nobles have a lot of iron ore in their hands, but for
To ensure that the steel industry of the northern nobles does not go bankrupt, one ton of iron ore is bundled with one hundred kilograms of iron ingots."
Aslan closed the list slowly and said: "Ten pounds!"
"No, eighty pounds!"
In the end, due to a stalemate between the two sides, the ratio was set at one ton of iron ore to fifty kilograms of iron ingots.
Aslan also did not expect that Duke Durandal would be so familiar with bundling sales.
As for all kinds of supplies, this is also indispensable. In the end, Aslan even had to turn over the table before he restrained himself.
The two parties initially signed a trade contract worth 10 million gold coins, and also purchased two million tons of grain from Merox Province, which was enough to solve the urgent needs of the Kyoto region.
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, grass roots, and it can be eaten as long as it does not kill anyone.
All the two million tons of food used to relieve refugees can be used as ten million tons of food.