Chapter 10 Plastic Feather Arrows
"Fario doesn't believe it?" Elder Elushia smiled slightly, and the smile was still as dazzling as a human girl, making people never think of her true age. "Looks like I'm going to take the time to have a good talk with him. If his ideas don't change, he won't be able to keep up with the changes in the world."
"I can't blame him. After all, it is necessary to be extremely cautious to shoot a feather arrow before, so that an elf warrior who has honed his bow and arrow skills to an exceptionally advanced level suddenly accepts that archery can even be wasted in the future. It's a little difficult." Xu Yi smiled.
"Fortunately, there will be no such thing in the future." Elder Elushia looked back at the formed arrow shafts on the plastic production line not far away. "On this assembly line, we can produce more than 3,000 qualified plastic feather arrows in one day, so don't worry about wasting some."
"If the daily output is only 3,000 sticks, it's actually not enough." Xu Yi shook his head. "The 30 Magic Crossbows that were sent to Zhenbei Army have been well received. Now the military has placed an order for another 500 Magic Crossbows from our Chamber of Commerce. I have already accepted. The consumption of arrows is too large. If the Zhenbei Army and the Greedy Army of the Kingdom of Sark used the pure arrows recklessly, it would be too wasteful. So I recommended the new type of plastic feathers to the military. Arrows, I think it won't be long before the military will send people to inspect the plastic feather arrows. If there is no accident, they will directly place a large order."
"Okay, I will tell Amrod and Delier to receive them seriously."
Xu Yi looked at Elder Erushia and suddenly asked: "Elder Erushia, I have always wanted to ask a question, why did you not come out as the candidate for the Yesong Tribe's foreign affairs, but chose Delier? Come? In your wisdom, I think the whole thing would go a lot better if you handled it."
Elder Elushia shook his head lightly and sighed: "I am old, the future of the Nightsong Tribe. After all, it still needs young people like Amrod and Deryl to inherit, so not only will I not be the one In the future, the candidates for foreign affairs will minimize the guidance to the clansmen, so that they can adapt to the clan without me in advance."
Xu Yi looked at Elder Elushia's beautiful face like a young human girl in her early twenties. Frowning in shock: "I don't think you're getting old at all. With an appearance like yours, among us humans, you're still young, so there's no need to think about retiring so early, right?"
"Thank you for your compliment. But it's a fact that I'm old. No matter what my appearance is, my age has reached the age of an elves. The reason why I keep this appearance is just the characteristics of our elves." Elder Ya paused, and suddenly asked Xu Yi, "President Xu, do you think Anise is beautiful enough?"
Xu Yi was taken aback: "Of course Yanis is pretty, why?"
Elder Elushia just nodded and did not continue the discussion.
Xu Yi could only hold the question in his stomach in confusion. Following Elder Erushia's wishes, continue to discuss the production of these plastic feather arrows.
The material for making these plastic feather arrows is a new type of plastic material developed by the elves of the Nightsong Tribe during the experiment of plastic formula. Not bad at all.
And because of the use of batch planning and standardized production. The feather arrows produced in this way are almost the same in length, thickness, and weight. With custom-made arrows, the specifications of the entire feather arrow are even more uniform.
In this way, when shooting, such a feather arrow will be easier to adapt to the operation, and it is more suitable for the magic repeating crossbow that has very strict specifications for the feather arrow.
In the months-long battle between the Zhenbei Army and the Sac Kingdom for the Muerto Mountains, although the Zhenbei Army finally took back the control of the Muerto Mountains with its extremely strong combat effectiveness. However, such combat power is based on powerful equipment advantages.
In addition to the complete and sophisticated weapons and equipment and the powerful power of the magic catapult, in all battles, the performance is not the most dazzling, but in fact the most important is the feather arrow that consumes the most.
Precisely because there are countless. With the support of the feather arrows, which seemed to be free of money, the Zhenbei Army was able to suppress the Greedy Wolf Army of the Sac Kingdom from beginning to end, making it almost impossible to resist.
But such suppression makes the consumption of arrows very terrifying.
In the several battles of the final counter-offensive, although it only lasted less than half a month, there were less than twenty battles during the period, which was not a long time. However, the total number of arrows consumed was more than 100,000 arrows.
The reason why the Zhenbei Army can have such a large number of arrows is entirely because the large number of pure steel arrows produced by the military's arsenal before this ensured a large amount of consumption by the Zhenbei Army.
The problem is that the cost of pure steel arrows is too high. On average, each arrow costs a minimum of thirty silver coins.
One hundred thousand sticks, that is a huge cost of thirty thousand gold coins.
For the impoverished Royal Army, winning this battle and regaining the strategically important Murto Mountains is very gratifying, but the cost of just 100,000 arrows is 30,000 gold coins. Some can't stand it.
In addition to the cost of the magic catapult and the full set of weapons and armor worn by the soldiers, in this battle between the Zhenbei Army and the Kingdom of Sark, the military department invested more than 100,000 gold coins for the Zhenbei Army at one time. huge amount.
The other consumption is not bad. After all, the weapons, armor and magic catapult can be reused, but after the arrow is fired, no matter how much you clean the battlefield for recycling, it still consumes a small half.
In the end, the military department settled down and found that this battle was fought, and the arrows spent more than 10,000 gold coins.
When Xu Yi went to see Major McConley last time, he heard him talk about this issue, and when he had an idea, he suggested that plastic arrows be used instead.
Although the lethality of plastic arrows is definitely not as good as that of pure steel arrows, the main purpose of the overwhelming arrows is to suppress, not to mention that the power of plastic arrows is not so bad, even higher than that used in the army of Lampari Kingdom. The kind of pig iron arrows and wooden arrow shafts are much more powerful, and they can definitely be applied to the battlefield needs of Sainz Continent at this stage.
After a few days, Major McConley received the plastic arrow that Xu Yi sent to his hand, and learned that the cost of such a plastic arrow was only eight silver coins. He immediately decided that the military will use this plastic arrow in the future. arrows.
Judging from Major McConley's reply to Xu Yi, as long as the military department is satisfied with the results of the inspection of plastic arrows, the order will be at least 500,000 arrows.
According to the purchase price of nine silver coins for a plastic feather arrow given by the military, 500,000 plastic feather arrows are 45,000 gold coins.
For Ye Song Tribe, a newly established plastic processing factory, the first order to receive such a large number is really a good start.
"Actually, according to my true thoughts, I don't really want to take this order." Elder Elushia picked up a plastic feather arrow, looked at it, and sighed softly: "Set up this plastic processing factory. The purpose is to allow our tribesmen to have more in-depth contact with humans, rather than want to participate in wars between humans."
"For human beings, war is an eternal theme, and it is inevitable to avoid it." Xu Yi also sighed helplessly: "I hate war as much as you, but when it cannot be avoided, I do not resist it. If you are disgusted with this order, then I can represent the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. As long as you send a few technicians to guide, I believe that our Chamber of Commerce can quickly and smoothly produce these plastic feather arrows. "
"No need. Now that you have decided to join human life, escaping is obviously not the way to go. Although doing so can be regarded as intervening in the war between you humans, if you sell this thing as an ordinary commodity, it is not It's too difficult to accept." Elder Elushia said.
Xu Yi smiled slightly, thinking that after all, Elder Elushia is not a simple-minded elf girl like Anis, and it is not so simple to hand over the crucial plastic production and processing technology.
"Well, Elder Elushia, I will go to Bangta City tonight, you ask Delier to go with me, and I will take her to meet the presidents of the major chambers of commerce in Bangta City. As for what to do Introduce the business of your plastic processing factory and how to promote it, I will not interfere with this, let Delier handle it herself, what do you think?" Xu Yi thought for a while and suggested.
"If we act according to the way of our elves, this is a kind of charity for us, and I should refuse." Elder Elushia smiled: "But since we want to integrate into human life, then we should It must be done in a human way. This can be regarded as cooperation between us, and I am very happy to see President Xu, you lend a helping hand to us. "
Xu Yi laughed: "That's right. Everyone is a partner, so don't take this kind of thing as a charity. If you have to pay attention to fairness, you only need to give me a fair return in the future. This is a very common trade, isn't it?"
"Yes. I think I must warn Delier in advance, and let her learn from you how to become a qualified human businessman from today." Elder Elushia nodded. "I was very dissatisfied with her performance when she went to Bonta City to apply for a plastic processing factory with the help of Miss Steele. I hope she can improve this time under your guidance, President Xu."
"It's an honor." Xu Yi smiled slightly.