Chapter 96
Russell was not the only one who cursed the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's black heart in his heart. In the Kingdom of Lampari, which was more than 3,000 kilometers away from the conversation between him and Leslie, there were also countless people who cursed the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's black heart in their hearts. ∷,
Just a week after the news of the birth of Her Majesty Queen Seweni's child, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce suddenly announced that in order to celebrate the birth of Her Majesty's child, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will announce a crucial technology to the public in the Kingdom of Lampari. A gift to Her Majesty the Queen.
This news immediately caused a sensation in the Lampari Kingdom, and also aroused the close attention of other surrounding countries.
Everyone knows that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has a technical strength far surpassing all other magic machinery chambers of commerce in terms of magic machinery, which has resulted in their absolute leading position in this field.
Other chambers of commerce can invest energy and funds in technology research and development to catch up, but how can it be more convenient and quicker to study by yourself than to obtain mature technology directly from Xinfei chamber of commerce?
If Xinfei Chamber of Commerce hadn't taken the initiative to transfer a series of technologies related to household magic machinery before, in the field of magic machinery, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would still be a solo dancer, and the others would only have soup.
Therefore, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced that it would once again disclose a crucial technology, which naturally attracted everyone's attention.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce did not disappoint people. At the press conference in Bangta City, the importance of this technology announced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce even exceeded everyone's imagination.
This technology is actually steelmaking technology!
Of course, there are many kinds of magic machines, ranging from small to pocket magic lamps. As big as the large cargo magic ship developed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce half a year ago. Whether it is function, performance or structure are completely different.
But no matter what kind of magical machine it is. But they will definitely use a crucial raw material, that is steel.
Before the emergence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, there was no such thing as steel on the Sainz continent, but only iron.
Iron smelting is a technology that has been passed down for thousands of years on the Sainz continent, among which the dwarves are the best in this field.
But before that, iron smelting to make ironware was mostly used to make some simple ironware used in daily life. It's not complicated, and it's not demanding.
The only thing with higher requirements is to make weapons and armor.
Although there were well-known craftsmen who created powerful weapons and armor before this, and brought iron-making technology to a very high level, but before the emergence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, no one had ever been able to make iron on such a large scale, and had a high degree of confidence in the refining process. Iron has such diverse and demanding requirements.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce even redefined these irons as steel, and differentiated them with various types, indicating the different properties and uses of these differences.
If we say that before this, ironmaking was just a demonstration of the craftsmen's personal skills. Then after the appearance of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, iron making... oh no. Now it is called steelmaking, and it has become a fully industrialized product that requires extremely fine workmanship and is infinitely larger in scale.
After the first steelmaking plant of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce appeared, it almost completely destroyed the large and small blacksmith shops in Bangta City.
And when the second, third, and now the sixth steelmaking plants of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce were completed, and the monthly steel output was even close to one million tons, almost all blacksmith shops in the entire Kingdom of Lampari were severely damaged. shock.
Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has no intention of snatching the business of ordinary blacksmith shops, this does not prevent other chambers of commerce from doing so.
The main job of an ordinary blacksmith shop is to manufacture some simple daily-use ironware, and occasionally make weapons and armor. However, the emergence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce first made the manufacture of weapons and armor into an assembly line operation, whether it is efficiency or workmanship, and the manufactured goods. Weapons and armor are better than those made by blacksmiths in all aspects, directly crowding out this part of the business.
Secondly, several chambers of commerce quickly discovered business opportunities, and specially ordered a batch of magic machine tools from Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and then used the steel produced by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to make ordinary daily-use iron tools such as shovels and shovels. The business is also gradually squeezed.
In the current Lampari Kingdom, except for some extremely remote towns, there is hardly any old-fashioned blacksmith shop.
A large number of dwarf craftsmen who used to make a living with this craft in the kingdom of Lampari before have almost all been won over by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and become workers of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The reason for this result is actually very simple, the key lies in the steelmaking of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The steel refined by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce surpasses the pig iron made by ordinary blacksmiths in terms of performance, and the performance is rich and diverse, which can meet various needs.
Among these, the most popular are all kinds of steel with stainless steel quality.
In addition to being widely used in various household magic machines, these stainless-quality steels will also be used in many daily steel consumption, and the demand is extremely high.
The steel output of the six steelmaking plants under the name of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is close to a full one million tons per month, but it is still far from meeting the demand.
In fact, the production capacity of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is limited, and a large part of the reason is due to the limited steel production.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce does not have enough steel to supply itself, and naturally there will not be too much steel that can be supplied to other chambers of commerce.
Therefore, due to the steel output of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, there are almost all other chambers of commerce related to magic machinery besides Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and there are even many industry chambers of commerce that have nothing to do with magic machinery but are related to steel products.
Therefore, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced the disclosure of steelmaking technology, which instantly ignited everyone's enthusiasm.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is finally willing to hand over its unique steelmaking technology. Doesn’t it mean that everyone can refine the steel they need by themselves, instead of begging the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to give them more steel shares? ?
Of course, everyone is very clear that since the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is willing to announce such an important technology, the price paid by others must be extremely high.
However, when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced the price to be paid to obtain the corresponding technology from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, everyone was still shocked and speechless.
This time, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not asking for money or various mineral resources, but directly asking for people!
What they want is not ordinary people, but limited to slaves!
In other words, want to obtain the steelmaking technology transfer from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce? No problem, trade slaves.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce also has clear regulations on the slaves used for exchange. Those who are over 16 years old and under 40 years old, in good health, and without disabilities are considered a complete slave. It can only be counted as half at most.
However, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce also has an even more strange rule, that is, if they are willing to hand over a complete slave family, this ratio will be increased to a certain extent.
Everyone can't understand the intention of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but everyone can clearly feel the malice of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce from the pricing of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Damn, a c803 type steel refining technology actually requires a thousand slaves!
You know, a healthy adult slave can be sold for at least fifty gold coins in the slave market. The total price of three thousand such slaves is as high as 50,000 gold coins!
But such a high price is only in exchange for a mere steel refining technology.
There are as many as seventy-eight steel types announced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce at present!
Even if all of them are at the same price, they add up to nearly four million gold coins!
And if all of them were exchanged with slaves, it would require a terrifyingly close to 80,000 slaves!
What's more, the steelmaking technology transferred by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not limited to one family. That is to say, if many people need these steelmaking technologies, the price they need to pay is far more than 80,000 slaves.
While everyone was wondering why the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce proposed such an exchange condition, they were also wondering about another thing.
Xu Yiye took the initiative to propose the abolition of slavery in the Principality of Standing, and it was passed.
Now that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has acquired so many slaves, if they bring them back to the Duchy of Standing, wouldn't they be helping them become civilians?
In theory, these slaves are no longer owned by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which means that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has to treat them again in the same way as civilians, and if they want to let them work in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, they have to pay separately.
Looking at it this way, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is completely superfluous.
The only result of doing so is to help these slaves obtain free status. What good is it for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?
President Xu, does he really regard himself as a saint like many newspapers say?
Of course, no matter what doubts other people may have about Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's move, it is a fact that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce intends to transfer steelmaking technology.
It didn't take too long, and countless people took action immediately.
Just the second day after the press conference of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, a related transaction broke out in the "Bangta Daily".
A certain lord of the northeastern province of the Lampari Kingdom exchanged 3,653 slaves under his own name with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to obtain three kinds of steel refining technologies.
In the following half a month, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce successively concluded six more transactions, and obtained more than 15,300 slaves from these six transactions.
Including the first transaction, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had nearly 20,000 slaves within half a month.
All eyes were on these slaves, wanting to see how the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would deal with these slaves, and whether Xu Yi would give these slaves the status of freedom like a saint.
However, the newspapers' reports on the whereabouts of these slaves came to an abrupt end after they were all sent to the Black Rice Wasteland, and finally passed through the Black Rice Port in the west of the Black Rice Wasteland, and boarded the large cargo magic ship of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The large cargo magic ship of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce disappeared in the boundless endless sea, and these slaves also disappeared without a trace, never to be seen again. (To be continued..)