Chapter 624 Qianhe River Valley Steel Guild and Cold Spring Castle Smelter
Discussions about divine magic and necromancy quickly reached an impasse.
Because these conclusions are just mindless inferences made by Shilov's mother, and the specific reasoning process is not written at all in the book.
Although Horn had doubts about this kind of groundless speculation, it was not helpful at the moment, so he put it behind him and focused his main energy on the next financial meeting.
When the autumn wind in mid-October and the news of the completion of the 100-household district transformation of South Mound County reached the Holy Arms Court, Meliyati arrived at the Holy Arms Court under the invitation of the Horn Holy Court to receive salary without wearing armor.
After a simple welcome ceremony, Meliati rode a black oak carriage to the Holy See Building for the first meeting.
"Please come in." Horn opened the door to her office in person, and amid the sound of Meliyati's heavy footsteps, she held her iron fist in front of her chest and walked into the office with her chin raised.
Horn stood at the door and ordered Pettier: "No one should disturb you for the next hour."
"Okay, Your Majesty."
After closing the door engraved with gears and sun prints, Horn turned around and saw Meliyati looking at the entire house.
The study is about 50 square meters, and there is a 20-square-meter reception room outside. There are three or five walnut upholstered chairs, two cabinets, and a bookshelf placed against the wall.
Facing six floor-to-ceiling windows, there is a large mahogany desk and an exquisite armchair.
The entire desk is made up of two tables spliced together, with a total length of about 5 meters. During regular meetings of the Imperial Cardinals, the cardinals will sit in a row in front of the long table.
Meliyati unceremoniously sat down in Horn's seat, and when she looked up, she could see the crisp, icy blue sky in autumn.
Witte imported expensive white sandy light blue-green plate glass, piece by piece, and inlaid it on the circular gear windows and huge floor-to-ceiling windows of the Holy See Building.
The walnut-core table, the velvet-cushioned chairs, the silk-forged curtains, and the blue-leaf scrollwork porcelain were all low-priced trophies purchased by the Holy Arms City Hall from the veterans.
However, the furniture in Horn's office is all new, some are ordered from outside and some are customized in-house.
Compared with the luxurious furniture and decoration of the nobles, the decoration of the Holy See Building can only be regarded as that of wealthy businessmen.
Of course, this Holy See building is luxurious, but it is still the property of all believers.
Horn just happens to work here.
Horn didn't care about her sitting around, but instead picked up the black tea on the cupboard: "Would you like to add sugar?"
"One-third cup of milk, half spoonful of sugar."
After mixing the black tea, Horn handed over the teacup: "Has your steel guild been sorted out?"
Taking a sip of black tea, Meliati smiled and took off the iron mask: "It's the last bit of finishing work. Your double-entry accounting method is quite easy to use."
While Horn was rectifying the reform of the Hundred Household District for three or four months, Meliati from the north was not idle. She called Catherine to carry out large-scale reconstruction of the mines and iron smelting works in the North Mound area.
To put it simply, according to the previous agreement, the dwarves of the Dragon Worship Cult are provided with residences and mines allocated.
During this period, Meliati took advantage of her efforts to merge a large number of mines that belonged to the nobles.
These mine owners and nobles were either treated to Pingyuan County to enjoy the blessings, or they were beheaded and directly deprived of their titles, or they were treated as dogs and merged by Meliati.
After four months from June to October, a steel industry consortium called the "Thousand Valley Steel Guild" appeared in the north.
"I have established the Cold Spring Castle Steel Smelting Plant in Cold Spring Castle as you said, and hired a dwarf from the Dragon Worship Cult as the master. The annual output is about 70 tons." Meliati took the financial budget that Horn handed her. Plan.
To be honest, Meliaty didn't understand Horn's intention of asking her to open a new smelter. The Kingdom of Leia had blocked them, so production should be reduced even if it involved military expenditures.
"This year, we estimate that we will have 800 tons more iron. Where are you going to sell this extra iron?" "Without sales, the demand for steel for farm tools, bridges, and rail carriages alone is enough to absorb the excess production capacity." Huo En waved his hand and said, "We will order 100,000 sets of farm tools from you by then."
"Do you have the money to pay? That's more than 6,000 gold pounds?"
"Don't worry, there will definitely be money." Horn took a sip of sober black tea. "We can raise funds from the French people, farm tools to increase grain production, and transport them to Black Snake Bay to exchange for more sugar, and then use the sugar to repay Bonds...you will know when the time comes.”
To be honest, Horn wanted to laugh when he heard the annual excess steel production of less than 1,000 tons, because this is the production of pig iron or cast iron!
If it were steel, with the steel-making efficiency in this world, it would be good to have 90 tons.
The load capacity of the tram carriage is not high and does not require very good iron. Cast iron alone is enough.
Horn calculated that a 100-meter track would require 5,000 pounds of cast iron, which is more than 2 tons of cast iron. One kilometer of track would require more than 20 tons of cast iron.
This does not even take into account the hydraulic reel spinning machine, lathe and parts workshop that Horn will build next, which will use fine iron, that is, steel.
Not to mention civilian household appliances, including pots and pans, as well as a series of small parts such as doors, nails, pipes, locks, bolts, etc. on buildings.
When infrastructure is slowly rolled out in the future, a large number of construction machinery and clockwork engines will require steel.
In other words, as productivity becomes higher and higher, a large number of emerging industries require steel, and the demand for iron will only increase in the future.
But so far, Horn has not heard from Meliati that the dwarves have made any new breakthroughs in hydrometallurgy, and the alternative lightning furnace is also just a fantasy.
"Didn't you say that Jeanne could use lightning to strike the ether and store lightning in the moon pool of the ether tower?" Meliaty asked while flipping through the financial plan.
Horn shook his head: "That's too unstable. We can't build the lightning furnace in the ether tower, right? So far, we haven't even been able to analyze what the water in the moon pool is?"
Ether, a special astral substance, can not only give gears unique power, but also guide spells.
For example, the accident in which Horn's head was almost sucked away by the astral realm accidentally verified that ether can also guide lightning spells.
Because the power and lightning of that ether burst was obviously more than the upper limit of the power of the lightning spell that Jeanna could use.
Later, Shilov even tried a series of energy such as fire, light, and ice, but only lightning could be guided by the ether and stored in the moon pool.
Horn once thought about using the moon pool to store lightning to make a lightning furnace, but the problem was that the water in the moon pool could not be copied.
Later, after seeing the moon pool, Bachelor Kelben of the Dragon Language Alchemy Society identified it as water of light because it can store a small amount of magic energy.
But after discovering its ability to guide lightning, Maester Kelburn quickly fell into confusion, because this was obviously a property of spiritual mercury.
After three days of analysis, Academician Kelburn's head was about to explode.
He suspected that someone had used some heaven-defying alchemy to combine the alchemical properties of spiritual mercury with the water of light.
The outrageousness of this matter, according to Horn's analysis, is probably equivalent to someone fusing strawberries and potatoes together. Each strawberry is as big as a potato and the yield per mu is 3,000 kilograms.
It is almost impossible, at least so far, this high-tech Horn cannot replicate it.
I really don’t know how Shilov’s mother did it?
Thinking of this, Horn quickly asked Meliya: "Is the Scaling Priory willing to send someone to meet with us?"
"They are so elusive that my grandma loses all her efforts just to find them." Meliati put down the budget book. "They are not willing to disclose the whereabouts of high-level officials and voluntarily meet you in Black Snake Bay."
"Hey, forget it, I'm going to visit Black Snake Bay in the south anyway when spring comes." This is indeed something on Horn's schedule. "After all, we have to finalize the sugar and grain trade."
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