Black Iron Crown

Chapter 444: Letter from the Imperial Capital

"Ask your lord Duke, your humble servant must know everything and say nothing!"

Ezexi bent down and said sincerely.

"That's it. You have seen the recent profits of the Northern Woollen Fabric Factory, but my initial plan was to let everyone in the Northern Territory learn to use the flying shuttle to spin a large amount of woollen fabric!"

"What puzzles me is that now that I have such a profit, if I continue to teach how to use the shuttle, it will bring other consequences, such as the disclosure of the method of the shuttle, and the way others learn about the weaving method of wool cloth. !"

"So, I now feel difficult to choose, so I want to ask your opinion, what do you think of this matter?"

Ezehi thought for a while, looked at Lenner's expression, hesitated slightly, but still said: "My opinion still depends on you, Lord Duke, and see what you need!"

"What you are confused about now is that you are afraid of increasing the income of the residents and reducing your income, or you are worried that other people with ulterior motives will get a way from the residents to **** the market of wool cloth with you!"

"But in my opinion, this may not be the case!"

"Your current wool cloth factory does have a high output, but how many people are there in the entire empire? Ten million people!"

"Can a factory with only a thousand workers satisfy such a large market? I think that if you can mobilize the residents of the entire northern territory to do textiles, our supply capacity will be more than a little stronger, and the residents will have it in their hands. With more money, we can make our market even bigger!"

"If you, Lord Duke, are worried about leaks, I don't think so, because although the shuttle has a certain technical content, it is not high in the end. According to its structure, you can deduce the working principle with a little effort. !"

"At that time, we have neither allowed the residents to start production, lost the opportunity to seize the market, cannot expand our own market, and let others suffer from insufficient supply and deduced the working principle of the fly shuttle."

"So, I think it is more reasonable to turn the entire northern border into our big factory. Even if other people get the use of the shuttle, their supply will not be as good as ours, and the price may not be lower than ours. We still can't rob us. Even if we leak the woolen cloth but weave the way, we will still monopolize this business!"

Speaking of his old profession, Azerxi became less timid and gradually raised his head full of self-confidence.

After listening to Ezehi's words, Rainer couldn't help but feel helpless. Although many of what he said coincided with him, such careful analysis still gave him a lot of inspiration.

Ezehi is right. It is impossible for one person to monopolize the market of tens of millions of people. It is bound to give other people a share. What is needed now is to maintain the advantage of wool cloth in the northern border as much as possible.

When the market in the northern border rises, commercial development will follow. Even without Reiner's current commercial preferential policy, countless merchants will travel across thousands of mountains and rivers to the northern border.

"Okay, I understand what you mean, your suggestion is very important to me." Rainer nodded and said.

Reiner made up his mind, and his officials were very efficient in their execution. Fifty female workers were recruited from the wool cloth factory in the north, and they began to teach how to use the shuttle in each village in batches.

Since there are many merchants in various villages seeking to buy channels and peddling woolen cloth everywhere, these residents also know that what the Lord Duke handed over to them was a good thing.

Therefore, these residents are still quite enthusiastic about learning how to use the shuttle.

In just one month, how the flying shuttle was used spread throughout the northern border. Residents bought processed wool at low prices in the hands of Reiner and started to weave them by themselves.

Although they were not proficient at first, they soon learned how to weave, and piles of woolen cloth were produced in the hands of the residents.

Moreover, due to the extremely fast production speed of the flying shuttle, their own needs were quickly met, so they began to sell the excess wool, or the wool cloth caused by overcapacity, to the merchants.

The price is still set according to the selling price of the wool cloth factory, three horses and one copper.

Although their textile cost is higher than that of the factory, they cannot raise the price higher because of the presence of the factory.

As a result, in just one month, Reiner's business tax surged by as much as 30 gold coins.

Moreover, this situation is still growing rapidly, and the appetites of the merchants are far from being filled. They want more woollen cloth to be sold elsewhere for profit.

More than 50,000 wool cloths were sold to these merchants, who took these goods to all sides of the empire, chasing profits.

And even so, the sales of wool cloth factories have not been affected, and they still need to be busy producing the orders they owe every day.

At this point, Reiner's economic pressure has been completely relieved, and the infrastructure construction can begin to be fully opened.

It is worth mentioning that since the last counter-insurgency war ended, the imperial capital has not continued to contact himself and wanted to buy steel and iron armor.

But just recently, he still received a letter from the imperial capital, the owner of the letter is Count Redmara.

He hopes to be able to purchase 100 tons or 200,000 jin of steel at a time from Reiner's hands, which is four months of steel production in the northern border.

In other words, as soon as they opened their mouths, they wanted to buy one-third of steel for a year from Rainer's hands.

With so much steel, even if the loss of crafting is eliminated, at least two to three thousand sets of full-body armor can be made.

Rainer does not intend to directly provide them with all the steel.

Speaking of, the current strength is basically enough, so many royal lords are united by his side, he is no longer trying to protect the royal family as his own umbrella as he did at the beginning.

What's more, besides the little emperor or the queen's own army, all people in the imperial capital are from the upstarts. There is no need for Rainer to provide them with too much convenience.

So, Reiner took out the parchment and began to write a letter to Count Redmara~lightnovelpub.net~ Dear Count Redmara, I would like to extend my sincerest greetings to you, regarding your previous peace in the letter. I mentioned that I want to get a hundred tons of steel. I'm sorry I can't do what you want. "

"Because since the end of the counter-insurgency war, I have put all my energy on the infrastructure of the territory, and the miners have also been arranged for other things by me."

"Now the northern border is only empty with iron ore, but there are fewer and fewer miners."

"My territory needs them to build. As you know, the northern territory is sparsely populated. In order for my territory to develop reasonably, I have to let the miners invest in other labor, but my blacksmiths have not yet been arranged by me. For other tasks, if you order steel directly with me, I can meet your needs very well!"

"If you have to use steel, I regret that I can't provide it, but if you can provide a part of my labor to mine, I can meet your request!"

"According to my estimation, mining 100 tons of steel requires at least 50,000 laborers. If you can send some laborers, I will definitely provide you with steel..."