Chapter 59 Money? As much as you want!
Morey added, "I have contacted my brothers and sisters, and I can help you sign a contract to establish a stable iron supply channel, but the price will be slightly higher."
He spoke very cautiously.
As expected, Roman agreed without hesitation.
"Price is not a problem!"
This business contract means that merchants can grab more profits, and the suppliers of iron ingots will also get more benefits. The only one who suffers is Sger Town.
On the market, 1 gold coin can buy 30 kilograms of high-quality iron ingots, but Sger Town can only buy 25 kilograms or 20 kilograms with 1 gold coin.
Correspondingly, Roman can directly get a large number of stable iron ingots.
The content of this contract is not from Morey's own will.
Morey hopes to establish a long-term and friendly trade atmosphere with Sger Town, rather than clinging to Sger Town's body like a blood-sucking worm to absorb the latter's healthy blood.
No noble lord can tolerate the bite of blood-sucking worms.
This unequal business contract is destined not to last long.
According to his observation of Roman, this young and promising lord will soon get rid of his current embarrassing situation. By then, this temporary business contract will be useless. Will Roman have a good impression of them in the future?
Morey thinks his brother is short-sighted.
For a generous noble, gaining his friendship is always more important than gaining his interests.
But he can't sign this business contract alone. He needs a specific person to guarantee it, otherwise he can't get so many iron ingots. It can only be said that there are gains and losses.
Roman doesn't care about this. If you want to take advantage, take it.
It doesn't matter.
Sacrificing money and interests in exchange for early development is very acceptable to him.
Money? As much as you want!
These merchants had better eat up all the output value of Sger Town and help it continue to accelerate.
"By the way, the maltose you asked me to sell last time was very popular. I shipped it to Pearl Harbor and sold it out quickly." Morey talked about it again.
At the opening of the Pearl Harbor market, he showed everyone the quality and taste of maltose.
The initial price was 1.5 gold coins per barrel of maltose.
But the price of the last barrel was 1.9 gold coins.
This shows that the prospects of maltose are very good. A noble lord bought three barrels of maltose at once, weighing a full 90 kilograms, which was very generous.
Roman nodded slightly. He had asked the calf and horse of Origin Manor to make a lot of maltose these days.
The production steps are simple and do not take much time. Even Gweil can do it.
"This time, we will still calculate it according to the previous price."
Morey helped him find the iron ingot channel, and Roman did not mind giving him some benefits.
The benefits of Morey's caravan's expansion to him are obvious.
This time, Morey pulled 40 barrels of maltose and gave Roman 40 gold coins.
According to calculations, Morey was surprised to find that the profit of this kind of sugar was higher than that of salt. Putting aside various consumption, he could also earn more than ten gold coins.
Pure profiteering!
Much better than selling salt with great effort.
Selling salt requires traveling to many places, and the majority of the profits are taken away by the nobles.
Of course, even if maltose sells very well, it is impossible to have the bottomless consumption potential like salt.
Morey paid Roman 30 gold coins and took away 30,000 kilograms of refined salt.
Next, he will take the salt to different trade markets for sale.
The production of salt in Sger Town is also increasing due to the improvement of workers' proficiency, the increase of salt boiling utensils, and the increasingly professional process.
And with the iron tools, its production will usher in a huge increase.
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After Morey left, Roman transported all the iron ingots to the new blacksmith shop.
When casting the heavy plow, he felt that Lax's blacksmith shop was very narrow.
So afterwards, Lax rebuilt a blacksmith shop next to the stream.
The structure of the new blacksmith shop is very simple, just a large flat shed without walls.
The only advantage is that it can accommodate more people.
Now, there are about twenty strong men with strong arms standing here. Among them are slaves from the plateau and locals from Sige Town. Anyway, they are all the best people, carefully selected by Roman.
Roman gestured and said, "You must forge hammers, wedges and pickaxes for mining as soon as possible."
He originally wanted to join them in forging iron, and strive to brush up the experience points of [Forging] as soon as possible, and point out the subsequent technology tree.
But the work at the earth kiln has not been completed yet, and Roman has no time to split up.
"Lord, I understand." Lux is a pure blacksmith and has no objection to the employer's request.
The main reason is that the money is too much.
He has not forged a thousand pounds of high-quality iron ingots in the past ten years. Although the annual income is high, the business is not good at ordinary times, and he has never exerted his full strength.
Now he can finally fight to his heart's content.
"Train these people into blacksmiths like you as soon as possible." Roman patted Lux on the shoulder.
The strong blacksmith was a little flattered.
If he could train fifty blacksmiths, he would get more wealth than he would earn in his lifetime.
As long as he brought a qualified blacksmith to Roman, the latter would give him two golden coins as a reward. If he was good enough, he could even get three gold coins.
And it was paid in cash!
The temptation was too strong.
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Roman was in a good mood.
With sharp steel, the work efficiency of these idiots would be greatly improved.
He would find suitable coal and iron mines before the end of summer to achieve self-sufficiency.
However, for a hungry person, 10 million banknotes are not as good as a sumptuous meal.
Now Sger Town lacks labor, money, and confidence.
Roman had no time to brainwash them, and he couldn't brainwash them.
If there was no sufficient economic and material support, he would force this group of poor people to dig coal and smelt iron for him, while ignoring their basic survival needs, and the consequences would be disastrous.
The most important thing at this stage is infrastructure construction.
Roman returned to the earthen kiln and saw that the firewood at the bottom of the kiln began to burn.
He took a look at the situation.
It was barely good.
Each calcination lasted about a week. He had to supervise the whole process and explain the process to these laborers in a simple and easy-to-understand way, so that they could burn the kiln themselves in the future.
During this period, a lot of charcoal was burned with firewood for forging at the blacksmith shop.
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Seven days later.
The lime was out of the kiln.
It was very smooth, without any broken ash or kiln collapse.
It was just that the quality of the lime was not good due to poor thermal insulation, and it could only barely meet Roman's basic needs for lime.
The blacksmith shop also forged a batch of pickaxes and wedges, which were immediately distributed to the salt mine, which significantly improved the production capacity.
