Chapter 0698 - Cheating in Steelmaking
516, summer.
On their way back, the Gelon army made a detour to the region of Nimega and the region of Kapus, and subdued the cities of Nimega and Kaps.
In both areas, the people were mainly herdsmen, and the tribes, unwilling to give up their autonomy and accept rule, all left.
Returning to the Dorseo area, Yamazaki asked the troops to enter the city with mourning music, and let the banner of the Fourth Regiment of Gelong go first, expressing his condolences to the people of the Fourth Army of Gelong.
Since the 4th Regiment of Gelong was a new formation, everyone did not know much about the personnel, but many people cried.
The banner of the Fourth Legion of Gelong was inserted into the Temple of War, and Yamazaki asked Flor to tell the crowd that Valhalla would be built in the future to commemorate the fallen warriors, and that the Fourth Legion of Gelong would not be rebuilt.
Then he told the whole story, and reported the names of the Fourth Regiment of Gelong, which caused a cry. ......
After that, the army was disbanded, and one person first distributed a bag of copper coins as loot for them to spend.
Yamazaki only had gems and gold coins on hand, and it was the Chamber of Commerce that helped him exchange them.
By the way, I asked about buying grain, and learned that the Vandal Kingdom was still thinking about it.
After all this, I can finally take a break.
In the evening, when Yamazaki was planning how to dispatch manpower, Mei Daiko mysteriously came over and took out a batch of silver and copper coins with her head printed on them.
Yamazaki laughed and said, "Are you afraid that people won't know you? ”
Mei Daizi was suddenly deflated, "It's boring." ”
In the spiritual world, Yamazaki smiled: "It's not impossible, it's good to be a commemorative coin, but you are pure silver and pure copper, this kind of thing, there is no such thing in the world, you have to change it." ”
Mei Daizi was happy again, "This is no problem. ”
Yamazaki said: "You mark the location of each mineral, a small amount can be mined by yourself, a large number of use, or let the Chamber of Commerce come, so that it will not be suspected." ”
Mei Daizi said: "I know, in fact, I think it is more convenient to directly change the production of minerals, reduce impurities, such as coal impurities, using high-quality anthracite as fuel, the temperature can be increased a lot, and it is more convenient than engaging in blast furnace ironmaking, after all, the times are different." ”
Yamazaki said, "It's because the times are different, so no one will find out that we used the Sanctuary and used the power of faith. ”
Mei Daiko smiled, "Okay, okay." ”
"Still, the way you just said is not bad. Yamazaki said, then admonished, "By the way, remember to strengthen the mine." ”
"Got it, then I'll play. "Midaiko withdrew from Yamazaki's spiritual world. ......
The news spread through the mouths of the merchants of the Moorish Roman Kingdom and the Varda Kingdom in less than a month, and the loss of most of their land and a third of their population in less than a month.
Since those people called themselves Gelong, they were called the Kingdom of Gelong.
Along with it came the proclamation of the Kingdom of Gelong, a new system.
The first to come for diplomacy were the Visigothic kingdoms, for their mercenaries.
Yamazaki agreed to release the people in exchange for grain and slaves, and Yamazaki was willing to pay more money to buy them at a premium of fifty percent.
The Visigothic kingdom quickly replied and agreed, why not make money if you have it.
Under the banner of ransom of the captives, the Moorish Roman kingdom had no way to stop it, and could only watch as boatloads of slaves and grain were transported to the beach, and the slaves carried the grain to the kingdom of Gelong.
Seeing that the Kingdom of Vandals had food, the Kingdom of Vandal also opened up trade, but it could only trade with the Kingdom of Vandal, while the Kingdom of Vandals traded with merchants from other countries, and bought it and then bought it to the Kingdom of Cancer.
It doesn't matter, buy, in addition to grain, there are elephants and rhinos.
Mei Daizi went to Central Africa through the vulture, mined 300,000 Roman pounds of gold in a few hours, and it can be said that the poor have money left.
One Roman pound can be exchanged for 72 gold coins, one Roman pound is more than 300 grams, 10,000 Roman pounds is more than 3,000 kilograms, that is, more than three tons, and 300,000 Roman pounds is about ten tons.
It's just that if you want elephants and rhinos to cross the Sahara Desert safely, you have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to provide food along the way, so it is better to buy it and save trouble.
Then came the Moorish Roman Kingdom, where more and more villagers came back to protest and set up cards to prevent population loss.
In the Wassenice region occupied by the Kingdom of Gelong, the original people, they fled before, but they lost their land, and they had no source of livelihood.
The Moorish Roman kingdom did not take good care of them, and wanted to treat them as unexpected wealth, that is, slaves.
So, they were desperate and simply tried to escape back, because the slave policy of the Kingdom of Gelong was much better.
Yamazaki had the Second Legion of Gelong admit them and allow them to return home, on the condition that their grain could only be sold to the kingdom of Gelong, at the market price of the Chamber of Commerce.
The villagers did not object to this.
In addition, the Kingdom of Gelong wants the villagers to raise horses, grow pasture, and collect forage, and the Gelong Chamber of Commerce will purchase their forage and healthy horses on a village-by-village basis.
This is voluntary and not compulsory.
For the sake of these people, the second army of Gelong also fought with two legions of the Moorish Roman kingdom, and directly captured a slave legion, to be exact, after the regular legion ran away, they surrendered automatically.
The kingdom of Gelong promised them that as long as the construction of the forest fortress was completed, they could become civilians.
In Yamazaki's heart, these slaves belonged to the newborn Gelong Kingdom, and those who bought back belonged to their Gelong family.
In the Kingdom of Gelong, only the people in the city of Dorseo are willing to join the army, because they have seen the god of war descend with their own eyes, and only the chamber of commerce in the city of Dolseo is willing to donate money to establish a legion.
With the passage of time, the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Legions were all available, and if it weren't for the financial problems of the city of Dorseo, it is estimated that more than ten legions could be established.
The money was spent mainly on equipment, which was provided by the Gelong Chamber of Commerce.
Ten furnaces were made for making iron and steel, and of course they were not modern steel blast furnaces, but made of stone.
It was not too big, and a furnace produced more than one cubic meter of material, about ten tons.
In terms of armor, a piece of armor is only a dozen kilograms, and a furnace of ten tons and ten thousand kilograms of metal is enough to make a thousand sets of armor.
The ore is iron sand, pure iron sand, and the fuel is high-quality anthracite, which is equivalent to remelting the pure iron.
The whole process is a process of carbonization, because the carbon in the air will be mixed into it, as for the final furnace is molten iron, high-carbon molten steel, low-carbon molten steel, it depends on luck.
Anyway, such an uncontrollable result is exactly what meets the requirements.
The materials are baked in batches, directly poured into the molding, and poured into various standard shapes of utensils, such as horseshoe, weapons, such as knife heads, armor, such as metal sheets for armor making, plate armor for pullovers, and chain links for whole pieces.
The problem is mine, not technology, so even if the technology is stolen, others will not be able to make high-quality metal equipment, let alone alloy equipment made by fraud.
Steel weapons and armor, plus alloy crossbows and steel crossbows, is the standard equipment of the Gelon Kingdom legion, the first complete set only accepts one silver coin, after taking it, except for the crossbow, the others are engraved with the name, if you like, carve a pattern on it.
Except for alloy crossbows, because steel crossbows are not good, they are provided to the army, and other alloy equipment is only for home use.
The purchased slaves are the private property of the Gelong family, nourished by nutritious food, and after a period of adjustment, they choose to be strong and become warriors, and the rest, the men are incorporated into the Gelong Chamber of Commerce, and the women enter the Gelong family.
The slave girls were managed by Siva, the slave leader of the Gelong family, and Mei Daiko's pets were taken care of by the slave girls to protect the safety of the family.
The Gelong Chamber of Commerce is run by Andreas, a clerical slave, whose purpose is to serve the people without competition.
The warrior slaves were managed by the slave warrior leader Flo, and there were already two slave legions. ......