Iron ore, iron ore, iron ore!!

Li Tianyang was also heartbroken, and now the Bengang team has broken through all kinds of technical barriers, and finally developed the technology for mass production of high-power artillery, but when he came back, he found that they did not provide enough pig iron resources.

It's as if he has the technology to build a dragon slaying knife, but he doesn't have the meteorite to build a dragon slaying knife, which makes Li Tianyang so sad!!

The shortage of pig iron resources has been in the Bengang team for a long time, and until now, the Bengang team has only met the daily consumption of the Bengang team through official and non-governmental means, or purchased in Ryukyu, Luzon and other places.

Especially after the expansion of the power of the Bengang Alliance, the land expansion of the clans of the members of the alliance has brought about an increase in their demand for iron tools, forcing Bengang to increase the support for iron tools for alliance members.

The amount of steel needed to cast cannons is not a small amount, not to mention that with Li Tianyang's ambition, he also wants to build more "Yang Fan" warships for service, as well as build more batteries on castles such as Bengang and Jilong Harbor to form a cannon deterrent, so the demand for steel resources is even greater.

On Dayuan Island, taking advantage of the opportunity to plan and place edge markers for various tribes, several exploration teams circled around the huge jungle east of Bengang for three or four months, and still did not find any signs of mineral veins, as if there were no other mines on Dayuan Island except for the gold veins around the Jilongshan mine and the coal mines around the Yushan tribe.

The shallow geographical knowledge brought by Li Tianyang, racking his brains to recall, he also knew that there seemed to be iron ore in Panzhihua, Sichuan, and Anshan in the three eastern provinces, but where were the specific names of these two places, then Li Tianyang was completely blind!

"Actually, it's not that there is no iron ore, it's just that some things can't be put on the table!" Guan Juxiong came back with the cargo fleet this time, just to discuss with Li Tianyang how to price this new perfume and soap and other new things!

Of course, the most valuable of this glass products still belongs to the mirror, but for the attachment behind the mirror, the research and development garden has not yet come up with perfect results, and now the best way in glass products is to sell them as an incidental product of perfume.

Therefore, this perfume has become a luxury product, just like the later generations, and the price is not much lower than that of the big brands in later generations!

When he heard that Li Tianyang was worried about iron ore resources, Guan Juxiong hesitated to say a rumor that he could hear.

"I heard that there are said to be private mines in Changhua County, under the jurisdiction of our Qiongzhou government, but it is just because of the eyes and ears of the state capital, it is not known!" Guan Juxiong is actually hearsay, and he doesn't know the details.

"Is it really true?" When Li Tianyang heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"My subordinates just heard them say this when they were trading with merchants in Lehui County, and I heard that the most valuable thing produced is not iron ore, but copper ore, so the big and medium households in Changhua County quietly mined and minted coins privately from the county government." Faced with Li Tianyang's question, Guan Juxiong was also worried, so he had to pour out what he said he knew.

"Copper?" Li Tianyang was relieved, no wonder they hadn't heard of the rumors of iron production in Changhua County, but since it produced copper and there were rumors that there was iron ore for sale, there must still be some truth.

With the communication with the exploration team in the team, Li Tianyang still has some understanding of the mineral cognition: minerals such as gold, silver and copper ore will often have other associated ore sites, such as the gold mine in Li Tianyang's Jilongshan mine, there are a lot of copper mines.

Therefore, the source of Guan Juxiong's news still has a certain degree of credibility, but if it is dominated by copper ore veins, I am afraid that the production of this iron ore may not be satisfactory!

However, Li Tianyang doesn't care at this time, anyway, he can't find a good way to purchase a large amount of iron ore for a while, and the news provided by Guan Juxiong is better than nothing for the team, and it is a good procurement channel after all.

Since the other party quietly steals the copper ore, it is just right for the Bengang team to purchase the iron ore attached to them without restrictions, if the other party is willing to sell the copper ore, then Li Tianyang is naturally happy to see it, although the copper cannon is not as powerful as the steel cannon, and the cost is also high, but it is a good choice compared to the pig iron cannon.

Keeping this news in his heart, thinking that he would go to Changhua County, Qiongzhou later, to see if it was true, Li Tianyang turned his head and discussed with Guan Juxiong the pricing of several new commodities this time.

Soap is only an upgraded product on the basis of Qixintang's existing soap products, so it has a certain reference in terms of price positioning.

There is only one thing, perfume, because of factors such as cost and packaging, Li Tianyang and they have not been able to make up their minds about what kind of price should be set.

Due to the technical conditions of this era, perfume production required a high concentration of alcohol to soak plants containing aromatic flavors, such as flower petals, and extract sesame oil from them to make perfumes.

To say that the commodity of perfume was innovated and invented by the Bengang team, it is obviously self-deception, Li Tianyang They are not shameless people in the Great Universe Country after all, as early as when they studied perfume, the religious people in the Western Regions Kingdom have already mastered the method of perfume making, but they have always regarded it as an important part of religious ceremonies, and rarely use it externally.

Until the invasion of Westerners began, the Westerners and merchants of the Western Regions, who found a compromise business opportunity, broke their religious beliefs and produced and sold them to the ocean and beyond, but because of the technical factors of this era, they have not been able to achieve large-scale mass production.

But after this technology falls to the Bengang team, there is an extraordinary opportunity for development.

The Bengang team has always attached great importance to the extraction technology of alcohol, and alcohol has always been an important disinfection tool for the medical staff in the Bengang team, until now the Bengang team has been able to extract high-purity alcohol with an alcohol content of more than 80%.

And Bengang is very scarce of other things, but when there is little scarcity of one thing, that is, food, thanks to the unique climate and environment of Dayuan Island, even in the winter when the temperature is low, Bengang people can also grow crops such as potatoes and wheat.

In addition, the various manure that the Bengang team has been continuously developing to lay the foundation to make up for the loss of fertility in the long-term planting land, and to grow three seasons of grain a year, is not a big problem for the Bengang people.

It is precisely with the existence of these external factors that Li Tianyang saw the development technology of perfume again, and saw the broad commercial prospects contained in it, and made An Xianguo quickly prepare for the opening of the perfume workshop.

In the end, Li Tianyang discussed with Guan Juxiong, An Xianguo and others in the office for a long time, and only then came up with a price after many considerations, the last step of the perfume to launch the market is completed, and the next step is to launch this perfume that thousands of women are obsessed with!

(End of chapter)