"Ice-making?"

Goss was stunned for a moment, the lion's tail behind him swayed unnaturally, and he felt amused: "Lord Allen, you don't need ice here, do you need ice here, do you need ice cubes in the town, besides, tripling the saltpeter mine sold to you is a complete waste, and you and the orcs in the town can't use up so much saltpeter." ”

"No, you can't imagine the need for ice in my territory, in fact I plan to give ice to every inhabitant, a dozen large ice cubes every night, but the amount of saltpeter is too small, and the poverty is ...... I mean, the numbers limit me. Alan straightened his back and picked up an ice cube in his hand and handed it to Goss, a serious nonsense.

Goss took the ice, and a chill swept over his face, slightly dissipating the heat from his walk.

"But you're only five hundred, aren't you?" Goss had surveyed the Great Iron Village and knew that they numbered only 500 natives.

"You're wrong, there are a thousand or more freedmen and three thousand slaves in Tomorrowtown."

Alan counted the Fox Village and the Morning Glory inhabitants of the New Realm as free people, and this heavyweight statistic will undoubtedly shake Goss.

"But two months ago, you were only 500 people...... Wait, I'll think about it. ”

Goss frowned, and began to think about the way to increase the population of Tomorrow Town, remembering the pile of slaves, morning glory refugees, and the five hundred wounded soldiers sent by the Lionheart Country, and immediately understood the source of the population of Tomorrow Town.

Most of them were stolen from Morning Glory Town, and most of them were slaves.

"Well, there are more than a thousand free people, and the demand for ice cubes has indeed doubled, but Lord Allen, don't you think it's a waste, the orcs at the bottom of this kind of weather have long been used to it, and they can live without ice cubes." Goss didn't understand and thought that Allen was just bragging, not saying the real point.

"Hehe, you can't imagine what it's like to be rich, I think I have an endless amount of money, so what about spending some money to cool off the people of the town."

The two of them were arguing with each other for a while, but Goss really couldn't ask where the saltpeter was, and he was even more curious about the effect of saltpeter.

"Saltpeter must have a huge effect, it is possible that the mystery of building the wall in Tomorrow Town in February is in the saltpeter, I want to install some spies to collect information about saltpeter." Goss said in his heart.

Since he couldn't find the way to the saltpeter, Goss didn't plan to sell that much saltpeter.

Selling so much saltpeter must be very profitable, but the Goss family is very rich, and after they have money to a certain point, they start to pursue something on another level, such as power, or weapon technology that they don't have, rapid wall building technology, etc.

When others ask him, Goss can use it to pinch the other person, and sometimes pinching the other person's lifeline is more important than making money.

"Lord Allen, I really can't call the shots and triple the amount of ore produced, you know, our family has a limited number of slaves, and we can't mine that much ore in a short period of time.

But there is no room for this, sell us the novel way you can use saltpeter, or sell the method of building a wall quickly, and our family will use our connections to buy saltpeter from other families and sell it to you at the lowest price in the market. ”

Goss said this, and it had already been decided that Allen's saltpeter channel could only come in from him, and other saltpeter merchants would not sell it to him.

If Alan wants to raise the price to end up with other merchants, they have to take into account that the nobility of the local saltpeter town is oppressive, and under the balance between the two, it is still the power that oppresses people.

In the face of Goss's quietly released signal, Alan naturally couldn't leak the alternative use of saltpeter, what the other party wanted was a specific usage, and the whereabouts of saltpeter involved black powder and couldn't be discussed.

The key to building the city wall is cement, and the method of making cement is neither easy nor easy, and Alan does not want to sell the method, and if he wants to sell, he also sells the finished cement product, so that the other party will buy it.

However, the cement factory in Tomorrowtown is in short supply, and Allen is not interested in exporting cement.

"Hehe, okay I'll tell you, I've been buying so much saltpeter lately, just because I'm researching how to make pure glass, you know, inventing something as new always requires a lot of materials, and a huge amount of waste is inevitable before the research yields results." Alan laughed.

"It's actually making glass, but I haven't seen you install glass windows, and there are no new glass sales channels in the market, Lord Allen, you just study glass, don't you sell those finished products that have been made?"

Goss maintained the most basic skepticism and did not take Allen's words without a brain.

Saltpeter and sand can be heated and melted to form rough glass, but that's just a low-grade product.

Recently, many craftsmen in Lionheart have been trying to develop new glass from new materials, and they are working on how to increase the transparency of glass.

But this is the most cutting-edge hardcore technical content of Lionheart, and people with a little bit of power can ask how to make ordinary glass, but how to improve it is confused, and Goss is a little skeptical of Allen's research ability.

"Believe it or not, I'm working on glass anyway, and I've made some progress lately, and I'm piling up goods. In a week's time, my merchant ship will sell glass, and I'll give you a few pieces of glass when the time comes. Alan smiled.

Due to the relationship of biology, Alan needed a convex lens as a microscope to completely break the superstition of the white blood sacred tree of the people of Fox Village, so the production of glass was put on the agenda.

Goss didn't know about it, and only felt that Alan's reason was barely credible.

"Okay, see you in a week."

Goss wagged his lion's tail, his eyes quietly firing back to the city plan behind Alan.

The squares and straight routes form a square urban plan, which has a neat geometric beauty.

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