"Hello everyone, hello comrades!"

Duke also waved his hand in return at this time, and even vulgarly used the slogan of later generations.

Although the farmers of this world didn't know what Duke was talking about, they still understood what it meant to say hello, and they gave Duke the warmest response.

After two pranks, Duke also found it boring and called Abner to the back room.

"Abner, is the Storm Firm doing business so well?"

Facing Duke's question, Abner nodded heavily, and then replied: "The reason why there are so many people here is because of the name of our Storm Castle's agricultural tools, compared to other iron tools in this world, our Storm Castle refined farm tools can be described as an advantage. Now the entire territory of the Dependent Kingdom of Andorra is approaching our Storm Merchant to buy farm tools. ”

Farming tools were just an ancillary product of Duke's previous Storm Castle smelting, after all, the iron-smelting blast furnace used for military exploits had already been built, and it was impossible to be completely idle until the Storm Legion had not expanded its recruits on a large scale. Moreover, porcelain is a luxury item that is close to saturation in the territory of Andorra, and there is basically no larger market except for price reductions to stimulate middle-class consumption.

After all, there are so many rich people, and the poor occupy the vast majority in this world, not to mention that now there are ten gold coins for one, even if it is five gold coins and one gold coin, there are still a few who can afford porcelain plates at such an expensive price. However, the release of the knock-off porcelain of Storm Castle has also caused a revolution, that is, to turn the luxury of porcelain on the continent of Europa into a daily family trial.

Because of the exquisite porcelain plate of hundreds of gold coins, except for a small number of rich and expensive, the general rich are reluctant to use it. But with a dozen gold coins, many nobles can still support this consumption.

As a result, I didn't expect that it was this Duke accessory farm tool that turned out to be a hot seller in this world. Because the smelting technology in this world is too backward, even far worse than ancient China in the same period. This is not a simple process, but an absolute output of good steel.

That is to say, in the case of no large-scale mass production, good steel and good iron are preferentially used to make weapons and armor, and general agricultural tools are naturally the most inferior crude iron, even pig iron. This kind of farming tool will rust and decay quickly, and it will either be extremely hard and easy to break, or it will not be hard enough.

Anyway, ordinary farm tools can't last even a quarter, and the biggest production expenditure of farmers on the Europa continent is the waste from the purchase of farm tools. Although the farm tools produced by Storm Castle are more expensive than ordinary farm tools, when a farmer uses them, he finds that the farm tools of Storm Castle are made of fine iron, which far exceeds the previous farm tools in terms of hardness and corrosion resistance, and even some hard soil blocks can be quickly cultivated by relying on the farm tools of Storm Castle.

So even if it was a little more expensive, but on the whole it was much more cost-effective than the previous farm tools, and after word of mouth among these peasant territories, soon the entire Andorran kingdom knew about the quality of the farm tools of the Storm Merchant House, so they ran over to buy them, which caused the hot scene that Duke saw.

And as a simple farmer, they are very grateful for these high-quality farming tools brought by Lord Duke. When Abner called out to the lord, they naturally expressed their gratitude in their hearts.

After learning about the cause and effect from Abner, Duke still felt a little proud in his heart. What science is, in the final analysis, is to make human progress and enjoy the convenience and comfort brought by modern technology. Although he has not changed the essence of this world, at least he has made the people of this era feel the advantages of smelting technology improvement, which is the progress of productivity brought about by science!

Of course, convenience is brought, but profit is still a thing, otherwise there is no motivation for scientific progress.

So Duke checked the turnover of Andorra's Pro-Kingdom Storm Comptoir this month, and the sales of porcelain and ironware made this month's turnover exceed 100,000 gold coins. Excluding the cost of transportation raw materials and labor, the net profit is about 80,000 gold coins!

This is definitely a pretty good number, you must know that in recent months, sales have been declining month by month, and the sales before Duke left have even dropped to 30,000 gold coins a month. Moreover, the price of Gaoshan City is also relatively high, and the net profit of 20,000 gold coins is not available for a month, which is equivalent to a fourfold increase.

Of course, there are also reasons for the high turnover of Storm Commercial Bank in the first month of its opening, and there are still many large orders in it. As the market becomes saturated again, sales will definitely decrease, and Duke's previous estimate of reaching a stable sales of 50,000 per month is very good, which can basically maintain Stormcastle's daily expenses and armaments.

However, if you want to expand the army, or build a large number of buildings or something, it is basically impossible to rely on these tens of thousands of gold coins. Because the profits also have to deduct 10% of the territorial tax, 10% of the Holy See's tithe, and 30% of the dividends promised to the Prince of Andorra. Only half of the pure profit really reaches Duke's hands.

And summer and autumn have passed, and soon winter will come again, as long as the monsters in the Monster Valley are not completely wiped out, or a "Great Wall" is built to protect the Storm Castle, the subjects of the Winter Storm Castle territory will still have to rely on the protection of the city, which will be an expensive payment.

Therefore, in order to accumulate more income, the Storm Trading Bank could only use two accounting methods commonly used in later generations, one "real account" for internal statistics, and the other for "false accounts" to evade taxes. Of course, tax evasion cannot be exaggerated, and Duke thinks that he is satisfied with evading 50% of taxes and dividends. After all, if you eat meat yourself, you can't even separate the scum, otherwise the business will not be able to continue.

"By the way, my lord, in addition to the sale of porcelain and ironware, we have received a lot of orders for the Storm Carriage, and they are the kind that are especially needed. If I could, I would suggest mass production of the Storm Carriage, which might fill the gap of declining porcelain sales, and that bearings and other items were consumables, and that selling carriage accessories or providing maintenance services would also provide a stable financial income. ”

Hearing Abner's suggestion, Duke couldn't help but smile and replied, "I didn't expect you to be quite business-minded, and even come up with the way to operate a 4S store in this era." But now the storm wagon can't be mass-produced, so it will take a while to solve the capacity problem, so it can only be done slowly. ”

Duke is also very fond of the fat of the carriage, but the complexity and efficiency of producing the carriage far exceed that of porcelain and ironware. Even a few hundred years later, before the Ford assembly line appeared, vehicle production efficiency was extremely low, and Stormcastle currently did not have so many resources to put on horse-drawn carriage production, unless it was to create the assembly line operation of this world.