Chapter 10: Plastic Feather Arrows
"Fario doesn't believe me?" Elder Elucia smiled slightly, her smile still as bright as a human maiden, and one wouldn't even think of her real age. "Looks like I'm going to have some time to talk to him. If he doesn't change his mindset, he won't be able to keep up with the changes in the world. ”
"This can't be blamed on him, after all, it is really difficult to let an elven warrior who has to shoot even a feather arrow extremely carefully before, so that he has honed his bow and arrow skills to an extremely high level, and suddenly accepts that he can even waste arrows in the future. Xu Yi said with a smile.
"Fortunately, this kind of thing will not happen in the future. Elder Elucia looked back at the arrows that were being formed on the plastic production line not far away. "On this assembly line, we can produce more than 3,000 qualified plastic feather arrows in one day, so we don't have to worry about wasting some of them. ”
"If the daily output is only 3,000 sticks, it's not enough. Xu Yi shook his head. "The thirty magic repeaters sent to the Zhenbei Army before have been well received, and now the military department has placed an order for another five hundred magic repeaters to our Chamber of Commerce, and I have already taken it. However, because the consumption of arrows by the magic repeater is too large, it would be too wasteful to use pure arrows as recklessly as the Zhenbei Army and the Greedy Legion of the Sark Kingdom did in the previous conflict. So I recommended a new type of plastic feather arrow to the military department, and I think it won't be long before the military department will send someone to inspect the plastic feather arrow. If nothing else, a large order will be placed directly. ”
"Okay, I'll tell Amrod and Driel to be serious. ”
Xu Yi looked at Elder Elucia and suddenly asked, "Elder Elucia." I've always wanted to ask a question. Why don't you come out yourself as the candidate for the Nightsong Clan's diplomatic involvement? And to single out Deliel, with your wisdom, I think it would make the whole thing much smoother if you handled it. ”
Elder Elucia shook his head lightly and sighed, "I'm already old, and the future of the Nightsong Clan still needs young people like Amrod and Deliel to inherit after all, so not only will I not be the candidate for this foreign affairs deal, but I will also try to minimize the guidance of the clansmen in the future, so that they can adapt to the tribe without me in advance." ”
Xu Yi looked at Elder Elucia's beautiful face, which was like that of a young human girl in her early twenties. Stunned and frowned: "I don't think you're old at all." With an appearance like yours, we humans are in their youth, so there's no need to think about retirement so early, right?"
"Thank you for the compliment. But it is a fact that I am old, and regardless of my appearance, I have reached the stage of the old age of an elven race. The reason why we still maintain this appearance is just the characteristics of our elven race. Elder Elucia paused for a moment, and suddenly asked Xu Yi, "President Xu, do you think Yanis is beautiful enough?"
Xu Yi was stunned: "Of course Yanis is beautiful, what?"
Elder Elucia only nodded, and did not continue the discussion.
Xu Yi could only hold his doubts in his stomach in wonder. Following Elder Elucia's wishes, the discussion continued regarding the production of these plastic feathered arrows.
The material used to make these plastic feather arrows is a new type of plastic material developed by the elves of the Yege tribe when they were making plastic formulas. It is extremely tough, and when used to make zuò feather arrows, it is no worse than even the finest wood.
And because of the use of batch marking, standardized production, the feather arrows produced in this way are almost the same regardless of length, thickness, weight and weight, and then with the customized arrows, the specifications of the entire feather arrows are unified.
In this way, such feathered arrows will be easier to adapt to when shooting, and will be more suitable for magic repeaters that require very strict feather arrow specifications.
In the months-long battle between the Zhenbei Army and the Sark Kingdom for the Muerto Mountains, although the Zhenbei Army finally snatched back the control of the Murto Mountains with its extremely strong combat effectiveness, this combat effectiveness was based on a strong equipment advantage.
In addition to the complete and sophisticated weaponry and the formidable power of the Magic Trebuchet, in all the battles, the table is not the most eye-catching, but in fact the most important, but the most consumed feathered arrows.
It is precisely because of the support of countless feather arrows, as if they don't want money, that the Zhenbei Army has been able to suppress the greedy wolf legion of the Sark Kingdom from beginning to end, making it almost impossible to resist.
But this suppression makes the consumption of arrows very terrible.
In the several battles of the final counterattack, although it only lasted less than half a month, and less than 20 battles were fought during the period, which was not a long time, the total number of arrows consumed was more than 100,000.
The reason why the Zhenbei Army was able to have such a huge number of arrows was entirely because of the large number of pure steel arrows produced by the military department's arsenal before this, which ensured the large consumption of the Zhenbei Army.
The problem is that the cost of pure steel arrows is so high that each arrow costs a minimum of 30 silver coins on average.
100,000 branches, that's a huge cost of 30,000 gold coins.
For the impoverished military headquarters of the kingdom, it is very gratifying to win this battle and recapture the strategically important Murto Mountains, but the cost of 100,000 arrows alone is 30,000 gold coins, which is really a bit unsupportable.
Coupled with the cost of the magic trebuchet and the full set of weapons and armor worn by the soldiers, in this battle between the Zhenbei Army and the Sark Kingdom, the military headquarters invested a huge amount of more than 100,000 gold coins for the Zhenbei Army at one time.
After all, weapons and armor and magic trebuchets can be reused, but after the arrows are fired, no matter how much you clean the battlefield and recycle them, they still consume a small half.
In the end, the military department settled it and found that this time the battle was fought, and the cost of arrows was more than 10,000 gold coins.
The last time Hui went to see Major McConley, he heard him talk about this issue, and he was inspired to mention that he could replace it with plastic arrows.
Although the lethality of plastic arrows is certainly not as good as that of pure steel arrows, the main function of the overwhelming arrows is to suppress, not to mention that the power of plastic arrows is not so bad, and even much more powerful than the arrows of pig iron arrows and wooden arrows used in the army of the Lampari Kingdom before, which can definitely be applied to the battlefield needs on the Sainz continent at this stage.
After a few days, Major McConley received the plastic arrows sent by Xu Yi, and learned that the cost of such a plastic arrow was only eight silver coins, and immediately decided to use this kind of plastic arrow in the future military headquarters.
Judging from Major McConley's reply to Xu Yi, as long as the military department is satisfied with the results of this inspection of plastic arrows, then the batch of orders will be at least 500,000 pieces.
According to the purchase price of nine silver coins for a plastic feather arrow given by the military department, 500,000 plastic feather arrows are 45,000 gold coins.
For the newly established plastic processing factory of the Yege tribe, it can be regarded as a good start to receive such a large number of orders in the first order.
"Actually, according to my real thoughts, I don't really want to take this order. Elder Elucia picked up a plastic feather arrow, looked at it for a moment, and sighed softly, "The purpose of this plastic processing factory is to enable our people to have more in-depth contact with humans, not to participate in the war between humans. ”
"For human beings, war is an eternal theme, and it cannot be avoided. Xu Yi also sighed helplessly: "I hate war as much as you, but when I can't avoid it, I don't resist it." If you are disgusted with placing this order, then I can do it on behalf of the new pilot. As long as you send a few technicians to guide, I believe that our chamber of commerce will be able to produce these plastic feather arrows smoothly in no time. ”
"No need. Now that you have decided to join in the life of the human race, it is clear that escaping is not the way to go. While this could be considered an intervention in the war between your humans, it would not be too difficult to accept if it were to be sold as a common commodity. Elder Elucia said.
Xu Yi smiled slightly, thinking that Elder Elucia was not a simple-minded elven girl like Yanis after all, and it was really not so simple to hand over the vital plastic production and processing technology.
"Well, Elder Elucia, I'll be going to Bunta City tonight, and you can let Deliel come with me, and I'll take her to meet the presidents of the major chambers of commerce in Buntar City. As for how to introduce the business of your plastic processing factory and how to promote it, I won't interfere with this and let Delier handle it herself, what do you think?" Xu Yi thought about it.
"If this is a charity for us according to the way we do things, I should refuse. Elder Elucia smiled, "But since we want to integrate into human life, then we have to do it in the human way. It's a collaboration between us, and I'm glad to see you, President Xu, reaching out to us. ”
Xu Yi laughed: "That's right." Everyone is a partner, and you don't need to see this kind of thing as a charity. If you have to be fair, you just have to give me a fair amount in return. It's just a pretty ordinary deal, isn't it?"
"Yes. I think I have to warn Deliel in advance and let her learn from you today how to become a competent human businessman. Elder Elucia nodded. "I was very dissatisfied with the previous application for a plastic processing factory in Bonta City with the help of Miss Steele, and I hope that she can improve this time under the guidance of President Xu. ”
"It's an honor. Xu Yi smiled slightly. (To be continued......)