Chapter 70: Don't get involved
It's not over yet.
About four months after the establishment of the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce, the Freshwater Valley Chamber of Commerce, the largest mineral resources chamber of commerce in the Maro Empire, and 36 other mineral resources chambers of commerce jointly issued a statement to jointly establish a mineral resources integration organization similar to the Chino Federation, called the Valley Mineral Resources Association, referred to as the Valley Coordination Association.
The Freshwater Valley Chamber of Commerce is the one that controls the most mineral resources in the Maro Empire, and together with the other thirty-six Mineral Resources Chamber of Commerce, it controls almost all the mineral resources in the north of the Sainz Continent.
Although it is slightly inferior to the mineral resources under the name of the Chino Federation, it is also about the same.
The purpose of the establishment of this valley coordination association is even more obvious than that of the Xinfei Minerals Chamber of Commerce, that is, to compete with the Chino Federation.
And unlike the Xinfei Mineral Chamber of Commerce, which felt that its strength was far inferior in the eyes of everyone, the Valley Coordination Association could truly compete with the Chino Federation because it united almost all the mineral resources in the Candela Empire and dozens of northern countries.
And because of the background behind these two organizations, this undoubtedly represents a head-on confrontation between the Maro Empire and the Candela Empire on another aspect.
It's just that before this, if there was a confrontation between the two empires, other countries and organizations on the mainland could only choose to stand in line with each other, and there was no way to make their own voices, but this time, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce came out, and one more Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce stepped in and made a really different voice.
For many people, of course, they hope that the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce can really fight against the Chino Federation and the Valley Coordination Association, which will be of great help to many small countries.
But in the hearts of the vast majority of people. But he is not optimistic about the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce at all.
Although the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce stands behind the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. And the current strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has become extremely powerful on the Sainz continent. Even the two empires had to be a little scrupulous.
But scruples do not mean fear, in the past, the two empires had scruples about the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and that was because they wanted to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so they were unwilling to break down the relationship with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
So this doesn't mean that the strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is really stronger than the two empires.
In the final analysis, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is just a chamber of commerce, and the various resources it controls can't be compared with the two empires.
Even if the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce has more mineral resources than people think, it is undoubtedly far from the two major organizations that have two empires and the various countries that support them.
People need to wait. It's just to see how long the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce can hold out.
In July 3781 of the continental calendar, it was the hottest period of the year, and the high-profile Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce suddenly announced that due to the breakthrough in the research of metallurgical refining automation of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the output of several steelmaking plants under the name of Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce has been greatly increased, and the total output is expected to exceed 600,000 tons per month.
This output has nearly doubled compared to the previous monthly output of about 300,000 to 400,000 tons of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!
The Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce announced that due to the significant increase in production, the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce can take out more steel for sale, and actively welcomes other chambers of commerce that need refined steel to order and negotiate.
Half a month before that, the Chino Federation had just announced that they had completed the integration of the mineral resources of the various chambers of commerce under their names. And through independent research, we have successfully developed a complete set of magic steel smelting devices. It is expected that a large-scale promotion will be carried out in various chambers of commerce under its name within this year, which will significantly increase the steel production of the Chino Federation.
According to estimates, once the chambers of commerce under the name of the Chino Federation complete the replacement of the magic steel smelting equipment, the annual steel output of the Chino Federation will most likely exceed 30 million tons.
In comparison, the 600,000 tonnes per month announced by the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce is undoubtedly a small comparison.
However, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is the first chamber of commerce to have a steelmaking plant, and it is also the first chamber of commerce to implement steel refining, and has long studied the smelting research and development of a variety of different types of steel, and currently has a total of 17 types of steel smelting methods, which can meet all the special needs of steel.
Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce later transferred part of the steel smelting technology to other chambers of commerce engaged in minerals, and sold a large number of magic steel smelting devices, everyone admitted that the steel smelted by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was undoubtedly of the best quality and highest quality.
Therefore, although the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce only announced that it had only increased part of its production, and the total output was far less than that of the Chino Federation, it was still very popular, and countless orders flew in in an instant.
You must know that before this, most of the smelted by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was only used to provide it to itself to meet the needs of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to produce magic machinery itself, and only a very small amount was sold.
Now that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is willing to sell a large amount of steel, why don't you hurry up and grab it.
At the beginning of September, the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce released the data again.
According to statistics, the total steel output of Xinfei Mining Association in August exceeded 800,000 tons, exceeding the expected by as much as 30%.
Among the 800,000 tons of refined steel, the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce left 300,000 tons of steel to meet the needs of the chambers of commerce under the name of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the remaining 500,000 tons of steel were all sold out.
At the same time, the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce also announced that they have reached an agreement with seven countries, including the United Kingdom of Commerce and the Principality of Wales, to acquire a total of 12 mines in these seven countries, including four iron mines, three non-ferrous metal veins, and five magic crystal mines.
As soon as the news came out, it caused an uproar again.
People originally thought that under the control of the Chino Federation and the Valley Coordination Council, there should be no idle resources for the entire Sainz continent, but now as soon as the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce made a move, it actually obtained twelve ore veins in one go.
Although this is still not comparable to the two major mineral alliances, it means that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not powerless, and the two major mineral alliances do not really control the entire Sainz continent.
As soon as this news was announced, people's confidence in the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce suddenly became a little more sufficient.
However, the Chino Federation and the Valley Coordinator soon launched a counterattack.
At the end of September, the Chino Federation once again announced that it would raise the price of iron ore, bringing its price above four gold coins per tonne.
This price is quite subtle.
Because although the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce currently controls several iron mines, in fact, the main business of the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce is only the smelting of various steel and non-ferrous metals, and for the specific mineral collection, it is limited to manpower and previous accumulation, which is not enough to meet the needs of the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce itself.
Therefore, in fact, the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce still has to purchase a large amount of ore from other channels to meet the smelting demand, the main source of which is the chambers of commerce under the name of the Chino Federation.
Therefore, now the Chino Federation has raised the price of iron ore again, which undoubtedly significantly increased the steel smelting cost of the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce.
Moreover, the price of four gold coins per ton will make the profit obtained by the Xinfei Mining Association from iron ore smelting very meager, or even almost no profit.
And at the same time, the Chino Federation also adjusted the price of steel under its own name, which was reduced by nearly 20% in one go, and the price per ton even fell below less than 20 gold coins.
At such a price, it can almost be said that the Chino Federation itself has become less profitable in steel smelting.
And the most important thing is that this price is extremely obvious compared to the price set by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for each ton of refined steel, which ranges from 27 to 30 gold coins.
Three days after the Chino Federation announced this price adjustment, the Valley Coordination Committee also announced the price adjustment strategy, which basically kept pace with the Chino Federation.
Of course, this is not something that the two major organizations have discussed, but since the Chino Federation has made such an adjustment, the Valley Coordination Council can only keep up, otherwise they will fall into great passivity.
But everyone knows very well that the sharp price adjustment of the Chino Federation this time is obviously not for the Valley Co-ordination Association, but for the Xinfei Mining Association.
The Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce, or the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce after all, is still shallow in accumulation, and it is an obvious weakness in mineral mining, so it must be controlled by others in the supply of ore, so the Chino Federation raised the price of ore.
In the advantageous project of the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce, steel smelting, the Chino Federation did not hesitate to lose a lot of profits to significantly reduce the price, obviously forcing the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce to reduce the price, so as to suppress the profits of the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce.
This is not a conspiracy, but it is clear, that is, relying on himself to be far larger and deeper than the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce, and bullying the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce with hard power.
The purpose is, of course, to drive the Xinfei Mining Chamber out of the mineral resources industry.
In the eyes of the Chino Federation, the emergence of the Valley Coordination Council is not surprising, but the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce is an unexpected outlier.
Moreover, the strength of the Valley Coordination Committee is about the same as that of the Chino Federation, and of course it will be impossible to solve it for a while, so the top priority is naturally to drive out the spoiler of the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce, and then compete with the Valley Coordination Association.
This purpose is so obvious that the president of the Chino Federation did not shy away from publicly stating at all in a press conference held to the outside world that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce should honestly stay in the magical machinery industry that it is good at, and should not get involved in industries that do not belong to them.
And the response of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to this...... Again, there was no response. (To be continued......)