Chapter 96: Swapping People for Others

Russell is not the only one who secretly scolds the black heart of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in his heart, but in the Lampari Kingdom, which is more than 3,000 kilometers away from him and Leslie, there are also countless people who spit on the black heart of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in their hearts.

Just a week after the news of the birth of Her Majesty's child came out, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce suddenly announced that in order to celebrate the birth of Her Majesty's child, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce will unveil a crucial technology to the public in the Lampari Kingdom as a gift to Her Majesty the Queen.

The news immediately caused a stir in the Kingdom of Lampari and also aroused the close attention of other surrounding countries.

It was clear to everyone that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had far more technical strength in magic machinery than all other magic machinery chambers of commerce, resulting in their absolute leadership in this field.

Although other chambers of commerce can invest energy and funds in technology research and development to catch up, how can it be more convenient and faster to research on their own than to obtain mature technology directly from the hands of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?

If it weren't for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to take the initiative to transfer a series of technologies about household magic machinery, now in the field of magic machinery, I'm afraid it will still be a solo dance of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the others will only drink soup.

Therefore, the announcement of the new flying chamber of commerce to once again disclose a crucial technology naturally attracted everyone's attention.

And the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce did not disappoint people, at the press conference in Bangta City, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced this technology, which is even more important than everyone imagined.

This technology is actually steelmaking technology!

Magic machines are of course diverse, ranging from tiny magic lamps to small ones. As big as the large cargo magic ship developed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce half a year ago. Both function, performance and construction are completely different.

But no matter what kind of magic machine it is. But there is certainly one vital raw material that will be used, and that is steel.

Before the advent of the New Flying Merchants, there was no steel on the continent of Sainz, only iron tools.

Iron smelting is a technology that has been passed down for thousands of years on the continent of Sainz, and the dwarves are the best in this regard.

But before that, iron-making was mostly just used to make some simple iron tools used in daily life. It's not complicated and it's not very demanding.

The only thing that is a little more demanding is that it is used to craft weapons and armor.

Although there were also famous craftsmen who had created powerful weapons and armor and brought iron-making technology to a very high level, before the emergence of the New Flying Merchants, no one had ever been able to make iron-making on such a large scale, and the requirements for the iron smelted were so diverse and demanding.

The new flying chamber of commerce even redefined these irons as steel, and also distinguished them with various fortunate differences, indicating the different properties and uses of these differences.

If until then, ironmaking was just a demonstration of the individual skills of the craftsmen. Then after the new flyers will appear, iron-making ...... Oh no. Now called steelmaking, it has become a completely industrialized product that requires extreme elaboration and is countless times larger.

After the first steel mill of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce appeared, it almost completely destroyed the large and small blacksmith shops in Bonta City.

And by the time the second, third, and now sixth steel mills of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce were completed, and the monthly steel output was even close to one million tons, almost all the blacksmiths in the entire Lampari Kingdom were severely impacted.

Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce does not have the intention of stealing the business of ordinary blacksmith shops, this does not prevent other chambers of commerce from doing so.

The main work of ordinary blacksmith shops is to make some simple daily ironware, and occasionally to create weapons and armor, but the emergence of the new flying chamber of commerce, first of all, has made the manufacture of weapons and armor an assembly line operation, whether it is efficiency or workmanship, and the weapons and armor manufactured are better than the weapons and armor created by the blacksmith shop in all aspects, directly squeezing out this part of the business.

Secondly, several chambers of commerce quickly found business opportunities from them, and specially ordered a batch of magic machine tools from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and then used the steel produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to make ordinary daily ironware such as shovels and shovels, which gradually squeezed the business of the blacksmith shop.

In the current kingdom of Lampari, except for some extremely remote towns, there is hardly a single old-fashioned blacksmith shop in existence.

A large number of dwarven craftsmen who used to make a living from this craft in the Kingdom of Lampari have now almost all been taken away by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and have become workers of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

The reason for this result is actually very simple, the key is still in the steelmaking of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

The steel smelted by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is completely superior to the pig iron made by ordinary blacksmiths in all aspects, and the performance is rich and diverse, which can meet various needs.

Among them, the most popular are various steels with stainless steel qualities.

In addition to being widely used in all kinds of household magic machinery, these stainless steel quality steels will also be used in many daily steel consumption, which is in great demand.

The six steel mills under the name of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce produce nearly one million tons of steel every month, but they are still far from meeting demand.

In fact, a large part of the reason for the limited production capacity of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is because of the limited steel production.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is still short of the steel it needs to supply, and the steel that can be supplied to other chambers of commerce will naturally not be too much.

Therefore, because of the steel output of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the output is limited, in addition to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, there are almost all other chambers of commerce related to magic machinery, and there are even many industrial chambers of commerce that have nothing to do with magic machinery, but are related to steel products.

Therefore, the announcement of the new flying chamber of commerce to open steelmaking technology instantly ignited everyone's enthusiasm.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is finally willing to hand over its unique steelmaking technology, doesn't it mean that everyone can refine the steel they need by themselves, and there is no need to beg the grandfather to tell grandma, and beg the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to give them more steel shares?

Of course, everyone knows very well that since the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is willing to announce such an important technology, the price paid by others must be extremely high.

However, when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced the price it would take to obtain the corresponding technology from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, everyone was still shocked and speechless.

This time, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce actually asked for money, nor did it ask for various mineral resources, but directly asked for people!

They don't want ordinary people, but slaves!

In other words, if you want to get the transfer of steelmaking technology from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, no problem, take slaves in exchange.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce also has clear regulations on the slaves used for exchange, only those who are over sixteen years old and under forty years old, and are in good health and have no disabilities, can be counted as a complete slave, and those outside this range can only be counted as half at most.

However, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has an even more strange rule, that is, if you are willing to hand over a complete slave family, this ratio will be increased to a certain extent.

Everyone didn't understand the intention of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but everyone felt the malicious intent of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce very clearly from the pricing of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Damn, the refining technology of a C803 model steel actually requires a thousand slaves!

You know, a healthy adult slave can sell for at least fifty gold coins in the slave market. The total price of 3,000 such slaves is as high as 50,000 gold coins!

And such a high price is just in exchange for a steel refining technology.

At present, there are as many as seventy-eight kinds of steel models announced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!

Even if each one were the same price, it would add up to nearly four million gold coins!

And if all of them were to be exchanged for slaves, it would require a terrifying amount of nearly 80,000 slaves!

What's more, the steelmaking technology transferred by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not limited to just one, that is to say, if many people need these steelmaking technologies, the price they need to pay is far more than 80,000 slaves.

While everyone was puzzled about why the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would propose such a quid pro quo, they were also puzzled about another thing.

Xu Yi took the initiative to propose the abolition of slavery in the Duchy of Stantin, and also obtained a tongguò.

Now that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has gotten so many slaves, if they are brought back to the Duchy of Stantin, won't they be helping them convert to civilian status?

Theoretically, these slaves no longer belong to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which means that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will have to treat them the same way as civilians again, and if they want to enter the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to work, they will have to pay another payment.

Looking at it this way, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is completely redundant.

The only result of this is to help these slaves obtain a free status, and what good will it do to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?

This President Xu, shouldn't he really regard himself as a saint as many newspapers say?

Of course, no matter how many doubts others have about this initiative, it is a fact that Xinfei intends to transfer steelmaking technology.

It didn't take long for countless people to take action.

Just the day after the press conference of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, a related deal broke out in the "Bangta Daily".

A lord in the northeastern province of the Lampari Kingdom used 3,653 slaves under his name to obtain three kinds of steel refining technology from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

In the following half a month, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce reached six more deals one after another, and obtained more than 15,300 slaves from these six deals.

With the addition of the first transaction, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had nearly 20,000 slaves in this half month.

Everyone's eyes were focused on these slaves, wanting to see what the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would do with these slaves, and whether Xu Yi would give these slaves a free identity like a saint.

However, the newspapers' reports on the whereabouts of these slaves came to an abrupt end when they were all sent to the Black Rice Wasteland, and the ultimatum was sent to the Black Rice Harbor in the western part of the Black Rice Wasteland, and they boarded the large cargo magic steamer of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

The New Flying Chamber's large cargo magic ship vanished into the endless sea, and the slaves disappeared without a trace. (To be continued......)