His Excellency Archduke Ravens of the South showed a strong interest in the matter of cooperation in the rubber industry, mainly because the scale of economic cooperation proposed by Xia Lin for Empress Dorothea was too large, and the benefits contained in it could not be ignored even by the Grand Duke of the First Realm.

In the first stage, Xia Lin's Xinye Chamber of Commerce wanted to cooperate with a number of aristocratic chambers of commerce in the south to purchase a total of 600 tons of raw rubber at a price of 3 gold lunt per ton, considering the distance and traffic conditions between the middle and southern borders, only need to complete the delivery in batches within two months.

Archduke Ravens, who did not know much about the recent emergence of metric units in Hurgana, was still a little disdainful of this number, until he understood the conversion of metric units to the old imperial units, and learned the concept that 600 tons was equivalent to 180,000 pounds, and realized that this business could bring them a huge profit.

The southern mountain range is full of hills and swamps, and the environment is closed and lacks everything, but there is no shortage of rubber trees all over the mountains, these rubber trees used to be cut by local people, and one person is enough to cut six hundred pounds of raw rubber in a day, and the price of three gold lunt per ton is converted to almost ten copper pess a pound, which means that a person can earn an astonishing income of six thousand copper pess in a day.

Of course, this profit belongs to the Ronald family, although I don't know what the newly enthroned Empress needs these useless raw rubber for, but in the face of this cooperation plan that can make at least 1,500 gold lunt, Grand Duke Ravens agreed without hesitation, and did not even receive the deposit.

Anyway, for the Ronald family, mobilizing some slaves to cut a mere 600 tons of raw rubber is just a casual matter, if the first phase of the order is successfully completed, the empress increases the share of raw rubber acquisition according to the agreement, and the Grand Duke Ravens decides to accept the empress's proposal to establish a rubber plantation in the south, in order to increase a revenue channel for the Ronald family.

This matter is not enough for Xia Lin's level to mix, so he can only use Her Majesty's tiger skin to slowly lay it out, if this rubber raw material supply channel can be successfully established, I think it will also help Empress Dorothea's current embarrassing situation.

Another matter was the cooperation between the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce and the Harrison Chamber of Commerce in the sale of glassware, and Empress Dorosia took the lead, coupled with Charlin's own reputation accumulated within the business alliance, Viscount George Harrison readily agreed to this cooperation, but for specific details, he proposed to meet with Charlin.

After Wyatt established the skeleton of the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce, Xia Lin was mainly responsible for the proposal of new projects and the formulation of the general direction of the development of the Chamber of Commerce and the industrial park.

However, since Viscount George sincerely invited, Xia Lin also went to the caustic soda factory to see the progress of the current glass production research and development team, and was ready to select a batch of better quality glassware as a gift to his partner.

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After changing the shape of the glass crucible and adding a crucible lid with a small hole, the stirring stick can stir the molten glass slurry during the firing process to remove bubbles, and the glass production R&D team has even been able to produce some small glassware with no bubbles at all, such as small wine glasses, small plates, small cups, small pieces of glass and the like.

When they were lucky, they also produced several large utensils of the same quality, which they carefully stored in wooden cabinets specially made for the machine shop, filling the gaps with straw and old newspapers, hoping to ask Xia Lin for these high-quality products.

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The R&D project team formed an optical team of only five people with a few lapidarians, and they first tried to polish some convex and concave lenses from these high-quality glass pieces, and then took these utensils to the Harrison family estate in the East End.

After some negotiations, Viscount George Harrison soon realized the significance of glass, a new material that could be customized into a variety of different specifications, and the two sides finalized the basic form of cooperation, with the Harrison family exchanging sales channels and 1,000 gold lunets for a 10% stake in the glass factory to be built, and the rest of the details were naturally handed over to his subordinates.

Charin politely declined Viscount George's courteous invitation to dinner, and accompanied by Fez Louigne, he came to the Brooke family's manor non-stop, and the upcoming meeting on the formation of the Imperial Capital Coal and Iron United Company here was the highlight of Charlin's attention.

Among the business alliances, there are many families dealing in minerals, and the Brooke family, who Xia Lin has been in contact with because of newspaper sources, is one of the best, owning several large mines with rich reserves in the Blue Lagoon mountain range, as well as more small and medium-sized mines, which is why the formation meeting of the Coal and Iron United Company was held in the Brooke family's estate.

Xia Lin has dealt with this family more than once, a long time ago when he went to the slave market to buy the three slaves of Wyatt, Long and Zu, the slave chamber of commerce named Brooke was one of the industries of the Brooke family, as far as Xia Lin knew about the Brooke family, the slave trade could even be regarded as the pillar industry of the Brooke family.

Through the slave trade to provide cheap and sufficient human resources for their mines, the Brooke family's mining industry is also booming, and now the scale has reached a considerable level, in the imperial capital, only the original Barlow family can be compared with it, and even the royal family, which controls countless industries, also lost a little, until the Barlow family stood on the wrong side in the previous struggle, and after the family property was all taken back to the royal family, the Brooke family lost its identity as the leader.

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Seeing that the representatives of the chambers of commerce and aristocratic families who had been invited to the scene were seated one by one, and soon all the people had already arrived, Xia Lin got up and clapped his hands, and the elegant and decorated reception room of the Brooke family fell silent.

"I'm Charlene Karl, and we're old acquaintances now, so I won't say much about myself.

Today, I have entrusted Her Majesty the Empress with the simple purpose of continuing to strengthen our side, and although we have won the previous struggle, the remnants of the conservatives have not been completely purged.

Even now, less than three hundred kilometers away from Hurgana, there is a rebel army that has made us sleep, and is gathering in vain, hoping to rush to the city of Hurgana and wipe us out and restore their rule."

"Viscount Xia Lin, we all know about this matter, all the people sitting here are Her Majesty's loyal courtiers, please tell us what you need us to do for Her Majesty!"

A baron asked bluntly.

"Well, I'm sure you've heard some rumors that the Forces Nova will be expanding their armaments in the near future, and in less than three weeks they will be going to crusade against the rebels organized near Robin City, and in the process, we'll need a lot of steel, but the market in Hurgana won't be enough to supply that much raw material."

Xia Lin saw that all the nobles in the conference room were a little anxious, and simply explained the current predicament encountered by the steelmaking plant in the industrial park.

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