"We need more iron to supply the steel mills in the industrial park, so I hope to expand the scale of your coal and iron ore mines."

"Increase the mine's production? Viscount Xia Lin, the current price of iron ore on the market is 1 silver mar 40 copper pes, coal is 15 copper pes, if you count the freight, we don't have much profit at this price.

And the Hurgana market is so big, even if we ask the miners to dig up more iron ore and coal, no one will come to buy it, can you say that you, the steel mill, are willing to buy it all?"

Hearing Xia Lin's request, Viscount Pound Brooke, the head of the Brooke family, took a sip of black tea and asked with some confusion.

Although these mines and slaves are their own, the cost of mining is very low, and the profit of iron ore is not bad, but according to Viscount Pound's experience, even if his mines can dig out more ore, there is no way to digest this part of the extra iron ore in the market, if Xia Lin wants them to increase production, he can only be willing to buy.

"No, Viscount Pound, we will not buy these raw materials for increasing production in our steelmaking mills in Xinglan Industrial Park, you may not know much, our steelmaking mills use pig iron and scrap steel for smelting, and it is not of much use to us to buy iron ore directly.

However, I have not finished what I said just now, in addition to increasing the production of ore raw materials, I also hope that everyone can use the mine and miners as the equity capital, and I will use the technology and management personnel as the equity capital to jointly form an imperial coal and iron joint company.

In the next few days, I will be looking for a suitable place outside the Blue Lagoon Mountains to set up various factories for the production of pig iron for the needs of the coal-iron complex, which will be used to meet the needs of the steelworks."

Charin denied Viscount Pound's conjecture and explained.

"Viscount Xia Lin, what benefits can this Imperial Capital Coal and Iron United Company bring us? You can't just trade the shares of this company that has not yet been established for the shares of the mines in our hands, right?"

Another baron in attendance asked, frowning.

"Quite simply, according to my plan, this coal-iron complex will initially build a washing plant, a coking plant and a blast furnace ironworks, and the scale of these factories will be epoch-making, and the mineral orders and sales profits they can bring will also be epoch-making.

Now I can tell you that these three factories need almost 300 tons of iron ore and 150 tons of coal every day, and can produce 150 tons of pig iron and 100 tons of coke every day.

These raw materials need to be provided by everyone's mines, and because the distance between the coal and iron complex and the mine is shortened, even if the purchase price of raw materials decreases, everyone's profit margins will expand a lot.

As for the pig iron produced, our steelmaking mill in Xinglan Industrial Park is willing to set a contract to buy at least half of it at the price of one ton of Jiujin Lunte, and this part of the profit will also be distributed to the shareholders according to the number of shares."

"Wait! One hundred and fifty tons...... Isn't that 45,000 pounds of pig iron?! And what kind of coke is that, almost 30,000 pounds?! Viscount Charin, do you know what you're talking about?"

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As the supplier of ore, the participants present all have a certain understanding of the smelting industry, and when they heard Xia Lin's words, everyone's eyes widened, and their faces were full of surprise and doubt. An old knight with a mustache got up even more excitedly and asked.

These figures are really too amazing, if it is calculated according to Xia Lin's statement, then his industrial park has to take out 675 gold lunt every day to buy raw materials from this unestablished imperial capital coal and iron joint company, which is 675 gold lunt a day!

In this world where productivity is not developed, even many fiefdom nobles have an annual income of about 100,000 gold lundes, and whether the annual income of the royal family is 500,000 gold lunts is a problem. This expenditure accumulated in a year is even comparable to the income of one or two earl families in the four realms!

The profits from the acquisition contract promised by Xia Lin alone were enough to attract this group of small and medium-sized nobles attending the meeting

Attention.

"Of course, Viscount Pound has also visited the industrial park and seen the pictures of those factories producing, so you might as well let me ask Viscount Pound, do you think such a factory may exist?"

Many of the nobles present were barons who had never visited the industrial park, or even small and medium-sized nobles such as honorary knights without hereditary titles, Xia Lin asked Viscount Pound, who was the only one who had been to the industrial park.

「…… Indeed, in Viscount Xia Lin's Xinglan Industrial Park, those exciting machines and equipment can indeed reach such a terrifying scale of production, I am sure he will not laugh about this matter."

Viscount Pound thought for a moment, nodded deeply and affirmed, after experiencing some shock, doubt, and tangled hearts, the small and medium-sized nobles on the side finally eliminated the doubts about Xia Lin's statement in their hearts under the guarantee of Viscount Pound, and after thinking about it for a while, they were moved.

"Compared with my factory, everyone should think more about how to make their mines produce so much iron ore and coal mines, and the Imperial Capital Coal and Iron United Company purchases iron ore and coal mines from the mines, although the price will be set lower than the market price, but everyone should also see a lot of profits.

Therefore, the establishment of the Imperial Capital Coal and Iron Joint Company is definitely a good thing for everyone."

Xia Lin saw that the small and medium-sized nobles present no longer seemed to oppose this company formation plan, and persuaded while the iron was hot.

"But Viscount Charin, even if what you say is true, it is absolutely impossible for our mine to reach this output.

A miner under the name of our Brooke family dug out half a basket of iron ore in the iron mine at the end of the day, about 10 pounds, that is...... Well, about forty kilograms, about 150 kilograms of coal can be dug in a day in a coal mine.

Eight hundred miners in twelve mines under my command can dig up about twenty tons of iron ore and sixty tons of coal every day.

Viscount Xia Lin, apart from the royal family, I am already the person in the alliance who can come up with the most iron ore and coal, and the output of other people's mines is far inferior to that of my name.

If this is the case, I'm afraid that all of us here, plus the iron ore and coal produced by the royal family's mines, may not be able to meet your requirements after increasing the input!"

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At this moment, Viscount Pound, who had just given Xia Lin an assist, thought about it carefully, but suddenly vetoed it.

"Viscount Pound, since I want to establish this coal and iron joint company, I naturally have also considered this problem.

According to you, the combined production of iron ore and coal ore is estimated to be no more than 60 tons of iron ore and 150 tons of coal per day, right?

If you can transfer all the personnel in the mine to the Imperial Coal and Iron Complex, I think I can try to solve this problem, at least there is no problem in increasing production to the level where it can meet the needs of the Coal and Iron Coal-Iron Corporation."

Xia Lin thought that since there were still miners, the mining industry in this world was probably still in the primitive stage of human labor, and he should have many ways to improve mining efficiency.

For example, laying railroad tracks and mining trolleys in the mines, updating the mining tools of the miners, using some more advanced management methods than slavery to improve the motivation of the miners, and adopting the method of blasting with black powder in the right places, etc.

Xia Lin can come up with four or five ways to think about it, but the specific use depends on the timing of the mining area.

"If that's the case, I'm willing to participate in the formation of this Imperial Capital Coal and Iron United Company!"

One of the knights said eagerly, and the other nobles in attendance happily agreed.

"Then if everyone agrees, let's officially start the formation of the Imperial Capital Coal and Iron United Company! Time is limited, so if you don't want to participate, you can choose to leave now."

Xia Lin nodded, announcing the official start of the process of forming the company, which was crucial to his plan.

[In other words, it is the best way to read aloud and listen to books at present, @

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