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#628 - Thousand Valley Iron Guild and Cold Spring Smelter
The discussion about divine magic and necromancy quickly reached a standstill.
This was because these conclusions were just baseless speculations from Sylv's mother, with no specific reasoning process written in the book at all.
Regarding this kind of empty conjecture, although Horn had doubts, it was of no benefit at the moment, so he put it behind him and focused his main energy on the upcoming financial meeting.
When the autumn wind of mid-October and the news of the completion of the South Mound County Bairro reached the Holy See of Mechanics, Moriarty arrived at the Holy See of Mechanics at Horn's invitation, where she was not required to wear armor to receive her salary.
After a simple welcoming ceremony, Moriarty rode in a black oak carriage to the Holy See Tower for the first meeting.
"Please come in." Horn personally opened the door to his office, and with Moriarty's heavy footsteps, she raised her iron fist to her chest and walked into the office with her chin raised.
Horn stood at the door and instructed Pettier, "Do not allow anyone to disturb us for the next hour."
"Yes, Your Excellency."
Closing the door carved with gears and sun prints, Horn turned around and saw Moriarty looking around the room.
The study was about 50 square meters, with a 20 square meter reception room, three or five walnut cushioned chairs, two cabinets, and a bookshelf placed against the wall.
Facing the six French windows, there was a large mahogany desk and an exquisite armchair with armrests and a backrest.
The entire desk was spliced together from two tables, with a total length of about 5 meters. During the usual meetings of the Papal Council, the cardinals would sit in a row in front of the long table.
Moriarty sat down in Horn's seat without any politeness, and looked up to see the clear and refreshing ice-blue sky.
Witt imported expensive white sand and light blue-green flat glass, and inlaid them piece by piece on the circular gear flower windows and huge French windows of the Holy See Tower.
The walnut core tables, velvet-cushioned chairs, silk satin-patterned curtains, and blue leaf vortex-patterned porcelain were mostly cheap spoils of war purchased by the Holy See City Hall from veterans.
However, the furniture in Horn's office was all new, some ordered from outside and some customized internally.
Compared to the luxurious furniture and decoration of the great nobles, the decoration of the Holy See Tower can only be regarded as the level of wealthy merchants.
Of course, although this Holy See Tower is luxurious, it still belongs to the property of all believers.
Horn just happened to be working here.
Horn didn't mind her sitting randomly, but instead picked up the black tea on the cabinet: "Do you want sugar?"
"One-third of a cup of milk, half a spoon of sugar."
After preparing the black tea, Horn handed the teacup over: "Have you finished organizing your Steel Guild?"
Taking a sip of black tea, Moriarty smiled and took off the iron mask: "It's just the final finishing touches. Your double-entry bookkeeping method is quite useful."
While Horn was rectifying the Bairro reform for three or four months, Moriarty in the north was not idle. She called on Catherine to carry out a large-scale restructuring of the mines and iron smelters in the North Mound area.
In short, it was to provide residences for the Dragon Worship dwarves and allocate mines according to the previous agreement.
During this period, Moriarty took the opportunity to merge a large number of mines that originally belonged to the nobles.
These mine owners and nobles were either invited to the Plain County to enjoy their blessings, or beheaded and directly deprived of their titles, or accepted as dogs and merged by Moriarty.
After four months from June to October, a steel industry consortium called the "Thousand River Valley Steel Guild" appeared in the north.
"I have followed your instructions and established the Cold Spring Fort Steel Smelting Plant in Cold Spring Fort, and hired dwarves from the Dragon Worship Sect to serve as masters, with an annual output of about 70 tons." Moriarty took the financial budget plan handed to her by Horn.
To be honest, Moriarty didn't understand Horn's intention in asking her to open a new smelting plant. The Kingdom of Leia had blocked them, and even with military expenditures, they should reduce production.
"This year, we estimate that we will have 800 tons of extra iron. Where do you plan to sell these extra iron?"
"No need to sell, the steel demand for agricultural tools, bridges, and rail cars is enough to eat up the excess production capacity." Horn waved his hand and said, "We will order 100,000 sets of agricultural tools from you at that time."
"Do you have the money to pay? That's more than 6,000 gold pounds?"
"Don't worry, we will definitely have the money." Horn took a sip of sobering black tea, "We can raise funds from the French, agricultural tools will increase grain production, transport them to Black Snake Bay to exchange for more sugar, and then use sugar to repay the bonds... You will know at that time."
To be honest, Horn couldn't help but laugh when he heard about the excess annual steel production of less than 1,000 tons, because this was the production of pig iron or cast iron!
If it were steel, with the steelmaking efficiency of this world, it would be good to have 90 tons.
Rail cars do not have high load capacities and do not require very good iron. Cast iron is enough.
Horn calculated that 100 meters of rail would require 5,000 pounds of cast iron, which is about 2 tons of cast iron, and one kilometer of rail would be more than 20 tons of cast iron.
This does not even take into account Horn's upcoming construction of hydraulic scroll spinning machines and lathes and parts workshops, which require fine iron, that is, steel.
Not to mention civilian household appliances, including pots, bowls, plates, and a series of small parts such as doors, nails, pipes, locks, and bolts for construction.
When the infrastructure is gradually rolled out in the future, a large number of engineering machinery and clockwork engines will require steel.
In other words, as productivity increases, a large number of emerging industries will need steel, and the future demand for iron will only increase.
But so far, Horn has not heard from Moriarty any new breakthroughs from the dwarves in wet ironmaking, and the alternative lightning furnace is still just a fantasy.
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"Didn't you say that Jenna can use lightning to split the ether, so as to store lightning in the moon pool of the ether tower?" Moriarty asked while flipping through the financial plan.
Horn shook his head: "That's too unstable. We can't build the lightning furnace in the ether tower, can we? So far, we haven't even been able to analyze what the water in the moon pool is?"
Ether, a special astral substance, can not only give gears unique power, but also guide spells.
For example, the accident in which Horn was almost sucked out of his head by the astral world unexpectedly verified that ether can also guide lightning spells.
Because the power of the ether explosion that time and the lightning were obviously more than the upper limit of the power of the lightning spells that Jenna could use.
Even later, Sylv tried a series of energies such as fire, light, and ice, but only lightning could be guided by the ether and stored in the moon pool.
Horn once thought about using the moon pool to store lightning to make a lightning furnace, but the problem is that the water in the moon pool cannot be copied.
Later, Scholar Kelben of the Dragon Language Alchemy Society identified it as the water of light at a glance after seeing the moon pool, because it can store a small amount of spell energy.
But after discovering its ability to guide lightning, Scholar Kelben quickly fell into confusion, because this was obviously the characteristic of spiritual mercury.
After analyzing it for three days, Scholar Kelben's head was about to explode.
He suspected that someone used some heaven-defying alchemy to synthesize the alchemy of spiritual mercury with the water of light.
According to Horn's analysis, the outrageousness of this matter is probably equivalent to someone merging strawberries and potatoes together, each strawberry being as big as a potato and yielding 3,000 catties per mu.
It's almost impossible. At least so far, Horn can't copy this high technology.
I really don't know how Sylv's mother made it?
Thinking of this, Horn quickly asked Moriarty: "Is the Scale Hermitage willing to send someone to meet with us?"
"They are elusive. My mother spent a lot of effort just to find them." Moriarty put down the financial budget, "They are not willing to reveal the whereabouts of the high-level officials, and are willing to meet with you in Black Snake Bay."
"Oh, well, anyway, I am going to tour Black Snake Bay in the spring." This is indeed on Horn's agenda, "After all, we have to finalize the sugar and grain trade."