my age of magic

Chapter 1242 46. Business Changes
Today, North Duisburg needs to provide [-] giant crossbow arrows to the magic seal workshop every month. North Duisburg has a large turnover box, which can hold [-] giant crossbow arrows, fixed every week There was a ten-meter-long large magic caravan loaded with thirty boxes of giant crossbow arrows and transported them to the rune plate workshop in the seventh block of the imperial capital. The Rune Workshop in Xinwillow Valley.

In addition, North Duisburg also provides [-] sets of base materials for the 'Fire Gathering Technique' and 'Miniature Tornado' rune copper plates every month. The huge monthly orders make me a North Duis Every time Count Robert comes to North Duisburg, no matter how busy he is, he will put down what he is doing and spare some time to receive me personally.

In fact, I didn’t come to North Duisburg this time to lower the price to Earl Robert. I simply wanted to add a large order to Earl Robert, but Earl Robert didn’t believe it.

Almost all the seventeen lords who followed the Prince of Wales and wanted to make war fortune ordered a batch of giant crossbow arrows from me.

Yesterday, the Marquis of Haslab came to me at the Royal Academy of Magic and brought me an order agreement for ordinary giant crossbow arrows. I never expected that he would actually find 50 arrows in just three days. An order for [-] giant crossbow arrows.

You know, these are not ordinary steel cluster arrows used by archers, but giant crossbow arrows made of alloy steel doped with black iron. Each giant crossbow arrow can almost be exchanged for eight pots of ordinary steel cluster feather arrows. I don’t know Where did he get these orders, but with so many orders being overwhelmed at once, at least the two magic engraving machines that are currently working day and night in my magic seal workshop need to work non-stop for four months, Only then can all the orders of the Marquis of Haslab be delivered.

I didn't expect that some of these orders in my hand were actually snatched from North Duisburg.

If Earl Robert hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known that I had unknowingly become the fourth largest supplier of giant crossbow arrows in the imperial capital.

Of course, I have always firmly believed that sooner or later, I will become the largest purchaser of giant crossbow arrows in North Duisburg and even the entire imperial capital.

Because these double-attribute giant crossbow arrows are completely piled up with countless failed products, in order to have more magic giant crossbow arrows, at present, the base of magic engraving can only be continuously increased, and the redundant ordinary non-attribute giant crossbow arrows must be Dumping it out, even if the price is a little lower, is better than recasting it in the hand.

For these lords, as long as the quality of the giant crossbow arrow in my hand is good, they don't care much about the pattern on it. The magic pattern engraved on the blade of the giant crossbow arrow can actually make these arrows look more classy .

At present, an average of 25 giant crossbow arrows are engraved to successfully produce a dual-attribute magic arrow. The success rate is only 5.00%. The engraving success rate has increased to [-]%, but I haven't heard them talk about it after so long, I guess they must have encountered some obstacles.

I went to the plane of Hierro last month, and the affairs of the imperial capital were handed over to Aliya. For a whole month, all the arrowheads and rune copper plates in North Duisburg were shipped to Aliya. At home, the rune boards and magic-weave spider silk produced from the Xinliu Valley Magic Seal Workshop were also directly moved to the warehouse in Alia’s new family courtyard. The magic caravan in Isburg just resumed delivery to the rune plate workshop.

The street in front of North Duisburg is always full of traffic, and it is very lively at any time. There are dozens of smaller blacksmith shops on both sides of the blacksmith workshop, and dozens of them form a steel forest here. The billowing thick smoke draws several white ribbons in the space, and the ends of some thick smoke are even joined together by white clouds in the sky.

Earl Robert and manager Goss stood at the gate of the Duisburg blacksmith workshop and waved goodbye to me.

At this time, Chris Andy, the production supervisor of North Duisburg Blacksmith Workshop, hurried to Earl Robert and whispered a few words in his ear.

After hearing this, Earl Robert made an apologetic gesture to me, indicating that there were other matters to be dealt with in the workshop, and he and Goss left in a hurry.

Although I was curious about what happened in the workshop, it was inconvenient to go back, so I could only board the magic caravan with Katerina.

When the caravan was passing the intersection, I happened to see a caravan composed of Thunder Rhinoceros parked on the back street of North Duisburg. The Thunder Rhinoceros was as huge as a hill carrying a load of goods on their backs.

When the magic caravan passed by the intersection of the back street, I asked the coachman to park the caravan on the side of the road, and looked out the car window. I found a group of dwarves standing under the feet of those thunderbolts. Dressed up like a tin can, with a large hammer hanging from his waist.

Don't underestimate these dwarves, they are powerful, hot-tempered, and as stubborn as a donkey, but every dwarf is born to be a master forge and a very good fighter.

Boxes of heavy goods were unloaded from Thunder Rhino's back, and when each box fell to the ground, it would make a dull sound.

When the last wooden box was unloaded from Thunder Rhino's back, the Thunder Rhino let out a long low cry, and seeing the flags flying on the wooden houses on those Thunder Rhino's backs, I recognized that it was the Seventh Grand Prix of the Dwarf Kingdom. The banner of King Stan among the monarchs, there is no doubt that these huge and heavy wooden boxes must also contain fine steel ingots brought from the dwarven world.

Countless blacksmith workshops in the Grimm Empire have been repeatedly researching the composition of these top-quality steel ingots, but it turns out that only the fine steel ingots shipped from the dwarf kingdom are the best. North Duisburg has always been closely related to the dwarf kingdom. King Stan has a very close business relationship, and Earl Robert has been telling me about the full-face armor forged in their workshop, and the steel materials are all shipped from the dwarf kingdom.

Seeing those thunder rhinoceros that seemed to be buried deep in my memory, I suddenly had an urge to climb on the back of the rhinoceros and stay for a while. I pushed the door of the carriage, walked out of the carriage, and stood in the bustling crowd of people. It was as if the world stopped instantly, and time and space reversed around my body, as if I had returned to the time when I was a child living on the back of Thunder Rhinoceros.

Almost three years were spent on the back of Thunder Rhinoceros. At that time, although my body suffered from the fire poison twice a day in the morning and evening, it was the most relaxed and happy period of life for me. On the back of Thunder Rhinoceros, Almost no need to think about what will happen tomorrow, lying on the bed every day, drinking rice porridge, listening to the old Kuru telling how delicious white bread is in the human world, the sun rises from the horizon in the morning, and sets from the mountains in the evening , although I don't know whether I will see the sun in the next morning again every night, but the days are carefree.

At that time, I was not afraid of death like all orc children, and Kurz and Kurz had to try something that they thought was brave every day.

But now?
I didn't even want to tell Kurtz that I was still alive. Every time I thought of that fascinating wilderness, there would be a kind of sourness and a touch of sadness in my heart, which was an extremely bitter taste.

I stood at the intersection and stopped, and Katerina seemed to feel my strangeness standing beside me, and stood shoulder to shoulder with me.

Seeing dozens of thunder rhinoceros crowding the back streets several kilometers long, Katerina smiled and said to me: "I never thought I could see these big guys here in the imperial capital. Do you want to go and have a look?"

I shook my head slightly and said to her, "Let's go, we have to go to Qige's trading house to take a look."

After getting into the magic caravan, Katerina asked, "What happened to the trading house?"

Sitting on the soft leather sofa, I poured myself a glass of golden cider, and after I drank it, I said to Katerina: "Alia told me that there is a large backlog of canned luncheon meat and dried meat floss at the trading company. brick."

"How did this happen?" Katerina asked in surprise, she sat down on the opposite sofa, her ruby-like eyes blinking non-stop.

I said to Katerina: "A manager in charge of sales over there sold the primary magic herbs and corpse fire oil in this batch to the southern lord, probably because the manager felt that if this matter was traced If I come down, I won’t have any good fruit to eat, so I took the employees who participated in the sales and handling that day in the firm to resign.”

"It's the same at the Runeboard Workshop, and it's the same at the trading firm! Don't the managers at the imperial capital have any credibility at all?" Katerina said angrily.

Katrina's words remind me of Nick and Brennan.

Then she couldn't help but I asked, "How much money did they take away?"

I poked the center of my brow lightly with my finger, and said, "Probably they are worried that they will have their lives but not their lives, and there are other employees in the firm, so they didn't take the money for themselves, but each of them should get it." A generous fee was paid, but now the entire business is in a semi-paralyzed state, a large number of newly arrived canned meat and meat floss are waiting to be processed, and a group of new employees will continue to be recruited. I rushed over there to deal with these matters, and I have to show up at this time."

Nick and Brennan took away all the hired craftsmen from the Runeboard Workshop, but they didn't take away any assets from the Runeboard, obviously not wanting to cause trouble for themselves.

At this time, Katerina suddenly thought of Qige, and she complained to me: "It's been so long since Qige arrived in Etiya and there is no news."

Although I was also worried, I believed that there was nothing that Qige could not do well, so I comforted her: "It is estimated that postmen from the two countries never communicate, and the method of sending letters by caravans is really too slow. The letter must be on its way."

Katerina pressed me again: "So what are you going to do with this?"

I twirled the faint stubble on my chin with my hand, and said to Katerina: "This matter can't be settled like this, I want them to take mine back and return it to me, and vomit to me after eating mine." Come out, I don't believe that no one caused this incident, after I catch those behind-the-scenes instigators, I will settle it with them."

"Hey, don't you want to make a big deal out of this? You are considered a person of status in the imperial capital now." Katerina said to me.

I patted my forehead with my hand, then sat up from the soft leather sofa, and said to Katerina: "Yes, I would have forgotten if you didn't tell me, I should go to the logistics department to exchange for some merits that belong to me, Now these black magic crystals should be enough for me to be promoted to the first-class earl, get ready, we will go to the logistics department tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Katerina smiled at me softly.

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Walking into the trading firm, I found that the inside was still in a mess. In the yard behind the firm, there were a lot of canned luncheon meat and meat floss bricks wrapped in oiled paper. Some meat floss bricks were piled up like hills and covered by some thatch Worried about getting wet in the rain.

Although the spring in the imperial capital is very rainless, the warm and humid air from the endless sea blows over. Once it meets the cold air on the snowy tundra in the northern part of the border, extreme convective weather will cause rainfall, and sometimes even some hail For example, although canned luncheon meat is not afraid of rain, once those pig iron cans are exposed to the rain for too long, they will also be covered with rust.

As for the oil paper on the outer layer of the meat floss bricks, it is even less resistant to rainwater immersion.

Aliya and her maid, Betty, stood in the corridor of the backyard entrance. The employees in the firm were moving the goods one by one into the warehouse of the firm. The few employees made the firm look deserted.

The door of the warehouse that was supposed to be full of magic herbs was open, and there were still some primary magic herbs scattered on the ground, and the entire warehouse was empty.

Similarly, a warehouse next door for storing corpse fire oil was also opened, and none of the oil drums containing corpse fire oil could be seen.

Alia saw me walking in with Katerina from the outside, and asked Betty to move out two chairs from the business.

"How's the situation?" Came to Aliya and asked her.

Aliya threw the quill in her hand into the ink bottle, put her white chin on both hands, and said to me with a smile: "It's not as bad as I imagined, and the payment for the goods has been fully accounted for. It's just that the firm needs to add some more. Only human hands will do."

"Have you found out who is making trouble inside?" I asked Betty, the maid beside her.

Betty glanced at Aliya calmly, and shook her head slightly when she saw that Aliya had no expression on her face.

Aliya said to me: "Now you should focus on these backlogs of canned luncheon meat and meat floss bricks. Although these things are easy to store, there are not many vacant warehouses in the business."

Then she said to me: "There is another magic airship coming from the town of Gluding this week that will arrive at the airport town. I have to organize people to prepare for the delivery before the airship arrives."

(End of this chapter)