my magic industry

Chapter 235 Coal and Iron United Company
His Excellency the Grand Duke Ravens of the southern border showed a strong interest in cooperation in the rubber industry. The main reason is that the scale of economic cooperation proposed by Xia Lin to Queen Dorothea is too large, and the benefits contained in it can be regarded as one. Dagong Jing couldn't ignore it either.

In the first stage, Xia Lin's New Leaf Chamber of Commerce wants to cooperate with many noble chambers of commerce in the southern border to purchase a total of 3 tons of raw rubber at a price of [-] gold lunettes per ton. Considering the distance and traffic conditions between the central border and the southern border , it only needs to complete the delivery in batches within two months.

Grand Duke Ravens, who didn't know much about the metric units that appeared in Helgana recently, was quite disdainful of this number until he understood the conversion between metric units and the old imperial units, knowing that 18 tons is equivalent to [-] pounds After the concept, they realized the huge profits this business could bring to their Ronald family.

The southern mountains, hills, and swamps are densely covered, and the environment is closed. There is no shortage of everything, but there is no shortage of rubber trees all over the mountains and plains. These rubber trees used to be harvested by natives. One person can harvest [-] pounds of raw rubber in a day. , the price of three gold lundes per ton is almost ten copper pes per pound, which means that a person can earn an astonishing income of six thousand copper pes in one day.

Of course, this profit belongs to the Ronald family. Although I don't know what the newly enthroned queen needs these useless raw rubber, but facing this profit, at least [-] gold lends can be netted. Grand Duke Ravens agreed to the cooperation plan without hesitation, even without accepting the deposit.

Anyway, for the Ronald family, mobilizing some slaves to harvest a mere [-] tons of raw rubber is just a matter of convenience. If the first phase of the order is successfully completed, the Queen will increase the purchase share of raw rubber according to the agreement. Grand Duke Vince decided to accept the Queen's proposal to establish a rubber plantation in the southern border, striving to increase a revenue channel for the Ronald family.

Xia Lin's level is not enough to blend in this matter, so she can only use Her Majesty's tiger skin to slowly lay out the layout. If this rubber raw material supply channel can be successfully established, it will not be too difficult for Queen Dorothea's current predicament. will help.

Another thing is that the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce and the Harrison Chamber of Commerce cooperated in the sale of glassware. Empress Dorothea took the lead, and with Xia Lin's own reputation accumulated in the business alliance, Viscount George Harrison readily agreed to this. However, for the specific details, he proposed to have an interview with Xia Lin.

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 development direction of the Chamber of Commerce and the industrial park. Except for some major issues, he basically delegated things to He didn't pay too much attention to the cooperation with the Harrison family. Anyway, glass, a new thing with high quality and low price, must be able to occupy a commensurate position in the market.

However, since Viscount George sincerely invited him, Xia Lin also went to the caustic soda factory to check the progress of the current glass production R&D team, and planned to choose a batch of glassware with better quality as a gift for his partner.

The quality of the new batch of glass produced by the glass production research and development team really satisfied Xia Lin. After changing the shape of the glass crucible, a crucible lid with a small hole was added to allow the stirring rod to burn during the firing process. After stirring the molten glass slurry to remove air bubbles, the glass production R&D team has even been able to produce some small glassware without 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 a few large containers of the same quality. These containers were carefully stored in wooden cabinets specially customized for the machining factory, and the gaps were filled with straw and old newspapers. , expecting to take credit for Xia Lin with these high-quality products.

And Xia Lin was really satisfied after seeing these glassware that were already of good quality, and he promised the glass production and R&D team a bonus of ten silver mars without hesitation.

With such a small piece of colorless and transparent glass, Xia Lin asked the clock research and development project team of the R&D center to form an optical team with only five gemstone craftsmen, and asked them to try to use these better-quality glass pieces first. Grinding some convex lenses and concave lenses out of a piece of glass, I brought these utensils to the estate of the Harrison family in the East End.

After some discussions, Viscount George Harrison soon realized the significance of glass, a new type of material that can be customized into containers of various specifications. The two parties finalized the basic form of cooperation. Qianjin Lunte exchanged for [-]% of the shares of the glass factory to be built, and the remaining details were naturally left to his subordinates to handle.

Xia Lin declined Viscount George's gracious dinner invitation, and accompanied by Faith Louise came to the Brook family's manor non-stop. The upcoming meeting for the formation of the Imperial Capital Coal and Iron Company will be Xia Lin. The highlight of attention.

In the business alliance, there are quite a few families that operate mines. The Brooke family that Xia Lin had contacted before due to the issue of newspaper sources is one of the best. They own several large mines with rich reserves in the Blue Lake Mountains and more Chinese mines. Small mines, which is why the formation meeting of the United Coal and Iron Company was chosen to be held in the estate of the Brook family.

Xia Lin has dealt with this family more than once. A long time ago, when he went to the slave market to buy three slaves, Wyatt, Long and Zu, the slave trade association named Brook was one of the properties of the Brook family. According to Lin's understanding of the Brook family, the slave trade can even be regarded as the pillar industry of the Brook family.

Through the slave trade to provide cheap and sufficient human resources for their own mines, the Brook 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. Even The royal family, which controlled countless properties, also lost a little bit. It was not until the Barlow family took the wrong team in the previous struggle and all the family properties were taken back to the royal family that the Brook family lost its status as the leader.

Seeing the invited representatives of chambers of commerce and aristocratic families arrive and take their seats one by one, they were all present soon. Xia Lin got up and clapped her hands, and the resplendent and elegantly decorated reception room of the Brook family fell silent.

"I'm Charlene Karl, and we are all old acquaintances now, so I won't say much about redundant self-introduction.

Today, the purpose of entrusting Her Majesty the Queen to convene everyone is very simple. It is to continue to strengthen our side. Although we have won the previous struggle, the remnants of the conservatives have not been completely wiped out.

Even now, in the city of Robin, which is less than [-] kilometers away from Helgana, there is a rebel army that makes us sleepless and sleepy. They are trying to rush to the city of Helgana to wipe us out and restore their rule. "

"Viscount Xia Lin, we all know about this matter. All the people sitting here are loyal subjects of Her Majesty the Empress. Please just tell us what we need to do for Her Majesty the Empress!"

asked a baron straight to the point.

"Well, I believe you have heard some rumors that the new army will soon expand its army and prepare for war. In less than three weeks, it will launch a crusade against the rebels organized near Robin City. During this process, we will need a large number of steel, but the market in Helgana is no longer sufficient to provide so much raw material.”

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

(End of this chapter)