It's early winter.

There is no way to farm anymore.

Roman thought it was okay.

Farming is the foundation of development, not all of development.

This means that farmers who farm the land can go to other jobs.

The only drawback is that commercial trade has begun to shrink again.

Because Roman has made a name for himself this year, some businessmen are still willing to do business with Roman in winter.

At this time, the fabric merchant Albert came over.

"You really opened my eyes." Albert said, looking at the thorny iron ring flying above the pier.

"oh?"

"I heard that the army of a mysterious 'King of the Vale' defeated the Broken Archers of the Crack Armor family in Bucks Heights just to rescue a merchant."

"I am the king of the valley."

Roman was sitting on the chair. He leaned on the back of the chair, crossed his legs, crossed his fingers and put them on his abdomen, with a calm expression.

He doesn't care about outside opinions.

If you dare to come over, I'll give you two punches!

"That's really..." Albert didn't know what to say.

Are the rebels so confident?

The flags have been changed!

This is so determined!

He naturally knew Roman's last name when he did business last time. This last name equals credibility, and the Dark Iron Duke's credibility is ridiculously high.

But now it's gone bad.

Who will supply his five shipments of textile raw materials?

"That……"

"Too little," Roman said.

"ah?"

"You brought too little!"

When Albert heard this, he immediately showed his signature business smile: "This is 20,000 kilograms of wool, as well as a large amount of flax, nettles, and cotton that I have painstakingly purchased. It is enough to sew a suit for 20,000 people." clothes."

The King of the River Valley said calmly: "They are just raw materials and will shrink."

"Otherwise I wouldn't be able to get so many."

"Well, what you said makes sense... After all, merchant, what do you want from me? I have no money now, so don't expect me to pay you gold coins."

“Iron is produced here?”

"Oh? Yes, how much do you want?"

"How much do you think these wools are worth?" Albert raised the ball to Roman.

But Roman didn't like haggling, "Then let's just pay the previous market price."

Albert immediately panicked, "No, no, no, you said, give me three times the price."

"Let's be honest, how much do you want?" Roman continued to ask.

If sold in bulk, it costs 1 copper coin and two pounds of wool.

For ranch wholesale, one copper coin is equivalent to three pounds of wool - the output is too large and cannot be sold through wholesale sales, so you have to contact merchants, so the price is naturally low.

One gold coin is equivalent to three hundred pounds of wool.

The market price is that three hundred pounds of wool can be exchanged for thirty to fifty pounds of iron ingots.

To raise sheep on a large scale, all you need is pasture, and wool and mutton can be harvested in the fall.

In other words, wool is grown from the ground and is a business without capital.

But that's not the case with steel. Making iron involves too much manpower and material resources, and the steps are complicated.

Technology, population, economy, system... these are all conditions that limit production.

The people on this land are basically half nomads.

Iron deficiency!

And it’s severely lacking!

Two thousand tons will be produced this year, and one thousand and five tons will be worn out this year.

Rounding off equals stagnation.

It is too difficult to accumulate steel.

The correct way is to let some farmers stop farming and make iron, expand steel production, obtain more iron farm tools, and feed back agriculture to form a virtuous cycle.

The only criterion for measuring social development is technological progress!

Running in circles is tantamount to taking steps backward.

Of course, social experience is always accumulating, and sooner or later it will accumulate.

Although Roman can't see the shadow of developing technology in this stagnant society, being invisible doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

The dead surface contains the seeds of change, which may sprout dozens or hundreds of years later.

It's just that he didn't have time to wait.

Violently step on the accelerator!

accelerate!

Accelerate hard!

Nobles used to be able to scrape together a living.

After all, iron deficiency means iron deficiency, which does not affect their quality of life.

But now it is clear that a war is about to begin, and the major nobles are competing in arms. But where can such strategic materials be purchased now?

Earl Al of the Iron Tree Territory directly stopped the steel trade.

"I want fifteen thousand catties of iron ingots." Albert said hurriedly.

Roman pondered for a moment.

Steel is a strategic material. Without technological differences, it is equal to the arms itself.

In other words, these arms sold by Roman may one day be used to attack the City of Origin.

Fifteen thousand kilograms is equal to fifteen thousand spears, seven thousand swords, and two hundred and fifty pieces of full-body plate armor that can arm knights in battle.

In this day and age, it's a big deal anyway.

"Too many," Roman shook his head. "Businessman, you have to know that the prices of your wool and linen are rising, and so are the prices of my steel."

To be specific, the price has risen more sharply than wool.

Albert looked embarrassed and said with the last glimmer of hope: "I also brought you many seeds of crops."

Roman's heart moved, "What are they?"

"Grape seeds from the rose collar, you should have heard of the delicious rose wine, which is of excellent quality, sweet and sour. There are also cotton, rice, beets, leeks, sugar cane, cabbage, melons from the land of platinum... …”

When Roman heard him talk about the characteristics of those crops, his expression gradually became subtle.

He interrupted his description: "Okay, I'll give you 10,000 kilograms of steel, but I have a condition, you have to collect more crop seeds for me,"

"Isn't it enough that I brought several thousand kilograms of seeds? That can fill half of the ship."

"Not enough!" Roman stood up and said.

After the deal was concluded, the dock workers unloaded the merchant ship's cargo and moved 10,000 kilograms of iron ingots onto the ship.

For Roman, it was only ten days of steel production.

The steel in stock was more than ten times this, and some were even rusty. At this stage, there was no need to use so much.

Albert was stunned.

He didn't wait and took the batch of iron ingots directly-his worst plan was to take all the iron ingots away in the spring of next year.

After all, everyone knows that iron smelting is not easy.

Damn, how much iron ingot reserves does Origin City have?

He left confused.

Roman opened the wooden boxes with shining eyes, reached out to pick up the seeds of the crops, and the more he looked, the more satisfied he was, and he couldn't help but lightly punched.

He called Barlow, the agricultural manager. "Be sure to preserve them!"

"Yes, sir." The steward said respectfully.

After Roman told Barlow how to better preserve those seeds, especially rice seeds and sugarcane, he began to regret that Albert came late.

Autumn is over.

Otherwise, he could directly try whether this basin can grow sugarcane.

So angry!

Roman turned his grief and anger into motivation and continued to develop the Origin City.

First, recruit a large number of textile workers, expand the area of ​​the textile factory, quickly process those textile raw materials, and prepare winter clothing benefits.

Secondly, the warehouse has just received more than one million kilograms of soybeans.

There is no reason to leave it alone, just take it and use it.

As for the destination of this batch of soybeans, Roman has already planned it.

First, take 300,000 kilograms of soybeans to press oil.

Then take another one million kilograms of soybeans to make tofu.

In the past, there was no manpower, so we had to save some money and leave some room for everything.

Now there are so many laborers.

What's the point of saving now!

There is enough horsepower, step on the accelerator! Violently blast over!

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