It wasn't just Russell who was cursing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in his heart. In the Lampuri Kingdom that was three thousand kilometers away from him and Leslie, there were countless people who were cursing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in their hearts.
A week after the news of her majesty Seveni's child being born came out, New Flyer suddenly announced that in order to celebrate the birth of her majesty's child, New Flyer would be releasing an important piece of technology in the Lampari Kingdom as a gift to her majesty.
This news created a stir in the Lampari Kingdom and attracted the attention of the surrounding countries.
Everyone knew that New Flyer had technology that surpassed all the other magic machine companies in terms of magic machines, which allowed them to take the lead in this field.
The other companies could invest in research and development to catch up, but how could their own research compare to directly obtaining the mature technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?
If it wasn't for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce taking the initiative to transfer the household magic machine technology, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would still be the only company in the magic machine industry and the others would only be able to drink soup.
So when New Flyer announced another important piece of technology, it naturally attracted everyone's attention.
And New Flyer didn't disappoint people. At the press conference in Banta City, the technology that New Flyer announced was so important that it surpassed everyone's expectations.
This technology was actually steel making technology!
There were many kinds of magic machines, from the small Magic Lamp to the large transport Magic Ship that New Flyer had developed half a year ago. Whether it was their function, performance, or structure, they were all different.
But no matter what kind of magic machine it was, it would definitely use an important material, which was steel.
Before New Flyer appeared, Sines didn't have the word steel, there was only iron.
Iron making was a technology that had been passed down for thousands of years in Sines and the dwarves were the best at this.
But before this, iron making was mostly used to make simple iron tools for daily life. It wasn't complicated and the requirements weren't high.
The only thing that had a slightly higher requirement was for it to be used to forge weapons and armor.
Although there were famous blacksmiths who made powerful weapons and armours, using the iron refining technology to a very high level, before the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there had never been anyone who could refine iron on such a large scale. Moreover, there were strict requirements for the refined iron.
New Flyer even redefined the iron as steel. It even used different words to differentiate the different properties and uses of the different metals.
In the past, smelting iron was just a demonstration of the craftsmen's individual skills. But after the New Flyer appeared, smelting iron … no, it was now called smelting steel. It had become a completely industrial product with extremely precise requirements and a much larger scale.
After the New Flyer's first steel mill appeared, it almost completely destroyed all the blacksmiths in Banta City.
When the New Flyer's second, third, and now sixth steel mill was finished, producing close to a million tons of steel a month, all the blacksmiths in the Lampari Kingdom were seriously impacted.
Even if the New Flyer didn't have the idea of stealing the business of the normal blacksmiths, this didn't stop the other companies from doing the same.
The normal blacksmiths' main job was to make simple daily iron tools and occasionally make weapons and armors. But with the appearance of the New Flyer, it turned the production of weapons and armors into an assembly line. Whether it was efficiency or craftsmanship, the weapons and armors made surpassed the weapons and armors made by the blacksmiths, so they directly squeezed out a part of the business.
Next, there were several companies that found business opportunities and specially ordered a batch of production magic machines from the New Flyer. They used the steel produced by the New Flyer to make daily iron tools like shovels and spades, gradually squeezing out the business of the blacksmiths.
In the current Lampari Kingdom, other than some remote small towns, there wasn't a single old blacksmith shop left.
The dwarven blacksmiths that made a living in the Lampari Kingdom had all been taken away by the New Flyer, becoming workers for the New Flyer.
The reason for this was very simple, the key was the steel made by the New Flyer.
The steel made by the New Flyer far surpassed the pig iron made by normal blacksmiths. Moreover, there were many different kinds of steel that could satisfy all kinds of needs.
Among them, the most popular were various kinds of steel with stainless steel quality.
Other than being used in large amounts in household magic machines, the stainless steel was also used in many daily steel products, so there was a large demand for them.
The six steel mills under the New Flyer produced close to a million tons of steel each month, but it was far from being able to satisfy the demand.
Actually, the New Flyer's production was limited, a large part of it was because of the limited production of steel.
The New Flyer didn't have enough steel to supply itself, so the steel that it could supply to other companies naturally wasn't much either.
As a result, apart from the New Flyer, almost all the other companies related to magic machines were limited by the New Flyer's steel production. There were even many companies that had nothing to do with magic machines, but were related to steel products.
Therefore, when the New Flyer announced its steel making technology, it instantly ignited everyone's enthusiasm.
The New Flyer was finally willing to hand over its unique steel making technology. Didn't this mean that everyone could make the steel they needed, and they didn't need to beg the New Flyer to give them more steel?
Of course, everyone was very clear that since the New Flyer was willing to announce such an important technology, the price that others had to pay would be extremely high as well.
However, when the New Flyer announced the price that they had to pay to obtain the technology from the New Flyer, everyone was still shocked speechless.
This time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn't want money or minerals, they wanted people!
They didn't want ordinary people, but slaves!
In other words, they wanted to obtain the New Flyer's steel making technology?
No problem, they could exchange it with slaves.
The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a set of rules for the exchange of slaves. They had to be over sixteen and under forty, as well as having a healthy body and not having any disabilities to be considered a complete slave. As for those outside this range, they could only be considered half a slave.
However, the New Flyer also had an even more strange rule, and that was if they were willing to hand over a complete family of slaves, the exchange rate would be increased to a certain extent.
Everyone didn't understand the New Flyer's intentions, but everyone clearly felt the New Flyer's malice from the New Flyer's price.
Motherf * cker, a C803 model steel refining technique actually requires a thousand slaves!
It had to be known that a healthy adult slave could be sold for at least fifty gold coins in the slave market.
Three thousand such slaves would be a total of fifty thousand gold coins!
And such a high price was only in exchange for the refining technology of a single type of steel.
Currently, the New Flyer announced a total of seventy-eight types of steel!
Even if every type was sold at the same price, the total value would be close to four million gold coins!
And if they were all exchanged with slaves, they would need a terrifying eighty thousand slaves!
Moreover, the New Flyer wasn't limited to just one company. In other words, if there were many people who needed this steel making technology, they would have to pay far more than eighty thousand slaves.
While everyone was puzzled as to why the New Flyer would propose such an exchange, they were also puzzled by another matter.
Xu Yi had taken the initiative to propose the abolition of slavery in the Principality of Constantine, and it had even been passed.
Now that the New Flyer had obtained so many slaves, if they were to bring them back to the Principality of Constantine, wouldn't they have to turn them into commoners?
In theory, these slaves would no longer belong to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which meant that the New Flyer would have to treat them like commoners. If they wanted to work for the New Flyer, they would have to pay them extra.
Looking at it like this, the New Flyer was doing something unnecessary.
The only result of doing this was helping the slaves regain their freedom. What benefits did the New Flyer have?
This Chairman Xu, it can't be that he really thought of himself as a saint like the newspapers said, right?
Of course, no matter how doubtful others were of the New Flyer's actions, it was a fact that the New Flyer wanted to transfer the steel making technology.
It didn't take long before countless people began to move.
On the second day of the New Flyer's press conference, the « Banta Times » reported a related transaction.
A lord in the northeast province of the Lampari Kingdom used three thousand six hundred and fifty three slaves under his name to exchange for the technology to refine three kinds of steel from the New Flyer.
In the following half a month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce made six more deals and obtained fifteen thousand and three hundred slaves from these six deals.
Adding in the first transaction, the New Flyer had close to twenty thousand slaves in half a month.
Everyone's eyes were focused on these slaves, wanting to see how the New Flyer would deal with these slaves. Would Xu Yi give these slaves their freedom like a saint?
However, the reports of these slaves in the newspapers stopped after they were sent to the Black Rice Wasteland. They passed through the Black Rice Harbour to the west of the Black Rice Wasteland and boarded the large transport Magic Ship of the New Flyer.
The Frestech Chamber of Commerce's large transport Magic Ship disappeared on the endless seas and these slaves had disappeared without a trace, not leaving a single trace.