Volume 5 Chapter 96 - Exchanging with people (1/2)

It wasn’t just Russell who was complaining that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was dark hearted. In the Lampuri Kingdom that was three thousand kilometers away from where he was talking to Leslie, there were countless people also scolding the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

A week after her majesty Seveni’s child was born, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly announced that to celebrate the birth of her majesty’s child, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be announcing a new type of important technology for the people of the Lampuri Kingdom, treating it as a celebration gift for her majesty.

This news created a stir in the Lampuri Kingdom and also attracted the close attention of the other countries.

Everyone knew that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had technology that far surpassed the other companies when it came to magic machines, so they had the absolute superiority when it came to this domain.

The other companies could invest time and money into development to catch up, but how could their own research compare to how easy it is to receive 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 to them, in the magic machine business, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have everything and they would only be able to drink the soup.

So when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced they would be releasing important technology, it attracted everyone’s attention.

And the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn’t disappoint people. At the Banta City press conference, the technology the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced was at a level that surpassed everyone’s expectations.

This technology was actually steel making technology!

There were many kinds of magic machines, as little as the Magic Lamp to the giant Magic Ships and whether it was their function or performance, they were all different.

But no matter what kind of magic machine it was, they all used one important material which was steel.

Before the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was no steel on the Sines Continent, only iron.

Iron smelting was a technology that had been on the Sines Continent for several thousand years now and the best at this were the dwarves.

But before this, the items made from iron were mainly used for simple daily life things. They weren’t too complicated and the requests weren’t that high.

The only high requirement was when it was used to build weapons and armours.

Although there were some powerful smiths who had a high level of blacksmithing skills, before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there wasn’t anyone who smelted iron on such a large scale, having such diverse and strict requirements for when refining iron.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce even defined the iron refined as steel products and had even distinguished them based on their properties and uses.

If this was before, iron smelting was just a demonstration of a single person’s skill. After the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, iron smelting…..Oh, no, it was now called steel smelting had become a business that had fine requirements and scales that were countless times bigger than before.

After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s first steel factory came out, it had beaten all the large and small blacksmiths in Banta City.

Then when the second, the third, and now the sixth steel factory came out, producing over a million tons of steel each month, it was a large hit to all the blacksmiths in the Lampuri Kingdom.

Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn’t have the idea to take their business, this didn’t hinder the other companies from doing this.

The normal blacksmiths mainly worked with simply iron tools and occasionally crafted weapons and armours, but with the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they had turned making weapons and armours into production line work. Whether it was their efficiency or the quality of the weapons and armours they made, they were all better than the blacksmiths and had taken their business.

Next, the other companies quickly found a business idea. They ordered some production magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce before ordering some materials from them, making normal iron tools like shovels and hoes with steel, gradually crushing normal blacksmiths.

In the Lampuri Kingdom, other than some very remote small towns, there wasn’t a single blacksmith left.

The dwarves that had the best skills had all been taken by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, becoming their workers.

The reason for this was very simple, the key to steel making was still with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s steel was far better than the iron made in blacksmiths, with all kinds of different properties which allowed it to meet various needs.

The most popular of this were the alloys with stainless steel qualities.

Other that being largely used in household magic machines, these stainless steel alloys were being used in common tools, so there was a large demand.

The six steel mills under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced a million tons of steel a month, but that wasn’t enough to meet the needs.

Actually, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s production capacity was limited in large part because of their restricted steel output.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce never had enough steel for themselves to use, so the supply that they could take out for other companies naturally wasn’t much.

So the limited steel output of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce affected not just them, but also all the magic machine companies and even companies that had nothing to do with magic machines, but still used steel.