Only by building, accumulating, and growing can we maximize efficiency.
Of course, this is just Xia Duo's current estimate. As the construction period progresses, he may have some new ideas and may increase expenditures.
After all, he built the first floating city more for experimental purposes, and it was definitely impossible to build it perfectly all at once.
In addition, there are different ways of doing things if you have more money or less money.
Obviously, if all the places where standard mithril can be used can be replaced with high-grade mithril, it will undoubtedly make the performance of the floating city even better.
According to Xia Duo's current estimate, if it is standard mithril, it will cost at least one hundred thousand pounds. But if it is high-grade mithril, the quantity may be less, but the price may be several times higher.
Although Xia Duo has now mastered the technology of refining high-grade mithril, he has never thought of using all high-grade mithril for construction.
He only plans to use high-grade mithril at some key nodes where energy flows at high frequencies, thereby reducing the rate of elemental transmutation reactions.
…
Soon, Xia Duo, accompanied by Lord Leisen, visited the three-furnace workshop. The finished product produced by this workshop was not standard Mithril, but [Silver Mithril] agglomerates.
Although Lord Leisen did not say anything about the subsequent refining process, Shado was also someone who bought the Nese version of mithril refining technology from Severdon. He knew very well that that step could be done in the mage tower, and that would be the best way to do it.
More secure.
In fact, even ordinary mithril mines can be refined by Shado in the mage tower.
He obtained [Element Extraction] from the projection plane, which can be used to refine high-grade mithril. Naturally, he can also refine standard mithril. However, if you use this method to refine mithril, the lower the purity of the sample, the greater the intermediate loss.
If you directly use ore to refine it, you may not be able to make ends meet.
On the contrary, it is not as cost-effective as just using it to refine high-grade mithril. Of course, if it is only used for emergencies, it is still very good.
…
After leaving the smelting workshop, Shaduo and Leisen led them back to the mage tower, where Shaduo formally proposed to each other an offer to purchase standard mithril.
"I wonder how much Lord Xia Duo is planning to purchase?"
"About 200,000 pounds!"
"so much?!"
Lord Leisen's eyes widened immediately. He did have reservations about the monthly output of 500 pounds that he and Lord Shado just said, but he definitely would not be able to easily take such a large order.
If we only calculate based on the current production capacity, this will simply cover all the production in the next two decades!
Lord Leisen seemed to agree, but he still shook his head firmly, "Lord Shado, it's not that I don't want to accept such an order, but it's just that I can't do anything. Even if all the mithril mines in Leisen territory are mined, it won't be possible.
It can smelt 200,000 pounds of standard mithril. If the quantity is smaller, Leisen Territory still has some accumulation, but if it is this much-"
"Lord Leisen, don't be too busy to refuse. This amount certainly doesn't require you to take it out at once. Even if you can take it out at once, I can't afford the 200,000 pounds of standard mithril. You can treat him as a
Long-term order.”
The sudden quotation of 200,000 pounds of standard mithril was of course not a casual comment by Chateau, but the result of careful consideration.
Leisen has the potential to become a major mithril smelting company. As Xiaduo will be a major consumer of mithril in the future, it is naturally necessary to cultivate its own upstream resource suppliers.
Providing stable orders is undoubtedly a way of training.
Before coming here, he originally thought that an order of ten or twenty thousand would be enough, and the rest could be handed over to the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce or other territories that produce standard mithril.
But after arriving in Leisen Territory, he noticed that Leisen Territory had begun to purchase foreign mithril ore, opening up the path of resource integration. In this case, it would be better to deepen cooperation.
After all, Sha Duo and Cliff, the great arcanist behind the Leisen Territory, have a close friendship, and it is basically certain that Cliff, as a believer in the Lord of Glory, will at least not become his enemy in the future.
Of course, if Shado becomes the enemy of the Lord of Glory, then Cliff may stand on his opposite side.
This situation is certainly possible. After all, he argued with the Lord of Glory at Midsummer's Day last year, which resulted in Leiden's divine favor being withdrawn.
The biggest ideological difference between Chateau and the Lord of Glory is whether the spirit of legislation is needed. Chateau's view is of course that it is.
As for the Lord of Glory, although he didn't say whether he wanted it or not, judging from the doctrines recognized by the other party, he obviously didn't think it was necessary.
However, this conceptual difference does not involve the core essence of the Lord of Glory, and can even be understood as a positive extension of the concept of the Lord of Glory.
As long as the other party is not short-sighted, it is basically unlikely to be an enemy. At most, it will just not respond to the call of perception from people related to Xia Duo.
Judging from the fact that the Holy Light sculpture of the Codex in the Territory Square is still there, at least it has not developed to that point yet.
As for the future, we can only take one step at a time. Anyway, there is little chance of hostility.
Now, Shado can rest assured to cooperate with Lord Leisen in Cliff's camp.
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For such a long-term order, there is no doubt that Lord Leisen will not refuse. He produces so much mithril that he cannot use it just for his own use. If he does not sell it to others, should he keep it for laying eggs?
The only problem now is the purchase price.
However, before discussing the price, Xia Duo took out a measuring instrument using the Daxia Standard Weights and Measures. This instrument was of course unencrypted, in order to facilitate other mages to learn relevant measuring spells for the purpose of promotion.
"Lord Leisen, if possible, I would like our transactions to be calculated using the measurement standards of the Tower of Time."
"The measurement standard of the Tower of Time?"
Lord Leisen glanced at the magic item that Xia Duo put on the table. He had lost his ability to cast spells, and his magical vision could not continue to exist. However, in the mage tower, he could still make some simple judgments with the help of the mage tower.
of.
He could see that the magic item should be a measuring instrument, which was no problem, but he still had doubts about whether to accept the standards of the Tower of Time.
After all, if Cliff's camp doesn't use the glorious standard, it would really be a bit unreasonable.
Xia Duo saw Lord Leisen's embarrassment, but did not persist. Instead, he put away the measuring instrument, "If Lord Leisen is in trouble, just pretend I didn't mention it."
In fact, he believed that the high degree of orderliness and logic of weights and measures based on the Bactrian Standard would be more likely to be favored by the Lord of Glory, and he planned to have Leiden "offer" it on Midsummer Festival this year.
The Lord of Radiance may not care about the spirit of legislation, but he cares about the law itself. Weights and measures are undoubtedly law and order, and they are obviously superior to the Radiant Standard.
Shado speculated that even if the Lord of Radiance did not send an oracle to change the standards of weights and measures, he would at least allow the priests to perceive the tacit permission.
In this way, it may not be difficult for Leisen to accept it.
When the time comes, those organizations, forces, and camps that do not believe in the Lord of Glory may choose to resist Daxia's standards for various reasons.
Gains and losses sometimes reverse back and forth.