Warlord: King of All Clans

Leo was frustrated and became angry. He slammed the table and said, "We can't talk! No more!"

Imperial language is different from Chinese, and the people around didn't understand the joke at all. They all thought that Leo was overly emotional and his performance was exaggerated.

Arina Mishe was well prepared. She stayed in Buck Fortress during this time, not like her useless brother, who just ate and waited for death all day long.

In just a few days, she had figured out the details of the Lord of River Bay.

The entire city of Isenbol has become independent from the Earldom of Fruilov and is now the territory of the rising star Leo Mondo.

This kid from the North was extremely lucky. He was noticed by Uliyang, the governor of Hewan, and became her son-in-law. Then he was noticed by the Grand Duke of the North and was adopted as his son.

But he was just a crude civilian warrior, so Isenbol was handed over to another adoptive father, Rigolav, and the nest was left to his wife Olivia.

He spent his days playing with rats and walking dogs, fighting and quarreling, and was completely uneducated and unskilled.

Such a person fits the inherent image of an upstart warlord very well and is also very easy to deal with.

Arina Mishe calmly waved her hand, and four girls from the Western Territory came up. "These are the beautiful girls I present to the Lord. They are all the most beautiful girls in the Western Territory."

At first glance, Leo had to admit that the Talhan family had something special. These four girls from the Western Territory were all very beautiful and had different styles, some with grassland style and some with desert style.

But before Leo could refuse, Olivia, who was sitting next to him, waved her hand and said with a smile: "Thank you, Arina Mishe, for knowing my man's preferences."

As she spoke, she told the maid beside her, "Take it to the room and let Leo sleep with you tonight."

Arina Mishe observed Leo's expression and saw that he was not acting well. She knew that she had not only failed to please the lord, but might have offended the lord's wife.

She couldn't help but look up to Leo. Such a young warlord could actually resist the temptation of beauty. It seemed that he was stronger than she thought.

So she ordered someone to bring up another wooden box.

Arina Mishe opened the wooden box, picked up the black stone inside, and introduced: "This is the burning stone that is abundant in the Tarhan tribe. Although it looks like stone, it can burn and is a good thing for forging iron tools."

Leo was then moved, and he stepped down from the throne, picked up a burning stone in his hand, and looked at it carefully.

This burning stone is black and shiny, like an obsidian crystal, but it is light in the hand.

Isn't this coal?

Leo suppressed his joy, exerted force with his hands, crushed it into powder, and threw it into the brazier. Suddenly, he saw the flames become brighter, and there was a burst of flames, but there was no overly pungent smell.

This is not only coal, but also high-quality coal.

The river bend actually has its own coal, which is the peat in the great swamp.

However, this peat, which can barely be called coal, is difficult to mine, collect and process, and the heat released during combustion is not even as good as the high-quality charcoal produced by the Hewan charcoal kiln.

The current forging workshop in Hewan consumes at least twenty carts of high-quality charcoal every day, which is the entire output of a large charcoal kiln.

A large amount of virgin forests in the western dense forests and the eastern forest sea were cut down, and not all of the collected logs were used to build houses. Seventy percent of them were sent to charcoal kiln workshops and processed into charcoal for metallurgy.

By now, relying solely on charcoal to support Hewan's metallurgical industry is already somewhat stretched and can hardly meet the needs of Hewan's industrial expansion.

The furnace temperature provided by charcoal is limited, and it is impossible to completely liquefy the wrought iron, so it can only smelt low-quality pig iron.

The production of wrought iron ingots and steel ingots has until now only relied on small crucibles and kobold blacksmiths, and it is impossible to ship out large batches of them.

This alone is enough to limit Hewan's iron smelting capacity.

River Bay Territory is now the territory with the most advanced iron smelting technology and the largest output within the jurisdiction of Isenpol, but in Leo's eyes, this production capacity may be even worse than that of the village and town enterprises in his previous life, and the iron smelting technology is extremely primitive.

This is the limitation of the times, and it is not something that can be iterated simply by Leo coming up with a few ideas.

If you want to achieve a technological leap, you either have to find high-quality coal resources, or learn from the Southern Territory Forging Workshop and carve expensive enchantment arrays on the blast furnace to increase the furnace temperature.

What Arina Mishe brought was obviously very high-quality coal, which is essential for increasing steel production.

Leo did not show any joy, but rather found fault with disdain, "You have few trees in the Western Territory, so you can only burn stones and cow dung. We have a vast territory and abundant resources in the Northern Territory, so we don't have anything. The towering trees in the Wolf-Driving Plain are enough for us to burn for a hundred years!"

"Who can burn all these ignited stones? I'll give you a number. Bring at least a hundred carts!"

Arina Mishe's face turned red with anger after hearing what Leo said. Only the common people in the Western Territory burned cow dung, but great nobles like them still had charcoal resources.

The Talhanbek family's specialty, burning stone, was demoted to cow dung by Leo. How could Arina Mishe tolerate this?

She retorted coldly, "You are ignorant and cannot recognize good things. Your vassal staff will tell you."

"With the Burning Stone, your land can produce an additional hundred sets of armor every year!"

She looked around and saw a large group of extraordinary people in Hewan, shaking their heads in disbelief.

No matter whether it is the extraordinary people produced by River Bay, or the Wind Knight and Rose Knight, they all cooperate with Leo and play her here.

Leo laughed in his heart. Arina Mishe felt that one hundred sets of armor were a lot, but in the river bend, a forging workshop could produce one in two months of overtime.

What's more, he couldn't sell all the high-quality plate armor he brought back from the imperial capital, and Hewan had no plans to increase the production of iron armor.

With this production capacity, it would be better to build a few more iron plows.

However, he showed a hint of being convinced, and asked, "Add a hundred pairs? That's great, we can consider getting a few trucks to try."

The iron smelting technology in the West is even more backward than that in the North. The Talhan family, which is one of the ten tribes in the West and four tribes in the grassland, only has one iron mine and two forging workshops, and the ordinary iron armor it produces is not enough for their own use.

High-quality armor is still imported from the north and south.

But their fuel rock production has exceeded their own consumption capacity, and they are now starting to sell it to the outside world.

What Arina Mishe needs to do is to sell the fuel stone to Leo, so that their iron smelting workshop will be inseparable from the fuel stone of the Talhan family.

In this way, not only will the war not break out, but the people in the North will also be controlled by them.

Seeing Leo's interest, Arina Mishe hurriedly said, "A cart of such high-quality burning stones only costs two hundred silver coins, which is more cost-effective than charcoal."

Leo almost laughed out loud, "Send it to the river bend?"

Arina Mishe had a blank expression on her face. "Of course, we'll send it to Fort Buck."

"That's a bit expensive. I'll think about it."

Arina Mishe struck while the iron was hot, "If we continue to be hostile, the Burning Stone trade will be empty talk. Only reconciliation is the prerequisite for trade."

"The Western Territory has more than just Burning Stone as a specialty."

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