Black Iron Crown

Listening to Reiner's high-sounding words, Sir Horn's face couldn't help but twitch, but he was not worried. The northern border not only produced iron ore with the other party, but if his asking price was too high, he believed that other loyal The royal lords were also happy to sell steel.

"Five gold coins per ton, Baron Rainer, I believe this is much higher than your previous prices!"

Sir Horn gave a price that he thought was more appropriate, five gold coins per ton. Although this was much higher than the normal purchase price in the northern border, it was nothing in the empire.

To build a set of full-body chain armor, even counting the wear and tear, at most 50 kilograms of steel can be used, and a meal is 1,000 kilograms, which can make 20 sets of armor. The price of 20 sets of armor is naturally the price in the mainland of the empire. It doesn't need much, don't even think about it without one hundred and fifty gold coins.

And if the raw material steel is purchased directly, the price will be much lower.

Hearing this, Reiner showed a bitter expression and said: "Sir Horn, please measure me! I just suffered such a big loss. I can't even recover the capital at your price! The salary is more than that, I don't think this price is appropriate!"

Sir Horn did not believe what Reiner said at all. He was not one of those idiots in the empire who had only been enshrined as nobles in recent years, put on heavy makeup and put on a pose, and lingered in the flower banquets and couldn't help themselves.

He is a traditional aristocrat, his father is a royalist earl, although the family strength is not yet ranked, but it is also a relatively important supporter of the royal family, because he is not the heir of the family, he joined the royal family's personal guard to make a living.

He was canonized as a knight by His Majesty the Emperor by virtue of the martial arts practiced in the family. It is precisely because his family also has a territory, so he knows the price of manpower very well.

Perhaps Reiner will give these miners some salaries, but they will definitely not be too high. What's more, it is reasonable to let them work for themselves for free.

He knew that this was just an excuse for Leiner, all for the purpose of increasing the price of steel.

He chuckled in his heart, but there was no smile on the surface: "I understand you too, Baron Reiner, but the situation of the royal family is also very urgent now! The lords everywhere are staring at each other, and even sporadic rebellions have appeared Already!"

"Take it for the royal family! Six gold coins per ton! After all, you are also a descendant of Moreland!" Sir Horn persuaded earnestly.

"Ten pieces! As long as I have ten pieces, I will buy you steel! You know, I have a lot of steel, and I am the only lord who can give you such a large amount of steel in the entire northern border!" Lena pondered for a while Fan, with a struggling expression on his face, Shi said in a heartache tone.

Sir Horn was a little speechless. This is clearly asking for a lot of money to pay back the money! And his expression, it's not much different from the movie king.

"This is too much, Baron Rainer, the royal family can't afford it! After all, the royal family still has the army and a lot of other expenses, so it's pretty good to give you such a price!"

Reiner didn't speak, but looked at Sir Horn coldly, making him fidget.

In the end, he finally gave in: "Well, Baron Rainer, you won, you are really a shrewd man! Seven gold coins, if this is already the highest price of steel, if it is higher, I don't need to buy it Now, I may need to talk to other lords by then!"

It's not that Sir Horne doesn't want to find someone else, but after all, Leiner has more steel production and storage in the entire northern border, and three of the five territories have iron ore. From this, we can see what kind of future he will have. storage capacity.

The other lords who will sell steel to the imperial family are small lords, and the steel production and storage capacity are bound to be small, and the lords of Earl Zhebo will certainly not sell steel to him, so he would rather buy it at a higher price. Na's steel is not willing to buy other people's.

He communicated with other lords before that he wanted to buy steel,

It is purely to use such a move to suppress the price on Reiner, to let him know that he is not the only choice.

But obviously, this approach was not very successful.

Hearing this, Leiner nodded helplessly. Seven gold coins are not unacceptable. The three iron mines on his territory can produce about 30 tons of steel every year under the excavation of the miners. Now The sales used to be 270 gold coins per year.

This is a lot of stable income. Although I made a lot of money selling armor before, it is still a one-shot sale after all, not as stable as here.

The gap between the rich and the poor exists at any time. A mere 20 gold coins may force the lord to sell his territory, but for some big businessmen and big lords in the interior, the monthly expenditure may be only this amount.

Reiner hated this kind of difference between the rich and the poor. The reason is very simple, because he is one of the poor people. His thoughts are easy to explain, just two words, hate the rich!

After reaching an agreement, Sir Horn took Feder out of the room. During this period, only Reiner and Horn were talking, and the others were silent.

He glanced at the people around him with a smile, and after looking at each other for a while, everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter. The wealth of the territory is still very happy, which means that it will become stronger and stronger in the future.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the study.

"Bang, bang bang"

There were three very polite knocks on the door, followed by Logan's voice: "Master Baron! Can I go in now? I have something very important to report to you!"

Logan is a very measured person. Not only is he very considerate in his work, but he can also find no faults in his conduct and etiquette. This can be seen from the very standard knock on the door.

Reiner frowned slightly, and thought to himself: "Could it be that something happened in the past few days?"

Thinking in his heart, but his mouth was not idle, he said to Logan outside the door: "Come in!"

Logan walked into the room, and saw that his brows were tightly frowned, and his slightly yellow eyebrows were almost squeezed together, looking very distorted.

"What happened? Logan?" Reiner asked curiously.

"It's such a baron!" Logan opened the parchment in his hand, glanced at it and handed it to Reiner and said, "On the third day after you left, a group of robbers from the east entered your territory !"

"They do all kinds of evil, but the number is not large. They will leave after robbing the food of the villagers in some villages, and will not harm the villagers."

"Because the castle is empty of troops, I asked Madam for instructions and chose to ignore it for the time being. I will wait until you come back, Lord Baron. But just now, I received another report that they plundered a village again and took two A little lamb! The villagers who were robbed have already come outside the castle, and they hope to get the protection of the baron and get those two lambs back!"