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Commander Xin and the two Elders he trusted most were planning to capture Niu Wei, but Niu Wei himself knew nothing about it. He was even still wondering when Commander Xin would agree to Luo Chong's invitation to visit the Han Tribe. The man had already been blinded by the desire for quick success and immediate gains. He was desperate to prove his worth to Luo Chong.

Meanwhile, Luo Chong had run into some trouble on the Han Tribe's side. It was not particularly serious, but neither was it minor, because someone had suddenly sent word that the Han Tribe had more iron than it could use up.

There was actually so much iron that they could not use it all? That was simply absurd. All Luo Chong could feel was just how weak the Han Tribe really was. After all, even in the highly developed era of his previous life, when its annual steel output ranked first in the world, no one had ever said there was more than they could use.

The fundamental reason was not that the Han Tribe's iron-smelting industry was especially advanced, but that its population was too small. With only a little over a hundred thousand people in total, even if everyone wore iron armor, how much iron could they possibly use?

Thus, having more iron than they could use only proved that the Han Tribe had too few people, not that it was especially powerful.

So, should they continue producing it? If they stopped, what would the people of Xingang Commandery do? The coal in Dongxin Commandery could certainly continue to be mined. It would not hurt to stockpile more coal. And even if Xingang Commandery stopped smelting steel, Kaiyuan Commandery on the grasslands would still be a major consumer of coal.

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