"One million gold coins?" Count Samo snorted heavily. "That Sampson! Last time I approached him about renovating Sewell City, I wanted him to take the lead and put some money into the project. He made every excuse imaginable, insisting that the Merlda Trading Guild had no money. Yet now he's willing to shell out a full million gold coins for a single technology!"
Xu Yi smiled. "City Lord, the city renovation project isn't his guild's own business, after all. Of course he's reluctant to pay for it. As for this steelmaking technology... I actually think his offer of one million gold coins is too low."
"You think one million gold coins is too low?" Count Samo looked at Xu Yi in surprise. "Is steelmaking technology really worth that much?"
"Of course." Xu Yi nodded firmly. "City Lord, you know about our guild's two steelworks in Falling Rain Valley, don't you?"
"Yes. Weren't you just building the second one when I left? What, has it officially begun production already?" Count Samo asked.
"Yes." Xu Yi gave a slightly smug smile. "City Lord, why don't you guess how much profit those two steelworks brought our guild last year?"
Count Samo frowned and pondered briefly. "Judging by that smug look on your face, probably quite a lot. For an entire year... I remember your first steelworks made a little over a hundred thousand gold coins a month. Even if this one is a bit larger than the first, let's call it two hundred thousand a month. So over a year..."
After doing a quick calculation in his head, Count Samo jolted in shock.
He had suddenly realized that, by that calculation, the Xinfei Merchant Guild's two steelworks alone made over three hundred thousand gold coins a month in profit-perhaps even close to four