As soon as the street lamp thing was finished, Claire pulled Isaac out of Academy of Sciences.
Fortunately, we are still in the design stage of the airship, so Isaac does not have to stay in Academy of Sciences himself to tinker with it. Moreover, Claire said that he would show him a new gadget when he went there, which was how he was fooled.
However, he stayed in the carriage along the way, unfolding the drawings and constantly scribbling on them. Every component of Magic Airship was designed by him personally. Not only that, he also had to consider the coordination between the components.
Thousands of people from Nafu City came with them, most of them were strong adult men who had mined in the past. There are also talents recruited by Claire from the royal capital and nearby cities. Most of them are blacksmiths and metallurgical talents recruited from the royal capital, as well as several urban construction planners.
Claire plans to build an industrial city focusing on mining and metallurgy between the four mines. This is why he is unwilling to let Lixis Merchant Guild mine the four mines.
If you simply sell minerals, the money you get is only the part of selling raw materials, which is not much at all. And if you mine it yourself, not to mention it can increase the employment population of Nafu City and increase the income of residents. Moreover, if Iron Ore Copper Mine and other ores are processed into iron ingots and copper ingots, the price difference between the price of the finished product and the price of the ore raw materials will be much greater.
Lixis Merchant Guild This is the business of mining ores everywhere. The raw materials are processed into finished products and then sold at double the price.
However, Claire has no intention of competing with the other party in this area. As long as the other party lowers the price slightly because of its large volume, he will not be able to sell these finished iron and copper ingots, and he will be beaten to death.
That's why he came up with preferential policies to recruit blacksmiths and craftsmen everywhere, and sent some metallurgists and blacksmiths with average skills here. They were mainly responsible for producing metal ingots and some simple metal products, such as axes, hoes and other daily necessities, and then sold these daily metal products to nearby cities and towns. Anyway, the blacksmiths there were recruited by him. If you want to buy these things, you have to buy them from yourself, and you are not afraid of not being able to sell them.
As for iron ingots, copper ingots, etc., they are transported to the blacksmith street in Nafu City. The craftsmen there, like Gordon, have unique skills and can make these metal ingots into weapons or handicrafts. Even more powerful ones can create Magic Weapon that can be enchanted with inscriptions. After these things are crafted, the price increases several times compared to metal ingots.
These benefits cannot be obtained by mining minerals to the Lixis Merchant Guild, and with the addition of this industry pillar, it will have a lot of promoting effects on the development of Nafu City.
And this place is already profitable. Claire only needs to solve the housing problem. With a gentle push, this town will develop naturally. There are enough consumers here, and businessmen will definitely come here to see the profits and open restaurants and shops selling daily necessities. In time, the town would develop.
As the main city of Griffin, Nafu City will also become an economic center in the southern region of the kingdom.
Before coming back, Claire decided on the map where the new town would be built. It was not at one of the four mineral deposits, but at an average value and a plain with the most convenient transportation to the outside. After all, everything produced here in the future would have to be transported outside for processing and sale. If the transportation was inconvenient, it would be affected.
Isaac on the side saw the location circled by Claire and stopped what he was doing.
He pointed at the location above and said, "This place is indeed convenient for transportation, but it is not close to the four minerals. We don't have Spatial Teleportation Array like Lixis Merchant Guild..."
The transportation method used by the Lixis Merchant Guild is different from most common transportation methods. Other chambers of commerce use low-end horse-drawn carriages for transportation. Those with a little money can use giant monsters. Large quantities can be transported by water. Air transportation is relatively rare. There are too many monsters in the air and their strength is very strong. If it is not necessary, general long-distance transportation will not be carried by air.
But the transportation method Lixis Merchant Guild has is the one-way Spatial Teleportation Array developed by several Archmage level mages. It can directly transport the mined ore to a city that specializes in smelting metal ingots. Although it consumes a lot of money, it can save a lot of money in terms of transportation costs.
Teleportation Array has two-way and one-way. The two-way one is like Space Channel. The price of use is relatively high, while the one-way one is much cheaper. If it is further broken down, it can transport living and dead objects. The Spatial Teleportation Array of the Lixis Merchant Guild transports ore, that is, dead objects. If a living object enters, it will be torn into pieces by the space.
However, the advantage is that the cost is much cheaper than those that can transport creatures. The original Lixis Merchant Guild was also transported by water and using giant monsters at the beginning, but after the cost was shared, the profit was pitifully low. It was only later that Royal Capital Magic Academy was found Archmage, who specializes in space Laws, came up with this set of Teleportation Array at a high price. From that time on, Lixis Merchant Guild gradually became a giant monopolizing the entire kingdom's mining industry.
If Claire wanted to make a Spatial Teleportation Array like the other party, or even a low-end version of Teleportation Array, it would probably hollow out all four mines and not even be able to recover the cost.
"I know." Claire said softly, sliding his finger on the map and connecting them to four mines.
"This place is the closest to these four mines at the same time, and the transportation to the outside is quite convenient. It is the best place to build a town."
"What about the transportation problem? How do you transport the ore from the mine? If you want to use the airship I developed or other Magic Artifacts to transport it, the cost will be high, and the consumed Monster Core and Magic Crystal will flatten your profits."
Isaac simply doesn't consider the impracticality of using horse-drawn carriages to transport ore. So much ore is transported by horse-drawn carriages? Then this town might as well be turned into a horse farm, where there would be more horses than people.
"You Isaac still know the word cost." Claire joked.
Isaac never considers cost when doing things, otherwise he would not persuade Claire to make some Magic Bullet worth one hundred thousand pieces of Gold Coins. Moreover, these days, he has spent thousands of Gold Coins allocated to him by Claire to make the layer of fabric for the airship. If he wants to build an airship later, he will probably spend more money.
Isaac scratched his head in rare embarrassment, "Researching this kind of thing requires spending money."
Claire smiled, not caring about the money, and said, "Of course I have considered the transportation issue, so why don't I call you here?"
Isaac's eyes lit up and he said excitedly, "Is this the new thing you told me about? Come on, take it out and show it to me."
"Don't worry." Claire took out a test tube from Spatial Ring, poured some water into it, and then took out the stopper to plug the mouth of the bottle.
Then, with a snap of his fingers, "Pop!"
A fireball the size of a table tennis ball appeared in front of the two of them. Claire used Hand of the Mage again, holding the test tube bottle and extending it into the fireball.
Claire can control the temperature of the flame and prevent the fireball from melting the glass bottle.
Within a few seconds of the test tube coming into contact with the flame, the water inside began to boil, and the crystal clear glass tube was filled with water mist, making it foggy.
"Bang!"
There was a crisp sound, and the cork popped out like a bullet. Claire quickly grabbed the cork and brought it to Isaac's eyes.
Isaac was still a little confused and pointed at the cork. "Is this what you want to show me?"
Claire nodded. "Yes! This can solve the transportation problem!"