Chapter 403 You Have the Final Say
As far as Yunfu knows, the iron tools and weapons used by the five countries today are mostly made of pig iron. Pig iron contains carbon, so it will deform when heated and is also brittle. If you are not careful, it will crack and will break with a little force.
In addition, pig iron contains a large amount of carbon and other impurities. When these elements react with oxygen in the air, the iron will rust.
Rusted ironware greatly reduces its service life and functionality.
Therefore, any nobles and aristocratic families in the Five Kingdoms who have some means prefer to use copper utensils rather than iron utensils that are easy to rust.
Only poor people, who had no choice, chose to use iron tools.
Yunfu wanted to improve the iron-smelting method and produce wrought iron.
Of course, if conditions permit, it would be even better if steel could be produced.
Ironmaking is a huge project.
Yunfu needs some time to come up with a good plan.
In the evening, when everyone was having dinner together, Yun Fu noticed that Cheng Qingyan and Xuanji Zhang ate very little.
How many are there exactly?
Probably, Qi Nian, the little girl who was eating at the same table, ate more food than the two of them combined.
"Don't tell me you two grown men can't eat as much as a little dumpling? Tell me, are you short of supplies?"
Cheng Qingyan glanced at the little girl beside him, who was eating fiercely with puffed cheeks, and smiled helplessly: "Supplies in the seventh-class area are indeed a little insufficient."
Seeing that he was being subtle, Xuanji Zhang couldn't help but expose him: "Seventh Master has already asked, why are you still hiding it? Just tell the truth. It's not like you are the only one who embezzled those supplies. Why are you embarrassed?"
"It's not that there's not enough food in the warehouse. The food in the warehouse is almost gone. Seeing that they couldn't capture the seventh-level area for a long time, the people from Naihe Hall specially brought people to wait on the road to rob our supplies."
"They want to use this method to cut off the supplies to the seventh district and trap us here to death."
In this desolate prison of ghosts, resources are scarce. Even if Cheng Qingyan anticipated their plan and arranged for people to store food in advance, he wouldn't be able to store much.
There are so many mouths waiting in the seventh-level area.
The food in the warehouse will only get less and less.
Yun Fu probably knew what was going on and immediately gave an order: "Arrange people to prepare a few trucks of iron ore and move a few pieces of raw jade. Qi Hanzhou and I will lead the team to the trading point."
She wanted to see who dared to steal her things.
Soon, several trucks of iron ore were transported from the mining area.
During this period, the ore was not taken out for replacement of materials and was piled up in the mining area.
"Seventh Master, can I go with you?" Xuanji Zhang has always wanted to find an opportunity to go out and take a look.
Wei Lin heard the news from somewhere and rushed over with a group of people who were still alive. "General, please let us go with you. We don't want to eat and drink for free."
After saying this, he raised his only remaining arm and said, "Even though one of my hands is broken, I still have one! I can still hold a weapon and kill the enemy with one hand!"
"Deputy General Wei is right. Although I am blind in one eye, I still have the other eye to see the enemy and can kill them together with you!"
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"Xiao Fu'er, can they come together?" Qi Hanzhou could understand their feelings best. After all, he was also blind in the past. During that time, he tried hard to prove that he was not a useless waste.
But this plan was organized by Yunfu Group, and whether to bring these people along depends on what his little girl thinks.
Yun Fu nodded: "Okay."
Whether there are a few more people or a few fewer people, it doesn’t matter to Yunfu.
Including the people from the seventh district, there are a total of fifty or sixty people.
Nine truckloads of ore and four pieces of raw jade were transported to the trading point closest to the seventh-class district to exchange supplies.
Along the way, except for Yun Fu and Qi Hanzhou, everyone else in the team was visibly nervous.
At the slightest sign of trouble, they would raise their weapons.
Looking at Yun Fu and Qi Hanzhou who were riding horses at the front of the team, they looked relaxed, talking and laughing. If you didn't know them, you would think they were out for a spring outing.
"Master Zhang, how come the princess and the general aren't nervous at all? Aren't they worried about those people from the Naihe Hall in the Sixth District coming to steal our iron ore?"
The guard on the side asked his own questions.
Xuanji Zhang rested his hands on the iron ore behind him and chuckled, "They're definitely not nervous! The ones who should be nervous are those bastards from Naihe Hall."
In Xuanji Zhang's mind, Yun Fu's skills have reached perfection.
Therefore, he knew that Yun Fu's transportation of supplies was just a coincidence, and in fact, she brought them here to get back at them!
However, they did not encounter anyone from Naihetang along the way and arrived at the Cui family's trading point.
After Yun Fu and Qi Hanzhou signed up, the person in charge of the Cui family trading point treated them with great respect.
The head of the family had given them an order that in this Ghostly Prison, the two people in front of them were equivalent to the head of the Cui family, and their words were equivalent to the orders of the head of the Cui family.
"Go and count how much supplies those truckloads of iron ore and jade slabs out there can exchange for. Exchange 80% for food, and the rest for essential supplies like oil, salt, sugar, vinegar, cloth, and so on."
The seventh-class district is different from the eighth-class and ninth-class districts. At present, food is still a big problem.
Fortunately, this time, she brought potato, corn and rice seeds from the eighth district.
You can sow the seeds next spring.
The person in charge of the trading point said with a smile on his face, "Princess, we will exchange as much as you say."
Yunfu: ???
"I said?"
"Yes, you decide how much these things are worth in exchange. Our family master said that in the Ghostly Prison, you two are equivalent to him."
Yun Fu knew that Cui Chongzheng was trying to please her and Qi Hanzhou.
I want to do them a favor.
"No, just follow the normal trading rules."
Although it was done in a normal way, the people sent by the Cui family were all veterans who had worked in the business and understood the ways of the world best.
The supplies exchanged for Yun Fu and the others were much more than usual.
"There's not enough food stored at this trading point. Princess, please wait a moment while we bring in more from another trading point."
Wei Lin and the Qi family soldiers behind him were all a little stunned. Did their general and this princess have such face in the Ghost Prison?
The Cui family must be so polite because of their general's face.
What Wei Lin couldn't understand was that whether in the seventh-class area or at the trading point here, it seemed that everyone was talking to Princess Yunfu instead of their general.
Their general stood next to Princess Yunfu, like a beautiful decoration.
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