"Fario doesn't believe it?" Elder Elusia smiled slightly, her smile still as bright and dazzling as that of a human girl, making people never think of her true age. "It looks like I need to take the time to have a good talk with him. If his ideas don't change, he will not be able to keep up with the changes in the world."
"You can't blame him for this. After all, it's really hard for an elf warrior who has honed his bow and arrow skills to an extremely high level to suddenly accept that he can even waste his arrows in the future. It's a bit difficult." Xu Yi said with a smile.
"Fortunately, this kind of thing will never happen again." Elder Elusia looked back at the shaped arrow shafts on the plastic production line not far away. "On this assembly line, we can produce more than 3,000 qualified plastic feather arrows in one day, so you don't have to worry even if some are wasted."
"If the daily output is only three thousand branches, it's actually not enough." Xu Yi shook his head. "The thirty magic repeating crossbows sent to the Zhenbei Army were well received. Now the military department has placed an order for five hundred magic repeating crossbows from our chamber of commerce. I have accepted it. But because the magic repeating crossbows are different from arrows, The consumption of arrows is too great. It would be too wasteful to use pure steel arrows as unscrupulously as in the previous conflict between the Zhenbei Army and the Greedy Legion of the Sac Kingdom. So I recommended a new type of plastic feather to the military department. Arrows, I think it won’t be long before the military department will send people to inspect plastic feather arrows, and if nothing else happens, a big order will be placed.”
"Okay, I will tell Amrod and Delir to receive them seriously."
Xu Yi looked at Elder Elusia and suddenly asked: "Elder Elusia, I have always wanted to ask a question, why don't you yourself come forward as the candidate for the Yesong tribe's external negotiations, and choose Delir? Come on? With your wisdom, I think the whole thing will go much smoother if you handle it."
Elder Elusia shook her head slightly and sighed: "I am already old. The future of the Night Song tribe still needs young people like Amrod and Delir to inherit it, so not only will I not be responsible for this In the future, I will try my best to guide the tribesmen when selecting candidates for external negotiations, so that they can adapt to the tribe without me in advance. "
Xu Yi looked at Elder Elusia's beautiful face, which looked like that of a young human girl in her early twenties. Frowning in surprise: "I don't think you are old at all. With your appearance, we humans are still in our youth. There is no need to consider retiring so early, right?"
"Thank you for your compliment. But getting old is a fact. Regardless of my appearance, I have reached the twilight stage of an Elf clan. The reason why I still maintain this appearance is just the characteristics of our Elf clan." Elushi Elder Ya paused and suddenly asked Xu Yi: "President Xu, do you think Yanis is beautiful enough?"
Xu Yi was stunned: "Of course Yanis is beautiful, what?"
Elder Elusia just nodded and did not continue the discussion.
Xu Yi could only keep his doubts in his stomach in confusion. Following Elder Elusia's wishes, we continued to discuss the production issues of these plastic feather arrows.
The material for making these plastic feather arrows is a new type of plastic material developed by the elves of the Nightsong Tribe when they were experimenting with plastic formulas. It has extremely tough properties. When used to make feather arrows, even the finest wood is less durable. Not bad at all.
And because of the adoption of batch planning and standardized production. The feathered arrows produced in this way are almost the same regardless of length, thickness, and weight. When paired with customized arrowheads, the specifications of the entire feathered arrow are even more uniform.
In this way, when shooting, such feather arrows will be easier to adapt to the operation, and more suitable for magic repeating crossbows that have very strict requirements for feather arrow specifications.
In the previous months-long battle between the Zhenbei Army and the Sac Kingdom for the Murto Mountains, although the Zhenbei Army finally regained control of the Murto Mountains with its extremely strong combat effectiveness. But such combat effectiveness is based on powerful equipment advantages.
In addition to the complete and sophisticated weapons and equipment, as well as the powerful power of the magic trebuchet, in all the battles, the performance is not the most eye-catching, but in fact the most important thing is the feather arrows that consume the most.
Precisely because there are countless. With the support of the arrows that seemed to be free of money, the Zhenbei Army was able to suppress the Greedy Wolf Army of the Sak Kingdom from beginning to end, leaving them with almost no resistance.
But such suppression makes the consumption of arrows very terrible.
During the several battles in the final counterattack, although they only lasted less than half a month, there were less than twenty battles that were not long in duration. But the total number of arrows consumed was more than 100,000.
The reason why the Zhenbei Army was able to possess such a large number of arrows was entirely because the military arsenal had previously produced a large number of pure steel arrows, which ensured a large amount of consumption by the Zhenbei Army.
The problem is that the cost of pure steel arrows is too high. On average, each arrow costs at least thirty silver coins.
One hundred thousand branches, that is a huge cost of thirty thousand gold coins.
For the poor kingdom's military, it is very gratifying to win this battle and recapture the strategically important Murto Mountains, but the cost of just 100,000 arrows is 30,000 gold coins, which is really It's a bit unbearable.
In addition to the cost of the magic trebuchet and the full set of weapons and armor worn by the soldiers, in this battle between the Zhenbei Army and the Sark Kingdom, the military headquarters invested more than 100,000 gold coins for the Zhenbei Army at one time. A huge amount.
Other consumption is okay, after all, weapons, armor and magic trebuchets can be reused, but after the arrow is shot, no matter how much the battlefield is cleaned for recycling, less than half is still consumed.
In the end, the military department settled the calculations and found that the cost of arrows in this battle exceeded 10,000 gold coins.
The last time Xu Yi went to see Major Macconley, he heard him talk about this problem and had an idea, so he suggested that plastic arrows could be used instead.
Although the lethality of plastic arrows is definitely not as good as that of pure steel arrows, the main function of the overwhelming arrows is to suppress, not to mention the power of plastic arrows is not that bad, even more powerful than those used by the army of the Lampali Kingdom before. The pig iron arrowheads and wooden arrow shafts are much more powerful and can definitely be adapted to the current battlefield needs on Sainz Continent.
After waiting for a few days, Major Macconley received the plastic arrow sent by Xu Yi. He learned that the cost of such a plastic arrow was only eight silver coins, and immediately decided that the military would use this plastic in the future. arrows.
Judging from Major Macconley's reply to Xu Yi, as long as the military is satisfied with the inspection results of plastic arrows, the next batch of orders will be at least 500,000.
According to the purchase price of nine silver coins for a plastic feather arrow given by the military department, half a million plastic feather arrows would be equivalent to 45,000 gold coins.
For the newly established plastic processing factory of the Yege Tribe, receiving such a large amount for the first order can really be considered a good start.
"Actually, according to my true thoughts, I don't really want to accept this order." Elder Elusia picked up a plastic feather arrow, looked at it, and sighed softly: "Establish this plastic processing factory. The purpose is to allow our tribe to have more in-depth contact with humans, rather than to participate in the war between humans.”
"For humans, war is an eternal theme, and it cannot be avoided." Xu Yi also sighed helplessly: "I hate war as much as you do, but when it cannot be avoided, I do not resist it. If If you are not willing to accept this order, then I can take the next step on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. As long as you send a few technical personnel for guidance, I believe that our chamber of commerce can quickly and smoothly produce these plastic feather arrows."
"No need. Since you have decided to join human life, escaping is obviously not an option. Although doing so can be regarded as intervening in the war between you humans, if you sell this thing as an ordinary commodity, it does not matter. This is something too difficult to accept," Elder Elusia said.
Xu Yi smiled slightly, thinking that after all, Elder Elusia was not a simple-minded elf girl like Yanis. Sure enough, it was not so easy to hand over crucial plastic production and processing technology.
"Let's do this, Elder Elusia, I will go to Bonta City tonight. You ask Delir to go with me, and I will take her to meet the presidents of the major chambers of commerce in Bonta City. As for what should be done Let me introduce the business of your plastic processing factory and how to promote it. I will not interfere with this and let Delier handle it by herself. What do you think?" Xu Yi thought for a while and suggested.
"If according to the way we elves behave, this is a kind of charity for us, and I should refuse." Elder Elusia smiled: "But since we want to integrate into human life, then We have to do it in a human way. This can be regarded as cooperation between us. I am very happy to see you, President Xu, lending a helping hand to us."
Xu Yi laughed: "That's right. We are all partners, so there is no need to treat this kind of thing as charity. If you must pay attention to fairness, you only need to give me a fair return in the future. This is a very ordinary It’s a deal, isn’t it?”
"Yes. I think I must warn Delir in advance and ask her to learn from you how to become a qualified human businessman from today." Elder Elusia nodded. "I was very dissatisfied with her performance when she went to Bonta City to apply for a plastic processing factory with the help of Miss Steele. I hope she can improve this time under your guidance, President Xu."
"It's an honor." Xu Yi smiled slightly.