Chapter 127 Negotiations
Chang Hao held back his temper and rested for another day before getting out of bed. He felt that he had already cultivated his energy and it was time to meet the king of Tieqiuling and talk about serious things.
The entire Iron Hill Kingdom was built on a majestic crater. The rough-style building complex was divided into several areas and arranged upwards along the mountains. The area close to the abundant earth fire at the bottom is the casting area where craftsmen gathered. The middle level is the residential area for ordinary people, the upper level is the commercial area and the aristocratic area, and the upper level is naturally the imperial city area, where only kings and royal relatives set foot.
If you look down at the iron hills from a high place, the terrain of the iron hills is like a ring-covered ring-shaped rock wall, and the majestic ring-shaped rock walls make the most natural and effective barriers.
An amazingly powerful crossbow cannon is set up on the top of each ring rock wall. If foreign enemies want to invade here, they must break through these layers of defense circles. This is also one of the important reasons why the Iron Hill Kingdom can stand for thousands of years.
As a legendary master of the Iron Hill Dwarf lineage, Master Orn was naturally arranged in the Imperial City District. The guards of the Imperial City District seemed to know that Chang Hao was a lord of the Orc Kingdom and did not suffer any difficulties along the way.
"Don't your Iron Hill King accept foreign guests?" Chang Hao finally stopped in front of the magnificent Iron Hill Royal Palace.
"Yes, our King of Tieqiu has never seen foreign guests." The palace guard explained: "But Master Orn has already given instructions. If you have any needs, just find Master Orn himself, and I can lead you."
Chang Hao thought that he was just a lord with the status of a viscount. After all, he was the king of Iron Hill. There were indeed a lot of levels in the middle, and it was reasonable for him to be too lazy to see him. Now he could only place his hope on Master Orn. It is not difficult to figure out from the words of these guards that Master Orn seems to have considerable power.
Master Orn is worthy of being a legendary master with privileges. His private foundry factory is only separated from the Imperial City area by two walls. The guards took the people there and then surrendered them first.
The imperial city was heavily guarded, and idle people could not enter at all, so the casting factory naturally had no layers of guarding. Chang Hao easily entered the factory inside. Huge casting equipment here could be seen everywhere. The center was a ground fire shaft that led directly to the depths of the ground fire. It was so hot that it could easily dissolve steel from solid to liquid ground fire. Orn obviously used some special means to achieve this.
"I originally thought that your terrifying injury would take at least several months to recover slowly. It seems that my prediction is still too conservative." Master Orn revealed his "Mediterranean" after a bunch of forging tools. It's not that the piles of forging tools are so high, but because he is indeed a little short.
"My small courtyard is quite quiet, right? It's quite suitable for rest, and it's a rare prime location in the imperial city." Orn shook hands with Chang Hao with a smile.
"Master Lao has troubled me, and the environment is indeed first-class." Chang Hao also told the truth.
Orn brought Chang Hao to a table, sat down and poured a glass of the favorite wine for both of them. Chang Hao, who was 1.8 meters tall, obviously could not sit on such a short chair, so he simply sat on the ground. He saw a packed schoolbag in the corner near the table, with a tender handwriting on it: Mond.
"Sad." Chang Hao picked up the wine and clinked the glass with Orn, and then drank it all in one go.
"Mond is a good apprentice. He is very motivated and brave. He is the only one of my apprentices who dares to go to Jiyuan Valley with me." The orange-yellow wine in the cup reflects Aoun's old face. "Mond was dragged into the darkness by those tentacles in front of me. When I saw him again in the lava zone, I admitted that I was lucky. I wish he had escaped, but I didn't expect that it was Agomoto's trick."
"Thank you for saving me and avenging Mond, thank you." Orn used wine to let himself go, but he didn't know whether he should cry or laugh.
Chang Hao did not interrupt Aoun. The pain and torture that a white-haired man had to endure when he sent a black-haired man was not something that ordinary people could understand. He would not say anything like "Hey, old man, cheer up quickly" and other people's opinions.
Only time can heal his inner pain, a long, long time.
"You come to me, probably not just tell me what you are healing." Ornn's throat was filled with another glass of wine. He had witnessed the strength of the young lord in front of him. A man who can defeat the lord of the abyss, what he would like to say next would definitely not be simple.
"I want to make a contract with Tieqiuling." Chang Hao went straight to the bush without striking.
"Contract a contract?" Orn said in confusion: "Iron Hill and your Orc Kingdom had signed a treaty of mutual help thousands of years ago? We sell a portion of the steel to your Kingdom at a lower price every year..."
"Wait, you mean..." Orn seemed to suddenly understand something.
Chang Hao lightly buckled the table with his fingers and nodded meaningfully, "That's right, it's what you guessed."
"So that's it. You're quite ambitious. I really can't understand why the Orc Kingdom would let you be a human being, and it's such a powerful human being."
"How do you know that I am a human? Can't I be an elf?"
"Didn't Lord Abyss reveal your old truth in front of us?"
"...Okay, this matter is revealed."
"My Guangmingye needs at least so much iron ore every quarter, and it can only be more or less. I don't need the low price you sell to the kingdom official. We can just go to the normal price. Just tell me if this matter can be done." Chang Hao reported an astronomical number, far exceeding the official tons of iron ore sold to the orc kingdom every year by Iron Hill.
"If it were someone else, there would be no possibility of this matter being discussed at all, but since it was you, I could set this precedent for you. After all, if it weren't for you who saved me, I wouldn't have been sitting here and drinking safely now."
When I heard the numbers reported by Chang Hao, even Aoun, a legendary master, could not help but be moved. This amount of iron ore is one-third of the annual mineral output of Iron Hills. It is as high as a few mountains when piled up. What does this guy need so much iron ore to do? Could it be that he wants to build an iron army?
But this is related to other people's privacy, so Aoun is too lazy to get into trouble.
"Can you make the decision on this matter? Don't you need the King of Iron Hill to give your final opinion?" Seeing Aoun like this, Chang Hao's drafts prepared were useless for a moment. He was a little doubtful that Aoun was lying to him. This was too smooth, right?
"I am his cousin." Orn rolled his eyes and dispelled Chang Hao's doubts in just one sentence.
Chang Hao suddenly realized with the sound of "False Respect and Respect". It turned out that Aoun was the cousin of the King of Iron Hills. No wonder the guards said before that he could go to Aoun to find anything. It turned out that to a certain extent, Aoun said more powerful than the King of Iron Hills.
This person was not saved in vain, and Chang Hao was filled with joy.
Orn said: "It is not easy to transport such a large amount of iron ore. You acted without telling it from the senior officials of the Orc Kingdom. The official road cannot be left. At that time, I will send someone to connect with your subordinates. Your dignified lord will not be able to do everything in detail, right?"
"That's natural, I'm not a nanny, I only care about the most important things." Chang Hao snapped his fingers and his voice became low, "I still want to talk to you about the Etherorite Stone."
Ornn suddenly narrowed his eyes.
Chapter completed!