章 949: Failure

200 taels of silver. Not to mention the others, even the empress felt that this was rather unimaginable.

The tractor weighed 650 kilograms. Its metal components alone already exceeded 550 kilograms, excluding the supporting rotary tiller.

Today, a 10 kilogram steel blade in Dayao costs roughly 15 taels of silver.

The metal used to make the blade was worth 10 taels of silver, which equated to one tael per kilogram of steel.

For 550 kilograms of steel and a rotary tiller, its cost would be a price of at least 600 taels.

This didn't include other materials like rubber, which was expensive, the human and material resources consumed by the tractor, or the technology behind it.

Even if this uncommon product was sold for 2,500 taels, the merchants of the Yun Nation wouldn't even think twice before buying it.

Although these people didn't understand what R&D costs were, they still knew that the rarer something was, the greater its value would be.