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100% The Deserving King - Ethical Saga 1 / Chapter 25: Trade

บท 25: Trade

A maid opened the door and said, "Your Majesty, Princess Sandhya is waiting for you in the study and has asked when you can meet her?"

Adi said, "Inform the princess that I will meet her in few minutes. Get her some refreshments and ask if she needs anything. I will be there shortly."

The maid nodded her head and assented, "As you command, Your Majesty", and quickly went out.

Adi stood up and arranged his clothes as he prepared to meet the princess. It was time to state his intentions clearly.

Adi walked up to his study where he found Princess Sandhya already waiting. She was having tea, yes tea is present in this world too, with a few snacks before her. She saw Adi coming and put her cup down and stood up to welcome him.

Adi motioned her to sit down while apologizing, "I am sorry for the wait Princess."

Sandhya said, "I did not wait for long Your Majesty."

Adi replied, "Thank you. So the maid told me you wanted to talk with me. What is the matter princess?"

Sandhya replied, "Your Majesty, I want to thank you for giving me a tour of your kingdom personally."

Adi – "The pleasure is mine princess and it was no big deal. After all you are the first guest to visit us, so we had to give our best hospitality."

Sandhya nodded then said, "Your Majesty, can you now tell me your motives?"

Adi laughed lightly, "Straight to the point. Then I will also fulfill your curiosity. As you have seen, Rai has strong walls, big area, and new policies. We are aiming on health and the welfare of people including giving them education. We even have an iron mine now to fulfill our needs and we are connected to the sea. Everything required for a strong kingdom is present with us, except one thing."

Sandhya answered, "Population."

Adi smiled lightly and agreed, "You are correct princess, population. We don't have enough people for even farming. We need people for everything. Be it farming, knights, industry or merchants and artisans. A kingdom without people cannot be called a kingdom."

Sandhya, "And what can I do on this issue?"

Adi, "You can do many things princess. As your kingdom is famous for merchants, and you even have a merchant group in the royal name,. I want to buy slaves from you, in large quantities."

Sandhya tilted her head slightly, "Well we do have merchants group and also trade in slaves, it is not very well received in our kingdom. Nevertheless, we can arrange slaves and sell it to you. But what can you provide us in exchange?

If you want to say the iron ores, then I will have to remind you that purchasing ores from Rai and transferring it to Magadh will make it costly for us. And also we have enough suppliers for these ores in addition to our own mines."

Adi replied, "I definitely know that you have plenty of suppliers. But I am not offering you that. I am offering you refined iron ingots of a higher quality than ever seen in the continent of Gandhar.

Sandhya did not understand what Adi was saying, "Pardon me Your Majesty, but I don't understand what you are saying."

Adi explained, "When we process the ion ores, and extract the iron from it, the iron extracted is still not pure enough. This results in it being brittle and less flexible. We have invented a method to increase the purity of iron extracted, and the resulting iron is more flexible or malleable. It also has much more durability. It can help prevent the breaking of iron parts and also help avoid breaking of weapons and shields during a fight.

Sandhya now understood what Adi was saying, but she did not believe it. The current iron extracting process is known all over the continent and the iron produced is of similar qualities.

She said, "Forgive me Your Majesty, but I don't believe what you are saying. As far as I know, there is no new progress in extraction process of iron."

Adi interrupted her before she could cancel the deal, "What if I prove it to you?"

Sandhya said, "And how will you prove it?"

Adi said, "You will see it soon. I will let a warrior with sword made by the new method and another warrior with a sword made from the old method of iron fight, which will show you the difference in it. If you like it, you can ask your warriors to test it. What do you say?"

Sandhya was not happy that she was interrupted, but seeing the confidence of Adi and his offer, she said, "Very well Your Majesty, I will accept the offer and test it. I am looking forward to see the more refined iron you speak of."

Adi smiled, "Thank you Princess. I assure you that you will not be disappointed by the product."

Sandhya asked, "So when can we test it?"

Adi replied, "A day before you are ready for departure."

Sandhya said, "I will be looking forward to it."

Both of them finished their conversation and went to their work. Sandhya went to the shore to check on her ship while Adi went to Kaif's workshop. He reached their and saw that all the apprentices were busy in their work.

On one side, he saw Kaif directing and supervising the people. The inside temperature was high and everyone was full of sweat. Their bodies were chiseled and their bodies screamed of strength.

As everyone was busy in their work, Adi's arrival did not attract their attention. He went in the workshop and walked towards Kaif. When he reached near him, Kaif finally noticed Adi.

He said, "Why are you here, Your Majesty? This is not a place you should come."

Adi said, "Don't worry. There is no place I can't come or go. I have something to say. Let us go somewhere else to talk."

Kaif answered, "Follow me Your Majesty."

He led Adi to a place at the back of the workshop. Here, no one else was present.

Kaif said, "This is a safe place Your Majesty."

Adi nodded and then started speaking, "Minister Kaif, I have offered Princess Sandhya more refined iron ingots. She has asked for proof and we will have to make a sword with the refined iron to show her.

Now, I want you to start using the Blast furnace method and refine better iron. You have this knowledge in your module. Ask for the knowledge and I will approve it. Then start extracting the iron and make few weapons from it."

Kaif heard Adi ad immediately requested for the information from the module. Adi got a notification from the System,

"Ding"

"Sub-module holder Kaif has requested for 'The extraction of minerals from ores package'"

"Awaiting Host's confirmation"

"Allow? Deny?"

Adi said in his mind, 'Allow'

"Request accepted"

"Transferring information…

...information transferred to module"

Soon Kaif received the information. He wrinkled his face as it hurt his head, but he soon recovered.

Kaif checked out the method and was mesmerized by the information. Soon, his face radiated a joy which was rarely seen.

He said to Adi, "Your Majesty, this is ground breaking information. It will extract iron which is much better than normally we get. The princess will be surely dumbfounded when she sees the result."

Adi was relieved that Kaif understood the technology and was also confident of it. He ordered, "I hope this will be the result. I want you to change the way of iron extraction to this method. Also turn them into ingots. We will gift some of them to her which she will take back to Magadh. It will help in convincing the King and others for our trade."

Kaif thumped his chest saying, "Don't worry Your Majesty. I will start changing the method from now and will make you my best sword. Princess and the people back in her Kingdom will surely accept the trade."

Adi nodded smiling, "I am relieved then. I will leave it to you. Make the sword as soon as possible."

Kaif said, "As you command, Your Majesty."

Adi then left the workshop. Then he went to different areas on which work was done to check the progress. He went to see the farmers and saw them continuing the sowing work. He spent some time here then went towards the gates.

He climbed the steps and on the parapets of the wall. He saw the soldiers were patrolling the wall with full caution and concentration.

Adi was happy that the soldiers here were not slacking off and were fully devoted in the duty. He also spent some time patrolling the walls and enjoyed the calming scenery from up there.

Then Adi went towards the sea shore where the visitors were present. When he reached there, he saw ship being repaired in full fledged way. Many people were working on it which included the sailors and some of his people.

Here he saw Princess Sandhya focused on the task and went towards her.


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