Steel steam and flame

In the empire, apart from members of the Quartet, platinum bullets are basically the ceiling for ordinary manufacturing industries. This is the same as in airship manufacturing technology, where ordinary industries can almost only manufacture irrelevant supporting parts. Such as the core of the steam furnace, super vapor compression technology, lift device, and even certain types of red copper pipes and steam compression tanks. The technologies of these core components are all firmly in the hands of the four forces.

But there are still some factories and companies that are not affiliated with the Quartet forces that are manufacturing these things. But those are the properties of some hereditary counts and marquises, and they must be attached to a certain force, and the manufacturing and production processes are fully supervised. The top-notch technology was also obtained by technicians sent by the four forces to the factories of these earls and marquises. There are very few opportunities to actually get access to these things.

Of course, in addition to the four forces and some departments related to the imperial military, blue and silver bullets can still be purchased from other channels. Since it was a dark world, it was okay to become a black market. In a world that connects all the countries and forces on the Houxiang Continent, the volume of transactions in it every moment is huge. And most of the things traded are taboo items. No matter how strict the country's regulations are, things like red mercury, sinter tubes, and pneumatic weapons are often sold there.

Blue silver bullets are high-end to top-notch products in the firearm category. For a period of time, they were so expensive that they were priced based on the number of bullets. In many cases, they were out of stock all year round. After all, there are only so many forces and factories in the empire that can produce blue silver bullets. Under the management of major family forces, it is not easy for some people to embezzle part of it and sell it on the black market to make extra money.

And the channels are also restricted in some aspects. Except for the four forces, the only way is to flow into the empire from other countries. But the cost of the second channel is a bit too high. And when it comes to mature blue-silver bullet production technology, in the entire Houxiang Continent, apart from the Empire, it seems that only the Flame Alliance and the Far Sea Common State have this strength.

Other countries? Sandwiched in the middle of three giant countries, or next to each other, just surviving has consumed all their energy and strength. How can they still have the energy to do these things? Completely trapped in an endless loop, probably isolating any one of the four forces in the empire, and its own strength is probably stronger than these sad small countries.

But the result will definitely make Cassia and Delya happy. The blue silver bullet is just a thought now, and there will be opportunities in the future. The benefits they have now received are already too much for the two of them, and the management time spent is also increasing day by day.

The people in those factories are currently owned by Webley Arms Company, including the management and technical staff. The only difference now is that their owner has been replaced by Cassia. But most of the people have to be replaced. If Cassia wants to achieve long-term development, she still has to rely on herself and Delya to slowly cultivate a group of talents that belong only to her. At that point, maybe they can feel completely at ease in their hearts.

In this current situation, even if you just take over, you can immediately benefit from it. Because the customers of several huge factories are still the same. Maybe Webley Company has already said hello in advance, after all, they want to show their sincerity. After learning that the owner of the factory had changed, the orders from these customers were still there, unchanged from usual times.

In the hearts of Cassia and Delya, this is half joy and half worry.

After the handover of all agreement documents is completed, it seems that there will be a relatively long period of running-in and adaptation. The affairs of their Steam Knights had to be put aside for a while. Due to his own reasons, Cassia's current ability is not enough to be a good leader. Make decisions and determine the future development direction, and how each step should be taken in the future. Without going into details, it is just a general direction. Apart from "let's develop better", Cassia suddenly felt that if she was asked about such a thing, she really couldn't give an exact answer, and she didn't have such a consciousness in her head. There are no vague buds yet.

Now, in addition to helping with some small things, Cassia can only listen to Delya's reports from time to time, and then nod and say "ok". Feeling that he had no role to play, he wanted to hand over all the power over these matters to Delya, but Delya readily refused.

Delya was also the boss of a small force before, so she has experience in doing these things. But recently she felt that she was too busy and had to do almost everything by herself. Moreover, the body and spirit of the surgeon are much stronger than ordinary people. No matter how hard it is, there is still no sign of collapse after a few days. She couldn't find a reason to take a break, which made Delya herself feel distressed. This is the first inconvenient thing that a surgeon encounters due to the effects of surgery.

"No, the decisions made in this period will not have much impact on future development. At most, it will affect the speed of our coming out from the shadow of Webley Company." Delya shook her head vigorously, usually taking time to do training. Yes, but now all that time is taken up by a stack of papers on the table. It is not easy to swallow a few pieces of a factory with dozens of production lines in one go, digest it completely, and make it your own.

"We need to recruit some managers to handle things, and our own technical staff are also in urgent need at the moment. We must quickly arrange to join those people from Webley Company and train them." Delya put down the pen in her hand, her eyes also It doesn’t hurt, my waist and neck don’t hurt, and my head is still clear and not blurry at all, but I just don’t want to do it anymore. I don't feel physically tired, but the depression in my mind is too great.

Cassia nodded, then shook her head, and finally could only look at Delya with a look of helplessness.

"Okay, let me do this." Delya let out a long sigh, "Now that we are so urgent, it does not mean that we have to leave Webley Arms Company immediately. After all, their technology is there. No matter which factory they go to, can become the biggest reliance. My idea is, let’s not talk about the core technology for now, because it is basically impossible to break away from the existing foundation and then re-create your own theory. Except for the core parts, other Things must at least be our own. Otherwise..."

Delya paused here, "Otherwise, no matter how many factories we have now, it can bring us a lot of considerable benefits, and it will always make us feel that..., well..., it's like a child playing with his father. The toys are the same. No matter how skillfully they play, they are just toys and are fully supervised by their father."

She looked at Cassia and asked, "I wonder if this comparison is reasonable?"

"Reasonable." Cassia gave a short and sincere answer, "I will work hard, but for a while now, these things can only be left to you."

Delya exhaled and stopped talking.