Limited iron ingots

"Another thing, let the Litkesh merchants to continue trading with us, just pretend as if nothing bad has happened between us." Virtya warned them, he didn't want them to close the border between Litkesh and Azuhai, that would kill many jobs, trade has to continue. It was just that he didn't expect the Litkesh to be this shameless and copy his inventions, though it was expected, but it came too early, but he was not surprised or furious, some simple items like a spade could be made by any blacksmith that saw the tools so it was expected.

Virtya couldn't sell the items to the Litkesh even if he wanted but even if there was space to sell the items, the production speed was just too slow in that the items could not even satisfy the farmers in his kingdom and those working on Chanya let alone exporting them to other kingdoms. He had already accepted the outcome.

"Guys, give me a moment to think about what I can do about the limited supply of iron ingots." Virtya said to them before he sat down in front of the bonfire and took a gourd by his side and poured the wine in it into his cup and drunk it in a single gulp. Both Tanya and Alexandre joined him and Alexandre didn't hesitate to pour some wine for himself as Tanya watched them. She didn't drink, her eyes darted between the bonfire and the two.

'We have remained with just 400, 000 gold coins. This is just enough to last us for the whole of this month if I don't unfold the next project.' Virtya thought. He was planning to build a cement manufacturing plant which would cost him 15 million gold coins, not to mention that he was also planning to make weapons like the cannons in preparation for the upcoming war with the kingdom of Magyo. However, Virtya didn't have that money, where was he going to get 15 million gold coins for cement manufacturing and another 5million gold coins for the cannon making? 

One should know that if the iron ingots were not bought on time, the production of the plough and other tools would have to stop, which will halt the flow of income that Virtya got from the sale of the tools.

"I will have to buy the iron ingots from Litkesh kingdom even if they have set their prices at a ridiculous amount. I will see what I can do later." Virtya didn't have a choice, but he would just have to buy the iron ingots from Litkesh for now so that at least he could enable the continuation of reviving Chanya in Brovon district.

"That will need us to use 100, 000 gold coins for buying the iron ingots alone." Alexandre showed unwillingness. He thought this was a total wastage of funds.

"It's those fool's fault. Fuck Litkesh kingdom. I promise to one day make a difficult life for those bastards!" Alexandre vowed.

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With less than 300, 000 gold coins in his treasury in this month of June, Virtya was not able to start the production of cement and the cannons thus, he decided to venture into other businesses like pottery, selling of corn stored in the palace, as one should know, Whiddiff palace' s granary always had stored food but Virtya got almost all the food out and sold it to the hungry denizens. Virtya only sold the cereals in his granary because it had remained two months to the harvesting season which is in the month of August and at this time of the month of June, cereals were in limited amount. Thus Virtya took the initiative to sell the cereals in his granary at a rather affordable price. The sale of the cereals in Whiddiff palace's granary brought in 100, 000 gold coins to Whiddiff palace. 

Furthermore, Virtya also ventured in the textiles business. Azuhai kingdom didn't have the raw materials to make clothes thus, Virtya imported the materials from the kingdom of Ugley. The raw materials to make clothes were in abundance in Ugley which assured Virtya of success in this business. He used both Flax and cotton for the clothes but labour was provided by the prisoners and the slaves who previously worked on Chanya.

Virtya drew the designs of the clothes that he wanted them to make and the slaves and the prisoners were disoriented at first before they caught up with it. They could not help but marvel at the styles of the claddings that they were going to weave because at this times, the people wore sheets, shawls and gowns but Virtya came up with dresses, cargo pants, vests, trousers, shirts, underpants, brassieres, socks, hoods, sweaters, ties, suits and so on. He wanted to modernize the textile industry while getting a steady income from this lucrative business.