This tier was actually a bit high. Her real value ratio was 8 to 2. But since it was business, she naturally had to give the other party some room for bargaining.
She did not expect Sylvan to agree immediately as soon as she finished speaking.
"All right. From now on, for every diamond transaction made by Lanyi Tower, three tiers of profit will belong to Miss Bai."
Three tiers of profit, considering the scale of Lanyi Tower's business, meant a huge amount of capital income.
But Elara did not feel happy inside. Instead, she waited silently, lifting her eyes. As expected, Sylvan, without a frown, cheerfully divided such a large profit. He slowly took out a broken sword from under the table.
This broken sword, in both shape and material, was extremely familiar to Elara.
It was the iron weapon that had just been produced from her foundry not long ago.
Elara glanced at the broken sword without changing her expression, then looked at Sylvan, who was still smiling faintly with his chest exposed.
Although she knew the existence of the iron weapon would be exposed sooner or later, and its production method would also be coveted, since something that could greatly increase combat power and even directly change the fate of a battlefield or country would be recognized as valuable by anyone with some brains.
Elara also knew that one day she would definitely trade the production method of the iron weapon as a bargaining chip.
But this moment was too early compared to her plan.
More than a month ago, she had made an iron weapon deal with Dahlia Yu. But that was because Dahlia Yu, though strong, belonged to a third-rate country.
At that time, her situation forced her to ally with Dahlia Yu. So she had to sell the finished iron weapons.
Now, Lanyi Tower placed the iron weapon right in front of her.
Elara did not think Lanyi Tower only wanted to buy finished products from her.
But the importance of the iron weapon's production method in Elara's mind was much higher than papermaking.
She did not want to hand over the production method of the iron weapon now.
The value of this was far beyond papermaking or brick firing. She could still negotiate papermaking and brick firing with Lanyi Tower. But if it involved a technology that could improve the entire country's combat power, she did not believe Lanyi Tower would easily agree to her terms.
Elara's mind quickly ran through many thoughts.
The current situation was not good, but it was not unexpected.
Since the day soldiers took iron weapons to the battlefield, it became especially difficult to hide the news about the iron weapons.
If Lanyi Tower insisted on getting the production method today, Elara was not completely against it.
But the iron weapon was currently her strongest and most practical technology. If Lanyi Tower wanted it, they had to give her an equally huge return.
Unexpectedly, before she could speak, Sylvan seemed to guess her thoughts and smiled lightly:
"Miss Bai, you don't have to worry. Although Yanqing is very curious about your papermaking and brick-firing methods, as for the production of iron weapons, I have the method too. It's just that the products aren't as good as yours. So now, I just want to learn a bit from you."
After Sylvan's words, Elara was stunned for a rare moment.
Lanyi Tower also had iron-making technology?
Her rapidly running thoughts were interrupted by this sentence, and she was somewhat surprised.
After all, System 92 defined this world as an ancient world, where even feudalism had not yet developed.
When she first got the iron-making technique from System 92, the background introduction said that people at this time basically treated iron ore as trash, and the iron produced was hardly usable.
But Lanyi Tower actually had iron-making techniques?
Thinking about Lanyi Tower's influence across the continent, and their broad recruitment of talents and experts with five-star salaries, Elara suddenly felt it was not strange that they had iron-making technology.
However, thinking about another major force that mysteriously appeared in her "diplomatic relations" list, Elara looked at Sylvan across the table and asked cautiously:
"Is it Tiangong Pavilion?"
Sylvan nodded as expected, then raised his hand to pour some tea for Elara. "Yes, the iron-making technique I hold does indeed come from the Tiangong Pavilion."
After pouring the tea, he slowly put down the teapot. His pale hand grasped the cup on the table and took a sip. During these movements, his loose collar opened even wider, almost slipping off his shoulder.
"Actually, when I first got this broken iron sword from you and Lord Gregory on the battlefield, I doubted whether you had any connection to the Tiangong Pavilion. I was very surprised at the time because Tiangong Pavilion is a top force on the continent. It controls most of the divine techniques granted by the Divine Veins."
Sometimes even the emperors of the three top-tier countries cannot get what they want from Tiangong Pavilion. You were the eldest princess of Plumera at that time. I really couldn't imagine how you got the iron-making technique from Tiangong Pavilion."
"But what shocked me even more later was that the broken iron sword you barely retrieved from the battlefield is better in hardness, sharpness, durability, and other quality aspects than the iron products made by Tiangong Pavilion!"
While saying this, Sylvan suddenly raised his hand and reached deep into the gap between his almost fully exposed strong chest muscles. He took out a piece of pig iron that had been heated.
He handed the pig iron to Elara without changing his expression, still smiling warmly as if this was a completely normal action.
"Feel it. This is the product made with Tiangong Pavilion's iron-making technique."
The pig iron, warm with his body heat, was placed into Elara's hand... Elara felt a strange silence deep inside.
Just as she doubted whether Sylvan was naturally so carefree and flirtatious, after handing over the iron piece, his hand lightly brushed her fingers twice. Then his low and thick voice sounded directly in her mind.
[Your Majesty, can you tell Yanqing your secret? Any kind of Divine Vein gift is fine. Just tell Yanqing a little. Whatever price you want Yanqing to pay is okay, alright, Your Majesty~]
Elara immediately looked up at the brightly colored man across from her.
She had just suspected whether he did it on purpose.
Now... it was clear that he did!
This man, born in a matriarchal country and marked with a floral pattern on his forehead, is the owner of the Lianyi Tower whom she just met today... He was quietly trying to seduce her!
Elara met the deep and dense gaze of the man and calmly analyzed the words he had just sent into her mind using inner strength.
First, Sylvan is a man with very strong inner power and excellent combat ability. Maybe this is one reason why his words and actions are so openly bold.
Second, since he met her today, he had mentioned the Divine Vein gifts several times. Did he think that all the strange techniques she got basically came from Divine Vein gifts?
But why would he think that? His behavior was almost certain about it.
Elara quickly considered all the information she had so far and finally thought of only one answer — other people who have received Divine Vein gifts in this world must have already obtained many similar strange techniques! And these divine techniques played a crucial role for the nations in this world!
This phenomenon had even become a kind of "customary tradition," which made Sylvan so certain that all the strange knowledge she knew today came from Divine Vein gifts!
Because of this, he dared to use himself to seduce her, just to get that legendary Divine Vein gift!
...The Divine Vein gifts of this world actually contain many advanced strange techniques?!
Elara suddenly understood a lot.
For example, when she first came to this world, she was puzzled because this world was defined as an ancient era. Most countries were still feudal and had not entered a full feudal society, yet the imperial examination system, which appears in the middle of feudal times, was already popular!
For example, the three super top-tier countries had occupied large land areas with the feudal system for a long time. Yet, they still stood proudly without being divided and fragmented by local feudal lords.