280 Planning for the train

21st August 1574

"We will need to increase iron and steel production. What is the current limiting factor for that?"

Sitting down in the gathering hall within my own residence in New Tarnow, I asked while taxing the entire crowd gathered around a huge table. While I already knew the answer to this question, I wanted to make sure that nothing happened during my absence that would shift the position of the metalworking within my lands.

"Sir, for now, only about sixty percent of our mines output can be processed, with only seventy percent of the produced steel and sixty percent of the produced iron finding a constant use. If we were to ramp up the smelting of the ore to its current maximum limit, its estimated that about twenty percent of the total production could be saved away, without impeding our current growth."