my magic industry

Chapter 130 Tender Meeting

After a few days, these recruits gradually became familiar with the life in the barracks, and began to conduct military skill training according to the plan under the leadership of the instructors.

Due to the lack of suitable candidates found so far, it is temporarily impossible to build a shelf for the Soldiers Committee. Xia Lin also temporarily put down the burden here, and returned to the industrial park to start preparing for the bidding of the road repair plan.

During the period when he was busy with the new army, Princess Dorothea interviewed many chamber of commerce officials, and ordered her servants to conduct a lot of investigations in the imperial capital, and finally came to a conclusion by summarizing the results of these investigations:
That is, various groups in the empire have considerable dissatisfaction with the weights and measures of the empire, but this dissatisfaction is covered up in habits and traditions.

For this reason, Princess Dorothea summoned Earl Cullen, Earl Stewart, and Viscount Hart, and explained to them her determination to promote the metric unit proposal that Xia Lin mentioned.

The three speakers, who originally doubted and hesitated about the weights and measures, saw the determination of the princess and Xia Lin, and the examples of losses caused by mistakes in the imperial weights and measures that Princess Dorothea collected from various chambers of commerce. In the end, it was also agreed to implement this proposal within the alliance.

So at the most recent alliance meeting, Princess Dorothea and the other three speakers dropped heavy bombs one after another.

Alliance metric unit promotion proposal and establishment of supporting alliance metric unit promotion office, cement production technology of Xinglan Industrial Park officially included in alliance patent rights proposal list, establishment of alliance talent evaluation center, requiring members of alliance chamber of commerce to register the skills of craftsmen belonging to their own chamber of commerce , Xinglan Industrial Park's steelmaking plant technology is open to the royal family alone, etc., all of a sudden, the hearts of the alliance are floating.

After Princess Dorothea stated the pros and cons, and the other three speakers joined forces to support it, the alliance’s metric unit promotion proposal was finally passed with a vote of 224:152, and the negative votes were basically small nobles and small chambers of commerce. cast.

The promotion of metric units will do too much damage to their industry terminal sellers, because they have to deal with customers frequently, which means that in the future their shops will also have to mark the price in metric units, and at the same time, they need to prepare two bills. set.

However, with the prestige accumulated by the four speakers during this period of time and the provisional metric unit subsidy plan, the proposal was passed. Now they can only hope that the alliance can put more effort into the promotion of metric units and change as soon as possible. this situation.

As for the magic version of electric arc furnace steelmaking technology, although many member chambers of commerce are salivating over the unique steelmaking technology of this steel factory, since the royal family has taken a fancy to this technology, and Princess Dorothea has proposed some compensation alliances If there is a loss plan, then they can only accept it with their noses held.

However, the patent authorization of cement, which should have been fiercely competitive, is not a problem. Princess Dorothea directly proposed the standards of the chamber of commerce that can be authorized:

That is, if you can invest more than 200 gold Lunte in working capital to establish a cement factory, and participate in the bidding of the road repair plan in the imperial capital, and undertake at least one road repair and reconstruction task, then you can directly pay 1 copper pes per pound Patent fee to obtain the authorization of the cement production process.

The reason why this threshold is set is because Xia Lin explained to Princess Dorothea that the pollution of factories such as cement factories is quite serious, so the address of the factory building must be carefully selected.

Although there are many tributaries of the Seine River, there are not many such suitable places. After discussing with the three speakers, Princess Dorothea decided to select suitable chambers of commerce by setting investment scale requirements.

Among them, the road repair plan will be carried out in the way that the bidding chamber will contribute half of the funds, and the alliance commercial bank will provide the other half in the form of loans.

In this way, while reducing the capital turnover pressure of the chamber of commerce, it also allows the alliance to obtain the power to collect 50% of the road user fees for these roads, which can be called a win-win situation.

However, even after a screening, there are 56 member chambers of commerce in the financially strong business alliance that have been authorized.

With the assistance of the First Construction Company of the Imperial City, they immediately began to select a site for the construction of a factory building and a cement shaft kiln. At the same time, they purchased a ball mill produced by the machining factory in the industrial park, and with the help of the technicians sent by the cement factory in the industrial park, they carried out the training on the workers. Training to be familiar with the production process of cement.

It can be predicted that in the future, many remote places in the lower reaches of the Seine River will be covered by chimneys that emit thick smoke day and night and the cement dust in them.

But in this day and age, Xia Lin can no longer control so much.According to the various road experience he obtained when calculating the environmental magic value of the imperial capital and surrounding areas, this huge road repair plan has 500 kilometers of internal roads in the imperial capital that need to be repaired.

The combined length of the main road connecting Helgana and the Blue Lake Mountains, which is an important source of mineral raw materials, and four important secondary roads outside the city exceeds 800 kilometers.

With such a huge repair plan, even the business alliance can only choose to undertake the most important and most beneficial part of it, including the 37 avenues inside the imperial capital, with a total length of 214 kilometers, and the main road from the imperial capital to Blue Lake Mountain, with a total length of 120 kilometers .

It is estimated that the concrete road with a width of 3.5m per kilometer in the Imperial City will consume 150 tons of cement, and the concrete road with a width of 4.2m per kilometer on the main road of Lanhu Mountain is estimated to consume 180 tons of cement. A total of almost [-] tons of cement will be required.

Even if all these cement plants are completed and reach the daily output of five tons of cement plant in Xinglan Industrial Park, it will take about eight months of continuous production to meet the full demand.

In this regard, Xia Lin can't wait for more cement factories with serious pollution.

Of course, at the same time, in return for officially including the cement production technology in the patent proposal, the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce also obtained the right to purchase the four iron mines, coal mines, sulfur mines and saltpeter mines promised by Earl Stewart.

Although the reserves of these mines located in the Blue Lake Mountains and other areas around the imperial capital are not large, and the average price of each mine is 650 gold, which is not cheap, but Xia Lin immediately sent the employees of the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce and the Alliance Negotiate related matters.

On February [-]th, the day when the bidding for the Imperial Capital City Hall began, a total of [-] chambers of commerce gathered in the meeting hall of the city hall.

On the top is the director of the Helgana City Hall, Alod Knoll. Originally, he did not have too many expectations for such a wonderful road repair plan handed down by the Administrative Office. Therefore, he saw the Chamber of Commerce full of representatives , when there were many patriarchs of the imperial capital he was familiar with, he naturally showed a look of surprise.

Among the 56 representatives of chambers of commerce present here, [-] chambers of commerce that have obtained the authorization of cement production technology were all present, and the remaining four were conservative factions who came to check the situation.

In their view, even if it is the right to use the road tolls after completion, it is quite a thankless thing.

After all, the cheapest stone in a party can only be purchased for nearly two Glenn. Even if there is a quarry in the name, the cost of mining and transporting it to the imperial capital is more than one Glenn, and then you have to hire workers...

Counting a series of expenditures, it costs at least three or four hundred gold lundes to build a one-rand (1.2 km) road, and it costs one to five copper pess for a horse-drawn carriage on the road every day. How long will it take to pay back the road usage fee?How long will it take to make a profit?

The reason why the conservatives do not object to this plan is because they want to see how the liberals will accomplish this. It looks beautiful, but in fact it is impossible to have a road repair plan undertaken by the chamber of commerce.

At that time, if the news of the bidding meeting and road repair plan is released, it will be ridiculous if no chamber of commerce is willing to undertake it.

Emperor Prieter had high expectations for this plan. If they screwed up, the conservatives would have a reason to attack the liberals at the court meeting.

Originally, the conservatives were ready to see the jokes of the liberals, but what they saw today was that the big nobles of the liberals came to the bidding fair as representatives of the chamber of commerce, talking with each other in a relaxed mood. The topic of which road to bid for does not seem to care about losses at all.

This immediately caused the representatives of the four conservative chambers of commerce to look at each other in blank dismay.

Could it be that this group of enlightened guys are crazy?Don't even know how to calculate the cost and profit?

(End of this chapter)