my magic industry

Chapter 131 Weird

"Boom! Boom!"

The bell ringer in the clock tower of the city hall rang the punctual clock representing ten o'clock in the morning, and at the same time announced the official start of the world's first bidding meeting. Alud Noel asked the clerk of the city hall to take out a stack of maps , respectively distributed to representatives of the chamber of commerce, and then said loudly:

"Now I announce that the tender for the road repair plan in Helgana and surrounding areas will officially start! First of all, the tender for the repair and reconstruction of the internal roads in Helgana!

Dear chamber of commerce representatives participating in the bidding, these maps are the roads of the imperial capital drawn up by the city hall that are scheduled to be repaired. There are a total of 140 roads, including 59 avenues, 36 main roads, and the remaining 52 roads are relatively important secondary roads. .

On these roads, there are many merchants passing by every day. The specific situation needs to be judged by the representatives of the chamber of commerce. "

It was the first time that Minister Arnold presided over such a novel bidding meeting. Fortunately, the road repair plan explained in detail what he needed to do.

After sending out the map with the names and serial numbers of the streets marked, he sat on the stage and waited for these chambers of commerce to submit their bids, and then asked the clerks of the city hall to issue estimated construction costs and road usage fees based on the roads targeted by the bids. The number of years will be marked and announced with charcoal on a wooden board behind him.

Finally, after comparing and discussing the details, as the host, he can finalize which of the chambers of commerce participating in the bidding will win the bid.

"The Kelin Chamber of Commerce is willing to undertake the construction of Holmes Avenue. The estimated cost of the project is 210 gold lents, the construction period is 360 days, and the expected collection period of the road usage fee is 20 years!"

"The Greg Chamber of Commerce is willing to undertake the construction of the Lanhua Avenue. The estimated cost of the project is 140 Jinlund, the construction period is expected to be 200 days, and the road usage fee will be collected for 15 years!"

"The Eugene Chamber of Commerce is willing to..."

Soon, after receiving the bids, the clerks of the city hall who had undergone simple training reported the cost of construction and the expected period of usage fees on the bids issued by various enlightened chambers of commerce.

"Wait! Your Excellency Ullens Colin, Ellen Gregg, and Gladstone Eugene, is there something wrong with your quotation?"

Hearing these expected construction costs, a representative of a conservative chamber of commerce immediately stood up and questioned, and Alud Noel on the stage also frowned tightly.

Although he has never been engaged in road repair work, as the director of Helgana City Hall, Alod Noel also knows that the reason why the empire has not repaired the roads of the imperial capital for so long is because the cost of repairing roads is too high , basically one rand costs hundreds of gold lunds.

And among the quotations quoted by representatives of these chambers of commerce, the Holmes Avenue, which is about two rand in length, only needs 210 gold rents, and the blue flower avenue, which is more than one rand in length, only costs 140 gold rents. , which is really surprising.

"Yes, as Viscount Ulysses Barlow said, the three chamber of commerce representatives, your quotation is not too low.

Although the tender will not prohibit you from quoting such a low price, if you cannot complete the repair and reconstruction project of the winning road with the predetermined amount, then according to the rules of our tender, the additional costs will be borne by you.

At the same time, the power to collect road usage fees granted to you by the Imperial Administration and the City Hall will not be extended or anything. When the time comes, you will incur too much loss, and it will be your chamber of commerce's own business! "

In order to prevent this bidding from turning into a farce, Director Allord followed Ulysses Barlow and reminded the representatives of the three bidding chambers of commerce.

"Of course, Minister Allord, we have carefully understood the rules of the bidding meeting before participating in the bidding meeting. Since we dare to issue such a low price, it is naturally because we are confident that we can complete these roads with such a low price. Build!"

Facing Ulysses Barlow's questioning and Director Allod's reminder, Ullens Colin nodded calmly and replied, and representatives of other chambers of commerce also echoed.

This plan is tailor-made for those members of the business alliance who have such a powerful tool as cement. How could they fail to complete the project?

With cement, there is concrete that is ten times cheaper than stone.

It used to take more than 60 silver mals to build a one-meter-long road. After visiting the employee community road in Xinglan Industrial Park, which is being built in the industrial park, they knew that using concrete, a one-meter-long road only needed seven silver malts. Just a little more.

Therefore, even if the bidding price is lowered to such an extent, they can still make a lot of profits in this project.

The roads they aimed at were places where merchants often passed by and the traffic volume was extremely high. Even if each carriage only charged 1 Copes in a day, they could easily receive hundreds of thousands of Copes.

An average of four or five silver mahrs a day in road usage fee income seems small, but it is 150 silver mals a month and 1825 silver mals a year.

The construction cost of a concrete road is only one or two hundred gold lundes, and some small roads only need sixty or seventy gold lundes. In this way, as long as the road use fee collection period is more than ten years, they, the chamber of commerce that won the bid, will Absolutely no loss.

Although the profit recovery cycle is indeed a bit long, there are still commercial banks behind them that provide loans with half of the funds, and these loans can also be repaid slowly with road usage fees.

The advantages brought by such technical funds allow the member chambers of commerce of the business alliance to negotiate and select the desired road section by themselves, which is a guaranteed business no matter what.

Not to mention that the four conservative chambers of commerce were not prepared to bid, even if they wanted to bid, they would have no way to compete with the member chambers of the business alliance.

"Completing the construction at such a low price? It's really unbelievable, but since you all know the rules of the bidding meeting, then I won't persuade you anymore, and the bidding will continue!"

Seeing the confident expressions of several representatives of the chamber of commerce who submitted the bids, Director Allord shook his head and sat back in his seat, continuing to listen to the bidding prices of the bidding sections sorted out by the clerks.

However, as one after another of the bidding documents was published, Director Alod felt that things were getting more and more wrong, because the group of chambers of commerce that submitted the bidding documents seemed to be aiming at their own goals, and there was no repeated bidding at all.

Originally, according to the plan conveyed to them by the Administration Department, there should be many chambers of commerce competing for some good roads with profit margins. In this case, the city hall can select the chamber of commerce with lower requirements as the winning bidder. .

As a result, there was no dispute at all in this bidding meeting, which made Director Allod feel like a theater actor on the stage. repertoire.

And the representatives of the four conservative chambers of commerce became more and more uneasy, because they found that the recent developments seemed to be somewhat out of their control, which was a strange thing for the powerful conservatives. matter.

It's not that they don't know about the establishment of a business alliance by the enlightened faction, but the top management of the conservative faction is still focusing on other aspects, and they don't pay much attention to this kind of organization that looks similar to the traditional guild. Therefore, these changes have not been linked to the business alliance for the time being.

(End of this chapter)