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Chapter 207 Joint Research and Development Begins

After hearing what Ellen Greg said, Dorothea, who was seated on the speaker's seat on the stage, also realized the specific operating rules of the parliament.

If you want to occupy more seats in the parliament and get more votes to determine whether the bill is passed or not, you must have sufficient financial strength.

Naturally, she thought of Union Commercial Bank, which had been in operation for several months and was in quite good condition.

As the major shareholder of the commercial bank, Dorothea naturally knew that the bank relied on the trade and savings among the chambers of commerce of the alliance members, and had accumulated at least seventy to eighty thousand gold in the underground vault with strict precautions.

If other shareholders can be persuaded to withdraw part of the funds and lend them to other chambers of commerce with insufficient funds in the same way as Xia Lin and Ellen, it can also be called a business that can make money without losing money. Of course, this premise is three Two years later, the Imperial Bank has the ability to fully recover all of this huge national debt.

At that time, it will be equivalent to her playing a wonderful game of left-handed and right-handed as the major shareholder of the Imperial Bank established by the royal family and the major shareholder of the Union Commercial Bank. The profits earned in this will come from those who cannot The small business associations of Kinlund who repay the loan are used as collateral for the property.

Although in terms of the result, there will still be a lot of losses on the whole, but it will allow Dorothea to immediately have a shortage of funds in her hands, and at the same time hold dozens of key seats in the House of Lords.

As the empress, Dorothea won a veto at her insistence, but Dorothea also understood that if she really used this veto willfully, then her words would lose weight in the parliament. It gets lower and lower, and in the end, no one will agree with her power.

At that time, it would be fine if she has enough strength to suppress the parliament, but if she is not strong enough, some terrible things will definitely happen, so it would be great for Dorothea to be able to control the seat of the House of Lords by herself .

And several other speakers also realized that this feature of the parliament is actually beneficial to them, the great nobles. With the funds they have in hand, they can let the candidates they want enter the Imperial Parliament, and exclude those who are not strong enough and unwilling. Small chambers of commerce and small nobles who tend to their own side, so as to hold on to the legislative power of the parliament as much as possible.

"If it's just a lack of funds, the Union Commercial Bank will also consider issuing loans to chambers of commerce in need."

"The Lawrence family is also willing to provide some help to our allies!"

"The same goes for the Hosea family!"

"The Eugene family will fully support our allies!"

The speakers on the stage expressed their promises one after another, which immediately stopped the congressmen who wanted to continue questioning. With the promises of these big nobles, the nobles and businessmen who are inclined to them naturally don't have to worry about their membership qualifications .

And the small number of small nobles and small merchants from the periphery of the enlightened faction who were originally in a neutral position spoke softly, and their voices were easily covered up by the increasingly lively meeting situation.

In the ensuing general vote, although they criticized the supervisory power that had no special use in the House of Commons, and were somewhat dissatisfied with the excessively high threshold set by the two chambers, the MPs expressed that they were able to control the legislative power unprecedentedly. This is very satisfactory, and there is no objection to the one-vote veto requested by Queen Dorothea.

The bicameral parliament proposed by Xia Lin was successfully passed by a majority of 251 votes: 125 votes after modifying a few clauses.

Overall, the meeting ended in a relatively harmonious atmosphere.

As for Xia Lin’s follow-up proposals to continue to promote metric units, continue the construction and research of R&D centers, and promote the patent rights bill to become the first bill passed after the establishment of the House of Lords, many members of the parliament said that they will naturally do their best to cooperate with the established ones. If there is no decision, we will wait until the House of Lords is established.

After a meeting ended, many alliance member chambers of commerce immediately began to obtain funds through various means. Queen Dorothea and several speakers went to the nearby Southern District Commercial Bank to start a new round of meetings. Ellen Gregg served as One of the cores of the Xialin-Ellen Alliance, because of its willingness to lend funds, has also become a favorite in the eyes of countless chambers of commerce that suffer from insufficient funds.

Xia Lin has already submitted the specific plan for the issuance of national bonds to Queen Dorothea for review, and he does not need to ask about the financing and establishment of the Imperial Bank. It is the joint R&D work of New Leaf Chamber of Commerce-Alliance R&D Center-Emperor Capital Guild.

According to the time of the business alliance, the member chambers of commerce, according to the required format, each counted the talent resource sheets submitted to Xia Lin, the head of the R&D center, and Xia Lin asked Wyatt to arrange someone to select the length of service from thousands of resource sheets for craftsmen. All kinds of craftsmen for more than three years began to issue dispatch orders to these chambers of commerce in the name of the alliance.

Although Xia Lin has stated before that after the R&D center produces results, the patent rights of these technological achievements will be allocated to the chamber of commerce that provided these craftsmen in priority, but these shrewd chamber of commerce leaders obviously will not give their best skills Those technical forces reported to Xia Lin honestly.

Among the forms provided by nearly 95 alliance chambers of commerce, more than 5% are apprentices with less than three years of service, and the remaining less than [-]% are those who have just passed the three-year apprenticeship and have a certain technical level. craftsmen.

But even so, the huge scale of the alliance has provided Xia Lin's R&D center with a total of 310 craftsmen of various types.

On the other hand, Xia Lin also continued to recruit dwarf craftsmen in the Furnace Valley by virtue of Queen Dorothea's order, and soon succeeded in changing the number of dwarf craftsmen under the name of the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce from ten figures to hundreds Counting, almost half of the young and middle-aged people in the melting pot valley were scooped up by Xia Lin.

Even Master Orgin Bronzebeard, whom Xia Lin had been coveting for a long time, was transferred to the expanding gun factory near the R&D center by the royal dispatch order he specifically requested from the Queen, and he and Master Fine were respectively in charge of Research and development work on machine guns and larger caliber breech-loading guns.

Both parties of the three-party joint research and development have completed their preparations, and the remaining guilds in the imperial capital have also sent a total of 120 craftsmen in accordance with Xia Lin's request for the sake of the queen who has just ascended the throne.

Different from the craftsmen provided by the alliance, these craftsmen are all old craftsmen, and they have been engaged in their respective industries for at least ten years. It can be said that everyone has reached an extremely sophisticated level of skill, and it is only one step away from perfection.

These people are also of high status in their respective guilds, and they are basically groups that can be called "masters". If it is not for the royal family's order, Xia Lin would have to pay an extremely high price even if he hired them.

Among them were 25 dyers, 37 potters, fifteen jewelers, twenty goldsmiths, and seven jewelers.

Washing and dyeing craftsmen are one of the earliest groups of practitioners in the chemical industry. They are responsible for extracting pigments and dyes from natural materials in the dye industry in the imperial capital. The dye formulas in their hands are secret chemical formulas. Lin found them, naturally, to develop a powerful new explosive, a product obtained from the reaction of some glycerin and mixed acid.

For this reason, Xia Lin ordered people to build mountain-shaped open-air explosion-proof sand wall laboratories in the open space outside the R&D center. The laboratory can accommodate a group of four people for research and development.

There are trenches outside. Once they see bad signs in the experiment, the researchers should immediately activate the mage armor scrolls that Xia Lin equipped them with, and then run outside the laboratory to hide in these sand-covered, capable of absorbing explosions. Explosion-proof ditch for shock waves.

(End of this chapter)