I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 109: Exams Change Destiny (Part )

The exam lasted a whole day, and that evening, Chris checked the test papers in a luxurious room in Bolas Fortress that originally belonged to a colonel.

Two "NPC" clerks wearing black velvet coats and fur hats sat at a large desk. They had blank expressions on their faces, and their red pencils were spinning at high speed as they marked their subordinates' test papers.

These two are humanoid robots made by Chris using the player's intelligent butler. They are slow in movement, stiff in reaction, and lack any creativity.

However, marking test papers does not require creativity, but only precision and speed, so these two NPC clerks are very suitable.

Chris assigned them the task of marking the math and Chinese papers, while he personally checked the examinees' third paper.

It is a lot of work to read the essays. Although Chris limits the word count to 1,000 words, most of the players who write essays write a lot of words that completely exceed the word count.

There is no way, the players are too enthusiastic and want to be officials too much.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that there are only a little over a hundred people participating in today’s exam. That’s because Chris has restricted the registration, allowing only a certain number of reputable old players to participate, and excluding new players who have just entered the game.

There is no way. What kind of character do the old players have? During this period of time, they have proved themselves with their actions. People who behave too outrageously will not have a high reputation.

When new players come in, there will definitely be some outrageous ones among them. Even if Chris is short of people, he dare not gamble with human lives.

Among the five hundred old players, more than one hundred signed up. The figure of one-fifth is enough to illustrate the players' enthusiasm for becoming officials.

Old players approve of this registration screening setting, but new players complain about it, thinking that they should wait for a while to allow them to accumulate some reputation points, or that the registration conditions should be cancelled, so that it would be fair.

Because of this topic, old players and new players started to criticize each other on the forum, but Chris turned a blind eye to it.

There is no way. Absolute fairness is actually a kind of unfairness. Giving new players the same treatment as old players is equivalent to denying the previous contributions of old players, which is extremely unfair to them.

If you want to be a civil servant, old players should be given the choice first.

Reading essays is a very painful thing. Some good essays can make Chris feel excited and unable to control himself, while some bad content will make him feel like a thorn in his throat and difficult to swallow.

After reading for half the night, Chris's eyes were fine, but his mind was a little numb. Until he saw an article titled "Industry Takes the Lead", Chris's eyes lit up, as if he saw an oasis in the desert.

The literary talent of this article is actually not outstanding, and the wording is quite plain and boring.

However, the author of the paper was very rigorous. He described that the first thing he did after becoming the mayor was to build a water hammer workshop for ironmaking, and then use this as a basis to vigorously develop handicraft workshops.

The author carefully and seriously analyzed the current situation of Chris's regime. He believed that the geography of Beach Town was not suitable for agricultural development and the only way out was heavy industry.

Blacksmith shop, gunpowder workshop, this should be the future development path of Beach Town.

In addition, the paper also mentioned that a road should be built between the town of Bichi and Fort Bolas.

Alternatively, a simple, narrow track could be built using ordinary iron pipes and wood, embedded in the ground so as not to affect the passage of carriages and pedestrians. At the end of the article, the author suggests that such a simple, embedded narrow track, of course, cannot be compared to a normal railway and cannot accommodate trains. It can only accommodate human-powered railcars, railcars, and small railcars powered by pot-camels.

Whatever it is, the author emphasizes that the weight of the vehicle and the weight of the cargo traveling on the track built with 100 mm iron pipes must not exceed two tons, and the speed must be kept below 30 kilometers per hour.

Chris looked at the data presented by the author, and subconsciously thought of the park train he had seen before. Its rails seemed to be iron pipe rails.

It seems to be a work in progress. Although the carrying capacity is not high and the speed is not fast, it is definitely enough for the current Chris regime.

What is most exciting is that the construction requirements and cost of this iron pipe track seem to be very low. Chris immediately waved to a clerk and asked him to come over.

Calculate the price of iron pipes and sleepers, excluding labor costs...iron pipe track is about one hundred yuan per meter.

After seeing this, Chris scratched his head. The cost of sleepers was higher than that of iron pipes. After carefully checking the processing and materials of sleepers, he found that he had the conditions to manufacture them.

As for wood, there are wood everywhere in the mountains of Bagnia, so there will be no problem in choosing it.

If we only consider the purchase price of the iron pipes, the NPC clerk quickly gave Chris a new answer... The raw material cost of the iron pipes per meter of railroad track is six yuan.

Ah, this price made Chris excited. Adding the cost of processing the sleepers and hiring local workers, the cost per meter of this iron track would be at most 20 to 30 yuan per meter.

One kilometer is only one thousand meters, in other words, the cost is only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

Chris knew there must be something wrong with this formula. He hadn't taken too many things into account, such as the rugged mountains, rocks blocking the road, and other miscellaneous things.

But it doesn't matter. Even if the cost of one kilometer of iron pipe track rises to 100,000 yuan, it is an affordable price for Chris.

Compared to the benefits, it's simply not worth it.

Chris has always kept in mind the saying "If you want to get rich, you must first build roads", and has also seen the benefits that built roads have brought to poor areas and economic circulation.

You can try the embedded light iron pipe railway from Beach Town to Bolas Fortress.

If it fails, it will only result in a loss of less than one million yuan, and it can also boost the economy of Chris's regime and allow those illiterate workers to make money.

But if it succeeds, it will train a strong engineering team and also carry out a successful technical verification.

In addition to this, there are many other benefits to writing it down, and it can be nearly 10,000 words long.

Chris thought about it and walked back and forth in the room for more than a minute. Then he made the decision without even reading the rest of the article.

"The mayor of Biqi Town, this author is it... Um, wait, let me see what this player's name is... Damn you, Rem!?"

(End of this chapter)