Transcendent Journey

Beep–!

Clang Clang Clang…

With the long whistle sound, an unstoppable steel giant beast crushed the white steam and galloped along the long railroad tracks. , Even with 20 heavy carriages still running faster than galloping horses.

Moreover, as a mechanical creation, the endurance point is full, and I simply don’t know what “rest” is.

Sitting in the last compartment of the steam locomotive, Ivan could not help but feel a sense of accomplishment as he watched the scenery flashing through the glass windows.

Olivia, who is wearing a lady’s long skirt holding his arm next to him, has bright little stars in her eyes that keep flashing. The shock of blueprint and real objects is of course impossible to mention on equal terms. .

And this is an industrial miracle built by a group of mortals without the help of any transcendent power!

It used to take a full day and a half to travel between Brunswick, the capital of Georgia, and Far Sail, but it only takes six hours to trifling if you change to a steam locomotive.

This is a horrible speed that has surpassed the times that can only be achieved by the [Legendary battleship · Crown of Miracle] with a speed of 32 knots. However, steam locomotives and railways are not limited to large-scale replication of transcendent materials, vividly and thoroughly bringing into play the essential characteristics of industrialization.

Time is money, efficiency is life!

The value contained therein is obvious at a glance.

The construction period of the entire 368-kilometer Georgia Corridor was expected to be one year, but with the help of the Ilia refugees who flocked in, the engineering team adopted the construction plan of staged construction, which took only half a year of trifling It has been completely completed.

The official start of construction was in early spring, when it was completed and opened to traffic, but it has just entered winter.

Previously.

During the spring and autumn seaworthiness season, a large number of immigrants dominated by Ilia, the overwhelming majority, were intercepted by Ivan in the Port of St. Ivan.

There are extensive publicity by the local residents of Buffalo, and the outstanding achievements made in saving them from water and fire in Ilia last year. The name of Saint Ivan is the savior in the eyes of the entire Ilia nationals and immigrants. Like existence.

For refugees who have just arrived in the new continent, a job that can be used to support themselves and their families is certainly attractive. Thousands of railroad workers have been recruited by the “Binhai Railway Company” to devote themselves to the infrastructure construction of the “Georgia Corridor”.

They will also become the backbone of the booming railway industry.

Of course, sufficient financial support is indispensable for this, all thanks to the generosity of several churches.

Although the negotiations with several other churches are not as smooth as the “Black Iron Cross Church”, but in the naked seller market, those who are not reconciled to lagging behind do not raise.

Especially after the “Black Iron Cross Church” took the lead, the “Breath of Frost” church, the “Starry Night Order” and the “Dawn Church” who didn’t know that the Ivan regiment destroyed their own “Silver Knight” did not hesitate How often did Fiercely bleed once?

Church of Seven Gods deserves to be the most profound family property in the material world. In the end, each family gave Ivan a 15-year interest-free loan equivalent to 500,000 Golden Lions, plus 100,000 Golden Lions. The “copying fee”.

Considering the fifteen years of interest-free loans, it is almost the same as giving in vain, because even if it is calculated at a rate of return on investment of 15%, even if it is not included in the reutilization, it will not be counted. Years can also double.

If you calculate compound interest and maintain an annual growth rate of 15%, the money can grow eight times in fifteen years!

Just doing the business of copying [Ancient Scrolls] with a few churches, Ivan has already made back 30% of the shortfall, which is far more than 30% in the long run.

Of course, if it weren’t for being a “saint” to pull the flag, things would have been impossible so smoothly. At most a high-level wizard plus the strength of a mother-in-law would not make the Church of Seven Gods. Obediently, the fourth rank or even the truth is almost the same.

As for the church personnel, if they go to the “Star Fragmentation Islands”, will they be besieged by the wizards and transcenders who are full of hatred against them? It is not something Ivan needs to care about. .

When I received the transfer from the church, [Libra balance holy sword] Divine light Cancan almost jumped up and happier than Ivan, and then he was scolded by the jumping Ivan as fiercely. The suppression reached the bottom of the box.

If Ivan hadn’t encountered a life-and-death crisis again, it was obviously unlikely to see the light of day again.

However, Ivan is not at all worried about its work attitude. When he launches the “House Bankruptcy Art” again, even the cold Divine Item holy sword will turn into the best one. Licking the dog smoothly.

In addition.

【Libra balance holy sword】I will use it sooner or later.

Ivan seriously considered for a few days, especially after Macaulay explained that the purchase of a large number of rockets was in response to the follow-up actions of the “Oath Bearer”, after all, he still used the Saint’s own [celestial messenger] The holy angel Bellenus was notified.

After taking this Divine Item in his hand and understanding the meaning it represents, Ivan has figured out why the “Oath Bearer” should fight for it in a way that pays heavy casualties, which can be described as tragic.

I also realize that the ownership of [Libra balance holy sword] will determine the “Black Iron Cross Church”‘s subsequent series of strategic plans in response to the expansion of [capital]. Wrong intelligence orientation may cause serious misjudgments in strategic decisions, which in turn may lead to unnecessary and significant losses.

It’s too funny to fight the air for a long time.

Although Ivan has some minor problems, the big issues are still very reliable.

And different from the “Blackwing Cult” that is seeking to transform, the most important purpose of Goddess is to prevent the other party from getting the Divine Item and delay the time for the “Blackwing God” to obtain the [Capital] priesthood. Not personally controlling the Divine Item is secondary.

Simply seizing the Divine Item from the “Oath Bearer” has already made a splash of credit.

So, as Ivan’s spoils of war, [Libra balance holy sword] stayed in his hands.

In the passenger compartment.

“Your Excellency, the great industrial creation of steam locomotives is simply the unimaginable Divine Vestige of mortals!”

“Yes, I think the later the construction plan of the colony will be sooner The better it is to start.”

“Since it can be built in stages, it is better to start along the Buffalo and Kashoel.”

“go go go, it should be started first Georgia and Charles are right.”

This train has been tested by a dedicated person. The steam locomotive officially launched is dual-purpose passenger and cargo. The first eighteen sections are freight cars, and the last two sections are far away from the locomotive. The smoke and soot are the passenger compartments.

The governors of all twelve colonies of Falitis were also invited to experience the epoch-making swiftness of a steam locomotive with Ivan as the lord and Olivia as the chief consul.

After the initial shock that accompanied the start of the steam locomotive, one by one was excited to find Ivan on the ground and asked him to start the full-line project of the “Binhai Railway” as soon as possible.

In the past, even with the help of the northeast trade wind, the normal merchant ship would take 15 days to travel from the northernmost point to the southernmost point of the colony, and the reverse travel time was longer. However, with the railway, the steam locomotive with a speed of 60 kilometers per hour was used. , One-way north-south interchange only takes three days.

Don’t say anything else, the collection and distribution of goods and personnel exchanges can greatly improve the efficiency of commerce and trade. It is far from the slow shipping in the past that can mention on equal terms.

This first train from Georgia to Yuanfanling carried a batch of high-quality white oak produced in the mountains of northern Georgia.

After Ivan had the qualifications of a member of the House of Lords and was initially identified by observers, in addition to the right to cast guns, the independent right to build battleships also fell into his hands.

And under the guiding ideology that the kingdom and Sirius will have a battle sooner or later, a large number of orders from the local area have been obtained, and the destination of the supply is the large shipyard located in Yuanfanling.

Although the white oak produced in the new continent is not as good as the iron oak produced in the southern continent “Treasure Tree Bay”, it can be used to build Level 2 and Level 1 battleships, and even the “Treasure Tree” of the Legendary battleship. .

But it is not a problem to build low-level battleships.

White oak is widely distributed in the northern eastern region of the new continent, and the highest quality in the northern region of the mountain range of Abayachi. In addition to building sailboats, another very famous use is to make wine storage Of wine barrels.

When the steam locomotive returns, it will bring back the raw cotton that has been removed from the steam gin.

It is worth mentioning.

In the past, an Anuma slave worked tensely all day long and might not be able to pick up a pound of cotton. In the entire cotton textile industry, ginning was a high cost anyway. Production process.

The steam gin was born at the historic moment, and unlike other cotton textile equipment born in the kingdom, the gin was born in a new continent where cotton is produced.

Obviously, there is demand only when there is supply. The urgency of the demand for cotton gins in the local areas without large-scale cotton cultivation is obviously far less than that of the new continent.

This kind of cotton gin, designed and manufactured by the “Mechanical Immortal School”, can be driven by water or steam, and can clean up to 1,000 pounds of seed cotton every day. The cotton that a laborer can pick up a day is better than that of previous months. There are more.

This has also caused a weird phenomenon. Obviously, driven by Georgia and Yuanfanling, there are more and more cotton textile factories in the new continent, but the raw cotton exported to the Kingdom has been in a short period of time. Turned inward dozens of times.

In any case, the biggest beneficiaries are Georgia and Yuanfanling who are also on the new continent northern cotton belt. The two marquis even received a letter from Queen Your Majesty commending their achievements.

Ivan, Olivia, and the old father-in-law have already made their own industrial plans for the three territories, and strive to develop their own characteristics under the premise that all the basic industries must have.

Buffalo: a large trading port created by its geographical advantage; the traditional industries of animal husbandry, maple syrup, and some fruits, which originally ranked first in the entire league; and the leather trade and wine that have just begun to develop.

Georgia: military industry (steel industry), ceramics, cotton textile industry, medicine.

Yuanfanling: shipping, shipbuilding industry, agriculture represented by sugar and cotton, cotton textile industry, large-scale smuggling.

As long as the “Binhai Railway” connects them to form an industrial complementarity, it is not just as simple as one plus one equals two. The governors of the colonies are urgent, and Ivan is even more urgent.

“My Excellency Governors, please don’t be impatient. Next, as the representative of the Marquis, I will discuss with you in detail the construction matters and the division of interests of the “Binhai Railway”.”

Walking with Ivan and Olivia, Hawkins, who wears formal attire more and more like a successful person, separates the crowd, followed by Mrs. Edith, the widow of Speaker Jerome, wearing Wearing a capable shirt and trousers, acted as his assistant.

Hawkins, who is in charge of the money bag of the “Long Island Development Bank” in the territory, also has to practice what is meant by “industrial and agricultural scissors” through the economic artery of “Banhai Railway”.

The establishment of the railway is certainly a great thing for the entire Falitis colony, and it creates the necessary conditions for achieving economic growth.

However, the relatively slow-developing Imperial Family colonies and autonomous colonies are mainly raw materials suppliers for the kingdom, while Yuanfanling and Georgia have already begun the transformation of the steam industry.

When an industrial area with advanced production technology exchanges industrial and agricultural products with agriculture with backward production technology, the price of industrial products is often higher than its own value because of the added value, and the price of agricultural products is often lower than its value. Value is also in the form of open scissors on the statistical graph, that is, the difference between industrial and agricultural scissors.

Take advantage of the convenience of the railway, everyone is bound to grow, but other colonies in the kingdom may grow by “ten”, while Georgia and Yuanfanling will grow by “twenty”. A small half will be taken by the latter unconsciously.

This is the essence of getting rich first!

Although the ownership of the colonies of the kingdoms along the “Binhai Railway” does not belong to Ivan, economic activities such as trade in goods have no borders.

With the help of the steam locomotive, it is enough to integrate the power of all twelve Falitis colonies today, allowing the Hou State to take the lead. And it is nothing more than a question of earning more and earning less, and other people will not suffer.

Although the three territories of Yuanfanling, Georgia, and Buffalo are not bordered, under the current measures, the combined influence of the three territories is far more than 460,000 square kilometers. Territory! The potential in Ivan’s hands has also greatly increased!