Of course, President Pompeii is not a fool, and Philson's Horse Racing Company does not have too much money for nothing.
The reason why he proposed to build the road from Bonta City to Saltan City was because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's construction of the road from Bonta City to Kalma City was not hidden from anyone at all. The city government announced it to the public in the municipal square.
Regarding this matter, both the newspapers in Bonta City and the newspapers in Kalma City have carried out a lot of reports, and even the newspapers in Anvilmar City have also carried out a series of related reports.
Everyone knows from these reports that after the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce completes the construction of this road, it will set up a toll station on the road to collect tolls from all carriages passing the road.
Regarding this, most people said they didn't care, and a few people scoffed.
Is Xinfei Chamber of Commerce crazy? You actually want to make money by collecting tolls
Do you want to collect money? That's simple. The worst I can do is not take this broken road.
Anyway, this road was built at another location and will not affect the current road between Bangta City and Kalma City.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's attempt to recoup its investment in highway construction by collecting tolls is probably just wishful thinking.
However, other people may think so, but it does not mean that President Pompeii will also think so.
As the president of Feilson Car and Horse Racing Shop, he knows better than anyone how much impact a good road can have on the car and horse racing shop's business.
Not to mention anything else, Feilson Carriage and Horse Racing's losses on carriages alone are as high as 100,000 to 150,000 gold coins every year.
And if you include the wear and tear caused by horses running on inferior roads, this number is even close to a full two hundred thousand gold coins.
President Pompeii had thought before that if every road in the Lampali Kingdom could be as smooth as the road paved with pure marble slabs in front of the palace in Anvilmar. Then Ferson can save at least 100,000 gold coins in fixed losses alone.
And because of road improvements. The speed of the carriage will also increase accordingly. People’s travel efficiency will be improved, and the business of horse and carriage shops will be better.
However, all these good wishes came to nothing in the end.
Although the road in front of the palace is only 500 meters long and 10 meters wide, because all the materials are made of fine marble and carefully polished by highly skilled stonemasons, the total cost is as much as 70,000 gold coins.
If you want to turn all the roads in Lampali Kingdom into that, it will cost gold coins. I'm afraid even the royal family of the Candela Empire, known as the richest on the entire continent, can't afford it.
President Pompeii once gave up this extravagant hope until he saw the road built by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Although this road is a little worse than the extremely smooth road in front of the palace, it is countless times better than those dilapidated gravel roads.
If President Pompeii were given the choice, even if he had to pay a certain toll, he would definitely choose to let all the cargo and passenger carriages of Filson Carriage and Horses run on such a road.
He was also certain that even if other chambers of commerce could not see the significance of this road now, after comparison, they would definitely choose to let their own chamber's carriages travel on a flat road.
Leaving aside the reduction in cargo losses caused by carriages traveling on flat roads. The time saved alone is no longer comparable to the mere toll charges.
Therefore, President Pompeii made a decision almost instantly. There is actually a lot of potential for collecting highway tolls.
So he immediately found Xu Yi and immediately applied to Count Satsuma to build a road.
Of course, the most important factor that prompted him to make up his mind was... the cost of building the highway was low enough.
According to Xu Yi, the total length of the road leading to the Falling Rain Valley was 57 kilometers, and the final cost was less than 200,000 gold coins.
The total length of building a road from Bangta City to Kalma City is approximately 70 kilometers, and it is expected to cost only about 300,000 gold coins.
Although Bangta City is a little far away from Saltan City, based on this standard, it will not cost more than 400,000 gold coins to survive. Feilson Carriage and Horse Racing can completely afford it.
The most important thing is that when other chambers of commerce react and start building roads, I believe that it will not be long before all the roads in the entire Lampali Kingdom will be replaced by roads.
At that time, the one who benefited the most from this was undoubtedly Filson Cars and Horses, which relied most on road traffic conditions.
"Hey, that guy in Pompeii must be feeling happy now. He feels that your New Flying Chamber of Commerce is really trying its best to help their Philson carriage." President Cruz looked at the speeding carriage that was quickly retreating. Jingjing curled his lips, looked back at Xu Yi, shook his head and said: "Actually, he didn't expect that all this was planned by you early in the morning."
Xu Yi also looked away from the window, patted the cushion he sat on casually, and said with a smile: "That's not entirely true. Look, if all the roads in the Lampali Kingdom become this flat On the road, at least we will be much more comfortable when riding in a carriage."
The carriage the two of them were riding in was now driving on the Luoyu Highway that had just been completed. Because of the flatness of the road, although the whole carriage kept moving at a high speed, it was still very stable. Sitting in it was far different from those ordinary broken cars before. Driving on gravel and dirt roads is so bumpy and uncomfortable.
President Cruz laughed and nodded: "That's right. After walking on this road a few times, I simply can't bear it if you ask me to ride a carriage on those dirt roads before. Alas, I don't know why. At that time, all the roads in our Lampali Kingdom can become such comfortable roads.”
Xu Yi pondered for a moment and said: "It shouldn't take too long. After the construction of this Luoyu Highway, newspapers from all over the two countries in Lampa reported it, and the royal family vigorously promoted it. Now the entire Lampali Kingdom knows about it. The convenience brought by roads. Coupled with the royal family's promotion of the two roads being built by our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and Filson Carriage and Horse Racing, I believe that it may not take long for many chambers of commerce in the kingdom to realize the benefits of building roads. , you will find that many people come to your Armley Chamber of Commerce to help build roads.”
President Cruz frowned slightly: "With the current capabilities of our Chamber of Commerce, building two roads at the same time is already trying our best. If more people want to build roads, I'm afraid we won't be able to cope."
"Then are you willing to give up the technology of building cement roads and let other chambers of commerce share it with you?"
Facing Xu Yi's joke, President Cruise quickly shook his head without thinking.
"Of course it's impossible. In this case, President Xu, I will take this opportunity to order twenty sets of concrete equipment from you. In addition, I also hope that you can speed up the research and development of other road engineering magic machines. I am eager to use them now."
"The equipment is okay, but where are the people?" Xu Yi asked. "Now in Bangta City, I guess you can't find enough manpower?"
Hearing Xu Yi mention people, President Cruise sighed and said with a wry smile: "Speaking of this, I really don't know whether to praise you or scold you."
"Oh? How do you say this?" Xu Yixiao asked.
"Before your New Flying Chamber of Commerce popped up, you could see idlers everywhere in Bangta City. If I offered three gold coins a month, there would be a lot of people rushing to work. But now, your New Flying Chamber has opened on its own. Several factories have recruited more than a thousand people, and they have also come up with some kind of support plan for small chambers of commerce. Now the whole Bangta City is recruiting people. I want to recruit more people to build roads, but guess what. Guess what?"
"What? Can't recruit?" Xu Yi asked.
"It's not impossible to recruit. But I just want to recruit a handyman who can shovel the roadbed, and they dare to ask me for a salary of seven gold coins a month. It's simply robbery!" President Cruz said angrily.
Xu Yi couldn't help but laugh: "That's right, it's only seven gold coins, so it's not too much. The starting monthly salary for a new worker we recruit is ten gold coins."
President Cruise glared at Xu Yi: "Who can compare with your New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce! You guys have always been lavish, and to put it bluntly, you are a prodigal. In fact, in the final analysis, if your New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce hadn't raised the workers' salaries so much first Gao, it won’t be so difficult for us chambers of commerce.”
"I explained this problem to you last year. The increase in workers' wages is an inevitable result of economic development, and it cannot be changed by my New Flying Chamber of Commerce. With the current demand for manpower in Bangta City, even if our Chamber of Commerce does not increase Sooner or later, other chambers of commerce will also increase their wages. You may not know that some chambers of commerce wanted to poach workers from our factory and even offered them a salary of 20 gold coins a month."
"Twenty gold coins? Which chamber of commerce is crazier than you?" President Cruz asked in surprise. “Then wouldn’t all your workers be poached?”
"It's not one chamber of commerce, but many. Chambers of commerce that want to produce magic machines like us are now poaching our workers. Maybe they think that by poaching all our workers, they can be like our chamber of commerce. "Really?" A trace of sarcasm flashed across Xu Yi's face. "But fortunately, most of our workers are dwarves and are relatively loyal. So far, only a dozen human workers have left, so the impact is not big."
President Cruz looked at Xu Yi with envy: "Why can't I hire so many dwarves? Dwarves are not only strong and physically fit, but they are also willing to endure hardships and have good craftsmanship. They are really the most suitable workers. Hello, Xu Yi, since you know so many dwarves, can you introduce some to our chamber of commerce? I promise to give them a high salary! How about a minimum of ten gold coins a month?"
"You shouldn't ask me about this, you should ask the dwarves themselves." Xu Yi shrugged, pointing to the shadows of the two green mountains that had gradually emerged outside the carriage window. "There are so many dwarves living in Falling Rain Valley now. If you have the ability, recruit them all to your Chamber of Commerce." (To be continued...)