Building a road with a total mileage of more than 5,000 kilometers, and almost half of which has to be dug through mountains, is extremely difficult even on an earth with highly advanced technology. ◎The top novel,
Not to mention the difficulty of road construction, just the most basic issue - capital investment - is an almost impossible problem to solve.
Riley's estimate of 50 million gold coins is quite cautious. In fact, if you really want to build such a road, the total investment may even exceed 100 million gold coins.
With such a huge capital investment, I am afraid that only two behemoths like the Candela Empire and the Malo Empire in the entire Sainz Continent can afford it.
Apart from this, it is impossible for any other country or chamber of commerce to independently undertake such an astonishing financial investment.
The United Kingdom of Commerce in Nozdormu is not good, and neither is the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
However, when President Cruise conveyed the news that Riley had sent back from the Kandra Empire to Xu Yi, Xu Yi, to President Cruise's surprise, actually became very interested in this crazy plan.
Seeing Xu Yi carefully looking at the huge and very detailed map of Sainz continent hanging on the wall of the manor's living room, looking like he was thinking seriously, President Cruz couldn't help but feel a little dumbfounded.
"Hey, Xu Yi, are you really planning to build such a road?"
"Why not?" Xu Yi turned his head, his eyes bright, and his face showed a look of interest. "Don't you think that if such a road is successfully built, it will be equivalent to completely connecting the Principality of Standing with the countries to the east of Sainz Continent? You see, if this road is built, we can travel without passing through the Candela Empire. Going to the east of the continent, we can even build a road to the north, bypassing the Kandra Empire, and then we can connect the entire continent."
President Cruz smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Let me tell Xu Yi, although you have always had many crazy ideas, this idea is too unrealistic. It would cost at least 100 million gold coins to build such a highway. You Is it possible to get it? I can guarantee that the damn Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom will not be able to get that much money."
"Didn't the Gaza president say that he didn't say when this road would be built? I have the same opinion as him. This road is necessary to be repaired, but the investment is too large. Obviously it can't be repaired in the short term. . Of course, such a huge project cannot be completed in a short period of time... Cruise, how long do you think it will take you to complete the project if it is handed over to your Amley Chamber of Commerce?"
President Cruise frowned, looked at the map, and thought for a moment: "It will take at least ten years. This is if we make every effort to grasp the construction deadline."
"Well, let's tentatively plan to build this road in twenty years, so that the annual investment will not be too shocking and unaffordable." Xu Yidao.
President Cruz couldn't help but sneer: "You make it sound like you can afford five million gold coins a year. Don't forget. Your New Flying Chamber of Commerce still needs money to do other things."
"I didn't say we'd start building it now, right?" Xu Yi smiled slightly. "The Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom cannot be anxious about this matter, and I don't need to be anxious at all. So this is just a plan. Of course, in order to express our sincerity, I decided to first build a road connecting the Principality of Standing to Luersun. What do you think of the Kingdom’s coastal highway?”
President Cruise was stunned by Xu Yi's out-of-the-box thinking.
"The coastal highway connecting the Principality of Standing to the Kingdom of Luersun?" President Cruz looked at the map carefully and nodded slowly. "This is a good idea. Currently, there is only one road from the Principality of Standing to the Kingdom of Luersun, which is not that convenient. If another road is built in the south, the Principality of Standing and the Kingdom of Luersun can be better connected. ”
"To put it bluntly, I hope to rely on this highway to promote the development of the southern part of the principality." Xu Yidao. "How much investment do you think this road needs?"
President Cruise pondered for a moment and shook his head: "I can't tell you an accurate figure without conducting on-site inspections. I can only say that it should be much higher than the current Slu Highway."
"Okay, let's make sure first. I hope you can come up with a suitable plan as soon as possible."
"Are you sure you want to build such a road?" President Cruz asked.
"Sure."
"Well, I will take over this project on behalf of the Armli Chamber of Commerce." President Cruz nodded and suddenly changed the subject. "But Xu Yi, can you agree to my request?"
"explain."
"Actually, I have made this request many times. Can you... can you transfer the cement manufacturing technology to our chamber of commerce?" President Cruz's eyes were full of expectation. "The various projects of our Chamber of Commerce are now far from being limited to the Kingdom of Lampali and the surrounding countries. The farthest ones are even more than two thousand kilometers away from here. However, every time we have to fly from your new Chamber of Commerce headquarters to The extra cost of transporting cement all the way is really staggering..."
"good."
President Cruise looked at Xu Yi in astonishment.
"You...you agreed?"
"Yes, I agreed." Xu Yi smiled and nodded. "I can transfer the cement manufacturing technology to you, but you must strictly abide by the standards set by our chamber of commerce."
President Cruise looked incredulous.
He has made this request to Xu Yi no less than ten times, but Xu Yi rejected it every time before. Why did he agree so readily this time
"Because the time is ripe." Xu Yi replied with a smile.
President Cruise couldn't help but frown slightly.
What does it mean that the time is ripe? What is it specifically
However, Xu Yi didn't explain much, and President Cruise didn't ask any questions.
Anyway, with Xu Yi's usual style of dealing with things, since he agreed, he would never go back on his word.
After thinking about it, President Cruise couldn't help but laugh.
The current main business of the Armley Chamber of Commerce is road paving and various construction projects.
No matter which one it is, a lot of cement will be used.
Before that. All the cement used by Amli Chamber of Commerce is exclusively provided by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has always cooperated happily with the Amuli Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi also has a very good personal relationship with President Cruise. But such an important thing is completely in the hands of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which always makes President Cruise feel that his life is being controlled by others, and he always feels a little uneasy.
Now Xu Yi agreed to transfer the cement manufacturing technology to the Armli Chamber of Commerce, which immediately made him feel relieved.
The two chatted for a while and soon concluded a preliminary agreement.
The Amri Chamber of Commerce will purchase all cement manufacturing technology from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for one million gold coins, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will also send corresponding personnel to assist the Amri Chamber of Commerce in building three cement processing plants in three countries. The factory also provides a series of magic machine tools and equipment required for cement production.
simply put. It is the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce that will help the Amuli Chamber of Commerce to independently complete cement manufacturing.
After the discussion was finalized, President Cruise asked Xu Yi with some doubts: "Hey, Xu Yi, why did you agree to me? Although we spent one million gold coins on this, you should know very well that our chamber of commerce will receive more money from your chamber of commerce every year. It will cost you more than 1.5 million gold coins to buy cement. You can at least earn 500,000 gold coins from it. Now that you have given us this technology, if you want to make so much money from us in the future, you will be sure. It’s impossible. Do you want to abandon the cement business?”
"Do you think you are the only Amuli Chamber of Commerce that uses cement?" Xu Yi glanced at President Cruise and smiled: "Although your Amuli Chamber of Commerce is the largest cement customer of our chamber of commerce, in fact there are still Many other chambers of commerce and individuals are buying cement from us, and we can still make a lot of money through cement even if we lose your biggest customer.”
"But I still think this is strange. You are simply... cutting off your limbs..."
"It's not that serious." Xu Yi laughed. "The main business of our chamber of commerce is magic machinery, and cement is actually just a by-product."
"A single accessory can make your chamber of commerce earn so much in a year..." President Cruz couldn't help but muttered.
Xu Yi smiled, thinking that in the process of researching magic machinery, he had developed many accessories, and the benefits generated were also extremely huge, and cement was just one of them.
Of course, for modern industry, cement is one of the indispensable building materials and occupies a very important position. Xu Yi transferred the technology to the Amri Chamber of Commerce, hoping to expand the scale with the help of the Amri Chamber of Commerce. , does not mean that he intends to give up completely.
After chatting with President Cruise for a while, the two left Xu Yi's private office together and came to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Magic Motorcycle Manufacturing Factory.
This time, President Cruise came to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce with the apparent purpose of ordering a large freight magic motorcycle from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
As the Armley Chamber of Commerce expanded its operations to more distant locations, the requirements for transportation gradually increased.
In the past, it was possible to rely on the Filson Cart and Horse Company, which had been renamed Filson Transportation Chamber of Commerce, to complete the transportation and supply of project materials. Now it seemed that it was difficult to cope with it, so President Cruz planned to use the transportation fleet belonging to the Armley Chamber of Commerce.
First, of course, he needs to purchase enough magic freight locomotives.
Because of the large-scale use of automatic magic machine tools in various factories of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has now completely got rid of the negative impact caused by the previous general strikes and layoffs. The overall production efficiency is even much higher than before, and the production capacity It also improved a bit.
Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's production capacity still cannot fully meet the demand due to too much demand, it has enough room for Xu Yi to make arrangements freely.
The magic freight locomotive is one of the most popular magic machines in the surrounding countries. If it were in the past, even if the Amri Chamber of Commerce wanted it, it would have to wait at least half a year to get the first batch of goods.
But now Xu Yi can openly express to Chairman Cruise that the first batch of ten large freight magic locomotives can be provided to the Armli Chamber of Commerce in three months.
After receiving Xu Yi's confirmation reply, President Cruise left the Freight Magic Locomotive Factory with satisfaction.
But just as he walked out of the gate, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a strange magic locomotive in the distance that looked a bit like a magic armored transport vehicle, but had a thick tube sticking out of it, slowly driving past.
President Cruz was stunned.
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