Celestial City, the City Lord's Mansion.

The three of them stared at a strategy book for a long time, and finally Jia Cong said slowly: "Although in modern society, logistics is not an uncommon thing, but in ancient times, was it really possible to implement it?" ”

Of course, what Jia Cong is talking about is not ancient times, but an online game set in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

However, although it is a game, it is also developed by checking some materials from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and if you want to do something ahead of your time in the "Real World", the system will generally not admit it.

Yes, if a player wants to develop a stirrup, and the system is set to appear at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty or the Wei and Jin dynasties of the Three Kingdoms, then even if the physical object is designed and hung on the horse, it will not be used. Specifically, DIY stirrups do exist, but players stepping on them are stepping on air.

"This should be no problem, we are not great inventors, and we have invented items that the system does not recognize or recognize. This logistics plan was like a post station, except that it was not used to deliver letters and rest for messengers, but was moved to the water and used to transport goods. Lu Shuang explained.

"Well, in fact, I think this plan can be implemented theoretically, it depends on the cooperation of players in various places, and whether Feitian City has the strength to meet the huge capacity demand and maintain the stability of the river area." Jia Cong believes that this logistics plan is feasible and suggests, "If you want to give advice, I personally think you can start a pilot first and see the effect before deciding whether to implement it." ”

Lu Shuang nodded, took Jia Cong's suggestion to heart, and looked at Tianyu and Si Ru again, asking their opinions.

"I don't have any other ideas for the time being, I just said that Jiacong also said that I will pilot it first and then promote it, otherwise such a large amount of work, in case of failure, it will be uncomfortable." Tianyu said that he had no opinion.

"Plus one." Si Ru echoed.

"Okay, then I'll trouble you then, I'll have someone send the funds over tomorrow, and your side should start acting as soon as possible." Seeing that the three of them had no opinion, then Lu Shuang didn't say anything, after all, Lu Shuang's family has a big business, even if this messes up, it won't hurt his vitality.

Regarding the logistics plan proposed to the Dragon Emperor and the others that day, it was actually not his whim, if he wanted to expand his influence to most of the thirteen states of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he needed not only military strength, but also a certain amount of soft power, and use interests to tie a group of player forces and even NPC forces to the chariot of Feitian City. What's more, there are still more than four years before the princes compete for hegemony open, even if the historical process will be accelerated, there will be a period of time left for Lu Shuang.

The so-called logistics plan is to use the remaining production capacity of Feitian City to transport goods to the player forces along the coast by waterway to meet the needs of the player forces for materials. At the same time, in the case of stopping by the way, the player forces along the coast can load their own goods and goods onto the transport ships with the remaining space, and dock at the port at their designated location to unload the goods, and only have to pay some transportation and management fees.

Yes, that's right, the main purpose of the logistics plan is to dump the products of Feitian City, and as for logistics, it is to make money by the way.

When a batch of goods departs from Tiefan City or Fuhai City, and goes up the Yangtze River to Jiangxia County or Nanyang County in Jingzhou, if the ship returns empty-ton after unloading, it will be a bit of a loss, wasting the capacity of a transport ship in vain, Lu Shuang also needs to pay the crew salary, and calculate the ship's loss rate. Even in modern society, it is impossible for a giant cargo ship with a displacement of hundreds of thousands of tons to transport goods to another country and then swim back empty, and the cost of burning oil twice can make the company lose money to bankruptcy.

Another consideration in this logistics plan is that raw materials, timber ores, etc., can be purchased from other places. Feitian City and Fuhai City are both manufacturing centers, but with the resources in the territory alone, I am afraid that they will be exhausted in a few years, and the production capacity of raw materials will definitely be able to support consumption.

The combination of many factors gave birth to this logistics plan.

Lu Shuang discussed with his subordinates in the territory for several days, and also chatted with ministers with experience in logistics and transportation, and finally formulated this plan.

The specific method is to publish relevant announcements on the official website of the guild through the channel of the Celestial Phenomena Guild, and give various list data, such as how much to charge per cubic meter or per kilometer of goods, and how much compensation should be paid for the loss of this batch of goods if the transport ship is sunk or robbed, all of which are clearly written on the list data.

If you need logistics services, fill in the relevant information through the link developed by the Celestial Phenomenon Association, and submit a certain deposit with RMB, and return the deposit after the goods arrive smoothly to prevent the pigeons from being released in default. The logistics cost includes the labor cost of general boxes, loading and unloading, but the ship will only dock at the designated port, so the person placing the order must pull the goods to the designated port in advance, and receive the goods at the port of discharge in advance.

If the party who placed the order does not pay the final payment, it will be permanently blacklisted, and the deposit and all goods will be confiscated. If the goods fail to arrive at the designated port due to the reasons of the transporter, the transporter, that is, Feitian City, will make compensation, so Lu Shuang will vigorously eliminate pirates and other thieves.

Many of the above operations require players to achieve, so Lu Shuang found the Celestial Planet Guild to help. Orders are received in reality, sorted and passed on to players at designated ports, who enter the game to arrange shifts based on the information of the order, or organize loading and unloading. These people do not work for free, Lu Shuang will pay them a high salary, and they can choose RMB settlement or game currency settlement. Because RMB is legal tender, even if the exchange ratio with the game currency is one-to-one, its value is still higher than the virtual currency of the game currency, and the player who chooses the end of the game currency will have a salary 10% higher than the salary that chooses to settle in RMB.

In addition, those who are interested in participating in the construction of the designated port can also contact the senior management of the Celestial Planet Guild. Generally speaking, players who have excellent ports and are within the scope of this logistics plan will consider participating in the construction of designated ports. Because once the designated port for loading and unloading is built on their territory, they can charge some docking fees for ships docking at this port, although this fee is not much, but no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, and it can be regarded as an additional way of self-hematopoiesis in the game.

In addition, the player forces that operate the designated port can also provide supplies of necessities such as fresh water and food for the personnel of the ships passing and circulating, as well as provide services such as pulling boats in the territory. And those player forces that unload the goods at the port, unless they send someone to pull the goods back to the territory immediately after unloading, they generally have to rent a warehouse for storage, which is another income.

If you have the foresight, you can also build a township near the port, the crew can't be on board all day, there is always a time to get off the ship and rest, then you can go to the town to rest and have fun, the more people go to this township to spend, the more income the territory will have.

However, Lu Shuang is not such a kind-hearted person who helps to work for free, he invests at most 30% to build the port, and this 30% is still labor costs, that is, Feitian City is only responsible for sending people to help build it, and other materials or drawings are all thrown to the player's forces. The reason given by Lu Shuang is very simple, this port is built in your territory, and it will also belong to you in the future, I can't build a port of mine in your territory, and then after the princes start the hegemony, they will send soldiers all the way to defend it, right?

What's more, large ports are not built by ordinary professions, and a very disgusting profession is needed - architects. At present, most of the player forces are limited by the rank of architects, such as the Nanmeng and the Sakurayuki Guild, they have picked up a king-level shipbuilder, but they can't build a four-masted sailboat, because there is no ultimate dock, and the reason why there is no ultimate dock is that there is no king-level architect. The profession of architect is new after the system is updated, and the top ten guilds reluctantly let an S-level NPC be an architect as soon as they knew about it, and they haven't reached the king-level level yet, let alone other guilds.

If Lu Shuang is a little more shameless, he can say that he can help these players build large ports for free, without charging a penny, and let them participate in the logistics plan to make money together, which is simply a good person.

Therefore, Lu Shuang is not worried that no one will fund the construction of a port, and even those guilds with stronger strength will rush to ask for a place in a port, which will be of great benefit to their development territory.