"Mr. Fogel, the construction of infrastructure transportation requires a huge amount of investment, and it is obviously not enough to rely on the financial investment of the Far Eastern government, we have adopted two modes to raise funds, one of which is to issue the railway bonds that Anthony just mentioned, you are a big banker, I don't need to say much about this."

"It's not unusual that all countries in Vares are issuing transport bonds, the Far Eastern Railway bonds are not small, but the discounts are ridiculously low, frankly I'm not very interested, and I'd like to know more about another way to raise funds than to issue bonds."

"The second way of fundraising is a small innovation of mine, and the core lies in the ...... of 'franchise'," Roland told the story of "bot" and its derivative models.

Palatina couldn't understand and couldn't help but yawn. However, I noticed that both Old Fogel and Little Alberton leaned their heads close to Roland, their eyes were intent, and they nodded their heads like chickens pecking rice, as if they were listening to some evangelistic gospel. It can be seen that the construction model created by Roland is very valuable, otherwise it would not have made the two business celebrities pay so much attention. At the thought of this, Palatine couldn't help but cheer up, even if she couldn't understand what Roland was saying, just watching him talk and laugh and make the celebrities of the empire's business circles bow down and bow down. No way, after all, appearance is justice.

"It's really an imaginative initiative, and the concession is selling so well, it's no wonder that your railroad bonds are so discounted." Old Fogel suddenly realized. The Far East's transportation construction funds are mainly raised by auctioning concessions, and the issuance of railway bonds is a dispensable thing, and the discount is reasonable.

"Are you interested in investing in the Far Eastern Railway, or do you want to divert Roland's methods to the Empire's transportation construction?" Anthony asked Dad eagerly. The Fogel family's investment in the Far East has to go through the hands of him, the "regional general agent", and there is a lot of oil and water in the hands of the goose plucking the feathers back and forth.

The fat old man glanced at his son fiercely: "You shouldn't worry about things, talk less!" ”

"If you don't say it, forget it, why be so angry......" Anthony shrunk his neck, his face full of grievances.

Little Alberton laughed but didn't say a word. Anthony is still too young to speak without a brain. Even if old Fogel really wanted to invest in the Far Eastern Railway, could he admit it in front of Palatina and many imperial envoys? It is terrible to be told by someone to be informed, and to be charged with treason against the enemy. As for borrowing Roland's ideas, not to mention Jacob, an "old opportunist", even he wants to imitate in industry, but it is dishonorable to plagiarize other people's ideas, how can he admit it in public.

At this time, the locomotive in front of him sounded its whistle, the speed of the train slowed down significantly, and the passengers immediately realized that they were about to stop.

Palatina flipped through the railway timetable to see which stops the train would pass through on its way. At this time, a long whistle sounded outside the window, and the railroad tracks not far away trembled slightly, as if a train was approaching.

Train rendezvous was not uncommon, and Palatina glanced out the window nonchalantly, but what she saw by accident made her eyes widen and she let out a surprised "huh".

The moment the two trains staggered, Palatina noticed that the train on the opposite side was moving much slower than the train she was on, and it was not the magic locomotive that pulled the train, but four huge monsters.

There was a commotion in the carriage, and Palatina was not the only one who noticed something strange outside the window, most of the visitors from the empire had never seen such a scene, and they flocked to the window to watch the excitement and exclaimed.

The behemoths pulling the train outside the window looked scary, but their tempers were surprisingly tame, and they seemed to have long been accustomed to people's fussy reactions, and they didn't bother to lift their eyelids, dragged the carriage and ran away, and disappeared out of the window in a blink of an eye.

"That's the improved Highland Lothmon, our Far East railway traffic has just started, and the supply of magic locomotives is in short supply, so we came up with a local way to use Lothmon instead of locomotives to pull the train." Roland explained to the visitors, "Just a year ago, the train we took was also pulled by Loesmon, and it was replaced by a new type of magic locomotive that we developed and produced independently. ”

"In other words, there are still a lot of traction beasts working on the railway lines in the Far East?" Alberton Jr. asked Roland.

Roland nodded frankly.

"The production of our magic locomotives is constantly expanding, but it is still lagging behind the speed of the construction of railway tracks, the railway can not be idle when it is repaired, and the power gap is difficult to make up for a while, so it can only be replaced by animal power, and the total mileage of railways in the Far East has tripled in the past two years, and the number of trains pulling beasts has also tripled."

While chatting, the train sounded its whistle again, accompanied by the screeching sound of brakes, and slowly stopped in front of a rather imposing platform, and a group of gnomes with backpacks and boxes poured onto the platform like ant colonies, some boarding, some picking up people, and more small traders selling souvenirs along the platform.

"This is the 'Big Rabbit's Nest Town', a very important station on the Northern Railway Line, where the train will stay for half an hour, passengers who need to shop or smoke can get off the train and stroll, and the whistle will be sounded before the train departs to remind everyone." The sweet voice of the female flight attendant came over the on-board magic guide radio.

Roland got up and moved his hands and feet, and followed the passengers who were walking in groups of three and two to get out of the car and take a walk. After walking a short distance on the platform, I heard a familiar and rapid sound of footsteps behind me, and when I looked back, it was Her Royal Highness the Princess trotting after me, and her beautiful face showed a rare panic.

"Why did you panic and lose your wallet?" Roland was half-jokingly concerned.

Palatina gave him a blank look and complained angrily: "Don't mention it! As soon as I got out of the car, a large group of dwarfs came up and noisily sold all kinds of local products, and the most bizarre thing was an aunt, insisting that I try her own medicinal wine, and said that it had the miraculous effect of aphrodisiac! Neurotic! What aphrodisiac does I drink as a big girl!? Are you still laughing? I'm! ”

Roland laughed so hard that his stomach hurt, and he finally held back his smile and comforted Palatina calmly: "The town of Big Rabbit's Nest is the commercial center of this area, there is a way to rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the sea to eat the sea, the dwarf clan is close to the railway, and you are doing a passenger business, you are so beautiful, well-dressed and decent, at first glance you are a wealthy noble lady, of course those sharp-eyed hawkers will compete to sell you goods, as for that medicinal wine, it is said that the effect is good, do you want to buy two bottles to take back to the Holy City as gifts for relatives and friends." ”

"Give that kind of gift to relatives and friends, and I'll die of laughter!" Palatina flatly refused.

Roland smiled, took out two bottles of potion from the storage bag, and handed one to Palatina.