Chapter 43: Give Me Cement
The construction of a road with a total length of more than 5,000 kilometers, and almost half of which is open up through the Guò Mountain, is extremely difficult even on the highly technologically advanced earth.
Not to mention the difficulty of building roads, the most basic problem - capital investment - is simply a problem that is almost impossible to solve.
Riley's estimate of 50 million gold coins is already quite cautious, in fact, if he really wants to build such a road, the total investment before and after may even exceed 100 million gold coins.
With such a huge investment of funds, I am afraid that only two behemoths such as the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire can be taken out on the entire Sainz Continent.
Beyond that, no other country or chamber of commerce could possibly afford such a staggering investment on its own.
Nozdorm Business UK can't, and neither can the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
However, when President Cruise relayed the news that Riley had sent back from the Candela Empire to Xu Yi, Xu Yi was surprised by President Cruise and became interested in this crazy plan.
Looking at Xu Yi on the huge and very detailed map of the Sainz continent hanging on the wall of the manor's living room, with a serious thinking look, President Cruise couldn't help but cry and laugh.
"Hey, Xu Yi, don't you really plan to build such a road?"
"Why not?" Xu Yi turned his head, his eyes were blazing, and the expression on his face revealed a look of interest. "Don't you think that if such a road is built, it will be equivalent to completely linking the Duchy of Stantin with the countries east of the continent of Sainz? We could have gone to the east of the continent without going through the Candela Empire. It is even possible to build another road around the Candela Empire. To the north, you can connect the whole continent. ”
President Cruise shook his head with a wry smile: "I said Xu Yi, although you have always had a lot of crazy ideas, this idea is too unrealistic. It would cost at least 100,000,000,000 gold to build such a road, and you can afford it? I can assure you that the hellish commercial United Kingdom of Nozdorm will not be able to come up with that much money. ”
"Didn't the president of Gaza say that he didn't say when the road would be built? It was necessary to build this road, but it was too much of an investment. It is obviously impossible to fix it in the short term. Of course, such a huge project could not have been completed in a short period of time. Well...... Cruise, how long do you think it will take you to fix this if it is handed over to your Amrley Chamber of Commerce?"
President Cruise frowned, looked at the map, and thought for a moment, "It will take at least ten years. This is still in the case of making every effort to grasp the construction period. ”
"Well, we're tentatively scheduled to build this road in 20 years, so that the amount of money we need to invest each year is not so staggering that we can't afford it. Xu Yidao.
President Cruise couldn't help but sneer, "It's as if you can afford five million gold coins a year." Don't forget. You Xinfei Chamber of Commerce still need money to do something else. ”
"I didn't say to start building it now, did I?" Xu Yi smiled slightly. "There is no way to rush about this matter in the United Kingdom of Nozdorm, and I don't need to be in a hurry at all. So it's just the plan. Of course, in order to show our sincerity, I have decided to build a coastal road connecting the Duchy of Stantin to the Kingdom of Ruersun first, what do you think?"
President Cruise was stunned by Xu Yi's out-of-the-box thinking.
"The coastal road connecting the Duchy of Stantin to the Kingdom of Ruerson?" President Cruise looked at the map and nodded slowly. "That's a good idea. Now the Duchy of Stantin has only one road leading to the Kingdom of Ruersun, which is not so convenient. If another road were built to the south, it would be possible to better connect the Duchy of Stantin with the Kingdom of Ruersun. ”
"To put it bluntly, I hope to be able to rely on this road to promote the development of the south of the principality. Xu Yidao. "How much do you think this road will need to be invested?"
President Cruise pondered for a moment and shook his head, "I can't tell you an exact number without a field trip. All I can say is that it will be a lot higher than the current Sru Highway. ”
"Okay, then let's be sure first. I hope you can come up with a suitable plan as much as possible. ”
"Are you sure you want to build such a road?" asked President Crews.
"Sure. ”
"Well, I'm taking on this project on behalf of the Amrley Chamber of Commerce. President Cruise nodded, and suddenly the conversation changed. "But Xu Yi, can you grant me a request. ”
"Say it. ”
"Actually, I've asked for this many times, you ...... Can you transfer cement manufacturing technology to our Chamber of Commerce?" said President Cruise, with anticipation in his eyes. "The current projects of our Chamber of Commerce are far beyond the confines of the Lampari Kingdom and the surrounding countries, and the farthest is even more than 2,000 kilometers away. However, every time we have to ship cement from your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the extra cost is really amazing. So ......"
"Good. ”
President Cruise looked at Xu Yi in amazement.
"You...... You said yes?"
"Yes, I promised. Xu Yi smiled and nodded. "I can transfer the cement manufacturing technology to you, but you must strictly adhere to the standards set by our Chamber of Commerce. ”
President Crews looked incredulous.
He had mentioned this request to Xu Yi no less than ten times, but he had been rejected by Xu Yi every time before, why did he agree so readily this time?
"Because the time is right. Xu Yi replied with a smile.
President Cruise couldn't help frowning slightly.
What does it mean that the time is ripe, and what is it exactly?
However, Hsu didn't explain much, and President Cruise didn't ask much.
Anyway, with Xu Yi's consistent style of doing things, since he agreed, he will definitely not regret it.
After thinking about it, President Cruise couldn't help but laugh.
The main business of the Amritri Chamber of Commerce is now road paving and various construction projects.
Either way, a lot of cement is used.
Before that. All the cement used by the Amrley Chamber of Commerce is exclusively supplied by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has always cooperated happily with the Amrley Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi and President Crews also have a very good personal relationship. But such an important thing is completely in the hands of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which always makes President Cruise feel that his lifeline is in the hands of others, and he is always a little uneasy in his heart.
Now Xu Yi agreed to transfer cement manufacturing technology to the Amrley Chamber of Commerce, which immediately made him breathe a sigh of relief.
The two chatted for a while, and soon settled on a preliminary agreement.
The Amritra Chamber of Commerce will purchase all the cement manufacturing technology from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for 1 million gold coins, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will also send corresponding personnel to assist the Amritri Chamber of Commerce in building three cement processing plants in three countries, and provide a series of magic machine tools and equipment for cement production.
In simple terms. It is the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce that will help the Amritri Chamber of Commerce to complete the cement manufacturing independently.
After the discussion was decided, President Cruise asked Xu Yi with some doubts: "Hey, Xu Yi, why did you promise me? Although we spent a million gold coins for this, you should know very well that our Chamber of Commerce spends more than 1.5 million gold coins every year to buy cement from your Chamber of Commerce, and you can at least earn at least 500,000 gold coins from it." Now give us this technology, and if you want to make so much money from us in the future, it will definitely be impossible. Could it be ...... Do you want to ditch the cement business?"
"Do you think that only your Amrley Chamber of Commerce uses cement?" Xu Yi glanced at President Cruise and said with a smile: "Although your Amrley Chamber of Commerce is our chamber of commerce's largest cement customer. But in fact, there are many other chambers of commerce and individuals who are buying cement from us, even if you lose your biggest customer. We can still make a lot of money with guò cement. ”
"But I still think it's weird. You're just ...... Cut off your hands and feet......"
"How can it be so strict. Xu Yi smiled. "The main business of our chamber of commerce is magic machinery, and cement is really just an incidental product. ”
"One side item can make your Chamber of Commerce so much ...... a year," President Cruise muttered.
Xu Yi smiled, thinking that he had researched many collaterals in the process of researching magic machinery, 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, occupies a very important position, Xu Yi transferred the technology to the Amrley Chamber of Commerce, just hoping to rely on the strength of the Amrley Chamber of Commerce to expand this scale, but it 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 magic locomotive manufacturing factory of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
This time, President Cruise came to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the apparent purpose was to order a large cargo magic locomotive from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
As the Amrley Chamber of Commerce expanded its operations to more distant locations, the requirements for transportation gradually increased.
In the past, he could rely on a Filson carriage and horse company similar to the Filson Transport Chamber of Commerce to complete the transportation and supply of engineering materials, but now it seems that it is a little difficult to deal with it, so President Cruise intends to see the transportation fleet belonging to the Amrley Chamber of Commerce.
First of all, he certainly needs to buy enough freight magic locomotives.
Because of the large number of automatic magic machine tools put into use in various factories of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has now completely got rid of the negative impact of the previous general strike and large-scale layoffs, and even the overall production efficiency is much higher than before, and the production capacity has also been increased.
Although the production capacity of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce still cannot fully meet the demand due to too much demand, it has been able to make free arrangements for Xu Yi.
The Cargo Magic Locomotive is one of the most popular magical machines in the surrounding countries, and if it was before, even if the Amrley Chamber of Commerce wanted it, it would have to wait at least half a year to get the first shipment.
Now, however, Xu Yi can generously tell President Cruise that he can provide the first batch of ten large freight magic locomotives to the Amrley Chamber of Commerce in three months.
After receiving Xu Yi's affirmative answer, President Cruise left the Freight Magic Locomotive Factory satisfied.
But as soon as he walked out of the gate, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a strange magic locomotive in the distance, which looked a bit like a magical armored transporter, but with a thick pipe sticking out of it.
President Cruise was dumbfounded.
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