"Winter! Winter!"

The bell ringer of the bell tower of the town hall rang the bell clock for ten o'clock in the morning, and at the same time announced the official start of the bidding meeting for the first time in the world, and Arlord Knoll asked the clerk of the town hall to take out a stack of maps, distribute them to the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, and then said in a loud voice:

"I now announce that the tender for the road rehabilitation project in Hurgana and the surrounding area has officially begun! First of all, there is a tender for the repair and reconstruction of the internal roads of Helghana!

Representatives of the Chamber of Commerce participating in the bidding, these maps are the roads in the imperial capital that are scheduled to be repaired by the City Hall, with a total of 147 roads, including 59 avenues, 36 main roads, and the remaining 52 roads are relatively important secondary roads.

On these roads, there are many merchants passing by every day, and the specific situation needs to be judged by the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, so we will now start bidding and ask the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce to submit their bids!"

It was the first time that Director Arnold had presided over such a novel tender, and fortunately the road repair plan detailed what he needed to do.

After handing out the map with the names and serial numbers of the streets, he sat on the stage and waited for the chambers to submit their bids, and then asked the clerk of the city hall to mark them with charcoal on a wooden board behind him based on the estimated cost of the road targeted by the bid and the number of years the highway was charged.

Finally, after comparing and discussing the details, he, as the presiding officer, can finalize who won the bid among the participating chambers of commerce.

"The Colin Chamber of Commerce is willing to undertake the construction of Holmes Avenue, with an estimated project cost of 210 gold lundes, a construction period of 360 days, and an expected road usage fee collection period of 20 years!"

"The Greg Chamber of Commerce is willing to undertake the construction of Blue Flower Avenue, with an estimated project cost of 140 gold lund, an expected construction period of 200 days, and a road usage fee collection period of 15 years!"

"The Eugene Chamber of Commerce is willing to ......"

Soon, after receiving the bids, the clerks of the town hall with simple training reported the cost of the bids issued by the enlightened chambers of commerce and the expected number of years of the royalty.

"Wait! Your Excellency Ullens Colin, and Your Excellency Ellen Gregg, and Your Excellency Glaston Eugene, is there something wrong with your offer?"

Hearing these expected costs, a representative of a conservative chamber of commerce immediately stood up and questioned, and Alrod Knorr on the stage also frowned tightly.

Although he has not been engaged in road repair, as the director of the Helgana City Hall, Arrod Knorr also knows that the reason why the empire has not repaired the roads in the imperial capital for so long is because the cost of repairing the roads is too high, basically hundreds of gold lunds per rand.

And among the bids offered by the representatives of these chambers of commerce, Holmes Avenue, which is about two rands in total, only needs 210 gold lundes, and the blue flower avenue, which has a total length of one rand and a lot more, is only 140 gold lundes, which is really strange.

"Yes, as Viscount Ulysses Barlow said, three Chamber of Commerce representatives, is your offer a little too low.

Although the tender will not prohibit you from quoting such a low price, if you cannot complete the repair and reconstruction of the winning road with the predetermined amount, then according to the rules of our bidding committee, the additional costs will be borne by yourself.

At the same time, the power granted to you by the Imperial Administration and the City Hall to collect road usage fees will not be extended or anything, and it will be your business for the Chamber of Commerce to incur too much loss at that time!"

In order not to turn the tender into a farce, Director Arlord also followed closely behind Ulysses Barlow to remind the representatives of the three bidders.

"Of course, Director Alrod, we have carefully understood the rules of the bidding meeting long before participating in the bidding meeting, and since we dare to issue such a low price, it is naturally because we are confident that we can complete the construction of these roads at such a low price!"

In the face of Ulysses Barlow's questioning and Director Alode's reminder, Ullens Colin nodded calmly and replied, and the representatives of the chambers of commerce of the other business alliances also echoed each other.

This plan is for them to have cement this

The members of the business alliance of the sharp weapons are tailor-made, how can they not complete the project?

With cement, there is concrete that is more than ten times cheaper than stone.

It turned out that it would take more than 60 silver mar to build a one-meter-long road, but after visiting the Xinglan Industrial Park - the employee community road under construction in the industrial park, they knew that if they used concrete, the one-meter-long road would only cost a little more than 7 silver mar.

So even if the cost of the tender is kept down to such an extent, they can still make a lot of money on the project.

The roads they were targeting were all places where merchants often passed through and where there was a lot of traffic, and at the end of the day, even if they only charged 1 copper peis per carriage, they could easily receive hundreds or thousands of copper peps.

The average income from road usage fees of four or five silver mar a day seems to be very small, but it is 150 silver mar a month and 1,825 silver mar a year.

The cost of a concrete road is only one or two hundred gold lunents, and some trails only need sixty or seventy gold lundes.

Although the payback period is indeed a bit long, they also have loans that are half funded by commercial banks, and these loans can be repaid slowly with road royalties.

The advantages brought by such technical funds allow the member chambers of commerce of the business alliance to negotiate and choose the desired road section by themselves, and it is a profitable business no matter what.

Not to mention that the four conservative chambers of commerce were not ready to bid in the first place, and even if they wanted to, there was no way to compete with the member chambers of commerce of the business alliance.

"Finish it at such a low price? It's a bit unbelievable, but since you all know the rules of the bidding meeting, then I won't persuade you anymore, and the bidding will continue!"

Seeing that several of the Chamber of Commerce representatives who submitted their bids were very confident, Director Alrod shook his head and sat back in his seat, continuing to listen to the bidding prices compiled by the clerks.

However, as the bidding documents were announced, Director Alrod felt that something was getting more and more wrong, because the group of chambers of commerce that submitted bids seemed to be aiming at their own goals, and there was no repeated bidding.

Originally, according to the plan conveyed to them by the Administration Department, there should be many chambers of commerce competing for some good profitable roads, and in this case, the city hall can select the chamber of commerce with lower requirements as the winning bidder.

As a result, there was no argument at all, which made Director Arlord feel like a theatrical actor on stage, cooperating with these friendly bidders in a pre-arranged play.

And the representatives of the four conservative chambers of commerce also became more and more uneasy, because they found that the recent developments seemed to be somewhat out of their control, which was a very strange thing for the powerful conservatives.

It's not that they don't know about the establishment of business alliances by the enlightened faction, but the conservative upper echelons are currently focusing on other aspects, and they don't pay much attention to this kind of organization that looks similar to traditional guilds, so they don't link these changes to business alliances for the time being.