Chapter 67: The Rails
Kaichi decided to take a break for a few days, and reconstructing the spell model was not something that could be done overnight.
Remembering that Zibio had also entrusted himself to help him create a new mechanical life, just in time to study Taling and change his brain. There were also a few rock golems caught in his storage bracelet that he had caught in the Sealed Land, and he would have forgotten about Zibbio's commission if it hadn't been for Zibio's commission.
Take out the rock puppet, the puppet huddles in the yard and does not move, it looks like an ordinary stone, Jia Yi went up and kicked twice, but the other party is still motionless.
Play dead.
If it weren't for the fact that these puppets were caught by himself, he would have wondered if the big stones he brought back were really big stones.
Rock golems don't count as real elemental life, the last rock giant they saw on the island can barely be counted, but it was only forcibly spawned by the demon god, the weakness is obvious, and the lifespan is very short, compared to the real rock giant or elemental giant, it is simply a one-off thing.
He was studying the rock golem when Jancy and Queenie walked over with Ou Lei.
"What are you doing with this big rock?" Queenie looked at Kaichi's appearance and felt a little puzzled, the rock golem was too well disguised.
Jia Yi walked away from the puppet: "Why do you have time to come to my side? ”
"Is there anything special about this stone?" Yang Xi walked up to the rock golem and looked up and down curiously, but he couldn't see anything special.
Queenie was stronger, saw a little clue, reached out to the rock, spit out the magic power in his hand, the entire rock puppet suddenly jumped up, took a step towards the outside of the yard and ran, frightened Yang Xi in front of a spirit, immediately stretched out the shield, jumped to the side, rolled away from the rock puppet.
Queenie flipped her palm, and the palm of her hand was facing the running golem, and a rune circle appeared at the foot of the rock golem, which immediately fixed the rock golem in place, and also stretched its limbs to fix, looking like Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man".
"It's a rock puppet, how can it be so well hidden?" Yang Xi felt a little hot on his face, he didn't expect to be startled by a rock puppet, and there was some annoyance in his shame.
Queenie stepped forward and looked the rock golem up and down, "Indeed, where did this puppet come from? He even ran away. ”
Mages also have spells to summon golems, and mages who are proficient in alchemy spells can even summon steel golems with steel weapons, but these golems can only perform simple tasks and do not have such good hidden abilities. Puppets can't be considered real life, they lack real intelligence, and if they are not maintained by mage spells, it won't take long to collapse, but this puppet is obviously very different.
"This is a puppet that I caught on the island where the Demon Domain was sealed, and it was infected by the evil aura of the Great Demon God, and it can restrain its vitality, not only can it hide its disguise, but it can also greatly extend its existence. ”
"It's really different. Yang Xi stretched out his hand and touched the rock puppet, a little curious but not paying much attention, "But I'm not here to play with you this time, you know? ”
"Is it serious? I remember that the products of the United Chamber of Commerce should sell very well, but what has happened now?"
It has not been a few years since the United Chamber of Commerce was formed, and the market should be far from saturation.
"The products of the United Chamber of Commerce are still very popular, and the problem is the mine. Since the establishment of the blast furnace, the output of the mine has increased significantly, but the United Chamber of Commerce alone is far from consuming, and now there is a lot of backlog of steel, and Mage Belena is now a headache. There was a little problem in the mine in the past two days, and he rushed over, if it weren't for this, he would have come over in person. "Heshun
The Pei Chamber of Commerce in Bellena is mainly engaged in the mining business, and it is one of the major shareholders of the United Chamber of Commerce, and everyone cooperates very well, so Yangxi will come to discuss the problem of the mine with Jiayi, if the Pei Chamber of Commerce is too affected, the United Chamber of Commerce will inevitably be affected, affecting the stability of the supply of raw materials.
In order to alleviate the pressure of the Best Chamber of Commerce, the United Chamber of Commerce has purchased a lot of metal materials from the Best Chamber of Commerce, but the United Chamber of Commerce is not a large steel user, but more precision instruments, and now there is a backlog of a large number of materials in the warehouse.
The main problem is the inconvenience of transportation, the inconvenience of the sale of steel smelted by the Pei Chamber of Commerce, the freight to the distance is too expensive, the sale is cheap, and the sale is expensive and it is not cost-effective. And the road is not peaceful, if you encounter a sea beast attack, it is almost a loss.
The most lucrative is actually the weapons business, if the steel of the Pei Chamber of Commerce can be made into weapons, even if the freight and loss are counted, it is very profitable, but the parliament remains neutral in the secular country, and a large number of weapons are also restricted by the council, and this business cannot be done if you want to.
"Now the warehouses of the Pei Chamber of Commerce cannot be placed, and in order to facilitate storage, the steel can only be made into rails to facilitate the transportation of ore and steel. Now that the mine is in trouble again, if it doesn't solve the problem, Mage Belena is ready to close the largest mine and reduce production. ”
Yang Xi said with some sighs, steel has always been in short supply, but he didn't expect that there would be a day when production capacity overflowed.
The steel market around Moshacher is almost monopolized by the Pei Chamber of Commerce, and if it weren't for the fact that there are several chambers of commerce behind other high-level mages, there would definitely be only one Bei Chamber of Commerce left in the entire market. Even so, those chambers of commerce have lost most of the market and are now trying to build their own blast furnaces.
In order to maintain profits, the Pei Chamber of Commerce would rather close the mine than reduce the price too much, let alone now when it is almost monopolized by itself. Several chambers of commerce that he almost drove out of the market did not want to fight a price war, maintained a certain tacit understanding with the Pei Chamber of Commerce, and did not think of gaining the market by cutting prices.
Of course, it is also possible that they cannot afford to fight a price war.
"Railroad tracks, in that case, why not build rails in Moshacher to transport goods? There is a lot of freight transportation on the island, and if there are rails, it will certainly greatly speed up the speed of freight and reduce the burden on the docks. ”
Jia Yi didn't expect that the mine had already started to use rails, and even so, then the train could be rolled out.
"Building railroad tracks at the docks? Is the town hall willing? It's a lot of money. Yang Xi was still a little hesitant, but he was a little moved, if the railroad tracks were really built on the island, then the steel needed would be larger, and even the current steel production of the Pei Chamber of Commerce was not necessarily enough, and the mines of several other chambers of commerce could also have some turnaround.
Bellena is also unwilling to force too much, those chambers of commerce are also high-level mages, if there is a conflict in the end, it will not be worth the loss.
Jiayi said: "It is certainly impossible for steel to maintain the current high price, and it is necessary to reduce prices." However, in addition to the wharf, railroad tracks may also be built in the city for public transportation to facilitate everyone's travel. There can even be a railroad track around the island in the back to facilitate transportation on the island. ”
Moshacher is the name of the island and the name of the city, and most of the time it refers to the city of Moshacher. The city of Mochacher is probably the largest island city in the entire main material realm, with a large population and repeated expansion, as no flights are allowed in the city, and travel is carried out by horse-drawn carriage or bicycle. Therefore, the bus route proposed by Jiayi is very feasible.
The island of Moshacher is much larger, almost half the size of Hainan Island, and the city of Moshacher occupies only a small part of it, and if it can be implemented, a railway network can be built on the island to expand a few satellite cities.
Queenie had been listening, and then said: "This is indeed a feasible way, as long as you can convince the council, the town hall may not have much money, but the council will certainly not lack this money, as long as the council thinks it is necessary." ”
Jia Yi said: "In fact, it doesn't cost much, the use of rail transportation on the dock can charge tolls, we can also make machinery to drive the carriage on the rails, the speed and transportation volume will be greatly increased, even if the charge is definitely more cost-effective than their own transportation, I believe these businesses know how to choose." ”
Mochacher is really a good place to build railroad tracks, not only here is this strength, if it is in other places, even the capital is likely to build railroad tracks on the first day, and they will be picked up and sold that night.