Chapter 50 Labor Shortage

Of course, President Pomberg is not an idiot, nor is it that Philson's car dealership is useless with too much money.

The reason why he proposed to build the road from Bangta City to Saltan City is because the New Flying Chamber of Commerce did not hide the fact that the road from Bangta City to Kalmar City was built by anyone. It was announced by the City Lord's Mansion on the Municipal Square.

Regarding this matter, both the newspapers in Bangta City and the newspapers in Kalmar City have carried out a lot of reports, and even the newspapers in Anweimar City have carried out a series of related reports.

Everyone knows from these reports that after the new aircraft business association finishes building the road, it will set up a toll station on the road to collect tolls for all carriages passing on the road.

For this, most people said that it doesn't matter, and a few people scoffed.

Is the New Flying Chamber of Commerce crazy? Still want to make money by charging tolls?

Do you want to receive money? That's simple, I'm a big deal and don't take this broken road.

Anyway, this road was built at another site, and it does not affect the current road between Bangta City and Karma City.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is trying to recover the investment in road construction by collecting tolls. I am afraid it is simply wishful thinking.

However, other people would think so, but it did not mean that President Pompey would also think so.

As the chairman of Philson's Carriage, he knows better than anyone how much a good road will affect the car's business.

If nothing else, the annual loss of Philson's carriages alone is as high as 100,000 to 150,000 gold coins.

And if you count the losses caused by horses running on inferior roads, this number is even close to a full 200,000 gold coins.

President Pompeii had thought before that if every road in the Lampari Kingdom could be as smooth as the road in front of the royal palace in Anvilmar City, which was paved with pure marble slabs. Then Felson's car dealership can save at least 100,000 gold coins in fixed losses.

And because of improved roads. The speed of the carriage will also increase. People's travel efficiency will be improved, and the business of car dealers will be better.

However, all these good wishes came to nothing in the end.

Although the road in front of the palace is only 500 meters long and 10 meters wide, because all the materials are made of high-quality marble and carefully polished by skilled masons, the total cost is as high as 70,000 gold coins.

It takes gold coins to make all the roads in Lampari's kingdom like that. I'm afraid even the royal family of the Candela Empire, which is known as the richest in the entire continent, can't afford it.

President Pomperi once gave up this extravagant hope until he saw the road built by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

Although this road is a little worse than the incomparably smooth road in front of the palace, it is countless times better than those tattered gravel roads.

If President Pomperi had the choice, even if he had to pay a certain toll for it, he would definitely choose to let all the cargo and passenger carriages of Philson's carriage travel on such a road.

He can also be sure that even if other chambers of commerce can't see the significance of this road now, after comparison, they will definitely choose to let their own chamber of commerce's cargo carriage go on a flat road.

Leaving aside the reduced loss of cargo from the carriage on the flat road. The time saved by this is no longer comparable to mere tolls.

Therefore, President Pomperi made a decision almost instantaneously. Collecting road tolls is actually quite promising.

So he found Xu Yi at the first time, and immediately put forward an application to build a road to Earl Summer.

Of course, the most important factor driving his determination is... the cost of the road is low enough.

According to Xu Yi, the total length of the road leading to the Falling Rain Valley was 57 kilometers, and the final cost was less than 200,000 gold coins.

The construction of a road from Bangta City to Karma City is about 70 kilometers in total, and it is expected to cost only about 300,000 gold coins.

Although Bangta City is a little farther away from Saltan City, it is estimated by this standard that it will not cost more than 400,000 gold coins to die, and Philson's car dealership can fully afford it.

The most important thing is that when other chambers of commerce react, they will start building roads one after another. I believe that it will not be long before all the roads in the entire Lampari Kingdom will be replaced by roads.

At that time, the most benefited from this is undoubtedly the most dependent on road traffic conditions Filson's caravan.

"Hey, that guy in Pompeii must be happy in his heart now. He thinks that your new flying chamber of commerce is desperately trying to help them with Philson's carriage." President Cruise looked back at the speeding carriage. The scenery, pouted, looked back at Xu Yi again, shook his head and said, "Actually, he never thought of it, all this is what you planned in the morning."

Xu Yi also retracted his gaze from the window, patted the cushion he sat down casually, and said with a smile: "I can't say that completely. Look, if all the roads in the Lampari Kingdom become this smooth. The road, at least we'll be much more comfortable in the carriage."

Now the carriage they are riding in is driving on the rainy road that has just been completed. Because of the flatness of the road, although the whole carriage has been moving at a high speed, it is still very stable. It was so bumpy and uncomfortable to drive on the gravel road.

President Cruise laughed and nodded again and again: "That's right. After a few trips on this road, I can't stand it if you let me ride the carriage on the broken dirt roads in the past. Alas, I don't know what. All the roads in our kingdom of Lampari can become such comfortable roads."

Xu Yi pondered for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be too long. After the construction of this rainy road, newspapers from all over Lampa and the two countries have been reporting on it, and the royal family has vigorously promoted it. Now the whole Kingdom of Lampari already knows about it. The convenience brought by the road. Coupled with the publicity of the royal family on the two roads being built by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and the Philson Motors, I believe that many chambers of commerce in the kingdom will recognize the benefits of building roads. Maybe it won't be long before , you will find that many people come to your Amley Chamber of Commerce to help build the road."

President Cruise frowned slightly: "With the current capabilities of our Chamber of Commerce, we have done our best to build two roads at the same time. If more people want to build roads, I'm afraid they can't handle it."

"Then are you willing to give up the technology of building cement roads and let other chambers of commerce share it for you?"

Facing Xu Yi's joke, President Cruise shook his head quickly without thinking.

"Of course not. In this way, President Xu, I will take this opportunity to order 20 more sets of concrete equipment from you. In addition, I hope you can speed up the research and development of other road engineering magic machinery. I am in a hurry to use it now."

"The equipment is fine, but what about the people?" Xu Yi asked back. "Now in Bangta City, I guess you can't find enough people?"

Hearing Xu Yi mentioning people, President Cruise sighed and smiled bitterly: "Speaking of this, I really don't know whether to praise you or scold you."

"Oh? How do you say that?" Xu Yi asked with a smile.

"Before your new flight merchants' association appeared, idlers could be seen everywhere in Bangta City. I paid three gold coins a month, and a lot of people were rushing to work. Now it's good, your new flight club opened by itself. Several factories have recruited more than 1,000 people, not to mention the small business association support plan, so that the entire Bangta City is now recruiting people everywhere. I wanted to recruit more people to build roads, but guess what? Guess what?"

"What? Can't recruit?" Xu Yi asked.

"It's not completely impossible. But I just want to hire a handyman to shovel dirt and level roadbeds. How dare you ask me for a salary of seven gold coins a month. It's a robbery!" President Cruise said indignantly.

Xu Yi couldn't help laughing: "Not bad, only seven gold coins, not too much. We are now recruiting a new worker with a starting monthly salary of ten gold coins."

President Cruise glared at Xu Yi: "Who compares with your new flight merchants! You have always been a big spender. To put it bluntly, you are a loser. In fact, in the final analysis, if your new flight merchants hadn't raised the wages of the workers so much first Gao, our chambers of commerce will not be so difficult to do."

"I explained this issue to you last year. The increase in workers' salaries is an inevitable result of economic development, and it is not something that my new flying chamber of commerce can change. Given the current demand for manpower in Bangta City, even if our chamber of commerce does not increase , sooner or later, other chambers of commerce will rise. You may not know that some time ago, several chambers of commerce wanted to poach our factory workers, and even offered a monthly salary of 20 gold coins." Xu Yidao.

"Twenty gold coins? Which chamber of commerce is crazier than you?" President Cruise asked in surprise. "Aren't your workers going to be poached?"

"It's not one chamber of commerce, but many. As long as it's a chamber of commerce that wants to produce magical machinery like us, they're starting to poach our workers now. Maybe they think that if they poach all our workers, they can be the same as our chamber of commerce. already?" A sneer flashed across Xu Yi's face. "But fortunately, most of our workers are dwarves, and their loyalty is relatively high. So far, only a dozen human workers have left, which has little impact."

President Cruise looked at Xu Yi enviously: "Why can't I hire so many dwarves? The dwarves are not only strong, good physique, but also willing to endure hardships and good craftsmanship, they are really the most suitable workers. Hello, Xu Yi, since you know so many dwarves, can you introduce some to our Chamber of Commerce? I promise to give them a high salary! The minimum is ten gold coins a month, how about that?"

"You shouldn't ask me about this, you should ask the dwarves themselves." Xu Yi shrugged and pointed to the shadows of the two green hills that had gradually emerged from the carriage window. "There are so many dwarves living in the Rainfall Valley now. If you have the ability, recruit them all to your Chamber of Commerce." (To be continued...)