Chapter 43 Give Me the Cement

Building a road with a total mileage of more than 5,000 kilometers, and almost half of which has to be dug through mountains, is extremely difficult even on a technologically advanced earth. ◎ Vertex Fiction,

Not to mention the difficulty of road construction, just the most basic problem - capital investment, is a problem that is almost impossible to solve.

Riley's estimate of 50 million gold coins is quite cautious. In fact, if he really wants to build such a road, the total investment may even exceed 100 million gold coins.

With such a huge investment, only two behemoths like the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire in the entire Sains Continent can afford it.

In addition, it is impossible for any other country or chamber of commerce to independently undertake such an astonishing financial investment.

The United Kingdom of Nozdormu can't do it, and neither can the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

However, when Chairman Cruise told Xu Yi the news that Riley had sent back from the Candela Empire, Xu Yi was unexpectedly interested in this crazy plan.

Seeing Xu Yi scrutinizing the huge and detailed map of Sainz's continent hanging on the wall of the manor's living room, with a serious look on his face, President Cruise couldn't help but laugh.

"Hey, Xu Yi, do you really plan to build such a road?"

"Why not?" Xu Yi turned his head with piercing eyes and an expression of interest on his face. "Don't you think that if such a road is successfully built, it will be equivalent to completely connecting the Principality of Standing with the countries east of the Sainz continent? You see, if this road is built, we can travel without going through the Candela Empire. Go to the east of the mainland. You can even build another road around the Kandela Empire. If you lead to the north, you can connect the entire continent together."

President Cruise smiled wryly and shook his head: "I said Xu Yi, although you have always had a lot of crazy ideas, but this idea is too unrealistic. It would cost at least 100 million gold coins to build such a road, you Is it possible to get it? I can guarantee that the bloody Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom will definitely not be able to get so much money."

"Didn't the president of Gaza say that he didn't say when the road will be built? I agree with him. This road is very necessary, but the investment is too large. It is obviously impossible to repair it in a short time. .Of course, such a huge project cannot be completed in a short period of time. Um... Cruise, if this project is handed over to your Amley Chamber of Commerce, how long do you think it will take you to repair it?"

Chairman Cruise frowned, looked at the map, and thought for a while: "It will take at least ten years. This is still the case when we are trying our best to seize the construction period."

"Well, let's tentatively plan to build this road in 20 years, so that the annual investment will not be too staggering to be unaffordable." Xu Yidao.

Chairman Cruise couldn't help but sneer: "It's as if you can afford five million gold coins a year. Don't forget. Your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce still needs money to do other things."

"I didn't say to start building now, did I?" Xu Yi smiled slightly. "Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom can't be anxious about this matter, and I don't need to be anxious at all. So this is just a plan. Of course, in order to express our sincerity, I decided to build a road connecting the Principality of Standing to Luerson first." What do you think of the kingdom's coastal road?"

Chairman Cruise was taken aback by Xu Yi's out-of-the-box thinking.

"The coastal road from the Principality of Standing to the Kingdom of Luerson?" Chairman Cruise looked carefully at the map and nodded slowly. "That's a good idea. Now the Principality of Standing only has one road leading to the Kingdom of Rulson, which is not so convenient. If another road is built in the south, it will better connect the Principality of Standing and the Kingdom of Rulson .”

"To put it bluntly, I hope to rely on this highway to promote the development of the southern part of the principality." Xu Yidao. "How much investment do you think this road needs?"

President Cruise pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "Without a field investigation, I can't tell you an accurate figure. All I can say is that it should be much higher than the current Silu Highway."

"Okay, let's make sure in this way first. I hope you can come up with a suitable plan as soon as possible."

"Are you sure you want to build such a road?" President Cruise asked.

"Sure."

"Well, I will take over this project on behalf of the Amley Chamber of Commerce." Chairman Cruise nodded, and suddenly changed the topic. "But Xu Yi, can you promise me a request."

"Say."

"Actually, I have mentioned this request many times. Can you... can you transfer the cement manufacturing technology to our chamber of commerce?" President Cruise's eyes were filled with anticipation. "The current projects of our Chamber of Commerce are far from being limited to the Kingdom of Lampali and the surrounding countries. The farthest is even more than 2,000 kilometers away from here. However, every time we have to fly from your new chamber of commerce The cost of consigning cement all the way to the past is really astonishing. So..."

"it is good."

Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in astonishment.

"You...you agreed?"

"Yes, I agree." Xu Yi smiled and nodded. "I can transfer the cement manufacturing technology to you, but you must strictly abide by the standards set by our chamber of commerce."

Cruise has a look of disbelief on his face.

He had already mentioned this request to Xu Yi no less than ten times, but every time before, Xu Yi flatly rejected it. Why did he agree so readily this time?

"Because the time is ripe." Xu Yi replied with a smile.

President Cruise couldn't help frowning slightly.

What does it mean when the time is ripe? Specifically what is it?

However, Xu Yi didn't explain much, and Chairman Cruise didn't ask too much.

Anyway, with Xu Yi's usual style of handling things, since he agreed, he would never go back on his word.

After thinking about it, President Cruise couldn't help laughing.

The main business of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce now is road laying and various construction projects.

No matter which one it is, a lot of cement will be used in it.

before that. All the cement used by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce is exclusively provided by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has always cooperated happily with the Amley Chamber of Commerce. The personal relationship between Xu Yi and Chairman Cruise is also very good. But such an important thing is completely in the hands of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which always makes Chairman Cruise feel that his lifeline is being controlled by others, and he always feels a little uneasy.

Now that Xu Yi agreed to transfer the cement manufacturing technology to the Amley Chamber of Commerce, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

The two chatted for a while, and soon reached a preliminary agreement.

The Amly Chamber of Commerce will purchase all the cement manufacturing technology from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce at a price of one million gold coins, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will also send corresponding personnel to assist the Amly Chamber of Commerce in building three cement processing plants in three countries The factory also provides a series of magic machine tool equipment required for cement production.

simply put. That is, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will help the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to complete the cement manufacturing independently.

After the discussion was confirmed, Chairman Cruise asked Xu Yi with some doubts: "Hey, Xu Yi, why did you agree to me? Although we spent one million gold coins for this, you should be very clear that our chamber of commerce receives from your chamber of commerce every year. It takes more than 1.5 million gold coins to buy cement in your hands, and you can at least earn a minimum of 500,000 gold coins from it. Now give us this technology, and if you want to earn so much money from us in the future, then definitely It's impossible. Could it be that... you want to abandon the cement business?"

"Do you think that only your Amly Chamber of Commerce uses cement?" Xu Yi glanced at President Cruise and said with a smile: "Although your Amly Chamber of Commerce is the largest cement customer of our chamber of commerce. But in fact there are still Many other chambers of commerce and individuals are buying cement from us, even if we lose your biggest customer. We can still make a lot of money through cement.”

"But I still think it's weird. You're just... cutting off your limbs..."

"It's not that serious." Xu Yi laughed. "The main business of our chamber of commerce is magic machinery, and cement is actually just an accessory."

"An incidental product can make your Chamber of Commerce earn so much a year..." Chairman Cruise couldn't help muttering.

Xu Yi smiled, thinking that in the process of researching magic machinery, he had researched many incidental products, and the benefits generated from this were also extremely huge, and cement was just one of them.

Of course, for modern industry, cement is one of the essential building materials and occupies a very important position. Xu Yi transferred the technology to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, just hoping to rely on the strength of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to expand the scale. , does not mean that he intends to give up completely.

After chatting with Chairman Cruise for a while, the two left Xu Yi's private office together and came to the magic locomotive manufacturing factory of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

This time, Chairman Cruise came to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce with the apparent purpose of ordering a large cargo magic locomotive from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

As Amrits Chambers of Commerce's business expanded to more distant locations, the requirements for transportation gradually increased.

In the past, it was possible to rely on the Filson Carriage and Horse Company, which has been renamed the Filson Transport Chamber of Commerce, to complete the transportation and supply of engineering materials, but now it seems a bit difficult to handle, so Chairman Cruise intends to see the transport convoy belonging to the Amley Chamber of Commerce.

First of all, of course he needs to buy enough freight magic locomotives.

Because of the large number of automatic magic machine tools put into use in various factories of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has now completely got rid of the negative effects brought about by previous strikes and layoffs, and even the overall production efficiency is much higher than before. It also increased a bit.

Although the production capacity of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce still cannot fully meet the demand due to too much demand, there is already enough room for Xu Yi to arrange freely.

Freight magic locomotives are one of the most popular magic machines in these surrounding countries. If it was before, even if the Amley Chamber of Commerce wanted it, it would have to wait at least half a year before it could get the first batch of goods.

But now Xu Yi can generously express to Chairman Cruise that the first batch of ten large freight magic locomotives can be provided to the Amley Chamber of Commerce in three months.

After receiving Xu Yi's affirmative answer, Chairman Cruise left the Freight Magic Locomotive Factory with satisfaction.

But just as he walked out of the gate, out of the corner of his eyes, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a strange magic locomotive in the distance, which looked a bit like a magic armored transport vehicle, but with a thick pipe sticking out, slowly driving past.

President Cruise was stunned.

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