Chapter 282 (2/2)
”You mean...”
Fiona suddenly took a breath of air conditioning: ”you don't want to use food to attract homeless people to settle down?”
”It's worthy of being my think tank. I guessed right at once.”
Donne's praise didn't make Fiona proud, but made her inexplicably anxious: ”but this method doesn't work! We haven't made up for the food gap. If we release the minimum food security policy to attract the vagrant population, I'm afraid we will be in chaos in the end.”
”You see, just say you're smart. I haven't said subsistence allowances yet.”
Donne laughed and said, ”don't worry, now we have formed a strategic alliance with the elves. Grantia's labor induction is only a solution. When there is a food crisis, I can go to the elves to buy food.”
Hearing Donne's reason, Fiona was relieved: ”if so, it's feasible.”
”A key issue is that we need to be prepared to attract a large number of refugees.”
”The arrival of refugees will bring a lot of instability. We need to prepare the guard in advance, arrange all kinds of reception work and guide them to join the labor,” Downe said
”Everyone has had experience in recent months, so don't worry.”
Fiona said: ”if you want to attract refugees to Ellington, you should start publicity recently. After all, the road to Ellington is also a long distance, and how many people will die on the road is unknown...”
Speaking later, Fiona could not help but show a sad look.
Even if the current empire is more peaceful, it can't hide the struggle of the bottom poor on the survival line, because they can't eat and wear, and mountain bandits and robbers are forbidden repeatedly. Once they leave the town beyond the patrol range of the guard, they will easily encounter mountain bandits and robbers, or wandering demons and beasts, which will lead to death.
Donne sighed, ”then we can't help it. This is life.”
After a pause, Donne said, ”if you want to help them, there is no way. We can set up a recruitment place in the city where Datang chamber of Commerce Branch has been set up, centrally manage all people who want to come to Ellington, and then hire carriages to transport them to Ellington in batches.”
Fiona thought for a moment and hesitated, ”will it cost a lot of gold coins?”
Donne said with a smile, ”wealth is earned for use. Moreover, for us, population is far more important than gold coins.”
”In that case, do it!”
”Well, let's do it.”
Donne nodded: ”before the winter, we should be able to attract a lot of people to gather in Ellington, so that our development speed will be faster next year.”
Fiona quickly wrote it down in her book.
”Besides this, what about Kamla's planting?”
Fiona looked up and asked, ”if you decide to make a flying car, is it necessary to plant Kamla?”
”Of course!”
Donne said decisively: ”it's not just used to make tires, latex also plays a great role and can process many things.”
”All right.”
Fiona sighed helplessly. If it hadn't been for the combine harvester and tiller, the farming efficiency would have been improved by leaps and bounds. They didn't dare to separate so many people to plant other plants.
Donne rubbed his chin. ”Speaking of this vehicle... You can actually get another means of transportation out first...”
Now prandar has put it bluntly that traffic basically depends on walking and communication basically depends on roaring.
There is a carriage at a farther distance, but it is embarrassing for ordinary people. It is wasteful to take a carriage and too tired to walk. In this case, if you launch a bicycle, it will be very popular.
”What?”
”Bicycle.”
Fiona was interested: ”what's that?”
”It's a single driver vehicle...”
Donne briefly told Fiona about the principle of bicycle, and then clapped his hands: ”since you want to get a bicycle, just get the magic version of the electric car by the way.”
”Magic revision?”
Donne said excitedly, ”it's more convenient and faster to use magic crystal to drive and cancel the human mode!”
Fiona pondered for a moment, shook her head and said, ”Lord, with all due respect, if you want to promote this means of transportation, bicycles are indispensable.”
Donne was stunned: ”why?”
”You want to promote magic energy products, but you forget one thing. At the current income level of civilians, they can't use magic crystal as daily consumables. Although a magic energy bicycle may only use a low-quality magic crystal a month, it's also worth several gold coins, which is too expensive.”
Fiona turned the subject and said, ”but bicycles are different. As long as you buy them back, you don't need to consume anything. Pedals can make it easy and fast to travel. Even civilians will be willing to buy one and put it at home for standby.”
”Not only that, it's also to cultivate the market. After everyone is used to bicycles, we will launch magic bicycle, a high-end product. Its acceptance must be much stronger than that at the beginning.”
Donne looked at Fiona thoughtfully: ”Fiona.”
”Huh?”
”I found that you are worthy of the descendants of the golden rose family... The talent of profiteers must have been full at birth.”
”Where?”
Fiona refuted Donne with a red face and a heart: ”I'm far from you, Lord.”