Chapter 756 (2/2)
The rising Ellington attracts too many people around it. It has a beautiful city, rich labor remuneration, a safe living environment and an unprecedented development prospect
All this will attract people around to flow to Ellington.
As the Lord of Bain, Douglas certainly would not like to see this scene.
But the meaning of Thomas is not so much Fiona's meaning, but his majesty Donne's meaning. Although Douglas is unhappy, he doesn't dare to compete with Donne. Now the bolette family is on Donne's side and is getting mixed up. He can't lose his chain.
After a few sighs, Douglas signed his name on the document, and then said, ”tell Ms. Fiona, I agree, but I hope to get the preferential policies of Ellington. For example, if Ellington needs to build a new plant, give priority to Bain...”
”Of course, we will be very happy to support our partners.”
Thomas put away the contract with a smile and stood up to leave. When he was ready to go out, he suddenly paused, turned his head and said, ”I suddenly remembered a message. I think I should remind you.”
”What news?”
”Your Majesty intends to further expand industrial production capacity, develop light industry and support the characteristic industries of each city.”
Douglas was stunned, and then overjoyed: ”really!?”
”Of course, I think, because of the factors of EPPA Expressway and EBE shuttle bus, your majesty should first consider Bain.”
Thomas smiled and said, ”after all, Bain's textile industry is still very famous. Think about it. I'll leave.”
After Thomas left, Douglas lingered in his study for a moment and made a decision.
It is time to rectify Bain's industrial structure.
At the same time, not only Bain, but also in several other cities, like Thomas, the envoys of Datang chamber of commerce are negotiating with the City owners of each city, and the core of the negotiation is to determine the bus lines within the city, the training of bus drivers, and the intercity bus problems between cities.
Donne's aim was to build a one-day transportation network within the Ilus empire. What does that mean?
That is, in cities where buses can drive within a day, a passenger station should be established between each other to form a cobweb traffic network.
How big is the project to build a transportation network covering the whole country from scratch? There are more than ten million people involved in this project. If it were not for the wealth collection ability of Datang chamber of Commerce and Donne's absolute control over the Ilus Empire, no one would be able to do this.
More importantly, Donne needs an efficient and dynamic country. When the transportation network is laid and the intercity bus begins to operate formally, the population flow between cities will accelerate, the exchange of information will become faster, and many new ideas will be generated in the process of thinking collision.
This is important.
Alinks, palace study.
”Those cities need not only buses, but also jobs for bus drivers and traffic police, which can not meet the desire of urban residents for work.”
Donne knocked on the table and further stressed: ”Transportation transformation and the introduction of buses are to expand people's travel range and prepare for the next industrial expansion. With buses, those people can go to work far from home. It will be much more convenient for workers to get to and from work by bus. Now what those cities need to do is to reform from the traditional agricultural form and gradually transition to the industrial form.”
”But,” Aurelia frowned, ”if too many people go to work in factories, the farmland will be abandoned, our people will be hungry, and they can't eat enough!”
Fiona sitting next to her looked a little strange. She had reminded Donne when she expanded in Ellington, but later Donne hit her in the face with facts. Now I'm afraid Aurelia can't avoid it.
”Agriculture is very important, but it doesn't mean to consume a lot of labor.”
Donne asked Fiona, ”how many agricultural magic machines have we put into the domestic market?”
Fiona even blurted out without looking at the information: ”so far, more than 20000 combine harvesters, 25000 magic tillers and 50000 magic sprinkler irrigation machines have been put on the market.”
Donne nodded and said to aurelia, ”do you know what this concept is?”
Aurelia frowned: ”spread it to every city of the Empire. There are about 200 combine harvesters, 250 magic tillers and 500 magic sprinkler irrigation machines in each city.”
”That's right.”
Donne smiled and said, ”you only know the number of these devices, but you don't know how many people's labor can be replaced by these magic machines?”
Seeing Aurelia shaking her head, Donne continued: ”A combine harvester can harvest more farmland a day than a thousand people a day. A magic tiller can cultivate an area of more than a thousand people a day. Magic sprinkler irrigation is not only more efficient, but also time-saving and labor-saving. Do you think how much labor and land a farm needs is reasonable?”
”This... Is not easy to calculate.”
”Very simply, the efficiency of the three agricultural magic machines far exceeds that of 1000 people, which means that a farm with three people can cultivate the farming area of 1000 families.”