Chapter 806 (1/2)

In fact, in the early stage of the emergence of new things, the emergence of various problems is almost inevitable.

Especially here in prandal, the whole is like the middle ages with low productivity, but the sudden emergence of buses, an efficient means of transportation, has a predictable impact on people. Naturally, many people will join in the fun.

Those thieves who like to take advantage of petty thieves will certainly not miss this opportunity.

But since Fiona said she had begun to take measures, Donne stopped paying attention to this aspect.

Fiona sighed and said, ”although the bus has greatly facilitated people's travel, some people feel that the fixed line is very inconvenient, so they always want the bus to change the route according to their ideas.”

Dumne could not help but Tucao: ”these people think that buses can make complaints about everyone. Ah, boo, I mean, do they think buses are random?”

“……”

Fiona said quietly, ”Your Majesty, with all due respect, we haven't started selling private cars yet.”

”... oh.”

”Intercity buses have been put into trial operation now, but so far, there are only one or two shuttle buses in each city. The demand for cross city travel is not strong at present, and the only customers are some businessmen and adventurers with fresh pictures.”

Fiona couldn't help saying, ”although it has been highly praised by businessmen and adventurers, your majesty, can we stop the intercity bus project first? It's a business that loses money.”

Don shook his head and said, ”no, we can't stop. Even if there is no one, we should maintain a minimum of one bus every day.”

”Why?”

”It is my duty as king.”

”The bus will be a social welfare. After finding out the operation cost in the future, the charge will be reduced as much as possible. In other words, there is no need to consider the income in the bus operation, just keep the balance of revenue and expenditure,” Donne said

”In other words, do you want to support the bus project with the income from other projects?”

”At the beginning, we can subsidize, but we can't rely entirely on subsidies. In the later stage, we should maintain a balance of revenue and expenditure without considering profits.”

”I see.”

Fiona wrote down Donne's opinion and said with a smile, ”but because the occupancy rate of the intercity bus is very low, it is just used by us. In the past half a month, it has helped us transport a lot of foreign people.”

”Oh?”

Dunn perked up and sat up straight: ”how many people have you added?”

Fiona opened a nearby demographic book and said, ”originally, the population growth has slowed down a lot, but only in the half month after the opening of intercity buses, more than 20000 people have been added, and most of them are concentrated this week.”

”Probably because the early stage is a brewing period, which broke out this week.”

”That's right. According to our analysis, with the continuous fermentation of the influence of intercity buses, the population will increase faster and faster. By the end of the year, our population in Ellington will double that of now and officially exceed 500000!”

Fiona said excitedly: ”at that time, the young and middle-aged will join us, which will completely eliminate the short board of our labor shortage, a large number of vacant residential areas will be completed, and the increase of residents will also increase the market demand. Businessmen will certainly gather here in large numbers, with immeasurable economic benefits.”

Donne smiled: ”of course, more people and more business opportunities. However, the population barely exceeded 500000 by the end of the year. It's not worth so excited. Our goal is to continue to strengthen the attraction of Ellington and strive to make the population exceed 5 million next year.”

”Five, five million!?”

Fiona was stunned: ”Your Majesty, are you crazy? The population of alinks is less than two million! Do you want to move the capital?”

”Believe me, as long as everyone works together, it's not impossible.”

Donne smiled with confidence.

Since this year, the resident population of Ellington has increased from thousands at the beginning to 250000 now. Who would believe it at the beginning? This growth rate is still due to inconvenient transportation and too slow infrastructure.

After this year's construction, the relevant infrastructure of Ellington has been completed. The well planned new urban area is completely isolated from the industrial area, and the interior is divided into commercial area, residential area, functional area, etc. according to the purpose. At present, the residents who have moved here are full of praise for the life of the city. Will others be dissatisfied when they come?

More importantly, the laying of expressways has been completed, and the opening of intercity buses has increased the travel efficiency of residents. If you take intercity buses and change trains in each city, it only takes five or six days from Ellington to yarinks - this is because there are too few shuttle buses at present.

Taking the intercity bus is not only fast and safe, but also costs only dozens of silver coins. You know, if you originally take a carriage to yarinks, you only fear a few gold coins. Moreover, if it goes well, the road will take 15 days, not to mention dangerous situations.

This means that as long as Ellington's attraction is strong enough, those people only need to spend a small amount of silver to come and see it with their own eyes. Even if they are not satisfied and want to leave, they will not lose anything.

The policy of Datang chamber of Commerce to find the bottom poor who are willing to work from all over the world and move to Ellington free of charge has contributed greatly to the population growth here.