Things from Another World - Chapter 807

[807. Chapter 805 The best news this year]

In fact, in the early stages of the emergence of new things, it is almost inevitable that various problems will arise.

Especially here in Purandar, the overall situation is still like the Middle Ages with low productivity, but the sudden appearance of a highly efficient means of transportation such as buses has an impact on people. It is conceivable that there will naturally be many people. Go join in the fun.

Those thieves who like to steal and take advantage will definitely not miss this opportunity.

But now that Fiona has said that she has started to take measures, Tang En no longer pays attention to this aspect.

Fiona sighed and said: “Although buses have greatly facilitated people’s travel, some people find fixed routes very inconvenient, so they always want the buses to change routes according to their ideas.”

Tang En couldn’t help complaining. : “Do these people think that anyone can get on the bus…ah, I mean, do they think that the buses drive randomly? If you want freedom, just buy a private car for yourself!” “

… …”

Fiona said faintly: “Your Majesty, please forgive me, we haven’t started selling private cars yet.” “

…Oh.”

“Intercity buses have also begun trial operation, but as of now So far, there are only one or two shuttle buses in each city on average. The demand for cross-city travel is not strong at present, and the only customers are some fresh businessmen and adventurers.”

Fiona couldn’t help but said: “Although in It has received rave reviews from businessmen and adventurers, but Your Majesty, can we stop the intercity bus project first? It is a completely loss-making business.”

Tang En shook his head and said: “No, it cannot be stopped, even if there is no one, every day We must maintain a minimum number of buses.”

“Why?”

“This is my responsibility as a king.”

Tang En said: “The bus will be a social welfare. After figuring out the operating costs in the future, we will do our best. Possible reduction of fees, that is to say, the bus operator does not need to consider the issue of income, as long as the balance of payments is maintained.” “

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

“Initial stage You can subsidize, but you cannot rely entirely on subsidies. In the later period, you must maintain a balance of income and expenditure, regardless of profit.”

“I understand.”

Fiona wrote down Tang En’s opinion, and then said with a smile: “But just because The occupancy rate of this intercity bus is very low now, so we just took advantage of it. In the past half month, it has helped us transport a lot of foreigners.” “

Oh?”

Tang En cheered up. Sitting up straight: “How much has the population increased?”

Fiona opened a demographic book next to her and said: “Originally, the population increase has slowed down a lot, but in just the half month since the intercity bus was opened, it has More than 20,000 people have been added, and most of them are concentrated this week.”

“Probably because the early stage was a gestation period, and they exploded during this week.” “

That should be true. According to our analysis, as the city The influence of international buses continues to grow, and the population will increase faster and faster. By the end of the year, our population in Ellington will double what it is now, officially exceeding 500,000!”

Fiona said very excitedly : “At that time, the addition of young adults will completely eliminate our shortcomings of labor shortage, and a large number of vacant residential areas that have been developed will also be completed. The increase in residents will also increase market demand, and businessmen will definitely gather in large numbers. Here, the associated economic benefits are immeasurable.”

Tang En smiled slightly: “Of course, as there are more people, there will be more business opportunities. However, by the end of the year, the population barely exceeded 500,000. It is not worth it at all. Excited, our aim is to continue to enhance Erlington’s appeal and aim to have a population of five million next year.

“Five, five million!

“

?

Fiona was stunned: “

Your Majesty, are you crazy?”

The population of Alexis is less than two million!

Do you want to move the capital?

?

“Believe me, as long as everyone works together, this is not impossible.

“

“

Twain smiled, feeling full of confidence.

In the past year, the population of Ellington residents has increased from a few thousand at the beginning to 250,000 now. Who would have believed it at first? This growth rate is still due to the inconvenience of transportation. And the infrastructure construction is too slow.

After this year’s construction, Ellington’s related infrastructure has been completed. The well-planned new urban area is completely separated from the industrial area, and the interior is divided into commercial areas, residential areas, and functional areas according to use. District, etc. The residents who have moved here are full of praise for life in this city. Will others be dissatisfied when they come?

More importantly, the paving of highways has been completed and the opening of intercity buses has increased the number of residents. In terms of travel efficiency, if you take an intercity bus and transfer in each city, it only takes five or six days to go from Ellington to Arinks – this is because there are currently too few shuttle buses.

And taking an intercity bus

The bus is not only fast and safe, but also costs only a few dozen silver coins. You must know that if you take a carriage to Yalinks, you will only need a few gold coins, and if everything goes well, the journey will take fifteen days. Not to mention encountering 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 coins to come and see it with their own eyes. Even if they are not satisfied and want to leave, they will not What to lose?

The Datang Chamber of Commerce looks for poor people from all over the country who are willing to work, and the policy of free migration to Ellington has contributed greatly to the population growth here.

“Don’t be too excited.

“

Tang En saw that Fiona was so excited and couldn’t help but wake her up: “After the population increases, the problems that come with it are quite troublesome, and we need to plan in advance.

“

A city of half a million people may be considered big or small, but so many people eat, drink, and have sex in Ellington based on the Datang Chamber of Commerce, which is a lot of pressure.

In particular, Purandal’s grain production capacity is generally not high, and many people come all the way to Ellington with their families because they heard the propaganda and knew that they would have enough to eat by working here.

If the food supply is insufficient by then, I’m afraid there will be big trouble.

“Your Majesty, please rest assured.”

Fiona smiled very confidently: “Not to mention the population of 500,000, even if there are 100,000 more people, I can keep them fed this year!” “

Oh?”

“Now The wheat harvest day is approaching, and our Datang harvest fleet has set off again. Due to the completion of the highway, this time the harvest fleet will start from various cities where teleportation arrays have been built, and radiate to the surrounding areas to help those farmers. They harvest crops.”

“Not only that, as an experiment in the production of alchemy puppets, we used them to produce a large number of combine harvesters and magic cultivators. In addition to leaving some to satisfy our Ellington’s future expansion of production capacity, the rest I decided to donate to the Illrus royal family in the name of the Tang Dynasty Chamber of Commerce.”

Fiona glanced at Tang En charmingly and said, “A total of five thousand combine harvesters and five thousand magic cultivators.”

Tang En. En laughed loudly and said: “What’s the point of being left-handed and right-handed?”

The Tang Dynasty Chamber of Commerce belongs to him, and the property of the Illrus royal family now also belongs to him. Donating it to the royal family is the same as donating it to himself.

“It’s not as simple as you think.”

Fiona explained: “Publicly announcing the donation of these properties can gain a good reputation for the Tang Dynasty Chamber of Commerce, and as the private property of the royal family, there is no need to worry about falling into the hands of others. You can still follow the instructions You can control it as you wish – don’t forget, the royal family has a lot of private property, is it possible that you want to farm it yourself?”

“That’s true.”

Tang En suddenly realized that he basically had nothing to do with the royal family’s private property. The emperor did not interfere much and left Olina and Alleria to control it themselves. After all, his purpose in wanting this throne was just to reform the Illrus Empire in an open and honest manner.

“With the help of the combine harvester, the time for harvesting wheat this year will be greatly shortened. A lot of time saved can be used for other production work. After spring, the magic cultivator can be put into use directly to start the next round of cultivation. Wheat.”

At this point, Fiona said excitedly: “When we plant next spring, we will be able to use new varieties of wheat seeds!”

“Oh!?”

Tang En suddenly put down his teacup after hearing this, surprised. Said: “Is there any good news from Grandia?”

“Yes!”

Fiona said happily: “She came back a few days ago and wanted to report the good news to you, but she found that you were not there. Just tell me, it is said that she and Ms. Otiniya have made a breakthrough in their research. The production capacity of the latest generation of improved seeds has more than doubled from the beginning! They think that they have satisfied you now. According to the request, mass catalytic production has begun.”

“Twice!”

Tang En was overjoyed: “Really twice as much!?”

“I think Ms. Otinia will not make such a bad joke.”

Fiona Looking at Tang En very seriously, his eyes were filled with unconcealable joy: “Your Majesty, this is the most surprising news this year.”

Tang En was also very excited.

What is the concept of doubling food production?

The food grown with the same land area can feed twice the original population!

Coupled with the improved planting efficiency of various agricultural magic machines developed by Tang En, it can be expected that the food output of the Illrus Empire will have a terrifying explosive growth next autumn!

“Next autumn, we may be able to solve the long-standing hunger problem.”

Tang En breathed a long sigh of relief. According to the current population growth rate of Purandal, this kind of agricultural scale can definitely meet the population’s demand for food after being replaced with improved seeds. , and even a large amount of food can be enriched as food reserves.

Fiona reminded Tang En: “I think you should reward Grandia and Otinia. They have been busy for more than half a year on this matter.”

“I will reward them.

” Tang En regretted it as soon as he finished speaking. To be honest, he could already imagine what kind of reward Grandia would ask for…

(End of this Chapter.)