Struggle in the Steam Age - Chapter 681

The reason why this report on the construction of a railway in the north of Green Island appeared on Lawrence’s table is also very simple, because many people were moved by this plan and hope to advance this project.

It’s just that they sent the news to Lawrence, a recognized wise man on the island, under a certain cautious consideration, hoping that he could help analyze this matter from a public perspective as a non-Islander.

. In fact, from the perspective of personal interests and the development of the entire island, Lawrence hopes that a railway can be built here.

Because there is basically not much industry in this place, everything needed to build the railway has to be purchased out, and the factory under Lawrence can just provide some of the needed materials

. At the same time, from the perspective of overall development, a railway located in the north can indeed connect the originally separated north into a whole, and at the same time promote the development of the barren north in the entire island.

However, sometimes the theory does not mean that it can be the same in the facts, and it can even be inconsistent with the facts. For example, this railway is like this.

Building a railway in the north of Green Island can indeed promote the overall development of the region, but the problem is that neither the wealth nor the population of the island can support the construction or even operation of such a railway.

As the lord of New Sauer Island, in addition, he also built a short section of railway when he was building an industrial zone on his own territory. So Lawrence knows the difficulty and cost of building a railway.

Therefore, as long as a simple comparison and calculation, you will know. Building this railway now is a completely unscientific and uneconomical thing, and this is also a conclusion that Lawrence has drawn after suffering a loss.

In fact, Lawrence was not very clear about this matter at the beginning, but in the previous plan on the Sauer Island Railway, Lawrence slowly learned a lot of knowledge in this area.

When I first became a lord. Lawrence, who firmly believes that to get rich and build roads first, planned a round-the-island railway and one north-south railway and one east-west railway for his territory, trying to connect the entire island by railway.

But soon he was defeated by the facts. Lawrence gave the plan to his adoptive father and several retainers. After reading them, they did not make any comments, but simply calculated the cost of building such a system. .

After seeing the construction cost which was almost an astronomical figure for himself at the time, Lawrence quickly gave up on the construction of the railway and chose the kernel and offshore transportation that seemed slower and more dangerous but had a much lower cost.

After the construction of the simple railways in those industrial areas began, Lawrence once again looked back at his previous settings and found more improprieties. For example, he had never considered operating costs before.

For the island of New Sauer at that time, such a large-scale railway simply did not have enough population and materials for transportation. Compared with the one-time expenditure of building the railway, the maintenance cost behind it is a bottomless pit that people can hardly afford.

When Lawrence saw this information this time, he immediately thought of the railway system that he had set up for the island when he didn’t understand anything at the time.

Obviously, these nobles on the island may be too few to leave the prosperous area. As a result, he didn’t know much about railways, something new in the past 100 years, so he came up with such a whimsical plan.

Not to mention that this kind of terrain is not particularly good, and at the same time how difficult it is to build a railway in a very cold area. This kind of engineering problem, just how people and properties along the way will lose money is a serious problem.

According to Lawrence’s simple statistics, if there are no accidents, with the productivity of this railway in the future, each train only needs to run back and forth twice a year to complete all the transportation tasks throughout the year.

Considering that this railway is not the Hogwarts Express, no one is willing to pay for this matter, so the construction of a railway here can be said to be nothing except to show that the people who passed this proposal have a brain hole. significance.

In other words, this railway is indeed valuable, but the value is definitely not now. At least in terms of the situation and development speed of the region, it is more appropriate for the entire island to be mainly waterborne within ten years.

However, considering that this report can be directly sent to him represents the views of many people, so for Lawrence, if you want to deny this plan, you must find some reasonable reasons for the plan.

Fortunately, although the nobles here are a bit outdated in their vision, they have been educated before so that they have a very good level of logical thinking.

So after Lawrence listed all the reasons why it is not suitable to build a railway in this place in the report, all the railway plans that were in full swing before stopped.

It was at this time that Lawrence realized that after he proposed to bring these lords on the island together to form a whole economic circle on the island, the lords who realized that they had money immediately started the infrastructure mode.

After all, anyone who has received any higher education knows that the development of an area is closely related to the level of infrastructure in the area, and none of these lords on the island has not received such education.

In the past, one of the biggest reasons why everyone showed nothing to do was lack of money, so naturally they couldn’t make much investment in this area.

But after everyone is united, they will naturally have enough wealth to invest in the construction of several key projects.

Realizing this, Lawrence immediately sent an application for review in this regard to the Council of Lords on the island. Soon, the Lords Council on the island ordered the freezing of all infrastructure-related contracts, and then began to organize a team to review.

During the review, this team found a lot of quick success and even profiteering fraud. It has to be said that after organizing a part of the financial resources, those sensitive capital quickly smelled it.

For example, behind the former Viscount’s railway plan, there are some large companies in Briton. For those financial capitals, they will only see immediate benefits in their eyes, and will not consider similar operations in the future. One type of problem.

Therefore, if their plan is really successful, it is estimated that in addition to sweeping away the gas and wealth that Green Island has finally collected, it will also allow everyone to owe them a debt to work for them.

After realizing this situation, the lords on the island soon gave up their previous practice of fighting independently. And further realized the importance of everyone being united.

In order to avoid this kind of situation from happening again, we finally decided to use the New Sauer Bank as the core, together with the staff of the Fortune Church and the power of the northern islands and the power of the island lords in the southeast of the Star Sea to set up their own bank here.

Lawrence felt that from a certain angle, he should thank those financial capitals. Because of their previous performance, Lawrence was able to expand his power to the northern islands.

Although due to the different nature of the colonies, the northern islands could not issue their own currency. But here it is recognized that the star-Hekron issued by Lawrence on the island is an acceptable currency and as an important part of a basket of monetary policies.

This is a great breakthrough for Lawrence, because the Krona issued on his own island before is only the surrounding islands and some organizations that have trade relations with him are willing to recognize this currency.

And now, with the establishment of this new bank belonging to the Northern Islands, the scope of application of the Star Haikron issued by Lawrence has suddenly expanded much more than in the past. Of course, doing so is equivalent to expanding his power.