Lord of Industrialization

When Angela had just received her tractor driving license and had not returned to Chestnut Village, Frederick was on the farm by the sea with a headache.

According to the plan, Lilu will drive the Flying Tulip to a nearby river and park it for a few days. When a ship runs on the sea, it is inevitable that there will be many organisms attached to the bottom of the ship. A sea-going ship can kill them by stopping in fresh water for a period of time, scraping the bottom of the ship. It will be much more convenient.

It is planned that the Flying Tulip will go to the Wesson shipyard for a comprehensive inspection and repair after scraping the bottom of the ship in Amstel, providing valuable experience for the armed merchant ships being designed.

It’s just that the city of Amstel has just experienced a catastrophe. The fires ignited by the riots, fueled by the constant northwest wind, burned most of the city. The pearl, which is famous for the prosperity brought by shipping, turned into mud. charcoal.

Nowadays, survivors are rummaging through the ruins of their homes for what they can still use. Many people use unburnt wood to prop up rags as shelter.

The church organized manpower to collect the victims, and the shipyard by the river was turned into a coffin factory, with lights brightly lit at night.

The gentlemen in the city and the powerful nobles of the Gallic Kingdom had long since disappeared without a trace.

Nowadays, things in the city are handled by the presidents of some local chambers of commerce and the church priests. Lilu directed the Dawn Chamber of Commerce to stop several ships selling grain to Weisen State, and after communicating through expedited telegrams, the ship owners were asked to Delivery here barely guarantees that no one will starve to death.

Frederick did not come forward, leaving everything to Lilu and Shupaiya to discuss. Unexpectedly, the fire finally came to his own head.

Shupaiya was extremely nervous when handing a document to the big boss, and the sweat on his forehead was like a cold drink just taken out of the refrigerator on a hot day.

Frederick couldn't help but tremble when he first saw the document.

One of the main businesses of Dawn Chamber of Commerce is marine insurance. In the past two years, it began to get involved in city house fire insurance and also launched this business in Amstel City.

When we first promoted the business, there were activities such as giving away house fire insurance for buying ship insurance, cargo insurance, seamen's life insurance, and giving eggs or cooking oil for buying insurance. In addition, Frederick had a good reputation, so many people bought it. Unexpectedly, it was rushed Got involved in the Amstel fire.

Now that the fire losses have been calculated, there is a rough statistical table for the leaders to see on the first page of the document.

The average three- and four-story wooden houses inhabited by ordinary people cost 5 florins each, a total of 3,680;

The average number of better houses for ordinary businessmen to live in is 30 florins each, 1125 in total;

Houses with yards cost an average of 90 florins each, 360 in total;

The average number of small mansions where wealthy people live costs 150 florins each, 18 in total;

Shops or workshops with a facade, warehouse or work area, and 2 to 3 rooms cost an average of 15 florins each, a total of 868;

Large warehouses with tiled roofs cost an average of 50 florins each, a total of 512;

There is one accounting school and one literacy school each, with an average cost of 300 florins each.

In total, the Dawn Chamber of Commerce needed to compensate a total of 126,470 florins, which, rounded up, was 443 kilograms of gold, slightly more than the income of the royal family of the Rhine League in four years. Even Frederick frowned.

The Dawn Chamber of Commerce has high profits, but the funds and reserves it turns over every year are not low. At the same time, it also invests in the construction of radio stations and telegraph stations at various ports. It cannot pay so much money alone. Forcibly withdrawing funds will cause the entire capital chain to break and eventually go bankrupt. .

The income of the Wesson family - including investment income and Wesson state taxes - has not been disclosed to the public for fear of scaring people. To put it simply, last year's income was about 10 times that of the royal family of the Rhine League, 95% of which For various expenditures of the Wesson state government, 5% is used by the Wesson family.

Frederick adhered to the concept that gold was money when it circulated. Every year, a large number of gold coins were spent to promote economic development through infrastructure construction, scientific research, and funding for poor painters. The gold as a reserve was not much.

Weissensee just experienced the battle to regain Constantinople last year, and the profits have not yet been repaid, so this year it is necessary to issue a special bond of 150,000 florins to deal with the war and start the later basic road construction project.

Frederick calculated in his mind that he could not allocate such a large amount of funds in a short period of time without affecting his financial health. Now is the time to spend money after the war. In the end, all the walls will be destroyed. Collapsed.

Although there are many good things in the treasury of Archduke Franken, Archduke Legens and others that can be sold, this tulip scandal is only the beginning, and the scope of involvement is wide. It is hard to say how much surplus food the landlord will have. There were many people cheering, but no money.

The most important task now is to get enough cash to pay the fire compensation within July, otherwise the reputation will plummet and there will be no way to turn around.

Shupaiya reminded Frederick: "The farm's wheat, golden beans, pumpkins and Elizabeth potatoes will be harvested soon. After delivery in August, there will be a profit of about 10,000 florins. We can let the acquirer pay in advance."

Frederick's farm here, which was reclaimed from swamp land, is an important granary in the Wesson state. The purchaser is the chamber of commerce run by the Wesson state government and his vassals, and payment in advance is just a matter of words. .

But he didn't react at all. He just sat on the sofa, picked up the tea cup and took a slow sip of tea, concentrating on thinking about countermeasures.

"Record the order."

Frederick suddenly gave an order in a deep voice, and Shupaiya immediately took out his notebook to record it.

Frederick said: "With ten years of taxes from the Wessen state government from 1035 to 1044 as collateral, Wessen Bank issued disaster relief bonds of 200,000 florins, with a three-year term and an annual interest of 5%."

“Among them, 60,000 florin bonds were sold in the city of Wien, the imperial capital of the Osmaga Empire, 50,000 florin bonds were sold in the city of Cologne, 40,000 florin bonds were sold in the city of Barris, the capital of the Gallic Empire, and the last 3 The ten thousand florins were sold in the city of Londonium, the capital of the King of England, and the remainder was purchased internally by Wesson Bank.”

"Cancel all contracts between all farms in the lowland areas and outside the area, compensate according to the contract, and sell at normal prices after harvest."

"Starting from tomorrow, all grain sold to Wesson will be delivered here. We will continue to open a porridge shed with the church."

"Let's talk to Wessen State and send a batch of winter clothes and quilts... and medicines, and the church will organize them to distribute them."

After he finished speaking, he sighed. The original plan to acquire local assets when the tulip bubble burst could not be carried out, but unexpectedly it turned into disaster relief.

Shupaiya left after repeating the leadership instructions. At this time, he no longer felt nervous.

He was no longer nervous. Count Rank had been listening. When he heard that Frederick was going to issue a bond of 200,000 florins, he subconsciously took out the small silver bottle containing the heart disease medicine.

Count Rank drank half a glass of juice to calm down and said, "Wesson, there is no need for you to invest so much money here. Riots will easily occur if taxes are raised in the new territory."

The amount that Frederick raised was more than the amount of insurance claims that needed to be paid, which was almost the royal family's income for three years. Moreover, this place was a dependency of the Kingdom of Gaul, and it developed only to make clothes for others.

Moreover, not to mention the principal of a 200,000 florin bond, the 5% interest rate is 10,000 florins per year. Count Rank and his companions had previously estimated that the annual income of Wessen is about 20,000 florins. It's probably going to break your muscles and bones.

Count Rank thought that if Frederick wanted to fill such a big hole, he could only scrape the land.

Frederick held his chin and asked him: "You said I have done so many good things and donated some money, can I get a title and a territory?"

Earl Rank was speechless. It was not that he was afraid of surrendering to the enemy. It was not surprising for a nobleman to have titles and territories in foreign countries due to family marriages and the death of distant relatives, but was it necessary to do so at the expense of the comfort of his base?

Frederick continued to think, casually took the note beside him and wrote: "I plan to inject some vitality into the city of Amstel, such as custom-made the hulls of twenty merchant ships that do not use sails."

"No!" Count Rank suddenly jumped up, "Ships without sails must be top secret and cannot be leaked!"

Frederick smiled and said: "I don't know how many people have imitated our steam engines over the years, and I don't know how many people have been killed. Occasionally, the power they can run is not as powerful as ours, but the size is much larger."

"Let's not talk about anything else. Let's just talk about the valves on our steam engines. So far, no one has been able to make them that are barely qualified. They either leak or have a short service life. They are also extremely expensive."

"We have a factory there that specializes in the production and research of this steam valve. The boss spent more than 7,000 florins in three years to make a qualified valve. In the end, it was better than the one made by the steam engine factory. The steam engine factory So I invested part of my valve production into that valve factory at a discount."

"Machine technology is constantly developing, and the steam engines we used to produce have begun to fall behind, so we have recently started selling them cheaply and are preparing to replace them with better machines."

"To be honest, the Flying Tulip has actually fallen behind a month ago. This time it will go back and undergo a complete refit, and then start from it to build a fleet that occupies the entire ocean."

Count Rank was frightened by his plan, and suddenly understood why he needed the title of Lord of the Navy.

Suddenly, he found that a pile of charcoal in his heart that had been cooling for decades seemed to be burning again.

"If you want the territory here, it's better to spend your money in the Kingdom of Gaul." Count Ranke didn't know why he started giving advice to Frederick, "You'd better go to Baris City in person and make some friends."

"There are also England, Dunma, and even the pagan Dark Land and Green Island in the north. If you want to dominate the North Sea, you must at least establish your reputation in those countries."

"I have some friends in those places. I can introduce them to you when the time comes and use them as a stepping stone to get on stage."