Lord of Industrialization

In the Black Forest, many small nobles have been living an idyllic and peaceful life for hundreds of years.

However, some nobles opened factories with the Duchy of Wessen, and gold coins emerged from the springs like springs. Some people who went to work in Wessenburg City actually earned more than the knights, which made people feel very unbalanced.

Sir Frech felt very unbalanced.

There was a mercenary leader named Orr in his territory. Orr's father was the groom of Frech's father, and the two knew each other since childhood.

After Orr's father died of illness, Orr followed others to become a mercenary, and later became a mercenary leader.

Later, it was even more amazing.

More than ten years ago, Orr followed the old Count Wessen, and later followed the young Wessen, turned into a devil and joined the Wessen Army, and now he has become one of the deputy ministers of the Rhine Alliance Postal Department.

Last year, he went home for the Winter Spirit Festival. Wow, there were as many as 20 vans, and only the Grand Duke of Mainz could have such a show.

Or gave a motorcycle to Freich's son, and the silly boy was overjoyed.

Freich was very depressed, not because of Or's title, after all, it was exchanged for his life and loyalty, and how could that slug who always followed him around in the past be so rich.

It's not that he hadn't thought about opening a factory, but he didn't have the capital, and the territory was inconvenient for transportation. Investors from the Principality of Wessen would first look for territories near railways and waterways, and no one would come to the mountains.

Recently, the documents for the redemption of serfs have also been issued, but all the serfs in the territory are paupers, and even in poor health, otherwise they would have become mercenaries long ago.

However, there is now a glimmer of hope. A boss from the Principality of Wessen wrote to say that he plans to invest here.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the doorbell rang, and the butler brought a well-dressed young gentleman.

"Are you... Lütbold?"

Freich recognized the visitor, and he recognized his father. The father and son looked 90% alike.

Lütpold replied politely: "Good morning, Sir Fritsch, I'm glad to see you look as good as before."

Freich pointed to the sofa and asked him to sit down. Then he remembered something and asked: "I heard that your leg was injured in Constantinople?"

Lütpold lifted his trouser leg a little and said: "Yes, my leg is a prosthetic leg."

Freich exclaimed: "That's right!"

He asked again: "Are you your own boss now, or a manager for your boss?"

Starting to talk about business, Lütpold became serious.

He said: "I opened a chamber of commerce myself."

Freich asked curiously: "What do you sell?"

Lütpold replied: "I sell plans that make you money."

Freich frowned slightly. In recent years, many scams have been exposed in newspapers, and many scammers start with these false and empty things.

Lütpold slowly opened the briefcase he brought with him, took out a few brochures and said, "I am familiar with the situation in your territory, so I contacted factory owners who are interested in opening factories here based on local resources."

Freich took the brochure and looked at it, thinking that he was a so-called salesman.

These brochures are all brochures for factories and small farms.

It is mainly a wood processing factory. There are many trees here, but transportation is not convenient, so it mainly produces modular furniture that is popular recently.

The parts of these furniture are not assembled immediately after production, but are packaged together with instructions, screws, and screwdrivers. Customers buy them and assemble them by themselves.

In this way, a truck can take away a lot of furniture, which is full without wasting space and reducing transportation costs.

At the same time, the sawdust from wood processing can also produce artificial wood boards, which can be used as furniture partitions, or even all used to make cheap furniture, which is also excellent.

Some wood in the forest is not suitable for furniture, which is not a problem. There are also mushroom planting and processing plants.

MSG is a long way off, and now many people use various mushroom powders as food additives to increase flavor.

If Freich is willing, he can also open a chicken farm, not only to sell chicken, but also to grow mushrooms with chicken manure.

The brochure also has an investment budget. The scale can be small at the beginning, and the scale can be expanded slowly after making money.

Freich read it very seriously, and finally said to Lütpold: "Very good, but I don't have money."

His money is enough to maintain decent daily expenses, but it is not enough to invest in building a factory.

Here comes the point. Lütpold said: "You only need to collect the self-redemption money from the serfs in the territory, and this money is enough."

Freich shook his head and said with a smile: "It is better to expect Grand Duke Wessen to be in a good mood and give me money than to expect them to have money."

Lütpold said seriously: "If you want, I can help them pay the self-redemption money."

Freich frowned again and asked: "Would you be so kind?"

There are many serfs in his territory, and that is a lot of money. There is no reason to spend money in vain.

Lütpold took out several documents from his briefcase and explained to him: "This is the cooperation agreement signed between me and Madam Ellen."

Freich took the agreement and studied it carefully.

Madam Ellen was his neighbor, and she had a strong backing, so no one dared to fool her.

Lütpold said: "I paid Madam Ellen the self-redemption money of the serfs on her territory, and this money will be used as the capital for the new cattle farm and milk powder factory."

Freich nodded.

Lütpold continued: "The serfs who redeemed their freedom signed a loan agreement with me and worked for my chamber of commerce."

"I will send the young people among them to technical schools to learn skills, and they will know what they can do in ten days."

"After Mrs. Ellen's cattle farm and milk powder factory are built, she will hire workers from me."

"If you set up a furniture factory, I will sign a labor contract with the furniture factory, and I will arrange for my people who have learned carpentry to work in the furniture factory."

"Then the wages of the furniture factory will be transferred directly to me, and I will pay them to the workers."

"If the furniture factory is short of manpower for expansion, I have other people who have learned carpentry, and they can be sent here immediately and can work as soon as they arrive."

"Of course, not everyone learns carpentry. Crafts, and some people can learn to raise chickens, raise cattle, drive tractors, etc. Wherever there is a need, just come to me and I can send people there. "

Freich thought for a long time, nodded and said: "I understand, you are a mercenary leader, but you are not looking for people to fight, but to work in the factory."

Lütpold replied: "Indeed."

Freich said: "I will think about it again, please stay and I will give you an answer tomorrow morning."

Half a month later, Lütpold returned to Weissenburg City, and the briefcase in his hand became four from one, and he also brought four stewards of the nobles of the Duchy of Mainz, including Sir Freich and Lady Ellen.

He brought people to each factory, and the three parties signed the investment and factory construction contract and employment agreement together.

Then Lütpold took the thick contracts, agreements, serf loan self-redemption contracts and other documents to Weissen Bank. He did not have so much money, so he borrowed a sum of money as start-up capital with these cooperation documents as evidence.

He did not say this, but he could not help but say it when the stewards drank and boasted.

In Weissenburg, the spread of the flu virus is not as fast as the money-making methods.

Many people think that this business can be done.

New factories cannot be built without new machines.

Weissen Heavy Machinery Factory found that the orders for machinery and equipment suddenly increased sharply. The factory director Schmidt found out the reason, so he contacted the accomplices of the "Nine-headed Siren" faction, which has considerable influence in both the political and business circles of the Principality of Weissen. After obtaining the tacit approval of his teacher, the governor of Weissen State, Omet, he began to contact the media to add fuel to the flames.

Schmidt's wife Vanessa is Frederick's administrative secretary and the niece of Giovanni, the president of Weissen Bank.

With Vanessa's matchmaking, Giovanni proposed a motion to relax loan restrictions on behalf of Weissen Bank at the Supreme Ministerial Meeting. With the support of Omet and other "Nine-headed Siren" from Weissen University, the motion was quickly passed, and Psyche did not object.

Frederick's money just flowed into the accounts of those labor dispatch companies.

It seems that everyone won in this matter.

The serfs got a little freedom. Although they went from being bound to work in the fields to working in factories to pay off their debts, their living standards were visibly improved in a short period of time.

Factory owners in the Principality of Wessen got the opportunity to expand to other places, and their profits were greatly improved in the foreseeable future.

Local lords received a sum of money to invest in factories. Many people did not have to do anything to get considerable dividends. They simply handed over the factories to professional managers and went to the city to become rich.

The bosses of labor dispatch companies were sitting at home and making money from the sky.

A large number of factories such as the Wessen Heavy Machinery Factory in Wessen State received a large number of orders, which in turn drove the development of the entire industrial chain. This year's tax data will definitely be better than last year.

Wessen Bank lent a large sum of money, a large part of which was special funds for purchasing machinery and equipment, so there was no fear of not being able to get it back.

Others were suddenly hit by this big pie.

Because those factories were in other places, the factory owners entrusted the audit business to Wessen Accounting Firm. The contracts that came in like snowflakes confused the person in charge, Deluyt, for a long time.

"So..." Frederick organized his words after listening to Psyche's story, "I am the one who spent the most money in this serf redemption movement?"

Psyche nodded.

Frederick frowned and had a headache.