Chapter 225 You Planned Everything, Right?

Fiona's question has been raised by many people on Earth before.

We already have carriages, why do we need cars?

We already have cars, why do we need trains?

We already have trains, why do we need planes?

We already have…

But from her point of view, it is normal to raise this question. In this country where there are only dirt roads, the performance of hardened roads such as rock roads is already very superior - the imperial capital of Asia Links still uses stone slabs. Where's the road?

However, Tang En didn't think so.

He spent a lot of effort to make Fiona understand the important role of road load-bearing capacity, water permeability, durability, corrosion resistance, friction and other indicators. Although these data are not available for the time being, Tang En does not have that kind of Kung Fu keeps watching, so if he can get it right in one step, he will never split it into two steps!

By the time Fiona figured out the meaning of these indicators, Tang En had already climbed onto the paver and loaded a bucket of asphalt into the truck bed.

Fiona hurriedly followed.

The asphalt was insulated and heated by the fire magic circle, and it quickly melted. After adding the waste residue from the steelmaking plant and mixing it evenly, the paver began to move forward to lay the asphalt road.

"What a pungent smell!"

Fiona pinched her nose. Although the image was very unsightly, she couldn't care so much.

"oh."

Tang En nodded, and a gentle whirlwind immediately enveloped Fiona, and she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Lord, I just discovered a problem. It would be very dangerous if children accidentally get in while these machines are being constructed on the road..."

"So that's the other thing to do next."

Tang En said casually: "Before the construction begins, the construction road sections should be announced in newspapers in advance. At the same time, training on traffic safety rules should begin, and children should be warned not to trespass."

"Traffic safety rules?"

"Well, this involves a lot. Let me tell you, why do you think I paved this asphalt road?"

"Of course it's about improving transportation efficiency."

"...Otherwise, if you point directly to the ultimate answer, what else can I say..."

"Okay, then please give me an answer, my dear Lord."

"My pleasure."

Tang En smiled slightly: "Of course, the flat asphalt road is not just used for horse-drawn carriages. That would be too wasteful. In addition to horse-drawn carriages, magic cars and magic automatic cars can better utilize the superior performance of such roads."

"Magic car?...Ah! I know!"

Fiona's eyes lit up: "I heard it from Clotto and Brian before. They said you proposed this concept, but they didn't know what it meant specifically. Could it be that it must be paired with this kind of concept?" Is the road okay?"

"On the one hand."

Tang En smiled, stopped the paver, and the two got out of the car. While inspecting the paved asphalt road, Tang En said: "In addition to this kind of flat and friction-resistant asphalt road, there is still one thing missing. The material is important, and then it’s the problem of that material that needs to be solved.”

"oh……"

Fiona seemed to understand. She glanced at the road and stretched out her hand to touch curiously: "Is this okay?"

Tang En was startled and grabbed her hand: "Are you stupid? You dare to touch her despite the heat. You don't want your hand anymore?"

Fiona's face turned slightly red: "I forgot."

"It's almost done. Now we just need to use a road roller to crush it and then let it cool down naturally."

Finally, the road roller was tried. After confirming that the road roller could work normally, the overall road construction plan was basically formed.

Fiona calculated the cost and almost went crazy: "My previous calculation was still too conservative! The cost of one square meter cannot be covered by one gold coin, and at least fifty silver coins are needed!"

"ah?"

"The consumption of these machines is greater than that of a combine harvester, and they all require the use of standard magic crystals! The larger the project volume, the faster they are consumed. The road construction costs I calculated before did not include these costs!"

Fiona cried with a sad face: "With these costs, just the main roads in the old and new cities will cost nearly 200,000 gold coins!"

"Well...actually it will be less."

"How can it be!"

"Don't worry, it will be less."

Tang En said with a smile: "With the increase in mining volume, the mining process will continue to improve and the efficiency will continue to increase. The cost on the Asphalt Lake side is continuing to decrease. Soon, we will export to the Dwarf Kingdom. As their mining efficiency improves, the magic drill will definitely need to increase exports when there is too much ore. As their only partners, the Dwarf Kingdom and us, Ellington, are their only partners to export ore. choose."

"In this way, we can obtain cheap ore, and the magic drilling rig produced can be exported at a high price. Not only can it be exchanged for the money for mining asphalt ore, but it can also be exchanged for metal ore."

"In other words, we just maintained leading technology and invested a little productivity without consuming anything, and we achieved economic and industrial development in the territory for nothing."

Fiona was stunned after hearing this: "Lord."

"Um?"

"Did you plan this from the beginning? You have determined from the beginning that you can make friends with the dwarves and that the dwarves will accept you, and you have long known that the dwarves will be interested in the magic drill, so you Show this technology in front of Brian, because you already knew that they were willing to use ore in exchange, everything was planned by you, right?"

"..."

A smile flashed in Tang En's eyes and he said with a smile: "How is that possible? I'm not a prophet."

Fiona breathed a sigh of relief: "...Yes, if everything was planned by you, it would be terrible. Even the dwarves were tricked by you without knowing it. Then we...ah, it's nothing."

"Well, that's it. Put these three machines here, and then ask the guards to come over and watch them for a while. We will start using them for prototype training tomorrow. When I get back, I will make the design drawings and give the body to Brian. , and then let Nokia arrange the related parts processing."

At this point, Tang En frowned and said, "If we start producing these machines, our factory will have to expand."

"Did you just find out?"

Fiona clapped her fingers and said: "Now the machinery processing factory has to produce air conditioners, refrigerators, water heaters, washing machines, and hair dryers. A while ago, it concentrated on the production of combine harvesters. It has not slowed down yet, Brian. You are still working hard to put the magic drilling rig into production, if you do this again... I think the workers in the factory will collapse."

"Uh... Okay, let's give each of them a bonus of ten gold coins this month."

"Ten gold coins!?"

Fiona immediately exploded: "You are crazy! Do you know that you can get out with tens of thousands of gold coins just by opening your mouth?"

Tang En opened his mouth wide: "No way? We employ so many people?"

"What do you think!?"

Fiona almost collapsed: "Now almost all the native people in Ellington are working for you, my lord! Almost all the adult residents of Ellington have become employees of the Tang Dynasty Chamber of Commerce! Even if they are not Adult children are also doing things for us, whether they are selling newspapers or growing medicinal herbs, in the final analysis they are still your employees."

"Oh no?"

Tang En was stunned: "Do we need so many people?"

"Is this too much?"

Fiona hates that iron cannot be made into steel: "Back then, the total number of caravans sent by the Golden Rose family to various places totaled tens of thousands. How many do you have? Even the towns in the Illus Empire were not dredged, and the large chamber of commerce strongholds were not opened. No, is this still too much?"

"All right……"

"And I heard that you are planning to mass-produce standard armor recently? Do you think we can keep up with our current productivity?"

"..."

Tang En sighed, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "I was negligent before. In this case, in order to avoid future chaos, Ellington's company needs to be rectified and reorganized in advance. Please remember it."

Fiona immediately took out a pen and paper: "Please speak."

"From now on, Ellington Machinery Processing Factory will be split and reorganized into Datang Magical Energy Furniture Factory, Datang Magical Energy Machinery Factory, Datang Military Factory, and Datang Military Magical Energy Machinery Factory—"

"Wait a minute! Lord Lord! What is the Heavy Magic Energy Machinery Factory? And the Datang Military Factory!?"

"Hear me out."

Tang En patted her head: "Datang Magic Furniture Factory will mainly produce magic furniture for daily use by civilians, magic air conditioners, magic refrigerators, magic hot water kettles, magic water heaters, magic washing machines, and magic hair dryers. It belongs to magic furniture. All magic furniture developed in the future will be produced by Magic Furniture Factory. The confidentiality level of employees here is average."

"Datang Magic Energy Machinery Factory will mainly produce agricultural and household light machinery in the future. Combine harvesters, Magic Energy drilling rigs, road graders, pavers, road rollers, and Magic Energy cars and Magic Energy automatic vehicles developed in the future are all In this category, the technical requirements for employees here are relatively high, and the level of confidentiality is also higher.”

"The Datang Military Factory will mainly produce military supplies in the future. Standard long swords, standard armor, bows and arrows, war crossbows and all upgraded equipment will be produced here. The confidentiality level will of course be higher."

"Datang Military Magic Machinery Factory, please don't register yet. It is classified as confidential for the time being. Of course, the confidentiality level here is the highest."

After a pause, Tang En continued: "In addition, the current Ellington Processing Factory will also be reorganized into Datang Department Store, which will include a food processing factory, a daily necessities processing factory, a ceramics processing factory and a paper mill."

"The food processing factory is responsible for the processing and production of mints and subsequent food products. The daily necessities processing factory is responsible for the processing of daily necessities such as soap and hydrosol. The ceramics processing factory is responsible for the processing of sanitary ware, kitchenware and ceramic molds. The paper factory only needs to be responsible for production. All kinds of paper will do.”

"After the reorganization of the processing plant, a professional employee system will be implemented. Employees in the current position will only be responsible for the current position and will no longer be temporarily transferred. At the same time, the scale of recruitment will continue to be expanded. If refugees entering Ellington are interested in receiving training and joining the work, they can be given one month's training. During the internship period, you will be responsible for food, accommodation, and no salary. You will be hired after passing the exam.”

"besides……"