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 but complain: "Do these people think anyone can get on the bus...ah, I mean, do they think the buses drive randomly? If you want freedom, just buy a private car for yourself ah!"

"..."

Fiona said quietly: "Your Majesty, please forgive me, we haven't started selling private cars yet."

"……oh."

"Intercity buses have now begun trial operation, but 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 the moment, and the only customers are some new ones. Businessmen and adventurers.”

Fiona couldn't help but said: "Although it has received rave reviews among businessmen and adventurers, 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, we can't stop. Even if there is no one around, we must maintain the minimum one trip every day."

"Why?"

"This is my duty as king."

Tang En said: "Buses will be a social welfare. After we figure out the operating costs in the future, we will reduce the fees as much as possible. In other words, there is no need to consider the issue of income when operating buses, as long as we maintain a balance of payments. That’s it.”

"In other words, you want to use the proceeds from other projects to support the bus project?"

"You can subsidize it in the early stage, but you can't rely entirely on subsidies. In the later stage, you need to maintain a balance of payments, regardless of profit."

"I see."

Fiona took note of Tang En's opinion, and then said with a smile: "But just because the occupancy rate of this intercity bus is very low, we have just taken advantage of it. In the past half month, we have been helping people one after another. We have transported a lot of immigrants here."

"oh?"

Tang En perked up and sat up straight: "How much has the population increased?"

Fiona opened a demographic book next to her and said: "Originally, the population growth has slowed down a lot, but in just the first half month since the intercity buses were opened, more than 20,000 people have been added, and most of them are concentrated in this week."

"Probably because the early stage was a gestation period, and it broke out this week."

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

Fiona said very excitedly: "By 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, and the increase in residents will also increase market demand. , businessmen will definitely gather here in large numbers, and the associated economic benefits will be immeasurable.”

Tang En smiled slightly: "Of course, the more people there are, the more business opportunities there will be. However, the population will barely exceed 500,000 by the end of the year. It is not worth being so excited at all. Our goal is to continue to strengthen Ellington's attraction." We will work hard to achieve a population of over 5 million next year.”

"Five, five million!?"

Fiona was stunned: "Your Majesty, are you crazy? The population of Yalinks is less than two million! Do you want to move the capital!?"

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

Tang En 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 inconvenient transportation and slow infrastructure construction.

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

More importantly, the paving of highways has been completed, and the opening of intercity buses has increased the efficiency of residents' travel. Taking intercity buses and transferring in each city, it only takes five minutes to go from Ellington to Arinks. Six days is enough - this is because there are too few shuttle buses at present.

Taking an intercity 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, it will also cost you a few gold coins. Fifteen days, let alone encountering dangerous situations.

This also 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 dissatisfied and want to leave, they will not lose anything.

The Datang Chamber of Commerce looked for poor people from all over the country who were willing to work, and its policy of free migration to Ellington 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. All of this requires advance planning."

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?"

"It is now approaching the wheat harvest day, 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 are harvesting their 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, I decided to use the rest with Datang Donated to the royal family of Illrus in the name of the Chamber of Commerce.”

Fiona glanced at Tang En charmingly and said, "There are a total of five thousand combine harvesters and five thousand magic cultivators."

Tang En laughed loudly and said, "What's the point of using the left hand instead of the right hand?"

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 like 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 use it as you wish - don't forget , the royal family has a lot of private land, is it possible that you want to farm it yourself?"

"That's true."

Tang En suddenly realized that he basically didn't have much involvement in the royal family's private property, and let Olena and Alleria control it themselves. After all, the purpose of him wanting the throne was just to be able to control it. It's just an honest reform of the Illrus Empire.

"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. It’s wheat.”

Speaking of this, Fiona said very excitedly: "When we plant next spring, we will be able to use new varieties of wheat seeds!"

"oh!?"

Upon hearing this, Tang En suddenly put down his tea cup and said in surprise: "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 here, so she told me. It is said that she and Ms. Otinia's research came together. A breakthrough, the production capacity of the latest generation of improved seeds has more than doubled from the original one! They believe that your requirements have been met now, so they have begun mass catalytic production."

"Double!"

Tang En was overjoyed: "Really twice as much!?"

"I don't think Ms. Othinia would make such a bad joke."

Fiona looked at Tang En very seriously, her eyes filled with unconcealable joy: "Your Majesty, this is the most surprising news this year."

Tang En was also 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 fall, maybe we can solve the hunger problem that we’ve been having.”

Tang En breathed a long sigh of relief. According to the current population growth rate of Purandal, the current agricultural scale with improved seeds can definitely meet the population's demand for food, and even make a large amount of food available 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 said this. To be honest, he could already imagine what kind of reward Grandia would ask for...