Seventeen Production Capacity Constraints
"Once the war starts, you've already made money. Why do you want to intervene in the government's affairs after the war this time?" Clark glanced at Des and asked.
"Naturally it is for the greater good! The city lord of Seris is very interesting. He has developed a new woodworking machine that allows the Longtaite family to monopolize the woodworking market." Des told the truth, but concealed it with the truth. the truth of the matter.
"I'm afraid, it's not just carpentry, right?" Prime Minister Clark, who is mature and skilled, naturally won't easily believe Des's explanation, and asked again.
"Of course, there is also a new type of loom! Think about it, the fabric market is much bigger than the woodworking market..." Des continued to tell the truth and answered.
"This makes sense... The young city lord of Seris was sure to pay the tax tribute of 4,500 gold coins in three places, so he moved his mind to eat the two places of Maine and Ferry." Clark nodded, be regarded as mastering The ins and outs of things.
The Longtaite family thought of making a fortune on their own, and they were going to use fifty thousand gold coins to play their prime minister. It was a good plan! Thinking of this, Clark stared at Des with a smile, his tone also became a little cold, and he said, "Then the official first wished the Longtaite family a lot of money."
"Here, the Prime Minister still needs to do his best in front of His Majesty, so Des came this time to do a good business with the Prime Minister." Des knew that Prime Minister Clark was insatiable, so he didn't wait for the other party to attack, and directly first Speaking of cooperation.
Sure enough, upon hearing what the other party said, Clark had a smile on his face, waiting for Des to continue speaking.
Des didn't hesitate, stretched out a hand and said to Chancellor Clark, "Fifty thousand gold coins a year!"
"Um..." Clark was noncommittal, waiting for Des's words.
"The 50,000 is sent to the prime minister's house, tax..." Des made a long note, waiting for Clark to express his stance.
"6,000 per year!" Clark didn't make Des wait too long, and said directly: "In addition, you have to send me another 200,000 gold coins!"
This time, it was Des's turn to not speak. Although he was young, he was also an old profiteer. He knew that Clark would definitely give a satisfactory explanation for the 200,000 gold coins behind him.
"After all, Seris has already occupied three cities, and he can no longer use his status as a lord! Let His Majesty make him a grand duke, but it needs to work well." Clark said solemnly.
Des nodded: "The price is fair! I will order someone to send the money in the afternoon. Your Excellency the Prime Minister is loyal to the country and works tirelessly. He is really a role model in the world!"
"Good to say! Good to say! Come! See off!" Clark's smile grew even stronger, and he shouted loudly to the hall.
When Des came out of Prime Minister Clark's mansion, Stried was still waiting outside the door.
He stepped forward with a smile, took Strid's hand and said, "It's done! It cost me a full 200,000 gold coins!"
"Ah?" Hearing Des say that, Stryd was so frightened that he trembled: he had never seen so much 200,000 gold coins in his life. If there were 200,000 gold coins, what kind of territory would he need to manage? What?
"The harvest is not without it." Des smiled and took Strid's hand and said as he walked forward: "Soon, Lord Chris, he will be called... Grand Duke Chris!"
After he finished speaking, he glanced at Stryd, who was already stunned, and said with a smile: "Let's go! Let's go to Seris City together!"
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At this moment, Chris, who had already been designated as the Grand Duke of Alan Hill, still didn't know about his promotion and salary increase. He was holding a stack of blueprints in a daze, and he looked no different from a technical house.
Even though Serris City already has a lot of processing equipment and steam engines as power, there is still a lot to do.
Rome was not built in a day, and the industrial system of Serris City could not be perfected in ten days.
Being able to manufacture machinery so quickly is actually directly related to some of the reserves in Seris City: the city defense forces have reserves of kerosene, which can extract various petroleum compounds. Serris City is rich in special iron material such as Ferrite, and its smelting technology is also outstanding.
With some other special materials, some alternatives can be found temporarily, so Seris can quickly produce a large number of industrial machinery and complete the construction of the first few factories.
But then, problems began to appear: the various raw materials required by the industry are too complex to be supported by a small city of Seris. Rapid industrialization began to enter a bottleneck period, and had to slow down its pace.
"There are so many problems before us..." Deans leaned back in his chair and complained to Chris who hurried back to Seris from Ferry City: "I don't know what to do if you don't come back. Just fine."
He pushed several reports in front of Chris, and said helplessly: "We are producing cloth and woodworking products too fast, and there are no merchants who can eat so much goods."
Chris had just returned, and before he even had time to drink, he picked up the reports from the table and read them carefully. I don't know, there are a lot of problems.
For example, the cotton and other materials stored in the city of Serris have been used up, and his factory is facing the dilemma of shortage of materials and shutdown. What is even more frightening is that although the price was adjusted to half of the original price of the goods, these items were still seriously unsalable due to the large quantity.
"The iron one is a little better. After the punching machine is assembled according to your drawings, the mass production of plate armor and utensils starts. The speed is very fast... Our raw materials are still sufficient, but the reserves are also decreasing." Deans said worriedly.
Having said that, he looked at Chris and said very painfully: "Originally, we still have more than 1,000 prisoners of Mayne who can be used for mining... But because of the need to maintain stability, you ordered them to be released. Most of the people who are not guilty, and that puts our production plans in jeopardy."
Hearing Deans say this, Chris is also very helpless: "Mayne is getting angry with Berman as a bastard. I don't do this. Now I may only be able to calm down the chaos in Mayne..."
"I know that, but now these things must be dealt with one by one." Deans also tried his best, but unfortunately the things he faced were so new that he had no experience at all to deal with them properly. .
Chris also has no particularly good way. He can only pin his hopes on Des, who has not shown up again, and hopes that Des, a businessman, can help him open up the market and start a completely benign operation.
"For the time being, send the excess cloth produced to Maine and Ferry City!" Chris thought for a while, and said one thing at a time: "Let the soldiers of Ferry City be responsible for the transportation, and every time they go to a place, they will be responsible for the transportation. Distribute the cloth! Treat it as a consolation from the City Lord's Mansion!"
"Similarly, send the surplus cheap woodworking products to these two places, half price, if it's not enough, dump it at one-tenth of the price! It's as cheap as it can be!" After calculating, Chris followed. The order became coherent: "In addition, for all workers in Seris City, those related to the factory, half of their wages are converted into products! Deducted at the lowest price... If you want cloth, give cloth, and if you want furniture, give furniture!"
Opening the internal market and dumping the product is the only way Chris can now. The biggest drawback of this method is that it does not make money. This is also the pain of industrialization at the limit, and Chris has to bear it.
Deans nodded and said yes, and smiled bitterly in his heart: the furniture and cloth produced at a low cost were finally given away for almost free, almost the same as throwing it away. This is really something I never thought about before. the irony of...
Just when Deans was thinking about it, Chris got up and walked to his cabinet. From a locked drawer, he pulled out a stack of blueprints and looked at it. He scrutinized the blueprint in front of him, choosing the pros and cons of the various weapons and equipment above.
These drawings were all drawn before he left, and they were all weapons and equipment that the current industrial level of Serris City could not produce. Chris has to select the weapons that are suitable for the next production from these weapons, which is a very painful job and can only be done by him alone.
"Our current situation is not optimistic. The factory production capacity is too low, to the point where I have to temporarily give up many advanced weapons and equipment." Putting down a design drawing of an automatic rifle, Chris looked at the seemingly The ignorant Deans.
He now has to choose a single-soldier weapon for his troops. Although the artillery is powerful, if the weapons and equipment of each soldier cannot be improved, the troops without the artillery will not be able to perform combat missions alone.
It is worth Chris to think about which gun to choose as a personal weapon: sometimes, not the best weapon must be the most suitable. Thinking of this, and reluctantly looked at the simple and practical AK47 assault rifle drawings on the table, Chris, who had to reluctantly give up his love, sighed.
Because of the production capacity, he had to give up many weapons and equipment that were not complicated in their own manufacturing process, and the AK47 was just one of them. For example, mortars, simple and practical rocket launchers, etc. - these weapons and equipment can't be installed.
Chris, who has an industrial foundation, is not unwilling to equip more mortars, but the production speed of artillery shells cannot keep up with the consumption of mortars. Now Chris realizes how troublesome it is to maintain a modern army: weapons production alone is a step that tests industrial prowess, and the meager production capacity he currently has cannot even supply the war consumption of an infantry company. ...