Chapter 24 Preparation

What Zhang Tie said about preparing for the jihad is of course not empty words, that is, at noon on the second day after the completion of the cemetery of the victims in Eskil City, the five elders of the Icefield Giant Bear Tribe and the Spencer Family Laojiu and Zhang Tie sat together again and began to discuss the issue of dealing with jihad in a very formal way.

Just yesterday, what Zhang Tie said outside Eskil City was not only affected by ordinary people, but the five elders who sat with Zhang Tie, except Elder Sha Lin Besides, the faces of others are not very good.

This meeting was held in a manor established by the Spencer family outside Eskil City. After leaving the cemetery of the victims in Eskil City, everyone came here.

This place was originally the vacation place of the patriarch of the Spencer family outside the city, but at this moment, it is the place where Zhang Tie recuperates.

The top-quality cedar wood floor and the chandelier composed of a pile of four-pin pyramid crystals in the room make the place look luxurious in a low-key way. The light pine leaf fragrance that the top-quality cedar wood floor naturally emits when winter comes, With the breath of the mountains, just take a breath, it will make people feel refreshed and relaxed, and the natural energy condensed by the crystal chandelier above the head fills the whole room with a pleasant feeling. and vibrant energy field.

It has to be said that the ruling family of Eskil City, the people in power in Spencer's family, really enjoyed it. Just such a seemingly ordinary room can't be arranged without tens of thousands of gold coins.

Just this morning, Zhang Tie took a car around Eskil City to see the huge property owned by the entire Spencer family in Eskil City. Yesterday, the entire Eskil City, including the ownership of these huge properties of the Spencer family, had officially completed the transfer to Zhang Tie.

Under the witness of the two major tribes and some prominent figures in Eskil City, Zhang Tie, Elder Rudolf, Elder Turing, Elder Gulas, Elder Thors, and High Priest Shalin signed his own name on a document, thereby officially confirming the current ownership, status, and In the future, there will be many issues such as the inheritance of the city.

The Spencer family transferred 75% of the ownership of the entire Eskil City and the entire family property under their control to "Peter Hampres"—that is, under the name of Zhang Tie. 25% ownership of family owned property.

In the future, the ownership and property of the Spencer family owned by Zhang Tie will be inherited by a child born to him and a certain woman in the Spencer family, and that person will also be the future patriarch of the Spencer family.

The elders of the giant bear tribe in the ice plains approved this document.

In a sense, this document only plays a symbolic role, especially at the top decision-making level of the two tribes, but sometimes, such a symbol is necessary, and those black and white words can Reassuring some people will also reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles.

After signing the document, Zhang Tie listened to Elder Rudolph holding a ledger-like book and read it for more than ten minutes before he fully understood the 75% of the Spencer family he held in his hands. How many are there.

In Eskil City alone, this part of the family property includes Eskil City's annual city tax surplus of more than 2.8 million gold coins and the entire Spencer family's annual property and wharf income annuity of more than 1.7 million gold coins.

The rest of the,

The Spencer family owns more than a dozen large and small business groups, hundreds of large and small factories and workshops, dozens of manors and farms, and thousands of square kilometers of land with different degrees of development value outside the city. , and more than a dozen minerals...

Just listening to Elder Rudolph recite these general things, Zhang Tie felt as if he was listening to a scripture from heaven, and he felt as if his head was as big as a bucket.

"Just tell me directly, how much money can I use directly every year, and how many people can use it directly?" In the end, Zhang Tie had to interrupt Elder Rudolph.

"Except for the various expenses and accumulations to maintain the normal operation of Eskil City and the various industries of the family, the total amount of funds you can use every year is 7.8 million gold coins, and the more than 13.4 million people in the entire Eskil City Among them, in addition to the violent institutions such as the city guard and the police, in your many industries, there are 1.26 million people directly employed by you. The police and city guard in Eskil City have reorganized Finally, you still have 250,000 city guards and more than 40,000 policemen in your hands. Everyone else is under your jurisdiction and must abide by your laws."

Zhang Tie understood. He memorized two numbers, 7.8 million gold coins and a total of 1.5 million people who listened to his orders. These are two numbers representing great power. The available material and manpower finally made Zhang Tie truly feel the power of the bear-level tribe on the ice and snow wasteland.

Because he didn't have any specific impression of these things yet, Zhang Tie took a car around Eskil City this morning to deepen his impression.

In other places, Zhang Tie just glanced around. Zhang Tie mainly looked at three places, and those three places are all owned by him now—one is the Eskil Iron and Steel Plant, and the other is the The Iron Bear Steam Power Company, and the North Wind Shipyard.

The three most important industrial enterprises under the Spencer family, except for the Iron Bear Steam Power Company located in the city of Eskil, the other two companies are located in a town called Sibi, 30 kilometers east of the city of Eskil. Among the industrial parks in Yas Bay, where most of the industrial enterprises in Eskil City are concentrated.

The main products of Iron Bear Steam Power Company are several pot machines ranging from 5 horsepower to 100 horsepower.

In this era, this kind of pot machine that connects the steam engine and the boiler can almost be called the best friend of human beings. This kind of machine, whether it is in the countryside, cities, or factories, can make it show its talents everywhere. As long as it is connected with corresponding equipment, it can irrigate farmland, saw wood, mill rice, drill wells, squeeze oil, thresh, build roads, perform mechanical processing and forging, etc. Its exhaust steam can also be used as a heat source, Used for drying, evaporation and heating.

This kind of machine is not picky, whether it is firewood or coal, it can make it move. Except for being a bit bulky and slow to start, it is almost one of the most perfect machines that humans can produce in this era.

Several types of ostrich machines produced by Iron Bear Steam Power Company are exported to the entire ice and snow wasteland. In the ice and snow wasteland, as long as there are tribes gathering, one or two pot ostrich machines can be seen there, even in the warehouse. In places like Ergan Village, Zhang Tie has seen a small 5-horsepower low-speed boiler machine. That machine was used to dig wells in Kurgan Village.

The Iron Bear Steam Power Company produces about 300 sets of all kinds of camel machines every year, which are mainly sold to the ice and snow wasteland, and a small amount are sold to Evin Dala. The buses in Eskil City are also produced by this company. Yes, the quality is basically passable, but the quantity is not much,

With an annual output of 280,000 tons of steel, Eskil Iron and Steel Works is the largest and only steel production enterprise in the entire ice and snow wasteland.

The iron ore that supports this enterprise comes from an iron ore area with an area of ​​about fifteen to six square kilometers 40 kilometers east of Sibias Bay. This iron ore area has a high-quality open-pit iron mine with a reserve of 9.4 billion tons , mining is very easy. About 210 kilometers to the north of Eskil City, there is a coal mine with a reserve of more than 2 billion tons, which is enough to support the coal demand of Eskil City's iron and steel industry.

Needless to say, this coal mine and an iron mine are also owned by Zhang Tie.

The Beifeng Shipyard consumes almost half of the steel products shipped from the steel factory in Eskil City every year. However, due to various reasons, and also limited by the overall backwardness of the industrial development of the entire ice and snow wasteland, neither Beifeng Shipyard nor Eskil City has the technical strength to manufacture key equipment for large-scale ship steam turbines. The steam turbines needed by the sailing factory were all purchased and assembled from the island of Gantiadu in Evin Dara.

This is what Zhang Tie knows about Eskil City, and it is also the current industrial development situation of the entire ice and snow wasteland. Due to the extreme harshness of the environment and the lack of various materials, each tribe is basically living a life of one-third farming, one-third nomadic, and one-third hunting.

Every bear-level tribe on the ice and snow wasteland has a fixed territory, and each tribe lives a relatively backward life in its own territory. Except for Eskiel City, almost no tribe has developed a decent industry. system.

Such a situation made Zhang Tie feel extremely heavy. For Zhang Tie, who grew up in a city like Heiyan City, he knew very well how important the power of steam and steel is to the survival and reproduction of human beings in this era. It can be said that without the human industry developed by relying on steam and steel, it would have been impossible for human beings to survive the last two jihads.

Saber-toothed beasts are very ferocious, and the cavalry riding on them are also top heroes and powerful fighters, but not everyone can own a saber-toothed beast, and not everyone can grow to be above level six Warriors, for most ordinary people, if several people can drive a high-performance steam tank or armored vehicle when facing the demons, their power on the battlefield will not be as powerful as that of the saber-toothed beast. poor cavalry...

"Using the power of steel and steam is the most reliable and effective way for us to deal with the threat of demons. I want to know, how far can the industrialization of Eskil City and the Icefield Giant Bear Tribe go in the future?" The meeting started , Zhang Tie’s first sentence determined the theme of this meeting, relying on industrialization as the beginning of the ice and snow wasteland’s response to the third jihad... Offer'If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)