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"Thermal power?" Mr. Wardrick on the other end of the phone sounded a little surprised. "I didn't know you were interested in a business like building public facilities. Where do you want to build it?"

Mr. Wardrick's consortium operates many projects. The operating structure of this middle-generation consortium is different from that of the first-generation federal consortium.

Like the consortium behind Mr. Patu, they have a tighter grip on real estate, mineral resources, metallurgy, and transportation. They have more advantages in these fields. After all, these things were very worthless at that time.

With just a little money, you can buy a large area of ​​mountainous land, and there are who knows how many mineral deposits there are underground.

By the middle generation, when people like Mr. Wardrick started their business, social and technological development had crossed a new level, and all kinds of new things began to enter the market.

Some new things have become the key to their wealth, such as industry, chemicals, etc., including new energy.

These things have not yet been completely monopolized by the first-generation consortium, and can also be seen as the path for the rise of the middle-generation consortium.

As for these new generation consortiums, they mainly relied on real estate and manufacturing to get their start, and they continue to challenge the early and middle generation consortiums in an attempt to gain more say.

Mr. Wardrick is involved in energy projects. This kind of project is not easy to do. Even if some people have money and strength, they cannot do it in the federal government because of the power grid.

The federal power grid is all private, and the power plants are also private. After the initial wild growth and crazy annexation, the circuit network has basically been completely integrated, and the industry has stabilized.

The first thing people who want to join this industry have to face is power grid construction. This is not a problem that can be solved with three to five million. This amount of money may not even be able to build a power grid in a small city, let alone a nationwide one. National Grid.

So Mr. Wardrick was curious, if Lynch built a power plant and started generating electricity, how would he sell the electricity?

The power grid will not accept his electricity, even if he has a good relationship with Mr. Wardrick. Unless he spends money to purchase the right to use the power grid and gives the power terminal pricing power to the power grid, there will be no market for his electricity.

By the way, this is not a monopoly. With the entry into force of the Anti-Monopoly Law, the Federal Power Grid has been split into more than a dozen regional power grid companies. Although their shareholders have not changed from before, the Anti-Monopoly Law has changed. Applies to this part.

"In Zhuris... yes, it is the current capital of Amelia. We need a medium-to-large thermal power generation project here. When I heard the news, I thought of you first."

After hearing this, Mr. Wardrick did not agree immediately. Instead, he said with a gentle voice and a smile between the lines, "I am not very interested in the business you are talking about. People from Gefra will give it to you." We cause trouble, and this business is more complicated than you think."

"It would be easier if you just built this power plant. Let me give you a suggestion. Don't run it yourself. It is the home ground of the Gefra people and you have no advantage."

"I have advanced generator sets here and can give you some discounts if you need them. If you need designers, I can also introduce them to you."

“But business, no!”

He has made it very clear that he will not do this. Gefra and the Federation will never be able to continue to develop peacefully like this.

There may be some ideological opposition in the future. After all, there is only one emperor, and there is only one ruler of the world.

Once this antagonistic environment is formed, the long-term industries built on the territory of the Gefra people will become very, very troublesome. Just think about how the federal people dealt with those multinational companies before the federal economic recession.

Just looking for a small problem can bring down multinational companies with assets of over 100 million. It is even easier to deal with thermal power projects. Even the excuses are already prepared, such as pollution.

All the chimneys built by the federal people in Nagaril are emitting all kinds of dust, but when inspected, they were all deemed to be environmentally friendly because the inspections were done by federal agencies. They say environmental protection is environmental protection.

The inspection work on Gefra's territory is decided by the Gefra people. Even if it meets all the standards of the federation, as long as they propose a "Gefra standard", people will be helpless.

Moreover, facilities that are vital to a region, such as power plants and power grids, are generally not in the hands of foreigners. From the beginning, he had no such idea.

After listening to Mr. Wardrick's statement, Lynch was not discouraged. When he asked, he never considered that he would succeed. If Mr. Wardrick suddenly had a cerebral thrombosis and agreed, it would be a surprise. If he didn't agree, he wouldn't let anyone do it. disappointment.

But the phone call wasn’t over yet. “How much do you know about Gefra’s current thermal power generation units?”

There was silence on the other side of the receiver for a few seconds, and then Mr. Wardrick's voice came, "Just wait for a few minutes, and I'll start a conference call. I don't know much about these things."

The federal telecommunications and telegraph department still retains a large number of manual matching mechanisms. On the one hand, some lines require manual confirmation, and secondly, it is also for teleconferencing services.

Current switches cannot fully automatically match conference calls, and can only be done manually, and the method is very simple, just plug and unplug.

About two minutes later, after a brief noise, someone joined here.

"... He is our best engineer at present. He can give you the answer to this question..."

The next period of time was filled with communication between Lynch and the engineer. He kept writing and drawing on paper. After hanging up the phone, Lynch lowered his head and thought for a long time. It was not until dawn that the lights in the study were turned off. .

Some news about the power plant soon began to spread. This was no secret. The Governor's Palace even hinted implicitly that the Gefra people must win this important project, and at the same time was willing to give them some small "compensation" .

For example, the policy is tilted. In addition to tax exemptions, there will also be additional financial subsidies. If you can't win this public bidding plan with such advantages, then you can only say that the Gevra businessmen here are too disappointing.

Compared to the activity of businessmen in the Chamber of Commerce, Lynch seemed to be suppressed, and there were almost no rumors about him and the power plant.

Some people think this is normal. He is at a disadvantage and has a referee who blows a black whistle. Even if Lynch is really capable and even Emperor Gaevra praised him, he will not be able to pull off any tricks here. .

Seeing that the preparations for the matter were in place, the Governor's Mansion entered the process. At this time, a piece of news in the Byler Federation triggered a certain response around the world.

"Thermal power unit technology leads the world for twenty years!" 》

The Governor looked at the Federal Daily issued the day before yesterday without raising his head for a long time. He wore a pair of reading glasses and read the report carefully.

The report stated that a federal industrial research institute has applied for a very special patented technology. This technology can reduce unnecessary losses in the thermal power generation process and improve power generation efficiency. Using the same fuel as a reference, at the same time and environment Under the new technology, the power generation capacity is about 5% to 15% higher than the power generation technology currently used in major countries.

A very...astonishing number. With the development of society and technology, human beings are increasingly inseparable from electricity.

Twenty years ago, a small power station generating only 30,000 kilowatt-hours was enough to supply the electricity needs of a city with a population of 200,000.

Now, this demand has increased more than ten times, but we are still facing a shortage of electricity.

People eliminated candles and used electric lights, needing electricity.

Various convenient household appliances have begun to enter people's lives, and they also need electricity.

Factories have also become large consumers of electricity, especially light industrial factories. Electrically driven production machinery has become a future development trend.

There is a shortage of electricity everywhere, and many power generation projects are launched every year, whether in Gefra or the federation.

Now the federal people have developed some new technologies that have improved power generation efficiency under the same circumstances. The value of this technology can be imagined.

After the news came out, Gaevra immediately proposed diplomatic negotiations, hoping to obtain new technology in power generation through technology exchange, but was directly rejected by the Federation.

The reason for rejection is that this cutting-edge technology is not included in the list of exchanges and transfers. If the sale of goods does not involve patented technology, you can communicate with the R&D unit yourself.

This thing... is very greedy, especially for Gaevra, who has a limited land area, lack of resources, and the energy gap can never be filled. If these technologies can be obtained, just thinking about it will make you laugh out of your dream.

But at this time, there was no smile on the governor's face, but a frown.

After a while, he put down the newspaper and tapped his fingers on the newspaper twice. The force penetrated the paper and hit the table, making a dull "doo" sound.

"This technology appears at the right time, and it can't help but remind people of Lynch." Governor Seder looked at his son beside him.

The latter also nodded, "The situation is a bit complicated now, and it is not very beneficial to us."

Whether it was the Privy Council or the princes and ministers, their positions suddenly changed slightly. They hoped to let Lynch get the new power plant project in Zhulis, and at the same time they also made a request to him, that is, he must use New technology units are used as project units.

As long as you get these units, you can find any reason to scrap one and secretly take it apart. You can have any patented technology in your hands without spending more money.

But this makes the governor very embarrassed!