Chapter 350 Steam Magic Train
"Hello, Miss Michelle, Mr. Mabus." After Lelouch came down, he shook hands with a lady in her thirties and a man in his twenties.
Neither of them looked like traditional apprentices, and they were wearing ordinary aristocratic clothes.
"Hello, Mr. Mayor." Miss Michelle and Miss Mabus also said.
Then, Lelouch introduced Luther, Mrs. Sophie, and Miss Alice. After the two sides exchanged some courtesy, the group entered one of the cabins and sat down.
The cabin was a meeting room. A long table occupied most of the place, with more than a dozen seats. Luther sat in the main seat, and the others sat on both sides.
At this time, Luther no longer kept it a secret. He looked up at Miss Michelle and Mr. Mabus and asked, "I think steam is a very reliable energy. I want to use water and the heat from burning coal to make a machine that uses steam to drive it. The machine walks on the track and can transport large quantities of goods and people."
Luther actually doesn't understand steam trains. He is not an expert in this area. He was just an ordinary person in his previous life.
But Luther still knew some simple knowledge, and Luther said these simple knowledge. But this simple knowledge made the eyes of the people present light up.
"A machine driven by water vapor, which saves transportation costs. A lot of manpower is freed up, and people don't have to raise a lot of horses and mules. The labor of the entire White Eagle Territory will be much more abundant. This is a great change."
The mayor was very excited. This was really a genius idea.
It's like using manure to fertilize the fields and using cattle to plow the fields.
This partner always has such a fantastic idea in his head.
"In this way, coal will become a resource. Trains replace horses, so coal replaces feed, and the Pompeii family will greatly increase their income."
Mrs. Sophie understood it as soon as she heard it, and nodded with a smile.
Miss Alice also thought this idea was great, raised her right hand and said, "I want a share."
"You keep us here, are you going to hire us to design this machine?" Ms. Michelle's eyesight is a little bad, so she wears glasses. She adjusted her glasses and showed interest.
Mr. Mabusi also showed interest. Wizards are extremely enthusiastic about knowledge, experiments, and design.
It’s just that wizards were only interested in human experiments before, and the purpose of the experiments was to make themselves stronger. Now Luther has opened a new door for them.
Ordinary machinery.
"Yes. I ask you to design this machine and use magic runes to reinforce the trains and rails. But I don’t want to hire you." Luther nodded, then looked up at Miss Alice who was excited to get a share and said, "My eldest daughter, please set up a company specializing in designing and producing trains, rails, and operating the transportation industry. You own 80% of the shares, and the city hall owns 20%."
Luther is not going to design an ordinary steam train, but a magic steam train reinforced with magic runes.
The transportation business will certainly be very profitable in the future.
But it takes a lot of manpower and energy to design and manufacture a magic steam train and set up a company.
And Mrs. Sophie is already very busy, and Luther doesn't intend to cause her any more trouble. Besides, coal mining is still in the hands of the Pompeii family.
And Luther is running a territory, not taking all the business into his arms.
The most important thing is that Luther has an elemental planet, and these secular businesses are just icing on the cake, so there is no need to be too obsessed.
Luther only gave a little profit, but Miss Alice was very happy.
"Eighty percent of the shares? Such a big business, you actually gave me eighty percent of the shares? You don't have any strange ideas."
Miss Alice then said vigilantly.
She also hugged the giant beast like a demon, looking very scared.
"If you don't want it, I will give this business to Miss Amanda of the Morgan family." Luther said unhappily.
"Yes, I want it." Miss Alice nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and licked her lips with her pink little tongue.
Damn. Fairy.
"Don't take things too simply. Train design is a problem, and the steel needed for trains and rails is also a problem. The efficiency of secular steelmaking is too slow now. You have to find a way to design an efficient steelmaking method to continuously produce steel."
Luther said unhappily.
Speaking of this, Luther was a little proud, because only Silver Wing City in the entire White Eagle Territory had iron ore production, and that iron mine was now operated by the Pompeii family.
"Don't worry, as long as there is money to be made, I will put in 200% effort to do things." Miss Alice gave Luther a look of peace of mind, and her eyes almost turned into gold coins.
Luther rolled his eyes, are you a dragon?
Greedy for money.
Then, Luther told Mrs. Sophie to set up a mining company as soon as possible to carry out coal mining work. There are trains, but no coal can't run.
Luther also told Lelouch to ask the City Hall to provide more help to Miss Alice in the track laying and train production.
"Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on it. The train is a great thing for the White Eagle Territory. And the City Hall also holds 20% of the shares."
Lelouch nodded with a smile and prepared to do a big job.
"Okay, that's the plan. We work together to make the entire White Eagle Territory more prosperous, so that people can not only eat well, but also make a lot of money. Now I provide 720,000 prospective knights with free meals and education funds. In the future, I hope that everyone in our White Eagle Territory can become a knight."
Luther stood up and made a summary. As the governor of the White Eagle Territory, Luther only grasped the general direction, and he didn't care about the details.
"Good idea." Miss Alice gave Luther a thumbs up and gave him a thumbs up.
This guy gave me such a big business, even if he is talking nonsense, I must give him a thumbs up. Miss Alice thought.
"That's a really wonderful future." Lelouch shrugged. In fact, when he was carrying out Luther's education of 720,000 quasi-knights, he had guessed Luther's blueprint.
So he was not too shocked.
On the contrary, Madam Sophie and the two wizard apprentices were extremely shocked. In the future, all the people in the territory will become knights?
"The current population of White Eagle Territory is more than two million. According to the current living standards in White Eagle Territory, the population will double in less than 20 years. In other words, in 20 years, the number of knights in White Eagle Territory will reach 4 million? This is a very terrifying level. A huge military force."
Luther's universal knight plan will shock anyone who hears it.
After Luther made the general design of the magic steam train, he handed all the things over to his subordinates, and then leisurely returned to Pompeii.
At this time, the autumn harvest has begun.
As grain production increases, prices fall.
The first agricultural population release officially began, and Pompeii will enter the industrial age.