Didian got the basic rules and quotation from the railway bureau, and hurriedly went through the procedures, paid the safety risk deposit, and made arrangements for the vehicle.
At the same time, I learned that I was allowed to build my own car!
But after asking the blacksmith, he knew it was a sinkhole.
Not to mention other things, as for the iron wheels that are round and round in the middle of winter, no blacksmith I asked can guarantee that they can be made and put on the railway.
Finally, we found the manufacturer designated by the Railway Bureau, Phoenix Shuangshi Machinery Factory.
After consultation and feedback from my subordinates, I decided to build cars in two places.
When Didion was a child, he had not seen anything in a remote place like Red Rock. He knew that horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts were used to transport passengers, and the charges were directly related to the level of luxury.
However, the machinery factory is very strange. They don't do customization at all now, and they don't even look at anything with a total purchase volume of less than 100.
According to this requirement, the car Didian wanted to buy was also unqualified. Fortunately, his car also had to meet the standards of the Railway Administration and did not require additional mold making.
You can do it, but you can't build luxury cars.
After several rounds of discussion, we decided to buy a frame and just add the carriage to it by ourselves.
It’s not cheap either. The current longest frame is 14 meters, including the wheels, front and rear couplers, and the steel frame that supports the carriage. One frame costs 3,850 yuan. When you look at a nice house in Wangtingshu, most people really can’t stand it. .
But after calculating the income from self-operated vehicles, you will feel that this price is normal.
I placed the order for the carriage frame and front end, and when I returned to Red Rock City, I discovered something terrible.
He quickly found the butler who knew a big family among the people watching and asked.
"Replying to Mr. Didion, it seems that the garrison came here to suppress bandits."
"Do we need such a big battle to suppress bandits?"
Outside the station, there were a lot of people wearing bright breastplates and holding long, unknown objects.
"The little one doesn't know."
Didion didn't care about the life or death of the bandits, but looking at this attitude, it meant that the safety fees for railway car operations could also be saved a lot!
Sure enough, money is easy to make under the Phoenix King.
After seeing the garrison leaving the city with a group of bastards and the housekeepers of wealthy families, Didian went home and arranged the carriage matters.
A good carriage requires carpenters, tailors, knitters and jewelers. It is estimated that if there are too many people sitting in it, there will always be some cheap people who damage the seats. If they are too expensive, it will be troublesome to deal with later.
The fourteen-meter-long frame didn’t know how big it was until the carpenter laid out the wires on site and started drawing the seats.
In fact, Didian has seen a flatbed truck of this length, but the flatbed truck looks smaller when viewed from a distance, which is far less intuitive than standing in the pay-off area.
The meter ruler used by the carpenter was made by the Nanzhen Sawmill, and was also the standard ruler in the Phoenix King's territory. Didion's men forcibly gave it to the carpenter, otherwise they were afraid that the size would be different.
14 meters long and 3.3 meters wide, the structural thickness of the wooden carriage is almost negligible at this size, only the columns must be included.
The carpenter is an inherited carpenter who specializes in making furniture for wealthy families in Red Rock City. The whole family has been doing this for generations. There are many undecorated furniture embryos at home. Didian asked the housekeeper to use these furniture to try to put wires in the carriage. District toss.
"It's so big!" Didion couldn't hold back after trying several pieces of furniture. He had never realized that the cars used by the Railway Administration were so wide before.
The width of this car allows a normal-sized bed to be placed horizontally, minus the thickness of the wooden walls, and there is still enough space for two people to walk facing the aisle, without even having to turn sideways to avoid it!
This means that the private room is not limited to just seating a few people for snacks. You can also do some bed exercises. It is definitely suitable for selling high-priced tickets.
There are four private rooms in one carriage, each with a big bed, and some soundproofing measures are needed. Fifty yuan for a private room... no, fifty yuan for a ticket. One carriage is just... a bit much.
The money of the big family must be earned, but the free people with a little money cannot be spared. Just get row seats like the rest area at the front of the car, two on each side, with people passing in the middle, and just add a wooden shell to block the wind. One car has five seats. More than ten people.
Booking three carriages feels like a lot. Do you want to squeeze in the carriages at the back to make some space for bulk cargo?
In short, when he arrived at Carpenter's, Didion truly realized that the income from passenger transport was by no means a small amount of money as he had thought before. It was something that could be passed down to the family if he could continue to operate it.
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Unlike Didion, who is so careless, nearly half of the big households in Red Rock City think that hoarding food is the right thing to do.
There are rumors that the things falling from the sky are related to the demons, and they will soon enter a period of chaos.
No matter how true this rumor is, the previous wave was quite disastrous and the number of refugees surged. Food prices will inevitably rise in the next few years, and there is almost no risk.
The difficulty lies in losing the opportunity.
The Phoenix King's territory does not produce much food, but because of the sugar, the food cannot be sold at a high price.
Previously, under the guidance of Hackwep, I exchanged Phoenix coins to open up some farmland and hired outsiders to farm it. However, the time was limited and the grain was confiscated for the whole season. There were some losses during the big collision. After the big collision, the weather was bad and it seemed that production would be reduced.
There is basically not much profit to be made from the food on hand, so you still have to go to other places to make a fortune with local merchants.
These large households have not even considered that whether it is passenger transportation or food trafficking, it will actually accelerate the driving of the lower-class people in other areas to areas where it is easier to live.
"The orcs can still go to the Fartel Kingdom. Others, except us, can only try to move south of the Luna River."
The conversation was still between Hakwep and Aarons.
A wave of large investors they have attracted are still in the gold business, but the price of gold has plummeted again after the big collision, and the profits from smelting gold coins and exchanging them for Phoenix coins are already relatively limited.
This is not good news for the big investors. The Pabra lizard brothers represented by Hackwep are engaged in banking business, but they will not be affected much.
"So Red Stone City is going to be expanded?" The wisdom of the Fourth Ring Mage should not be underestimated. Aarons made a lot of money, but decided to continue cooperation.
Hackwep shook his head: "Red Rock City is not a place to build a city in the first place, and there is not much room for expansion. From what Brother Sugar Factory has observed from Phoenix City, I'm afraid the north is not good. I'm worried that the entire dark land will become a war zone in the future. .”
"North? That's not..."
Before Aarons could finish his words, he was shut up by Harkwip's vertical boy.
"I visited several mages in Blackwater City. The demons may rise from the north, which is probably the great collision zone."
"There is always a red light at night in the north. Could it be caused by the demons?"
Hackwep shook his head: "I don't know. The west and north directions of Phoenix City have been classified as military warning zones. Now you will be warned whenever you leave the city, and you can only dig in groups to dig sulfur."
"Is there a route that can bypass the volcano?" Aarons is not stupid. He suddenly launched a military alert. There must be a goal, right? To alert the volcano?
"Maybe." Hackwep stopped talking about military issues that he didn't understand well and took out a map. "Red Stone City cannot be expanded much. The new city is limited by the terrain and ambient temperature, and the room for expansion is also very limited. Further south , the second station of the expanded railway, Fenggu is a good place.”
Wind Valley City, just like its name, is a large windy valley area.
This valley is not the small valley favored by bandit refugees, but a very open gentle slope, running northeast-southwest as a whole. The southern slope is gentler. From the river flowing through the valley to the top of the mountain, it is about six kilometers wide and more than ten kilometers long from head to tail.
The population of Wind Valley itself is not large, mainly due to its size and relatively good water conditions. If there are really a large number of refugees, within the new railway line, this is the only place that is more suitable for expansion into a large city.
Hackwep found a piece of rough paper, drew a small diagram with charcoal produced in Phoenix City, and pointed out the next route to make money: "My brother has gone to see it. The railway must not be able to pass through the Valley of the Wind. It must pass through the Valley." Crossing the river to the west, among the shorter routes, this is the narrowest, still five kilometers away from the city wall of Wind Valley."
"Take the middle land?" Aarons asked?
Harkwep nodded, then shook his head slightly: "If we really want to go to war, it is not safe to get the land. I have two ways here. One is to take the land and rent it to the local free people. Don't keep it for your own use. Over there in the Valley of the Wind Although we won’t go to war against the locals, we won’t make much money in the future, because most of the non-agricultural land in Phoenix King will be expropriated for public use, which we have already experienced.”
The original Red Rock City was a no-nonsense zone, and there was no such troublesome thing as land deeds. After it was taken over by the Phoenix King, most of the land other than residential buildings was forcibly expropriated as public land, and only a small part of the land that was actually in use was given away. money.
It should be the same in other places. It is not a big problem to earn a little expropriation subsidy based on poor information, but it is more difficult to earn a lot.
Ranwen
"Let's just talk about the second one."
"The other option is to get the land first, not too much. Just choose a piece of land close to the railway and river according to the size of Hongshi Station. The key point is to have industries and not farming. It is best to use a lot of iron. . It is recommended that you choose the lower reaches. Although the river transportation conditions are poor, it is still more cost-effective than land transportation."
"Iron consumption?" Aarons didn't care about river transportation at all. There were still river bandits in the river.
"I suggest you go to the Shuangshi Machinery Factory in Phoenix for a visit before making a decision. You can visit there."
