"Why sell the steam locomotive? It's too cheap."
Wang Qi was working in the office, and Li Xiang was beeping at the side.
Ignoring her, he waited until he finished reading the document in his hand and made a cross before speaking: "If they don't sell it, won't they make it?"
"Even if they build it, it will take a few more years."
Wang Qi casually flipped through the documents at the back. There were no more documents to be approved. He put the ones that had been approved together and took Li Xiang to the ninth floor.
This location overlooks the southern part of the city and the outside of the city. After the city improves, he likes to go here, which gives him a sense of accomplishment.
"Compared to us, Fatel is vast and rich in resources. Once they get up to speed, we won't have much to do. Selling some things seems to allow them to take a shortcut, but it will also make a group of people form inertial thinking and feel that it is not good for them." Might as well buy it.”
"It's better to buy than to make?" Li Xiang is also a second generation disaster, and cannot understand this concept that has destroyed the future of countless countries. "The cost of making it yourself is definitely cheaper than buying it."
"Having said that, with industrial upgrading, products are becoming more and more complex. Many of the products you make yourself are not as useful as those bought from outside, and the initial investment in production equipment is too huge. And for some people, buying It’s much more profitable than manufacturing.”
"how could be?"
"Let's use locomotives as an example. Suppose the railway bureau can buy locomotives from the General Locomotive Factory and Fatal at the same time. The General Locomotive Factory's quotation is 100,000, and Fatal's quotation is 90,000, but it costs 110,000 plus freight. It stands to reason that it will Let's buy it from a motorcycle factory." As Wang Qi spoke, he looked back at Li Xiang from the city below.
Li wanted to nod before he continued, "What if Fatel keeps the quotation unchanged and gives the buyer another 10,000 yuan from the 'freight'?"
Li Xiang was stunned and opened his mouth: "Ah!? Can it still be like this?"
"Well, this is a common business practice that cannot be governed even by laws. The only thing the company can do is self-correction and self-examination."
"Then you sold them a steam locomotive as a bribe?"
Wang Qi shook his head: "This is not called bribery, it is called kickback. And even if it is true, I can't know about it."
"Can't know...good or bad!"
This time the steam locomotive was sold through diplomatic channels, and the envoy would definitely not be able to see Wang Qi. Wang Qi could only see the final quotation. As for the cost, the administrative department may have a share, and it may be borne by the railway bureau. This figure is not It would be reflected in diplomatic documents. Anyway, as long as it didn't involve internal corruption, he didn't want to know about it.
Although Fatel does not have multiple buyers to choose from, who knows if there is something done to sell it at a high price.
The final price presented to Wang Qi was a total of 600,000 Phoenix coins for the two cars. The other party couldn't afford the money, so they had to refer to the captive project and use materials to offset the payment.
This price must be quite bizarre, because the ex-factory cost is barely 100,000 yuan. As one of the few sources of income, the railway bureau gave only a small profit of only 150,000 yuan. After several years of use, the price has doubled!
"From a strategic perspective, Fatel cannot be allowed to develop on its own. They are large in size and have complicated interest disputes among various groups. The organization is more difficult and will take more time. The demons will not wait. They will increase their productivity. It’s time to destroy the country.”
Fatel has a certain hostility, but you probably still have to resist when facing the demons, so it can be regarded as a help in the general direction.
"It's all because Solaris chose a poor position." Li Xiang complained.
The Wangting Tree is a part of Solaris, and a little bit of her willpower still lives here. After Li wanted to finish speaking, he felt the feeling of being watched.
"It's the same everywhere, you can't have your cake and eat it too." Wang Qi took a more open-minded view, "Just like I didn't promote military expansion, although it is dangerous here, it is not without its benefits."
The development of a force requires either hard work on internal strength or wanton expansion.
Practicing internal strength hard will naturally be slower, but you will be more solid in all aspects. Unbridled expansion can accumulate population base and geographical area more quickly and form strategic depth, but the biggest problem it brings is unstable public support. Without public support, all advanced ideas are useless.
The two cities of Hongshi and Lukou are developing at a slower pace, which is somewhat related to the fact that the two cities were attacked by force.
The location of the kingdom is similar, with both positive and negative elements.
If the distance is longer, there may be more opportunities for development, but when the enemy actually comes into contact, it will probably collapse at the first touch.
First, as the distance increases, existing forces will block the distance between one's home and the World Gate, causing the troops to lack the experience to actually fight against swarms of demons.
Second, if no one stands in front with sufficient military strength, by the time the demons spread near the Luna River, their scale will be unimaginable. It will definitely not be solved by a novice army, even if they have stronger weapons. Improve your chances of winning by one and a half points.
Although the current location may seem dangerous, it also has many benefits.
First of all, the army can keep an eye on the spread of the demons from the beginning. Before a standard army is formed, various demons have the opportunity to beat them several times and gradually form targeted tactics.
In this process, the development of weapons and equipment does not have to rely solely on imagination. What remains and will be developed in the future are things that can effectively kill the demons.
In addition, if you really think about it, the area available for development is not small.
The Dark Land itself has nearly 20,000 square kilometers of uninhabited land. The lack of vegetation also means that no one is competing for the ownership of this land. The entire northern region is also uninhabited land, at least hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, plus the southern part Those who have been naturalized and those who are expected to be naturalized together are enough to operate a force of tens of millions of people. Of course, the prerequisite for accommodating this density is to complete industrialization, otherwise the land area will need to be at least five or ten times larger.
If in other areas, such a large territory is won through conquest, there is no way to develop without spending two or three generations to control the people's hearts.
Wang Qi and Li Xiang were chatting and watching the city below gradually turn into the night scene, and suddenly found that the feeling of gaze had not disappeared.
"Solaris probably has something to say, let's go take a look."
I have to say that Solaris, a super life form, is quite respectful of people.
It stands to reason that she can appear anywhere in the Royal Court Tree and Outpost Tree throughout the territory, but in actual operation, she only appears where there is a statue of her god, and will not suddenly jump out and startle people.
The two went to the meeting hall in the palace area, where Wang Qi added attributes to the soldiers.
Upon entering, Solaris's light construct was already waiting.
"Is something wrong?"
"Let me remind you that seeds can also play more roles. You haven't forgotten what you saw in the last world."
"Making ghosts?"
"Ghost? That's okay." Solaris doesn't care about the name. She is who she is. One life can represent the existence of billions of sentient beings in a world. As long as the name is understandable, it doesn't matter how it is called.
Wang Qi thought it was not possible: "I have considered it, but the 'ghost's' learning ability is not good."
The essence of ghosts is a collection of microscopic organisms infected by parasites, which simulate the appearance and behavior of humans, which is very different from real people.
Wang Qi also really considered it. Although Solaris had not stated it clearly before, he could see ultraviolet rays and naturally knew that the entire kingdom was inevitably infected with a layer of parasites. Of course, this satisfied the basic conditions for cultivating ghosts. The only difference from the previous world is that Solaris did not actively detonate the energy of the core body to drive the biological transformation effect like the devil.
