Buildings made of stone and earth adhesive can easily be warm in winter and cool in summer, and their basements can be maintained between 12 and 18 degrees all year round.
But if you can build houses with cement, stone doesn't seem to be so fragrant.
The biggest problem with a stone house is that it looks solid, but its structural strength is not higher than that of a pure wooden structure. Not to mention mudslides, even if the flood softens the foundation, there is a risk of the whole house collapsing. Therefore, stone houses in flood areas are An additional one or two meters of stone foundation must be laid and drainage must be done.
Cement houses with reinforced concrete structures are much better in this regard. In low-rise buildings, except for the trees growing in the gaps that can damage the structure, floods can only wash away the entire house. As long as the steel bars and cement are in place according to standards, almost It will not completely collapse due to natural changes.
The housekeepers of large households in the Black Lotus area had just come out of the promoters' exchange meeting and began to whisper among themselves, but a few of them were excluded.
Black Lotus is located in the southeast of Pangxun plate. It is greatly influenced by the Phoenix Kingdom, and the housekeeper also has new models.
Traditional housekeeping is inherited. When the father is a housekeeper, his son will also become a housekeeper. Most of their first generation are the most sincere subordinates of the master's family when they are prosperous. This will only happen if a certain generation is truly incompetent and has conflicts with the master's family. Change, under the basic rule that wealth cannot last more than three generations, this situation is actually extremely rare.
The new housekeepers in the Phoenix Kingdom are professional housekeepers who have received vocational training and belong to the labor employment system.
The business capabilities of new-style butlers are not necessarily stronger than traditional butlers. The advantage is that the lower limit is relatively high and they can complete regular business more properly. In addition, this kind of butler only signs for a few years at a time, so the owner does not have to worry too much about the butler starting his own gang. Poach the corner of the host's house.
The old housekeepers don't like the new housekeepers very much, because these guys have broken the rules, which has led to everyone's money being tight in recent years.
There are many things to talk about in it, but the main conflict still focuses on the word money.
In order to allow themselves to have a long enough full career cycle and increase their income over time, new housekeepers attach great importance to their reputation. Most of them will keep a close eye on the income of the master's family so that they can customize their spending plans, and they will even refuse some objections from the master's family. Reasonable Expenses Requirements.
Housekeepers inherited from father to son are much worse in this regard. "The ancestors have been rich" is a very common reason. Even if the income of the main family drops significantly, they are not willing to save some. After all, they have enough expenditure items to make themselves prosperous. Can be fished.
When it comes to cement promotion, old and new housekeepers have also gone in different directions.
What new housekeepers see is the possibility of increasing the owner's income, which is also related to their career plans. Housekeepers who can increase the value of their assets are excellent candidates for large households whose assets are in a stable period or even declining.
What traditional housekeepers see is the oil and water needed to build a new building.
Of course, they are all traditional housekeepers, and their abilities and styles are also different. However, most second- and third-generation housekeepers have never been exposed to the wind and waves, nor have they received the business training of pioneering territory. They have no understanding of so-called business opportunities. Professional sensitivity determines the convergence of their choices.
For cement promotion, a promoter from the Phoenix Kingdom introduced the advantages of steel-concrete and wood-concrete houses compared to traditional houses, and directly disclosed the firing process of cement and red bricks.
The craftsmanship has been made public. It seems that if a large household wants to build a new house, they can bake bricks by themselves. But as long as you have experienced their market in the Phoenix Kingdom, you will know that there is absolutely no room for three brick factories in one city, and there is even less room for cement factories. There are many opportunities. limited.
With the push of the new housekeepers, a group of interested parties was quickly put together. Through these small wealthy people who belonged to the poor peasant class in the big households, and hooked up with two people who could cover the situation, we could get started.
There are a lot of fools in the traditional butler family. Fortunately, the attribute of loyalty is mostly not too bad. Some big people who really have money and nowhere to go get the news, and some of them will go to the site to have a look out of interest.
The new forces also accept everyone who comes, and they will provide money if they can, and people who can provide people, and the dividends will be calculated in proportion.
The biggest advantage of the central area of the Black Lotus plate is that more than a dozen cities are adjacent to the same water area. Goods can be transported to other cities quickly after being launched into the water. Water transportation is a very low-cost transportation method, so there is no need to worry about overflowing production capacity.
In fact, under normal circumstances, we don’t dare to work hard, but everyone has experienced the cold wind in the past few days. There were a lot of tuberculosis ghosts on the street overnight. There will be many houses to be built in the future, so there is no need to worry about the pressure. goods.
The first benefit of the rapid rollout was quickly revealed. Less than a month after the promotion started, no large households were burning bricks and cement themselves, because the shipping prices of cement factories and brick factories were lower than their cost prices.
First of all, this is due to the geographical advantage. The cement factory is built directly on the edge of the lime mountain, and the brick factory is built near the clay layer. Fixed-point transportation of several hundred meters. Even if no rails are laid, the cost of transportation using wooden rails is shockingly low. There is no need to import the vehicle.
Secondly, it relies on the high technology of Phoenix Kingdom, cement ball mill and new kiln.
The freshly fired cement is in the form of agglomerates and needs to be powdered before mixing with mortar.
Even if large households want to build new houses, they are mostly on the sidelines at this time. Many of the buildings being built are two- or three-story buildings for servants. For such a small amount, they can only borrow kilns to burn them and then manually smash the powder and bricks. It’s the same thing, you can only hire a pottery workshop to make it.
As for the new cement plants and brick factories, the collection and transportation costs are saved, and the equipment saves a lot of manpower, so the prices will naturally come down.
By keeping the ex-factory price just a little lower than the cost of manufacturing by large manufacturers, the gross profit reached 50%. And it also has a quick word, so you can get the goods just by paying!
It's hard not to be jealous of such profits. Unifying the Black Lotus Lake District has become the new goal of new factories in each city.
With the example of the Phoenix Kingdom in front of them, there is no need to worry too much about competition.
In one word, big!
The overall scale needs to be larger. Under the single-factory model, regardless of the ratio of slaves to supervisors, the management cost of a few hundred people is about the same as that of three to five thousand people, which means the same wage level and labor unit output. The proportion of labor in finished products in large factories is even lower.
The equipment needs to be larger in size. There is not much difference in structure between a three-ton ball mill and a twenty-ton ball mill. The larger the machine, the fewer operators and technicians are needed to produce the same finished product, and the maintenance workload is also smaller. .
By analogy, the vehicles that transport finished products from the factory to the ship must be larger, and the ship must be bigger!
Although air transport cannot transport dozens of tons of things, there is still magic.
For example, cement crushing does not necessarily require the use of a ball mill. Using a magic circle to release magic can also achieve similar effects. As long as the total price is lower than the cost of transporting large equipment with a mage, it can be considered.
The trend of "building cold-resistant houses" has not passed. There is money to be made, and there are always ways to think of it.
However, compared to cement, the threshold for bricks is still too low. Even if you go by water, it will be difficult to compete with local brick factories.
As for the newly emerged rebar mills, they are too dependent on resources and the environment. Where they can be done, other cities can only watch and drool, and the local area will not take the initiative to give money to these outsiders.
Speaking of giving money, the Phoenix Kingdom is such a fool, they really give people money.
Along with cement promotion, there is also a "log reserve plan", which involves many people.
Furniture factories, agricultural societies have insufficient productivity, and there are no specialized sawmills, and local people will not take the initiative to build them. The only ones that have fixed reserves of logs are furniture workshops. They are not large, and one family can usually reserve ten logs. Get a log. In the past, carriage shops would also stock logs, but after the advent of wood and gas carriages, they all went bankrupt.
But this time, if the furniture workshop is in a good location, it will really be a bargain. The Phoenix Kingdom will directly pay for it and purchase logs without restrictions!
Big players took notice of the situation, and some furniture workshops turned into furniture factories, and log storage warehouses were immediately built.
Next are agents, which are usually the offices of enterprises with trading qualifications in the Phoenix Kingdom. There are also trading chambers established jointly with local people. Most of these have members of local lords, and ordinary people can't hold them back.
The agent is responsible for the inventory and payment of logs, as well as the sales reconciliation after the raw wood is turned into building materials.
