Chapter 499: Preparation
Trantor: WQL Editor: KLKL
Of course, Zhang Tie was serious about the preparation for theing holy war. On the second noon since the Eschyle Victim Cemetery was founded, the five elders of huge bear tribe and Spencer n sat together with Zhang Tie and started to discuss officially about how to respond to theing holy war.
What Zhang Tie said yesterday outside Eschyle City not only shockedmon people but also 4 of the 5 elders who were sitting on Zhang Tie’s sides. Elder Sarlin was the only one who stayed calm.
This conference was held in a manor of Spencer n outside Eschyle City. After leaving the cemetery, they arrived here.
This ce was once the vacation center of the n elder of Spencer n. But it became Zhang Tie’s sanatorium now.
Superb white pine wood floor and the ceilingmp of a pile of ss-IV pyramid crystals made this ce low-key and luxurious. In winter, the superb white pine wood floor would radiate a wild pale fragrance of pine needles. As long as you sniffed it, you would feel rxedpeletly. However, the crystal ceilingmp above their heads formed a special natural energy which filled the room with a pleasant and energetic environment.
Zhang Tie admitted that the former ruler of Eschyle City really enjoyed his life.it would take them at least 10,000 gold coins for theyout of this average-look room.
This morning, Zhang Tie made an investigation about huge industries of Spencer n in Eschyle City by car. Yesterday, the ownership of all the properties of Spencer n in Eschyle city had been officially transferred to Zhang Tie.
Under the supervision of some influential figures in huge bear tribe, wild bear tribe and Eschyle City, Zhang Tie, Elder Rodolfo, Elder Turin, Elder Gouras, Elder Toles and Pontiff Sarlin respectively signed their name on a document, which represented that Zhang Tie, Spencer n and huge bear tribe officially confirmed his ownership, position and the right of session of this city in the future, etc..
Spencer n transferred 75% of the whole Eschyle City and its ownership of n industries to "Peter Hamplester", namely Zhang Tie. Spencer n only kept 25% of its ownership to its n industries.
In future, the above ownership and property of Spencer n that Zhang Tie owned would be seeded by a kid between Zhang Tie and a Spencer woman. That kid would also be the n elder of Spencer n in the future.
All the elders of huge bear tribe agreed with the document.
In a sense, this was only a symbolic document, especially for the top decision makers of two tribes. However, sometimes, such a symbol was unnecessary as those words on white papers could make people reassured and reduce a lot of troubles.
After signing that document, Elder Rodolfo read a book like an ount book for more than 10 minutes when Zhang Tie finally understood what did it mean by 75% of the properties of Spencer n.
Eschyle City alone would have over 2.8 million gold coins of tax revenue and over 1.7 million gold coins of property fee and wharf annuity a year.
Moreover, Spencer n also had dozens of business groups andmercial firms, hundreds of factories and workshops, dozens of manors and farnds and thousands of square meters ofnd of different exploitable value and more than 10 mines...
Zhang Tie felt confused after listening to them.
"You tell me, how much can I use each year and how many people can I mobilize?" Finally, Zhang Tie had to interrupt Elder Rodolfo.
"Except for the expenditures and umtions for the normal operation of Eschyle City and Spencer industries, 7.8 million gold coins and over 13.4 million people are avable each year. Except for the organs of violence like city guards and policemen, 1.26 million people are employed by you in various industries. After the policemen and city guards are re-organized, you have 250,000 city guards and over 40,000 policemen. All the others would follow your order."
Zhang Tie finally understood. He only remembered two figures, 7.8 million gold coins and over 1.5 million people that could be mobilized by him. The two figures were great. After having the people and resources of Eschyle City and Spencer n, Zhang Tie genuinely felt the great power of a bear tribe in Ice and Snow Wilderness.
In order to deepen his impression on these things, Zhang Tie especially took a round in Eschyle City this morning.
Zhang Tie paid special attention to three ces, Eschyle Steel nt, Iron Bear Steam Power Corporation and North Wind Shipyard. All of them belonged to Zhang Tie now.
The threepanies were the most important industrial enterprises under the affiliation of Spencer n. Except for Iron Bear Steam Power Corporation which was located in Eschyle City, the other twopanies were in an industrial park area called Spias Gulf 30 km away in the east of Eschyle City, where gathered most of industrial enterprises of Eschyle City.
The main products of Iron Bear Steam Power Company were some lobiles whose power ranged from 5 horsepower to 100 horsepower.
In this age, lobiles which connected steam engine with boiler was almost human’s best friend. This machine could y a great role in rural areas, cities or nts. As long as it was connected with the proper equipment, it would be used to irrigate farnds, saw wood, mill rice, drill well, extract oil, thresh, build roads, process and forge machine. Its steam exhaust could also be used to dry, evaporate and warm up as a heat source.
Lobiles could be fed with both firewood and coal. Besides a heavy weight and a slow start-up speed, this was one of the most perfect machine that humans could produce in this age.
The lobiles produced by Iron Bear Steam Power Corporation were famous across Ice and Snow Wilderness. One or two lobiles could always be seen in tribe agglomerations. Even in Kurgan vige, Zhang Tie had also seen a small low-speed 5-horsepower lobile. The machine was used to drill well in Kurgan vige.
Iron Bear Steam Power Corporation produced about 3000 sets of various lobiles a year, which were mainly sold in Ice and Snow Wilderness; few of them were sold to Ewentra Archipgo. Those average buses in Eschyle City were also produced by thispany. However, they could only produce a limited number of buses.
The Eschyle Steel nt could produce 280,000 tons of steel a year as thergest and only steel producer in Ice and Snow Wilderness.
The Eschyle Steel nt was supported by an iron mine over 40 km away in the east of Spias Gulf which covered about 15-16 square kilometers. This iron mine area contained 940 million tons of high-quality open-air iron ore, which were easily exploited. There was a coal mine about 210 km away in the north of Eschyle City. It contained above 2 billion tons of coal, which was enough to support the demand for coal of the steel industry in Eschyle City.
Of course, the coal mine and iron mine both belonged to Zhang Tie.
Each year, North Wind Shipyard would consume about half of the total production of steel products in Eschyle City. This shipyard was much bigger than the Milky Way Shipyard of Zhang Tie’s grandpa in Golden Sea City. It was already able to build huge steamers of tens of thousands of tons. Whereas, being restricted by the poor industrial development across Ice and Snow Wilderness from various reasons, North Wind Shipyard and Eschyle City didn’t have the ability to build key equipment for steam turbine ofrge ships. North Wind Shipyard purchased the key parts of steam turbines from Gantyadu Ind and assembled them on Eschyle City.
This was the Eschyle City in Zhang Tie’s eyes and the overall industrial development situation across Ice and Snow Wilderness. ording to Zhang Tie’s knowledge, due to extremely rigid living environment and the scarcity of various materials, life styles of tribes across Ice and Snow Wilderness were divided into three categories, 1/3 for farming work, 1/3 for nomadism and 1/3 for hunting.
Each bear tribe in Ice and Snow Wilderness had their fixed territory. They lived a rtively poor life in their own territory. Except for bear tribe in Eschyle City, almost no other tribe had a well-developed industrial system.
Facing such a situation, Zhang Tie felt pretty frustrated. For Zhang Tie who grew up from ckhot City, he clearly knew about the importance of steam and steel to human living and prosperity. It could be said that without steam and steel industries, people would never sustain to the end in the former two holy wars between humans and demons.
Xiphodons were fierce; cavalries that rode xiphodons were also tough men and powerful fighters; however, neither could each one have an xiphodon, nor be a fighter above LV 6. For most ofmoners, if they could drive a high-performance steam tank or armored vehicle towards a demon, they would not y a weaker role than xiphodon cavalries on the battle field...
"It’s the most reliable and effective way for us to face the threat from demons by using steel and steam. I wonder how the industry of Eschyle City and huge bear tribe would develop?" Zhang Tie determined the theme——To Respond to the 3rd Holy War between Humans and Demons through Industrialization at the beginning of the conference...