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- What Zhang Tie said about preparing for the Holy War was certainly not empty talk. That is to say, at noon the day after the completion of the Eskil City Victims Cemetery, five elders from the Ice Bear Tribe and the Spencer Family came to the rescue. He sat down with Zhang Tie again and began a very formal discussion on how to deal with jihad.
Just yesterday, what Zhang Tie said outside Eskil City was not only the ordinary people who were affected. The five elders sitting with Zhang Tie, except for Elder Sha Lin, were also affected. People's faces don't look good.
This meeting was held in a manor built by the Spencer family outside Eskil City. After leaving the victims¡¯ cemetery in Eskil City, everyone came here.
This was originally a vacation place outside the city for the patriarch of the Spencer family, but at this moment, it was the place where Zhang Tie was recuperating.
The top-quality cedar wood floor and the chandelier in the room, which is composed of a pile of fourth-grade pyramid crystals, make this place look luxurious in a low-key manner. The top-quality cedar wood floor naturally emits the faint scent of pine leaves when winter comes. With the breath of the mountains, just taking a breath will make people feel comfortable and relaxed, and the natural energy condensed by the crystal chandelier overhead makes the whole room full of a pleasant feeling. and vital energy field.
It has to be said that the ruling family of Eskil City and the powerful people in the Spencer family really enjoy themselves. The various decorations in such a seemingly ordinary room cannot be completed without tens of thousands of gold coins.
Just this morning, Zhang Tie took a tour around Eskil City in a car to see the huge industry owned by the entire Spencer family in Eskil City. Yesterday, the entire Eskil City, including the Spencer family¡¯s ownership of these huge industries. The transfer to Zhang Tie's name has been officially completed.
"In the presence of the two major tribes and some prominent figures in Eskil City, Zhang Tie, Elder Rudolf, Elder Turing, and Elder Gulas. Elder Thors and High Priest Sarin signed their names on a document respectively, thereby officially confirming the current status of Eskil City on behalf of Zhang Tie himself, the Spencer family, and the Ice Bear Tribe. belonging, status. and many other issues such as the inheritance rights of this city in the future.
The Spencer family transferred the entire Eskil City and 75% of the entire family property ownership under its control to "Peter Humphreys" - that is, Zhang Tie's name. The Spencer family now only maintains 25% ownership of all family properties.
In the future, the ownership and property of the Spencer family owned by Zhang Tie will be inherited by a child born between him and a certain woman in the Spencer family. That person will also be the future patriarch of the Spencer family.
The elders of the Ice Bear Tribe expressed their approval of this document.
In a sense, this document only plays a symbolic role, especially when it reaches the top decision-making level of the two tribes. But sometimes, such symbols are indispensable. Those words in black and white can make some people feel at ease and reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles.
After signing the document, Zhang Tie listened to Elder Rudolph reading from an account book-like book for more than ten minutes before he fully understood the 75% of the Spencer family's wealth that he held in his hand. How many.
In Eskil City alone, this part of the family¡¯s wealth includes Eskil City¡¯s annual city tax surplus of more than 2.8 million gold coins and the entire Spencer family¡¯s annual property and dock income annuity of more than 1.7 million gold coins.
The remaining. The Spencer family owns more than a dozen business groups, hundreds of large and small factories and workshops, dozens of manors and farms, and thousands of square kilometers of land with varying degrees of development value outside and inside the city. , and there are more than ten minerals
Just listening to Elder Rudolf read these general things once, Zhang Tie felt like he was listening to a book from heaven, and he felt as if his head was as big as a bucket.
"Just tell me how much money I can directly use every year, and how many people can directly use it?" In the end, Zhang Tie had to interrupt Elder Rudolph.
"Excluding the various expenses and accumulations to maintain the normal operation of Eskil City and the family's various industries. The total funds you can use every year now are 7.8 million gold coins, and there are more than 13.4 million people in the entire Eskil City. In addition to violent agencies such as the city guard and the police, there are 1.26 million people directly employed by you in your many industries. After the police and city guard of Eskil City have been reorganized, you have. There are 250,000 city guards and more than 40,000 policemen. Everyone else is under your jurisdiction and must abide by your laws."
Zhang Tie understood. He memorized two numbers, 7.8 million gold coins and a total of more than 1.5 million people who listened to his orders. These are two numbers that represent huge power. Eskil City and the Spencer family can Material and manpower used, finally made Zhang Tie truly feel the power of the bear-level tribe in the ice and snow wasteland.
Because he has no specific impression of these things, Zhang Tie took a car around Eskil City this morning to deepen his impression.
In other places, Zhang Tie just took a quick look around. There were only three places that Zhang Tie mainly looked at. Those three places are now owned by him - one is the Eskil Steel Plant, the other is Iron Bear Steam Power Company, and another one is Beifeng Shipyard.
The three most important industrial enterprises under the Spencer family, except for the Iron Bear Steam Power Company located in Eskil City, the other two enterprises are located in a place called Sibi 30 kilometers east of Eskil City. In the industrial park of Yas Bay, most of the industrial enterprises in Eskil City are concentrated there.
The main products of Iron Bear Steam Power Company are several boiler machines ranging from 5 horsepower to 100 horsepower.
In this era, this kind of pot machine that connects steam engines and boilers can almost be called mankind's best friend. This kind of machine can be used everywhere, whether in rural areas, cities, or factories. As long as it is connected to the corresponding equipment, it can irrigate farmland, saw wood, mill rice, dig wells, press oil, thresh, build roads, perform mechanical processing and forging, etc. Its exhaust steam can also be used as a heat source. Used for drying, evaporation and heating.
This kind of machine is not picky about food. It can be made to move whether it is firewood or coal. Apart from being a little bulky and slow to start, this is almost one of the most perfect machines that humans can produce in this era.
Several types of pot hopper machines produced by Iron Bear Steam Power Company are sold throughout the ice and snow wasteland. In the ice and snow wasteland, as long as there are tribes gathering, you can almost see one or two pot hopper machines there, even if they are in the warehouse. In places like Ergan Village, Zhang Tie had seen a small 5-horsepower low-speed pot machine. That machine was used to dig wells in Kurgan Village.
Iron Bear Steam Power Company produces about 3,000 sets of various pot camel machines every year, which are mainly sold to the ice and snow wastelands, with a small amount sold to Evindara. The buses in Eskil City are also produced by this company. Yes, the quality is basically passable, but the quantity is not large.
With an annual output of 280,000 tons of steel, the Eskil Steel Plant is the largest and only steel production enterprise in the entire ice and snow wasteland.
The iron ore that supports this enterprise comes from an iron ore area of ??about 15 or 16 square kilometers 40 kilometers east of Sibias Bay. This iron ore area has a high-quality open-pit iron ore with reserves of 940 million tons. , mining is very easy. About 210 kilometers due north of Eskil City, there is a coal mine with reserves of more than 2 billion tons, which is enough to support the coal demand of Eskil City's steel industry.
Needless to say, this coal mine and an iron mine belong to Zhang Tie.
Beifeng Shipyard consumes almost half of the steel products produced by Eskil City's steel plant every year. This shipyard is much larger than the Xinghe Shipyard of Grandpa Zhang Tie's family in Jinhai City. It already has However, due to various reasons and the overall backward industrial development of the entire ice and snow wasteland, Beifeng Shipyard and Eskil City do not have the technical strength to manufacture key equipment for large ship steam turbines. The steam turbines required by the sailboat factory were purchased and assembled from Gantiyadu Island in Evindara.
This is what Zhang Tie knows about Eskil City, and it is also the current industrial development situation in the entire ice and snow wasteland. Compared with Eskil City, and even the ice field giant bear tribe, as far as Zhang Tie knows, because of survival Due to the extremely harsh environment and the scarcity of various materials, each tribe basically lived a life of one-third farming, one-third nomadic herding, and one-third hunting.
Each bear-level tribe in the ice and snow wasteland has a fixed territory. Each tribe lives a relatively backward life in its own territory. Except for Eskil City, almost no tribe has developed a decent industry. system.
This situation made Zhang Tie feel particularly heavy. For Zhang Tie, who had grown up in a city like Black Flame City, he knew very well how important the power of steam and steel was to the survival and reproduction of mankind in this era. It can be said that without human industry developed based on steam and steel, it would have been impossible for mankind to survive to the end in the first two holy wars.
Sabre-toothed beasts are very ferocious, and the cavalrymen who ride on them are also top-notch heroes and powerful warriors. However, not everyone can own a saber-toothed beast, and not everyone can grow to level six or above. Warriors, for most ordinary people, if a few people can drive a high-performance steam tank or armored vehicle when fighting against demons, the power they can exert on the battlefield will not be greater than that of a saber toothThe poor cavalry
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"Using the power of steel and steam is the most reliable and effective way for us to deal with the threat of demons. I want to know how far Eskil City and the Ice Bear Tribe can advance in their future industrialization?" The meeting began. , Zhang Tie¡¯s first sentence determined the theme of this meeting, relying on industrialization as the beginning of the ice and snow wasteland to deal with the third holy war - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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