industrial lord

Chapter 235 It's Not Easy

Under the moonlight in spring, the riverside is quite lively, and the croaking of frogs and insects are intertwined into a symphony that makes people feel peaceful.

The waterside is full of small golden flowers that attract insects to pollinate themselves. From a distance, it looks like the Milky Way has come to the ground.

Frederick walked along the river embankment to Wessenburg, trying to relax his brain in the cool evening breeze.

It is not so easy to travel far. There are many things to be arranged in advance. The two neighbors on the north and east are fighting from time to time. Before going to the Kingdom of Sardinia, you have to go to Mingxing City in the Principality of Baen to participate in this year's upstream. The meeting of the heads of regional cooperation organizations is quite a mind-boggling matter.

The brain is relaxed, but the burden on the skull is heavy. Li Xiao put his chin on Frederick's cap and let him walk with his head on it, as if he thought it was fun.

All of Frederick's pockets were filled with the dried fruit he bought when he passed by Wessenburg University. He took his own food in his right hand and the dawn food in his left hand.

From the second day on, a legend spread in Wessenburg that a "six-legged beast" would appear by the river at night, and its actions ranged from catching disobedient children and eating them to fishermen meeting in the air force.

In the distance, the first smelter in Friedrichshaw sounded the bell for shift change. When Frederick approached, several people rode bicycles to the workers’ quarters about a kilometer away. There was still a bag of Grilled skewers or fried noodles.

The bicycle was preempted by Psyche, and all her income was invested in the fund of the Wesson Science Society, and she didn't even ask for a copper coin.

There are tricycles naturally with bicycles.

A line was drawn on the side of the road outside the gate of the smelter. Inside the line was a row of tricycles loaded with kitchen utensils. The women with foreign accents sold skewers, fried noodles, braised pork, steamed buns, and steamed dumplings. some type of.

The off-duty workers, those who have a family and room, buy some food to take home. Those who are not in a hurry to go back find a folding table under the street lamp behind the stall and sit on the mat before going back.

Frederick watched from a distance for a while, and let Lixiao go back alone to have some supper by himself.

Li Xiao didn't like the smell of oily smoke and the smell from the smelter, so she flew back when she saw him walking there.

At the supper stand, if you are alone, you want a fried noodles or steamed buns, add a stewed egg or a stewed chicken leg, and go back when you are full with cold beer.In groups of three or four, the grilled skewers come with a set meal first, and the cold beer is of course indispensable. Cut a plate of marinated offal, then a steamer, and finally a fruit plate. While chatting, use the skewers as a fork to fork things. .

Only Frederick sat down alone, and ordered a grilled fish, a grilled lamb, a platter of braised pork offal, a raw carrot stick, and a large glass of cold beer.

The supper stalls are very lively today, few people eat supper by themselves, everyone is basically discussing the same topic.

The second smelter on the other side of the river will be expanded and a new blast furnace will be built. This blast furnace is 5 meters high and can smelt 5 tons of pig iron a day and night, which is almost 10 times higher than the current output of the first smelter.

The new blast furnace needs a group of workers to serve as technical backbones, and the basic salary is [-]% higher than that here. Many people who think they have good skills are tempted.

But those who have already bought a house in the nearby worker's community are a little hesitant because it is too far away from home.

Some of these people think that the blast furnace at the No. [-] factory is about to reach the end of its service life, and the new furnace must be of such a large size that it will be unreasonable not to raise wages by then, so just wait.

Others said that the new textile and garment factories will be built near the No. [-] factory, with a new worker's community in the middle, and it will be very convenient to find a wife.

I just heard that a steel rolling mill will be built near the No. [-] factory. It will be separated from the original blacksmith shop. There are also many men there, and the competition will be fierce.

At the same time, there is a new gossip that the land next to the worker's community is planned to build a kindergarten, a primary school, a hospital, and a commercial street, so I don't have to go to the city in the future.

Frederick just listened quietly while waiting for the food to be served. These news were all released from above, and they were basically reliable.

Except for the fact that some people thought that the Duke would assign wives according to seniority, Frederick would never have imagined that a blind date corner would be rumored to be like this.

When the grilled fish was served, there was a rumbling sound in the distance. It was a small steam locomotive pulling iron ore from the special wharf of the smeltery to the factory.

This is the world's first steam train, which can pull 20 tons of cargo at a time. At the end of last year, it overturned a car because of too fast turning speed.

Fortunately, the front of the car is simple and only has a sunshade, so the driver jumped out of the car in time to escape.

Now the speed of the train has dropped, but it is a good deal to be able to pull one more carriage.

If it is daytime, you can see a lot of onlookers outside the cordon, and there are placards such as "It is forbidden to pass on the railway and you will be killed if you hit the train for nothing."

Frederick silently ate grilled fish with a disposable slime fork, listening to the sound of trains in the distance, and smelling the smell of burning coke from the smelter, thinking that he felt a sense of accomplishment.

Now Wessen State has entered a period of rapid development. With the liberation of the agricultural population, the number of migrants fleeing from the war on the east bank of the Elbe River has increased. The sufficient labor force led by skilled workers has made the construction of the territory faster than expected.

The entrepreneurial loans provided by Wesson Bank enabled small factories with only a few machines, a small footprint and specialized in one direction, such as the four-leaf clover hinge factory, to spring up like mushrooms after rain. Development of heavy machinery factory.

Under the multiple influences of Psyche's face, high special research sponsorship, and desire for academic exchanges, many scholars who stand at the top of various research fields are willing to join the Wesson Science Society and participate in the activities of the society through letters, telegrams, etc. .

In terms of diplomacy, the neighbors to the north and the east have now unanimously designated the area within [-] kilometers of the border with Wesson State as a demilitarized zone after receiving the handwritten letter from Duke Wesson. One pawn in, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstanding.

With the development of the printing industry and publishing industry, the achievements of Wessen State have been spread to various places through newspapers, magazines, novels and comics, making countless people know for the first time that there is such a magical place in the world.

Now that the domestic and foreign affairs situation is very good, Frederick feels that it is not easy to achieve such results.

He thought to himself, if it wasn't for the good fortune to keep Manuel and others, and Richard Nall sitting in the territory because of his friendship with his father, and the mysterious figure Psyche's help from time to time, and everyone in the territory, relying on It seems that there is no way for me to do all this in such a short period of time.

After eating and drinking, Frederick paid off the supper money and walked leisurely towards the city of Wessenburg.

(End of this chapter)