industrial lord

Chapter 635 Everyone Benefits

In the Black Forest, many small nobles have been living an idyllic and peaceful life for hundreds of years.

However, some nobles followed the Duchy of Wessen and opened factories. Gold coins gushed out like springs. Some people who went to work in Wessenburg actually earned more than the knights, which made people feel very unbalanced.

Sir Frech felt very unbalanced.

There was a mercenary leader named Or in his territory. Or's father was the groom of Freitch's father, and the two had known each other since childhood.

After Orr's father died of illness, Orr became a mercenary and later became the leader of the mercenaries.

Later on, things became even more outrageous.

More than ten years ago, Or followed the path of old Count Wesson, and later followed young Wesson, transformed himself into a devil and joined the Wesson Army. Now he has become one of the deputy ministers of the Postal Department of the Rhine Alliance.

Last year he went home to celebrate the Winter Spirit Festival. Wow, there were twenty vans. Only the Grand Duke of Mainz could afford such a grand display.

Orr gave a motorcycle to Frych's son, and the silly boy was delighted.

Freitch was very depressed. It wasn't because of Orr's title, after all, that was exchanged for his life and loyalty. Besides, how come that slug who always followed him around was so rich?

It's not that he hadn't thought about opening a factory, but he didn't have the capital, and transportation in the territory was inconvenient. Investors from the Principality of Wessen preferred to look for territories near railways and waterways, and no one would come to the mountains.

The documents for the redemption of serfs have also been issued recently, but all the serfs in the territory are paupers, and some are even in poor health, otherwise they would have become mercenaries long ago.

However, there is now a glimmer of hope. A boss from the Principality of Wessen has written to us and said that he plans to invest here.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the doorbell rang and the butler brought in a well-dressed young gentleman.

"You are...Lütpold?"

Freitch recognized the visitor and recognized his father. The father and son looked 90% alike.

Rüitpold replied politely: "Good morning, Sir Fritsch, I am glad to see you looking as well as ever."

Freige pointed to the sofa and asked him to sit down. Then he remembered something and asked, "I heard that your leg was injured in Constantinople?"

Rüitpold lifted his trouser leg a little and said, "Yes, this leg of mine is a prosthetic leg."

Frech exclaimed: "That's how it is!"

He then asked, "Are you your own boss now, or are you a manager for your boss?"

Getting down to business, Lütpold became serious.

“I opened my own chamber of commerce,” he said.

Frech asked curiously, "What do you sell?"

Rüitpold replied: “I sell solutions that allow you to make money.”

Freitch frowned slightly. In recent years, many scams have been exposed in newspapers, and many scammers start with these false and empty words.

Lütpold slowly opened the briefcase he brought with him, took out a few brochures and said, "I am familiar with the situation in your territory, so I contacted factory owners who are interested in opening factories here based on local resources."

Frych took the booklet and looked at it, thinking that he was what was called a salesman.

These are brochures for factories and small farms.

It is mainly a wood processing factory. There are many trees here but transportation is not very convenient, so it mainly produces the recently popular modular furniture.

The parts of these furniture are not assembled immediately after production. Instead, they are packaged together with instruction manuals, screws, and screwdrivers, and customers assemble them themselves after buying them.

In this way, one truck can carry a lot of furniture and fill it up without wasting space, thus reducing transportation costs.

At the same time, the sawdust from wood processing can also be used to produce artificial wood boards, which can be used to make furniture partitions, or even all of them can be used to make cheap furniture, which is also excellent.

It is not a problem that some wood in the forest is not suitable for furniture making, there are also mushroom cultivation and processing plants.

As MSG is still a long way off, many people now use various mushroom powders as food additives to increase flavor.

If Freich wants, he can also open a chicken farm, not only to sell chicken, but also to use chicken manure to grow mushrooms.

The brochure also includes an investment budget. You can start on a smaller scale and then gradually expand it after making money.

Freich looked at it very seriously, and finally said to Lütpold: "Very good, but I have no money."

The money he had was enough to maintain his daily expenses, but it was not enough to invest in building a factory.

Here comes the point. Lütpold said: "You only need to collect the self-redemption money from the serfs in the territory, and this money will be enough."

Freige shook his head and said with a smile, "It's better to hope that Grand Duke Wesson will be in a good mood and give me money than to hope that they have money."

Lütpold said seriously, "If you want, I can help them pay for their ransom." Freich frowned again and asked, "Would you be so kind?"

He had a lot of serfs in his territory, and that was a lot of money, there was no reason to give it away for nothing.

Lütpold took out some documents from his briefcase and explained to him: "This is the cooperation agreement signed between me and Mrs. Ellen."

Freitch took the agreement and studied it carefully.

Mrs. Ailian is his neighbor and has a strong background, so no one dares to fool her.

Luitpold said: "I paid the redemption money of the serfs on her territory to Mrs. Ellen, and the money will be used as capital for the new cattle farm and milk powder factory."

Frech nodded.

Lütpold continued: "The serfs who were redeemed signed a loan agreement with me and worked for my guild."

"I will send the young ones among them to technical schools to learn a trade, and they will know what they can do in ten days."

“Once Madam Ellen’s cattle farm and milk powder factory are built, she will hire workers from me.”

"If you set up a furniture factory, I will sign a labor contract with the furniture factory, and I will arrange for my people who have learned carpentry to work in the furniture factory."

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"When the time comes, the wages from the furniture factory will be transferred directly to me, and I will pay them to the workers."

"If the furniture factory is short of manpower for expansion, I have other people who have learned carpentry who can be sent here immediately and start working as soon as they arrive."

"Of course, not everyone learns carpentry. Some people learn to raise chickens, raise cattle, drive tractors, etc. If you need anything, just come to me and I will send people there."

Freige thought for a long time, nodded and said, "I understand. You are a mercenary leader, but you are not looking for people to fight in the war, but to work in the factory."

“Indeed,” Lütpold replied.

Freige said, "I'll think about it. Please stay and I'll give you an answer tomorrow morning."

Half a month later, Lütpold returned to Weissenburg. The briefcase in his hand increased from one to four, and he also brought with him four stewards of the nobles of the Duchy of Mainz, including Sir Freich and Lady Ellen.

He brought people to each factory, and the three parties signed an investment and factory construction contract and an employment agreement.

Then Lütpold went to Wessen Bank with a thick stack of contracts, agreements, serf loan redemption contracts and other documents. He did not have that much money, so he borrowed a sum of money as start-up capital using these cooperation documents as evidence.

He didn't say anything about this matter, but he couldn't help but tell it to the butlers when they were drinking and bragging.

In Weissenburg, the flu virus is spreading faster than money-making methods.

Many people thought that this business could be done.

New factories cannot be built without new machines.

The Wesson Heavy Machinery Factory discovered that orders for machinery and equipment suddenly increased sharply. The factory director Schmidt figured out the reason and contacted the associates of the "Hydraulic Siren" faction, which had considerable influence in both the political and business circles of the Principality of Wesson. After obtaining the tacit approval of his teacher, the governor of Wesson State, Ommet, he began to contact the media to fan the flames.

Schmidt's wife Vanessa was Frederick's administrative secretary and the niece of Giovanni, the president of the Wessen Bank.

With Vanessa's help, Giovanni proposed a motion to relax loan restrictions on behalf of Wessen Bank at the Supreme Ministerial Meeting. With the support of Omet and other "Nine-Headed Sirens" who were from Wessenburg University, the motion was quickly passed and Psyche did not object.

Frederick's money flowed into the accounts of those labor dispatch companies.

It looks like everyone wins in this matter.

The serfs gained a little freedom. Although they were no longer bound to work in the fields, they now worked in factories to pay off their debts. However, their living standards improved significantly in a short period of time.

Factory owners in the Duchy of Wessen were given the opportunity to expand outward, and their profits would increase greatly in the foreseeable future.

Local lords received a sum of money to invest in building factories. Many of them could get considerable dividends without doing anything, so they simply handed over the factories to professional managers and moved to the city to become rich.

The bosses of labor dispatch companies can just sit at home and make money from the sky.

A large number of factories, including the Wesson Heavy Machinery Plant in Wesson State, have received a large number of orders, which has in turn driven the development of the entire industrial chain. This year's tax data will definitely be better than last year.

Wesson Bank loaned a large sum of money, a large part of which was special funds for purchasing machinery and equipment, so there was no worry of not being able to get it back.

Some people were suddenly hit by this big piece of pie.

Because those factories were located in other places, the factory owners entrusted the auditing business to Wesson Accounting Firm. The contracts that came in like snowflakes confused the person in charge, Deloyt, for a long time.

"So..." Frederick organized his words after listening to Psyche's story, "I am the one who spent the most money in this serf redemption movement?"

Psyche nodded.

Frederick frowned and had a headache.

(End of this chapter)