I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 586 Let the storm of fundraising sweep across England! (asking for monthly tickets)

Soon, Elvis left Birmingham satisfied.

It didn't take him long to find out that the city council was discussing the construction of gas street lights, and that the project should be almost completed, with a total cost of 20 pounds.

He even saw street lights already erected in many places in the city. It was obvious that Lightning Company was confident enough to win the project and had already started construction in advance.

He naturally didn't know that as early as two months ago, Kalona had bribed some councilors in cities such as Birmingham and Manchester to propose the construction of gas street lights in parliament.

Simply proposing a proposal does not require any responsibility, and it can even be regarded as a political achievement of "promoting urban development."

As for the fact that the proposal was not passed in the end, Kalona didn't care at all. As long as the city councils could slowly wade through it and let everyone know that this thing existed, that would be enough.

Those street lights were repaired free of charge by Lightning Company for various cities.

It doesn't cost much to just put up a few street lamp poles, and even this money was paid by the subcontracting company.

Later, Elvis learned from a friend that the French ambassador to Britain had personally admitted that Lille's gas street lights might be built by the Lightning Company.

In his mind, the image of Lightning Company's project network throughout Britain had already emerged, and its business had even spread to the European continent. It was clearly a scene of prosperity.

After Elvis returned to London, he immediately followed his "future brother-in-law" to visit Mr. Goldmid without hesitation and subscribed to 4 pounds of Lightning Company bonds.

Later, instead of keeping the secret as he had promised, he quickly told his cousin about it.

The latter bought 3 pounds of bonds under his recommendation, and then happily leaked the news to several business partners...

Huge sums of money kept coming to his door, and Goldmid had become numb to it.

Over the past ten days, he has been signing subscription agreements and counting money, and nearly 60 pounds has flowed into Lightning's account.

Of course, all this money is temporarily kept in the Commercial Credit Bank, and the amount has exceeded twice the bank’s previous peak funds!
This made him sigh that it was the right decision to stand on the side of the French Crown Prince.

at the same time.

At the Lightning Company's "Partner Strategy Conference", Styler was describing a bright future to the top management of the subcontracting company according to the Crown Prince's "script": "I believe everyone already knows that the company is about to obtain an agreement to build gas street lamps for seven cities including Birmingham and Liverpool.

“And in faraway Lille and Florence, we have also managed to beat our competitors and started laying gas pipelines!
“I believe everyone has figured out how large a project this is!
“And you are all participants in these great projects.

"You will create historic glory together with Lightning Company!" Directors and managers of dozens of subcontracting companies stood up and applauded loudly with excitement.

Styler continued: “Of course, facing such a large project, our initial investment is also very large.

“So the company hopes that all of our closest partners can face challenges with us, invest together, and then enjoy the rich profits together!

"The specific project arrangement is as follows..."

By the time he had finished speaking, the people from the subcontracting companies were already looking at each other in bewilderment - the initial investment was indeed huge. For example, the copper pipes alone would cost more than 13 pounds to manufacture, and Lightning Company meant that they had to advance the money.

A short and fat man objected loudly: "Mr. Styler, although we really want to support Lightning Company, we really can't come up with so much money."

Someone immediately echoed: "Yes, this will cost at least 2 pounds, which is really too much."

"We have only received the project payment once this year, and it is really difficult to continue to advance payment..."

Styler waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet: "London's gas street lamps will be delivered by the end of the year, and after receiving the project payment, they will be distributed to everyone immediately.

“Please hold on for another two or three months.

"As for the funding issue, you can take out a loan or issue bonds. Now the whole of Britain knows that our gas street lamp project has great prospects. As a participant, you can easily obtain financing."

When the meeting was over, these companies immediately showed their talents and raised money from different channels, while also promoting the gas street lamp project again.

On the other hand, sales of household gas lamps are also becoming increasingly popular.

When Londoners heard that the price of gas lamps would continue to rise, they immediately started a buying frenzy.

In the following month, more than 1 gas lamps were sold in London.

You know, 8 pounds is definitely not a small number for ordinary people. A tailor's annual income is only 15 pounds, and a private tutor for the nobility earns 30 pounds a year, which is considered a high salary.

The whole of London has a population of only over 80 people. It can be said that almost everyone who could afford the money bought one!
At the same time, cities such as Birmingham and Manchester also heard the news that gas street lamps were going to be built, so household gas lamps were quickly sold in these places.

However, the consumption capacity of these cities is far less than that of London, and only 300-500 lamps can be sold per month.

(End of this chapter)