Chapter 22: 22 Difficulties
Chapter 22 22 Difficulties
After seeing Tang Mo’s negotiation methods, Tiger felt that he must be careful about this guy who is full of bad ideas and is called a heart in fashionable terms.
This cunning businessman did not reveal his true intention from the beginning to the end, and finally bought a large piece of land that he desperately needed at an extremely cheap price.
During the whole process, the businessman shamelessly started his bribery skills - after giving 100 gold coins to the mayor, he secretly gave 30 gold coins to each of the sheriff and tax collector, leaving them without hesitation. Agreed to the deal.
Then, after secretly giving the mayor another 50 gold coins as a bribe, the mayor "accidentally" drew a crooked boundary on the map, giving Tang Mo an extra large tract of unclaimed land!
As a result, Tang Mo purchased a large piece of land for only 860 gold coins in addition to the 260 gold coins he paid as bribe.
Although these lands are all wasteland and there is no way to cultivate food, for Tang Mo, who urgently needs land to expand his factory, this is a huge land area that allows him to do almost anything he wants.
Tang Mo had been sitting in the carriage, holding the land deed that stated the land area in his hand. Tang Mo's hands were still shaking slightly.
In fact, he did not expect that the world's careless handling of land could reach such an extent. He actually got such a huge piece of land at such a cheap price.
Even this land is next to the sea. If Tang Mo is willing to build it, he can build a dedicated port for himself.
What's more, the remaining land near the vicious forest is further away from the town, and the price will only be cheaper - as long as Tang Mo completes the arms deal with the count, his profits will be enough to support him in taking over these unclaimed lands.
With the support of these lands, his factory will have room to expand. Once it is connected to the Vicious Forest, he can even do business with trading merchants, and can directly cut wood from the Vicious Forest... This has even more benefits. .
In short, his development has now entered the fast lane. If everything goes well, he will soon become the largest weapons manufacturer in the Kingdom of Wright.
But that was only when everything went well... In fact, Tang Mo's expansion was not smooth, because the computer in his head could query information, but it could not help him come up with a reasonable development plan.
After using limited funds to purchase a large piece of land, Tang Mo encountered a series of problems. Among these problems, the biggest one is the shortage of manpower.
It develops too fast and swallows too many resources that cannot be digested temporarily - people who play real-time strategy are very familiar with this: you save a lot of gold coins, but find that your population is too small, and the corresponding wood and oil resources There are very few of them, and that large amount of gold coins cannot be converted into the troops you want...
After Tang Mo returned to his office again, he summoned all his somewhat capable cadres: Old Roger, Parker, Matthews, Tiger and Weiss.
He reported good news to these people: "Gentlemen, we have purchased a large amount of land nearby, which will make our future development very easy!"
“As long as we build factories on these barren lands, we can produce our products ten times or a hundred times faster than now!” He announced excitedly to all his subordinates as if he had never worried that his products would be unsalable.
However, although everyone who heard the good news was very excited, the meeting soon turned into a summary meeting that exposed problems.
Roger coughed twice and said to Tang Mo: "We are seriously short of manpower. The workers from Beiling are actually not involved in production most of the time. They are doing other things."
Tang Mo was listening to Roger's words and fiddling with the land deed he had just signed. He was thinking about how to get production back on track as soon as possible.
In fact, both Matthews and Roger are not idle. They are manufacturing the second batch of parts and preparing to use this batch of newly manufactured parts to assemble the second set of steam engine production equipment in the workshop.
Now that they have had their first assembly experience, they are confident in building a second steam engine. It's a pity that they know that the existing raw materials are already at their limit to create another steam engine.
There was no other way, there was not much steel left, and Tang Mo had spent all his money. It was no longer possible to get iron ingots from the port, and they could only wait for the second batch of supplies to be shipped from Beiling.
"Some workers have now been transferred to build wooden houses. The food and supplies we provided are very good, and the agreed wages are also quite high, so their enthusiasm for work is still very high." Roger looked at the thoughtful Tang Mo and continued to speak. said. These are the problems they must face now. In fact, the details are much more than this. Just allocating manpower and letting the new workers from Beiling settle down and start working. Roger already feels a little overwhelmed.
What's more, he is actually still working hard with the old dwarf Matthews to build a second steam engine.
Therefore, the most loyal person in Tang Mo's initial team seemed a little feeble when he spoke: "The children and apprentices they brought with them all worked with them. In fact, they have built a house in the past two days. row of wooden houses, and a second row of identical houses is being built.”
When he said this, he stopped and licked his slightly dry lips, and then continued: "However, although it is not cold here in winter, the thermal insulation performance of this wooden house is very poor, and it is easy to catch fire if it is lit for heating. So it’s not easy for people in these houses during the winter.”
Tang Mo came back to his senses and noticed this detail. He stood up, rummaged around in his office, and managed to get everyone a water glass.
In fact, he had already divided the ale, part of which was rewarded to the workers who worked hard, and the other part was distributed to the soldiers brought by Tiger.
After all, while helping on guard duty, they also helped the workshop a lot, so Tang Mo was not stingy and gave them a lot of extra rewards.
Therefore, Tang Mo could only pour a glass of water for everyone who came here to attend the impromptu meeting this time, and let everyone hold the water glass and continue the meeting.
After taking a sip of water, Roger's throat that was about to smoke finally felt much better, so he continued to speak: "In addition, the wood you asked us to hoard before is almost used, and the rest is dried...those It is used to produce K1 fast guns, so it cannot be misappropriated.”
“If you allocate other people to look for wood, there will be fewer people to build houses, and we need more people...” Roger was worried and reminded Tang Mo of all the difficulties that were about to happen.
As Tang Mo's elder, he really didn't want to see Tang Mo ruin the property left by his father when the situation was great.
So he continued without waiting for Tang Mo to speak: "The more serious problem is that we are still building wooden houses inside our workshop. The land here has been leveled, so it can be used directly."
Tang Mo also knew that his expansion was unreasonable. Because if he is a serious businessman, the most important thing he should do now is to distribute income reasonably and ensure the safety of the capital chain as much as possible.
But Tang Mo also knows that he is not a businessman in the true sense. He is more willing to take risks and expand rapidly to get rid of the current passive state of relying on others.
Compared with those of later generations that Tang Mo was familiar with, they started raising funds after making a few PPTs. After getting hundreds of thousands, they dared to find banks for loans of several million. , compared with those lunatics who started to operate and go public after getting more money, his current development can definitely be described as conservative.
In fact, Tang Mo has really considered the subsequent development issues, and he also has his own set of solutions.
The first step is to build your own factory, and then buy weapons to other nobles in the Kingdom of Wright.
As long as Beiling wins the upcoming war and shows his own style, he will no longer be short of customers. As long as those nobles weren't idiots, they would definitely choose Tang Mo's weapons!
Even if they are idiots, as the news of the war continues to spread, further places and countries further away will become supporters of the weapons he produces.
Soon, the weapons produced by the backward Cyric Conglomerate will be eliminated, and he will replace them and become the new world weapons supplier!
Of course, this is just his strategic plan. In actual implementation, he still has many details to add and improve, and it will definitely not be that simple.
Roger obviously didn't know about Tang Mo's plan. He was just worried about the situation in front of him, so he continued to talk to Tang Mo about the upcoming difficulties: "But if we use up all the land that has been leveled, it will take more manpower and longer time to level it. The wastelands outside are even worse."
Matthews on the side was obviously not very satisfied with this matter, as if he was hesitant to speak. According to his idea, Tang Mo should let the workers do what workers should do. As for the expansion of the factory, Matthews thinks Tang Mo can hire serious construction workers later.
"Now we can't spend so much money to hire people to level the land, because based on book calculation, our profit is actually not much. To be precise, we are the same as before, even the money to be paid to the workers next month It's not enough!" He paused when he said this, because he knew that he had said enough, and Tang Mo should have realized the seriousness of the problem.
(End of this chapter)