"I'm really sorry. Bianzhu Town is currently short of manpower. We plan to keep the cement steamship we built for our own use. We have no plans to sell it yet."

The main reason is that Irving wants to establish a fleet affiliated with Border Guard Town as soon as possible and purchase raw materials in large quantities from outside.

"That's it."

Garden's face was filled with regret, but he still refused to give up and said: "If one day the Marquis of Essen has the idea of ​​selling, please inform the Crescent Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible."

"I will." Owen nodded.

Is it necessary to build an extra greenhouse on the bank of Weishui River to build cement boats? He was thinking.

At this time, Andy rolled his eyes, smiled, and said: "Marquis Aisen, I have a proposal."

"What proposal?"

Not only Irving, everyone present turned their heads and looked over.

"Since Marquis Aisen said that Border Guard Town is short of manpower, I will provide you with enough manpower."

Andy slowly expressed his proposal: "No matter what type of craftsmen you need, I can provide them and let them work for you. I will pay the salary. You only need to sell the boats they built to the Cattle Island Chamber of Commerce.

What do you think? Margrave Aysen."

"Andy Gurner, don't think I don't know what you have in mind."

As soon as the other party finished speaking, Garden hurriedly revealed: "You want to secretly learn the methods of making steam engines, cement and ships by borrowing others, and then use them for your own use."

To be honest, Irving is not very opposed to this kind of proposal.

I remember Winster mentioned a business cooperation model - technology partnership, in which one party provides technology and earns the maximum profit.

As long as the technology provider has more advanced technologies in its hands, there is no need to worry about the backward technologies being learned by the other party.

"Garden Darnell, what are you talking about! How could I possibly have such a thought?"

Andy glared at Garden, then looked at Owen, and continued: "Ten years, Marquis Aisen, I am willing to send them to the border town to work for you for ten years, and you only need to provide food and accommodation, and you can have a group of

Skilled craftsmen.”

After a pause, he threw out another temptation: "Marquis Essen, I also heard that you purchase goods such as iron ingots in large quantities from other places. If you still need them, I am willing to supply you with the needed goods at preferential prices."

goods."

"How can I allow you to monopolize the benefits?"

Garden couldn't bear it anymore, stood up from his seat, and also invited Irving to cooperate.

"Marquis Aisen, I can also provide manpower and let them work for you for fifteen years! I can also sell the goods you need at a cheap price. I hope you can consider our Crescent Chamber of Commerce."

Wow! The working life limit has been increased to fifteen years. These two large chambers of commerce are really in tit-for-tat, and neither one gives in to the other.

"Okay, okay, you two don't argue for now."

Owen had to stop the argument between the two people. If the argument continued, there would be no lunch left.

"I will consider your proposal carefully. Let's have lunch now. In the afternoon, I will take you to see the real thing and have a good talk then."

"Giggle."

Heint covered his mouth and snickered a few times, and said with envy: "The products in Bianzhu Town are really popular."

Other businessmen were also laughing. They knew that their financial resources were far less generous than those of the Strait Island Chamber of Commerce or the Crescent Chamber of Commerce, otherwise they would also want to get involved in the purchase of cement ships.

After lunch, Owen ordered people to bring in the products for display, and Clive explained them to the businessmen present.

The products that were sold before were also brought out again, two qualities of paper, cement powder and pencils.

The difference is that the pencil adopts a new manufacturing process, and the outer layer of the pencil core is wrapped with wood. The pen tip can be sharpened with a knife, or a new product pencil sharpener can be used.

The eraser appeared after the pencil. Businessmen who were planning to purchase pencils went over to try the product and found that it was very effective in erasing handwriting. They immediately decided to include this item in their purchase catalogue.

The appearance of glass products (mainly cups of various shapes) made everyone's eyes brighter. Unexpectedly, Bianshu Town can also produce glass, and all of them are transparent and colorless, with very high quality.

In addition to experimental equipment, Owen also asked Rob to try making other things.

The sales this time are all his practice works, and the quantity is not too large to say the least.

Not long ago, Owen asked Rob to start recruiting apprentices in order to expand the scale of the glass industry. It will take some time to increase production.

However, thanks to this, most of the glass products were bought by the Crescent Chamber of Commerce and the Xiajiao Chamber of Commerce at high prices.

The things that these two people like are generous, and other businessmen basically have no qualifications to participate.

The appearance of the telescope made Andy and Garden almost fight.

Because it is troublesome and time-consuming to make a qualified optical lens purely by hand, Rob did not make many, so the number of telescopes was even smaller.

For this reason, Irving had to step in and limit each person to buying only one pair.

He originally planned to sell Heint a pair of telescopes to thank her for bringing the luxury business group here.

If the two major chambers of commerce in Xia Dao and New Moon are allowed to compete with each other, Heint will probably be hard to buy.

However, the two major chambers of commerce later placed pre-orders and paid huge deposits to order the next batch of telescopes.

It seems that Rob will be very busy in the future.

In addition, other products have also been purchased one after another.

These purchases and pre-orders were all negotiated between Clive and the apprentices he brought. Owen had long known that he was not good at doing business, so he left it all to Clive alone.

It turns out that this is correct.

Clive was even able to bargain with Andy and Garden, the two presidents, and sold the goods at a good price.

After the product promotion meeting, Owen took everyone to see how steam engines pump water, transport ore, and cement steam ships.

Not only the mining businessman Sharp, but everyone was stunned when they saw the continuously running steam engine and the mine cars being pulled out one after another.

Sharp has several mines on hand, and wants to equip all mines and mines with steam engines to increase ore production.

After negotiations, he secured ten steam engines and five sets of orbital ore transport systems, which were delivered in batches.

If Sharp hadn't only had miners under his command, he would have actually wanted to send craftsmen to work in order to shorten the time for delivering goods.

The cement steamship involves a lot of things, and the two major chambers of commerce will send craftsmen over. There are many details that need to be discussed in detail.

Therefore, Clive discussed with the two presidents for two days.

In the end, the two major chambers of commerce, Owen, Xiadao and Crescent, signed a twelve-year contract at the same time.

The next time the fleet comes over, the two major chambers of commerce will each bring two hundred craftsmen, mainly blacksmiths and carpenters.

They will stay and work in Border Guard Town for twelve years, with their salaries paid by the two major chambers of commerce. Owen only provides food and shelter.
Chapter completed!