Chapter three hundred and seventieth pack horse donkey and iron ore workshop
In the third place, there were more than 30,000 war horses, and more than 10,000 draft horses and healthy horses. But the Thunder Division alone was equipped with 30,000 war horses, and nearly a thousand draft horses and healthy horses. This is because the Thunder Division
Its nature is an offensive mobile combat capability. Following the example of the former Ranger Division, it must have so many war horses to ensure mobility.
The remaining draft horses and healthy horses were divided among the four divisions, so there was no more. The logistics department has been clamoring for insufficient transportation capacity and requested to purchase more horses. But the current situation is that there is no place to buy them. If you want to buy them from
If it is transported from the Kingdom, even if the price of the pack horse has tripled, it will still be a loss compared to the expensive long-distance transportation cost. Because on the sea, no one can guarantee whether there will be any problems, and transporting the pack horse is a difficult task.
A very risky business.
Three months ago, when Sir Bennett first proposed that several newly established towns for immigrants lacked packhorses for transportation, Claude took out nearly a thousand packhorses from the five divisions and handed them over to the Civil Affairs Office.
Let them allocate these pack horses to various new towns and rent them out to immigrant families. Fortunately for Claude, he had originally instructed that these pack horses were not allowed to be sold, but could only be rented out, because Claude had always thought that the immigrant families would buy them.
Can't afford the packhorse.
The results showed that Claude was overthinking. After the distribution of these pack horses, the supply exceeded the demand, or it could be said that it was a drop in the bucket. People in this world are familiar with horse farming instead of cattle farming. Cows are used as providers of meat, not farming.
and use the animal power to pull carts. Basically, these immigrants do not know how to use oxen for farming and oxen to pull carts...
The plain area under the direct jurisdiction of Amphiston is vast and sparsely populated, without complete transportation facilities and road construction. Immigrant families are resettled in this area to engage in agriculture and animal husbandry, so what they need most are strong horses and carts for transportation.
As well as pack horses for farming. Since they all received settlement fees from the emerging business aristocrats when they moved to the war zone, buying a camel and horse was not a burden to them. But the problem was that the war zone could not provide it to every household.
Providing a pack horse or a healthy horse is something that the entire Overseas Territory of Nubisia Continent cannot do...
Maybe we can buy some donkeys from the Nikancha people to use instead of pack horses to pull the carts. Major General Skerry, the head of the logistics department, came up with an idea.
The Nikancha people here on the mainland of Nubisia like to breed donkeys for riding and carrying things. Sometimes when describing a Nikancha person's family situation, they say that their family owns several donkeys. Maybe they bought some from the Nikancha people.
It would be a good idea to use donkeys to pull the cart. But Claude was worried that the immigrant families would prefer to kill the donkeys for meat. In the Kingdom of Ovilas, donkey meat has always been known as a delicious and nutritious meat food.
It is said that some ranches in the three territories directly under the rear are preparing to breed and herd horses on a large scale. It seems that the increase in the price of draft horses has also given these ranchers hope of making a fortune. Major General Bolonik said: Several friends I know have been
Someone asked me, those ranchers hope to obtain some war horses from our war zone to be used as stud horses to improve the quality of cross-bred draft horses.
This is a solution. The only problem is that it takes too long. It will take at least two or three years before there are grown-up draft horses for sale. But what the war zone is facing is the shortage of draft horses that urgently needs to be solved. One hundred thousand immigrant families,
Even if one third wants to buy a pack horse, 30,000 horses are needed. This is not a small amount, but a demand that is difficult to solve.
The final result of the meeting was not to discuss any solution. They just adopted Major General Skerry's suggestion to purchase some donkeys from the Nikancha people to use as draft animals to temporarily solve the problem of transportation and travel difficulties for immigrant families.
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When Claude returned home, he found that Mr. Veblen had come with his wife again. This time, the couple brought a large amount of baby supplies in the name of visiting the newborn. More than a month ago, Cave
Ni gave birth to a son to Claude, named Baiergasi. In the ancient Herz language, it means blue lake. It was named after the beautiful Lan Lake next to the villa. Now Claude is also two children.
The father of a child.
After dinner, Claude took Mr. Veblen to the study. Mr. Veblen took out several documents from his briefcase and handed them to Claude and said: General, our association agrees that you own East Mossy.
You can mine and build workshops in the iron ore that was surveyed in the Laga Mountains. At the same time, our Mining and Business Association will also absorb you as a member of the association, with all the benefits and mutual assistance rights that members have. This is your mining license
Certificate and iron ore ownership certificate, as well as the title deed to the mountainous area where the mining area is located...
Claude was very happy: Thank you, my friend, you have really helped me a lot.
It’s just that Mr. Veblen doesn’t quite understand: General, can I ask why this is? As we all know, iron ore is a mineral with the least return on investment. The kingdom’s mainland produces the most iron ore, and the iron ore in overseas directly administered territories is
It has the least value for mining and investment. Our association only owns one iron mine, but the farm tools and various daily necessities produced are enough to meet the needs of all overseas territories. The annual rate of return is the lowest among all minerals.
That is to say, last year, the first and second batches of immigrants arrived, and the orders for the agricultural tools and tools they needed, as well as those daily necessities, made the report a little better. But currently, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the war zone has continued to give us the orders needed by the following immigrants.
The association's iron mine, General, even if you develop the iron mine and build workshops, it is impossible to earn more money from subsequent immigrant families, right? After all, each family cannot need a lot of iron...
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Claude burst out laughing: Don't worry, my friend, please also tell the mine owners who own the iron mine in your association that I don't want to become a competitor with them. I want this iron mine.
Iron mines produce military supplies, not daily necessities, agricultural tools and tools, but weapons. So I refused the help you offered and asked your association's iron mines to provide me with products free of charge. I insisted on owning this
The ownership of the iron ore is due to the need to keep it confidential.
Mr. Veblen breathed a sigh of relief, but became curious again: General, as far as I know, the kingdom has always had strict requirements and restrictions on the production of military supplies.
, they would rather transport it from the kingdom itself. How could they allow you to open a workshop to produce weapons here in the war zone?
Claude shook his head: They did not allow me to open a workshop to produce weapons here in the war zone. In the war zone, only the gun repair workshop and the supporting ammunition workshop were set up with the consent of the kingdom, and they were still under the close supervision of the Kingdom's Armament Department.
I don't need the kingdom's approval, because the weapons I want to produce are my own inventions, not the standard weapons and equipment of our kingdom. So I need an iron mine and open my own workshop, and first make a trial batch for the troops to try. If
If the combat capability of the troops can be increased, the theater will purchase large-scale purchases...
Mr. Veblen suddenly realized that he understood something. He looked at Claude with admiration, thinking that Claude was really shrewd and found an undoubted way to make money for himself. It was very simple, even if Claude
The iron mine was developed and cast into pig iron eggs in the workshop, but as long as an enemy was killed on the front line, the theater had to hold its nose and admit that the results were extraordinary. As the supreme commander of the theater, Claude could order the theater logistics department
Purchasing a large amount of pig iron eggs produced in his workshop, he can legitimately make a lot of money.
Claude didn't understand how darkly Mr. Veblen thought of him. He asked the Mining and Commerce Association to give him this iron ore that had been surveyed for more than 60 years but had not been developed. The main reason was to find an iron mine.
Produce grenades in a place that can be kept secret, and then see if he can produce landmines. These are his weapons to deal with the next colonial war.
It's just that the safe explosive that Claude asked his sister Anna to test failed, or it was not a complete failure. The reason is simple. Anna finally successfully synthesized a safe explosive in the magic alchemy array. She used Nubisia
A kind of red clay from the mainland has successfully stabilized and passivated nitroglycerin, making it a safe explosive.
But the problem is that the nitroglycerin that can be synthesized in the magic alchemy array cannot be produced in large quantities because the temperature needs to be cooled down when synthesizing nitroglycerin. In the magic alchemy array experiment, my sister Anna can control the temperature and use freezing spells
To carry out cooling. But in actual large-scale production, sister Anna simply does not know how to design this cooling system. There is nothing she can do, and neither can Claude.
The amount of nitroglycerin that can be produced in the magic alchemy array is very small each time. In the end, the safety explosive produced can only fill up to three grenades at most, and it takes a long time. One production takes almost four or five hours.
It is impossible for Claude to let his sister stand in front of the alchemy magic talisman array every day to produce this small amount of safe explosives for himself. It would be very uneconomical.
Since large-scale production of safe explosives is no longer a reality, it doesn't matter if the grenades are larger and more black powder is used. The big deal is to change the way of manpower throwing. What is important is that the grenades can explode when they land, which will bring great harm to the enemy.
What a surprise. The artillery of this era fired solid projectiles except for the shotgun shells that shot into a large area. Claude had decided that after the landmine design was successful, the next step was to let his sister Anna see if she could design a flowering artillery shell.
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It is very simple to change the investment method of grenades. The average soldier can only throw it twenty or thirty meters with all his strength, so Claude designed a throwing structure, which is to use a spring bottom plate used for anti-shock of a carriage and an iron plate.
It is assembled into a very simple throwing structure. When using it, place the iron plate flat on the ground, break off the spring bottom plate, put the grenade into the throwing slot, pull the string and release the spring bottom plate, and the grenade can fly fifty or sixty meters away.
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After several experiments, Claude felt that it could be used directly on the battlefield, so he asked the Mining and Commerce Association for the iron ore mine area that had been abandoned for more than 60 years, and decided to open his own workshop to manufacture weapons such as grenades and landmines. Maintenance
Mr. Bolan helped him make the request to the Mining and Commerce Association and completed all the formalities.
My friend, I still need your help. If possible, I hope you can also become a shareholder and help me manage this weapon workshop, because I lack a reliable manager...Claude tells the truth.
Mr. Veblen thought that Claude was repaying him for his help. After all, an iron mining workshop that can make money just by casting pig iron eggs does not need strict management. He said very modestly that he was doing it out of friendship.
Qingyi Cai helped Claude and did not need any reward. However, at Claude's insistence, he still paid two thousand gold crowns for 20% of the shares, and signed a share agreement and a confidentiality agreement.
It's just that Mr. Veblen doesn't know what the two percent of the shares mean. He thinks that since Claude is willing to let him get a share of the pie, he shouldn't be stingy. In his opinion, the two thousand gold crowns he offered are completely acceptable.
After gathering manpower to develop the iron mine and build an iron ore foundry, Claude does not need to pay any money. He only needs to handle the theater logistics department, and then he can make money...