The reason why this report about building a railway in the north of Green Island appeared on Lawrence's desk is very simple, because many people were moved by this plan and hoped to promote this project.
But before that, they sent this news to Lawrence, a recognized wise man on the island, out of some prudent consideration, hoping that he could help analyze this matter from a public perspective as a non-islander.
.In fact, purely from the perspective of personal interests and the development of the entire island, Lawrence hopes that a railway can be built here.
Because there is basically not much industry in this place, everything needed to build the railway must be outsourced, and Lawrence's factory can provide part of the needed materials.
.At the same time, from the perspective of overall development, a railway in the north can indeed connect the originally separated north into a whole, while promoting the development of the barren north in the entire island.
However, sometimes what is true in theory does not mean that it can be true in reality, or it can even be completely different from the reality. For example, this is the case with this railway now.
Building a railway in the northern part of Green Island can indeed promote the overall development of the region, but the problem is that neither the wealth nor the population of the island can support the construction or even operation of such a railway.
As the lord of New Sauer Island, and having previously built a short section of railway when building an industrial zone on his own territory, Lawrence knew how difficult and costly it would be to build a railway.
Therefore, just through simple comparison and calculation, we can know that building this railway now is completely unscientific and uneconomical, and this is also a conclusion Lawrence came to after suffering losses.
In fact, Lawrence was not very clear about this matter at the beginning, but during the previous planning of the Sauer Island Railway, Lawrence slowly learned a lot about this aspect.
When he first became a lord, Lawrence, who believed in building roads first to get rich, planned a railway around the island as well as a north-south and east-west railway for his territory, trying to connect the entire island with railways.
But he was soon defeated by the facts. Lawrence showed the plan to his adoptive father and several retainers. After seeing it, they did not make any comments, but simply calculated the cost of building such a system.
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After seeing the construction costs, which were almost astronomical to him at the time, Lawrence quickly gave up on railway construction and chose inner core and offshore transportation, which seemed slower and more dangerous but much cheaper.
After the construction of simple railways in those industrial areas began, Lawrence once again looked back at his previous settings and found more problems. For example, he had not considered operating costs at all before.
For New Saul Island at that time, such a large-scale railway simply did not have enough people and materials to transport. Compared with the one-time expenditure of building the railway, the subsequent maintenance costs were almost unbearable.
Bottomless pit.
When Lawrence saw this information this time, he immediately thought of the railway system he had set up for the island when he didn't understand anything at the time.
Obviously, these nobles on the island may have come up with such a whimsical plan because they rarely left the prosperous areas and did not know much about railways, a new thing in the past hundred years.
Putting aside the engineering issues of how difficult it is to build a railway in an area where the terrain is not particularly good and it is very cold, it is a serious problem to lose money just by transporting the few people and property along the way.
According to Lawrence's simple statistics, if there are no accidents, with the productivity around this railway in the future, each train will only need to run two round trips per year to complete all transportation tasks throughout the year.
Considering that this railway is not the Hogwarts Express, and no one is willing to subsidize this matter, building a railway here can be said to have no meaning other than to show that the people who passed this proposal are crazy.
significance.
In other words, this railway is indeed valuable, but its value is definitely not what it is now. At least according to the situation and development speed of this region, it will be more appropriate for the entire island to mainly rely on water transportation within ten years.
However, considering that this report was sent directly to him, it represented the opinions of many people, so for Lawrence, if he wanted to deny this plan, he had to find some reasonable reasons for the plan.
Fortunately, although the nobles here are a little out of date in terms of vision, their previous education has made them very good in logical thinking.
So after Lawrence listed all the reasons in his report as to why it was not suitable to build a railway in this place, all the previously enthusiastic railway planning came to a halt.
It was at this time that Lawrence realized that after he proposed to bring the lords on the island together to form an overall economic circle on the island, the lords who realized that they were rich immediately started the infrastructure construction mode.
After all, anyone with any higher education knows that the development of a region is closely related to the level of infrastructure in the region, and none of the lords on the island has not received this education.
In the past, one of the biggest reasons why everyone seemed to do nothing was because they had no money, so naturally they couldn't invest much in this area.
But after everyone joins together, they will naturally have enough wealth to invest in the construction of several key projects.
After realizing this, Lawrence immediately sent an application to the island's lords' council for review in this regard. Soon, the island's lords' council ordered a freeze on all contracts related to infrastructure construction, and then began to organize a team to conduct an review.
During the review, this team discovered a lot of things involving quick success and even fraud by profiteers. It has to be said that after organizing some financial resources, those capitals with a keen sense of smell quickly came over after smelling the smell.
For example, behind the previous Viscount's railway plan, there are shadows of some large British companies. For those capitals in the financial industry, they only see immediate benefits and will not consider things like future operations.
A type of problem.
Therefore, if their plan is really successful, it is estimated that in addition to sweeping away all the wealth that Green Island has managed to collect, it will also make everyone owe them a debt and work for them.
After realizing this situation, the lords of the island quickly gave up their previous practice of fighting against each other and further realized the importance of everyone uniting together.
In order to avoid this kind of situation happening again, everyone finally decided to use the New Shaoer Bank as the core, and teamed up with the people of the Church of Fortune and the power of the Northern Islands and the island lords in the southeastern Sea of Stars to set up a bank of their own here.
Lawrence felt that from a certain perspective he should be grateful to the group of financial capital. Because of their previous performance, Lawrence was able to expand his scope of power to the northern islands.
Although due to the different nature of the colonies, the northern islands cannot issue their own currency. However, it is recognized that the Star Hkrona issued by Lawrence on the islands is an acceptable currency and serves as an important part of the basket of monetary policies.
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This was a huge breakthrough for Lawrence, because before, the krona issued on his island was only recognized by surrounding islands and some organizations that had trade relations with him.
And now, with the establishment of this new bank belonging to the Northern Islands, the scope of application of the Star Hekron issued by Lawrence has suddenly expanded a lot compared to the past. Of course, doing so also equals to expanding his power.