Chapter 806

In fact, in the early stage of the emergence of new things, the emergence of various problems is almost inevitable.

Especially here in prandal, the whole is like the middle ages with low productivity, but the sudden emergence of buses, an efficient means of transportation, has a predictable impact on people. Naturally, many people will join in the fun.

Those thieves who like to take advantage of petty thieves will certainly not miss this opportunity.

But since Fiona said she had begun to take measures, Donne stopped paying attention to this aspect.

Fiona sighed and said, "although the bus has greatly facilitated people's travel, some people feel that the fixed line is very inconvenient, so they always want the bus to change the route according to their ideas."

Dumne could not help but Tucao: "these people think that buses can make complaints about everyone. Ah, boo, I mean, do they think buses are random?"

“……”

Fiona said quietly, "Your Majesty, with all due respect, we haven't started selling private cars yet."

"... oh."

"Intercity buses have been put into trial operation now, but so far, there are only one or two shuttle buses in each city. The demand for cross city travel is not strong at present, and the only customers are some businessmen and adventurers with fresh pictures."

Fiona couldn't help saying, "although it has been highly praised by businessmen and adventurers, your majesty, can we stop the intercity bus project first? It's a business that loses money."

Don shook his head and said, "no, we can't stop. Even if there is no one, we should maintain a minimum of one bus every day."

"Why?"

"It is my duty as king."

"The bus will be a social welfare. After finding out the operation cost in the future, the charge will be reduced as much as possible. In other words, there is no need to consider the income in the bus operation, just keep the balance of revenue and expenditure," Donne said

"In other words, do you want to support the bus project with the income from other projects?"

"At the beginning, we can subsidize, but we can't rely entirely on subsidies. In the later stage, we should maintain a balance of revenue and expenditure without considering profits."

"I see."

Fiona wrote down Donne's opinion and said with a smile, "but because the occupancy rate of the intercity bus is very low, it is just used by us. In the past half a month, it has helped us transport a lot of foreign people."

"Oh?"

Dunn perked up and sat up straight: "how many people have you added?"

Fiona opened a nearby demographic book and said, "originally, the population growth has slowed down a lot, but only in the half month after the opening of intercity buses, more than 20000 people have been added, and most of them are concentrated this week."

"Probably because the early stage is a brewing period, which broke out this week."

"That's right. According to our analysis, with the continuous fermentation of the influence of intercity buses, the population will increase faster and faster. By the end of the year, our population in Ellington will double that of now and officially exceed 500000!"

Fiona said excitedly: "at that time, the young and middle-aged will join us, which will completely eliminate the short board of our labor shortage, a large number of vacant residential areas will be completed, and the increase of residents will also increase the market demand. Businessmen will certainly gather here in large numbers, with immeasurable economic benefits."

Donne smiled: "of course, more people and more business opportunities. However, the population barely exceeded 500000 by the end of the year. It's not worth so excited. Our goal is to continue to strengthen the attraction of Ellington and strive to make the population exceed 5 million next year."

"Five, five million!?"

Fiona was stunned: "Your Majesty, are you crazy? The population of alinks is less than two million! Do you want to move the capital?"

"Believe me, as long as everyone works together, it's not impossible."

Donne smiled with confidence.

Since this year, the resident population of Ellington has increased from thousands at the beginning to 250000 now. Who would believe it at the beginning? This growth rate is still due to inconvenient transportation and too slow infrastructure.

After this year's construction, the relevant infrastructure of Ellington has been completed. The well planned new urban area is completely isolated from the industrial area, and the interior is divided into commercial area, residential area, functional area, etc. according to the purpose. At present, the residents who have moved here are full of praise for the life of the city. Will others be dissatisfied when they come?

More importantly, the laying of expressways has been completed, and the opening of intercity buses has increased the travel efficiency of residents. If you take intercity buses and change trains in each city, it only takes five or six days from Ellington to yarinks - this is because there are too few shuttle buses at present.

Taking the intercity bus is not only fast and safe, but also costs only dozens of silver coins. You know, if you originally take a carriage to yarinks, you only fear a few gold coins. Moreover, if it goes well, the road will take 15 days, not to mention dangerous situations.

This means that as long as Ellington's attraction is strong enough, those people only need to spend a small amount of silver to come and see it with their own eyes. Even if they are not satisfied and want to leave, they will not lose anything.

The policy of Datang chamber of Commerce to find the bottom poor who are willing to work from all over the world and move to Ellington free of charge has contributed greatly to the population growth here.

"Don't patronize the excitement."

Donne was too excited to see Fiona and couldn't help waking her up: "after the population increase, the problems accompanying it are quite troublesome, which need to make a plan in advance."

A city of 500000 people, big or small, but so many people eat, drink and Lazar in Ellington are all based on Datang chamber of Commerce, which is a lot of pressure.

In particular, prandal's food production capacity is generally not high. Many people go all the way to Ellington with their families because they know that they can eat when they work here.

If the food supply is insufficient at that time, I'm afraid there will be big trouble.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured."

Fiona smiled confidently, "don't mention 500000 people. Even if there are more than 100000 people, I can feed them this year!"

"Oh?"

"Now it is approaching the harvest day of wheat. Our Datang harvest team has set out again. Due to the completion of the expressway, this time, the harvest team will start from the cities with transmission arrays and radiate to the surrounding areas to help those farmers harvest their crops."

"Not only that, as the production experiment of alchemy puppets, we have used them to produce a large number of combine harvesters and magic energy cultivators. In addition to leaving some to meet the expansion of production capacity in Ellington in the future, I have decided to donate the rest to the ilrus royal family in the name of Datang chamber of Commerce."

Fiona gave Donne a charming glance and said, "there are five thousand combine harvesters and five thousand magic cultivators."

Donne laughed and said, "what's the meaning of this left-handed down right-handed one."

Datang chamber of commerce is his, and the property of ilrus royal family is now his. Donating to the royal family is the same as donating to himself.

"It's not as simple as you think."

Fiona explained: "publicly announcing the donation of these properties can win a good reputation for Datang chamber of Commerce. As a private property of the royal family, you don't have to worry about falling into the hands of others. You can still control it at will according to your own wishes - don't forget, the Royal family has a lot of private land, so do you want to cultivate it yourself?"

"That's true."

Donne suddenly realized that he basically didn't care much about the royal family's private property. He still let OLINA and Aurelia's mother and daughter control it by themselves. After all, his purpose of wanting the throne was just to reform the ilrus empire.

"With the help of the combine harvester, the time for harvesting wheat this year will be greatly shortened. A lot of time saved can be used for other production work. After the spring, the magic cultivator can be directly put into use and start cultivating the next round of wheat."

Speaking of this, Fiona said excitedly, "by next spring, we can use new varieties of wheat seeds!"

"Oh!?"

Donne suddenly put down his teacup and said in surprise, "there's good news from grantia?"

"Yes!"

Fiona said happily: "She came back a few days ago and wanted to report the good news to you. When she found you were away, she told me. It is said that she and MS. otinia have made a breakthrough in their research. The production capacity of the latest generation of improved seeds has more than doubled from the beginning! They think they have met your requirements now, so they have started mass catalytic production."

"Double!"

Donne was overjoyed: "really double!?"

"I don't think Ms. otinia should make such a bad joke."

Fiona looked at Donne very seriously, her eyes full of joy: "Your Majesty, this is the most surprising news this year."

Donne was also excited.

What is the concept of doubling grain output!

The grain planted with the same land area can feed twice the original population!

Coupled with the planting efficiency improved by various agricultural magic energy machines developed by Donne, it can be predicted that there will be a terrible explosive growth in the grain production of the Ilus Empire next autumn!

"Next autumn, we may be able to solve the problem of hunger."

Donne breathed a long sigh of relief. According to the current population growth rate of prandal, after changing this agricultural scale with improved seeds, it can definitely meet the population's demand for food, and even enrich a large amount of food as reserve food.

Fiona reminded Donne: "I think you should reward Grandia and otinia. They have been busy for more than half a year."

"I'll reward them."

As soon as he said this, Donne regretted it. To be honest, he could already think of what reward grantia would ask fo