Chapter 332: The Rise of Private Enterprises (Subscription Request)
The Raymond family's current income can be clearly divided into three parts.
The first part is the output value during the promotion of the magic energy industry, including mining, railway transportation, machinery production, secret medicine sales, military industry, etc.
Mainly concentrated in industrial areas and mines in the Dome Mountains.
This is also the business scope of Raymond Magic Energy Group, a veritable cash cow that is also showing great vitality and rapid development.
The second part is the family's traditional industry.
Including perfume manufacturing, gold and silver price difference reselling, grain income, trade taxation, Siren Port family merchant ships, Silver Sea trade protection, etc.
Although this part of the income is not as good as the profit of the magic industry, it is relatively stable and is the basic foundation of the Raymond family.
It is worth mentioning that this part of the profit, excluding operating costs, basically belongs to the Raymond family and does not need to be distributed to others.
The third part is submarine trade!
This is definitely an emerging market, as it has just started and the current returns are not that great.
But with the silver amber stone vein, its value is unquestionable, and the future profits are expected to be very considerable.
The problem is that the products that Flower Territory can provide to the Siren Tribe are limited.
After all, it is the same seabed and the same land, and many things cannot be popularized or applied.
Moreover, the Siren Tribe is so small and has such a limited population, so its spending power is actually quite limited.
The result is that after distributing the profits, the Siren Tribe still has a large amount of money but nowhere to spend it!
This is very embarrassing!
However, Luo Yi had already mentioned the solution before. On the one hand, he would study the needs of the Siren Tribe, deepen services, and improve and innovate new products.
On the other hand, it urged the Siren Tribe to expand.
Luo Yi and the Sea Monster King had communicated with each other many times, and the content of their conversations covered many aspects.
Intentionally or unintentionally, Luo Yi was also instilling a lot of ideas into the other party.
For example, in order to expand externally, in addition to the simplest war, economic intervention can also be used.
As long as the other tribe relies on you enough, it will be equivalent to your vassal.
For example, if we increase our own population by raising children and raising them ourselves, the efficiency is much slower.
But if you are strong enough and have a brilliant enough platform, you can attract people from other tribes to join you automatically.
If the conditions are good, even those powerful aliens can be used by you.
That’s right, Luo Yi wanted the Red Scale Sirens to act as a middleman and dump his products into the underwater world.
Although the Siren King was still hesitant, it was obvious that he was moved and asked more and more detailed questions.
Let's get back to the point. The above three sectors are where all the profits of the Raymond family come from.
Of course, to be honest, Luo Yi personally has additional income.
The Roy Fitz Group in Auckland City is also a big money maker, and the annual revenue it can obtain even exceeds the traditional revenue of Flower Territory.
Adding all of these together, the total is between 1.9 million and 2 million gold sterling, which is definitely an extremely exaggerated astronomical figure.
Of course, Luo Yi has never been a miser. Money has to be spent to produce benefits.
In his plan, he would keep 500,000 gold tyres as a reserve fund for emergencies.
For the rest, he will devote all his efforts to various projects.
Education expenditure is the biggest expense, and the benefits cannot be seen in the short term, but it is also a must.
There's also the establishment of the First Legion of Flower Territory, with all the young soldiers taking time off from work, all developing into Magic Spearmen, and a system of elimination at the bottom...
This expenditure was extremely exaggerated. Even Luo Yi only dared to set a scale of 1,000 people.
There is also the expansion of the entire Xianhualing railway line, the construction of a modern management model, the wages and benefits of the staff, and all kinds of messy expenses!
After calculating, Luo Yi suddenly felt that the money was still not enough and the speed at which he was making money was still a little slow.
However, at this time we cannot fight alone, we must make full use of private capital.
It just so happened that the dividend distribution meeting was over, and a group of vassals and knights had a large amount of money in their hands. They were at a stage where they had money but didn't know how to spend it.
In addition, during the meeting before the New Year, Luo Yi also encouraged them to start their own businesses. Many people saw the opportunity and asked Luo Yi for people, land, technology and policies.
In order to support them, Roy really provided a lot of conveniences. For this purpose, he even set up a development department headed by Maruna to solve various practical problems for them.
It was also with his encouragement that the first private enterprise, the "Zeke Iron Foundry", was built.
As soon as you see the name, you know that this is the property of the Zeke family, led by Grand Knight Alfonso Zeke.
Well, the Grand Knight still preferred to delve into the art of war and guns, but when Phil Zek spoke, he had no choice but to take the initiative.
However, the one who actually did the work was his third son, Neo Zeke.
Neo Zeke is not very old, only in his twenties. Since he has no share in the family business, he is ambitious.
Previously, he was one of the first students in the class opened by Luo Yi, and was exposed to magic energy machinery.
Later, with the support of his father, he went to study at the Philante School of Magic through Loy's channels.
Although the time was short and I didn't learn much profound knowledge,
However, as a young man who felt the charm of machinery, he was very active. He attended classes during the day and worked at the Leitninger Magic Energy Machinery Factory at night.
By combining theory with practice, he really made it.
It would be difficult to ask him to invent something, but when it comes to management, recruiting personnel, and arranging production, he can get the hang of it very quickly.
He first selected a location in the industrial zone, rented a factory building, laid the lapis lazuli, and installed a universal power machine.
Then he introduced a lot of professional talents from the empire with high salaries and good benefits, and also asked his classmates for help, which solved the talent problem.
In addition, the Zeke family already ran the largest blacksmith workshop in Flower Territory, and he mobilized enough blacksmiths and blacksmith apprentices to join.
Finally, five magic hammer forging machines were purchased from the machinery factory under Raymond Magic Group at an internal price.
At this point, the Zeke Iron Foundry was truly built.
Their products mainly involve weapon forging.
For example, the orders they got from Luo Yi, the customized weapons for the Siren Tribe, this alone is enough to support their factory.
However, Neo Zek was not a person who would stop there. He also tried to forge more exquisite cold weapons and plate armor and tried to sell them to the outside world.
With the help of the magic hammer forging machine, they can greatly improve production efficiency and reduce costs.
Although you don’t need to collect flowers, you can still be very competitive by putting them outside.
It is worth mentioning that although the Zeke family is the major shareholder of the Zeke Iron Foundry, it actually only holds 51% of the shares.
The rest was shared by Vincent Ackerman, Grand Knight Thor and others.
This can be considered an alternative way of sharing risks, and the entire planning and construction process has been laid out in front of everyone.
Starting from the Zeke Ironworks, other vassals immediately took action.
They also have descendants studying abroad, and they have their own areas of expertise and talent reserves. If they can find the raw materials needed by the Raymond Group, they will naturally be able to get orders...
In this way, within a short period of time, thirty or forty magic energy factories were registered and built one after another.
They mainly get orders from Raymond Magic Energy Group and provide supporting services to the group company.
For example, buy a few cutting machines to turn the felled trees into sleepers of corresponding shapes and provide them to the railway construction department.
For example, engaging in the cultivation of special magic potions and providing raw materials for secret medicine factories.
Business opportunities are endless, but what is lacking is the vision to discover them. Therefore, the establishment of supporting factories has indeed enriched the industrial types of flower collars.
Although at this stage, they are almost all supporting raw material suppliers, they are not very competitive, and the quality of the products they produce is far inferior to imports.
But it’s a great start!
In the future, the business world will be like a battlefield, and they will continue to improve and develop.
Eliminate those who are not enterprising, and the remaining ones will naturally become stronger and stronger.
It is worth mentioning that during this period, Lilia's father, Reagan Lightninger, was doing very well.
Everyone knew how important and favored Lilia was, but no one was so blind as to act like a noble in front of Reagan.
Of course, what really made him receive courtesy from all the vassals was that Neo Zeke asked him for advice.
Moreover, it was with his help that the Zeke Iron Foundry was quickly established.
In fact, Reagan Lightninger is a real businessman, and he knows the twists and turns in the business world best.
Neo Zeke wanted to do something big at the beginning and make everything high-end, but he was the one who stopped him and told Neo that he had to solve the problem of having and not having first before thinking about development and growth.
Apparently, Neo Zeke listened to him, which is why the Zeke Ironworks was able to be implemented so quickly.
It was also from then on that many vassals came to him for advice. When it came to policies, he was not stingy and instead made factories popular quickly.
It can be said that he saw clearly what Luo Yi wanted to achieve, and even helped to add fuel to the fire.
It was also from this time that Luo Yi discovered that his father-in-law was actually very capable.
However, compared to the help given by his father-in-law, Luo Yi and Lilia's wedding had to be postponed.
The reason is simple: there is not enough time!
This is the analysis given by Butler Hoover: A count's wedding must invite enough important guests.
For example, Grand Duchess Aphra, Marquis Floyd, and Marquis McKinley, even if they did not come in person, they would send their first heirs.
They are all great nobles with a history of many years, and they all have strict etiquette and rules.
Whether it is the reception, the wedding process, the security, or the preparation of food and drinks, no carelessness is allowed.
So, Butler Hoover spent more than half a month to make the Christmas celebration a grand success and satisfy everyone.
But he definitely couldn't hold a proper earl wedding.
Well, Luo Yi may not care, but he also wants to give Lilia a perfect wedding.
As a result, the wedding originally scheduled for March or April was postponed to June.
After nearly half a year of preparation, Butler Hoover finally dared to say that it was foolproof.
Three o'clock tonight!
(End of this chapter)
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