Chapter 589 Night Talk
The night is already very late. In a manor in the southwest suburb of Jingyao, most of the lights have been extinguished in the buildings. Among the few remaining lights, there are those from the manor. The light in a room on the second floor of the main house, which belonged to Gerd Rodney.
The owner of the room is sitting on the sofa, carefully reading a stack of documents in his hand. His eyebrows sometimes stretch and sometimes frown, showing the ups and downs of the owner's inner emotions.
Just when he put down a piece of paper and was about to read the next one, there was a loud knock on the door.
“Come in!”
The rooms were opened, and the footsteps of two people reached Gerd's ears.
He put down the documents in his hands, stood up, and said to the visitor: "Father, brother, are you back?"
"Yes, we are back. When we entered the gate, we found out Your room is still lit, so I wanted to come in and see what you were doing. I don’t think you would mind.”
The leader said a short and fat figure, who was Gerd’s father and the current king of Aldo. His younger brother, Prince Jasim Rodney, and the tall and thin figure following him was Gerd’s younger brother, Jasim’s second son Yurico Rodney.
"Dear father, dear brother, of course I don't mind. But, didn't you go to the all-night banquet? Don't you need to come back at dawn?" Gerd opened his hands to welcome you.
"Oh, forget about that damn banquet."
Yuriko raised his arms and complained: "Someone got drunk and acted crazy at the banquet, ruining the atmosphere of the whole banquet. So we came back early."
Gelder teased his brother, "That's really unfortunate! I remember that you planned to use this banquet to show your courtesy to a certain girl, right?"
Yureko spread his hands and said helplessly: "We can only wait for the next opportunity."
Prince Jassim came to the eldest son and saw the stack of documents on the table near him. Pick up one and say, "What are you looking at?"
Gerd replied: "Oh, these are the revenue statistics of several factories that have been opened recently."
Yuriko leaned over and looked at the piece of paper with his father, and saw that it was full of pictures. A neat form filled with some words or numbers that he didn't quite understand. There are also other patterns mixed in in some places, such as wavy lines or patterns that look like sliced pizza.
Yuriko looked confused: "What are these? They look like the evil magic runes described in novels."
Gelder shook his head, he was confused about this Some of the younger brothers who were slightly related to the description of "uneducated and incompetent" were a little helpless, "Eurico, if a scholar who studies mathematics sees this piece of paper, even if he has never touched it, he can guess it based on his knowledge. What do you do? I often advise you to get more involved in this great subject that understands the nature of the world, but you..."
Yuric held his head and begged for mercy: "Oh, oh, oh, please spare me, My dear brother, my head hurts when I think of those incomprehensible formulas and numbers. Our surname is Rodney, isn’t it? Our mission is to rule, not to study.”
Gerd frowned: "Sooner or later a character like yours will suffer a big loss."
"Okay, I don't want to see my two sons quarreling in front of me. If you insist on quarreling, , go to a place where I can neither see nor hear." Prince Jassim stopped the brothers' quarrel.
He looked at his eldest son, "Dear Gerd, how about those things you brought back from the Northwest Bay? It seems that you attach great importance to it, and you are still processing it so late. Things in the factory.”
Hearing his father ask this, Gerd’s eyes suddenly lit up.
"Oh, Father. The technology and equipment Count Grainman gave us are so useful. They have already begun to create profits for us. The market demand for paper and cans seems to be endless, not to mention salt. , it can even be used as military pay to pay our army. Spring carriages are also very popular among nobles. They are placed on briquettes..."
Just when Gerd was about to list them one by one, he was stopped by himself. His father stopped him, "Okay, okay, as long as it's useful, you don't need to introduce it to me in such detail." Prince Jassim squinted his eyes and had a smile on his face. He hadn't seen his son so excited for a long time.
"Okay, but you must listen to this number." Gerd raised the paper in his hand, "If everything goes well and our revenue can grow according to the current trend, the revenue from the Northwest Gulf will The new technology will bring us 500,000 silver shields in revenue next year, which is still net profit after deducting various expenses.”
“5...500,000 silver shields?” As Gerd expected, his father's eyes widened.
This is undoubtedly a huge amount of income. As the king's younger brother, Prince Jassim knows that the royal family's annual income last year was around 5 million silver shields. Last year was not smooth, with only more than 4 million. how? Once you build several factories, they can be worth one-eighth to one-tenth of the royal family's income?
It's so unbelievable.
“This is thanks to Count Paul Grayman having paved the road first and cutting off all the thorns on the road. According to him, the current market is far from reaching [saturation] , so he is happy to let us, as a partner, walk on the path he has paved and share his channels and customers. In other words, ours is also one of his production bases, and he still owns 20% of it. "Partner?" Yuriko snorted on the side, "If I remember correctly, the Graiman family should be the vassal of the Schroeder family, right? That would be too much of a compliment. "
" Yuriko!" Gerd scolded his brother, but he did not continue to criticize him, but continued to say to his father.
“Our income will not stop at this revenue, it will continue to grow. The recent war in the Horn Bay may cause some trouble, but it doesn’t matter, the Northwest Bay is building a trading fleet that can sail to the far east, We no longer rely on the second-hand dealers in Jiaowan. Moreover, we have also introduced their shipbuilding technology. The traditional shipyard in Westport is being renovated, and I expect that we can also get a share of the shipbuilding industry..."
Gerd paused for a few seconds, calculating in his head.
“In five years’ time, the income from these new industries will be equal to the royal family’s traditional income—of course, this is an optimistic estimate.”
“Oh!”
Jassim was attracted by the pie drawn by his son. Although he didn't care about the specific details of the new industry, it was good as long as it could bring profits.
(End of this chapter)