Chapter 488: Making use of the topic
There is a saying in the business world that if you are greedy for other people's profits, what others want is your principal.
Frederick now has three main overseas sub-bases, one east of the city of Constantbul, one in Lugang, Cod Island, and one in Lugang. The first two farther away are in Allies On their own territory, the latter is a place where their own troops can quickly reach.
He still has a territory in the Kingdom of Kush, but its priority is not high and it is still there.
There are no reliable allies in the Ice Forest and Sea, and there is no way to project our own maritime power here. The risk of investing in development here is too high.
Frederick originally planned to find and support a few agents here, and if they were obedient, they would make a fortune together, and if they were not, he would be replaced.
This way, the investment is low, the profit is high, and the initiative is in your own hands.
Opening a branch base is different. Starting from scratch requires investing a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. What is even more troublesome is the need to straighten out the surrounding diplomatic relations.
Some people despise others getting rich. They feel more uncomfortable when they see others making money than they do when they lose money. Seriously, I will give you a "since ancient times" to drive you away from the built towns, and lightly. Just upstream of your water source, people gather to urinate and defecate, just to disgust people.
Frederick did not want to waste his energy in this kind of place. Now that the Principality of Wesson is in a period of rapid economic growth, he can make huge profits by investing resources in territory construction.
Unless there is enough profit, it is impossible for him to open a branch base here.
Seeing that he was not as interested as expected, Feisen continued: "It is not difficult to build a tribe here. Find a place where there is no one. Some of them have no one been there, and some of them have been there before but have left for more than 10 years. Thirty years later, just build a village there.”
“As long as the other surrounding tribes have no objections and can survive and start participating in the internal affairs of the alliance, it means that the tribe has been officially established.”< br>
He finally said: "You can let your and Walqiulei's sons be elders in the tribe."
Frederick did not give a positive reply until the end of lunch time. Unless you have enough profits, you will not agree easily.
In the afternoon, Feison led another group of people to harvest Elizabeth potatoes.
The Elizabeth potatoes grown here are only the size of eggs, and each plant has a large quantity. More than 3,000 kilograms can be harvested from one hectare, which is half of the varieties commonly grown in the Principality of Wesson.
Based on a starch content of 20%, one hectare can contain more than 600 kilograms of starch, far exceeding the rye and oats here.
Feisen and others had heard that the yield of potatoes was terrifyingly high before, but they had no intuitive experience. Now, for the first time, they saw the hills of potatoes piled up on the edge of the fields with their own eyes. They all laughed so hard that they almost reached their ears. .
Some farmers danced with joy. A child wanted to touch the potatoes, but was immediately slapped away.
"Where is Archduke Wesson?"
Füssen was just about to thank Frederick when he suddenly realized that he was missing.
Jin Li, who was in charge of receiving Frederick, looked around and didn't see the blue blacksmith uniform, and her face suddenly turned pale.
She said: "Grand Duke Wesson was harvesting Elizabeth potatoes with me just now, teaching others to look carefully for the ones that have not been dug out in the ground."
Lu Li was also very depressed, if When Frederick wanted to leave, he should have looked for him to drive, but he didn't look for him.
Just now, everyone was very excited to see so many potatoes dug out of the field. Their attention was focused on the field, and no one noticed why such a big person was missing.
Some people wonder, did Archduke Wesson fall in love with a girl and run home with her?
Feisen did not dare to neglect, and immediately asked the villagers nearby to look for the toilet at the edge of the field, fearing that he would accidentally fall into the manure pit while going to the toilet.
Fortunately, an elder from the village came over at this time and he knew where Frederick had gone.
"The bearing of the harvester wheel is broken." The elder pointed to the wheat field next to him. "Just now, Grand Duke Wesson came over to check for us and said that there was a problem with the bearing and that it was the wrong model. This one is used for stone grinding. , he took people on horseback to buy new bearings at the port in the city. "Feisen didn't know what to say for a while.
Last year, a businessman imported a horse-drawn harvester from the Principality of Wesson. This kind of wood harvester has low technical content. This spring, the church arranged for a carpenter to imitate one.
But a problem arises when it is ready to be used. Two machines that look exactly the same, but just pulling them around is more laborious for the imitation than the genuine one. No one knows why.
At this time, Frederick had already found a chamber of commerce selling bearings in the port business district, and he was accompanied by a carpenter from the church.
This chamber of commerce mainly sells hardware tools such as bearings, nails, hammers, screws and screwdrivers. The variety is quite complete, and there is an endless stream of merchants who wholesale.
It's just that business was closed this afternoon. Businessmen gathered at the gate to watch the young boss being scolded bloody by a man of about the same age and slapped several times on the head. The translator in the store translated the relevant content to the crowd in a low voice. The crowd listens.
“You are [勥伟erson’s expletive]!” Frederick slapped the boss on the head, “You are trying to destroy my sign, do you know?”
This boss Xu Ke was the son of a blacksmith in the Wesson family's former blacksmith shop. Frederick often visited the blacksmith shop when he was a child, and he had known him since childhood.
Xu Ke’s wife’s family is on a farm that breeds new varieties. His mother-in-law is teaching Walqiulei and the others how to grow greenhouse vegetables at the farm. They have a good relationship with each other, so he hooked up with an aunt to come over to do business. .
Xu Ke’s father is an old man from the Wesson family, and he has some connections in the industry, so he contacted several manufacturers of hardware tools and came to open a store to sell hardware tools.
He opened the business this spring, and business was booming, but he was having a hard time making money, and something happened.
Frederick patted Xu Ke's head again and said: "It's not like you don't know the difference between bearing models, but you actually sold the bearings on the stone grinders to others for installation on the axles. Don't say no to me. Know the consequences! ”
In addition to specifications and dimensions, bearing parameters also include operating load.
Stone mill bearings do not need to bear too much vertical load, so the materials used have lower compressive strength and are cheaper.
The bearings on the axle are different. They need to bear the load of the entire vehicle. They need to be stronger and more expensive.
There was a model number on the bearing, and Frederick knew what the problem was at a glance.
Xu Ke said unjustly: "I don't know what they bought it for."
Frederick slapped him and said angrily: "They didn't say you don't know how to do it. Ask? ”
“If you don’t tell me, if you use it in the wrong place like this, it will break quickly, and people will say that my stuff is a scam. ”
“I’ll give you three days to close down the business for rectification, and make a table of relevant product model parameters and usage range and post it on the wall. Do you understand?”
Can Xu Ke say he doesn't know? If he dares to say he doesn't know, he will be shot to death on the spot.
He is very aware of the reverence of the old Wesson people for Grand Duke Wesson. Even if he is not shot to death now, if this news comes home, his father will definitely take the hammer that has been used for decades and take the boat. Come and hammer yourself to death.
It is not difficult to make this form. The product list is in the account, just sort it out according to the instructions.
After seeing his promise, Frederick said: "At noon the day after tomorrow, you can gather the fellow villagers here and find a better place to chat. I will pay for it."
< br>Frederick had already buried a hidden line here, and now was not the time to expose it, so when he saw that there was a problem with the bearing, he used the topic to call people over, and met while avoiding the sight of the locals.
(End of this chapter)