Chapter 260 About to Arrive
After exploring the situation at the bottom of the valley, Perfectcott returned to Eagle Beak Cliff.
The oil found during the trip to Death Valley is indeed important, but the importance of this thing is the key to the second industrial revolution, not that the valley itself or the oil lake is important.
Although they themselves are indeed of great significance to the North, they are not to the extent that Purficott needs to put down everything and watch the whole process here in person.
Perficott, who returned to Eagle Beak Cliff, quickly received several new messages, which made her very busy.
First, there was news from the Royal Academy of Sciences. As the deputy president of the Royal Academy of Sciences and the president of the Northern Branch, the scientists requested by Perficott had already set off from the empire and would arrive in the North in a repaired airship.
The telegram was sent before they set off. According to the time, they should still be halfway there, but at the speed of the airship, it only takes a few days to fly from Langton to the north.
Especially now that the northern route is accessible, the airship can save more time by flying along this route.
And this means that they will actually arrive in a few days, but the supporting Northern Branch of the Royal Academy of Sciences is not even a shadow now.
This gave Purficott a sudden headache. She was indeed negligent in this matter, but fortunately the problem was not big.
In the initial planning of the construction of the Yingzui Cliff Base, it was designed as a scientific research station and could accommodate more people, especially scientific researchers.
So as long as there are not a lot of people in the first batch, they can be placed on the Eagle Beak Cliff first. As for the Northern Branch of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Purficott thought about it and felt that it seemed possible to just do it directly. Place it on Eagle Beak Cliff.
After all, this was originally the scientific research station for the Arctic scientific research project planned by Purficott. Now it seems that it is not a big problem to expand it into the Northern Branch of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
In the final analysis, this is because Purficott is not accustomed to his status as the vice president of the Royal Academy of Sciences. The more useful occasion for this title is in Langton, and no one in the north cares more about this title.
In addition to the matters at the Royal Academy of Sciences, on the other side, there will also be an inspection team sent by factory owners and capitalists from the New World that will also arrive in the north in the near future.
Although it has been agreed to invest in and build factories in the north, what kind of factories can be built and where they should be built are all matters that need to be discussed and investigated.
The main purpose of this inspection team is to inspect the investment environment in the north and where in the area designated by Perfectcott they are suitable for building a factory.
This matter does not require Purficott himself to come forward personally. The old butler Foster and the civil officials in the north can handle this matter.
As for the other expedition group from Langton, which has the same purpose as this expedition group but only has a different departure point, it will arrive together with the people from the Royal Academy of Sciences.
But they were not riding in the same airship as the people from the Royal Academy of Sciences.
After all, Purficott designed the airship for herself alone. Not only was the size limited, but the number of people it could accommodate was also considered based on the combination of herself and the old housekeeper, plus a group of maid puppets. Therefore, the carrying capacity of the airship is very limited.
The inspection team sent by Langton's capitalists and factory owners was quite large, and it was obviously impossible for them all to fit into this airship. As for taking a boat in the traditional way? Time is money, my friend! Taking a boat will waste a lot of time on the road!
If it was before, there would be no other way. There was no other way but to take a boat.
But now that there are other options, these big capitalists and factory owners will not just watch their time being wasted and let their counterparts in the New World grab the opportunity. in front of them.
You must know that the North is an unexplored blue ocean market. Whoever can seize the opportunity will be able to lay an advantage in future business competition.
Especially for the big capitalists and big factory owners in Langton, being well-informed is an essential quality for them. They have begun to receive some rumors and know that the empire is about to face a huge war. crisis.
Although they did not find out what the crisis was specifically, they were still able to find out that the North would be the key to the future empire's response to this crisis.
Going to invest in the North now will be an opportunity to show favor to the senior management and the Earl of the North.
So these capitalists and factory owners went all out. They spent a lot of money to get the blueprints of the airship from the Royal Dockyard, and then built the first one in the shipyard under their own names. Airship for commercial operation.
Their ability to successfully build an airship was inseparable from the technical support of the Royal Shipyard, and the reason why the Royal Shipyard dared to do this was naturally authorized by the empire's senior officials.
Otherwise, airships are currently the most powerful weapon of the empire in the war. Even if the Royal Shipyards were given the courage, they would not dare to sell out such important national military secrets, and would teach others step by step how to reproduce them.
If there were not greater interests behind it, this kind of thing would never succeed.
But once higher-level interest issues are involved, this kind of thing will be promoted very quickly, so that now the first commercially operated airship has been built and its first commercial operation has begun. Hang is flying towards the north.
While they were flying towards the north, the capitalists and factory owners who were promoting this matter also sent a telegram to Perfectcott.
If it hadn't been for this telegram, it wouldn't have been Perficott's turn to personally intervene in this matter. At most, she would have just made an appearance at the welcome banquet as arranged by the old housekeeper.
But those capitalists and factory owners specifically sent telegrams to Purficott, so there was something worthy of her attention.
Those big capitalists and big factory owners contacted Princess Anne through various relationships, and then lobbied Perfectcott through the princess, hoping that she could create a successful business for this maiden voyage in the north. The transport airship provided a lively welcome banquet, which was regarded as a commemoration of the successful commercial operation of mankind's first airship.
In order to hold this banquet, the big capitalists and big factory owners gathered together 30,000 gold pounds, which was regarded as sponsorship fee. They only hoped that the North could hold a grand welcome banquet to celebrate. And they also hope that Perficott, the lord of the north and the inventor of the airship, will also be there by then.
For this reason, they also sponsored Perficott with an additional fifty thousand gold pounds in order to gain more support from her, the Earl of the North.
(End of this chapter)