The newly designed cigarette making machine was quickly put into manufacturing and then put into production. One million boxes of cigarettes were officially produced on the thirteenth day.
For no other reason, Xu Kuang over-expanded the production line to 800 cigarettes in only twelve days, producing more than one billion cigarettes every day, and completed the last two billion cigarettes in two days.
Cigarette production continued, and others began to pack the boxes.
It took two days to pack. On the fifteenth day, Xu Kuang led Haosen and Haosen's men to the warehouse where the cigarettes were stored.
In the past ten days, Haosen has not been idle. In addition to supervising the work, he also hired several teams from the mercenary union to be responsible for transporting the cigarettes back to the mercenary union's headquarters.
Xu Kuang said to Haosen:
"You still have two days. Let your subordinates inspect the goods. Once the inspection is complete, just sign the order with the staff."
Haosen stared at Xu Kuang blankly. He did not expect that Xu Kuang could actually produce one million boxes of cigarettes in seventeen days.
he asked:
"I dare to ask Mr. Xu Kuang, if I place another order in the future, do I still have to wait seventeen days?"
Xu Kuang smiled and said:
"No, if you sign such a big deal again, you'd better bring a few people to negotiate the price. I don't think you are a person suitable for doing business."
Haosen nodded and said to Xu Kuang:
"Then I'll sign the bill now. I hope you can give me a suitable price next time I come over."
Xu Kuang chuckled and nodded.
He could see that Haosen was really not suitable for this kind of work. Haosen had a kind of knight-errant temperament. He was very free and easy and didn't care much about anything. With this kind of character, it would be good to be a mercenary, but if
If you are a businessman who spends every penny, you will suffer losses.
Xu Kuang watched Haosen go away and also smiled.
The cigarette store is not located on the west bank, but on the east bank. This is an inevitable result. If Gladiolus City wants to develop and grow, it can no longer stay on the west bank.
Xu Kuang is planning to build a double-decker bridge across the east and west banks, with a highway on top and a railway on the bottom.
Of course, this is just advance planning. Steel has greater uses in Gladiolus City, and there are still many places within Xu Kuang's territory that do not belong to him, and he has no right to develop them.
This made Xu Kuang quite uncomfortable. He thought from time to time:
"It would be great if all this territory with a radius of thousands of miles came under my jurisdiction."
Xu Kuang does not have such rights, but it is good that apart from the lord's land and official channels, all the land within this thousand-mile radius belongs to him.
The idea of building a railway was buried deeper and deeper in Xu Kuang's heart. He wanted to kill it, but he couldn't.
Fortunately, Xu Kuang finally calmed down.
Moguling still does not have the conditions to build a railway. This condition is not technical or limited by financial resources, but by people's hearts.
When a railway is built, its first significance is not the railway, but the money laid on the ground. If calculated according to the international standards of the previous life and the actual situation of Moguling, a two-meter-long single-sided rail weighs more than one hundred kilograms.
, one hundred kilograms of steel produced in Moguling can be sold for sixty-seven gold coins, which can almost be exchanged for a cow.
For tenant farmers in other territories, stealing railroad tracks is a huge temptation to risk their lives. If they don't find a way to solve this problem, laying railroad tracks is equivalent to throwing gold coins into the water and losing everything.
Xu Kuang can form a road protection team, but how many road protection teams should be formed along a thousands-kilometer route? This is a job that requires strong men, and Xu Kuang cannot afford so many people at one time.
The railway had no choice but to give up.
However, roads can be built, and Xu Kuang actually started building them. The road to Yu Town has been built for several kilometers in three months. If it were not limited by the low efficiency of production tools and insufficient supply of raw materials,
, this efficiency can be doubled several times.
Xu Kuang didn't know much about this aspect, so he couldn't provide much help. The only thing he could do was to buy a few sets of tools and blueprints for road construction in the exchange mall and let the people at the research center follow them.
But Xu Kuang also understands that he cannot be a fat man who can take out anything from his pocket. If he does this, the people in the scientific research center will become dependent on him over time, which is not good.
So Xu Kuang planned to let this group of people study it on their own.
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Jing Ming and Jing Xi came again, followed by a slightly helpless Jenny.
Xu Kuang looked at Jenny with some resentment, and then asked:
"I wonder what you two can learn from this visit?"
Jing Ming and Jing Xi laughed and said:
"I know that you have tobacco fields in Hulu Town and Yu Town, with tens of thousands of acres of tobacco inventory, but these alone are not enough, right?".
Xu Kuang frowned. He knew that what these two people said was true. The one million boxes of cigarettes given to Haosen had almost exhausted the storage of Gladiolus City. If it weren't for the next season's tobacco, it was already in the drying process.
After winning, Xu Kuang really didn’t know how to maintain his business in the future.
Xu Kuang asked:
"Whatever you want to say, just say it."
"We can provide you with tobacco raw materials, but you have to agree to one condition."
"What conditions?".
Jing Ming said to Xu Kuang seriously:
"We are here with a cooperative attitude, so we do not intend to use our family's power to pressure you, but this does not mean that other princes have no ideas for your business, especially your Marquis Collins of Baihua Province and the person in charge of your business.
Duke Goa of the southeastern part of the kingdom, you can’t hold on to your own business without any background.”
Xu Kuang's face was as dark as water. He knew that Jing Ming was not alarmist, so he asked:
"So, what do you need?".
Jing Ming smiled bitterly and said:
"I need the tobacco franchise on the Southwest Road of the Empire. I have already checked it out. Tobacco dealers who come to buy from you need to get a tobacco franchise license. We are happy to abide by your rules and get us the highest level license.
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"good.".
The brother and sister looked at each other, Xu Kuang agreed too quickly.
"Why did you agree so simply?".
Xu Kuang smiled bitterly and said:
"The key is that I don't have the right to refuse."
Jing Ming chuckled and said to Xu Kuang:
"Brother, believe me, the choice you make now is absolutely the right one."
Xu Kuang nodded and said to Jing Ming:
"I will design a tobacco license plate for Southwest Road. Starting from next month, I will only sell tobacco to you. I will not sell tobacco to other tobacco merchants from Southwest Road. How about that?"
Jing Ming nodded and admired Xu Kuang's decisiveness.
Xu Kuang thought about it and reminded Jing Ming:
"Although your family sells tobacco exclusively on Southwest Road, I still feel that the tobacco stall is too big for your family to eat. I can give you the right to issue tobacco licenses. You set a license application threshold, which is different from those on the streets and alleys.
If you cooperate with other small shops, you may earn more."
Jing Ming's eyes lit up, he thought this was very interesting.