Volume 2 Chapter 50 - Labour shortage (1/2)

Of course chairman Pompeii was not dumb and the Fersen Carriage Company didn’t have money they wanted to waste.

He had raised this idea of a road connecting Banta City and Saltan City because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce investing in a road connecting Banta City to Karma City was a thing that everyone knew, there was even a public announcement from the City Lord’s Manor in the city square.

Regarding this matter, whether it was the newspapers in Banta City or Karma City, they all issued large amounts of reports on it. Even the newspapers in Anvilmar CIty had done a series on this.

From these reports, everyone had learned that after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce finished these roads, they would be establishing toll booths on these roads that would collect fees from all horse carriages using these roads.

On this point, most people didn’t care and a small portion turned their noses at it.

Was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce crazy? They actually wanted to make money on collecting toll fees?

They wanted money? It’s very simple, at best I won’t use that broken road.

Anyway this road was being built somewhere else, it wouldn’t affect the current road between Banta City and Karma City.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to use toll fees to collect the costs of building this road, this was simply wishful thinking.

But what other thought was not what chairman Pompeii thought.

As the chairman of the Fersen Carriage Company, he understood better than anyone how much a good road would affect the business of horse carriages.

Not mentioning anything else, the Fersen Chamber of Commerce spent as much as a hundred thousand to a hundred and fifty thousand each year on fixing horse carriages.

If they counted the costs that came from horse carriages running on bad roads, this number would reach close to two hundred thousand.

Chairman Pompeii had thought before that if each road in the Lampuri Kingdom was as smooth as the marble road in front of the Anvilmar City’s royal palace, then the Fersen Chamber of Commerce could save at least a hundred thousand gold coins in fixed costs.

Moreover, as the roads were improved, the speed of the horse carriages would be increased. People would have better journeys and the business of riding horse carriages would be much better.

But all these well wishes were nothing more than simple dreams.

The path in front of the royal palace was only five hundred meters long and ten meters wide, but because the materials used were the best marble blocks, which were carefully carved by the best stonemasons, it cost over seven hundred thousand gold coins to build.

If they wanted to turn all the roads in the Lampuri Kingdom into something similar, the amount of gold coins spent was something even the richest Candra Empire couldn’t support.

Chairman Pompeii had given up on this hope until he saw the road the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built.

Although compared to that smooth road in front of the royal palace, this public road was a bit lacking, but it was countless times better than those roads that were covered in pieces of rocks.

If chairman Pompeii had a choice, even if he had to pay a toll fee to use it, he would definitely have the Fersen Carriage Company’s horse carriages travel on this kind of road.

He was certain that even if the other companies couldn’t see the significance this road had, after comparing them, the other companies would also choose to drive their horse carriages over this road.

Ignoring the damage reduced to their products by going on a road like this, just based on the time saved, it was not something that a trivial toll fee could compare to.

So chairman Pompeii could instantly determine that something like collecting toll fees was definitely worth it.

So he immediately looked for Xu Yi and proposed his idea of building a road to Count Sean.

Of course, the most important factor in his decision was…..the price of building the road was low enough.

According to what Xu Yi said, the fifty seven kilometer road to the Falling Rain Valley cost no more than two hundred thousand gold coins.