Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 22 22 Difficulties
After seeing Tang Mo's negotiating methods, Tiger felt that he must be careful about this guy with a belly full of bad water and a heart in fashionable words.

This cunning businessman did not reveal his true intentions from the beginning to the end, and finally bought a large piece of land that he desperately needed at an extremely cheap price.

And during the whole process, the businessman shamelessly started his own bribery skills-after giving the mayor 100 gold coins, he secretly gave the sheriff and the tax official 30 gold coins each, so that they would not hesitate agreed to the deal.

Then, after secretly taking another 50 gold coins as a bribe to the mayor, the mayor "accidentally" drew a crooked boundary on the map, giving Tang Mo a large piece of unclaimed land!

As a result, besides the 260 gold coins bribed, Tang Mo bought a large piece of land with only 860 gold coins.

Although these lands are all wastelands, there is no way to cultivate food, but for Tang Mo, who is in urgent need of land to expand his factory, this is a huge land area, which allows him to do almost whatever he wants.

Sitting in the carriage all the time, holding the title deed that stated the land area in his hand, Tang Mo's hands were still shaking slightly.

In fact, he didn't expect that the world's random handling of land could reach this level.He actually got such a huge piece of land at such a cheap price.

Even this land is next to the sea, if Tang Mo is willing to build, he can build a dedicated port for himself.

What's more, the remaining land near the vicious forest is farther away from the town, and the price will only be cheaper - as long as Tang Mo completes the arms deal with the earl, his profits will be enough to support him to take these unowned lands.

With the support of these lands, his factory will have room to expand. Once it is connected to the Vicious Forest, he can even do business with traders and merchants, and he can log directly from the Vicious Forest... This benefit will be even greater. too much.

In short, his development has now entered the fast lane. If everything goes well, he will soon become the largest weapon manufacturer in the Kingdom of Wright.

But that was only when everything was going well... In fact, Tang Mo's expansion was not smooth, because the computer in his head could look up information, but it couldn't help him come up with a reasonable development plan.

After buying a large piece of land with limited funds, Tang Mo encountered a series of problems.One of the biggest of these problems is staffing shortages.

His development is too fast, and he has swallowed too many resources that cannot be digested for the time being - people who play real-time strategy are very familiar with this: you save a lot of gold coins, but find that your population is too small, and the corresponding wood There is very little fuel, and the large amount of gold coins cannot be converted into the troops you want...

After Tang Mo returned to his office again, he summoned all his somewhat capable cadres: Old Roger, Parker, Matthews, Tiger, and Wes.

He reported good news to these people: "Gentlemen, we have purchased a large amount of land nearby, which makes our future development very easy!"

"As long as we build factories on these barren lands, we can produce our products ten times and a hundred times faster!" He announced excitedly to all his subordinates as if he never worried that his products would be unsalable.

However, although everyone who heard the good news was very excited, the meeting soon turned into a summary meeting that exposed problems.

Roger coughed twice, and said to Tang Mo, "Our manpower is seriously short. The workers from North Ridge actually don't participate in production most of the time. They are all doing other things."

While listening to Roger's words, Tang Mo was fiddling with the land contract that had just been signed. He was thinking about how to get production on track as soon as possible.

In fact, both Matthews and Roger are not idle. They are manufacturing the second batch of parts, and they are preparing to use these newly manufactured parts to assemble the second set of steam engine production equipment in the workshop.

Now that they had their first assembly experience, they were confident in building a second steam engine.It's a pity that they know that with the existing raw materials, it is already the limit to produce another steam engine.

There was no other way, there was not much steel left, and all the money was spent by Tang Mo.It was impossible to get iron ingots from the port. They could only wait for the second batch of supplies from Northridge.

"Some of the workers have been transferred to build wooden houses now. The food we provide is very good, and the agreed wages are not bad, so their work enthusiasm is still very high." Roger looked at the pensive Tang Mo, and continued. Said.

These are the problems they have to face now. In fact, there are many more details than this. It is just to allocate manpower and let these new workers from Northridge settle down and start working. Roger already feels that he is a bit burnt out.

What's more, he is actually still working hard with the old dwarf Matthews on remanufacturing the second steam engine.

Therefore, in Tang Mo's initial team, the most loyal people seemed a little weak in their speech: "The children they brought, apprentices and so on, all followed suit. In fact, they have built a whole building in the past two days. Row of board houses, and a second row of the same houses is being built."

When he said this, he stopped and licked his slightly dry lips, and then continued to speak: "However, although it is not cold here in winter, this kind of wooden house has poor thermal insulation performance, and it is easy to catch fire if you light it for heating. So it’s not easy for people in these houses during the winter.”

Tang Mo just came back to his senses and noticed this detail. He stood up, rummaged in his office, and managed to provide everyone with a water glass.

In fact, the ale had been divided by him, part of the reward was given to the hard-working workers, and the other part was distributed to the soldiers brought by Tiger.

After all, they also helped the workshop a lot while helping to stand guard and perform duties, so Tang Mo was not stingy and gave them a lot of extra rewards.

Therefore, Tang Mo could only pour a glass of water for each of the people who came here to attend the temporary meeting this time, and asked everyone to hold the water glasses and continue the meeting.

After taking a sip of clear water, Roger's throat that was about to smoke finally felt a lot better, so he continued to say: "Besides, the wood you asked us to hoard before is almost used, and the rest is dried... Those are used to produce the K1 quick gun, so they cannot be diverted."

"If you send other people to find wood, then there will be fewer people to build houses, and we need more people..." Roger was worried, and reminded Tang Mo of all the upcoming difficulties.

As Tang Mo's elder, he really didn't want to see Tang Mo destroy the property left by his father when the situation was going well.

So he didn't wait for Tang Mo to speak, and continued: "The more serious problem is that we are still building a wooden house inside our workshop. The land here has been leveled, so it can be used directly."

Tang Mo also knew that his expansion was unreasonable.Because if he is a serious businessman, the most important thing he should do now is to distribute the income reasonably and ensure the safety of the capital chain as much as possible.

But Tang Mo also knew that he himself was not a businessman in the true sense. He was more willing to take risks, to expand rapidly, and to get rid of the current passive state of relying on others.

Compared with the later generations that Tang Mo is familiar with, after making a few PPTs, they start raising funds, and when they get hundreds of thousands, they dare to find a bank loan of several million, and then they dare to raise money after taking the loan, and if they succeed in financing, they dare to borrow more money Compared with those lunatics who got more money and started to operate and go public, his current development can definitely be described as conservative.

In fact, Tang Mo has really considered the follow-up development issues, and he also has his own set of solutions.

The first thing is to establish your own factory, and then buy weapons to other nobles in the Wright Kingdom.

As long as Beiling wins the upcoming war and plays his own style, then he will never be short of clients.As long as those nobles are not idiots, they will definitely choose Tang Mo's weapon!
Even if they are idiots, as the news of the war continues to spread, farther places and farther countries will become supporters of the weapons he produced.

Soon, the weapons produced by the backward Cyric chaebol will be eliminated, and he will replace them and become the new world weapons supplier!
Of course, this is just his strategic plan. In terms of actual implementation, he still has many details to supplement and improve. It will definitely not be so simple.

Roger obviously didn't know about Tang Mo's plan.He was just worried about the situation in front of him, so he continued to chatter about the upcoming difficulties to Tang Mo: "But if we run out of these leveled land, we will need more people and longer time to level it Those wastelands outside, this is even more terrible."

Matthews on the side was obviously not satisfied with this matter, and he seemed hesitant to speak.According to his thinking, Tang Mo should let the workers do what workers should do.As for the expansion of the factory building, Matthews felt that Tang Mo could hire serious construction workers later.

"Now we can't spend so much money to hire people to level the land, because according to the book calculation, our profit is actually not much. To be precise, we are the same as before, even the money paid to the workers next month It's not enough!" He paused when he said this, because he knew that he had said enough, and Tang Mo should have realized the seriousness of the problem.

(End of this chapter)