Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 75 The First Batch of Immigrants

Joyce never expected that when he came to Gloria Island again, he would see such a scene.The tallest Gloria Steel Group building has been completed, and its bright paint was vaguely visible even before he saw the Gloria Island itself.This more than ten-story building is naturally not the tallest building in the federation. The Morgan Building uses a wonderful structure to raise its height to 55 floors. It uses a large amount of rare steel as a skeleton to declare the financial strength of the John family.

It was precisely because he participated in the construction of this building that Joyce had an understanding of the cost of steel structures. With such a high price, it was really hard for him to believe that this would be the mainstream of high-rise buildings in the future.

But he had to believe it.

Kalecki provided him with the building's construction costs.

Construction costs are not unacceptably higher than using ordinary materials.

Joyce sat on top of the building, overlooking the entire island.At least on Gloria Island, it is so towering that it is really hard to imagine that in the future planning of Gloria Island, such high-rise buildings will abound.

Jialan Island will become one of the three pilot projects for new construction materials. At the same time as it will be built, there will also be two islands, Cycad and Wengzhu, which are being rebuilt.

Joyce looked at the building circle surrounding North Port. They were all high-rise buildings under construction, and the drawings were similar to the high-rise buildings under his feet.And I heard that the deacon of Gloria Island has included thirty- and fifty-story high-rise buildings in his future plans.However, the location of completion may not be on Gloria Island.

Joyce looked to the east and still saw the boundless sea.According to what Deacon Mark said, his sea soul discovered an island occupied by mirages there, which seemed to be called Iris Island.

He looked at it for a long time, and then turned his gaze back to Kaleiji who was sitting in the president's seat.He knew that the man in front of him had completely transformed a group with the potential of an iron empire with technology and ideas. In just a few months, the output of the Jiagang Ironmaking Plant, which had just resumed production, had It is equal to the output of steel merchants in the entire Tulip Island.

Kalecki has begun to continuously lower steel prices to squeeze the market.As a businessman, Joyce knew very well what Kalecki was thinking. Without the intervention of Governor Milton, I am afraid that Jiagang would have monopolized the entire Tulip Ring steel industry in the near future.

Joyce did not come today to see Jiagang's performance.With the influx of workers, Gloria Island finally welcomed its first batch of merchants. They are all members of the Merchant Alliance. According to the agreement to join the Merchant Alliance, the Merchant Alliance must be responsible for their operations on Gloria Island after drawing a portion of the contribution money. resettlement work.

Most of them were food merchants, but there were also clothing merchants.They will be the first people to eat crabs. Joyce is very interested in the potential of Jialan Island, which has only a few thousand people, and whether it can have a market of [-] people in the future.

Mark Irma was the first deacon he had ever seen who valued industry and commerce so much. He even encouraged his islanders to engage in such work and set up a special entrepreneurial fund. This was an unprecedented approach. Previously, there was only a business alliance. Have a similar program, but with minimal spending.As far as he knows, Gloria Island's rewards in this area are definitely not small. If your project is extremely outstanding, you can even have the Deacon Mansion advance all the funds.

Joyce set his sights on the sea outside North Port, where two cruise ships appeared, flying the blue and white striped flag of the Confederacy, looking "mighty".

His eyes rotated slowly as the ships moved, watching them enter the harbor.The anchors dropped from both sides and plunged into the deep sea. The iron ladders dropped from the side of the ship, and dazed people walked out of them one by one.

A blond girl stood on the shore, directing the crowd towards the Old Port.

Joyce knew her, it was the sea spirit that made a deep impression on him that day, Saratoga, the alien sea spirit of Gloria Island.The one who jumped off the ship was also the sea soul of Gloria Island, a little girl with golden curly hair - Firefly.

Since the safety rating of the three routes near Jialan Island was determined, Firefly no longer needs to go out to escort each time.

The two ships were escorted by her, and it was clear that in Mark Irma's mind, the people on board were of great value.

They certainly didn’t come easy.

These farmers from various islands are all victims of the enclosure movement.They lost the land where their ancestors had lived for generations and were forced to leave their hometowns in order to make a living and gather in big cities and factories.Rumors of Gloria Island attracted them.

Cheap housing gave them a stable place to live, but what really attracted this group of immigrants was the promise of guaranteed distribution.

Huang Jiang advertised Jialan Island in most of the newspapers in the federation. Considering that the Azure Federation has not yet popularized education and most of the farmers are not educated, he can only go to the countryside and use Thors as the medium , bought a large number of headhunters.This part of the fee is expensive, but Thors waived the bill very easily because he is familiar with most of the headhunters?
Why has this former sailor not developed yet?

Of course, Joyce didn't know what was going on. He just silently stared at this group of terrified immigrants.

"Most of them will become workers in the ironworks." Kalecki also came to the window.

Joyce looked at it and murmured: "That's a very dangerous job."

Kalecki said: "There is no way. Gloria Island is not a charity base. Every effort is rewarded."

"You look helpless?"

"Deacon Mark asked me that Jiagang's iron smelting plants must abide by the eight-hour work system." Kalecki said incomprehensibly, "Some factory owners I have seen want to lock the workers in the factory so that they can Produce enough goods. What he does will increase the cost of Jiagang’s steel. I can’t understand this approach.”

Joyce echoed: "What a strange rule. It may be a hobby of Deacon Mark."

In the Azure Federation, there are not no deacons with special hobbies. Most of them are Hai Guixing and other deacons with special hobbies. Joyce arbitrarily identified this behavior as Mark Irma's deacon trying to please himself. The appearance made by the sea soul.

Although his sea soul is a different sea soul, he doesn't need to go out of his way to please him, and he won't grow into a sea god anyway.

At this moment, a strange light appeared in Joyce's sight.It wasn't too bright under the setting sun, but its strange sight still caught Joyce's attention.

Viewed from the top floor of the building, they are blurry light spots that no longer exist on the earth, spreading from the hills to the plains and to the grasslands in the middle of Gloriosa Island.

This seems to be the light bulb that Deacon Mark asked the workers to install a few days ago!

It dawned on Joyce.

But immediately, a doubt appeared in his heart.It's not like he's never seen electric lights before. His house is even the first house in the Federation to use electric lights.

but
But can electricity travel this far?
There was a knock on the office door.

The attendant's voice came from outside:

"Mr. Joyce, downstairs Miss Saratoga asked me to tell you that Mr. Mark Irma, the deacon of Gloria Island, is waiting for you at the power station in the south."

(End of this chapter)