Chapter 744 An Old Driver Doesn’t Rely on Gears when Driving

"Seeing that you and Her Majesty the Holy Maiden came back together, I knew that the matter was not over yet."

Fiona sighed, looked at Tang En and said, "Tell me, what's the situation over there?"

"It's not too bad."

Tang En shrugged: "Nearly two hundred demons were killed, but currently we estimate that a group of demons have left the Great Rift Valley area, so we divided our forces into two groups to continue the pursuit."

"I hope nothing goes wrong."

"Let's not talk about this for now."

Tang En changed the topic and said: "The institute's micro-magic array replica technology has been conquered. Next, we need to adjust the production structure."

"you say."

Fiona immediately picked up a pen and paper and started recording.

"The first and most important point is the production of special warheads. According to the existing improved magic array, we need to design at least six production lines for special warheads. This production capacity may not be enough."

According to the current production efficiency, if the materials are complete, the alchemy puppet can complete the seal carving work of one bullet in one second. However, even if a production line produces non-stop for a day, it can only produce about 100,000 bullets. Now a battle consumes The bullets are calculated in hundreds of thousands. If Ellington is given time to produce, the situation will be much better.

"Then expand production capacity and add production lines."

Fiona said decisively: "The addition of artificial souls and alchemy puppets can greatly reduce the demand for human resources. We can optimize human resources in this regard and adjust the proportion of workers."

The artificial soul brought by Justeza allowed the effect of the alchemy puppet to be maximized. Many jobs could be replaced with alchemy puppets, which gave Ellington, who was short of manpower, the possibility of expanding production capacity.

"Oh? Already have an idea?"

Fiona took out a notebook from the side and handed it to Tang En: "Angus came back a few days ago, and now he has gone back, but this time Sir Jean also went back with him. It is said that he was in Hohenheim. Some interesting things were found in the library, but they left the information and plans behind before leaving."

Tang En opened it and took a quick look, and couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Angus wrote a plan for alchemy puppets to completely replace workers. In view of the fact that alchemy puppets will not be tired, hungry, or complain, they can fully obey orders, and they only consume some magic crystals, spread out evenly. The cost was even higher than hiring humans, so he suggested that Tang En completely replace human employees with alchemy puppets.

Tang En smiled: "You should know very well that we can only partially use alchemy puppets, and it is impossible to completely replace human employees."

Fiona nodded: "Indeed, Master Angus seems to think too simply."

As a ruler, Tang En has to consider not only the issue of industrial costs, but also the issue of employment opportunities.

Although the cost of hiring human employees is relatively high, the large number of jobs provided allows people to have work and a stable income, which gives them a sense of belonging and will work hard to protect Ellington.

More importantly, it is precisely because they all have jobs and income that the security in Ellington is so good.

Thanks to the vast and sparsely populated Purandar, Tang En would have a headache due to the lack of people.

If it were on earth, there would be no such trouble, and a large number of cheap labor can fully meet his needs.

At present, the working population of Ellington has officially exceeded 200,000, and is growing rapidly with nearly 10,000 people per month. The city has completely transformed from a small town at the beginning into a small city. Judging from China's standards, with a permanent working population of 200,000, it can already be regarded as a medium-sized city.

It is worth mentioning that, with the support of Tang En's policy to encourage childbirth, as of the first day of the midsummer month, more than 50,000 newborns have been born among Ellington residents, which is a quite astonishing ratio.

This means that at least 50,000 couples have now completely taken root in Ellington. The proportion of remaining single men and women is quite troublesome. In view of the special environment of Plandal, the death rate of men is quite high, so the number of men The number is very small. In addition to 100,000 married men and women, among the remaining single young adults, there are only 30,000 marriageable men and 70,000 marriageable women.

This problem caused Fiona a headache, and she had to continue to implement various attractive policies to attract young men to join Ellington.

For example, after every unmarried young man moves to Ellington, he is not only exempted from farm labor, but also enjoys education and training. He can receive subsistence allowance every day until he completes training and arranges a job. He can also enjoy a certain tax exemption for living in Ellington. Negative, you can enjoy special allowances when you get married and have children in Ellington, etc...

However, the effect is not visible yet.

In fact, including newborns and the elderly, Ellington's population is almost over 300,000. The larger the population, the more attractive it becomes to other people. Like a snowball, the population increases. The speed will become faster and faster, and the labor gap here will become smaller and smaller, until it finally reaches saturation.

"Actually, the population here is not increasing at a slow rate. It's just that the increase in the labor force cannot keep up with our expansion. We can just use the alchemy puppets to temporarily meet our production needs."

Fiona took back her notebook and said helplessly: "After all, it takes time to come from other places. Not everyone can get on the carriage. Many desperate people may have come all the way on foot, and there are even a large number of people who can Die on the road.”

Tang En frowned when he heard this: "I seem to have forgotten this."

Transportation in Purandar is very problematic. Before the birth of motorcycles, horse-drawn carriages were used. However, what is more annoying is that the planet in Purandar is larger than the earth. How long does it take to travel in such a large area by horse-drawn carriages alone?

Even if they publicize how good Ellington is in Arinks, even if those poor people at the bottom are moved and set off, there is still a question mark whether they can make it to Ellington.

Tang En pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Where is the highway from Bein to Yalinks built?"

"When I met Galian two days ago, he said that the project was already halfway through and would be completed in another half a month. In fact, the highway network within the empire is being laid simultaneously, and it will be completed in half a month. After that it was basically all done.”

Fiona said with a weird look on her face: "It is said that Levitz has finished training the toll booth employees, and they can't wait to start working to collect fees."

"Half a month..."

Tang En murmured to himself, and a thought emerged in his mind uncontrollably: "The time is about the same, it should be feasible!"

Fiona was startled: "What are you going to do?"

"In this half month, we will start a driving school training."

Tang En narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "I think it's time to open buses, including intercity buses."

"the bus?"

Fiona was stunned: "What is that?"

"You'll understand soon enough."

After Tang En pondered for a moment, he said: "The production line of special warheads is designed according to twelve lines. The missing manpower is supported by alchemy puppets. The production line is set up in the Black Stone Cave. Arrange this matter as soon as possible, and then you can select a batch of thirty Men and women between the age of fifty are required to be in good health, have normal vision, and have normal IQs. They don’t need to be enlightened, ordinary people can do it.”

"Between thirty and fifty...it's a bit troublesome."

Fiona frowned: "Everyone who has some working ability has gone to work in the factory, or is cultivating their own land. There are really not many people who are free."

"Then choose from the newly arrived immigrants."

"The point is, what do you want these people to do? New people may not be trustworthy."

Tang En smiled: "It's nothing, we just need to train a group of qualified veteran drivers."

Since Purandar's previous travel relied on horse-drawn carriages, only wealthy nobles could afford flying monsters, and flying monsters were still very uncomfortable. Therefore, travel here was very slow, and the radius of activity was limited to the vicinity of the town where they lived. Some People have never left the village where they live in their entire lives, and the only way to learn about the outside world is through the oral accounts of traveling traders or bards.

There is too little communication between cities, resulting in a very slow pace of development of this society as a whole.

Perhaps at the beginning, people did not have much demand for transportation between cities, but as people exchange more and more frequently, people will gradually realize this need.

Tang En is now starting to lay out intercity buses, on the one hand to meet this demand in advance, and on the other hand to solve the trouble Fiona just mentioned.

Immigrants walking to Ellington.

There may be no passengers on intercity buses initially, but those immigrants will be the first passengers.

Tang En can first build a batch of buses by hand. After the driving school has trained the first batch of drivers, Ellington will almost be able to produce buses. Bring these buses to Yalinks, and then drive them to Yalinks. Si picked up people who wanted to settle in Ellington and returned to Ellington via the highway.

Not only can it attract immigrants along the way, but it can also build the reputation of the Datang Chamber of Commerce and let others see the convenience of buses.

After the highway network in the Illus Empire is completely laid, people's demand for high-speed transportation will gradually appear. At this time, whether it is taking a bus or a wealthy local buying a magic car , are all very good choices.

"Driver? I don't understand."

"You don't need to understand now. I will work overtime tonight to prepare a document. You need to arrange it as soon as possible tomorrow... No, not only you, Alleria also needs to arrange it."

Not only is the driving school's training on crashes, but more importantly, it is necessary to introduce corresponding traffic regulations, traffic lights, and set up traffic patrol police as soon as possible...

Although you may not need it at first, it’s always better to prepare ahead of time than to make up for it before it’s too late.

Fortunately, although he could not remember the highly professional theoretical knowledge clearly, he still remembered some basic traffic laws quite clearly.

It’s time for the people of Purandhar to feel the fear of being ruled by a ticket!

Looking at Tang En who kept mumbling, Fiona looked confused.