Chapter 959 Good News

Rivitz didn't even need to do the math to know how much of a blow the opening of air transportation would have on highway operations.

Star Diamond Bank's investment in paving the highway is a huge sum of money. If it cannot achieve the expected returns, then he will really vomit blood.

Tang En and the dwarfs are now destroying the Great Wall by engaging in the air transportation industry!

Levitz was anxious, but Twain smiled.

This is the effect he wants to see.

If you simply cooperate with goblins to build highways, they will definitely become lazy over time. Business without competition is the easiest way to make people lazy.

But if the air transportation industry that Tang En and the gnomes cooperated with took off, in order to compete with air transportation for customers, Star Diamond Bank would have to find ways to improve the service quality of highway-related industries.

Although he planned to let them compete with each other, Tang En still wanted to comfort Rivitz on the surface: "Don't worry, the air transportation industry and highways do not compete. It is better to say that they are complementary."

"Are you kidding me?"

"I am serious."

Tang En said: "First of all, although the cargo capacity of airships is more than that of horse-drawn carriages and trucks, the number of airships is far less than that. Therefore, the air transport industry has no advantage in terms of cargo. The only advantage may be that it is fast. So in terms of freight, air transport mainly covers high-value, small-volume, light-weight valuables, while land transport does not have so many restrictions."

"Secondly, the operating cost of airships is very high, so the ticket price will never be too low. There are not many people who can afford the ticket price, so the main customers are the nobles, wealthy adventurers, and those who are willing to pay for it. He is a merchant of time, and the price of expressways is very low and affordable for ordinary people, so there is no conflict with customers, at most there is a bit of overlap."

"Thirdly, air transportation routes are fixed. They can only go from one city to another. The distance is relatively long. Second-level cities are not currently considered to be included in the routes, so even if someone takes an airship, they still have to take the highway after landing. For highways, you don’t have to worry about fewer customers.”

At this point, Tang En smiled and said: "Actually, you should be happy. Once air routes are opened, a secondary bus hub must be set up near the aviation tower in each city to facilitate the distribution of passengers. In order to quickly When arriving at the target city, you will definitely need to take the expressway after leaving the aviation tower, so the utilization rate of the expressway will be further improved."

Rivitz frowned. Although his intuition told him that Twain must have concealed some information, he had to say that the information he had revealed so far was barely good information.

Although he doesn't completely believe Twain, at least Levitz's anxiety is much less now.

After Tang En thought about it for a moment, he decided to give his partner some confidence, so he sat forward and said to Rivitz with a mysterious look: "I'll tell you some good news secretly. The golden age is coming."

"Who are you lying to?"

Rivitz sneered, saying that the golden age was obviously the last glorious period. After air transportation began, the traffic flow on the highway would definitely decrease significantly.

"Don't believe it, do you know why?"

Tang En smiled and said, "Because, the private magic car developed by our Datang Heavy Industry is about to be launched on the market."

Rivitz was stunned: "Private magic car? What is that?"

Tang En pointed at the magic tricycle under him and said: "It is similar to the vehicle customized for you, but it is smaller in size and has four wheels. It is a new multi-person vehicle produced for families. The purpose of the vehicle was to replace the horse-drawn carriage, and the highway was basically prepared for it."

Rivitz's brain started spinning instantly. What does it mean to have a new multi-person vehicle targeted at families? What does it mean to aim to replace the carriage? What can it bring to the highway?

With this kind of thing, it becomes more convenient and faster for people as a family to travel, and it will be easier to travel far away.

Replacing the carriage means that this magic car is more comfortable and faster, and its cargo capacity is comparable to that of a carriage to a certain extent.

The highways are paved in advance for this vehicle design, which means that this vehicle will perform best on the highway...

This also means that the number of potential customers using the expressway will greatly increase in the future!

After a series of pushes, Rivitz suddenly discovered to his surprise that this new vehicle, which has not yet been launched, can really bring huge benefits to the highway!

"My friend, you have indeed not abandoned me!"

Rivitz almost happily rushed forward to hug Tang En, which scared Tang En and took a few steps back. He said calmly: "I will never harm my allies."

"You are right. I blamed you wrongly."

Rivitz was overjoyed when he thought about the continuous flow of Magic cars on the highway soon, and customers taking the initiative to hand over their money.

Rivitz couldn't wait to ask: "Can you tell me how long it will take for the Magic Car to be launched?"

"Soon."

Tang En thought about it in his mind. The next priority of the Datang Chamber of Commerce is basically to build the aviation tower in advance, use the prototype to train flight attendants, and at the same time start to warm up the promotion of the Magic Car. According to the current Magic Car According to the production progress, small quantities of shipments will begin at the beginning of next month. At the same time that the Magic Car begins to be shipped, the airship will also begin production at the same time.

According to the industrial capabilities of the Tang Dynasty Chamber of Commerce and the processing capabilities of Gear City, Croto estimates that seven civilian airships can be produced in a month - don't think it's too little. The processing difficulty of this thing is quite high. This speed is only possible because of the unloading. A lot of heavy weapons have been dropped, otherwise the production of three ships per month would be an incredible speed.

However, considering the significance of building an air transportation network in the later period, Tang En decided to tilt resources towards this aspect. He asked Jean, Angus, Serna and others who were free to help give those engineers an acceleration technique to improve their performance. Let’s talk about production efficiency. We will first produce dozens of civilian airships in the early stage and then build up the aviation network in Purandar.

Rivitz was anxious: "You should give me an accurate date."

Tang En could only say: "It will be put on the market at the beginning of next month, but if we want to sell it on a large scale, I'm afraid we need to do it slowly."

As the Magic Car is introduced to the market, businessmen with a keen sense of smell will soon gather like sharks, and related industries will soon flourish. After the related industry chain is completed, the corresponding spare parts production capacity will also increase. The overall production speed will also be greatly improved.

"Oh, is that really the case?"

Rivitz sighed: "I knew it wouldn't be that simple."

"No way, production capacity is limited."

Tang En also sighed: "We are short of people."

The development of large-scale industries often requires a large number of grassroots workers. If there are sufficient manpower to use, how can Tang En be so constrained? Production can be started directly, and even low-priced sales can be considered to achieve the purpose of promoting the product as soon as possible.

But not now.

If the emergence of artificial souls and alchemy puppets had not made up for the shortage of labor to a certain extent, I am afraid that whether it can even be put into production would be a big problem now. How could he dare to concentrate all the workers in this field?

"No matter what, this is good news."

Rivitz's fat fingers rubbed his chin, which had countless layers of fat on it: "In this case, I think the existing highway construction project should be further accelerated."

Family cars will soon be available, which means that the utilization rate of highways will soon have a period of explosion. If the highway network of the Ronitant Kingdom has not been laid before then, it will not be able to keep up with this. It’s a great opportunity to make money.

Not only must we improve the highway network as soon as possible, but we must also negotiate with the Tang Dynasty Chamber of Commerce on the import business of magic cars. Otherwise, you will just stare blankly if they don't sell to the Ronitante Kingdom at all.

Thinking of this, Levitz immediately put forward his idea to Tang En with a smile on his face.

"exit?"

Tang En looked at Levitz in great surprise: "I don't mind, but even if I sell it to you, you probably won't be able to use it now."

Rivitz was puzzled: "Why?"

"Because your city has not carried out modern transportation transformation."

Tang En showed his hands very innocently: "Now the major cities in the Illus Empire have completed traffic reconstruction. All roads have been replaced with asphalt roads. Traffic police and traffic lights are also equipped. Residents have also indirectly received information through Datang Daily. They have received traffic knowledge training, so private cars can be sold in the Illus Empire, and the accident rate will be very low."

"But that's not the case in the Ronitant Kingdom. The traffic here has not been improved, the roads are bumpy, and the residents have no awareness of obeying the traffic. The most important point is that there are no buses here now. How can people know how to avoid it? What’s the point of the car?”

Although the Apocalypse is not afraid of being hit by a car, if an ordinary person is hit by a car, it will be fatal.

In order to prevent problems, Tang En and Fiona had already discussed countermeasures a long time ago. The speed of the first batch of magic cars will be limited to less than 40 kilometers per hour when they leave the factory. They can only wait until they get used to it. Only after complying with traffic rules and having no accidents for a period of time can you go to the service point set up by the Datang Chamber of Commerce to lift the restrictions and further increase the speed.

"It actually involves so many issues..."

Rivitz frowned. The traffic transformation in Ronitant's major cities involved many aspects. Even he couldn't decide. This kind of thing could only be discussed with His Majesty Oscar. Just make up your mind.

but……

Rivitz was thinking that he could produce a relevant analysis document to explain to Oscar the huge potential benefits. I believe he would never refuse.

After all, Ronitante is a business kingdom, and no businessman will refuse profits.