Chapter 3 Infrastructure Promotion Department
Viscount Resus looked at the prayer in his hand, feeling full of doubt.
"Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Infrastructure Promotion Department? What the hell is this?"
After turning over the prayer post, he saw the emblem with the New Air Chamber of Commerce logo on the back of the prayer post. Viscount Resus hesitated for a moment and asked the housekeeper beside him: "You said that there is someone who has been a servant here before?"
The housekeeper nodded gently: "Yes, Lord Viscount. This servant is called Kompani. He used to be very serious and responsible when he was in the mansion, so I still have some impression. He is from our town, so I think there should be no problem."
"That's it..." Viscount Resus looked through the letters twice and waved his hand. "Then please invite them in."
"yes."
A moment later, Yoshuan and Kompany, led by the housekeeper, walked into the living room of the manor in Viscount Resuss on the outskirts of Arafat town.
At first sight, Viscount Resus sitting upright on the main seat, Corpani immediately saluted him respectfully.
"The villain has met Lord Viscount."
Yesuean looked at Viscount Resus with interest, then bowed slightly and bowed.
"I've seen Lord Viscount."
Viscount Resus glanced at Kompany and immediately lost interest in looking at him. He turned his head and swept his eyes up and down. Seeing that he was well-dressed, elegant in temperament, and a confident smile on his face, it was obvious that he was not an ordinary person, so he pointed to the guest seat next to him: "Please sit down."
After Ao Su'an sat down, Kompani hesitated for a while before sitting down carefully on the chair, he kept looking down at the ground with his head down. He didn't dare to look up at Viscount Resus.
In his mind, Viscount Resus is already a great man. He never thought that one day he would be treated as a guest by the mayor.
Seeing the two sitting down, Viscount Resus pondered for a moment, picked up the prayer in his hand, and asked Yoshu'an: "You claim to be the manager of the infrastructure promotion department of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Why have I never heard of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce such a department?"
Yoshuan smiled slightly: "Because this department was just established last August. It has been only tried in the Principality of Stantin and the Kingdom of Lampari, and this year it is the first time that it has entered the Kingdom of Falke. It is not surprising that you have never heard of it before."
"Is that?" Viscount Resus glanced at Yoshu'an suspiciously. "What... what is the infrastructure promotion department doing? This name sounds really weird."
Yoshuan took out a document from his bag he brought with him and handed it to Viscount Resus.
"The so-called infrastructure promotion department is the department that is mainly responsible for the promotion of infrastructure. I am one of the promotion managers of this department, and currently I am mainly responsible for the promotion of the Principality of Drake and the Kingdom of Falke."
Viscount Resus took the document and glanced. Without looking closely, he frowned and asked again: "So what infrastructure you are talking about? Why do you want to promote it?"
"Infrastructure is a very broad topic. If subdivided, it can be roughly divided into five categories: transportation, energy provision, education and training, medical care, and sports culture. If subdivided, it will be specific..."
"Okay, okay, don't subdivided it." Viscount Resus frowned and waved his hands repeatedly. "I said, what do you say? Why do I sound so confused? I can barely understand transportation. Isn't it the slogan that your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and Amley Chamber of Commerce have been saying, what is the name of? Oh, 'If you want to be rich, build roads first'? Right?"
"Yes. But transportation is not just about building highways, it also includes river transportation and sea transportation. In addition, there are railway transportation currently being studied by our Chamber of Commerce and air transportation that should be implemented in the future. Moreover, in order to ensure the smooth flow of these transportations, necessary subsequent maintenance and logistics creation are also issues that must be solved, so..."
"Stop!" Viscount Resus interrupted Yoshuan again. "You have said so much. What is the contact with you when you come to me this time?"
Yoshuan pointed to the document he had just handed to Viscount Resus with a smile.
"Master Viscount, this is a cooperation plan formulated by our department on promoting infrastructure in various places. Please check it out."
Viscount Resus frowned and glanced at him, then he carefully looked through the document in his hand.
Although the document is not thick, it took Viscount Resus half an hour to read it all.
After reading it, he focused on thinking for a while before he said to Yosuan again: "I have two problems."
"Excuse me."
"The first question is, from this plan, your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will help your partner complete various infrastructure construction, including helping each other build roads, hospitals, and even assisting in building schools... Who will pay for the money? Even if it is just our town, if you want to make up all the things mentioned in this plan, it will at least cost hundreds of thousands of gold coins? As you said just now, your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not just making these things in our place. Then no matter how rich you are, you may not be able to deal with it, right?" Viscount Resus asked in confusion.
"Mr. Viscount, your concerns are very reasonable. Indeed, it is impossible for our Chamber of Commerce to have such abundant financial resources to bear all the expenses..."
"Do you want me to pay?" Viscount Resus looked at Yoshuan with a vigilant look on his face. "Tell you, even though I am the mayor and the viscount, you ask me to take out hundreds of thousands of gold coins at once... that's too hard."
"Of course, you won't let Lord Viscount take it all." Yoshuan didn't feel strange about Viscount Resos. He had seen too many such things when promoting it in various places before. "In terms of capital investment, our New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce is responsible for the part, and the rest will be raised through other methods. In addition, your parliament will also provide some financial support. As for Lord Viscount, you only need to provide some support when necessary."
Viscount Resus was stunned: "You said the Kingdom Parliament would also pay? Have you obtained the approval of the Kingdom Parliament?"
"Yes." Yoshuan flipped through his bag again, took out another document and handed it to Viscount Resus.
Seeing the emblem representing the Parliament of the Kingdom of Falk on this document, Viscount Resus's face became serious. He took the document from Yoshuan and looked carefully twice. After confirming that it should not be faked, he couldn't help but glared at Yoshuan with dissatisfaction.
Since this guy has the official documents issued by the Kingdom Parliament, why didn't he take them out as soon as possible? He still suspicious for a long time.
"Well... Since the Kingdom Parliament has clearly expressed its support, I will of course follow the opinions of the Kingdom Parliament. But..." Viscount Resus deliberately elongated his voice. "Joshun... Manager, what are you planning to do? If you just said, what transportation should be done, can you..."
"Energy provision." Yo Xiu'an gently reminded.
"Yes, if you provide energy and have that bunch of things, it's probably impossible to do it in one or two days, right? There must be a sequence, right?"
"Of course." Yoshuan nodded with a smile. "Sir Viscount, based on my inspection of Arafat town in the past two days, I think... Since Arafat town is already connected with a road, there is no need to worry about infrastructure construction in other aspects. The first problem that needs to be solved is actually mainly focused on education and training."
"Education and training?" Viscount Resus looked at Yoshuan with some confusion. "What do you mean by this education and training?"
"It's very simple." Yoshuyan pulled Kompani, who sat beside him and had not spoken. "Look, this is my wife's brother-in-law Kompani. He now has two children, the older one is ten years old and the younger one is almost six years old. But they have never attended school since childhood and have not received any training related to education and vocational skills."
"Isn't this normal?" Viscount Resus wondered.
At first glance, Kompani was an ordinary civilian, so how could he let his children go to receive private education?
Let’s not talk about whether he has that much money, first of all, he doesn’t have the qualifications at all.
Accepting education is a power that only nobles can have!
"No, this is not normal." Yoshuan straightened his face and shook his head seriously for the first time. "Vissus Resus, a person who has received education since childhood, and a person who has not received the corresponding education, can create completely different values when he grows up. If you can develop better in the town of Arafat and people's lives become richer, then increasing investment in education is the most necessary."
Viscount Resus was confused when he heard it.
Can the Arafari town develop better by allowing a few civilian children to receive the so-called education and training? Let people's lives become richer?
Not that exaggerated.
Viscount Resus did not hide his thoughts at all, so Yoshuan saw the skeptical look on his face, and of course he understood what he was thinking.
However, he did not intend to convince Viscount Resus by relying solely on words. The purpose of this visit was only to obtain his approval.
"Master Viscount, maybe you cannot understand the meaning of this matter now, but I believe you will understand it later. In addition, our Chamber of Commerce has officially reached an infrastructure promotion cooperation agreement with the Parliament of the Falk Kingdom. Now after inspection, I decided to use the Arafat Town as the first pilot project of our Chamber of Commerce's plan in the Falk Kingdom. I hope that as the mayor of the Arafair town, you will provide sufficient support for this plan."
Viscount Resus looked at the document signed by the Kingdom Parliament in his hand, pondered for a moment, and nodded helplessly.
"Okay, I'll talk to you in detail after I send a document to the Parliament."
"Okay." Yo Xiu'an smiled and stood up. "Then Lord Viscount, I will visit again in half a month, and I will discuss it with you in detail later." (To be continued)
Chapter completed!