On the next noon, the five elders of the huge bear tribe and Spencer clan sat together with Zhang Tie and started to discuss about how to deal with the holy war.
Yesterday, what Zhang Tie said outside Eschyle City shocked not only the commoners but also the 5 elders who sat together with Zhang Tie. Besides Elder Sarlin, all the others looked gloomy.
This conference was held in a manor of Spencer clan outside Eschyle City. After leaving the victims' cemetery in Eschyle City, they came here.
This place used to be the vacation place of the head of Spencer Clan outside the city; however, it became the place where Zhang Tie was recuperating.
The top-grade cedar flooring and the chandelier made of a pile of fourth-grade pyramidal crystals in the room made the room look low-key yet luxurious. The top-grade cedar flooring naturally exuded a faint fragrance of pine leaves with the smell of the mountains. One breath of it would make people feel relaxed and comfortable. The natural energy condensed by the crystal chandelier above their heads filled the entire room with a pleasant and energetic energy field.
Zhang Tie had to admit that the master of Spencer clan, the ruling clan of Eschyle City, really knew how to enjoy life. Such a common room would cost at least tens of thousands of gold coins.
This morning, Zhang Tie took a look around Eschyle City by car. He wanted to see the huge industries of Spencer clan in Eschyle City. Yesterday, the entire Eschyle City, including the ownership of these huge industries of Spencer clan, had been occupied by Spencer clan. The transfer to Zhang Tie had been officially completed.
Under the witness of some top figures in the two tribes and Eschyle City, Zhang Tie, Elder Rodolfo, Elder Turin and Elder Gouras... Elder Toles and Pontiff Sarlin signed their names on a document respectively, which officially confirmed the ownership and status of Eschyle City on behalf of Zhang Tie, Spencer clan and huge bear tribe. There were also many other issues such as the inheritance rights of the city.
Spencer clan transferred 75% of the ownership of the entire Eschyle City and the entire clan industries to "Peter Hamplester", namely Zhang Tie. Spencer clan only maintained 25% of the ownership of all the clan industries.
In the future, Zhang Tie's ownership and properties of Spencer clan would be inherited by a child of Zhang Tie and a female of Spencer clan, who would be the head of Spencer clan in the future.
The elder of the huge bear tribe approved this document.
In a sense, this document only played a symbolic role, especially when it came to the top decision-makers of the two tribes. However, sometimes, such a symbol was necessary. Those words in black and white could make someone reassured and avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles.
After signing that document, Zhang Tie listened to Elder Rodolfo reading an account book for over 10 minutes before he completely figured out the 75% property of Spencer clan in his hand.
In Eschyle City alone, this part of property included over 2.8 million gold coins' annual tax surplus and over 1.7 million gold coins' annual income from properties and wharves of Spencer clan.
As for the rest... The Spencer family owned more than ten business groups, hundreds of factories and workshops, dozens of manors and farms, thousands of square kilometers of land with different degrees of development value outside the city, and more than ten mines...
Only after hearing Elder Rodolfo's words, Zhang Tie felt like listening to a book from the heavens, causing him to have a headache.
"Just tell me, how much money and how many people can I directly use each year?" Zhang Tie had to interrupt Elder Rodolfo.
"Besides the expenses and accumulations for maintaining the normal operation of Eschyle City and various industries, you can use 7.8 million gold coins a year. Your total capital is 7.8 million gold coins per year. Among over 13.4 million people in Eschyle City, besides city guards and police, 1.26 million people are directly employed by you in many industries. After the police and city guards in Eschyle City finish the reorganization, you have 250,000 city guards and over 40,000 policemen. All the others are under your jurisdiction and have to follow your decrees. "
Zhang Tie understood it. He remembered two figures, 7.8 million gold coins and over 1.5 million people under his command. The two figures represented great power. Eschyle City and Spencer Clan could use a lot of material resources and manpower each year. Zhang Tie finally felt the power of bear tribes in Ice and Snow Wilderness.
As he didn't have a clear impression about these things, Zhang Tie especially took a round in Eschyle City in the morning so as to deepen his impression.
As for the other places, Zhang Tie just glanced around. He mainly paid attention to three places, all of which belonged to him — — Eschyle Steel Plant, Iron Bear Steam Power Company and North Wind Shipyard.
Besides Iron Bear Steam Power Company which was located in Eschyle City, the other two enterprises were located in an industrial park called Spias Bay 30 km away in the east of Eschyle City, where most of the industrial enterprises in Eschyle City were concentrated.
The main products of Iron Bear Steam Power Company varied from 5 horsepower to 100 horsepower.
In this age, this kind of box-camel machine, which connected the steam engine and the boiler together, could almost be called the best friend of human beings. This kind of machine could be widely used in villages, cities or factories. As long as it was connected with the corresponding equipment, it could irrigate farmlands, saw wood, grind rice, dig wells, extract oil, threshed grains, build roads, carry out mechanical processing and forging, etc. Its exhausted steam could also be used as a heat source for drying, evaporating and heating.
This machine was not picky. It could run firewood, grass or coal. Besides being a bit clumsy and slow starting speed, it was almost one of the most perfect machines that humans could produce in this age.
The ostrich boilers produced by Iron Bear Steam Dynamics Company were sold across Ice and Snow Wilderness. In Ice and Snow Wilderness, as long as there were tribes, Zhang Tie could almost see one or two ostrich boilers. Even in Kurgan village, Zhang Tie had seen a small low-speed 5 horsepower ostrich machine, which was used to dig wells in Kurgan village.
Iron Bear Steam Power Company could produce about 3,000 sets of various boilers and camels each year, which were mainly sold to Ice and Snow Wilderness; a small number of them were sold to Ewentra Archipelago. Those buses in Eschyle City were also produced by this company. Although their quality was good, their quantity was limited.
Eschyle Steel Plant could produce 280,000 tons of steel per year. It was the largest and only steel plant across Ice and Snow Wilderness.
The iron ore which supported this enterprise came from an iron mining area covering about 15 square miles 40 km away in the east of Spias Bay. This iron mining area contained 940 million tons of high-quality open-pit iron ore. It was very easy to exploit it. About 210 km away in the north of Eschyle City, there was a coal mine which contained over 2 billion tons of coal, which could meet the demand of the steel industry in Eschyle City.
Needless to say, both the coal mine and the iron mine belonged to Zhang Tie.
North Wind Shipyard consumed almost half of the steel products produced by the steel plant in Eschyle City each year. This shipyard was much larger than the Milky Way Shipyard of Zhang Tie's grandpa in Golden Sea City. It could already produce 10,000-ton huge ships. However, due to various reasons and the overall backward industrial development in Ice and Snow Wilderness, neither North Wind Shipyard nor Eschyle City could produce the key equipment of steam turbines for large ships. All the steam turbines required by North Wind Shipyard were purchased from Gantiadu Island in Ewentra Archipelago.
This was what Zhang Tie knew about Eschyle City and the current industrial development across Ice and Snow Wilderness. Compared to Eschyle City, according to Zhang Tie's knowledge, due to the extremely harsh living environment and the shortage of various materials, each tribe basically lived a life of 1/3 farming, 1/3 nomadic herding and 1/3 hunting.
Each bear tribe in Ice and Snow Wilderness had a fixed territory. Each tribe lived a relatively backward life in their own territory. Besides Eschyle City, almost no tribe had developed a decent industrial system.
Facing such a situation, Zhang Tie felt pretty gloomy. As Zhang Tie grew up in Blackhot City, he was very clear about the importance of steam and steel to the survival and reproduction of humans in this age. It could be said that without human industry based on steam and steel, humans could not survive the previous two holy wars at all.
Xiphodons were very ferocious. Cavalries on xiphodons were all tough guys and powerful fighters. However, not everyone could own xiphodons. Neither could everyone be a fighter above LV 6. As for most commoners, if they could drive a high-performance steam tank or armored vehicle, they would be as powerful as xiphodons on the battlefield...
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