The business Fiona was talking about was related to Solant.
Previously, the Star Diamond Bank and the Datang Chamber of Commerce had cooperated to develop highways in the Ryan Empire. They had been in the process of construction and had already expanded from New Bulgarian to other cities. Now that Solant had returned to the Irus Empire, the Star Diamond Bank had sent Gary to contact Fiona, intending to discuss the highway paving plan in Solant.
After returning to the study, Tang En briefly read the letter of intent submitted by the Star Diamond Bank and said, "I don't have any opinions, you can decide for yourself."
"Didn't I have to inform you?"
Fiona said grumpily, "You're the owner of this place."
"Aren't you also half an owner?"
Tang En's words immediately turned Fiona into a soft girl, her eyes watery and blinking non-stop.
Well, compared to Aiguin, Fiona's strategy was obviously much easier to win over …
Tang En coughed lightly and said, "Let's get down to business first …"
Humph!
This bad guy! Can't you let me be happy for a while?
Fiona rolled her eyes at him bitterly and went back to work. "The Star Diamond Bank's proposal coincides with my thoughts, so we plan to carry out the highway paving plan in Solant. We'll start the preliminary design and planning work in the next two days. After calculating the population density of the major cities in Solant, we'll design a route plan and then proceed to the next step."
"The main thing to consider is the highway connecting the Ryan Empire and the Irus Empire. Due to the various terrains such as forests, canyons, and swamps along the way, there are now several alternative routes. I'm currently leaning towards the first option, mainly to avoid the complicated swamps …"
"Secondly, there are the infrastructure supporting the highway, such as the city's public transport system, road traffic transformation, training for traffic police, and so on …"
"The road traffic transformation will involve the city's sewage pipes and water pipes, so it's best to carry it out at the same time. These projects also involve the overall reform of the city's administrative system …"
"And now, we're starting the construction of the aviation tower …"
"If we want Solant to catch up with the overall rhythm of Irus, we'll have to modify Solant from head to toe in a short period of time. It's a huge project."
"Our civil engineering department can't handle such a large project at all, so I opened the bidding to the public. Now, Aurelia and I have received bidding letters from hundreds of construction chambers of commerce. Among them, the chambers of commerce that are capable of taking on part of the work have already been confirmed. There are still some small projects that haven't been outsourced yet."
Speaking of this, Fiona smiled and said, "You guessed one thing right. In order to win the bids of these small projects, someone actually began to bribe our staff."
Bribe?
Tang En furrowed his brows. This was not a good sign. He had to stifle it from the start.
"How did you handle it?"
"Should I say that we're lucky? The employee who received the bribe is a local in Ellington. He was part of the first batch of people who worked with us. Now, he has quite a bit of power and can be considered someone who has a say in the lower levels. He admires you very much. After receiving the bribe, he reported it to me. I haven't decided how to deal with it yet. "
Tang En breathed a sigh of relief. After thinking for a while, he said directly, "This kind of thing is very dangerous. We can't start with this, so the first case has to be dealt with seriously. Publish a public statement in my name on the Datang Chamber of Commerce. Because the chamber of commerce tried to use dirty means like bribery, the Datang Chamber of Commerce will never consider cooperating with them in the future. At the same time, the employee who received the bribe will be dealt with seriously because he tried to use his power for personal gain. All of his assets will be confiscated, and he will be sentenced to life imprisonment … No, it's better to give him the death penalty!"
Fiona was stunned. "But that person didn't …"
"This is just publicity, my beautiful executive …"
Tang En said weakly, "Other people don't know the specific situation, and they don't know who was sentenced to death. We just have to publicize it and let people understand that bribery is a serious problem that can lead to death. Then we can put an end to this phenomenon from the root."
On Earth, bribery had always been an unsolvable problem, because it had formed a fixed unspoken rule. The reason was that this kind of thing was not strangled at the root when it just sprouted. Instead, those who had vested interests unanimously protected this unspoken rule.
But in Prandal, where Tang En's words carried weight, he would never allow this kind of situation to happen.
Was the death penalty for bribery very heavy?
In Prandal, strictly speaking, it was not heavy.
The king here had the power to decide life and death. Compared to the other kings, Twain was already too benevolent. But it was precisely because of his benevolence that it could set off his ruthless majesty.
"I understand."
Fiona nodded. "Do you still want to take a look at the bidding?"
"No need. You just have to filter according to our requirements. Those chambers of commerce were willing to buy our patents. Now that we've given them some benefits, they'll be more active in the future."
"Okay, we can't do this work ourselves anyway. Besides …" Fiona spread out her hands. "We don't have anyone to use."
Solant was a huge territory, more than twice the size of the Irus Empire. Now, the problem of recovering such a large territory was very complicated. The most important thing was that reliable administrative personnel could not quickly take over all the areas. At present, they could only control the more important financial and military areas.
This was thanks to Fiona's large number of reliable and high-quality financial personnel, as well as a large number of confidants cultivated by Ardern and Aubry.
As for the staff in the middle and lower administrative units, they could only continue to use the same people as before.
According to Tang En and Aurelia's previous arrangements, these people would soon be trained. By then, the shortage of administrative personnel would be even greater. If it was not handled properly, it would easily cause chaos in the administrative system, redundant personnel, low labor efficiency, and other problems.
Tang En smiled and said, "Isn't this just right? The more capable and talented people finally have a chance to show off. The greater the pressure, the more potential they have. Those who can shoulder the burden now will definitely be put in important positions in the future. If they don't take the initiative to add more responsibilities now, they can only be mediocre in the future."
"You're quite open-minded."
Fiona threw him a document. "This is our talent development plan. Aurelia and I took time to draw it up. See if there's anything you need to add."
Tang En glanced at it casually and threw it back. "You guys do as you see fit."
Tang En was really at a loss when it came to the cultivation of talents in various professions. He could only estimate which professions were needed to maximize the development of the modified military industry, but he had no idea how to cultivate them.
It was still up to the Prandal natives to figure it out themselves.
For example, it was almost impossible to obtain a large number of people with perfect basic knowledge in engineering. They could only ask Kloto and the others to help cultivate a group of skilled workers, commonly known as the technicians from the technical school. These technicians worked on their posts while accumulating a lot of experience. Later on, through the compilation of their experience into teaching materials, the scope of education could be further expanded.
It was better for the magicians, because the City of Silver already had a perfect cultivation system. It was just that the talent of magicians was harder to awaken, and the overall number of magicians was relatively small. This could not be helped. If everyone could become a magician, then Tang En would not need to develop the modified military industry. He could just directly popularize magic.
As for the other professions such as physics and chemistry, they were even more urgent. This required a long process of accumulating knowledge. Tang En could only point out the future direction for them in this process. The problem was that the Prandal world was different from Earth. The path of developing physics and chemistry on Earth could not be copied. At most, they could be taught the methods of learning and research, and then developed by themselves to see what kind of wonderful world they could develop in the future.
Ellington Academy, as well as other academies in the Irus Empire that had completed their construction and enrollment, now had courses related to language, mathematics, magic, combat skills, basic introduction to engineering, basic physics, basic chemistry, and so on. They taught some relatively simple and basic principles, and even children could easily and happily accept this knowledge. This was the spark of wisdom that Tang En had ignited.
When this group of children slowly grew up, the exuberant curiosity that Tang En had opened up would encourage them to continue to explore the mysteries of this world, step by step closer to the truth, and walk through the door of truth.
Perhaps, in the future, the development of this world would surpass the technological progress of Earth.
The plan that Fiona and Aurelia had drawn up was actually nothing much. They would let each school set up a special adult training class and regularly recruit some promising newcomers. They would let them go to the training class to receive basic language and mathematics education, and then put them in the basic positions. Then, they would promote the current experienced people. In this way, they could squeeze out some people to go to Solant's side.
Tang En had already told them before that it was very important to popularize knowledge. Knowledge that was only in the hands of a few people was meaningless. Only when the number of people who had knowledge was enough would sparks of thought burst forth and give birth to surprising products.
Therefore, after the two of them discussed, Aurelia decided to officially assign the authority of compiling books and organizing knowledge to the Ministry of Education of the Irus Empire. At the same time, she gave them the right to use the transmission array, and let them send people to the basic positions all over the country to collect and organize information and officially organize the relevant professional books.
It was not that there were no such books in the past, but that they were limited by carriers, so it was difficult to spread them.
Now that Tang En had completely popularized the paper-making technique, many chambers of commerce had bought the patent and strictly followed Tang En's requirements to produce environmentally friendly products. A large amount of cheap paper poured into the market, and the price of paper books as a carrier was already quite low.
Therefore, they could use the bookstores of the Datang Chamber of Commerce to organize these professional books and sell them at a relatively low price in the bookstores. They believed that people who were motivated to climb up the ladder would be happy to buy these knowledge and skills to improve themselves.
At this time, Aiguin and Aiguin came to her house. Then, Aiguin was stunned …
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