Chapter 585 Let the storm of fundraising sweep across England! (Seeking monthly votes)

Chapter 586 Let the storm of fundraising sweep across England! (Seeking monthly votes)

Soon, Elvis left Birmingham contentedly.

He found out without much effort that the city council was discussing the construction of gas street lamps, and that the results should be coming soon, with the total amount of the project reaching 200,000 pounds.

He even saw street lamps erected in many places in the city. It was obvious that Lightning Company was confident in winning the project and had already started construction in advance.

He naturally didn't know that two months ago, Kalona had bribed some councillors in cities such as Birmingham and Manchester to ask them to propose the construction of gas street lamps in the parliament.

There was no need to take any responsibility for proposing a motion, and it could even be regarded as a political achievement of "promoting urban development".

As for the failure of the motion to pass in the end, Kalona didn't care at all, as long as the city councils slowly argued and let everyone know that there was such a thing.

And those street lamps were built by Lightning Company for free for each city.

It didn't cost much to just erect a few street lamp poles. Moreover, even this money was paid by the subcontracting company.

Later, Elvis learned from a friend that the French ambassador to the UK had personally admitted that the gas street lights in Lille might be handed over to Lightning Company for construction.

In his mind, Lightning Company's project network throughout the UK has emerged, and its business has even reached the European continent, which is a scene of prosperity.

After Elvis returned to London, he immediately followed his "future brother-in-law" to visit Mr. Goldmid without hesitation and subscribed to 40,000 pounds of Lightning Company bonds.

Later, he did not keep the secret as promised, but quickly told his cousin about it.

The latter bought 30,000 pounds of bonds under his recommendation, and then happily revealed the news to several business partners...

Goldmid was numb to the huge sums of money that kept coming to his door.

In the past ten days, he has been signing subscription agreements and counting money, and nearly 600,000 pounds have flowed into the account of Lightning Company.

Of course, all this money is temporarily deposited in the Commercial Credit Bank, and the amount has exceeded the bank's previous peak funds by more than double!

This made him sigh that choosing to stand on the side of the French Crown Prince was the right decision.

At the same time.

At the "Partner Strategy Conference" of Lightning Company, Styler was describing the bright future to the senior executives of the subcontracting companies below according to the "script" of the Crown Prince: "I believe everyone has already known that the company is about to obtain an agreement to build gas street lights for seven cities including Birmingham and Liverpool.

"And in distant Lille and Florence, we have also successfully defeated our competitors and started laying gas pipelines!

"I believe everyone has calculated how large a project this is!

"And you are all participants in these great projects.

"You will create historic glory with Lightning Company!"

The directors and managers of dozens of subcontracting companies stood up and applauded excitedly.

Styler continued: "Of course, facing such a large project, our initial investment is also very large.

"So the company hopes that all of your closest partners can face challenges with us, invest together, and then enjoy rich profits together!

"The specific project arrangement is as follows..."

When he finished speaking, the people from the subcontracting companies looked at each other in bewilderment - the initial investment is indeed huge. For example, the copper pipe alone costs more than 130,000 pounds, and Lightning Company means that they have to advance the money.

A short and fat man raised an objection loudly: "Mr. Styler, although we really want to support Lightning Company, we really can't come up with so much money."

Someone immediately echoed: "Yes, this will cost at least 20,000 pounds, which is really too much."

"We have only received the project payment once this year, and it is really difficult to continue to advance the payment..."

Styler waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet: "London's gas street lights will be delivered by the end of the year. After receiving the project payment, it will be distributed to everyone immediately.

"Please hold on for another two or three months.

"As for the funding issue, you can take out a loan or issue bonds. Now the whole UK knows that our gas street light project has a very good prospect. As a participant, you can easily obtain financing."

When the meeting ended, these companies immediately showed their talents and raised money from different channels, and at the same time, they also promoted the gas street light project again.

On the other hand, the sales of household gas lamps were also becoming more and more popular.

After hearing that the price of gas lamps would continue to rise, Londoners immediately started a buying frenzy.

In the following month, more than 11,000 gas lamps were sold in London.

You know, 8 pounds is definitely not a small number for ordinary people. A tailor's annual income is only 15 pounds, and a noble private tutor's annual income of 30 pounds is considered a high salary.

And the entire London has a population of only more than 800,000. It can be said that almost everyone who can afford this money bought one!

At the same time, cities such as Birmingham and Manchester also heard the news of building gas street lamps, so household gas lamps were quickly sold in these places.

However, the consumption capacity of these cities is far less than that of London, and only 300-500 lamps can be sold in a month.