The debate within Microsoft continues.

Among the three veterans, Bill is not interested in operating systems at all. He feels that this thing is a waste of time and energy. It is also easy to do it poorly, thus ruining his reputation as a "basic developer".

Kai Nessie, on the other hand, firmly believes that Microsoft should have its own operating system products. It is best to design and make it yourself. Only good products that are superficial and obvious to the public can really help them open up the market. After all, backend development and so on

, who cares about which company is strong and which is weak?

They only care about whether the product they buy works well...

Caught between these two men, Paul is in a dilemma!

On the one hand, both sides make sense. Logically speaking, after Carter's performance, Paul personally is more inclined to support Kai Neesi's view, but it happens that Bill, who is not cold, is the big boss.

He owns a full 60% of the shares. If he is determined not to work in the operating system, he can't openly oppose it, right?

As a result, Paul began to make trouble and put aside the discussion of the operating system for the time being. While completing the Apple order, he concentrated on preparing to deal with IBM.

On the other hand, three days after Moyo communicated the road construction investment plan on the phone, Carter was the first to receive a call back from Benjamin. According to what was said on the phone, the city of Columbus was very optimistic about this road and was also very enthusiastic.

Especially after the Columbus city government communicated with the Fort Benning base, Fort Benning also said that if this road existed, it would be much more convenient for them to transfer personnel and materials to the seaside for shipment. Especially in small batches.

At that time, it was not cost-effective to use the railway at that time...

After receiving this reply, Carter expressed his understanding. Because these days, while he was having fun and relaxing with Jim, he was also not idle. On one side, he had to read information about Japan; on the other side, he also had to study the situation in Georgia in order to learn more about it.

Accurately estimate the benefits of this path.

It wasn't until he checked this information that Carter learned that the earliest Georgia state seat was not in Atlanta, but in Savannah. Later, due to the swamp conditions near Savannah, land transportation was poor, while in Atlanta due to the rise of railroads

, the economy exploded, and the state capital was transferred from Savannah to Atlanta.

In the original transportation from Fort Benning to Savannah, the railway from Georgia to the Port of Savannah was used. When transporting bulk materials and a large number of personnel, the railway was undoubtedly more economical. However, if the transshipment volume was small, it was necessary to drive by road.

To go to Savannah, you have to go in a big circle, detour through the north or south of the state, and enter Savannah via the north-south highway.

Therefore, it would be a happy thing for Fort Benning to have such an east-west highway leading directly to Savannah. Columbus also hopes to have such a road to save transportation costs for their city's products.

, shorten the transportation distance.

When there was no such road, if they wanted to develop import and export trade, they had to give the corresponding companies a lot of financial subsidies to make up for their losses in transportation. But with this road, the cost seems to be about the same regardless of the toll period.

, if you want to develop, you still have to provide subsidies, but once the charging period is over.

Then the financial expenditure this road can save Columbus every year is not a small amount!

Under such circumstances, I heard that someone was willing to take over the project and build this road, and this person had joint guarantees from Douglas, Pearson, Argyle and other cities.

Even if this person really has a problem, or goes bankrupt halfway through the repair, wouldn’t there be someone to help share the risk? After thinking about it, the mayor of Columbus, Georges Maxwell, quickly agreed in principle to join the joint guarantee.

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It only needs to be discussed in the parliament, and after filing, it can be implemented!

To use Benjamin's original words, there is a high chance that this matter will be approved! Basically, a positive answer will be available within a week. And when the matter is done here, the first step of the road construction project is considered to be successfully sold.

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The second step is to raise US$160 million. Carter is not too worried about financing...

Because when it comes to building roads, there are usually several sources of funding. Take the highway that Carter plans to build from Columbus to Savannah, with a total length of about 430 kilometers. This is a very typical intrastate highway.

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For the construction of local highways, local finance will contribute part of the money. During the construction stage, local finance generally does not invest too much, especially in the current recession and the road construction plan is initiated by private individuals. However,

In the later stage of road maintenance, it is basically the responsibility of the local government, and this money comes from the surcharge on fuel costs. That is, in addition to taxes, part of the road maintenance is included in the price of each gallon of gasoline.

fee.

So for you, you only need to worry about how to build this road. As for how to maintain it later, it has nothing to do with you. And in the process of executing this operation, many people should have heard of something called the "Highway Trust Fund"

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However, in terms of construction, the Highway Trust Fund is mainly responsible for the construction and maintenance expenses of interstate highways and national highways. For intrastate highways like this, there is almost no need to count on allocations from the Highway Trust Fund, and for city finance, Carter only

I can hope that the Columbus city government will help us out a little bit when the time comes.

These investments will jointly form a new highway trust. Unlike the highway trust fund, this highway trust is a simple trust product.

That is to say, all the money will be transferred into the account of the trust company, and this asset will be entrusted to the trust company to help manage it. The investment direction is also very clear, road construction!

After the trust company receives the money, it will start looking for a construction unit and start using the money to build the road. In the end, the income generated by the road will be sent to the trust company first, and then the trust company will pay one by one according to the benefit ratio communicated in advance.

Split the account to the beneficiary.

Here comes the interesting part. According to the Reserve Bank Act of 1913, national banks can participate in trust business; and subsequent bills promulgated by various states also stipulate that state banks can open trust business. In other words, this so-called

The trust company and trustee can be completely served by Black Bank.

In this way, Carter is 100% sure that he can do this job to his own dog construction company. In this way, as the boss of dog construction company, in terms of construction costs, hehe...

You can also make some money secretly!

As for doing this, there is no such thing as a behind-the-scenes operation!

To open trust business, Black Bank will face supervision from the Trust Department. All accounts, management, and accounting must be conducted separately from the rest of the bank's business.

Therefore, even if the money is collected into Black Bank first, the other investors do not worry about the money being misappropriated without authorization. It is just that as the boss of the trustee, Carter can influence the choice of the construction unit.

And as long as this effect exists, Carter will be satisfied!
Chapter completed!