Canal No. 1 had been divided into three sections for construction. Within Third Town's jurisdiction, three kilometers had already been excavated. Because this area lay on the alluvial plain between the lower reaches of the Wami River and the Little Rhine River, the soil was relatively loose, the earth layer deep, and there were few stones. The difficulty was very low. Canal No. 2 and Canal No. 3 could not be handled so easily. Being closer to the piedmont alluvial fan plains, they would inevitably encounter huge boulders and gravel deposited there.
To ensure the excavation of Canal No. 1, Ernst had purchased sixty thousand high-quality iron shovels and hoes at a high price from factories under Germany's Hohenzollern Daily Necessities Company.
Buying from his own company was not economical in terms of price, but the quality was absolutely guaranteed. At present, German goods were mainly characterized by knockoffs and shoddy workmanship. Enterprises under the Hohenzollern Conglomerate were relatively a cut above in this regard.
Because Ernst valued standards, the Hohenzollern Conglomerate's companies had also established relatively strict unified production standards. Their quality was quite superior, but low prices were naturally out of the question.
A company as serious about making products as Hohenzollern Daily Necessities Company could hardly avoid the fate of being copied, but it also had ways to deal with it.
Besides working on trademarks, the most effective method was having exclusive stores of its own. That was the meaning behind the existence of Hohenzollern supermarkets and shops. Tools bought from these authorized stores and supermarkets were basically genuine. If someone got greedy for cheap prices and bought counterfeit goods elsewhere, that could not be blamed on enterprises under the Hohenzollern Conglomerate.
Of course, given the current income levels of European workers and farmers, low prices were