Analyzing Revenue

Victor sat on the table, flipping through a report. After a while, he frowned and looked up at the people in front of him. The three people in charge of the Telegraph Merchants' Guild—General Manager Powell, Finance Minister Weber, and Octavia—were all there.

"You rushed to find me just for this?

I know the Telegraph Office has been doing good business these past few days. After all, I pass by the Government Affairs Office every day. But even after adding up the revenue from all three days, it only comes to 110 gold coins. That's nothing to make a fuss about, is it?

Weber, during this period, the Finance Department has been handling thousands of gold coins' worth of orders every day for immigration and development. This little bit of money isn't worth taking so seriously, is it?

And Octavia, the research institute just received an order from the Telegraph Merchants' Guild worth forty or fifty thousand gold coins in cash. 110 gold coins aren't even enough to count as loose change."

The three of them were stunned by Victor's words. Indeed, just as Victor had said, this amount of money really wasn't worth their taking so seriously.

However, Powell still spoke first. "Marquis, look at it this way. If the Telegraph Office can bring in 110 gold coins in revenue in just three days, then even if its future revenue is only half of what it has been during this period, we'll only need a year and a half to recover the cost of constructing the line from Wood Fort Town to Sea Song Town.

The telegraph project has tremendous potential. With proper management in the future, it could become one of the territory's major sources of income."

Victor waved the revenue report in his hand and asked, somewhat