Just as Shilke had said at the beginning, this was indeed a complicated problem.
It was even more complicated than Wright had initially imagined.
On the premise that both sides reached a paid-aid agreement, whether they wanted Great Zhou to act quickly or slowly was a choice they had to make.
Wright instinctively hoped they would act quickly, of course, lest delays lead to complications.
The price of acting quickly was that they would need to let Great Zhou lay railway tracks through Elf Forest. Once the railway was in place, rail transport would allow the efficiency of construction in the coastal region to increase by at least four or five times.
And now, another problem arose.
Laying railway tracks cost money too. At the same time, for this project, they would have to station a transport train here.
Under these circumstances, they couldn't possibly dismantle the railway as soon as the project here was finished, could they?
Although it wasn't impossible to do so, that would only make the investment even greater.
That portion of the cost would naturally have to fall on the Elf race.
And if they didn't dismantle it, who would own the railway and the transport train?
If the Elf race wanted to buy them outright, letting Great Zhou do all the work was certainly possible, but the price would absolutely not be cheap. For the Elf race, it might even amount to an astronomical figure.
Wright's heart gave a hard jerk when he heard the quote.
From the moment he decided to seek paid aid from Great Zhou, Wright had mentally prepared himself to sell one or two mineral veins.
But even so, the figure had completely exceeded his expectations.
Seeing the difficulty on Wright's face, Kong Daqian took the opportunity to make another