Chapter 585: Volume 15: Thunder Shakes the Ground - 3: Professional Master_2
"Please review, Your Baron, this is the engineering plan for the canal I’ve created based on the materials provided by Lord Puber. Due to the urgency of time, it’s inevitably a bit rough; this is merely a broad outline. If Your Baron thinks this plan is viable, I can prepare more detailed sub-plans for you in the shortest possible time," Karmani finally said, casually taking out a pile of parchment scrolls and paper documents from a box behind him and presenting them before Komer.
It seemed that this guy had come well prepared. Komer picked up the drawings and documents handed to him with surprise and was taken aback by their detailed content. Each canyon and river between Lake Niall and Santiago had been outlined, and the path from Santiago to Mattdam was meticulously marked with the soil qualities and surrounding environment for each segment. Other documents included conceptual plans for the entire project, from funding collections to construction times, from the start of work to full operation, which made Komer, who had a preconceived notion of this guy, begrudgingly admit that he was not only professional but had also invested significant effort.
Komer’s key focus was the funding plan proposed by the other party. Surprisingly, this guy did not focus on raising funds in the middle and upper reaches of the Catania River region but instead targeted the southern mainland region, such as the central and southern areas along the Mediterranean coast. That area is a multi-ethnic mixed area with quite prosperous commerce and industry, unaffected by religious beliefs or the political situation in the Northern Continent. Its interests are not as tangled as those in the Northern Region, after all, both Caucasus and Leon are quite distant from them, and even if there’s contact, it’s only some relatively straightforward commercial trade without political entanglement.
As for the method of raising funds, it was also different from Komer’s idea. It seemed that he did not agree with the concession of canal toll rights as a channel for raising funds but advocated for using the canal toll rights as collateral to borrow from financiers in those southern mainland cities and countries, which also came as a surprise to Komer.
"Mr. Karmani, I don’t quite understand your choice of taking out loans using the canal toll rights as collateral over conceding the toll rights. Do you really think having me shoulder high-interest loans is a good idea?" Komer was ready to have a thorough discussion on this point with the other party.
"Your Baron, I feel that you might underestimate the value of canal toll rights, or perhaps you are not fully appreciating the potential revenue that the canal’s riverside regions could generate. Allow me to analyze it for you," said Karmani, seeing a glimmer of hope from the change in Komer’s address, and his enthusiasm surged.