On the fifth day of the New Year, Xu Yi received a special invitation.
This invitation came from the City Lord's Mansion. It invited Xu Yi to represent the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to attend the New Year's exchange banquet held by the City Lord's Mansion.
Unlike some previous invitations sent to Xu Yi by the city lord's palace to invite him to attend ordinary banquets, this invitation was actually signed by the city lord, Earl Sean Satsuma himself.
Xu could also shirk the invitations to various banquets in the past, but since this time the invitation was personally sent by the Lord of the City, it would be difficult for him to shirk it as easily as before.
Moreover, it was noted on the invitation that in addition to many business representatives from Bangta City, this New Year's exchange banquet also included businessmen from Kalma City, which is the closest city to Bangta City.
This surprised Xu Yi.
Supposedly today is only the fifth day of the New Year, so why did the merchants from Kalma City suddenly come to Bonta City
"Actually, this is an old rule." Moon Cruise, the president of the Armley Chamber of Commerce, explained to Xu Yi with a smile, holding a glass of red wine in his hand. "Every year at the beginning of the New Year, Count Annaris, the city lord of Kalma City, will lead the merchants of Kalma City to visit our Bangta City. Then after a few days, the city lord will select some of our Bangta City. The representative of the Tacheng Chamber of Commerce went to Kalma City for a return visit. President Xu, you only joined the business community last year, so it’s not surprising that you don’t know the rules. However, your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was only founded last year, and now you are eligible to be invited by the city lord. It was amazing to be at this party.”
Xu Yi glanced at him: "What? Do you think our New Flying Chamber of Commerce is not qualified?"
"How is that possible!" President Cruise shouted with an exaggerated expression. "President Xu, although your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has not been established for a long time, who in Bangta City dares to question your qualifications now? Besides, we are the closest partners. No matter who here I think is not qualified, I will not You think you are not enough?"
Xu Yi laughed: "Just kidding, President Cruise, you don't have to be so nervous."
President Cruz said that the Armley Chamber of Commerce and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are the closest partners. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it cannot be said to be too exaggerated.
Since Armli Chamber of Commerce has obtained cement supply from Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. and after fully mastering the various uses of cement. The architectural quality of Armley Chamber of Commerce has taken a quantum leap.
In just over two months, the Armley Chamber of Commerce has received critical acclaim. The number of construction orders received surged in the New Year, with an increase of 30% compared to last year.
This 30% increase does not include the construction project orders submitted directly by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to the Armli Chamber of Commerce.
On the third day of the New Year, Xu Yi made a special trip to find President Cruise. In addition to congratulating him for the New Year, the more important purpose was to propose to him face to face the large number of construction projects currently needed by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to building a new factory on Viscount Leslie's territory for the household magic machine production workshop, there are also two major projects that surprised even President Cruise.
One of them is to build new houses for the Noma tribe and the Angola tribe to create housing projects for the new tribes. The other is to solve the water problem of the Yesong tribe and to transform the Sandy River that flows through the Falling Rain Forest.
Xu Yi did not tell President Cruise why he wanted to carry out these two projects, but President Cruise was not very interested in Xu Yi's purpose. In addition to raising some questions about Xu Yi's move to transform the Sandy River without the approval of Count Satsuma, he focused most of his attention on the cost of these two projects.
Xu Yi has extremely high quality requirements for these two projects and requires the Amuli Chamber of Commerce to use the best materials and the best labor for construction. This means that the Amuli Chamber of Commerce will obtain the highest profits from these two projects. .
According to Xu Yi's preliminary plan. President Cruz easily judged that the total cost of these two projects is likely to exceed 300,000 gold coins!
The Amri Chamber of Commerce can earn a huge profit of more than 50,000 gold coins at least.
Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is very profitable, after all, it has only been established for a short period of time, and it is impossible to come up with such a huge fund of 300,000 gold coins in one go, so Xu Yi proposed to use the cement supply to the Amuli Chamber of Commerce to offset the debt, and got A warm welcome from President Cruz.
Nowadays, the construction projects under the name of Armley Chamber of Commerce are almost inseparable from cement.
For this reason, Chairman Cruz asked Xu Yi several times to extend the cement exclusive rights for the Amuli Chamber of Commerce, but Xu Yi firmly refused.
But no matter what, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Amuli Chamber of Commerce can be considered to be closely connected and closely related, and indeed deserve the title of "close partners".
In fact, what Xu Yi said about "some people questioning the qualifications of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to participate" was just a joke.
Currently, all the chambers of commerce in Bangta City are present at the banquet. After six months of development, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has long been familiar to all chambers of commerce in Bangta City. Everyone is very aware of the strong potential of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
After the last auction of the two mines, everyone no longer doubted the strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Being able to grab an iron mine from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, and using the loan from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, is enough to make other chambers of commerce look at Xinfei Chamber of Commerce with admiration.
Now many people even speculate that there is actually a powerful backer behind Xu Yi.
Judging from the good relationship between Xu Yi and Viscount Leslie, it is likely that the backer behind him is the Stark family, one of the most powerful in the Lampali Kingdom.
Of course, no one questions it, but that doesn’t mean everyone welcomes it.
Some people like President Cruise showed great enthusiasm for Xu Yi, while others showed obvious hostility towards Xu Yi that was not particularly strong.
This person is, of course, Fuller Morgan, the president of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.
Because an iron mine was snatched away by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce at an auction, Fuller Morgan was reprimanded in person by a big shot in the Joseph family, and he almost lost his position as president because of this, so Fuller Morgan? It’s not surprising that Morgan harbors hatred for Xu Yi.
Generally speaking, when the other party has shown obvious hostility, no one will be so ignorant and get close to him, but Xu Yi is an exception.
After spotting Fuller Morgan in the crowd, he walked over with a smile while holding a glass of wine.
"President Morgan, happy New Year." Xu Yi raised his cup to signal to President Morgan.
Although President Morgan was very unhappy, he still showed the good demeanor of a big businessman. He clinked the glasses with Xu Yi, squeezed out an ugly smile and said: "Happy New Year."
Xu Yi drank a glass of wine, praised him and then said: "President Morgan, I am too busy these days to have a good chat with you. Now I have the opportunity to meet you, and I want to ask you what happened last time I met you. What do you think about the magical mining machinery you mentioned?"
President Morgan was stunned, and then he remembered that after the last auction, Xu Yi did find him mentioning such a thing, but Xu Yi only gave a simple concept at the time, and President Morgan was in a very bad mood at the time. I didn't listen carefully, so I forgot about it later.
During this time, he was very busy with the mine affairs, and President Morgan even forgot about this matter.
Now that Xu Yi mentioned it again, President Morgan thought for a while and then replied cautiously: "I have considered it. But President Xu, although I believe in the abilities of you and your New Flying Chamber of Commerce, I have not seen any practical I’m afraid it doesn’t make any sense to just talk like that in front of something.”
"Oh? So President Morgan, you are actually interested?" Xu Yi smiled. "It's easy to see the real thing. It just so happens that our Chamber of Commerce successfully developed a small magic drilling machine some time ago, which is very helpful in improving mining efficiency. If President Morgan has time, why not come and take a look?"
"Small magic drilling machine? The name sounds pretty good..." President Morgan is a big old businessman after all, and will not be easily swayed by his emotions. It doesn't sound like Xu is joking. After thinking about it, he nodded and said : "Okay. President Xu, you can send someone to bring this thing over and let me study it. If it is useful, we can discuss other things."
Seeing that President Morgan agreed, Xu Yi didn't care about the bit of reserve he deliberately showed, and nodded with a smile.
Not long after, Earl Satsuma suddenly walked out from behind the banquet hall. Beside him, a middle-aged man with a slightly short stature but a resolute expression and a shrewd look in his eyes walked side by side with him.
Obviously this middle-aged man should be Count Annalis, the lord of Kalma City.
Following the two city lords were a group of businessmen from Kalma City.
Xu Yi glanced over and found several acquaintances. They were all businessmen who had come to Bangta City and ordered a large number of magic machines from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The two city lords each gave a brief speech on the rostrum, stating that the main purpose of this banquet was to give businessmen in the two cities an opportunity to communicate with each other. I hope everyone can make full use of this opportunity and have more exchanges. Cooperate to promote the common development of the two cities.
It should be said that such exchanges will be very meaningful.
Sainz Continent is limited to technological level and there are not many channels for information exchange. Businessmen who want to conduct business can only communicate face to face most of the time.
Now that the city lords of the two cities have personally come forward to host such a banquet, it gives the merchants of the two cities a very good opportunity.
Of course, the premise is that Count Satsuma and Count Anaris have a good personal relationship, so that they can cooperate to hold such a banquet.
When the two earls announced that the banquet had begun and everyone could start communicating at will, the businessmen from the two cities immediately found their familiar friends and got together in twos and threes to chat.
When Xu Yigang wanted to chat with the Kalma merchants he knew, he suddenly found Count Satsuma waving to him.