"Haha, President Xu, it's been a long time no see." Earl Stark greeted Xu Yi with a warm-looking smile.
Different from the fact that he had just succeeded the Lord of Bangta City more than a month ago and immediately showed obvious hostility to Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, today's Earl Stark seems to be a different person, and when he sees Xu Yi, he is even more... Seeing an old friend, his enthusiastic appearance made everyone around him involuntarily widen their eyes.
Xu Yi also didn't look tit-for-tat when he saw him for the first time. Instead, he put on a very friendly smile, went up to him and bowed to Earl Stark respectfully.
"Lord City Lord, it is a great honor for you to go out and greet me personally."
"Where is it? President Xu, you are a distinguished guest that I specially invited today. Of course, you must give a good welcome. Come on, please come in." Earl Stark made an invitation gesture to Xu Yi and looked at the person behind him. Delir's eyes flashed with confusion.
"This is the business manager of the plastic processing factory affiliated to our chamber of commerce, Miss Delier." Xu Yi explained immediately. "As you can see, she is an elf from the Nightsong tribe."
Facing Delirl, Earl Stark was not so enthusiastic. He just nodded slightly to Delirl and took the lead to walk into the city lord's palace.
Xu Yi followed Count Stark into the familiar banquet hall, and immediately saw the presidents of other major chambers of commerce in Bonta City who had already been waiting here.
Seeing Earl Stark personally bringing Xu Yi in, President Cruise not far away raised his hand to say hello to Xu Yi, with a hint of ridicule in the smile on his lips.
Of course, this was not because of Xu Yi, but because of Count Stark's actions.
In just over a month since Earl Stark succeeded as the Lord of Bonta City, the chambers of commerce in Bonta City have been suppressed to varying degrees due to his vigorously promoted policy of suppressing business and promoting agriculture.
Among them, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Amli Chamber of Commerce, which was the first to express its joint advance and retreat with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, were the most directly targeted. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce directly evacuated Bangta City. Strictly speaking, the damage was not too severe. The Amuli Chamber of Commerce, on the other hand, has too deep roots in Bangta City and cannot completely withdraw in a short period of time. Therefore, the impact is much greater and the losses are also much greater.
because this. President Cruise was very dissatisfied with Earl Stark. Seeing him now, he had to change his attitude. Forced by reality, he summoned the presidents of the major chambers of commerce together tonight. He even went out to greet Xu Yi in person, and President Cruise was naturally very happy.
Because in his opinion, this clearly meant that Earl Stark had been forced to lower his proud head.
President Cruz was very happy about this.
Except for President Cruise. The presidents of other major chambers of commerce in the hall also greeted Xu Yi one after another when they saw him coming in.
Although no one was as obvious as President Cruise, judging from the relaxed smiles on everyone's faces, they were also excited that Earl Stark could change his attitude.
After all, these chambers of commerce are all chambers of commerce in Bonta City. As the lord of Bonta City, Earl Stark will definitely carry out the policy of suppressing business and promoting agriculture. If we suppress the major chambers of commerce, although these chambers of commerce are supported by different forces, there are not many better ways to compete with Earl Stark.
But then again, it is precisely because there are different forces behind these major chambers of commerce. Earl Stark's suppression of major chambers of commerce has caused losses to the forces behind them. Therefore, although Earl Stark represents the will of the stubborn conservatives in the Lampali Kingdom this time and has the support of the Stark family, Don't dare to do things to perfection, but must make compromises.
But he didn't go out to greet anyone in person, he only went to greet Xu Yi, which was really thought-provoking.
After Xu Yi entered the banquet hall, three more groups of guests arrived, and all the guests arrived. Earl Stark came on stage and made a brief opening statement, announcing that the banquet had officially begun.
President Cruise found Xu Yi immediately.
"Hey, President Xu, does our beloved City Lord want to use you as a target?" President Cruz asked.
"This shouldn't happen." Xu Yi shook his head. "Everyone knows that there is no possibility of reconciliation between me and him, so no one will doubt me. He simply wanted to show me his attitude by doing this."
"His attitude? You don't think he will turn around and show support for you, right?" President Cruise said.
"That's obviously impossible. According to my guess, this time he just wants to cooperate with our Chamber of Commerce to relieve his pressure."
"How can he cooperate with you?"
"You should ask him about this." Xu Yi shrugged and turned slightly to reveal Delir from behind. "Come on, don't discuss such meaningless things. Let me introduce it to you. This is..."
"Miss Delir, right? We met Miss Steele last time when she came to Bangta City with her." President Cruise cut off Xu Yi's lips, bowed slightly, and said to Delier You stretched out your right hand. "Nice to see you again, beautiful Miss Delisle."
Delir hesitated for a moment, then stretched out her hand to let President Cruise complete his hand kiss, and responded: "I'm also very happy to see you, Mr. President Cruise. Last time, Miss Steele He introduced you to me and said that you are President Xu’s best partner.”
President Cruise laughed: "Of course. If you don't believe me, ask President Xu, apart from me, can he find a closer partner in Bonta City?"
Xu Yi smiled and said: "President Cruz is right. For now, the cooperative relationship between our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Amuli Chamber of Commerce is the closest. But... I just don't know what Amuli will do in the future. After the chamber of commerce goes to other countries to develop, can it continue to maintain this cooperative relationship with us? ”
President Cruise's expression changed, and he ignored the ridicule in Xu Yi's words and asked Xu Yi, "Have you and Newman reached an agreement?"
"It has not been completely negotiated, but I think it should not be a big problem to finally reach an agreement. Before Newman left, he also asked me to advise you. I hope that your Amuli Chamber of Commerce can recruit more of their local workers in the Luersun Kingdom, so that we can It will be more convenient for them to support you." Xu Yidao.
"Did you promise him?"
"So am I not trying to persuade you?" Xu Yi spread his hands and said.
President Cruise was slightly startled: "Why did you agree to the suggestion? Don't you know that if local workers from the Luersun Kingdom are recruited, our Chamber of Commerce's current unique technology will be stolen sooner or later?"
"The technology is actually here. It's not that easy to steal." Xu Yi pointed to his head. "What's more, if you want to maintain a leading position, the best way is not to prevent technology leakage with all your strength, but to vigorously develop new technologies on this basis and always maintain your own technological leadership. Remember. Technology is the foundation of industry. ”
"You put it nicely." President Cruise said with a wry smile. "You don't worry about this. That's because Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has too many leading technologies, and it is not afraid of losing one or two. And our Amli Chamber of Commerce currently has only a few leading technologies. It is impossible to be like you. luxury."
"Have you ever heard of a saying called technology for market?" Xu Yi asked again.
"What's the meaning?"
"To put it simply, it is to release our unique technology so that everyone can enjoy the convenience brought by this technology. Then we can impress everyone with this technology and make everyone need this technology. In this way In the future, a market will naturally arise that demands this technology. Based on the current situation of your Amuli Chamber of Commerce, the sooner you can lay out a complete road transportation network, the better it will be for your chamber of commerce’s interests." Xu Yidao. .
President Cruz frowned and pondered for a while, then nodded slightly: "Maybe you are right, but I don't think there is any need to be in such a hurry. As long as our Chamber of Commerce continues to lay down the roads, sooner or later a complete road transportation network will be built. At that time, everyone will still truly feel the convenience brought by the highway, and the business of our chamber of commerce will still be good.”
Xu Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Compared with him, President Cruise is a real businessman. He wanted the Armley Chamber of Commerce to quickly lay roads and build a complete road transportation network in order to further advance his next step, but from the perspective of the Armley Chamber of Commerce, he was certainly unwilling to do so.
Because in this way, their total profits are compressed, and their profit cycle is shortened.
For a long-established chamber of commerce like the Armley Chamber of Commerce with a history of hundreds of years, it is natural that it pays more attention to its long history.
Xu also knew that he would never be able to convince President Cruise with words alone.
To use the words he just taught Delir, the only thing that can impress a businessman is profit.
"Okay, Cruise, let's negotiate a deal." Xu Yi thought for a while and said.
Hearing that Xu Yi rarely addressed himself as "President", President Cruise raised his eyebrows and immediately understood that what Xu Yi was about to say must be very important. He suddenly looked cautious and nodded to Xu Yi. He nodded and said seriously: "Go ahead."
"If your Amuli Chamber of Commerce can complete the laying of all road transportation networks in our Kingdom of Lampali, Kingdom of Luersun, Principality of Standing, and also including the Black Rice Wasteland within five years, then I will work for your Chamber of Commerce. Developing an extremely stable and promising profit growth point, what do you think of this transaction?" Xu Yi asked.
President Cruise looked at Xu Yi in disbelief. If Xu Yi hadn't looked serious, he would have thought Xu Yi was joking.
If the transaction Xu Yi was talking about involved money, technology and various other actual items, then he would not be surprised. But he did not expect that Xu Yi actually said that he would give their chamber of commerce a profit growth point
He thought he could have this thing just by talking about it, right
If there is such a good thing, why doesn’t Xinfei Chamber of Commerce use it for itself
"Because our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will only focus on the magic industry. Although this profit growth point has good prospects and almost unlimited potential, it actually belongs to the business scope of your Amuli Chamber of Commerce. I have no interest in getting involved." Xu Yizheng said. .
President Cruz looked at Xu Yi in confusion for a long time: "Does it belong to the business scope of our chamber of commerce? Are you talking about building a house?"
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "Yes, it's just building a house."