The year 3783 in the continental calendar seemed to pass very quickly for the people of the Lampali Kingdom.
From the perspective of the people in Bangta City, it seemed like it had passed in the blink of an eye.
At the beginning of the year, His Royal Highness Prince Eric led the Zhenbei Army to attack the Kingdom of Sark and won many victories. Then His Majesty King Lampali XIII passed away due to a serious illness. His Royal Highness Prince Eric suddenly changed from His Royal Highness the Prince to His Majesty the King. .
With His Royal Highness Prince Eric ascending to the throne, Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny will no longer serve as the Lord of Bonta City.
The new city lord did not bring many changes to Bangta City at first. For a time, the people of Bangta City thought that Bangta City would continue to develop smoothly like this.
However, it turns out that most people think too simply.
Entering summer, when the weather just started to get hot, Bangta City immediately started a series of dazzling changes.
First, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced that in order to respond to the call of the Kingdom's Magic Industry Administration and promote the development of the magic industry in the Kingdom of Lampali, it decided to transfer a series of magic machinery-related technologies it has mastered to the chamber of commerce designated by the Magic Industry Administration.
This transfer is different from previous technology transfer sales by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. According to the disclosure of "Bangta Daily", when transferring technology to the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magic Industry Administration, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce only charged a symbolic technology transfer fee. The manpower and material resources invested in the transfer are almost equivalent to giving it away for free.
Although "Bangta Daily" did not say it clearly, anyone with a brain can see that this kind of technology transfer is by no means a normal phenomenon. It is clearly the result of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce being pressured by the Magic Industry Administration. Or to put it bluntly, he was forced to agree due to the pressure exerted by His Majesty King Eric.
A week after "Bangta Daily" published this report, "Bangta Daily" editor-in-chief Naxi announced his resignation and left "Bangta Daily", which seemed to confirm this speculation from the side.
Less than half a month had passed since the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced the technology transfer. Dozens of chambers of commerce, large and small, appeared in Bangta City overnight.
Among these newly emerged chambers of commerce, ten are exactly the ten designated chambers of commerce in the list previously announced by the Magic Industry Administration.
As for the remaining unknown small chambers of commerce, they naturally have more or less unclear relationships with these ten chambers of commerce. The initial appearance of these chambers of commerce had no impact on Bangta City. However, when the hot summer passed and the slightly cold autumn wind blew into Bangta City. People all over Bangta City have begun to feel the various obvious or subtle changes brought about by the technology transfer of these chambers of commerce, or the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
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Fuller Morgan, president of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, has been a little upset recently.
The end of the year is approaching, which means that the year-end statistics conducted by the Falcao Chamber of Commerce at the end of each year are getting closer and closer.
President Morgan had never been upset about this matter before. Because the Falcao Chamber of Commerce is mainly engaged in the iron ore business, which has always been extremely stable and rarely fluctuates. As the president, he only needs to verify the statistics collected by his staff, and he can easily complete this work.
But this year is different.
In other words, it has been somewhat different since three years ago.
Three years ago, because of the creation of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. It has driven the magic industry in Bangta City and even the entire Lampali Kingdom. Because people's demand for magic machinery is getting higher and higher, the demand for iron is naturally getting higher and higher.
under such huge demand. The Falcao Chamber of Commerce's iron ore sales have skyrocketed year after year. Last year's iron ore sales alone were almost equal to the total sales of the five years before the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce existed.
And because of the emergence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Steelmaking Plant, various steels with different characteristics quickly replaced the ordinary cast iron that was commonly used before. As a result, a large part of the iron ore produced by the Falcao Chamber of Commerce was purchased by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Steel is refining, and only the remainder is sold to others for use in ordinary cast iron.
Although Xu Yi reached an agreement with Duke Joseph privately. However, as the demand increases, the price for Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to purchase iron ore from Falcao Chamber of Commerce will inevitably become higher and higher.
Just go for a year. The net profit achieved by the Falcao Chamber of Commerce from the sale of iron ore to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce reached an extremely impressive four million gold coins.
Originally, according to Chairman Morgan's estimate, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce began to expand last year. With the establishment of production bases and the commissioning of various factories across the Kingdom, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's demand for iron ore will surely increase significantly again. Then the net profit earned by the Falcao Chamber of Commerce from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce alone this year may exceed 500 Ten thousand gold coins.
At first, it was not as good as God. President Morgan never expected that His Majesty King Lampali XIII would suddenly pass away this year, and the situation in Bangta City would suddenly change drastically.
Among the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magic Industry Administration, one, the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce, accepted part of the steel smelting technology from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and in just two months, with the assistance of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it built a Five steel mills.
Compared with the two steelmaking plants of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the five steelmaking plants of the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce are larger in scale and have higher production capacity. The crude steel smelted in one month is even more than three times that of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the previous month.
With so much steel being smelted, there is naturally a lot of demand for pig iron.
It stands to reason that Chairman Morgan, as the president of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, should be happy that pig iron sales have increased, but he is not happy at all, but is extremely upset.
The reason is simple: the purchase price given by the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce was too low.
The price of the iron ore sold by Falcao Chamber of Commerce to Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has already been discounted due to the agreement between Xu Yi and Yue Xi, and it has just exceeded ten gold coins per ton this year.
However, the pig iron purchase price proposed by the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce to the Falcao Chamber of Commerce was actually cut in half at once, leaving only a ton of five gold coins!
This price is even lower than the price at which Falcao Chamber of Commerce sold iron ore before the emergence of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!
However, President Morgan does not have any power to choose, the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce needs it. He must sell.
As for the reason? Of course, it's because behind the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce are the arrogant nobles in the kingdom, the Stark family, and even the shadow of His Majesty King Eric.
Even Duke Joseph cannot compete with this power.
Regarding this situation, Duke Joseph had given instructions to President Morgan more than a month ago, asking President Morgan to sell it to the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce at the price of five gold coins per ton.
Because of this low price. President Morgan knows very well that when this year's year-end statistics come out, the numbers will be ugly.
However, Duke Joseph could not do anything about it, and he was naturally powerless.
The only thing he could do was to scold Xu Yi in his heart.
"This idiot! Why do you have to transfer the steel-making technology? Now, the price per ton of steel produced by the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce is ten gold coins lower than that of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Look at the steelmaking plant of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. How can you keep driving?"
However, scolding comes after scolding, thinking of Xu Yi, even President Morgan, who didn't like Xu Yi at first, couldn't help but feel a little emotion and longing for him.
"Where did this guy go? Does he really want to give up the good foundation he built in Bangta City?"...
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President Pompeii of Philson's Horse Racing House was even more upset than President Morgan.
President Morgan is only upset that the Falcao Chamber of Commerce's profits will drop this year compared to last year, while President Pompeii is upset. But this year, Feilson Car and Horse Racing may lose money!
Ever since it started cooperating with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and focusing on public transportation and long-distance freight transportation, Filson Car and Horse Racing's profits have been growing rapidly.
Just last month alone, the net profit of Feilson Carriage and Horse Racing, putting aside all expenses, exceeded 200,000 gold coins.
If this trend continues, Feilson Car and Horse Racing's total profit this year will most likely exceed last year's two million gold coins, and even touch the three million gold coin mark.
But all this happened after an order from the city lord's palace. It disappeared in an instant.
The content of this order is very simple. Specifically, it is to strengthen the management of Bangta City. The City Lord’s Palace will incorporate the public transportation system in Bangta City into the management of the City Lord’s Palace.
At first glance, there was nothing wrong with this order, but in actual implementation, there was one item that made President Pompeii extremely angry.
According to the regulations of the City Lord's Palace, since the public transportation system is under the management of the City Lord's Palace, it must have certain standards.
Of course there is no problem with this statement. The problem lies in the standards stated by the City Lord's Mansion. However, it is stipulated that the Bangta City public transportation system currently operated by Filson Vehicles and Horses must be comprehensively rectified. All the magic motorcycles currently used by Filson Vehicles and Horses to participate in the public transportation system must be replaced by those designated by the city government. Magic motorcycle.
As for the magic motorcycle designated by the City Lord's Palace... of course it is not the New Flying brand.
Among the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magic Industry Administration to accept technology transfer from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. There is a Rafale Chamber of Commerce that has fully accepted part of the magic motorcycle production and casting technology transferred from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
With the great help of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. The Rafale Chamber of Commerce built the first Rafale medium-sized passenger magic locomotive in just two months.
At first, President Pompeii was a little surprised. Since the Rafale Chamber of Commerce accepted the technology related to the magic locomotive, why it first produced a medium-sized magic bus, but not the magic car that was supposed to be the most profitable.
But when this order from the City Lord's Mansion appeared, he suddenly realized it.
The Refaeli Chamber of Commerce has clearly colluded with the City Lord's Mansion and has been prepared for it!
However, he knew that President Pompeii had nothing to do about it.
Facing the orders issued by the Lord of Bangta City, which represents the will of His Majesty King Eric, what can he do to resist
Staring at the investment evaluation and analysis report on the comprehensive replacement of Rafale Magic motorcycles that he had calculated after several days in his hand, drops of cold sweat broke out on President Pompeii's forehead.
If you obey the orders of the city lord's palace, Feilson Carriage and Horse Racing will have to invest a minimum of more than two million gold coins in preliminary preparations.
Moreover, according to the requirements of the City Lord's Palace, Feilson Carriage and Horse Racing Company must pay a deposit of 500,000 gold coins to the City Lord's Palace every year for contracting the Bangta City urban bus system.
Based on this calculation, not only will we definitely lose money this year, but even if we want to recover the initial investment from this in the future, I am afraid it will be impossible.
After a long while, President Pompeii suddenly threw the evaluation and analysis report heavily on the table and shouted angrily.
"Damn it! If I can't do it anymore, then I won't do it anymore!"