"President..."
Sebastian handed Xu Yi the financial report of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for last month with a strange look on his face.
"What's wrong? Is there any problem?". Xu Yi took it and asked a little strangely.
"There's no problem, it's just... our chamber of commerce's profits last month... actually increased!"
Seeing the incredible expression on Sebastian's face, Xu Yi laughed, flipped through the financial statements in his hand, and found that it was exactly what Sebastian said.
According to statistics, the net profit gained by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce after putting aside all costs last month actually exceeded one million gold coins!
This is not only a significant increase from previous months, but also a significant increase from the same period last year.
No wonder Sebastian behaved so strangely, because according to original expectations, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce would definitely suffer a sharp decline in overall performance and a serious drop in profits due to the ban imposed by the Magic Industry Administration.
However, things are definitely not wrong, but the reality is different from what most people expected.
Although in the first month after the Magic Industry Administration's ban was issued, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce experienced a serious decline in both sales performance and total profits, but starting from the second month, this downward trend completely stopped. And it continues to improve, and even last month it exceeded the level of the same period last year. "This is actually not surprising." Kennard, CEO of the Chamber of Commerce on the side, smiled: "Although we cannot produce magic machinery in the Lampali Kingdom due to the ban from the Administration, the Commerce Administration has never prohibited us from continuing to operate in the Kingdom of Lampali. Magic machines are sold in the kingdom, so it’s not really that different.”
"Well. Although the overall relocation of the factory workshop has affected production, it has been so long now. Our chamber of commerce has resumed normal production. In fact, it is not much different from before. If you have to compare. Because we don't need to be as restricted as before. Due to the overall planning of Luoyu Valley, many more factory workshops have been built than before, and the production capacity has been greatly increased," added Ankato, director of the Home Magic Machinery Department.
"Yeah, the idiots in the Management Bureau never thought that after imposing this damn ban on our Chamber of Commerce, it would make those in the Kingdom more willing to buy our Chamber of Commerce's magic machines, right? Quite a few words."
"That's right, there is even an event launched in Bangta City now, calling on everyone to only buy new flying magic machines in the future. Boycott the magic machines of those ten chambers of commerce."
"I heard about it too. I heard that this event was so big that several surrounding cities also joined in. Now the magic machines of other chambers of commerce cannot be sold at all in Bangta City and several surrounding cities..."...
Listening to everyone talking in the conference room, Xu Yi couldn't help but shake his head.
Those from the Magic Industry Administration issued such a ban on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, obviously intending to directly kill the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
However, they never expected that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would actually build a new production base in the Black Rice Wasteland in a short period of time, and it only took more than a month to resume normal production.
However, the Magic Industry Administration's treatment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has aroused doubts and anger among many people in the Lampali Kingdom.
Under the propaganda of many newspapers and people close to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, a wave of support for the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and boycott of the Magic Industry Administration broke out in the Lampali Kingdom.
It is precisely because of this wave that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's sales performance has rebounded significantly in the past few months. It even achieved a new breakthrough last month, with a record monthly profit exceeding the one million gold coin mark.
And accordingly. The various types of household magic machines produced by the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magic Industry Administration have been unanimously boycotted by the people in the Lampali Kingdom, and sales have been extremely poor.
Demonstrations against those ten chambers of commerce even broke out in many cities one after another. To a point of exaggeration, all the sales points arranged by those ten chambers of commerce in these cities were smashed to pieces. It can be said that in the entire kingdom All caused a sensation.
After knowing these things, Xu Yi felt dumbfounded.
Compared with ordinary people, he certainly knows more things and can naturally see things more clearly.
He knew that the attitude of these people in supporting the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce might be true, but the subsequent riots and so on were probably not that simple.
There is a great possibility that these people are simply being taken advantage of.
The cities where these things happened were all cities that had expressed support for Sevigny before. It can be said that they have completely different positions from the stubborn old-fashioned nobles represented by the current King Eric and the Magic Industry Administration.
By saying this, they were undoubtedly expressing their attitude and demonstrating to the other faction.
The ban imposed by the Magic Industry Administration against the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce gave them a pretty good excuse.
So strictly speaking, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is actually being exploited now.
But Xu Yi didn't care much about this.
The faction represented by King Eric made it clear that they would not have any support for him and were still suppressing him everywhere, so naturally he didn't have to think about them.
Even if Sevigny is willing to stand up and speak out now, it is entirely possible that Xu Yi will immediately express his strong support for her.
However, Xu Yi could only smile bitterly in his heart when he thought of Sevini.
Since the last time he brought 500 private guards over and handed them over to Xu Yi and asked them to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to launch a cleanup operation against the orcs in the Black Rice Wasteland, Sevini went straight back to his private territory. It is said that it was again He didn't leave the territory for more than two months.
She did this to clearly show everyone that she would not interfere in any internal affairs of the kingdom.
If these things happen in cities that support her, I'm afraid they are just playing tricks on others.
"Forget it, I don't have any ideas about the Lampali Kingdom for the time being." Xu Yi sighed slightly in his heart and raised his hand to interrupt the heated discussion in the conference room.
Seeing that everyone was paying attention, Xu Yi glanced at the financial report in his hand and said to Sebastian: "Sebas, don't be too happy too early. I'm sure, next month. Or the next month." The financial statements of our chamber of commerce will not look good even in the next few months.”
Sebastian's expression immediately changed: "President, have you come up with any other ideas that require large amounts of investment? I have to warn you that our Chamber of Commerce has invested too much this year, and now we actually don't have much funds. If you If we don’t pay attention to this, we may get into difficulties.”
"You don't need to remind me about this, I know it very well." Xu Yi waved his hand. "Investing in this kind of thing is meant to make money, and it cannot be because of temporary financial difficulties. We have to resist investing, right? And so far, have I suffered any losses in all the investments I have made?"
Everyone in the conference room was silent.
Everyone recalled in their minds all the investment actions made by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce since its establishment, and found that indeed, as Xu Yi said, there was no loss in any of them. On the contrary, no matter what investment, no matter how unfavorable it was initially, People even scolded Xu Yi for being crazy, but in the end it turned out that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce made a lot of money.
After experiencing so many things, no one within the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will question any of Xu Yi's investment decisions.
But if you take it seriously. Xu Yi still failed in an investment, and this failure was extremely serious. It still has a profound impact on Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
That is the investment in Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny.
Of course, this is political investment, but it is different from commercial investment.
"Okay, Mr. Chairman, I'm not questioning your idea of investing. I just want to remind you to pay attention to the current financial situation of the Chamber of Commerce." Sebastian thought for a while and continued euphemistically: "If it is not a very necessary investment, project, I suggest you wait a few months, at least until the base in Heimi Wasteland is completely completed before considering it.”
"I have written down this suggestion. But Sebastian, I suddenly realized... I was completely diverted by you in taking the topic. In fact, what I want to say is not because I thought of any new investment project, but because I We have received news that will make our chamber of commerce’s financial statements uglier in the next few months.”
"What news?" A group of people looked at Xu Yi curiously.
Will one piece of news lead to a decline in profits for a chamber as big as Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for several months? This is incredible.
Xu Yi put down the financial statements and his expression became slightly more solemn.
"According to the latest news I got, the Lampali Kingdom Commercial Office is about to pass a new regulation to classify various commodities for circulation in the kingdom. Commodities produced in the kingdom and sold in the kingdom are If they are classified into one category, they are considered as commodities that are circulated within the kingdom. Goods that are produced within the kingdom and sold to other countries and regions are classified as one category and are considered as commodities that are exported abroad... "
"What about the products we produce in other places but sell to the kingdom?" Ankato couldn't help interrupting Xu Yi's words.
Looking at Ankato who looked eager, Xu Yi said in a deep voice: "This type of goods is the same as the goods produced in other countries and regions but sold in the Lampali Kingdom. They are considered imported goods."
Kennard immediately raised his eyebrows: "So, the goods we sell into the kingdom now will be the same as imported goods and need to pay import duties?"
"That's right." Xu Yi nodded slightly.
As soon as the words fell, there was an immediate roar in the conference room, and everyone couldn't help shouting.
"No way? Our Chamber of Commerce is the Chamber of Commerce of Lampali Kingdom. How can it be regarded as imported goods?"
"That's right. We are a chamber of commerce under the name of Bangta City. We are obviously a local chamber of commerce in the Lampali Kingdom. Why should our things be counted as imported? Could it be that if we build a production base outside, we are considered a foreign chamber of commerce? ?”.
"Hmph! What's so hard to understand about this? It's obvious that those ten chambers of commerce can't compete with us, and they've come up with new shameless tricks!"
"Yes, that must be the case! These guys are so shameless!"
"So despicable! So shameless!"
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Xu Yi waited quietly for a while, and then everyone slowly calmed down and focused their attention on Xu Yi again.
"I understand your anger. But to be honest, when I received the news, I was not very angry. Instead, I found it very funny." Xu Yi laughed seriously. "If you think about it, they can even get the Magic Industry Administration to ban us from producing magic machines in the kingdom, so it's not surprising that such a ban would be issued immediately, right?"
Kennard frowned slightly: "But President, if we continue to sell magic machinery to the Lampali Kingdom, the cost will increase significantly because of the need to pay import duties. The profit will be much less. "
"So I said, in the next few months, the financial statements will definitely be ugly." Xu Yi spread his hands and smiled. "After all, the Lampali Kingdom is currently our Chamber of Commerce's largest market, and we will definitely be severely affected."
Ankato thought for a while and said loudly: "President, why don't we increase the price? There are many words"...
"No." Xu Yi shook his head immediately.
"Why not?" Ankato was confused. "This is entirely the Commerce Department's problem. There is nothing wrong with us raising prices because the Commerce Department unilaterally increased tariffs, right? There are many words."
"It's not what I want to do to transfer the issues of the Commerce Department to ordinary people who need to buy magic machinery." Seeing that Ancato seemed to want to say more, Xu Yi emphasized his tone: "I have already decided on this matter. Needs to be discussed further.”
Ankato paused and could only swallow the words that had reached his throat obediently.
Kennard glanced at Ankato and thought, this guy has been following the president for a long time, why doesn't he understand the president's character
After thinking for a while, Kennard asked Xu Yi: "Then President, what should we do next?"
Facing everyone's gaze after hearing the news, Xu Yi smiled slightly: "I said a long time ago that what our Chamber of Commerce needs to do is to make the cake bigger, rather than competing for the cake with others. Since the Kingdom of Lampali does not welcome us , then let’s turn our attention to more places that welcome us. The Lampali Kingdom is not the only country on this continent, right?”
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