In the past few years, whenever the New Year just passed, countless people from other cities would flock to Bangta City looking for jobs.
The total number of these people will even exceed Bangta City's original population several times, so every year during this time, Bangta City will be crowded and lively everywhere.
However, after this year's New Year, the people of Bangta City were surprised to find that there seemed to be a lot less people coming to Bangta City from other places.
Although there are still passenger magic locomotives from Filson Horse Racing Company transporting batches of people from distant places every day, the total number is much less than in previous years.
The huge gap even made Bangta City residents who were familiar with the situation in previous years feel that Bangta City this year was a little deserted.
And when winter passed day by day with the New Year, the people of Bangta City discovered another thing that surprised them.
Originally, due to the influx of people in Bangta City in recent years and the increase in people's income, major chambers of commerce have opened countless new shops in the city to meet the needs of this extra group of people.
But now, shops in the city have closed their doors and announced their closure.
At first, the Armani Chamber of Commerce announced the closure of a housing sales center set up outside the city, and then the Armani Chamber of Commerce also announced the closure of two finished clothing stores in the city. After that, the number of chambers of commerce announcing store closures increased rapidly.
People in Bangta City even go to bed and wake up every night. When they look outside the next day, they will find that several shops have been closed on the street.
If there are fewer people on the street, making the people of Bangta City feel a little deserted, then the closure of shops one after another has further deepened this feeling in everyone's hearts.
As if in the blink of an eye. Bangta City, which was originally even more prosperous than Anvilmar City, suddenly became defeated.
If this trend continues, it might not be long before Bangta City returns to its former appearance as a remote and quiet town.
Although many people in Bangta City are dissatisfied that Bangta City has become too busy in recent years and has lost its peace and tranquility. But everyone must admit that only the prosperous Bangta City can make the lives of everyone in Bangta City better.
It is good to return to the peace and tranquility of the past, but it has made Bangta City poor again, people have lost their previous superior jobs, and life has become difficult again. Absolutely no one would accept that. But whether you are willing to accept it or not is one thing, and whether you can prevent this change is another.
And the fact before everyone is that this trend seems to be irreversible, and Bangta City... seems to be going further and further back.
Seeing that the shops on the street with the familiar emblems of the chambers of commerce were announced to be closed one by one, only the flags of the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magic Industry Administration were still flying everywhere in Bonta City. The people in Bangta City looked at these flags with a trace of resentment involuntarily.
If it weren't for these guys, how could the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce leave Bangta City
If Xinfei Chamber of Commerce did not leave Bangta City, how could Bangta City become what it is now
These resentful people include not only many ordinary people who previously had superior jobs but later lost their jobs because of those ten chambers of commerce, but also many large and small nobles in the city.
Originally, these nobles only needed to invest in any chamber of commerce in Bangta City to receive considerable dividends every year. Live a comfortable life.
And these ten chambers of commerce came and squeezed out the other chambers of commerce, causing these nobles to lose huge profits.
If we talk about the degree of resentment. These nobles are probably much deeper than ordinary civilians.
The current situation is not optimistic, and these nobles can only hide their resentment in their hearts.
If you wait for the right time, these resentments will definitely burst out.
Unlike these nobles who have resentments but dare not vent them because of their aristocratic status, ordinary civilians are resentful, but for them, the most important thing is still their own lives.
Now those ten chambers of commerce monopolize most of the job opportunities in the city. However, they have uniformly kept their salaries extremely low, and their work intensity is many times stronger than that of the previous chambers of commerce in Bangta City.
If you continue to stay in Bangta City. It's obviously impossible to get a job that's as satisfying as before.
So after much thought, the people of Bangta City finally made a decision. That is to go out of Bangta City and seek satisfying jobs elsewhere.
In fact, before that, when Xinfei Chamber of Commerce went to the Principality of Standing to open Xinfei Farm, it had already recruited many old farmers from Bangta City, and many old farmers had moved their entire families there.
In addition, every year they come into contact with a large number of people who come to Bangta City from other places to look for jobs, so for the civilians of Bangta City, leaving Bangta City is actually not a difficult decision to make.
The first month of the new year has not yet passed, but a completely opposite situation to usual has occurred in Bangta City.
In the past, countless people flocked to Bangta City from other places, but this year, batches of people left Bangta City.
Some went eastward into the Principality of Mirando.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with the Principality of Mirando and the Kingdom of Luersen, decided to build a brand new production base in the town of Ampreston in the Principality of Mirando. It is now recruiting a large number of workers and is in urgent need of skilled workers for the production of various magic machines.
At the same time, the Amri Chamber of Commerce also entered the Principality of Mirando, intending to help the Principality of Mirando build several roads throughout the principality, which also required a lot of labor.
In addition, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, the Salanque Chamber of Commerce and other established chambers of commerce in Bonta City have also relocated many of their factories to the town of Ampreston, and they also need to recruit workers who are willing to come with them.
It is said that in order to attract these chambers of commerce to invest, the Principality of Mirando has given extremely high tax concessions and has many policies to support them.
Although this will cause the goods produced by these chambers of commerce in the town of Ampreston to be defined as imported goods by the Lampali Kingdom, according to the information revealed within these chambers of commerce, the goods they produce in the town of Ampreston. It was not originally intended to be sold to the Lampali Kingdom.
After all, outside of the Lampali Kingdom, there is a huge market that is much broader on the entire Sainz Road.
Some went south directly into the Luersun Kingdom.
As early as last year, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Amli Chamber of Commerce and Armani Chamber of Commerce had entered the Luersun Kingdom to invest and build some factories. This year, the Luersun Kingdom has increased its joint venture efforts.
Although the Luersun Kingdom requires these three chambers of commerce to recruit more local workers. However, the demand for skilled workers still requires these three chambers of commerce to recruit aggressively in Bangta City to meet the demand.
At the same time, the Luersun Kingdom itself has opened several factories with the household magic machinery production technology transferred from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and there is also a demand for skilled workers.
Of course, the Luersun Kingdom does not have talents in this field, so naturally it can only find them from Bangta City, which has the largest number of skilled workers.
Moreover, compared to the three chambers of commerce including the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the salary offered by the Luersun Kingdom to skilled workers is even higher.
As a senior miller, the monthly salary given by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is fourteen gold coins, excluding overtime pay. However, the factories in the Luersun Kingdom will give a super high monthly salary of at least eighteen gold coins, and they can also enjoy high-level treatment.
Except for those heading east and south, most of the remaining people are heading west.
Most of them stopped after entering the Black Rice Wasteland. It was previously built by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and other four chambers of commerce, but now dozens of Bangta City Chamber of Commerce have relocated and found jobs in the production base.
The last part turns south from the Black Rice Wasteland and enters the Principality of Standing.
These people mainly entered the various factories newly built by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Principality of Standing, and some were recruited by the Amri Chamber of Commerce to work for the Standing Seaside Garden Community newly planned by the Amri Chamber of Commerce.
Before, many people from other places came to Bangta City to look for jobs. However, after arriving in Bangta City and learning about the actual situation, these people from other places also found their own direction. But he left Bangta City again.
In the first month of the New Year, Bangta City seemed quite chaotic due to the New Year and the constant flow of people coming and going.
And wait until the first month has passed. Less than half of the second month has passed, and when you go to the streets of Bangta City, you will find that this city that was so prosperous and lively in the past few years has almost become an empty city.
In early spring, there was still a bit of chilly breeze blowing by. The waste paper that had been discarded on the street at some time rumbled around a dozen times with the wind, and just rolled to Sevigny's feet.
He glanced down at the paper ball. Sevigny picked him up carefully and opened it to take a look. But I discovered that it was a promotional leaflet for a ready-made clothing store of the Armani Chamber of Commerce.
Looking at the colorful and colorful images above, it looks like a scene of flowers. Looking up again at the deserted street in front of her with not a few people in sight, Sevini could not help but feel a trace of heartache in her heart.
In her impression, Bonta City, which had always been more prosperous than Anvilmar City, always full of vitality, and whose people's faces were always filled with sunny smiles, was like this now.
Although he knew that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's departure from Bangta City was bound to have a certain impact on Bangta City, Sevini never expected that the impact would be so serious.
The reason why Bangta City became prosperous at first was actually because of the emergence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which promoted the development of magic industry in Bangta City, thus allowing the entire Bangta City to develop.
Now Bangta City suddenly became dilapidated, and it was also because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce left Bangta City.
Could it be said that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is really that important to Bangta City
In fact, this question does not need to be asked to anyone. Sevigny knows very well that the answer is yes.
She would not regret or be upset because of what had happened. When she came to Bangta City this time, in addition to wanting to find Xu Yi to help her solve the problems of the refugees who were still staying in her territory, she also wanted to There is something very important to do.
The current Bangta City has become like this, and the current Lampali Kingdom has also completely changed.
These changes were not good ones, and Sevigny saw many crises in them.
Although she very much does not want to continue to interfere in the internal affairs of the kingdom, as Her Royal Highness the Queen of the Lampali Kingdom and the daughter of Lampali XIII, she must do something for this country.
The first thing to do is start from Bangta City.