"Your Majesty, this is actually an opportunity." Duke Stark maintained his usual smile and said with a confident look.
"Opportunity?" King Eric looked at Duke Starr in confusion.
Now that the situation in the kingdom has deteriorated to this point, he actually said this was an opportunity? what chance
"Your Majesty, have you forgotten? Since Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny simply gave up fighting for the throne with you, although it has become much easier for you, it has allowed those who oppose you in the kingdom to be hidden for this reason. Get up. In the past, when they did nothing, it was not easy for us to really distinguish them, and it was even harder to do something to them. Now that they have jumped out due to this incident, isn't this a good opportunity to deal with them? "
Seeing the dangerous smile flashing across Duke Stark's face, King Eric felt a chill in his heart.
This Duke Stark, who looks ordinary on the outside and always wears a harmless smile, is actually extremely cruel on the inside.
The current situation may indeed be a good opportunity for him to eliminate dissidents, and he will never be merciful.
But is this really a good opportunity for him, the king, and the entire Lampali Kingdom? Before that, he was very dissatisfied with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's refusal to support him in ascending to the throne. He always thought that once he ascended the throne, he would definitely get rid of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
That's exactly what he did.
Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been targeted in various ways by those nobles. But in fact they all received his strong support.
At first he didn't think there was any problem with this, but as time went by, the impact of the loss of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on Bangta City and even the entire Lampali Kingdom gradually became apparent.
Even if this bloody conflict did not break out, Eric would have collected information through various data reports and other information reported from various places. Fully understand the influence of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
And this influence, most of the time, is positive.
Even Eric can categorically conclude that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has played the most important role in Bangta City's rapid development in the past few years. From the perspective of the King of Lampali Kingdom, and from the perspective of the entire Lampali Kingdom, Eric should actually be like his father, Lampali XIII, and firmly support the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. .
But now that the matter has come to this, of course he can't stop.
Moreover, the ten chambers of commerce established by the great nobles who supported him had already squeezed the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce out of the Lampali Kingdom. Even if he wanted to stay in Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it would be impossible.
The great nobles who support him, headed by the Stark family, have almost completely seized all the magic machinery market from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce through these ten chambers of commerce, and have obtained great benefits from it.
Even though Eric is the most noble king of the Lampali Kingdom, he never dares to compete with these stubborn conservative nobles who hold real power in their hands and have almost controlled the entire Lampali Kingdom.
Not to mention anything else, Eric has no confidence that he can deal with the Stark family represented by Duke Stark in front of him.
Seeing Eric's silence, Duke Stark did not guess his true thoughts. I thought he was just hesitating, so I smiled and continued: "Your Majesty, I know that you may be worried that this may cause unrest in the kingdom. But please don't worry, I already have a series of complete plans for these things. , you can slowly and effectively deal with those who oppose you, ensuring that nothing goes wrong.”…
Eric sighed in his heart. I knew that I had no room to object.
When Duke Stark came to tell him about this, he might have already started to implement the plan. Now I just came to inform him.
Anyway, now he controls basically all the power in the kingdom, and even the royal guards in this palace almost only obey his orders. What's the point of Eric's opinion
After pondering for a moment, Eric nodded slightly: "Okay, I'll do as the Duke wants."
Duke Stark looked like he had expected it, smiled slightly, and saluted Eric.
"Then, Your Majesty, please pay attention to rest. I will take my leave now."
Seeing Duke Stark disappear out the door, Eric's face instantly darkened. He squeezed hard with his right hand and the ink pen, which was as thick as his little finger, broke into two pieces with a "click".
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The riots in Bonta City did not have the slightest impact on the Principality of Standing, which was hundreds of kilometers away.
The spring harvest in Bangta City actually triggered a bloody conflict that shocked the entire Lampali Kingdom, causing the entire spring harvest to be affected and delayed. Differently, Xinfei Farm planted more than 100,000 hectares of farmland as early as All harvests were completed half a month ago.
Compared with last year, this year Xinfei Chamber of Commerce upgraded the farmland magic machinery and invested in new medium-sized farmland magic machinery in the farmland, making the harvesting efficiency much higher than last year.
Although there are 20,000 hectares more newly cultivated farmland this year than last year, the total harvest time is three days shorter than last year.
The new generation of Xinfei brand farmland magic machinery naturally aroused unanimous praise. Not only Lord Weilun took the lead in ordering dozens of sets from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but also the Kingdom of Luersun, the Principality of Mirando, and Germany thousands of kilometers away. The Principality of Lac sent representatives to place orders with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, adding up to nearly a thousand sets.
The total value of these orders alone has exceeded three million gold coins, representing the first major sales of civilian magic machinery by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce this year.
As for the military magic machinery, since it was promised to be used in exchange for territory from Lord Wei Lun, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has greatly reduced sales and only sold to some other chambers of commerce with closer relationships. The total transaction volume did not exceed one million gold coins, but it actually declined.
However, if the value of the various military magic machines supplied to Lord Wei Lun in the first batch is also included, the total price of the military magic machines will exceed two million gold coins.
Including the various household magic machines and a small number of magic machine tools sold in the first few months of the first half of this year, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has only been in less than five months since the beginning of this year. Total sales exceeded an astonishing seven million gold coins.
Relying on Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's consistently high profit margins, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can obtain at least a net profit of more than three million gold coins from the sales of seven million gold coins.
This surprised Xu Yi.
It was originally thought that because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been rebuilding its production base and reopening the market this year, the chamber's overall sales and profits will decline significantly.
But judging from the current situation, although it has indeed dropped a lot compared to the same period last year. From a total net profit of more than 4.3 million gold coins in the first five months of last year, it has now become just over 3 million gold coins, but it is not much less. Not only is it completely acceptable, but it even makes Xu Yi All the senior officials of the Chamber of Commerce were somewhat surprised.
It is possible to still obtain such high profits in this situation. It is enough to prove that the world's pursuit of magical machines has not diminished at all.
Although it was forced to withdraw from the market of the Lampali Kingdom, with the continuous development of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it has opened up the markets of many other countries and regions outside the Lampali Kingdom, and the prospects are probably even brighter.
In the Kingdom of Luersun, the Principality of Mirando, the Principality of Drak, and even the Kingdom of Sark, the Xinfei brand magic machine has represented the trend and the most advanced items. Countless families have a Xinfei brand home appliance. Magic Machinery is proud.
According to the current trend. I believe that it won’t be long before the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will occupy most of the magic machinery market in these countries just like it did in the Lampali Kingdom.
Why not all markets
Of course, it is because Xu Yi also wants to leave some space for other chambers of commerce that produce magic machinery.
But for Xu Yi. During this period, the most important thing to him was not how much sales and profits Xinfei Chamber of Commerce made or how much money he made, but how much money he spent.
To be precise, how much money was spent on Archduke Standing.
Although Lord Wei Lun made it easy, he transferred the territory under his name to Xu Yi, an actual foreigner. It is still not easy to get approval from Archduke Standing.
From the time the agreement was signed with Lord Weilun, it took just one month. Xu Yi met Grand Duke Standing seven times and spent a huge sum of more than one million gold coins. Finally, the matter was finalized.
Today is the day when Grand Duke Standing awards Xu Yi a medal.
According to the rules of the Principality of Standing, or the rules of the entire Sainz continent, if you are not a noble, you are absolutely not allowed to own private territory.
Therefore, transferring a piece of territory from Lord Wei Lun to Xu Yi still requires a very complicated and troublesome procedure that goes through several circles.
First of all, Lord Wei Lun declared that he was unable to continue to manage and operate all the territories under his name, and voluntarily handed over the territory agreed with Xu Yi to the principality.
Then, Grand Duke Standing gave a special commendation to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, commending the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for its outstanding contributions to the prosperity and development of the Principality of Standing. Xu Yi, as the president, has made great contributions and was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the Principality of Standing. status, and was granted the status of Honorary Lord of the Principality of Standing.
After that, Grand Duke Standing would grant the territory previously handed over by Lord Weilun to Honorary Lord Xu Yi as his private territory.
After such a procedure, that territory was legally recognized as Xu Yi's private territory.
After receiving the Lord's badge and the certificate of granting the private territory from Grand Duke Standing, it meant that from this moment on, that territory became Xu Yi's private territory.
The situation in the Principality of Standing and the Kingdom of Lampali is different.
As long as Xu Yi has enough power to protect and manage this private territory, then he will be the king in this territory!