It’s spring again and the flowers are blooming. ~ Summit Novel,
As soon as April arrives, Bangta City becomes lively again.
Because it’s the start of the annual Bangta City Road Cycling Spring Race, many people who love cycling come from all directions.
These people come not only from Bangta City, but also from other cities outside Bangta City, and many of them come from other countries outside the Lampali Kingdom.
The most exaggerated thing is that the Principality of Norton, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away from Bangta City, came here specifically to participate in this competition.
Although starting from February this year, because the road built by the Armli Chamber of Commerce has penetrated the entire Principality of Norton and successfully connected with the road transportation network throughout the Kingdom of Lampali and the Kingdom of Luersun, the Philson Transportation Chamber of Commerce took the opportunity to open a road from The Norton Principality has a long-distance bus line that directly reaches the Lampali Kingdom, so it is quite convenient to come here.
But the distance in between is more than 1,500 kilometers long. Even if you take the magic bus all the way, you will need to spend nearly three days on the road.
The reporter of "Bangta Daily" received the news and interviewed this contestant who came from afar.
In response to the reporter's question, the contestant from the Principality of Norton answered that this was a dream he had had since he heard last year that there was a professional organization organizing a bicycle race in Bonta City that had been running for several years.
No matter how far the journey is, he will definitely come to participate.
This report was published in the "Bangta Daily" and was reprinted by newspapers in the Lampali Kingdom and several surrounding countries, which made everyone's enthusiasm even higher.
For a time, Bangta City was crowded with people. Crowded. The atmosphere was even several times more lively than the usual festival atmosphere.
However, this year’s competition was organized continuously. Now for Bonta City, the New Flying Road Cycling Race held twice a year has been treated as a festival carnival.
In order to cooperate with this competition, even Bangta City's main palace has specially stipulated that every chamber of commerce and factory in Bangta City must have three consecutive days of holiday at this time every year, so that people can fully participate in this carnival. middle.
This year's spring road cycling race is more eye-catching than every race in previous years.
Because according to the news announced in advance by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the "Bangta Daily", after more than half a year of preparations, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce took the lead and joined forces with seven other magic machinery chambers of commerce that produce bicycles to organize the Road Cycling Championship in Xinfei this year. The Flying Road Cycling Spring Race officially begins after that.
Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and seven other bicycle chambers of commerce will each organize a professional bicycle team to participate in this championship. Compete together for the final championship.
According to the announced rules, the schedule of this championship will start after the spring race of the Xinfei Road Cycling Race and end before the autumn race of the Xinfei Road Cycling Race held in October every year, which spans as long as half a year.
For now, the championship is only held in eight cities in the Kingdom of Lampali. Each game will determine a champion, and then give corresponding points based on the ranking of each game. Finally, The final championship and other rankings will be determined based on the points accumulated in the eight races.
At the same time, according to the news revealed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, starting next year, this championship will most likely be held in cities in other countries besides the Lampali Kingdom. At the same time, the scale of the competition will be expanded.
However, for ordinary people, what concerns them most is not the details of these competitions. But the tournament prize money.
When the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced that it would hold this event last year, it said that the driver who won the championship would most likely receive a terrifying bonus of more than 50,000 gold coins, which shocked everyone.
But this year, when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce officially confirmed the hosting of this event, the prize money revealed made everyone almost unable to believe their eyes.
One hundred thousand gold coins!
The cyclist who wins the overall championship will receive a cumulative bonus of at least 100,000 gold coins!
Almost everyone's breathing stopped for a moment when they saw this number.
By God, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce must be crazy!
One hundred thousand gold coins!
What a concept!
You know, one hundred gold coins is enough for an ordinary family to live without worries about food and clothing for a year.
One hundred thousand gold coins, that is almost equivalent to the annual fiscal revenue of some small cities in the Lampali Kingdom!
Although they have seen the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's crazy actions countless times, everyone still smelled crazy when they saw this terrifying bonus amount.
Perhaps because of this bonus, most people have focused their attention on the upcoming cycling championship, which has actually caused people to pay less attention to the spring race of the Xinfei Road Cycling Championship.
However, the statement jointly issued by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and other bicycle chambers of commerce that co-organizes the cycling championship in the "Bangta Daily" has drawn people's attention again.
In this statement, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and seven other cycling associations stated that the Xinfei Road Cycling Race is the primary event of the Xinfei Cycling Championship, and their eight chambers of commerce will pay attention to the contestants who perform well in the Xinfei Road Cycling Race. , and select outstanding players to join their own team.
According to information released by eight chambers of commerce, once you join the bicycle teams of these eight chambers of commerce and become a professional bicycle racer, you will receive a minimum annual salary of 500 gold coins, and you will also receive competition bonuses.
If you calculate it, even if you can't get such a terrifying amount of one hundred thousand gold coins, it shouldn't be difficult to get thousands of gold coins after working hard for a year.
As soon as the news came out, everyone's enthusiasm to participate in the Xinfei Road Cycling Spring Race was once again high.
And this time is different from previous ones. If you perform well in the competition, you may join a professional bicycle team, become a professional bicycle racer, and earn a generous income.
Therefore, unlike previous competitions where the focus was on participation, a bunch of people were gearing up to try to get good results in this competition and to be favored by professional cycling teams. The competitive atmosphere was extremely fierce.
In such a fanatical atmosphere, another piece of news announced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce through the "Bangta Daily" was inevitably ignored by people intentionally or unintentionally.
The content of this message is to introduce that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce plans to build a racing track outside Bangta City and hold magic car competitions there.
This racing track and competition has actually been held in the Principality of Standing for more than a year. It is very popular in the Principality of Standing, but it is the first time it has appeared in the Kingdom of Lampali, so naturally it will not attract too much attention.
In addition, another major problem is that compared to a bicycle, which costs only a dozen or dozens of gold coins, even the most expensive professional road bicycle costs at most a hundred gold coins. The cheapest magic car costs more than a thousand gold coins, which is far beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Therefore, compared to most ordinary people, magic cars belong to another world and have little to do with them. The magic car competition will naturally not arouse their interest.
Of course, ordinary people don't pay attention, but it doesn't mean that no one pays attention.
In just two years since the launch of the first magic car, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has sold a total of more than 73,000 magic cars of various types.
Although it pales in comparison to the total sales of more than one million bicycles, the number of bicycles actually held is not that small.
In the Lampali Kingdom alone, the sales volume of the Xinfei Magic Car exceeded 40,000 units.
In Bangta City, the number of magic cars exceeds 15,000.
The reason for this result is, on the one hand, that the Magic Car was first launched in Bangta City and was accepted the fastest.
On the one hand, driven by the development of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in Bangta City, the overall economy has developed extremely well. In addition to the traditional aristocratic businessmen, many ordinary civilians have also become rich.
Take Father Sakchi, who has been transporting goods for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the past few years. He was just an ordinary farmer before, but in the past few years, he has accumulated more than five million yuan by transporting goods for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and other chambers of commerce. A net worth of one thousand gold coins.
Before last year, Father Sakchi took out 1,500 gold coins and directly purchased a new magic car recently launched by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
And this is one of them.
In Bangta City, there are countless people like Father Sakchi who have become wealthy in the past few years by relying on their own labor.
For many people in Bangta City, the magic car is not that unattainable.
Of course, being able to afford a magic car and being eligible to participate in a magic car competition are two different things.
Although the magic car is an affordable item for people like Mr. Sakchi, it is very precious and is not willing to be damaged easily.
And if you take it to a competition, something unexpected might happen, and ordinary people will definitely not be able to afford it.
So in this way, the only people who are really interested in this magic car competition are those whose family financial situation is particularly good, and they don't feel bad even if one or two cars break down.
At the same time, this person also needs to have a lot of free time and enough energy and physical strength to prepare for the magic car competition.
After filtering these conditions, there will be very few that really meet the requirements.
In Bangta City, there are only less than fifty people who are finally determined to participate in this magic car competition.
Without exception, these forty people are all the "rich second generation" of big businessmen and noble families in Bangta City.
Baron Billil, the only remaining member of the Stark family in the Lampali Kingdom, is one of them. (To be continued...)