Chapter 153 Agricultural Industrialization

Laughter is naturally unable to travel thousands of kilometers to Bangta City.

However, I don't know if it was because I sensed that Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny and Viscount Leslie were discussing him. Even though Xu Yi hid in the warm meeting room in the city lord's mansion, he suddenly sneezed involuntarily.

This sudden sneeze interrupted Earl Summer's reading, and also attracted the attention of other people in the conference hall who were listening intently.

Earl Summer put down the report in his hand and looked at Xu Yi with a smile: "What? President Xu, are you dissatisfied with the report in my hand?"

Xu Yi hurriedly shook his head: "No no, I don't have any opinion. It's just... I just feel a little cold all of a sudden."

"Cold?" Earl Summer glanced at the two magic air conditioners on the wall of the conference hall, and smiled again: "This is the new flying brand magic air conditioner produced by your chamber of commerce. If you still feel cold under the action of them, I am I should come and ask you if the chairman of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is negligent in his duties."

"Ha ha--"

Of course, everyone knew that Earl Summer was teasing Xu Yi, and there was a burst of laughter.

Xu Yi smiled: "That's impossible, the quality of the Xinfei Magic Air Conditioner is trustworthy, and there will never be a problem. It may be because I accompanied Steele to the Sandy River last night for a walk around, blowing the air. It's a cold wind and a cold."

There was another burst of laughter in the hall.

President Lan Ke, who was sitting not far from Xu Yi, let out a long sigh: "President Xu is young and strong after all, and he dares to hang out by the river in such a cold night. For an old man like me, it's dark when it's dark. He stayed at home and refused to go out.”

The crowd immediately joined in. You made fun of Xu Yilai every word.

As the new aircraft business association grows and develops. Now Xu Yi's status in Bangta City has also risen. It has gradually been able to truly be on an equal footing with these veteran chambers of commerce presidents in the city.

Although people would often make fun of him because of his age, no one would show any disdain for him.

Even President Morgan, who had shown the most hostility to Xu Yi before, also because of the agreement between Xu Yi and Marquis Joseph, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce are now starting to cooperate, so that he no longer reveals to Xu Yi. Any hostility, on the contrary, will be very close to Xu Yi both in front of the public and in private.

After laughing with everyone for a while, the originally serious atmosphere in the conference hall suddenly became relaxed.

After everyone's voices stopped a little, Xu Yi turned to Earl Summer and said, "Sir City Lord. I have no opinion on this report, but I have a suggestion."

"Oh? So come and listen."

Not only Count Satsuma, but the others immediately stopped laughing and looked at Xu Yi with concerned expressions.

After getting along with Xu Yi for a long time, everyone is very clear that every time Xu Yi speaks out on this occasion, it will never be aimless, and it will usually have a large or small impact.

And if it was his proposal, the City Lord hardly ever rejected it, and it would have played a big role.

"Lord City Lord. The report you just read said that Bangta City's plan this year is to further reclaim wasteland. I have no opinion on expanding the area of ​​farmland and increasing food production. But I think you have overlooked a very important point. Important issues."

"What's the problem?" Count Summer asked curiously.

"That's the manpower." Xu Yi said. "I think if there are no relevant measures, there will only be fewer and fewer farmers engaged in agriculture in Bangta City, and eventually there will even be no one to cultivate farmland."

Earl Summer frowned: "How is this possible. There are more than 100,000 peasants in the countryside outside Bangta City, how could no one go to farm? If it was impossible to grow before, it would be fine. Now with your new flyers. With the help of the various farmland magic machines of the Chamber of Commerce, farming is much easier and more efficient than before. Even if there are fewer people than before, there will be no problem. I made this plan because of this consideration. Said that your chamber of commerce will not continue to produce farmland magic machinery in the future?"

"Of course it's impossible." Xu Yi immediately shook his head. "But Lord Count, you may not have noticed a fact. Although there are more than 100,000 registered farmers outside Bangta City, have you made any specific statistics? how much?"

Earl Summer was stunned: "Don't you want to say that these farmers have stopped farming? What are they going to do?"

Xu Yi smiled, pointed to himself, and then pointed to the representatives of other chambers of commerce in Bangta City sitting in the conference hall: "It's very simple, these farmers are all working in factories."

Earl Summer was stunned, his eyes swept over Xu Yi and the representatives of other major chambers of commerce, revealing a hint of surprise.

"Do you mean to say that those farmers are not willing to farm when they have entered the factories of your major chambers of commerce?"

"Of course." Xu Yi nodded. "Now the average monthly salary of factories run by major chambers of commerce in Bangta City has exceeded seven gold coins. Even workers who have just entered the factory during the probationary period can often earn more than four gold coins a month. In terms of earning only a few gold coins in the year, it is clear that the income of entering a factory as a worker is much higher. If I were a farmer, I would not be willing to continue farming, but would choose to enter the factory.”

"Well... this is indeed a problem, I ignored it." Earl Summer frowned and thought for a while, then asked, "President Xu, how many workers are there in your chamber of commerce now?"

"If you don't count the elves and dwarves, just the day before yesterday, it just broke through the 4,000 mark." Xu Yi replied with four fingers stretched out. "And when the new fruit canning factory is completed, we will have to recruit another 500 workers. In addition, according to the forecast of general manager Kennard, within this year, we must recruit at least 1,000 workers."

"In other words, just your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will steal more than 5,000 people?"

"Yes."

Earl Summer asked the presidents of other major chambers of commerce again, and the answers were similar.

With the continuous research and development of various magic machines by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the production mode of other major chambers of commerce in Bangta City has been continuously transformed to an industrialized mode.

The scale of production is getting bigger and bigger. More and more workers are needed.

Now it's just the Amley Chamber of Commerce. employed more than 20,000 workers.

In addition to the more than 6,000 workers still carrying out the traditional construction of the Amley Chamber of Commerce. The remaining more than 13,000 workers are distributed in various places in the Kingdom of Lampari, the Kingdom of Ruelson, and the Principality of Standing, and they are working hard to build one road after another.

In comparison, the workers of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are already few.

Adding up the employees of the five recognized Boonta City Chambers of Commerce, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Amli Chamber of Commerce, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, the Salak Chamber of Commerce, and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, has exceeded a terrifying 70,000 people.

And if you add up the employees of other chambers of commerce in the city, there are now more than 100,000 workers working in the factories in Bangta City alone.

And that doesn't even count people in other industries.

If all are counted, the number of people engaged in other industries other than agriculture will even be close to 200,000.

After getting this estimate, Count Summer couldn't help being a little stunned.

Since there are nearly 200,000 people in other industries. Then put aside those old and weak women and children who are unable to work, then of course no one will be left to engage in agriculture.

And in fact, the total population inside and outside Bangta City did not add up to 200,000. If it weren't for a large number of foreigners crowding into Bangta City, the employees of these chambers of commerce would not have reached such a terrifying number at all.

What's more, the major chambers of commerce headed by the Amri Chamber of Commerce would still often complain to the city lord about the lack of manpower, hoping that he could find a way to get more labor from other places.

Thinking of this, Earl Summer couldn't help but look down at the report in his hand, and turned to the last part of the report that had not been read out.

The theme of today's meeting is a summary data report on various work in Bangta City last year, and the last part of this report is a tax statistics in Bangta City last year.

The reason why today's meeting is to invite representatives of major chambers of commerce to participate. It is because of this tax statistics that the major chambers of commerce have performed very well.

But once again, I saw all kinds of detailed figures in the tax statistics. The Earl of Summer still had a sense of unreality.

According to the final statistics of the Bangta City Tax Office, within the last year, the total tax revenue of Bangta City actually reached a terrifying 1.37 million gold coins!

You know, according to the figures released by the Kingdom Tax Office, the fiscal revenue of the Kingdom of Lampari last year was less than 2 million gold coins.

According to the regulation of paying one-third of local taxes, Bangta City paid 450,000 gold coins, which accounted for nearly a quarter of the kingdom's annual tax revenue!

Just an extremely scary result.

Because just the year before last, the tax paid by Bangta City was only less than 50,000 gold coins. Among the twenty-six cities in the entire kingdom, they basically belonged to the last stream.

And now only two years have passed, the tax paid by Bangta City has even surpassed the capital city of Anweimar, and it has become the city that pays the most tax in the entire kingdom!

If you turn your attention back to the 1.37 million gold coins that Bangta City received, you will find that, among them, although the agricultural tax has been greatly increased with the help of the farmland magic machinery, from the previous Less than 30,000 gold coins have been raised to nearly 100,000 gold coins, but compared with the terrifying figure of more than 1 million gold coins in commercial taxation, it is not worth mentioning at all.

In other words, the most important agricultural tax for Bangta City in the past is now even negligible, because the most important industry has become business.

If the division is more detailed, then it will be found that in commercial taxation, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce alone provides a huge number of more than 500,000 gold coins. If the various magic industry related chambers of commerce related to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are divided If the taxes are added together, the number will exceed 700,000 gold coins, which is more than two-thirds of the total.

In other words, if you really want to calculate it, the most important industry for the entire Bangta City tax is the magic industry represented by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

Thinking of this, the attention of Xu Yi in Earl Summer's heart involuntarily deepened, he raised his head and glanced at Xu Yi, and said with a smile: "It seems that the problem mentioned by President Xu does exist and is very important. Then Xu Yi President, what is your proposal?"

Xu Yi nodded and replied: "My proposal is to promote the development of agricultural industrialization." (To be continued.)