Chapter 27 Raising the Butcher Knife

When it was a foregone conclusion for His Royal Highness Prince Eric to take over as the king, many people in Bangta City couldn't help but feel a little panicked.

Her Royal Highness Princess Seweni is the lord of Banta City, so Banta City can almost be regarded as Seweini's back garden, her loyal supporter and backing.

Now that His Royal Highness Prince Eric has succeeded in taking over the throne, then according to the usual practice, the previous situation will obviously be liquidated, so a city like Bangta City, which has clearly expressed its support for Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny, will inevitably be specially targeted by His Royal Highness Prince Eric .

Among all the chambers of commerce in Bangta City, the most worrying one is naturally the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

The relationship between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny is the closest in the city of Bonta. The president Xu Yi is also an extremely staunch supporter of Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny, and has publicly rejected Her Royal Highness Prince Eric's proposal many times. The recruitment has almost completely broken with His Royal Highness Prince Eric before.

In the eyes of everyone, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is undoubtedly a thorn in the side of His Royal Highness Prince Eric. Once he succeeds in inheriting the throne, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will definitely not escape the doom of being liquidated.

It is precisely because of this worry that even Xu Yi had to make a plan in advance, was forced to stop the development plan of Luoyu Valley, and transferred some of the most valuable resources of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to Go to the base of the Principality of Standing, and beware of the attack from His Royal Highness Prince Eric.

But the fact is beyond everyone's expectations.

After His Royal Highness Prince Eric successfully ascended the throne, he did not take any excessive actions against Bangta City. Not only did he not attack the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as everyone expected, he even issued a special statement. Specially commended Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for its outstanding contribution to the development of Bangta City. Almost everyone's jaw dropped.

Moreover, although the new city lord of Banta City who took over Seweney is King Eric... well. Now it should be called King Eric personally appointed. After arriving in Bangta City, he showed a very friendly attitude towards Xu Yi and Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. For Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, the new city lord also expressed his desire to continue to support the development of the magic industry in Bangta City, tickling the good foundation laid by Her Royal Highness Princess Seweni, and developing Bangta City into a new type of prosperity that can become a model for the entire Lampari Kingdom city.

Everyone was confused by the attitude of King Eric and the new city lord.

His Majesty King Eric... what is he thinking?

on this question. King Eric once made a clear statement in a special interview with "Lampari Weekly".

In this interview, he claimed that he was just an ordinary prince before, and because he was competing for the throne with Her Royal Highness Sevigny, he would naturally regard the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, a staunch supporter of Sevigny, as an enemy, and of course hoped to target him everywhere.

But once he ascended the throne, when he started to think from the perspective of a king, he discovered that the magic industry represented by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce played a huge role in the development of the Lampari Kingdom.

Since he is already the king of this kingdom, the first thing to consider is of course the development of the whole kingdom.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the magic industry are beneficial to the kingdom, so of course he must support the continued development of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the magic industry. It is not surprising to change the attitude towards the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Through the statement of His Majesty King Eric in this interview, everyone suddenly realized.

have to say. The explanation given by His Majesty King Eric is very reasonable.

He is already His Majesty the King, so naturally he can't be so narrow-minded, no matter what he does, he needs to consider the interests of the entire kingdom.

It is said... After this interview was published in the "Lampari Weekly" and distributed to the whole country, the voices in the kingdom that opposed His Royal Highness Prince Eric's succession to the throne suddenly disappeared a lot. King Eric's reputation The entire kingdom has achieved unprecedented improvement.

Even in Bangta City, which was most worried about King Eric before, there were many voices supporting His Majesty the new king.

For a moment, the situation in the entire Lampari Kingdom seemed to be as Seweini had said to Xu Yi before.

Only when the throne is handed over smoothly and smoothly, will the Lampari Kingdom achieve the most stable and favorable development situation.

Seeing the situation in Bangta City and the entire kingdom with his own eyes, even Xu Yi was shaken for a while.

However...it turns out that everyone was too happy, especially Xu Yi.

One month after His Royal Highness Prince Eric ascended the throne, a little bit of it may not be noticeable at first glance, but upon closer inspection, news that is unfavorable to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce keeps coming.

First of all, the factories set up by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in other cities in the kingdom began to be specially inspected by the city lord's mansions in various places.

Nominally, this is because His Majesty the King cares about the development of the magic industry, so the most representative Xinfei Chamber of Commerce should be investigated first.

But in fact, during the investigation process, there were a lot of magical machine tool equipment in the factories set up by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and even the entire production line was directly removed in the name of the investigation, and even some workers and engineers in the factory were also moved. He was taken away in the name of assisting in the investigation.

Although these personnel were released later, the magic machine tool equipment and so on are gone forever.

Then, a special Magic Industry Management Agency was established under the Kingdom Council.

As the name suggests, it is specially used to manage various chambers of commerce involved in the magic industry in the Lampari Kingdom.

The first to bear the brunt is naturally the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

According to the regulations of the Magic Industry Administration, as long as it is a chamber of commerce involved in the magic industry, it must accept the unified management of the Magic Industry Administration.

The so-called management is to require all chambers of commerce related to the magic industry to unconditionally cooperate with the work of the Magic Industry Administration. For example, the Administration requires that all chambers of commerce related to the magic industry must have a certificate issued by the administration before they can start production.

As for this qualification certificate, the Administration has set up a corresponding qualification certificate for different magic machines.

Therefore, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which currently produces more than 100 types of magic machinery in total, needs to apply for more than 100 certificates.

And every time you apply for a certificate, the procedure is complicated. Therefore, the various fees paid are also expensive.

Just take the production certificate of Magic Refrigerator as an example. Want to get approved successfully. To do it, you need to pay as much as three hundred gold coins.

After the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has applied for the certificates for all types of magic machines, it has spent more than 40,000 gold coins.

As for the unavoidable gray expenses in the process of applying for approval, it will never be lower than this amount.

In other words, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce spent more than 80,000 gold coins just because of the requirement of the certificate.

But the validity period of the certificate is only one year...

If it is said that spending tens of thousands of gold coins a year is not a big impact on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, then another regulation of the Management Office is totally unacceptable to Xu Yi.

In the name of supporting the development of the entire kingdom's magic industry, the Magic Industry Administration requested the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to open its unique technology to other magic industry chambers in the kingdom. It is used to help other magic industry chambers grow stronger.

This request was firmly rejected by Xu Yi.

Moreover, when the Magic Industry Administration asked other magic industry chambers of commerce in the kingdom for their opinions, they also received opposition from most chambers of commerce.

Almost all chambers of commerce agree that such a regulation completely violates the most basic business principles.

If it is enforced by the Administration, it will be tantamount to breaking the iron rules of all chambers of commerce in the Lampari Kingdom.

Considering the reputation of its own chamber of commerce, no chamber of commerce dared to support this decision of the Administration.

Because the opposition was too fierce, the Administration had to give up in the end.

However, through this incident, Xu Yi thoroughly recognized King Eric's true thoughts.

It's not that he doesn't want to deal with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, on the contrary, he really wants to.

It's just that maybe it's because of concerns about the agreement with Seweney, or because he has just ascended the throne. He needs to save some face, maybe someone is giving him advice. Let him be less direct... It can also be said to make his eating less ugly.

In short, he is now taking slow, soft-looking, and unobtrusive means to target the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the magic industry represented by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Of course Xu Yi could guess what he was really thinking.

As a king, of course he hopes to firmly grasp the magic industry, which has already had a profound impact on the entire Lampari Kingdom, in his own hands.

After that, the commercial tax reform implemented by the new city lord in Bangta City, in Xu Yi's view, was already a sign that he couldn't wait.

This business tax reform is like raising a butcher knife against the magic industry represented by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, with the intention of cutting off a large piece of the fattest piece of meat. Come, fill up the die-hard nobles behind him who supported him on the throne.

Every time he thinks of this business tax policy reform, Xu Yi can't help but sneer in his heart.

With the support of those nobles, His Royal Highness Prince Eric finally got his wish and ascended the throne, but how could these nobles support him for free?

No matter how much he paid, these greedy nobles would naturally want to get several times, or even dozens of times, in return from him.

This has been clearly revealed by Duke Stark as the prime minister of the kingdom and himself as the director of the Magic Industry Management Agency.

It's just that these are Xu Yi's conjectures, but they can't elaborate with Seweini.

Looking at Sevini who was in deep thought, Xu Yi sighed softly in his heart.

He wondered how much Sevigny knew about these circumstances.

If she knew the series of actions of His Royal Highness Prince Eric, would she regret that she would rather live up to the expectations of countless people than completely give up fighting for the throne?

A young man wearing the uniform of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce suddenly ran over from a distance, and stood panting in front of Xu Yi, awakening Xu Yi and Seweini who were in deep thought at the same time.

"What's the matter?" Xu Yi was a little puzzled, but he had told him not to disturb his private conversation with Seweini.

"Yes... the president, Kamadu City... the city lord is here." The young man replied panting.

"Oh? The city lord is here again?" Xu Yi blinked and turned to Seweini with a smile. "Your Highness, are you interested in watching a good show?" (To be continued...)