Chapter 34 Changes in Bangta City

The year 3783 in the continental calendar seems to have passed very quickly for the people of the Lampari Kingdom.

In the eyes of the people in Bangta City, it seemed that the time passed in the blink of an eye.

At the beginning of the year, His Royal Highness Prince Eric led the Zhenbei Army to crusade against the Kingdom of Sark, and won many victories. Then His Majesty King Lampari XIII died of a serious illness. His Royal Highness Prince Eric suddenly changed from His Royal Highness to His Majesty the King. .

As Her Royal Highness Prince Eric ascended the throne, Her Royal Highness Princess Seweni no longer served as the lord of Banta City.

The new city lord did not bring too many changes to Bangta City at first, and once made the people of Bangta City think that Bangta City would continue to develop smoothly like this.

However, it turns out that most people think too simply.

Entering summer, when the weather just got hot, Bangta City immediately began a series of dazzling changes.

First of all, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced that in order to respond to the call of the Kingdom Magic Industry Management Agency and promote the development of the magic industry in the Kingdom of Lampari, it decided to transfer a series of magic machinery related technologies it has mastered to the Chamber of Commerce designated by the Magic Industry Management Agency.

This transfer is different from the technology transfer and sale of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the past. According to the "Banta Daily" disclosure, when transferring technology to the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magic Industry Administration, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce only charged a symbolic technology transfer fee. The manpower and material resources invested in the transfer are almost equivalent to free gifts.

Although the "Banta Daily" did not say it clearly, anyone with a brain can see that this kind of technology transfer is by no means a normal phenomenon, and it is clearly the pressure of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce under the pressure of the Magic Industry Administration. Or directly, under the pressure of His Majesty King Eric, he was forced to agree.

A week after the report was published by the "Bonta Daily", Naxi, the editor-in-chief of the "Bonta Daily", announced his resignation and left the "Bonta Daily", which seemed to confirm this speculation from the side.

Less than half a month has passed since Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced the technology transfer. Dozens of large and small chambers of commerce sprang up overnight in Bangta City.

Among these newly emerging chambers of commerce, ten are exactly the ten chambers of commerce designated in the list previously announced by the Magical Industry Administration.

As for the remaining unknown small chambers of commerce, they naturally have more or less unclear relationships with these ten chambers of commerce. The initial appearance of these chambers of commerce did not have any impact on Bangta City, but when the hot summer passed, the slightly cold autumn wind blew into Bangta City. People up and down in Bangta City have begun to feel the various obvious or inconspicuous changes brought about by these chambers of commerce, or in other words, the technology transfer of Xinfei chamber of commerce.

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Fuller Morgan, president of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, has been a little upset lately.

The end of the year is approaching, which means that the year-end statistics that the Falcao Chamber of Commerce will conduct at the end of each year are getting closer.

Prior to this, President Morgan had never been bothered by this matter. Because the main business of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce is the iron ore business, which has always been extremely stable and rarely fluctuates. As the president, he only needs to verify the statistics collected by his subordinates, and he can easily complete this work.

This year however is different.

In other words, it has been a little different since three years ago.

Three years ago, because of the establishment of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. It has driven the magic industry in Bangta City and even the entire Kingdom of Lampari, because people's demand for magic machinery is getting higher and higher, and the demand for iron is naturally getting higher and higher.

under such huge demand. The iron ore sales of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce have skyrocketed every year. The iron ore sales of last year alone are almost equal to the total sales of the five years before the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

And because of the emergence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Steel Plant, various steels with different characteristics quickly replaced the common cast iron that everyone used to use before. As a result, a large part of the iron ore produced by the Falcao Chamber of Commerce was purchased by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Steel is smelted, and only the remaining part is sold to others for common cast iron.

Although Xu Yi reached an agreement with Duke Joseph in private. However, with the increasing demand, the price of iron ore purchased by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce from Falcao Chamber of Commerce will inevitably become higher and higher.

Just go for a year. The net profit achieved by the Falcao Chamber of Commerce from selling the iron ore to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce reached an extremely impressive four million gold coins.

Originally according to President Morgan's estimate, with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce began to expand last year. With the establishment of production bases and various factories in various parts of the kingdom, the demand for iron ore by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will increase significantly again, so the net profit obtained by the Falcao Chamber of Commerce this year alone from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce may exceed 500. million gold coins.

At the beginning, people were not as good as heaven, and Chairman Morgan never expected that His Majesty King Lampari XIII would suddenly pass away this year, and the situation in Bangta City suddenly changed dramatically.

Among the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magical Industry Administration, one Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce received part of the iron and steel smelting technology from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and in just two months, with the assistance of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it established a Five steel mills.

Compared with the two steelmaking plants of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the five steelmaking plants of the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce are larger in scale and have higher production capacity. The crude steel smelted in one month is even more than three times that of the previous month of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

With so much steel smelted, there is naturally a lot of demand for pig iron.

It stands to reason that Chairman Morgan, who is the chairman of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, should be happy with the increase in pig iron sales, but he is not happy at all, but extremely upset.

The reason is simple, the purchase price given by the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce is too low.

The price of iron ore sold by the Falcao Chamber of Commerce to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has already been discounted because of the agreement between Xu Yi and Moonlight, and it has just exceeded ten gold coins per ton this year.

However, the purchase price of pig iron proposed by the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce to the Falcao Chamber of Commerce was cut in half at once, only a mere one ton of hardware coins!

This price is even lower than the price at which the Falcao Chamber of Commerce sold iron ore before the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce appeared!

However, President Morgan does not have any power of choice, and the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce needs it. He has to sell.

As for the reason? Of course, it was because behind the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce stood the arrogant nobles in the kingdom—the Stark family, and even the shadow of His Majesty King Eric.

Even Duke Joseph couldn't compete with this force.

Regarding this situation, Duke Joseph had given instructions to President Morgan more than a month ago, asking President Morgan to sell it to the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce at the price of one ton of metal coins.

Because of this low price. Chairman Morgan is very clear that the results of this year's year-end statistics must be ugly.

However, Duke Joseph has nothing to do about it, and he is naturally powerless.

The only thing he could do was to curse Xu Yi from the bottom of his heart.

"This idiot! Why do you have to transfer the steelmaking technology? Now, the price of steel produced by the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce is ten gold coins lower per ton than that of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Look at the steelmaking plant of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. How can it go on!"

However, scolding is scolding, thinking of Xu Yi, even President Morgan, who initially disliked Xu Yi, couldn't help feeling a little bit of emotion and nostalgia.

"Where did this guy go? Does he really want to give up the great foundation he laid in Bangta City?"...

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President Pomberry, who was traveling in Felson's car, was more upset than President Morgan.

Chairman Morgan is only upset that the Falcao Chamber of Commerce's profits will decline this year compared to last year, while Chairman Pomberry is upset. But this year, Felson's car and horse business may lose money!

After initially cooperating with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and focusing on public transportation and long-distance freight transportation, the profits of Felson Cars and Horses have been growing rapidly.

In the last month alone, the net profit of Felson's Car and Horse Company has exceeded 200,000 gold coins, excluding all expenses.

If this trend continues, the total profit of Felson's Car and Horse Company this year will most likely exceed last year's two million gold coins, and even touch the three million gold coin mark.

But all of this came after an order from the City Lord's Mansion. Instantly vanished.

The content of this order is very simple. Specifically, it is to strengthen the management of Bangta City. The City Lord's Mansion will incorporate the public transportation system in Bangta City into the management of the City Lord's Mansion.

At first glance, there was nothing wrong with this order, but in actual implementation, there was one that made Chairman Pompey extremely angry.

According to the regulations of the City Lord's Mansion, since the public transportation system is under the management of the City Lord's Mansion, there must be certain standards.

Of course, there is no problem with this statement. The problem is the norms and standards mentioned by the City Lord's Mansion. However, it is stipulated that the public transportation system of Bangta City currently operated by Filson Cars and Horses must be completely rectified. Magic locomotive.

As for the magic locomotive designated by the City Lord's Mansion...of course it's not the Xinfei brand.

Among the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magic Industry Administration to accept technology transfer from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. There is a Rafaeli Chamber of Commerce, which has fully accepted part of the magic locomotive production and casting technology transferred from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

With the great help of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. It took only two months for the Rafaeli Chamber of Commerce to build the first Rafaeli brand medium-sized passenger magic locomotive.

At first, Chairman Pomberry was a little surprised. Since the Rafaeli Chamber of Commerce had accepted the technology related to the magic locomotive, why did it first produce a medium-sized magic bus, but not the magic car that should be the most profitable.

But when this order from the City Lord's Mansion appeared, he immediately realized it.

The Rafaeli Chamber of Commerce has clearly colluded with the City Lord's Mansion a long time ago, and it has already been prepared!

However, if you know it, you know it, but Chairman Pomberry has nothing to do about it.

Facing the orders issued by the Banta City Lord's Mansion, which represents the will of His Majesty King Eric, what can he use to resist?

Staring at the investment evaluation and analysis report on the comprehensive replacement of the Rafaeli brand magic locomotive that he had calculated after several days in his hand, cold sweat dripped from the forehead of President Pomberry.

If you obey the orders of the City Lord's Mansion, Felson Carriage and Horse Company will have to invest at least two million gold coins for preliminary preparations.

Moreover, according to the requirements of the City Lord's Mansion, Felson Car and Horse Company must also pay a deposit of 500,000 gold coins to the City Lord's Mansion every year for contracting the urban bus system of Bangta City.

Calculated in this way, not only will it definitely lose money this year, but even if it wants to recover the initial investment from this in the future, it may be impossible.

After a long while, Chairman Pomberry suddenly threw the evaluation and analysis report on the table and shouted angrily.

"Damn it! Since I can't go on, then I quit!"