Chapter 45 Move

A medium-sized freight locomotive quickly galloped on the black rice wasteland.

The road under the tires is the latest investment and construction of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which adopts the new technology of the Amley Chamber of Commerce. The previous road was smoother.

Even if you run on it at a speed close to 50 kilometers per hour, you will still only feel slight bumps without any discomfort.

In fact, this speed has exceeded the speed rating standard of the medium-sized freight magic locomotive of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but for an old driver like Sakchi, speeding and the like are commonplace.

If it weren't for the fact that the limit speed of this medium-sized cargo magic locomotive was only fifty kilometers per hour, he would definitely run faster.

Papa Sakchi put one hand on the steering wheel, and with the other hand, he casually grabbed a bottle of fresh juice and drank it down in one gulp.

It's early winter now, ()3.s. This bottle of fresh juice has been left for a long time, so it's naturally a little cold, and Sakchi's father shivered involuntarily after he poured it down.

It is easy to get tired after driving for too long. Drinking a sip of cold fresh fruit juice can not only stimulate the spirit, but also supplement some nutrition. This is what Sakchi often does when he is transporting goods. Just after the can of fresh juice was put down, Father Batru, who was lying in the back row of the cab, woke up, yawned, got up and looked outside, and asked Father Sakchi, "Where are you?"

"Just went to the Black Rice Wasteland." Father Sakchi replied casually.

Father Batru looked at the environment outside the car and nodded: "Well, it's okay. It's all right. Let me drive instead. You have been driving for several hours."

"It's okay." Sakchi's father vetoed it. "We'll be at the base of the Black Rice Wasteland in a while. We'll change after we get out of there. You need to wake up first before talking."

Father Batru thought for a while, but he didn't insist at home. He crawled from the back row to the passenger seat with a bowed body, and sat down with his body curled up.

After looking outside in a muffled voice for a while, Father Batru suddenly asked, "Hey, Sakchi, are you really planning to move?".

Father Sakchi didn't expect him to ask this question as soon as he woke up. After being stunned for a moment, he nodded and hummed.

"I will take a good look at the environment of the Principality of Standing this time, and then decide whether to really move there. However, according to the guys in the village who have lived in the Principality of Standing for more than a year, the environment of the Principality of Standing is It's really nice, the climate is good, and they all live very comfortably. So I think... most of them will choose to move." Father Batru frowned slightly, turned his head to look at Father Sakchi's expression, and confirmed He didn't look like he was joking.

"This... Your family has lived in Mexico Village for more than a hundred years, right? Do you really want to move a lot of characters? Why are you willing?"

Sakchi's father sneered nonchalantly and said, "What's the reluctance? Where do you live? In the final analysis, where you can live a good life, you will naturally choose where. Now Bangta City has been messed up by those chambers of commerce. It's smoky, stay there. There must be no good fruit to eat."

"That's not the case..." Father Batru retorted: "Although those chambers of commerce are not as solid as the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, they are only a few chambers of commerce after all, and can they turn Bangta City over? "

"You don't believe it?" Father Sakchi snorted coldly. "Those guys can even forcefully drive away the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. What else can't be done? Even if you don't talk about it, just talk about our family. Now the three boys in my family have lost their previous jobs. If you are looking for a job in Tacheng, you can only go to those chambers of commerce. But do you know how much they pay? Six gold coins a month! It’s not as good as half of their previous monthly salary!”…

Father Batrou said in a muffled voice: "Six gold coins is not too much to live on. In the past, if we didn't earn any money in a month, we still survived."

"It used to be the past, anyway, let me live the life that I didn't even have enough to eat, I will definitely not do it." Sakchi's father snorted coldly: "The three boys in our family are also unwilling to do it." , So we discussed it and decided to move. As long as you run to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, you can earn nearly 20 gold coins a month for any job, which is not much better than staying in Bangta City."

"That's what I said, but Sakchi, have you ever thought about a question?" Father Batru asked again. "According to the latest regulations of the City Lord's Mansion, those who move out of Bangta City without authorization will automatically be regarded as giving up their status as citizens of Bangta City. In other words, it is easy for you to move out, but it is difficult to move back. And I am worried... ...The Kingdom Council might come up with a similar regulation in the future. What if they are not recognized as citizens of the Kingdom after moving away, what should we do?"

"If you don't admit it, then don't admit it." Sakchi's father still looked indifferent, obviously thinking about this issue long ago. "As I said just now, wherever you can live well, then go there, it has nothing to do with Bangta City, Lampari Kingdom or anything."

"But we are from Lampari after all, so we just left... Are you really willing?"

"Why can't we bear it? Now this bullshit king is tossing around and doesn't treat us civilians as human beings. Why are we so reluctant? Common people like us don't think about any major national affairs. Anyway, those big shots never regard us as human beings. Put it in your eyes." Sakchi's father said with a look of disdain.

Father Batru was silent for a moment, and couldn't help but smile wryly.

Although he always felt that Father Sarkozy's attitude was wrong, he couldn't find any reason to refute him.

Because what Papa Sakchi said is true.

After the new His Majesty King Eric ascended the throne, the entire Lampari Kingdom and Bangta City have changed.

Bangta City, which was originally thriving and prosperous, has now been completely reduced to a plaything in the hands of the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magical Industry Administration.

In addition to driving away the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and squeezing out other chambers of commerce that produce magic machinery, and occupying the magic industry in Bangta City, those ten chambers of commerce have now extended their hands to other fields, and gradually want to erode those old brands in Bangta City. Chambers of Commerce market.

Although those old chambers of commerce are still desperately resisting with their own background, they have become more and more difficult, and gradually began to show signs of collapse.

If it's just a normal business competition, that's all. It doesn't have any direct relationship with ordinary civilians like Papa Sakchi and Batrou. Maybe there will be some benefits from the competition between chambers of commerce.

But the problem is, after those ten chambers of commerce controlled what fields, they also deeply affected the lives of ordinary civilians.

For example, what Papa Sakchi said just now, the ten chambers of commerce now control the magic industry in Bangta City, but they have suddenly suppressed the average salary of this industry that creates the most job opportunities to an extremely low standard, making Bangta City It is unacceptable to all the civilians who have been in this industry before.

Let’s take the cargo transportation that the two of them are currently engaged in as an example. If they transported goods from Bangta City to Anweimar City before, the round-trip shipping cost was 30 gold coins. Aside from the consumption on the way, they could earn about ten gold coins from it. gold.

At the most in a month, they can even make more than ten trips, earning close to two hundred gold coins.

Divided equally, each person gets close to one hundred gold coins, which can be regarded as a high income even in the previous Bangta City.

However, now these ten chambers of commerce control the commercial transportation of Bangta City, and they have suppressed the freight with all their strength. If they transport the goods to Anweimar City, the round-trip freight will only be paid 15 gold coins, which is only half of the previous one!

With such a low shipping cost, if you ignore the consumption on the way, you can only earn a few gold coins at most.

If something goes wrong on the way, you might lose all your money, or even lose money to go in.

So after two trips like this, Father Sakchi decided not to accept the freight business of those ten chambers of commerce. All kinds of transportation between.

Although they were a lot more tired than before because of the long distance, the shipping fee given by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was always kind, and their profit was only slightly lower than before, but not much worse.

There are a lot of private cargo like them in Bangta City. Except for some of them who can't continue to work, most of the rest choose to continue to cooperate with Xinfei Chamber of Commerce like them.

And because of the deliberate suppression of those ten chambers of commerce, Filson Carriage and Horse Company, which originally occupied most of the freight and passenger transport business in Bangta City, is now having a difficult time, and it is said that it will soon be unable to persist.

The last time Father Batru met Chairman Pompey in the city of Bonta by accident, he saw that he had a gloomy face, and even his body, which had always been extremely obese, had obviously lost a lot of weight.

Thinking of the sad expression on President Pompey's face at that time, Father Bartru suddenly felt that what Sakchi said was actually very reasonable.

Since it is impossible to live in Bangta City, why bother to stick to it.

For the great figures in those kingdoms, the life and death of these low-level civilians have never been in their hearts.

Since they don't care about me, why should I care about them?

After figuring this out, Batrou's father felt a sudden enlightenment in front of him, and his whole body was much refreshed.

After thinking for a while, he said to Sakchi's father, "Okay, this time I will also take the opportunity to observe the environment in the Principality of Standing. I hope it is as good as those people say."

Seeing that Batru's father had finally changed his mind, Sakchi's father suddenly burst out laughing.

"Don't worry, that place is definitely better than you think."

Father Batrou nodded lightly, and he couldn't help but feel a little more anticipation for this trip.

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