Chapter 101 You Are a Hypocritical Guy

Billel's letter and the accompanying progress report were delivered to Xu Yi three days later. ▲∴,

Seeing that the letter mentioned that someone in the Candela Empire showed interest in the magic freight locomotive, Xu Yi was not too surprised.

In fact, compared to magic cars, Xu Yi has always felt that all kinds of freight and passenger magic locomotives are more practical.

From a practical point of view, it is obvious that all kinds of passenger and freight magic locomotives should be more popular.

This is also clearly reflected in sales in the Kingdom of Lampari and surrounding countries.

Since Xinfei Chamber of Commerce started selling all kinds of magic locomotives until now, the total sales of magic cars is less than 50,000, and the cumulative sales of all kinds of freight passenger and freight magic locomotives have exceeded 500,000. More than ten times the sales volume.

Now in these surrounding countries, all kinds of magic locomotives have already completely replaced the traditional horse-drawn carriages. In addition to some nostalgic people who are using them, other people range from princes and nobles to ordinary people, whether traveling or carrying goods. All kinds of magic locomotives will be selected.

After all, compared to traditional carriages, magic locomotives are far superior in terms of carrying capacity, speed, and the most important comfort of carriages.

Now, even those who are not able to buy a magic car will prefer to choose a new type of passenger magic locomotive replaced by various car dealers when traveling, or simply take a rental magic car that is popular in the Kingdom of Lampari, and will not go to their own To ask for trouble, choose to take a horse-drawn carriage.

Of course, this is also due to the establishment of the road traffic network in these surrounding countries, which has created good traffic conditions for the operation of the magic locomotive.

The reason why Xu Yi first launched the magic car in the Candela Empire. I just hope to impress those qualified people in the upper echelons of the Candela Empire through the magic car. Get them interested in the Magic Car. Hence the interest in laying roads.

After the Candela Empire also begins to build a paved road transportation network, it will become logical to promote all kinds of passenger and freight magic locomotives.

But now that some people have noticed the convenience brought by the magic freight locomotive and have become interested in the magic freight locomotive, then Xu Yi will naturally not refuse.

It was originally Xu Yi's idea that Billier founded the chamber of commerce called "Billier Magic Motorcycle Firm" instead of "Billier Magic Car Firm".

In Xu Yi's reply to Billier, he made it clear. If someone wants to buy a freight or passenger magic locomotive, Billel can agree to it.

And Xu also assured Billil that he would entrust Billil with full authority over the business related to magic locomotives in the Candela Empire of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so as to reassure Billil.

As for the progress report that Bilil sent with the letter, it was a report about Xu Yi asking him to organize a magic car race in the Candela Empire.

It should be said that Billier moved very quickly.

It has only been less than half a year since he went to the Candela Empire, and he has already established a reputation in the aristocratic circles in Wimbledon, and has successfully organized some young aristocrats who love magic cars and racing cars. Car racing competitions are held here.

Follow Billy's description. This car race is very popular among the young aristocratic circles in Wimbledon City, under his deliberate arrangement. A rhythm of holding once a week has been formed.

Next, Billil will gradually standardize this event according to the plan, and then rely on Prince Frank's relationship to make this event open and transparent, and make it a regular event that attracts attention.

Therefore, Billier needs Xu Yi to give him some support. For example, they lack a formal track now, and they lack certain experienced management talents...

Xu Yi had already prepared these requirements for Billil, so naturally it was not a problem.

Judging from Billier's progress report, if everything goes well, maybe by the end of this year, the first regular racing competition may be held in Wimbledon.

This is very good news for Xu Yi, because it means that the magic car will gain public attention in Wimbledon, and it means that the products of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have officially entered the Candela Empire market for the first time.

In addition, there is another piece of good news, that is, through some relationship, Ambassador Hakain finally got the official approval of the Candela Empire to build a road in the southwestern province of the Candela Empire.

This road will start from the border of the Principality of Norton and the Empire of Kendela, and run through the entire southwestern province.

Although the end point was not directly connected to the city of Wimbledon as Xu Yi had expected, it was already more than 700 kilometers long and could completely become the main traffic road for the southwestern province of the Candela Empire.

The total cost of this road is about 1.5 million gold coins. It is nominally paved by Ambassador Hakanin and the Governor's Office of the Southwest Province of the Kandela Empire. The Provincial Governor's Mansion contributed 500,000 gold coins.

But in fact, the one million gold coins donated by Ambassador Hakanin are borne by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Amley Chamber of Commerce each, and Ambassador Hakanin only occupies one name.

The nominally 500,000 gold coins required to pay for the governor's office in the southwestern province of the Candela Empire were also offset by various preferential policies for this road. In fact, there was no need to pay a single gold coin.

Of course, these preferential policies are only nominally convenient. For example, after the paving of this road, the Governor’s Office of the Southwest Province will give support to the construction team of the Amly Chamber of Commerce and assist the Amly Chamber of Commerce in expropriating the land along the road. And adjust the relocation of people along the road, etc...

But when it comes to actual implementation, many things are just a matter of the governor's office of the Southwest Province, and at most they only send one or two people to assist. The real work is still done by the Amley Chamber of Commerce.

And in order for these people to work hard together, the Amley Chamber of Commerce had to take good care of them in private, and paid a lot of invisible capital investment for this.

Faced with this situation, Chairman Cruise is naturally full of complaints.

"Damn it, this must be the most embarrassing road I've ever built." President Cruise cursed unceremoniously. "It was the noble officials who begged me to build the road on our side. They tried their best to say good things to us. But when we went to the Candela Empire to build this road, we needed us to beg them desperately and say good things to them. Damn, This is building roads for them and creating convenience for them! As a result, they still have all kinds of embarrassments, are these guys all idiots?"

Seeing Chairman Cruise's angry appearance, Xu Yi laughed, waved his hands, and said in relief: "Okay. After all, this is the first road in the Candela Empire. If we can build it, we will succeed. You have to be right Do you have confidence in the road you built? Think about it, once this road is successfully built, those guys in the Candela Empire see that the road is so easy to use, how could they not want to build a few more? When the time comes, they will beg you to help When they build roads, you don't have to be so frustrated."

President Cruise snorted heavily: "Wait until then, see if I don't make them pay a little price!"

Xu Yi smiled, and had no opinion on Chairman Cruise's idea.

Not only was the Amrit Chamber of Commerce aggrieved when dealing with the Candela Empire, their Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was also often aggrieved by the arrogance of this huge empire when they were in contact with the Candela Empire.

If the Candela Empire could be made to pay more, Xu Yi would not be the slightest bit polite.

"There is no need to worry about the Candela Empire for the time being. We will be in a hurry then." Xu Yi paused. "Now those slaves have taken their places on the islands, but there are only some simple houses on those islands. There is no resettlement at all, so I hope you can send enough people as soon as possible. Now the resettlement houses on those islands Build it up."

President Cruise frowned: "Xu Yi, you also know how troublesome it is to build a house on those islands? The manpower is okay, and the supply of some needed building materials is far worse than that on land. Easy. Speaking of it, why do you have to send all the slaves to the island? If you really bring the slaves back to the Principality of Standing as others feared, you must let them return to civilian status, and then If it’s not easy to control, it’s the same to throw them on the Black Rice Wasteland. Anyway, the Black Rice Wasteland still belongs to the Lampari Kingdom in name, but the “Slave Abolition Act” has not been passed.”

"No, I'm not worried about that." Xu Yi smiled and shook his head. "And in fact, after I accepted those slaves, their slave status has been abolished. They are actually ordinary civilians now."

"Huh?" President Cruise was taken aback. "No? You really restored them all to civilians? You...you wouldn't be so stupid?"

"Stupid?" Xu Yi shrugged. "I don't think so. As I said before, the identity of slaves is a major obstacle to the liberation of their productivity. Only by solving this identity problem can I give full play to the value hidden in them."

"But if they are restored to civilian status, why should they listen to your arrangement?" Chairman Cruise asked with a frown.

"It's very simple, interest." Xu Yi replied with a smile. "You may not know these slaves. In fact, even if they have recovered their status as civilians, because they were slaves before, even if they continue to stay here, they will still be discriminated against and will not be accepted by most people. So Even after returning to their status as civilians, almost all of them obeyed my arrangement and settled on the island I arranged for them. In addition, although they are no longer slaves, they all voluntarily recognize me as their lord. I have jurisdiction over them as well."

President Cruise frowned and looked at Xu Yi for a long time, then shook his head slowly.

"Xu Yi, to be honest, sometimes I really think you are a very hypocritical guy."

"Oh? How to say?"

"You obviously need these slaves to listen to you completely, but you want to occupy a noble name. I said, why are you bothering? Even if you really use them as slaves, no one will blame you. Anyway, the history of slavery on this continent has existed for tens of thousands of years, so it is strange to act like you."

Xu Yi was silent for a moment, and sighed softly: "Perhaps you are right, I am a hypocrite. The reason why I have to go through so much trouble is actually just for my own peace of mind. What do you want to liberate these slaves? productivity, just making excuses."

President Cruise frowned even tighter: "So I don't understand even more. Why do you have such an idea? What makes you uneasy about using slaves? This is too strange."

Xu Yi shook his head, thinking that it was all because he came from an earth that was far more civilized than this world, and he had received an education that everyone was equal since he was a child, and he had read countless criticisms of slavery in books since he was a child, so he hated this thing deeply.

But this involves his biggest secret, how can he explain it to Chairman Cruise? (To be continued..)