Volu 2 Chapter 20 Reason for leeching a al
Building roads is a very expensive matter.
On earth, building public roads was sothing funded by the governnt, supplented sotis by private capital. It was rare for a road to be completely built with private capital.
Because the roads connecting a country can be considered its veins, there was no doubt of its importance. If it wasn’t controlled by the governnt, it could easily beco a large problem.
If it was possible, Xu Yi naturally hoped that he could fully pay for the road construction plan across the Lampuri Kingdom.
But the fact was that the Lampuri Kingdom’s financial situation wasn’t that good. The large companies and large nobles of the kingdom had plenty of money, just the kingdom’s finances were lacking.
Reflecting this onto Banta City, the City Lord Count Sean and the chairman of those large companies could live rich lives, but Banta City itself didn’t have much finances.
It was clearly impossible to build roads when the financial situation was this bad.
So Xu Yi gave up on letting Banta City and the Lampuri Kingdom pay for these roads and decided to pay for them himself.
Viscount Leslie’s advice before leaving could be considered a warning to Xu Yi. It made him lose confidence and hope in developing on Viscount Leslie’s, or rather the Stagg Family’s land, so he had to develop the Falling Rain Valley.
Although the Falling Rain Valley’s position wasn’t bad, connecting the Falling Rain Forest and Crossing Mountains, allowing him to develop relationships with the Night Song Tribe’s elves and the dwarves of Norma Tribe and the Angola Tribe. But it was still fifty kiloters away from Banta City and if he wanted to develop it, he had to connect them and had to first build a road to Banta City.
This road was around a total of length of between fifty to fifty five kiloters. According to the Amrit Chamber of Comrce’s price of sixty silver coins per square ter of concrete, to create a road that was three ters wide, fifteen centiters thick, wide enough to hold two horse carriages, adding the base price of constructing the road, it would cost a total of around one hundred and thirty thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.
It should be said that the price of this over fifty kiloter long road wasn’t high, but the Frestech Chamber of Comrce didn’t have enough floating capital now, so Xu Yi couldn’t pay this much gold coins.
“Isn’t this simple? We’ll follow the old thod and use cent as paynt.” Chairman Cruise patted his chest and generously said to Xu Yi, “We are old friends, I believe in chairman Xu. We can help you finish this project and you can slowly pay. I’m not in a rush, ha, ha……”
Xu Yi looked at him, of course he wasn’t in a rush.
According to chairman Cruise’s plan, he wanted Xu Yi to spend even more money on this road. That way his Amrit Chamber of Comrce could keep their monopoly on the Frestech Chamber of Comrce’s cent and continue to hold their advantage in the construction industry.
Of course Xu Yi didn’t reject this thod.
He wasn’t willing to pay anyway, so using cent to pay was an acceptable thod.
The cent factory had been in the Norma Tribe for so ti and the dwarves were getting used to making the cent. Then adding in the fact that the Ferstech Chamber of Comrce had made progress in developing the Magic Cent Mixer and other magic machines, the cent output of the Norma Tribe had greatly increased. They went from last month’s amount of three thousand tons to this month’s amount of seven thousand tons.
And after the next two cent factories were added to the Norma Tribe and Angola Tribe, the Frestech Chamber of Comrce would be producing over twenty thousand tons of cent each month!
According to the price that Xu Yi had with chairman Cruise of one ton for six gold coins, it would only take a month or two for the Frestech Chamber of Comrce to pay the costs of building this road in terms of cent.
Of course, if Xu Yi sold the cent publicly, the price would be over six gold coins per ton and would earn even more money.
But the Frestech Chamber of Comrce had too many construction products and couldn’t separate from the Amrit Chamber of Comrce. Xu Yi was very happy to use cent to maintain the good relationship between the two companies.
The cent was mainly produced with the clay and listone that the dwarves dug out of the Crossing Mountains, so the cost could be basically ignored.
“Alright, we’ll do this.” Thinking of this, Xu Yi nodded and confird their cooperation again, “That’s right, chairman Cruise, I’ve heard that chairman Morgan has looked for you and wanted to develop a magic machine with your Amrit Chamber of Comrce?”
Chairman Cruise waved his hand with a look of disdain, “Che, that fellow has gone further than just looking for . He’s gone to every company in Banta City with a bit of power. But there was basically no one that agreed to him because everyone knew that it would be hard to compare to your Frestech Chamber of Comrce in terms of developing magic machines. Instead of undertaking this fruitless task, it is better to do things they excel in. Don’t you think so, chairman Xu?”
“These words are quite right.” Xu Yi nodded as he gave a cold laugh in his heart.
He believed it if the Amrit Chamber of Comrce declined the Falcao Chamber of Comrce’s cooperation deal to develop magic machines, but if they wanted him to believe that the Amrit Chamber of Comrce wasn’t interested at all in developing magic machines, Xu Yi wouldn’t believe it even if he was beaten to death.
Other than the Falcao Chamber of Comrce who didn’t plan on hiding themselves at all, almost all the large companies of Banta City had basically invested in developing magic machines.
It wasn’t just for the large profit magic machines brought, it was also to master the magic machine technology and develop magic machines that they needed.
Of the large companies of Banta City, not a single one could avoid using products made by the Frestech Chamber of Comrce.
Taking the Falcao Chamber of Comrce as an example, just last week, chairman Morgan had made an order of ten thousand small Magic Drills to Xu Yi.
At the sa ti, chairman Morgan had shown interest in the Magic Impact Crusher Xu Yi had ntioned. He said that once it was tested, he would put in a large amount with the Frestech Chamber of Comrce.
The small Magic Drill had a selling price of seventy eight gold coins, so ten thousand of them was seven hundred and eighty thousand gold coins.
And the selling price of the Magic Impact Crusher Xu Yi ntioned went as high as two hundred and sixty gold coins per unit. If one wanted to make a large order, one had to spend a large amount of gold coins without any doubt.
If the Falcao Chamber of Comrce could develop these two mining magic machines themselves and produce them, it would save them a large amount of gold coins.
The sa situation as the Falcao Chamber of Comrce was shared by the Amrit Chamber of Comrce and the other companies.
All the other companies wanted to avoid the Frestech Chamber of Comrce earning large profits from this situation, but after using those magic machines, they had to admit that the magic machines were indeed very easy to use. Right now, those companies couldn’t separate themselves from the magic machines.
Since they couldn’t separate themselves, the only thod was to develop them. They would strive to grasp this magic machine technology for themselves and no longer allow themselves to be controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Comrce.
Only other than so success on the Magic Fan technology that Xu Yi willingly handed out, as for the other magic machines, especially the large magic machines, the companies hadn’t made any developnt at all.
As these thoughts flashed in his mind, Xu Yi couldn’t help finding this funny. He patted chairman Cruise’s shoulder and said in a friendly voice, “Of course, we are good partners. If the Amrit Chamber of Comrce is really interested in developing magic machines, chairman Cruise can just talk to . If there is sothing I can help with, I will definitely do my best.”
“Really?” Chairman Cruise’s eyes lit up, but he then caught himself. He gave an awkward smile and shook his head as he said, “No, no, our Amrit Chamber of Comrce will honestly stay in the business of construction. A complicated thing like magic machines is sothing chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Comrce can play with, I won’t ss around.”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and didn’t continue this topic. He then discussed the concrete plans of constructing this road with chairman Cruise.
After discussing with chairman Cruise until the evening, Xu Yi rejected chairman Cruise’s invitation for dinner and headed to a yard that occupied a rather large space to the south of Banta City.
Since Evita and Akali’s five classmates joined, the small building the two lived in before clearly wasn’t enough as a research lab, so Xu Yi had rented this yard ahead of ti with the Frestech Chamber of Comrce’s na.
This courtyard used be a viscount’s residence in Banta City, but since that viscount left Banta City, it was empty for Xu Yi to buy.
The yard took up a space of over two thousand square ters, including three small buildings and several houses. Other than giving the ten mbers of the research lab a place to work, it also gave Evita and Akali’s five classmates a place to live.
When Xu Yi entered the courtyard, he slled sothing fragrant.
Taking a sniff, Xu Yi was certain that tonight’s dinner was made by Evita.
As expected, when he entered the main hall, he saw Evita taking off an apron and preparing to start eating.
Seeing Xu Yi suddenly co over, the group was stunned.
After a while, Akali jumped up and excitedly called to Xu Yi, “Sir chairman, why are you here?”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “I haven’t eaten yet, so I ca here to leech a al.”
Looking over the dishes on the table, Xu Yi pointed to one that was rather dark and said with a smile, “Let guess, this one should be made by Akali, right?”
Akali angrily looked at Xu Yi and said with a cold snort, “I’m sorry, sir chairman, you were wrong.”
“Oh? Other than you, there is soone else who can turn stir fried vegetables into baked vegetables?” Xu Yi asked in a fake surprised manner.
Everyone broke out in laughter.
“Sir chairman, you really guessed wrong. This dish was sothing that Cecilia offered to make, it really wasn’t made by Akali.” Bella on the side said with a smile.
“Ah?” Xu Yi looked at the blushing Cecilia in surprise. He never thought that this shy and gentle girl who was even worse than Evita would be even worse than Akali at cooking, “This really is surprising still. I thought that gentle girls like Evita knew how to cook, but I never thought there was an exception.”
Cecilia lowered her head even more and silently gnawed on the bread in her hand, not saying a word.
“Sir chairman, stop bullying Cecilia, she is very shy.” A girl nad Claire with natural black curls said with a smile, “If she can’t take it and cos to my room to cry, I have to ask sir chairman for compensation.”
Cecilia suddenly looked up and hit Claire’s shoulder, as she angrily said, “You’re the one who cried!”
Seeing Cecilia act like this, everyone couldn’t help breaking out in laughter.
Finding that even Schoch who always had a bad expression couldn’t help smiling, Xu Yi couldn’t help feeling satisfied.
It seems like after working here for a bit, these young people had gotten used to living here.
It was because of their vigor and talent that the Frestech Chamber of Comrce could develop those shocking magic machines.
These youths didn’t know this, but Xu Yi was certain on this.
As long as they worked hard, they would definitely beco powerful magic chanical engineers, becoming an important part of the magic machine industry.
Looking over their young faces, Xu Yi suddenly found a problem.
“That’s right, where’s Wella? Why don’t I see her? Did she go out to eat?” Xu Yi asked.
To make research more convenient, after Xu Yi bought this courtyard, he had Wella move from the laboratory at the factory over here.
Because Wella was now alone in Banta City, all her food and accommodations were taken care of like Claire and the others.
“Big sister Wella went out before eating, she said she wanted to see soone and didn’t know when she would co back.” Evita responded.
“See soone?” Xu Yi was a bit confused.
Since coming back from Saltan City, Wella hadn’t been willing to go out during this ti. She didn’t want to see her acquaintances in Banta City, so who did she suddenly go out to see?”
“Perhaps big sister Wella went to find so boyfriend, we don’t need to wait for her.” Akali waved her hand, “Sir chairman, sit down and eat. It’s a good thing that Evita made so more today. But why don’t you go ho to eat today? What about Vivian?”
“There’s so activity at school today, so Vivian is eating dinner at school. Otherwise would I co here to leech a al off you?” Xu Yi casually replied before doubtfully sitting down.
“This isn’t right. Even if you want to leech a al, you should go to Still’s house. You are Still’s boyfriend now, Still will definitely welco you if you go leech a al.” Bella said.
Schoch sitting opposite Xu Yi froze. He looked up at Xu Yi and a complicated look appeared in his eyes, before he lowered his head to silently eat his al.
“I want to, but Still hasn’t co back from Karma City after doing an advertisent there for our company. I can’t just have a candlelight dinner with Great Magician Camilla alone, right?”
Everyone broke out in laughter again.
When the laughter stopped, there were footsteps that ca from the door.
Xu Yi turned to look and saw Wella walking in with soone else.
Seeing the person beside her, Xu Yi was stunned.
“Rem? Why are you back again?”
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