Volu 4 Chapter 27 Holding the butcher’s knife
When his highness Eric took over, the kingdom was going to change and many people in Banta City were worried.
When her highness Seveni was the Banta City’s City Lord, Banta City was like Seveni’s back garden, full of her faithful supporters.
Now that his highness Eric had taken the throne, then according to normal conventions, the previous situation would have been taken care of. For Banta City that explicitly showed their support for Seveni, it would definitely be sothing his highness Eric took care of.
Of all the companies in Banta City, the most worrying was naturally the Frestech Chamber of Comrce.
The Frestech Chamber of Comrce was the closest to her highness in Banta City and chairman Xu was a firm supporter of her highness Seveni, rejecting his highness Eric in public many tis, so he had completely made a break with his highness Eric before.
To everyone, the Frestech Chamber of Comrce was a thorn in his highness Eric’s eyes, so once he took the throne, the Frestech Chamber of Comrce wouldn’t be able to escape his sights.
It was because of this worry that Xu Yi had to put his plan in place ahead of ti, forcing him to stop developing the Falling Rain valley and moving the most precious resources over to the Stantine Duchy. It was all in case his highness Eric made a move.
But facts surprised everyone.
After his highness Eric took over the throne, he didn’t make any excessive moves on Banta City and didn’t start with the Frestech Chamber of Comrce like everyone expected. He even made a statent that comnded the Frestech Chamber of Comrce for all they’ve done in developing Banta City which made everyone’s jaws drop.
Moreover, although the new City Lord was appointed by his highness......Alright, it should be King Eric now. After he arrived in Banta City, he was very friendly towards Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Comrce. It wasn’t like how Count Stagg imdiately aid at the Frestech Chamber of Comrce once he took over.
Other than this, the new City Lord indicated that he would support the developnt of the magic machine industry. He would go around the foundations her highness Seveni built and develop Banta City to beco one of the most prosperous cities in the Lampuri Kingdom.
Everyone was confused by what King Eric and the new City Lord did.
His majesty Eric.....just what was he thinking?
For this question, his majesty Eric had accepted a special interview from the «Lampuri Weekly» to explicitly show his position.
He claid in the interview that he was just a normal prince and because he was competing for the throne with Seveni, naturally the Frestech Chamber of Comrce that supported her would be his enemy and he would try to take them down.
But once he beca king, he began thinking from the angle of a king and he found that the magic machine industry represented by the Frestech Chamber of Comrce was of great help to the developnt of the kingdom.
Since he was the king, the thing he had to think about first was the developnt of the kingdom.
The Frestech Chamber of Comrce and the magic machine industry was good for the kingdom, so of course he would support their developnt. It wasn’t strange for him to change his attitude towards them.
Through King Eric’s statent, everyone understood.
It had to be said, King Eric’s explanation was quite reasonable.
He was already the king, so naturally his eyes couldn’t be narrow. He had to consider the benefits of the kingdom before doing anything.
It was said that.....after this interview was published to the entire kingdom, the regions that had been opposed to his highness Eric taking the throne stopped complaining. The prestige of King Eric in the kingdom had increased without a doubt.
Even Banta City that was most worried about King Eric had many new voices that supported the king.
Suddenly, the Lampuri Kingdom beca like how Seveni described it to Xu Yi before.
With the stable throne, the Lampuri Kingdom would be able to develop in the most stable manner.
Seeing the situation in Banta City and the kingdom, even Xu Yi had hesitated a bit.
However.....facts proved that everyone was happy to soon, especially Xu Yi.
A month after his highness Eric took the throne, it was little by little at first, but if one looked carefully, bad news kept coming for the Frestech Chamber of Comrce.
First it was inspections on the Frestech Chamber of Comrce’s factories in the various other cities.
In na, it was because the king cared about the developnt of the magic machine industry, so they wanted to conduct an inspection of the Frestech Chamber of Comrce.
But in truth, during this inspection, there were many production magic machines and even entire production lines that were taken away as part of the investigation. There were even so workers and so engineers that were taken away.
Although the people were released, the magic machines had never co back.
After that, the kingdom’s parliant had established a magic machine industry managent departnt.
As the na suggested, this was a departnt that managed all the companies involved in the magic machine industry in the kingdom.
The one that bore the brunt of this was naturally the Frestech Chamber of Comrce.
According to the rules of the magic machine industry managent departnt, as long as a company was involved in the magic machine industry, they would be managed by the departnt.
This so-called managent was requesting each company to work with the magic machine industry managent departnt. For example, the departnt required all the companies involved in the magic machine industry to have a certificate from the departnt before they started producing.
On this certificate, the departnt gave different certificates for different magic machines.
For the Frestech Chamber of Comrce that produced over a hundred kinds of magic machines, they needed over a hundred different certificates.
For each certificate, not ntioning the complicated process, just the paynts made weren’t small.
For just the Magic Refrigerator certificate, if it was approved, it would take three hundred gold coins for a certificate.
After the Frestech Chamber of Comrce received the certificate for all their magic machines, they had spent over forty thousand gold coins on this.
As for the amount that couldn’t be avoided during the process, it wasn’t less than this number.
This ant that just to apply for certificates, the Frestech Chamber of Comrce had paid over eighty thousand gold coins.
Those certificates only lasted a year......
If having to pay tens of thousands of gold coins a year wasn’t considered much, the other rule that the departnt made was sothing that Xu Yi couldn’t accept.
In the na of developing the kingdom’s magic machine industry, they requested the Frestech Chamber of Comrce to give all their unique technology to the other companies to help the other magic machine companies grow stronger.
This was a request that Xu Yi firmly rejected.
Moreover, when the departnt asked the opinions of the other companies, they were rejected by most of the other companies.
Almost all the companies thought that this went completely against the basic principles of business.
If the departnt enforced this, it would be equal to breaking the iron laws of all the companies in the Lampuri Kingdom.
To care about their reputation, no company dared to support the departnt.
Because of the strong opposition, the departnt gave up in the end.
However, through this matter, Xu Yi knew the true ideas of King Eric.
It wasn’t that he didn’t touch the Frestech Chamber of Comrce, rather he wanted to very much.
But whether it was because he was worried about Seveni or his own throne that he had just taken, he had to remain reserved for so tis, otherwise others would have ideas towards him. He couldn’t be this direct.....or it could be said that his table manners weren’t ugly.
In short, he was using slow and gentle thods that didn’t attract people’s attention to attack the magic machine industry the Frestech Chamber of Comrce represented.
Xu Yi of course could guess his true thoughts.
As a king, he would want to tightly grasp sothing that could deeply affect the Lampuri Kingdom like the magic machine industry in his hands.
As for the tax changes in Banta City, that to Xu Yi seed like he couldn’t wait any longer.
This business tax was clearly a butcher’s knife over the magic machine industry represented by the Frestech Chamber of Comrce. The intention was to cut away the fattest piece of at and then fill it with the nobles that had supported him to the throne.
When he thought of the tax changes, Xu Yi couldn’t help giving a cold laugh in his heart.
His highness Eric had taken the throne with the support of the nobles, but how could those nobles support him for free?
The greedy nobles wanted him to pay many tis what they paid him, even more than ten tis over.
Duke Stagg who had beco the pri minister was also the chief of the magic machine industry managent departnt, which clearly proved this point.
But there were only Xu Yi’s guesses, he couldn’t say it to Seveni.
Seeing Seveni in thought, Xu Yi gave a sigh in his heart.
He didn’t know how much Seveni knew about this situation.
If she knew about his highness Eric’s actions, would she regret letting down the people that had supported her by giving up the throne?
A young man wearing the Frestech Chamber of Comrce’s uniform ran over. He was panting as he stood in front of Xu Yi, shaking Xu Yi and Seveni out of their thoughts.
“Did sothing happen?” Xu Yi was a bit confused, he had said that no one was allowed to disrupt his discussion with Seveni if nothing happened.
“Sir.....Sir chairman, Kamado.....The Lord City Lord is there.” The young man replied while panting.
“Oh? The Lord City Lord is here again?” Xu Yi was surprised before turning to smile at Seveni, “Your highness, are you interested in seeing a good play?”
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