Volu 5 Chapter 101 You are a hypocrite
The letter from Belil with the report on what happened after reached Xu Yi’s hands three days later.
Seeing how people were interested in the Magic Cars in the Candra Empire in the letter, Xu Yi wasn’t that surprised.
Actually, compared to the Magic Sedan, Xu Yi always thought that transport and passenger Magic Cars had more practical uses.
In terms of practicality, it was clear that transport and passenger Magic Cars should be more popular.
In Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding kingdoms, the number of sales clearly demonstrated this.
Since the Frestech Chamber of Comrce started selling Magic Cars, the Magic Sedans had only sold fifty thousand units. When it ca to the various transport and passenger magic machines, their sales numbers had reached five hundred thousand, which was ten tis more than the Magic Sedans.
In the surrounding countries, the Magic Cars had already replaced horse carriages. Other than so stubborn people, from the nobles of those countries to the citizens, whether it was transporting goods or people, they all used Magic Cars.
After all, compared to traditional horse carriages, Magic Cars were much better than horse carriages whether it was in terms of speed, carrying capacity, or comfort.
Even if people couldn’t buy Magic Sedans, they would choose to take the Magic Cars that were replacing horse carriages. Or they would rent the Magic Sedans that ca from the Lampuri Kingdom, not choosing to ride in horse carriages.
Of course, this also was the benefit of building roads in the surrounding countries, giving the Magic Cars a network of roads to drive across.
Xu Yi promoted the Magic Sedan in the Candra Empire first in hopes of moving the upper class of the Candra Empire with these Magic Sedans. He wanted them to beco interested in the Magic Sedans, making them more interested in paving roads.
Then after the roads were laid down in the Candra Empire, it would beco logical from the passenger and transport Magic Cars to beco popular.
But since there were people that cared about the benefits of the transport Magic Cars ahead of ti, becoming interested in them, Xu Yi naturally wouldn’t reject them.
The company Belil set up being called the “Belil Magic Car Store” instead of the “Belil Magic Sedan Store” was from Xu Yi’s suggestion.
In the reply that Xu Yi gave Belil, he clearly stated that if people wanted to buy transport or passenger Magic Cars, Belil could agree to this.
Moreover, Xu Yi promised Belil that he would be able to manage all the Magic Car related business of the Frestech Chamber of Comrce in the Candra Empire, which cald Belil.
As for the progress report Belil sent, this was related to the Magic Sedan racing event Xu Yi wanted him to open in the Candra Empire.
It should be said that Belil moved very quickly.
In less than half a year in the Candra Empire, he had already beco famous among the Wimbledon City nobles. Moreover, not only did he get them to like the Magic Sedans, he had even gathered the young nobles who liked racing cars in secret to hold a car race.
According to what Belil said, this car race was very popular among the young nobles of Wimbledon City. Under his arrangent, they would be holding a race every week at a regular ti.
Next Belil would gradually standardize this race. With his relationship to Prince Frank, he would be able to make it more public and it would beco an official event that people cared about.
Therefore Belil needed a certain amount of support from Xu Yi. For example, they were still lacking an official race track, as well as people who were skilled in managing it.....
Xu Yi had already prepared these for Belil, so naturally there wasn’t a problem.
From Belil’s report, if everything went smoothly, at the end of the year, they might be able to hold their first official car race in Wimbledon City.
This was very good news for Xu YI because this ant that Magic Sedans were receiving public acknowledgent in Wimbledon City. This was the first ti the Frestech Chamber of Comrce’s products had officially entered the Candra Empire’s market.
Other than this, there was another good piece of news. It was that ambassador Hakanin through an unknown connection had finally gotten the Candra Empire to agree to building a road in the Candra Empire’s southwest province under his na.
This road would start from the Norton Duchy border and cut through the entire southwest province.
It wouldn’t directly connect to Wimbledon City as Xu Yi wanted, but it was already seven hundred kiloters long, which was enough to beco the main road in the Candra Empire’s southwest province.
This road would cost one and half million gold coins, being built in the na of ambassador Hakanin and the southwest province’s governor. Hakanin would be investing one million gold coins, while the southwest governor would be investing half a million.
But in reality, the million gold coins was split between the Frestech Chamber of Comrce and the Amrit Chamber of Comrce, ambassador Hakanin was just providing his na.
The five hundred thousand the southwest province governor needed to pay was covered by the preferential treatnt for this road, so they didn’t need to pay a single gold coin.
This preferential treatnt was only in na. For example, while the road was being built, the southwest governor would send out so construction forces, help them take the land required for the road, and deploy people to watch over the construction.....
But in reality, this was just the southwest province’s governors’ words. At most he would only send a few helpers, but the main work force would co from the Amrit Chamber of Comrce.
And for these people to work with them, the Amrit Chamber of Comrce had to pay quite a bit of secret investnt to them.
In this situation, chairman Cruise was naturally dissatisfied.
“Damn, this is definitely the worst I’ve been treated when building a road.” Chairman Cruise didn’t hold back as he cursed, “Those nobles are begging us to build roads on our side, praising us with all their might. But when we go to the Candra Empire to build roads, we actually need to beg them and praise them. Damn, this is building a road for them and giving them benefits! But they are still making it hard for us, are these people idiots?”
Seeing chairman Cruise’s angry appearance, Xu Yi gave a laugh. He waved his hand and comforted him, “Alright, this is the first road in the Candra Empire, so if we can build this, you need to have so confidence in the road. Think about it, once this road is finished, the Candra Empire will not just know how useful it is, wouldn’t they want to build more of them? When they co asking you to help them build roads, you don’t need to be this aggrieved.”
Chairman Cruise gave a strong snort, “When that ti cos, see if I don’t make them pay the price!”
Xu Yi smiled, having no opinion of chairman Cruise’s idea.
Not only did the Amrit Chamber of Comrce suffer when dealing with the Candra Empire, even their Frestech Chamber of Comrce suffered from the Candra Empire’s arrogance when dealing with them.
If they could make the Candra Empire pay a price, Xu Yi wouldn’t hesitate at all.
“You don’t need to rush with the Candra Empire side, our side is more troubleso.” Xu Yi paused before saying, “The slaves have now been separated to their islands, but these islands only have the most simple residences. It’s far from being a settlent, so I need you to send out more people and build more buildings on these islands.”
Chairman Cruise knit his brows, “Xu Yi, you also know how troubleso it is to build houses on those islands. Manpower is fine, but it’s not easy to transport the building materials from the continent. Speaking of this, why do you want to send those slaves to the islands? If you are really worried like the others, bring them back to the Stantine Duchy, you have to free them. If they aren’t easy to control, you can just throw them on the Black Rice Wasteland. The Black Rice Wasteland still belongs to the Lampuri Kingdom in na, they haven’t passed the «Slave Abolition Bill».”
“No, I’m not worried about this.” Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, “Moreover, when I accepted those slaves, I’d already freed them and they were already normal citizens.”
“Ah?” Chairman Cruise was surprised, “It can’t be? You really made them citizens? You.....Are you really this foolish?”
“Foolish?” Xu YI gave a shrug, “I don’t think so. I’ve already said it, the slaves are already a large hindrance to productivity, so by freeing them, I can release the hidden value that they have.”
“But if they recover their status as citizens, why would they listen to you?” Chairman Cruise asked with knit brows.
“It’s very simple, benefits.” Xu Yi replied with a smile, “You might not know this about the slaves, but after they beca citizens, because they were slaves before, they wouldn’t be accepted by most people even if they stayed here. So after they beca citizens, almost all of them agreed to my arrangent and settled on the island bases. Although they aren’t slaves anymore, they have recognized as their lord, so I have the right to manage them.”
Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi with knit brows for a bit before slowly shaking his head.
“Xu Yi, to be honest, there really are tis when I feel that you are a hypocrite.”
“Oh? What do you an?”
“You clearly need these slaves to listen to you, but you want to have a noble na. I say, why are you bothering with this? Even if you treated them as slaves, no one would bla you. Anyway, slaves have existed on the continent for over ten thousand years, doing sothing like this is the strange way.”
Xu Yi was silent for a bit before giving a sigh, “Perhaps you’re right, I am a hypocrite. The reason why I’m doing all this is actually just to put myself at ease in the end. Saying that I want to free the productivity of these slaves is just an excuse.”
Chairman Cruise knit his brows even more, “So I am even more confused, why did you have this idea? Why are you not at ease when using slaves? This is too strange.”
Xu Yi shook his head. It was because he ca from earth that was much more civilized than this world, he was taught to treat all people as equals since he was young and he had seen many attacks on slavery in countless books before, so he thought that sothing like this was evil.
But this involved his biggest secret, how could he just take it to explain to chairman Cruise?
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