"Sealed off?" Xu Yi was stunned as he looked ahead. After thinking for a while, he got out of the car.
He walked in front of the convoy and saw that there was a wooden fence in the middle of the road that acted as a roadblock, blocking the convoy.
Xu Yi looked into the distance and saw that there was no construction in front of the road. He could see several carriages running on the road, and the pedestrians were not affected at all.
From the looks of it, they were the only ones who were blocked outside.
Behind the roadblock stood more than ten soldiers in uniform armor. From the insignia on their chests, they were not the kingdom's army, but the local city guards of Lamarte City.
At this moment, the one who was arguing with Ancato was a soldier who looked like the leader.
"Ankhto, what is going on?" Xu Yi stopped Ankhto whose neck was red and whose face was filled with rage and asked him this.
"President, these guys didn't stop anyone but our convoy. I think they are deliberately making things difficult for us!" Ancato pointed at the soldiers and said angrily.
"Just now, I clearly saw them let the carriages pass, but after our convoy arrived, they put up the roadblock again."
"Hey, didn't I tell you just now?" The leader pointed at the road behind them.
"This road is being repaired, so we can't let your heavy carriages pass. Don't you understand?"
"But I clearly saw a large cargo carriage in front of us that you let pass. They can't carry less cargo than us, right?" Ancato was not convinced.
"How do you know they are heavier than you?" The leader glared at Ancato and turned to Xu Yi.
"Hey, you are the president?
Let me tell you, this road is sealed off. You should take a detour. "
"You should be more polite to our president. Let me tell you, the president is …"
Xu Yi raised his arm and stopped Ancato from continuing. After thinking for a bit, he came in front of the leader and said with a faint smile, "This officer, can I have a word with you?"
The leader looked over Xu Yi before laughing. He waved his hand at Xu Yi and walked to a large tree on the side of the road.
Xu Yi followed behind him and came to a place behind the tree that blocked everyone's line of sight. Without another word, he took out a small purse from his chest and handed it over.
"Officer, can you tell me what is going on with the road being sealed off?"
The team leader didn't stand on ceremony. He directly took the purse and weighed it in his hand. Based on his experience, he quickly judged that there were at least 20 gold coins in the purse. The serious expression on his face immediately faded, and he beamed with joy.
"Hei, this ….. To be honest, I don't know what is going on."
The leader explained with a smile, "Anyway, the Lord City Lord gave a strict order a week ago that no Magic Cars were allowed to pass on this road.
Before you, I've already stopped the Magic Cars of several companies. "
After saying this, the leader turned to look at the motorcade on the road and asked in a curious voice, "Speaking of this, which company are you from?
This is my first time seeing a company with this many Magic Cars. "
"He, he, it's just a small company, officer, you definitely haven't heard of it." Xu Yi vaguely replied before asking, "Officer, is there a possibility of making an exception?
We've already come this far, if we turn back, it would be a waste of time.
Moreover, we can't find a place to rest for a while, right? "
While saying this, Xu Yi took out another purse from his chest.
Seeing this purse that was clearly bigger than the previous one, the leader couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva. After struggling for a bit, he shook his head.
"No, the Lord City Lord gave a strict order this time. If I let you pass, I might be thrown into jail by the Lord City Lord when I go back."
Seeing the firm attitude of the leader, Xu Yi knew that there was no room for negotiation this time. After thinking about it, he nodded and looked into the distance before turning back to the motorcade.
"Sir chairman, how is it?" Ancato came over and asked in a low voice.
Xu Yi shook his head, "Turn around, we'll go another way."
Ancato immediately knit his brows, "Turn around now?
But sir chairman, there is only this road near Lamarte City. "
"It's not like we can't go on it. Then again, how much better is this road compared to the normal dirt roads?" Xu Yi asked back.
Ancato looked at the bumpy road under his feet and gave a cold laugh. Then he looked at the soldiers behind the barricades on the road before turning to get in the car.
Seeing the first transport Magic Car that Ancato personally drove turn around on this broken road, Xu Yi returned to the medium sized Magic Car in the middle of the motorcade.
After explaining to Camby and the others, they were all confused.
"It's fine to talk about repairing the road. This road is this broken, it should be repaired.
But why is it only limited to Magic Cars? "Camby knit his brows.
Camby knit his brows, "Could it be that this is aimed at our New Flyer?"
Xu Yi looked at the horizon in the distance and found that he couldn't even see the city walls of Lamarte City. He shook his head and said, "I don't know.
Perhaps there is this reason, but that isn't important.
After all, this isn't Banta City, I'm too lazy to waste time talking to Lamarte City's City Lord.
Moreover, I just said to Ancato that taking this road isn't much different from taking a normal dirt road, right? "
Everyone in the car broke out in laughter.
"That's right, this broken road can't even compare to some old dirt roads."
"Che, our village's previous road is better than this broken road."
"Alright, let's go back and look down on those fellows from the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce. They really aren't embarrassed to build such a broken road."
… …
Xu Yi didn't join in on their teasing and opened the map again. His finger first pointed at Anvilmar City on the map before moving along the road to Sowell City.
Apart from pausing on Lamarte City, his finger also paused on two other cities that he passed by.
The situation of the other two cities was similar to Lamarte City, they had rejected New Flyer's investment because they supported his highness Eric.
What Xu Yi was worried about now was that the New Flyer's motorcade had been rejected in Lamarte City, so it was very likely that they would receive the same treatment in the other two cities.
Although there wasn't a problem with Lamarte City's reason of stopping Magic Cars because they needed to fix the road, Xu Yi could smell a special smell that made him very uncomfortable.
If this matter was done by Lamarte City against New Flyer, Xu Yi needed to consider more problems.
The New Flyer was investing in Sowell City, other than because of Satsuma Count's warm invitation, it was also because it was easier to cooperate with the Drake Duchy in Sowell City. The most important thing was that it was very important to Xu Yi's plan of spreading the magic machine industry across the Lampari Kingdom.
So on this point, Xu Yi couldn't make any mistakes. He had gathered all the elites of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and even personally made a move.
Now that Lamarte City was blocking them, Xu Yi couldn't help considering a very realistic problem.
Sowell City was after all close to Banta City and if the New Flyer wanted to invest in Sowell City, it would involve transporting large amounts of people and goods, so transport was the most important problem.
To have a fast and convenient transport, the combination of Magic Cars and roads was the best.
But because most of the roads in the Lampari Kingdom were built by the companies of the cities or the cities themselves, the right to operate these roads was in the hands of the cities.
For example, Lamarte City didn't want Magic Cars to pass through, so the New Flyer's motorcade couldn't pass.
If Lamarte City and the other two cities restricted the New Flyer, the New Flyer's transport from Banta City to Sowell City would be greatly affected.
So Xu Yi began to seriously consider a problem. Perhaps the Lampari Kingdom's road network should be upgraded ahead of time.
Because of the lack of funds and the lack of awareness of the road problem in the Lampari Kingdom, most of the roads in the kingdom were built by the cities themselves. So although the Lampari Kingdom had over three thousand kilometers of roads, it was only made up of small sections of roads in each city.
According to the standards of earth, these roads could only be considered county roads, they couldn't even be considered provincial roads.
Even though this would still allow the road network to cover all the cities in the kingdom, there were still many problems.
What happened to the New Flyer today was one of them.
Other than this, because each city had different investments in roads, the quality of the roads was different. Adding in the fact that the roads only connected cities, there were many unnecessary twists and turns. If one used the roads to travel, there would be more miles than if they traveled in a straight line.
Take Banta City and Sowell City for example. The distance between the two cities was less than seven hundred kilometers, but if one followed the roads between the cities, it would be over a thousand kilometers, which was more than half the distance.
Not mentioning the extra transportation costs, just the extra time made Xu Yi feel that it was a waste.
Xu Yi had thought of this problem before, but he felt that the time wasn't right, so there was no need to rush.
But after encountering this problem in Lamarte City today, he began to seriously consider how to solve this problem.
Xu Yi's finger drew a line between Banta City and Sowell City on the map before looking at the situation around this line. He began to consider the feasibility of building this seven hundred kilometer road, which should be the first road in the Lampari Kingdom.