For the people of the Lampari Kingdom, year 3783 passed very quickly.
But for the people of Banta City, it passed in the blink of an eye.
At the beginning of the year, his highness Eric had led the northern army to conquer the Sack Kingdom and had won several victories. Then his majesty Lampuri Thirteenth had died from a serious illness, so his highness Eric had gone from a prince to a king.
With his highness Eric taking the throne, her highness Seveni was no longer Banta City's City Lord.
The new City Lord didn't bring too many changes to Banta City at first, making the people of Banta City think that Banta City would smoothly develop like this.
But facts proved that most people's thoughts were too simple.
Entering summer, when the weather became hot, there were a series of dazzling changes in Banta City.
First was the New Flyer announcing that in order to respond to the call of the kingdom's magic machine industry management department and promote the development of the Lampari Kingdom's magic machine industry, they decided to transfer their magic machine technology to the companies designated by the department.
This transfer was different from the New Flyer's technology transfer from before.
According to the report in the « Banta Times », when transferring the technology to the ten companies designated by the department, New Flyer only took a symbolic transfer fee. If they added in the manpower and resources that New Flyer had invested in transferring the technology, it was equal to giving it away for free.
Even if the « Banta Times » didn't say it, as long as one had a brain, they could tell that this technology transfer wasn't normal. It was clear that New Flyer was being pressured by the department, or it could be said that they were being pressured by King Eric, so they were being forced to agree.
And a week after the « Banta Times » published this report, the « Banta Times » editor in chief Nakhi announced that he was leaving the « Banta Times », which seemed to confirm this guess.
After the Frestech Chamber of Commerce announced the transfer of technology, in less than half a month, there were several large and small companies that appeared in Banta City overnight.
Among these newly emerged chambers of commerce, there were ten that were on the list announced by the magic machine industry administration department.
As for the remaining unknown small chambers of commerce, they naturally had some unclear relationship with these ten chambers of commerce.
The appearance of these companies didn't affect Banta City at first, but when the hot summer passed and the cold autumn wind blew into Banta City, the people of Banta City began to feel these companies, or rather the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's technology transfer, whether it was obvious or not, had brought about changes.
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The president of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, Fuller Morgan, had been a little upset recently.
It was almost the end of the year, which meant that the year-end statistics of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce were getting closer and closer.
Before this, chairman Morgan had never been troubled by this matter because the Falcao Chamber of Commerce's main business was the iron ore business. It had always been very stable and rarely fluctuated. As the chairman, he only needed to verify the data compiled by his subordinates and he could easily complete this task.
However, this year was different.
In other words, things had changed since three years ago.
Three years ago, because of the creation of the New Flyer, it had stimulated the magic machine industry in Banta City and even the entire Lampari Kingdom. Because people's demand for magic machines kept increasing, naturally their demand for iron also kept increasing.
With this large demand, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce's iron ore sales kept increasing each year. Just last year's iron ore sales were equal to the total sales of the New Flyer in the past five years.
Because of the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's steel mill, various kinds of steel materials quickly replaced the normal cast iron that everyone used before. It led to a large part of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce's iron ore being used by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to refine steel. Only the remaining part would be sold to others to make normal cast iron.
Even if Xu Yi had reached an agreement with Duke Jole in private, as the demand kept increasing, the price of the Falcao Chamber of Commerce's iron ore kept increasing for New Flyer.
In just a single year, the Falcao Chamber of Commerce's net profit from selling iron ore to the New Flyer had reached four million gold coins.
According to chairman Morgan's estimates, with the expansion of the New Flyer last year and the production of various factories across the kingdom, the New Flyer's demand for iron ore would greatly increase. The Falcao Chamber of Commerce's net profit from the New Flyer this year would break five million gold coins.
In the beginning, people couldn't compare to god's plans. Chairman Morgan never would have thought that Lampuri Thirteenth would suddenly pass away this year and the situation in Banta City would suddenly change.
Of the ten companies chosen by the department, there was a Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce that had received some steel refining technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. In just a short two months, they had built five steel mills with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
Compared to the two steel mills of the New Flyer, the five steel mills of the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce were much bigger and had a higher capacity. The amount of steel they smelted in a single month was three times what the New Flyer could produce in a single month.
To smelt this much steel, naturally there was a higher demand for pig iron.
Properly speaking, with the increase in pig iron sales, chairman Morgan as the Falcao Chamber of Commerce's chairman should be happy, but he wasn't happy at all and was rather annoyed.
The reason was very simple, the price the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce gave was too low.
The price the Falcao Chamber of Commerce sold to the New Flyer had already been discounted because of the agreement between Xu Yi and Moonlight. It had just broken ten gold coins a ton this year.
But the price the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce offered to the Falcao Chamber of Commerce had been cut in half, only five gold coins a ton!
This price was even lower than the price the Falcao Chamber of Commerce sold iron ore before the New Flyer appeared!
However, chairman Morgan didn't have any choice. If the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce needed it, he had to sell it.
As for the reason?
Of course it was because behind the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce was the arrogant Stagg Family, there was even the shadow of King Eric.
Even if it was Duke Jole, he couldn't compete with this power.
Regarding this situation, Duke Jole had already given chairman Morgan instructions a month ago. He had chairman Morgan sell to the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce for five gold coins a ton.
Because of this low price, chairman Morgan was very clear that when the end of the year statistics came out, the numbers would be very ugly.
However, since Duke Jole couldn't do anything, naturally he couldn't do anything.
The only thing he could do was curse Xu Yi in his heart.
"That idiot!
Why did he have to give away the steel making technology?
Now it's good, the Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce's steel is ten gold coins lower than your New Flyer's price per ton, let's see how your New Flyer's steel mill will continue to operate! "
However, cursing was cursing. Thinking of Xu Yi, even chairman Morgan who didn't like Xu Yi at first couldn't help feeling a bit emotional.
"Where did that fellow run off to?
Could it be that he really wants to give up on the foundation he built in Banta City? "
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The Fersen Carriage Company's chairman Pompeii was even more annoyed than chairman Morgan.
Chairman Morgan was only annoyed that the Falcao Chamber of Commerce's profits would drop compared to last year, but chairman Pompeii was annoyed that the Fersen Carriage Company would suffer a loss this year!
Since they started working with the New Flyer, focusing on public transport and long distance transport, the Fersen Carriage Company's profits had been quickly increasing.
Just last month, the Fersen Carriage Company's net profit was over two hundred thousand gold coins after taking out all their expenses.
If this trend continued, the Fersen Carriage Company's profit this year would surpass last year's two million gold coins and even touch the three million gold coins mark.
But all of this instantly turned into bubbles with an order from the City Lord Manor.
The content of this order was very simple. To be specific, it was to strengthen the management of Banta City. The City Lord Manor would be managing the public transport system in Banta City.
This order didn't seem like a problem at first glance, but when it came to implementation, there was one thing that made chairman Pompeii very angry.
According to the rules of the City Lord Manor, since the public transport system was managed by the City Lord Manor, there had to be a standard.
Of course there was no problem with this, but the problem was that the standard the City Lord Manor mentioned was that the Fersen Carriage Company's Banta City public transport system had to be changed. They had to change all the Magic Cars under the Fersen Carriage Company's name to the Magic Cars designated by the City Lord Manor.
As for the Magic Cars designated by the City Lord Manor ….. of course they weren't the Xinfei Brand.
Of the ten companies that the department chose to accept the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's technology, there was the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce that accepted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's Magic Car production technology.
With the help of the New Flyer, the Lafaye Chamber of Commerce only used two months to build their first Lafaye Brand medium passenger Magic Car.
At first chairman Pompeii was a bit surprised. Since the Lafaye Chamber of Commerce accepted the Magic Car technology, why did they make the medium Magic Passenger Car first and not the most profitable Magic Sedan?
However, when this order from the City Lord's Mansion appeared, he immediately understood.
The Lafaye Chamber of Commerce had already colluded with the City Lord Manor, they were already prepared!
However, knowing this was one thing, chairman Pompeii couldn't do anything about this.
Faced with the orders of Banta City's City Lord Manor that represented King Eric's will, what could he use to resist?
Looking at the investment report that he had made over the past few days on changing to the Lafaye Brand Magic Cars, chairman Pompeii's forehead was covered in cold sweat.
If they obeyed the orders of the City Lord Manor, the Fersen Carriage Company would have to invest at least two million gold coins to prepare.
Moreover, according to the requirements of the City Lord Manor, the Fersen Carriage Company would have to pay five hundred thousand gold coins to the City Lord Manor each year for contracting the public transport system.
Like this, not only would they suffer a loss this year, even if they wanted to take back their investment in the future, it would be impossible.
After a while, chairman Pompeii suddenly slammed the report on the table and angrily roared out.
"Damn!
Since we can't do it, father won't do it! "