Count Will looked at the Banta City financial report in his hand and slightly knit his brows.
This didn't mean that this financial report wasn't good looking, rather the numbers were very beautiful. Anyone who saw this would be surprised.
According to this financial report, Banta City's total income last month was four hundred and sixty thousand gold coins. It had already surpassed Anvilmar City and became the city with the highest income in the Lampari Kingdom, there was no other city that could compare.
It had to be known, Anvilmar City was the capital of the Lampari Kingdom, so it was very natural for the kingdom to pay attention to it. Adding in the fact that most of the large nobles and large companies were gathered there, their income had always far surpassed that of the other cities in the kingdom.
If time went back eight years, before the New Flyer appeared, Banta City's income would have been negative. They had to rely on subsidies from the kingdom's finances each year to barely survive. Although it wasn't the worst city in the kingdom, it was still at the bottom. They never thought that there would be a day when they could surpass Anvilmar City.
However, in just eight years, Banta City had achieved something that they never imagined before. There was no doubt that this was something that everyone in Banta City should be proud of.
As the current City Lord of Banta City, as well as the leader who had created the glory of Banta City over the past few years, Count Will was more qualified to be happy and proud.
When he first saw this financial report, Count Will was indeed filled with joy and felt a deep sense of pride in his heart.
But when he saw the normal looking number at the back of the report, his mood instantly changed.
This number was related to Banta City's monthly income growth.
According to the data, Banta City's income last month was around four hundred and sixty thousand gold coins. Compared to March's income of around four hundred and forty thousand gold coins, it was an increase of around 4%.
For a Banta City of this scale, being able to increase by 4% in a month was already considered quite a good achievement.
But Count Will clearly remembered that this number was 6% last month. It was 8% the month before last, and it was 9% the month before last.
If one looked at the income of the last half a year, they would find that this number was decreasing month by month.
This meant that Banta City's current revenue was growing slower and slower.
Based on the current trend, by the end of the year, Banta City's revenue wouldn't increase by that much.
In fact … it might even cause a regression!
"Impossible!" Count Revel immediately shook his head, instantly denying the possibility in his heart.
However, when he calmed down and thought about it seriously, he had to admit that this was a fact that he had to face.
Banta City's development had clearly reached a bottleneck. It was very hard for Banta City to develop by leaps and bounds like when the magic machine industry had just risen.
To solve this problem, other than strengthening Banta City's development in all directions, the most important thing was to invest in Banta City's pillar, the magic machine industry.
After pacing in his office for around half an hour in thought, Count Will left the City Lord's Manor. He sat in his personal Magic Sedan and headed to the west side of Banta City.
This new district was another new district of Banta City that had just been developed last year.
According to Count Revel's plan, this new district would be a comprehensive district. It wouldn't be like the previous Banta City plan where each district was divided into different areas.
In this comprehensive city area, there were already three hotels and many shops. On one side of the road, there were two different kinds of factories and on the other side, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had built a large number of residences.
These twenty meter tall six story residences were the new "apartments" that the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce released. Because there was a complete water supply system and a water circulation system under the residences, as well as a complete sewer system, these residences were the most convenient residences in Banta City.
At the same time, because the price wasn't high, being far from the price of the villas, it was very popular once it was released.
Not far away from this residential area, there was also a large building rising from the ground.
This building belonged to Banta City's magic machine industry training academy, so it was considered a product of the expansion of Banta City's magic machine industry training academy.
The reason why it could occupy such a large and good location was because of Count Revel's support.
Although this Banta City's magic machine industry training academy was founded by New Flyer, after New Flyer left Banta City and the Lampari Kingdom, this academy fell into the control of Banta City's City Lord Manor.
When Count Count Revel took over as Banta City's City Lord, he didn't place much importance on this academy in the first two years, but starting last year, he began focusing on this academy. Not only did he give it land, he also invested large amounts of money. He recruited students from Banta City and the surrounding cities, causing the academy to expand by four to five times.
Currently, there were more than eight thousand students in the academy. Apart from the majority of them who were focused on the various types of magic machineries, there were also more than four hundred students who were directly involved in the research and study of magic machineries.
This was a subject established by Count Revel. At the same time, Count Count Revel had ordered the Baron Rickto Magic Academy to send their students here to study magic machine theory.
If it was before, of course no students would be interested in this kind of research, but with the popularity of magic machines in the Lampari Kingdom and the surrounding countries, not only were the students of the Baron Rickto Magic Academy interested in studying magic machine theory, even the young magicians of the Lampuri Royal Academy were interested in it.
Compared to the Lampuri Royal Academy, Banta City's magic machine industry training academy had a very important advantage. It was that this academy was founded by New Flyer, so even if it was now under Banta City's name, Xu Yi had always paid attention to this academy. Not only did he provide training for New Flyer's skilled workers, he also provided the academy with a lot of basic magic machine theory, making it easier for the students to learn and grasp this knowledge.
Count Revel had specially come here today to participate in a ceremony.
The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be donating a « Basic Magic Machine Theory » book written by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's magic research facility's chief Evita and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's magic machine development center's manager Camby, as well as several researchers and engineers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
This book was the first true magic machine theory book. According to the information provided by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this book contained a very complete magic machine theory foundation. It could allow people who didn't have any magic machine knowledge at all to grasp the basics of magic machines after reading this book.
This book wasn't important to New Flyer, but it was a very important book for everyone outside of New Flyer that participated in the magic machine industry.
Because before this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had only given the technology to other companies. This time, it was their first time sharing the theoretical system.
So it could be said that this book didn't just have a strong practical meaning, it also had a strong symbolic meaning.
The reason why New Flyer was far ahead of the other companies in terms of magic machine technology was mainly because they had an absolute advantage in terms of theory.
The appearance of this book meant that New Flyer was willing to share their magic machine theory, which meant that the other companies would finally have a chance to catch up to New Flyer.
Moreover, according to the information New Flyer had given Count Revel, although New Flyer would publish this book in the future, they would allow Banta City to be the first to receive it. They would only publish it in half a year.
This meant that compared to other people and companies, Banta City had half a year more.
This was clearly New Flyer taking special care of Banta City, so Count Revel was very grateful to Xu Yi, personally coming to this book awarding ceremony.
But when Count Revel rushed to Banta City's Magic Machine Industry Skill School, he was surprised to find that it wasn't Xu Yi who was here, but rather his wife Stiel.
Looking at Stiel's clearly swollen stomach, Count Revel suppressed the questions in his heart. He first congratulated Stiel before asking about Xu Yi's whereabouts.
"I'm very sorry, Sir Count. Xu Yi had an urgent matter, so he had to cancel his trip to the book awarding ceremony.
But he specially had me attend the ceremony in his place and apologize to Sir Count. "
"Urgent matter?
Is it serious? "Count Revel asked with knit brows.
With New Flyer's powerful influence in the surrounding countries, what urgent matter could make Xu Yi change his trip?
"It's not that serious, but he has to personally take care of it." Stiel replied with a shake of her head.
"It's like this … …" Count Revel's voice had a trace of undisguised disappointment and worry.
Xu Yi had always been a person who kept his promises, he didn't think that there was anything urgent that could force Xu Yi to change his trip, so this meant that there was a very serious possibility.
For Xu Yi to not be willing to come to this important book awarding ceremony, perhaps Banta City wasn't that important in his mind.