Hank Wilson had come to Bunta City not only to escort Sophia, but also to attend to two more important matters.
The first was to negotiate a new cooperation agreement on behalf of the Walmart Merchant Guild.
Over more than a year of cooperation, the Xinfei Merchant Guild's various household magic machinery products had sold exceptionally well at Walmart Merchant Guild outlets throughout the kingdom.
Taking magic-powered stoves alone as an example, according to the Walmart Merchant Guild's figures for the previous month, its branches across the Lampari Kingdom had sold as many as 170,000 Xinfei magic-powered stoves.
Although the Walmart Merchant Guild earned an average markup of no more than one gold coin on each magic-powered stove, that was just one product. Counting the Xinfei Merchant Guild's other household magic machinery products, the Walmart Merchant Guild had earned an enormous profit of nearly 300,000 gold coins from their cooperation alone the previous month.
For that reason, with over a year still remaining on their current agreement, the Walmart Merchant Guild had decided to propose signing a new cooperation agreement ahead of schedule.
Xu Yi merely glanced over the new agreement Hank Wilson presented before noticing that its terms were much more favorable than those of their first agreement.
For instance, the first agreement had stipulated that the Xinfei Merchant Guild must bear all transportation costs, with the Walmart Merchant Guild taking no responsibility for them.
In this agreement, however, the Walmart Merchant Guild offered to cover transportation costs for distances of up to three hundred kilometers. Costs beyond that distance would be renegotiated according to the circumstances.
There was also a clause promising that wherever a road reached, the Walmart Merchant Guild could take full responsibility for transportation, even beyond three hundred kilometers, without the Xinfei Merchant Guild having