Continent Calendar 3783 seems to be passing very fast for the people of the Lampari Kingdom.
But from the perspective of the people at Bunta City, it seemed like it passed in the blink of an eye.
At the beginning of the year, Prince Eric led Northern Garrison to attack Sark Kingdom and won many victories. Then Lampari His Majesty King the Thirteenth died of a serious illness. Prince Eric suddenly changed from His Royal Highness to His Majesty the King.
As Prince Eric ascends to Throne, Princess Royal Servini no longer serves as Bunta City Mayor.
The new city lord did not bring many changes to Bunta City at first. For a time, people in Bunta City thought that Bunta City would continue to develop smoothly like this.
However, it turns out that most people think too simply.
Entering summer, when the weather just started to get hot, Bunta City immediately started a series of dazzling changes.
First, Xinfei Merchant Guild announced that in order to respond to the call of Kingdom Magic Industry Administration and promote the development of the Lampari Kingdom Magic Industry, it decided to transfer a series of Magic Machinery related technologies it has mastered to the chamber of commerce designated by Magic Industry Administration.
This transfer is different from the previous Technology Transfer sale of the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
According to the disclosure of "Bunta Daily", when giving Technology Transfer to the Ten Merchant Guilds designated by Magic Industry Administration, Xinfei Merchant Guild only charged a symbolic Technology Transfer fee. If the manpower and material resources Xinfei Merchant Guild invested in the smooth implementation of Technology Transfer after the combination, it was almost equivalent to giving it away for free.
Although "Bunta Daily" did not say it clearly, anyone with a brain can see that such Technology Transfer is by no means a normal phenomenon. It is clear that Xinfei Merchant Guild was forced to agree due to the pressure exerted by Magic Industry Administration. Or directly, it was forced to agree due to the pressure exerted by Eric, His Majesty the King.
One week after "Bunta Daily" published this report, "Bunta Daily" editor-in-chief Naxi announced his resignation and left "Bunta Daily", which seemed to confirm this speculation from the side.
When Xinfei Merchant Guild announced Technology Transfer, less than half a month passed, and within Bunta City, dozens of large and small chambers of commerce appeared overnight.
Among these newly emerged chambers of commerce, ten are exactly the ones designated by Ten Merchant Guilds in the list previously announced by Magic Industry Administration.
As for the remaining unknown small chambers of commerce, they naturally have more or less unclear relationships with Ten Merchant Guilds.
The appearance of these chambers of commerce at first had no impact on Bunta City. However, when the hot summer passed and the slightly cold autumn wind blew into Bunta City, people up and down Bunta City began to feel the various obvious or subtle changes brought about by these chambers of commerce, or Xinfei Merchant Guild and Technology Transfer this time.
Falkor Merchant Guild President Fuller? Morgan has been a little upset lately.
It's almost the end of the year, which means it's getting closer to the year-end statistics that Falkor Merchant Guild will conduct at the end of every year.
Before this, Morgan President had never been worried about this matter, because Falkor Merchant Guild's main business was Iron Ore, which had always been extremely stable and rarely fluctuated. He, President, only needed to verify the statistics collected by his subordinates, and he could easily complete this work.
But this year is different.
In other words, things have been somewhat different since three years ago.
Three years ago, the creation of the Xinfei Merchant Guild led to Magic Industry within Bunta City and even the entire Lampari Kingdom. Because people's demand for Magic Machinery is getting higher and higher, the demand for iron is naturally getting higher and higher.
Under such huge demand, the sales of the Falkor Merchant Guild and Iron Ore have skyrocketed every year. The sales of Iron Ore last year alone were almost equal to the total sales of the five years before Xinfei Merchant Guild appeared.
And because Xinfei Merchant Guild With the emergence of Steelworks, various Steel with different characteristics quickly replaced the ordinary cast iron that was commonly used before. As a result, a large part of the Iron Ore produced by the Falkor Merchant Guild was purchased by the Xinfei Merchant Guild to refine Steel. Only the remaining part will be sold to others for use in ordinary cast iron.
Although Xu Yi reached an agreement with Duke Yose privately, as the demand increases, the price for the Xinfei Merchant Guild to purchase Falkor Merchant Guild Iron Ore inevitably becomes higher and higher.
Just in the past year, the net profit achieved by the Falkor Merchant Guild from selling to the Xinfei Merchant Guild Iron Ore reached an extremely impressive four million Gold Coin.
Originally according to Morgan President estimates, as Xinfei Merchant Guild began to expand last year, Production Base was created throughout the Kingdom and various Factory were put into production, Xinfei Merchant Guild's demand for Iron Ore will surely increase significantly again, so Falkor Merchant Guild's net profit from the Xinfei Merchant Guild alone this year may exceed five million Gold Coin.
At first it was hard to predict, but Morgan President never expected that Lampari His Majesty King the Thirteenth would suddenly pass away this year, and Bunta City's situation suddenly changed dramatically.
Among the Ten Merchant Guilds designated by Magic Industry Administration, one Rockefeller Merchant Guild received part of the steel smelting technology from the Xinfei Merchant Guild, and in just two months, with the assistance of the Xinfei Merchant Guild, five Steelworkss were built in one go.
Compared with the Xinfei Merchant Guild's two Steelworks and Rockefeller Merchant Guild, these five Steelworks are larger in scale and have higher production capacity. The crude steel smelted in one month is even more than three times that of the Xinfei Merchant Guild in the previous month.
With so much steel being smelted, there is naturally a lot of demand for Pig Iron.
It stands to reason that Pig Iron's sales increased. As Falkor Merchant Guild President, Morgan President should be happy, but he was not happy at all, but was extremely upset.
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The reason is very simple, the purchase price given by the Rockefeller Merchant Guild is too low.
The price of Iron Ore sold by the Falkor Merchant Guild to the Xinfei Merchant Guild has already been discounted due to the agreement between Xu Yi and Moonlight Pact. This year it has just exceeded ten Gold Coin per ton.
However, the Pig Iron purchase price proposed by the Rockefeller Merchant Guild for the Falkor Merchant Guild was cut in half at once, leaving only five Gold Coins per ton!
This price is even lower than the price at which Falkor Merchant Guild sold Iron Ore before Xinfei Merchant Guild appeared!
However, Morgan President does not have any right to choose. If Rockefeller Merchant Guild needs it, he must sell it.
As for the reason? Of course it's because the person standing behind this Rockefeller Merchant Guild is the arrogant nobleman in the Kingdom - Stark Family. There is even the shadow of Eric, His Majesty the King.
Even Duke Yose cannot compete with this power.
Regarding this situation, Duke Yose had given instructions to Morgan President more than a month ago, asking Morgan President to sell it to the Rockefeller Merchant Guild at the price of five Gold Coin per ton.
Because of this low price, Morgan President knows very well that when the year-end statistics come out this year, the numbers will be ugly.
However, Duke Yose couldn't do anything about it, so naturally he was powerless.
The only thing he can do is to curse Xu Yi in his heart.
"This idiot! Why do you have to transfer the steel-making technology? Now, the price per ton of steel produced by Rockefeller Chamber of Commerce is a full ten gold coins lower than that of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Let's see how your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's steelmaking plant can continue to operate!"
However, when I think of Xu Yi, even Morgan President, who initially disliked Xu Yi, can't help but feel a little emotion and miss me.
"Where did this guy go? Does he really want to give up the great foundation he built at Bunta City?"
Pombelli President of Feilson Carriage Company is more upset than Morgan President.
Morgan President is just upset that Falkor Merchant Guild's profits this year will drop compared to last year, but Pombelli President is upset that Feilson Carriage Company might lose money this year!
Since the beginning of cooperation with the Xinfei Merchant Guild, focusing on public transportation and long-distance freight transportation, Feilson Carriage Company's profits have been growing rapidly.
Just last month alone. Feilson Carriage Company Putting aside all expenses, the net profit had exceeded 200,000 Gold Coin.
If this trend continues, Feilson Carriage Company's total profit this year will most likely exceed last year's two million Gold Coin, and even touch the three million Gold Coin mark.
But all this came to nothing in an instant after the City Lord's Manor gave an order.
The content of this command is very simple. Specifically, in order to strengthen the management of Bunta City, City Lord's Manor will incorporate the public transportation system in Bunta City into the management of the City Lord's Manor.
At first glance, there is nothing wrong with this order, but in actual implementation, there is one thing that makes Pombelli President extremely angry.
According to the regulations of the City Lord's Manor, since the public transportation system is managed by the City Lord's Manor, it must have certain standards.
Of course there is no problem with this statement. The problem is that the standard mentioned by the City Lord's Manor actually stipulates that the Bunta City public transportation system currently operated by Feilson Carriage Company must be comprehensively rectified. All Magic Locomotives under the name of Feilson Carriage Company that are being used to participate in the public transportation system must be replaced by Magic Locomotive designated by the City Lord's Manor.
As for the City Lord's Manor designated Magic Locomotive... of course not Xinfei.
Among the ten chambers of commerce designated by Magic Industry Administration to accept Xinfei Merchant Guild Technology Transfer, one, Lafali Merchant Guild, fully accepted part of the Magic Locomotive production and casting technology transferred by the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
With the great help of the Xinfei Merchant Guild, Lafali Merchant Guild built the first Lafali Medium Passenger Magic Locomotive in just two months.
At first Pombelli President was a little strange. Since Lafali Merchant Guild accepted the related technology of Magic Locomotive, why was the first one produced Medium Mana Bus, but not the Mana Sedan that should be the most profitable.
But when the command from the City Lord's Manor appeared, he suddenly understood.
Lafali Merchant Guild has clearly colluded with the City Lord's Manor a long time ago and has been prepared for it!
However, knowing it, Pombelli President has nothing to do about it.
Facing the orders issued by the Bunta City Mayor government, which represents the will of Eric, His Majesty the King, what can he do to resist?
Staring at the investment evaluation and analysis report on Lafali Magic Locomotive that he calculated over several days in his hand, cold sweat broke out on Pombelli President's forehead.
If you obey City Lord's Manor's order, Feilson Carriage Company will therefore have to invest at least two million Gold Coin in preliminary preparations.
Moreover, according to the requirements of the City Lord's Manor, Feilson Carriage Company must also pay a security deposit of 500,000 Gold Coin to the City Lord's Manor every year for contracting Bunta City Urban Public Transit System.
Based on this calculation, not only will we definitely lose money this year, but even if we want to recoup our initial investment in the future, it may be impossible.
After a long while, Pombelli President suddenly threw the evaluation and analysis report heavily on the table and shouted angrily.
"Damn it! If I can't keep doing it, then I won't do it anymore!"