Billier's letter and the progress report enclosed with it reached Xu Yi three days later.
Xu Yi was hardly surprised to read that someone in the Candel Empire had shown an interest in Cargo Magic Locomotives.
Compared with Mana Sedans, Xu Yi had always considered the various freight and passenger Magic Locomotives more practical.
From a practical standpoint, the various passenger and freight Magic Locomotives should clearly have been more popular.
Sales in the Lampari Kingdom and its neighboring countries clearly reflected this.
Since the Xinfei Merchant Guild began selling its various Magic Locomotives, total Mana Sedan sales had yet to reach fifty thousand, while cumulative sales of passenger and freight Magic Locomotives had already exceeded five hundred thousand-more than ten times as many.
In the neighboring countries, Magic Locomotives of all kinds had long since completely replaced traditional horse-drawn carriages. Apart from a few nostalgic holdouts, everyone from royalty and nobles to ordinary commoners chose Magic Locomotives, whether for travel or transporting goods.
After all, compared with traditional horse-drawn carriages, Magic Locomotives were far superior in carrying capacity, speed, and even comfort, the quality most prized in carriages.
Now, even people who could not afford a Mana Sedan preferred the new passenger Magic Locomotives that carriage companies had adopted, or simply took the Mana Sedan taxis that had spread from the Lampari Kingdom. They no longer put themselves through the discomfort of riding in horse-drawn carriages.
Of course, this was also thanks to the construction of Road Networks in the surrounding countries, which had created favorable conditions for Magic Locomotives to operate.
Xu Yi had introduced Mana Sedans to the Candel Empire first simply because he hoped to impress those in the empire's upper circles who could afford them, sparking their interest in Mana Sedans and, in turn, in