"Road closure?" Xu Yi looked ahead in amazement, thought about it, and got out of the car.

When I walked at the front of the convoy, I noticed that a wooden fence had been erected in the middle of the highway to act as a roadblock, blocking the convoy.

Xu Yi looked far away and found that there was no construction in front of the highway, and he could see several horse-drawn carriages running on the road, and pedestrians were not affected in the slightest.

It seems that he is the only one who has stopped his train outside.

Behind the barricade stood more than a dozen soldiers wearing uniform armor, judging from the logo on their chests, they were not directly subordinate to the kingdom, but should be the local city guards of Lemat City.

At this time, the person who was arguing fiercely with Ankato was a soldier who looked like a small boss.

"Ankato, what's the matter?" Xu Yi asked him by stopping Ankato, who was blushing and his face was full of anger.

"Lord, these guys didn't stop anyone, but they stopped our convoy, I think they are clearly deliberately trying to embarrass us!" Ankato said angrily, pointing at the soldiers. "I saw them drop everything in the wagon, but when our convoy arrived, they put the barricades up again. ”

"Hey, didn't I tell you that earlier?" the little leader gestured to the road behind him. "This road is being repaired, so you can't let you cars that are too heavy pass, don't you understand?"

"But I saw that there was a wagon of that size in front of me that you let it go, and it didn't carry less cargo than us, right?" said Ankato, unconvinced.

"How do you know that people are heavier than you?" the little leader glared at Ankato and turned his head to look at Xu Yi. "Hey. Are you the president? The road is closed. Take a detour. ”

"You are polite to our elders, I sue you, and the elders are ......."

Xu Yi raised his arm, stopped Ankato from continuing, pondered for a moment, came to the little leader, and smiled: "This chief, can you take a step to speak?"

The little leader glanced Xu Yi up and down. He smiled, beckoned to Xu Yi, and walked under a big tree next to the road.

Xu Yi followed him, came to the place behind the trunk that blocked everyone's view, and without saying a word, took out a small money bag from his arms and handed it over.

"Sir, can you tell me what's going on with this road closure?"

The little boss was not polite, he directly took the money bag and weighed it in his hand. Based on experience, he quickly judged that there were at least twenty gold coins in this money bag, and the expression on his face suddenly faded. I smiled widely.

"Hey, what's this...... To be honest, I don't know exactly what it is. The little boss smiled and explained, "Anyway, the lord of the castle issued a strict decree a week ago, instructing that no magic locomotive should pass from this road. Before you, I had stopped the magic locomotive convoys of several chambers of commerce. ”

After that, the little leader looked back at the convoy parked on the road, and asked with some curiosity: "Speaking of which, which chamber of commerce are you from? It's the first time I've seen a chamber of commerce with so many magic locomotives." ”

"Hehe, it's just a small chamber of commerce, sir, you must not have heard of it. Xu Yi replied vaguely, and then asked, "Sir, is there any possibility of accommodation?" We have all run here, and it would be a waste of time to turn around and go back. And for a while, you can't find a place to rest, can you?"

As he spoke, Xu Yi took out a money bag from his arms and handed it over.

Looking at the money bag, which was obviously bigger than the one just now, the little leader involuntarily swallowed a mouthful of spit, and struggled for a while on his face, but still shook his head vigorously.

"No, the city lord is strictly ordered this time, if I let you go, if I don't do it well after I go back, I will be directly arrested by the city lord and put in prison. ”

Seeing the resolute attitude of the little leader, Xu Yi knew that there was probably no room for accommodation this time, thought about it, nodded, glanced up at the distance of the road, and turned around and returned to the side of the convoy.

"How's it going, Lord?" Ankato immediately leaned over and asked in a low voice.

Xu Yi shook his head: "Turn around, let's go another way." ”

Ankato immediately frowned: "Turn around now, but Lord Grown, there is only this road near Lemat City." ”

"It's not a road, it's not that you can't walk, and besides, how much better do you think this road is than those ordinary dirt roads?" Xu Yi asked rhetorically.

Ankato glanced at the potholed road under his feet, sneered, and then glanced at the roadblocks and the dozen soldiers behind the roadblocks, and turned to get into the car.

Seeing Ankato's first freight magic locomotive begin to make a struggling U-turn on the dilapidated road, Xu also returned to the medium-sized magic car in the middle of the convoy.

After explaining it to Camby and the others, everyone was puzzled.

"If you want to talk about building a road, it makes sense, this road is so broken, it should be repaired. But why only the magic locomotive?" Camby frowned. "Is this aimed at our new flying chamber of commerce?"

Xu Yi glanced at the horizon in the distance in front of the road, and found that he couldn't even see the walls of Lemat City, shook his head and said, "I don't know. Maybe there's a reason for that, but it doesn't matter anymore. This is not Bonta City after all, and I don't bother to waste time on this to negotiate with the lord of Lemat City. And I just said to Ankato that taking this road is not much different from taking an ordinary dirt road, is it?"

Everyone in the car laughed.

"That's right, such a broken road is probably not as good as some old dirt roads that are relatively smooth. ”

"Cut, the road in our village used to be better than this broken road. ”

"Alright, let's go back and take a good look at the Amrité Chamber of Commerce, they're embarrassed to build such a broken road. ”

......

Xu Yi did not join the ridicule of the crowd, but opened the map again, pointed his finger on the map of Anweimar City, and then paddled all the way along the road leading to the city of Sewell.

In addition to pausing on the city of Lemat, his fingers also stopped on two other cities along the way.

The other two cities are in a similar situation to Lemart City, both of which have rejected the investment application of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce because of their support for Prince Eric.

Xu Yi is now worried that now that the convoy of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been denied entry in Lemart City, it is very likely that they will be treated in the same way in the other two cities.

Although the reason that Lemat City came up with that needed to build a road and ban the passage of magic locomotives was not a problem on the surface, Xu Yi still smelled a special smell from it that made him very uncomfortable.

If this matter was deliberately done by Lemart City against the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, then Xu Yi would need to consider more problems.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce went to Sewell City to make a large investment, not only because of the warm invitation of the Earl of Satsuma, but also because it was more convenient to cooperate with the Duchy of Draco in Thurwell City, and more importantly, it played a very important role in promoting Xu Yixin's strategy of spreading the magic industry throughout the Lampari Kingdom.

So at this point, Xu Yi could not afford to make mistakes, this time almost all the elites of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce were mobilized to come together, and even went out in person.

Now that he is being obstructed by Lemart City from the middle, Xu Yi can't help but start thinking about a very practical problem.

After all, Sewell City is close to thousands of highways from Bonta City, and if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce wants to invest and build in Sewell City, it will inevitably involve a large number of personnel and material transportation exchanges, so the transportation problem is the top priority.

If you want to have fast and convenient transportation, the combination of magic locomotive and road is of course the best at the moment.

However, since most of the roads in the Lampari Kingdom are now built by the chambers of commerce of the cities or the cities themselves, the operation of these roads is in the hands of the cities themselves.

For example, Lemart City doesn't want to let the magic locomotive pass with it now, so the fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce can't get through.

And if Lemart City and the other two cities both impose restrictions on the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, the transportation of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce from Bonta City to Sewell City will inevitably be greatly affected.

So Xu Yi is now starting to seriously consider a problem, the road transportation network in the Lampari Kingdom may be upgraded in advance.

In the past, due to financial constraints and insufficient awareness of the road problem within the Lampari Kingdom, most of the roads built in the Kingdom were built by the cities themselves, so although the total length of roads owned by the Lampari Kingdom now exceeds 3,000 kilometers, in fact, they are only spliced together by small sections of roads in each city.

According to the standards of the earth, these roads can only be regarded as county roads at best, not even provincial roads.

Although it is still possible to cover all cities in the kingdom by road, in practice there are many problems.

This kind of thing that happened to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce today is one of them.

In addition, because the capital investment of the roads built in each city is different, the quality of the highways is different, and the roads built only connect the cities, there will inevitably be a lot of unnecessary twists and turns, so that the mileage of the highway will be much more than the straight-line distance.

For example, the distance between the two cities is less than 700 kilometers, but if you follow the road between the cities, the total distance is more than 1,000 kilometers, which is more than half.

Let's not talk about the extra freight, just the extra time consumed makes Xu Yi feel a bit wasted.

Xu Yi had also thought about this problem before, but he felt that the time had not yet come, so there was no need to worry.

And after encountering this problem in Lemart City today, he began to seriously consider how to solve this problem.

Xu Yi's finger drew a straight line between the cities of Bonta and Thurwell on the map, and then began to look at the various conditions around this straight line, thinking about the feasibility of building such a single mileage of more than 700 kilometers, which should be the first national highway in the Lampari Kingdom. (To be continued......)