The meal was a pleasure.

In an effort to apologize, Merkado invited Erica to a new restaurant outside the Rainfall Valley, where she assumed the demeanor of the most gentlemanly and tried to create a good atmosphere with the common topic of magic locomotives.

In addition, Merkado himself is actually funny and humorous, so Erica also felt very happy during the meal, and the two talked happily.

After the lunch was over, Merkado was once again very clever enough to use the excuse that he would continue to ask questions about the magic locomotive in the future, and obtained Erica's permission to come to her at any time.

After sending Erica to work in the Rain Valley, Merkadu couldn't help but smile smugly as she looked at Erica's slender back when she left.

I didn't expect that because of this accident, I would actually meet such a rare beauty as Erica, which is really lucky.

However, as soon as he thought of the magic locomotive, Merkado instantly let go of the mess in his mind, turned around and left the Falling Rain Valley, and went straight to a new medium-sized magic bus that happened to be driving from Bunta City to the Falling Rain Valley.

In the past, the journey from Rainfall Valley to Bonta City was more than 60 kilometers, and it took at least four hours to get there.

Now, with the new medium-sized Magic Bus, it only takes a little more than two hours to get there, and because it saves nearly half the time, it is quickly welcomed by everyone.

In the beginning, Filson Motors and Horses only used a medium-sized magic bus on each bus line for trial run, and it was too novel. At first, many people didn't dare to accept it.

But once I tried to sit on it and experience it once. All discovered. Compared to horse-drawn carriages, this passenger magic locomotive is much better than horse-drawn carriages in terms of comfort and, most importantly, speed.

As a result, after only half a month of trial operation, countless people strongly demanded that Filson Motors and Horses change all the buses and carriages into medium-sized magic buses.

There were even many who suggested that they would refuse to ride the Fillson Carriage if they continued to use horse-drawn buses.

As a result, on the bus routes that Filson Carriage and Horse Racing now operates, medium-sized magic buses are increasingly replacing horse-drawn carriages.

It's just that because of the current production capacity of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, there is no way to make Filson Motors replace all the bus carriages with medium-sized magic buses for the time being, so that there will be a coexistence of medium-sized magic buses and horse-drawn carriages on many bus routes.

Of course, Bonta City is the bus line that connects to Falling Rain Valley. However, at the first time, all of them were replaced by medium-sized magic buses.

Two hours later, Mercado jumped out of a medium-sized magic bus and headed straight for the newly built Filson Coach & Horse Shop headquarters outside Bonta.

The headquarters was fully completed and put into use last month, and the most important reason is that the bus system in Bangta City is becoming more and more mature, and there are more and more buses and new bus magic locomotives that need to be managed by the Firmson Motors and Horse Dealers.

This is also a trend that is now emerging in Bonta City.

With the rapid development of Bang Ta City, the small Bang Ta City has become more and more closed and crowded, so that many merchants and even ordinary residents in the city have begun to move outside Bang Ta City.

And two years ago, when Count Satsuma was the lord of the castle. The concept of re-establishing the new city of Bang Ta has been proposed, and the roads outside Bang Ta are now more intensively paved. With the Amritra Chamber of Commerce building for several years in a row, the suburbs outside Bonta are now extremely well equipped.

In comparison, the conditions in the new city outside the city are much better than those inside the city of Bonta City, not only are they much spacious, but they also have more and more convenient auxiliary facilities - such as street lamps everywhere.

And now the Count of Stark, the guy who hindered the development of Bonta City, is finally gone, and to everyone's surprise, it was His Royal Highness Sevigny as the city lord, which immediately made the vitality of Bonta City burst out for a whole year, and within a month after His Royal Highness Princess Sevigny took over as the city lord, the new city outside the city seemed to change every day, and now compared with last year, it has almost completely changed into a new look.

The new headquarters of Filson Motorsport is located in one of the most prosperous areas of the new town outside the city, about two kilometers away from the west gate of the old town of Bonta, covering an area of almost one-fifth of the old city of Bonta.

Mercado entered the main gate of the headquarters, went straight to the office area in the center, showed the certificate to the receptionist, and soon met President Pomberg in the president's office on the top floor.

"Come, Merkado, please be seated. Seeing Mercado come in, Pompei smiled and pointed to the seat across from him, motioning for him to sit down.

Judging from President Pompei's not very polite behavior, it is clear that this is not the first time that Mercado has met him.

After bowing slightly, Merkadu sat down opposite President Pompei, took out the contract he had just signed in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and handed it over from his arms.

"Oh, it's already been bought?" President Pombéry took the contract and glanced at it a few times, and sighed: "It seems that President Xu really treats you preferentially, obviously he hasn't completed the orders of our Chamber of Commerce and several big chambers of commerce in the city, but he just squeezed out one and sold it to you." ”

Merkadu hurriedly smiled: "President Xu is very generous, and he knows that I want to buy a medium-sized magic bus and want to use it as a free lease, so he is very supportive of me." When I came to you, President Pompeiy, I was recommended by President Xu. ”

President Pombéry nodded, "Well, if it weren't for you holding President Xu's letter of recommendation, I probably wouldn't have seen you." After that, he glanced at Merkadu, smiled, and continued: "Actually, seriously speaking, the thing you want to do is still a kind of competitor relationship with our Chamber of Commerce, and I shouldn't see you." ”

Merkadu immediately smiled flatteringly: "President Pompei, you are as generous as President Xu, of course you will not refuse a little person like me to follow you to eat a bite of food." ”

"Don't pat my ass, I don't think I'm as good as President Xu. President Pompei shook his head. He glanced at the contract in his hand again. Give it back to Mekado. He continued: "To be honest, since Chairman Xu values you so much and says that this taxi industry has a great future in the future, then I believe that this industry must be really promising. In this case, according to my previous practice, I will definitely take this industry into my own hands, and how can I let you snatch it from me. ”

Merkado smiled awkwardly, and he didn't dare to come out.

In front of Erica, of course, he can do it freely. But when he faced a big man like President Pompei, he was really nervous.

There is no way, although he can now be regarded as a small family property, and can even afford a magic locomotive worth more than 800 gold coins, but compared with a big man like President Pompeiy, who controls Filson's carriage and horse dealership, it is undoubtedly too far behind.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered that when he communicated with President Xu of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, he didn't seem to feel so nervous.

It seems that President Xu is born with a temperament that can make people unconsciously relax in front of him. And develop a sense of trust in him.

This...... Probably the temperament of a real big man, right?

President Pombéry naturally didn't know that his words made Merkado have so many thoughts in an instant, and glanced at the slightly flattering smile on Merkado's face. Nodding in satisfaction.

"However, when I was discussing this matter with President Xu, he kept emphasizing to me that I should give others some room for development, and I agree with him very much, so this will give you this opportunity to cooperate with our chamber of commerce. So you have to remember that although this opportunity is mainly earned by yourself, you should not forget the role that President Xu played in it. ”

Merkadu nodded repeatedly: "Certainly, I will definitely not forget President Jì Xu's help to me." Of course, in my mind, it is you who have helped me the most, President Pompeiry, and I will definitely follow your instructions in the future, and I will do whatever you want me to do. ”

President Pompei waved his hand: "It's not that exaggerated, since I decided to let you do this thing, then you can do it well." Let's take a look at this cooperation agreement first, and if it's okay, let's sign it first. ”

Mercadu took the agreement, read it carefully, and confirmed that all the terms on it were roughly determined according to the results of his previous discussions with President Pompei.

Although there are some subtle differences in some places, on the whole, the impact is not great, and even some differences are taken advantage of by him.

After reading this agreement, Mercado had just the right amount of gratitude on his face, nodded to President Pompei, and said, "No problem." ”

"Okay, just sign it. President Pompei said.

Mercadus took the pen handed over by President Pompei, and was about to sign his name at the end of the agreement, but suddenly his heart moved, opened the agreement, read one of the terms carefully, hesitated for a moment, and pointed to this clause and looked at President Pompei.

"This ...... President Pompeiry, this magic locomotive was purchased by me personally, so I don't need to go to your Pompeiy Chamber of Commerce every year to report for maintenance and qualification, right? ”

President Pombéry glanced at the clause and said nonchalantly, "Oh, this is not what I meant, but he brought it up the last time I talked to President Xu about it. The reason why this is done is to standardize, to make your private magic locomotive easy to manage, and also for the sake of our Bangta City, which actually doesn't have that much impact on you. ”

Merkadu frowned: "That's a bit ...... It's a bit of an overkill, isn't it? This is a magic locomotive that I bought myself, and if others want to rent it, they can just ask me, so it shouldn't have anything to do with other people, right? Why do I have to report for maintenance every year, and I have to review my qualifications?"

President Pombéry shook his head and said with a wry smile, "Don't ask me, I don't understand why President Xu is so strict in this regard. But you don't have to think of opposing this, even all the magic locomotives used by our Filson Motors and Horses must comply with these regulations he proposed, so you don't have the luxury of resisting. ”

"Didn't you protest to President Xu?" asked Mekado, a little incredulous.

President Pompeii frowned, glanced at Mercado, and said with a little dissatisfaction, "I won't do so much as you. President Xu said that this is for the sake of the safety norms of the entire industry, and in the long run, it is for the healthy development of the entire industry. I trusted his judgment, so I didn't object. As for you...... If you don't want to accept it, I don't mind if you refuse to sign this agreement. ”

Merkadu was stunned, he didn't expect President Pompei to be so tough in this regard, he thought about it, said no more, picked up the pen and owed his name at the end of the agreement.

However, it wasn't until he and President Pombéry had completed the agreement and walked out of the door of the Fillson Carriage and Horse Shop headquarters that he still couldn't figure it out.

Why would President Hsu make such an unreasonable request? What is even more strange is why such a big man as President Pompery of Filson's carriage and horse company would be willing to agree to such a request? (To be continued......