President Pompeiy is certainly not stupid, and Filson is not a car and horse dealer who has too much money to use.

The reason why he proposed to build the road from Bangta City to Saltan City was because the fact that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had not hidden the road between Bangta City and Kalmar City from Bang Ta City to Kalmar City at all, but had been announced by the City Lord's Mansion in the Municipal Square.

There has been a lot of coverage of this in the newspapers of Bonta City and Kalmar City, and even a series of related reports have been carried out in the newspapers of Anvimar City.

Everyone knew from these reports that after the construction of this road, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will set up a toll booth on the road and collect tolls from all carriages passing on the road.

Most people said it didn't matter, and a few scoffed.

Is the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce crazy? Do you still want to make money by collecting tolls?

You want to collect money, don't you? That's easy, I don't want to take this broken road.

Anyway, this road was built at a different site, and it does not affect the current road between Bonta City and Kalmar City.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is trying to recoup the investment in building the road by collecting tolls, but I am afraid that it is simply wishful thinking.

But just because others think this way does not mean that President Pompery will think this way.

As the president of Fillson, he knows better than anyone how much a good road can affect the business of a horse and carriage dealer.

Not to mention anything else, the annual loss of the Filson Carriage and Horse Shop on the carriage alone is as high as 100,000 to 150,000 gold coins.

And if you take into account the loss caused by the horses running on inferior roads, this figure is even closer to 200,000 gold coins.

President Pompeiy had thought that every road in the kingdom of Lampari could be as smooth as the one paved with pure marble slabs in front of the royal palace in the city of Anvimar. Then Filson can save at least 100,000 gold coins on fixed losses alone.

And because of the improvement of the road, the speed of the carriage will also increase. People travel more efficiently, and the business of the car and horse dealers will be better.

However, this qiē good wish. In the end, it was all just a bubble.

Although the road in front of the palace was only 500 meters long and 10 meters wide, it cost as much as 70,000 gold coins because all the materials were made of fine marble and carefully polished by skilled stonemasons.

If you want to make all the roads in the Lampari Kingdom like that, the gold that needs to be spent is not even affordable even for the royal family of the Candela Empire, which claims to be the richest on the entire continent.

President Pompeii gave up on this hope for a while, until he saw the road built by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

Although compared to the extremely smooth road in front of the palace, this road is a little worse. But compared to those tattered gravel roads, this road is countless times better.

If President Pompeiy had been given the choice, he would have chosen to let all the goods and carriages of the Fillson carriage and horse-drawn carriage walk on such a road, even if he would have to pay a certain toll for it.

He was also sure that even if the other chambers of commerce could not see the significance of this highway now, after comparison, they would definitely choose to let their chamber of commerce's wagons go on a flat road.

Aside from the loss of goods caused by walking on a flat road without a horse-drawn carriage, the time saved is no longer comparable to a mere toll.

So President Pompeiy judged almost instantaneously. The collection of highway tolls is actually very promising.

So he found Xu Yi for the first time, and immediately applied to the Earl of Satsuma to build a road.

Of course, the most important factors that prompted him to make up his mind were...... The cost of the road is low enough.

According to Xu Yi. The road to the valley of the rain was 57 kilometers long, but it cost less than 200,000 gold coins.

The construction of a road from Bonta City to Kalmar City is about 70 kilometers long, and it is estimated that it will cost only about 300,000 gold coins.

Although the city of Bonta is a little further away from the city of Saltan. But according to this standard, it will not cost more than 400,000 gold coins to survive. The Filson Carriage & Horse Shop is completely affordable.

The most important thing is to wait for the other chambers of commerce to react. They have started to build roads, and it is believed that it will not be long before all the roads in the entire Lampari Kingdom will be replaced by roads.

At that time, the most benefited from this was undoubtedly the Filson Carriage and Horse Company, which was most dependent on road traffic.

"Hey, that guy from Pompeiy must be happy in his heart right now, thinking that you Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is simply desperate to help them with Filson's car. President Cruise looked at the rapidly reversing scenery outside the galloping carriage, pursed his lips, looked back at Xu Yi again, shook his head, and said, "Actually, he didn't expect that this qiē was planned by you a long time ago. ”

Xu Yiye also retracted his gaze looking out of the window, patted the cushion sitting casually, and said with a smile: "I can't say that completely." You see, if all the roads in the Lampari Kingdom were to become such smooth roads, at least we would be much more comfortable in the carriage. ”

Now the carriage in which the two of them were sitting was driving on the rainy road that had just been completed, because of the flatness of the road, although the whole carriage had been moving at high speed, it was still very stable, and it was far less bumpy and uncomfortable to sit in than when driving on those ordinary gravel and dirt roads before.

President Cruise laughed and nodded, "That's right." Anyway, after a few trips on this road, I can't stand it if you let me go to the old dirt roads and take a carriage. Alas, I don't know when all the roads in our Lampari Kingdom will become such comfortable roads. ”

Xu Yi pondered for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be too long." After the construction of this rainy road, newspapers in various parts of the Lampa and two countries have been widely reported, and the royal family has vigorously promoted it, and now the whole kingdom of Lampari has known the convenience brought by the road. Coupled with the royal family's publicity about the two roads being built by our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and Filson Carriage and Horse Company, I believe that many chambers of commerce in the Kingdom will realize the benefits of building roads. Maybe it won't be long before you'll find a lot of people coming to your Amritri Chamber of Commerce to help build the road. ”

President Cruise frowned slightly: "With the current capacity of our Chamber of Commerce, we have done our best to build two roads at the same time, if more people want to build roads, I'm afraid we won't be able to cope with it." ”

"Then are you willing to give up the technology of building cement roads and let other chambers of commerce share it for you?"

Faced with Xu Yi's quip, President Cruise quickly shook his head without thinking.

"Of course not. In this case, President Xu, I will take this opportunity to order another 20 sets of concrete equipment from you. In addition, I hope that you can speed up the research and development of other road engineering magic machines, which I am in a hurry to use now. ”

"It's okay to talk about the equipment, but what about the people?" Xu Yi asked rhetorically. "Now in Bonta City, I guess you can't find enough men, right?"

Hearing Xu Yi mention people, President Cruise let out a long sigh and said with a wry smile: "Speaking of which, I really don't know whether to praise you or scold you." ”

"Oh, how do you say that?" Xu Yixiao asked.

"Before your new flying chamber of commerce came out, you could see idlers everywhere in Bangta City, and I gave three gold coins a month, and a large number of people rushed to work. Fortunately, now your new flight club has opened a few factories on its own, recruited more than a thousand people, not to mention, and made up that small chamber of commerce support program, so that the whole city of Bangta is now recruiting people everywhere. I'd like to recruit more people to build roads, and guess what?"

"Why can't you recruit it?" Xu Yi asked.

"It's not completely impossible. But I just want to hire a handyman who shovels the roadbed, and I dare to ask me for a salary of seven gold coins a month, it's a robbery!" President Cruise said indignantly.

Xu Yi couldn't help laughing: "That's right, it's only seven gold coins, which is not much." We are now recruiting a new worker, starting at 10 gold coins a month. ”

President Cruise glared at Xu Yi: "Who compares to your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce! You guy has always been a big deal, and to put it bluntly, you are a loser." In fact, in the final analysis, if it weren't for your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to raise the wages of workers so high first, our Chamber of Commerce would not have been so difficult. ”

"I explained this to you last year. The increase in workers' wages is an inevitable consequence of economic development, and it is not something that my new flying chamber of commerce can change. With the current demand for manpower in Bonta City, even if our chamber of commerce does not rise, sooner or later there will be other chambers of commerce that will rise. You may not know that some time ago, several chambers of commerce wanted to poach the workers of our factory, and even offered a salary of twenty gold coins a month. Xu Yidao.

"Twenty gold coins, which chamber of commerce is crazier than you?" asked President Cruise in surprise. "Aren't your workers going to be poached?"

"Not one chamber of commerce, but many. Anyone who wants to produce magic machinery like us is now poaching our workers. Maybe they think that by poaching all our workers, they will be able to be like our Chamber of Commerce?" Xu Yi sneered at his face. "But fortunately, most of our workers are dwarves and have a high level of loyalty. So far, there are only a dozen human workers left, and the impact is not great. ”

President Cruise looked at Xu Yi enviously: "Why can't I hire so many dwarves? Dwarves not only have great strength and good physique, but also are willing to endure hardships and have good handicrafts, so they are really the most suitable workers." Hey, Xu Yi, since you know so many dwarves, can you introduce some to our Chamber of Commerce? I promise to give them a high salary! At least ten gold coins a month, how about it?"

"You shouldn't ask me, you should ask the dwarves themselves. Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders and pointed to the shadows of the two green mountains that had gradually revealed their figures outside the carriage window. "Now that there are so many dwarves living in the Falling Rain Valley, if you have the ability, recruit them all to your chamber of commerce. (To be continued......)