Chapter 88: Pleasant Cooperation
As it turned out, King Trutz's support for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was by no means limited to lip service.
In a series of negotiations between Xu Yi and the Ruerson Kingdom on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce gained great convenience, and the major institutions in the Ruerson Kingdom almost unreservedly supported almost any request made by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which was obviously specially instructed by King Trutz.
After only half a month in the Ruerson Kingdom, Xu Yi finally signed three important cooperation agreements on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Ruerson Kingdom.
First, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the five cities in the country of Ruerson have launched direct cooperation, and in these five cities, they have jointly established 20 household magic machinery factories, and the product line covers all kinds of household magic machinery currently produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
According to the agreement between the two parties, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will give financial and technical support, and the Ruerson Kingdom will give preferential support in terms of land and policies, and the final benefit sharing is that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce occupies an absolute advantage with seven components and has absolute control over the 20 factories.
However, on the contrary, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce promised to disclose its technology to the Ruerson Kingdom side, and only local workers from the Ruerson Kingdom were allowed to be recruited in these 20 factories, while the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce only provided technical personnel.
At the same time, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce must also take on the task of training the workers of the Kingdom of Luerson in the skills related to the manufacture of magical machinery, so an additional vocational training academy for magical machinery will be opened in the city of Kuraka.
This magical mechanical vocational skills training academy is completely controlled by the Ruerson Kingdom, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce only provides information and technical support, and the rest does not need to be involved.
Second. The New Flying Chamber of Commerce has reached an agreement with Nissi, the southernmost seaport city of the Ruerson Kingdom. The New Flyer will invest in a significant expansion of the existing port in Nissi.
After the construction of the port was completed. Nominally, all the money in this port belongs to Nissi City, and Nissi City also has absolute jurisdiction, but the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has absolute priority over seven of the ten docks in the port that has been built, and whenever the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's ships arrive, other ships must make way for it.
Although it is not explicitly stated in the agreement, according to the private agreement between Xu Yi and the lord of Nixi City, Nixi City will keep two docks vacant at all times for the use of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce at any time.
When Xu Yi and the city lord of Nissi discussed this agreement. The city lord of Nissi City was very puzzled by Xu Yi's insistence on making this private agreement.
King Trutz gave instructions to Nissi, asking Nissi to fully cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and try to meet the requirements of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but he insisted that the sovereignty of the port must be retained in the hands of the Ruerson Kingdom.
Xu Yi wants to remind that there is already some meaning of rubbing the edge, in case His Majesty the King investigates this, it is very likely to become a bubble.
However, under the gold coin offensive of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the city lord of Nixi City finally chose to agree to Xu Yi's request.
In any case, this still retains the sovereignty of the port, and it only needs to be done in the actual operation process.
Moreover, although Nissi City is the largest seaport city in the south of the Ruerson Kingdom, it is almost equivalent to the Sainz continent for sea transportation. Nissi City, a seaport city, doesn't actually have a few ships on the shore in a year.
For the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to spend three million gold coins to build such a large port in one go, the city lord of Nixi City actually didn't understand it very much.
Even King Trutz is very supportive of this mention of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. However, he only thought that building a port would only be beneficial to the Ruerson Kingdom, but there would be no harm, and he could not understand why the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce insisted on doing so.
The third important cooperation agreement is not only related to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
In this agreement, Xu Yi's request on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is to require the Ruerson Kingdom to open tariff review to more than 30 chambers of commerce, including the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, in other words, to open the internal market of the Ruerson Kingdom, so that the goods of these more than 30 chambers of commerce can enter the Ruerson Kingdom more freely.
These more than thirty chambers of commerce, of course, are those magical machinery chambers of commerce that followed the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to the Black Rice Wasteland that had developed in Bangta City before.
It should be said that this last agreement is the one that Xu Yi values the most.
He was not worried that the Ruerson Kingdom would not cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but that the Ruerson Kingdom would reject these other chambers of commerce in order to protect the development of his country's magic industry.
However, Xu Yi underestimated the courage of King Trutz, and after hearing Xu Yi's request, King Trutz made a decision in only three days to fully open the tariff review to these more than 30 chambers of commerce, including the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and implement special policy preferences for the goods of these more than 30 chambers of commerce to enter the Ruerson Kingdom, and make every effort to ensure the normal circulation of these goods.
However, King Trutz also made strict stipulations on this, except for the total of 36 chambers of commerce indicated in this agreement, the kingdom of Ruerson will not accept any new chambers of commerce in the future.
At the same time, King Trutz also demanded that the thirty-five chambers of commerce, in addition to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, must also build at least two joint ventures with cities across the Ruerson Kingdom like the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Xu Yi naturally agreed to this request.
Now those other chambers of commerce have lost the largest market of the Lampari Kingdom, and can only rely on the three immature and small markets of the Duchy of Draco, the Duchy of Mirando and the Duchy of Standine, and the situation is already very difficult.
Now that the kingdom of Ruersun is willing to open its market to them, it is tantamount to saving them from fire and water.
Moreover, the cooperation model between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Ruerson Kingdom is actually more beneficial to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in terms of pure benefits, how could the other thirty-five chambers of commerce disagree.
In addition to the three most important agreements, Xu also reached some smaller agreements on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Kingdom of Ruerson.
For example, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will cooperate with the Magic Senate of the Ruerson Kingdom to jointly develop some technologies related to magic machinery.
For example, the Ruersun Kingdom will find some dwarven tribes in the territory of the Ruersun Kingdom according to the requirements of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, try to find the elven tribe. Get in touch with them. Then let the new flying chamber do its best to recruit.
Another example......
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In short, half a month later, when Xu Yi and Kennard attended a banquet specially set up by King Trutz and left Kuraka City under Newman's farewell, both of them were very satisfied with this trip to the Ruerson Kingdom.
Xu Yi turned his head and glanced at Kuraka City, which had been left behind, from the back window of the magic car, and couldn't help but sigh: "I have to say, in terms of vision, courage, foresight and action. King Trutz is even much stronger than His Majesty Lampari XIII, let alone King Eric. ”
Kennard beside him smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This can't be helped, King Eric hasn't shown any outstanding ability before, and His Majesty Lampari XIII's original most optimistic heir is Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny." And now that he is king, the kingdom of Lampari is under the full control of the Stark family, even if he wants to do anything, he can't do it. ”
Xu Yi snorted: "If the Lampari Kingdom continues to be tossed by those guys, I think the situation will only get worse and worse." Although the rebellion in Colebor City has subsided, judging from all sources, the situation within the Lampari Kingdom has collapsed considerably. I am afraid that if there is only one carelessness, there is a high possibility of civil unrest. ”
Kennard groaned for a moment. Shaking his head slightly: "That's not necessarily. Elder, do you know how the rebellion in Colebor was quelled?"
"I've heard that the city lord of Coleb City surrendered on his own initiative. Is that so?"
"It's true that he surrendered voluntarily, but the reason why he chose to surrender voluntarily was actually because King Eric stopped the kingdom garrison that Duke Stark had already sent out, and said that he would not allow a civil war in the kingdom and demanded a peaceful settlement of the matter. Later, after King Eric's promise not to be held accountable, the lord of Kolebo chose to surrender voluntarily. ”
"Promise?" Xu Yi's face was strange, and he couldn't help but shake his head. "The city lord of Kolebo City is not a three-year-old child, how would he believe this promise?"
Kennard smiled slightly: "Elder, King Eric made a public promise in his dual capacity as a king and a nobleman, and if he broke his promise, it would be a very severe blow to his prestige, so it was impossible for him to break his promise unless it was very necessary." ”
"It is also true, now that the rebellion in the city of Colebor has been put down, King Eric really has no intention of pursuing this matter. Besides, the rebellion in Coleb City was actually just a signal from the nobles in the kingdom who opposed the Stark family's side, and now that King Eric has given the reaction they wanted, everyone will naturally not be troubled anymore. ”
Xu Yiwei frowned: "If that's the case, doesn't it mean that King Eric is suppressing the Stark family?
"At least for now, the Stark family has not said anything about it. At that time, the Duke of Stark not only obeyed the order to recall the Second Army of the Kingdom Garrison, which was preparing to attack the city of Kolebo, but also publicly stated afterwards that the stability within the Lampari Kingdom was higher than that of the first qiē, and the Stark family would fully support King Eric's first qiē decision. ”
Speaking of this, Kennard suddenly became excited.
"Do you know, Lord Elric, King Eric has become much more diligent than before, and has not only begun to actively express his opinions on various affairs in the kingdom, but also to be very tough, rejecting several of Duke Stark's proposals, and gradually beginning to show the majesty and courage of a king. I think as long as he continues to keep up, our Lampari Kingdom still has a very good chance of continuing to grow stronger. ”
Looking at Kennard's joyful smile, Xu Yi didn't have any thoughts of approval in his heart.
First of all, after all, he is a person who has crossed over from the earth, and he does not have much identification with the Lampari Kingdom itself, so naturally he will not be happy with the good changes within the Lampari Kingdom like Kennard.
Secondly, he is not optimistic about the transformation of the so-called King Eric.
If he really had this ability and courage, how could the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce be forcibly squeezed out of the Lampari Kingdom?
If he can have absolute control over the Lampari Kingdom like King Trutz and support the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, then the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's current investment in the Ruerson Kingdom will even exceed 10 million gold coins, which will obviously be of great help to the development of the Lampari Kingdom.
The most important problem is that he wants to suppress the Stark family, balance the Lampari Kingdom, and try to control the entire Lampari Kingdom, which is a good idea, but ...... Can he really do it? (To be continued......)