More than half of the hot summer has passed before you know it, and the time is about to enter September.

The first two years at this time should have been the busiest for all the chambers of commerce that produce household magic machinery in Bonta City, as well as the small chambers of commerce responsible for the processing of parts, because this period has always been the peak sales season for many household magic machines that are especially in demand during the summer.

This year, however, the situation in Bangta City is different.

Like leaves that have been roasted by the scorching summer sun and can only lie on their stomachs and droop on the branches, a large number of chambers of commerce in the city of Bonta that produce household magic machinery also seem to be weak and weak, and the momentum of the start is not as good as before, and even several chambers of commerce have completely stopped producing household magic machinery.

As for the reason, it's very simple, of course, I can't make any money.

At first, when the new Kamadou City Lord announced the reform of the commercial tax and imposed additional taxes on magic machinery, although the chambers of commerce that produced magic machinery in Bonta City felt that they had suffered a heavy blow, they were still very optimistic that they could still make money, but the big deal was that the profit margin had dropped a little, and as long as they worked for a longer period of time, they would naturally be able to earn back what they had lost.

However, a few months later, the ruthless truth told everyone that under the existing commercial tax policy, it was almost impossible to make money by producing magic machinery, and it was really a loss.

So after several months of struggle, some chambers of commerce with low profit margins had no choice but to stop production to avoid further expansion of losses.

And with the first, there is also the second.

Just two months of summer have passed. More than 10 chambers of commerce that produce magic machines have announced the suspension of production in Bangta City, and many more have entered the stage of production reduction, and it is only a few steps or even just a step away from stopping production.

And in all the chambers of commerce. The only exception is the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Other chambers of commerce have reduced production or even stopped production, but the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce surprisingly not only did not completely move out of Bangta City and move to the base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Duchy of Stantin as everyone initially speculated, but also added several additional production lines in various workshops in the Falling Rain Valley, absorbing the workers who had been laid off due to the reduction or even suspension of production by other chambers of commerce, and started working at full speed.

Because of the new production line and the skilled workers recruited from other chambers of commerce. In the summer of this year, the production of the most sought-after magic fans, magic air conditioners, magic refrigerators, magic freezers and other household magic machinery has increased significantly.

And because there is less competition from these chambers of commerce in Bangta City, the sales of household magic machinery have also increased significantly in this summer.

It's just the magic air conditioner. In the first two months of the summer, the company sold more than 200,000 units, more than double the sales of the whole of last summer.

Counting several other types of household magic machinery, the total sales of household magic machinery this summer will be compared with last year. The minimum should also be doubled.

At first, the others were very puzzled by this behavior of the new flying chamber of commerce. Later, it dawned on me.

Other chambers of commerce may reduce their profit margins or even lose money because of the new commercial tax policy, but the profit margin of Xinfei brand household magic machinery has always been extremely high, even if all the profits fall because of the new commercial tax policy, they can still make a lot of profits.

In this way, the new flying chamber of commerce is very in line with the condition of relying on high production and high sales to make up for the losses caused by the new business tax policy.

However, this is something that other chambers of commerce cannot envy.

The reason why Xinfei Household Magic Machinery can still maintain a good profit margin in this situation is because the price of Xinfei Household Magic Machinery is much higher than that of other brands of Household Magic Machinery.

Although this has caused the new flying brand to lose a lot of market in the previous two years, in this case. However, the new flying brand household magic machinery still maintains its survival and competitiveness.

The reason why the price of the new flying brand household magic machinery is high is that so many people can buy it, in addition to the new flying brand household magic machinery in terms of performance and quality, it is obviously much stronger than other brands of household magic machinery. It is also because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been operating the Xinfei brand for so many years.

Because of the persistent publicity of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, everyone agrees that the new flying brand household magic machinery is the most high-end product in the household magic machinery, and the purchase of the new flying brand household magic machinery is the choice of grade and face.

At this point, the gap between other brands of household magic machinery and Xinfei brand household magic machinery is even greater than the performance and quality gap between the two products themselves.

Therefore, because of these two reasons, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can still maintain high production and high sales this summer, while other chambers of commerce can only sigh.

"The other guys don't have to envy us. Heinze sighed deeply as he looked at the financial statements for the previous month that Sebas had just handed him over. "Although our output and sales volume this year have almost doubled that of last year, if you calculate it, last month's profit was only 130,000 gold coins, which was not even a third of the same period last year. It's really ......"

Kennard on the side frowned so much that he almost stood up, staring at Xu Yi with a calm expression on the other side, his heart was full of puzzlement.

Xu Yi told him two months ago that he could let those guys suck the blood of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce at will, as long as they couldn't suck the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to death, he felt that something was wrong.

And in the past two months, seeing with his own eyes the role played by Xu Yi's decision-making, he felt extremely puzzled.

If Xu Yi had long expected this situation, and only then did he decide to expand the production scale of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce at that time, so that he had now re-seized the vast majority of the household magic machinery market in the entire kingdom, then Kennard had to express his deep admiration for Xu Yi's foresight in his heart.

But he has been with Xu Yi for so long, but he understands very well that what Xu Yi cares about most is not what Cheng dù the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can develop, but what Cheng dù can be formed and what scale the entire magic industry system can develop.

Now, all the chambers of commerce related to the magic industry in Bangta City, except for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, have been tossed half-dead by the new business tax policy and a series of targeted policies promulgated by the city lord of Kamado, which is by no means something Xu Yi wants to see.

"Could it be that the Elder has changed now, no longer fighting for his ideals, but only looking for his own interests?" Kennard wondered.

Although he knew very well in his heart that such a choice was what a qualified businessman should do, it was Xu Yi, who could not be regarded as a qualified businessman before, who was full of heart-warming charm, and even he, a person who had been evaluated as extremely arrogant by everyone he knew, was willing to become Xu Yi's subordinate, and only tried his best to work for him for more than two years.

While Kennard was staring at Xu Yi guessing Xu Yi's thoughts, Xu Yi's eyes swept over the faces of everyone in the conference room, and he laughed when he saw everyone frowning.

"Okay, I think everyone understands the predicament that the Chamber of Commerce is facing now, right?"

Everyone looked at each other and nodded in unison.

Ankato, the head of the household magic machinery department, smiled bitterly: "Elder, to be honest, I never thought that our home magic machinery department would have a time when we hadn't earned 100,000 gold coins for a whole month. That's really ...... It makes me feel so useless. ”

"It's none of your business. The dwarf Naru, the director of the steel mill on the side, snorted: "If it weren't for the new idiot city lord who came up with such a hellish business tax policy, how could our chamber of commerce make such a little money in a month." Damn it! The two steel mills under my command actually lost money last month! It's a shame!"

Ankato glanced at him sympathetically: "That can't be helped, many chambers of commerce have stopped production, and the demand for just now is naturally greatly reduced." Coupled with the fact that the city lord of Kamadoo also has a high proportion of dwarven workers in the steel mill, what the hell is the safety and security tax to be charged, it would be good that you didn't lose too much. ”

"Safety,!" said Naru angrily. "What's wrong with the dwarven workers in the factory? Why isn't it safe? It's all that damn Kamadou's discrimination against us dwarves! I'm going to report him to the Kingdom Alien Race Administration!"

"Wake up, Naru. The Alien Race Administration has rarely even issued labor certifications, and basically does nothing. Sooner or later, I see, a rule will be enacted that will not allow aliens to work in the Human Chamber of Commerce. On the other side, Amrod, the director of the Yege plastic processing plant, who was attending the meeting, sighed. "Your steel mills are only being forced to ask for a safety tax, but our plastics processing plants are already being forced to close down, or they will be handed over to human management. ”

"By the way, what are you going to do in the end, and are you really going to shut down the factory?" asked Naru curiously.

"No, we're going to move to the Duchy of Stantin. In addition to us, the fertilizer factory run by the Lunaris clan is also planning to move with us. Anyway, the hometown of the Moon Shadow clan is in the Duchy of Stantin. Amrod replied.

Naru frowned and turned to Xu Yi: "Elder, I said that those of you human beings who are officials are all idiots, what good will it do them after driving us away?"

Xu Yi shrugged: "You should ask them." Okay, now that everyone has understood the current predicament of the Chamber of Commerce, then I will announce one thing next, which should not surprise everyone. ”

Hearing this, everyone in the conference room couldn't help but raise their eyes.

Naru immediately asked, "Elder, are you going to announce the official suspension of our Chamber of Commerce?"

"How could that be. Xu Yi shook his head. "That's what I'm going to announce...... I have applied to the Council of Nobles of the Kingdom to formally resign as a viscount. ”

"Huh?"

Immediately there was an exclamation in the conference room. (To be continued......)