Chapter 133: Conferral
Count Revere looked at the financial report of Bonta City last month in his hand and frowned slightly.
This does not mean that this financial report is not good-looking, on the contrary, the numbers on it are extremely gorgeous, and anyone who sees them will be extremely surprised.
According to this financial report, the total monthly fiscal revenue of Bangta City last month was 460,000 gold coins, which has successfully surpassed Anvimar City and become the city with the highest fiscal income in the Lampari Kingdom.
You must know that Anweimar City, as the royal capital of the Lampari Kingdom, naturally received special attention from the entire kingdom, coupled with the fact that it concentrated more than half of the kingdom's big nobles and large chambers of commerce, and its financial revenue has always far exceeded all other cities in the kingdom.
And if the time is advanced by eight years, before the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce appeared, the financial revenue of Bangta City was negative at all, and it had to be partially subsidized by the kingdom's treasury every year to barely maintain it, although it was not the worst city in the entire kingdom, but it was also ranked last, and he never imagined that he would one day be able to surpass Anweimar City.
However, just eight years later, Bang Ta City has achieved this achievement that even in imagination before, and it is undoubtedly something that everyone in Bang Ta City should be proud of and proud of.
As the current lord of Bonta City, and the leader who has personally created the glorious achievements of Bonta City in the past few years, Count Revere is clearly more qualified to be happy and proud of it.
When he first saw this financial report, the Earl of Revere was indeed full of joy and felt deeply satisfied in his heart.
But when he saw the originally inconspicuous number behind this report, his mood changed instantly.
This figure is a statistic on the growth of the monthly fiscal revenue of the city of Bangta.
It is displayed according to the number jΓΉ. Bang Ta City's fiscal revenue last month was about 460,000 gold coins. Compared with about 440,000 gold coins in March, the fiscal revenue has increased by about 4%.
For Bonta City, which already has such a size. A 4% increase in a month is quite a remarkable achievement.
However, the Earl of Revere remembers very well that this figure was 6% in the previous month's financial statistics, 8% in the previous month, and 9% in the previous month.
If we look at the fiscal revenue statistics for the last six months, we will find that this number is decreasing month by month.
In other words, the growth rate of fiscal revenue in Bangta City is getting slower and slower.
Judging by the current trend, I am afraid that it will be until the end of this year. There will be no more significant increase in the revenue of Bangta City.
Even...... There is a possibility of regression!
"Impossible!" Count Rewell immediately shook his head vigorously, instantly denying the possibility of his inner speculation.
But when he calmed down and thought about it seriously, he had to admit that this was a fact that he had to face.
The development of Bonta City has obviously entered a bottleneck period, and it is difficult to make Bonta City grow by leaps and bounds like when the magic industry was just rising and growing.
In order to solve this problem, in addition to strengthening the multi-faceted development of Bonta City, the most important thing is to spend a lot of effort on the magic industry, the pillar of Bonta City.
After pacing and thinking about the office for about half an hour, Count Revere left the City Lord's Mansion. Hop aboard his exclusive Magic Car and head to the west of Bonta City's new town.
This new urban area is another new part of Bang Ta City, which was only developed last year.
According to Count Revere's plan, this new town will be built into a comprehensive urban area. It does not divide each urban area into distinct areas with distinct functions, as was the case in previous plans for Bang Ta City.
Three hotels, a number of shops, two different types of factories have been built on one side of the road, and a large number of residential buildings have been built by the Amrley Chamber of Commerce on the other side.
These 20-meter-tall six-storey residences are the latest so-called "condominium houses" launched by the Amritri Chamber of Commerce, because they are equipped with a complete automatic water supply system and warm water circulation system underneath the residences, coupled with a complete sewer system, making this residential area one of the most convenient residences in Bangta City.
At the same time, because the price is not particularly high, far less expensive than those villas, so once launched, it was greatly welcomed.
Not far from the diagonal opposite of this residential area, there is also a very large area of buildings rising from the ground at this time.
This complex belongs to the Bonta City Magical Industry Skills Training Academy, which is a product of the expansion of the Bonta City Magical Industry Skills Training Academy.
The reason why it was able to occupy such a large and well-located area was due to the strong support of Earl Revere.
Although this Bang Ta City Magic Industry Skills Training Academy was founded by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, after the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce left Bang Ta City and left the Lampari Kingdom, this academy fell into the control of the Bang Ta City City Lord's Mansion.
After Count Revere took over as the lord of Bonta City, he didn't attach much importance to this college in the first two years, but since last year, he has begun to set his sights on this college, not only giving land, but also investing a lot of money, and facing the vigorous enrollment of Bonta City and surrounding cities, the scale of this college has expanded by as much as four or five times.
At present, there are more than 8,000 people in this academy, and most of them are focused on the training of skilled workers related to various magical machinery, but there are also more than 400 students who are directly engaged in the research and study of magical machinery theory.
This was established at the behest of Count Revere, who instructed Baron Rictor's Academy of Magic to send its students here to study the theory of magical mechanics.
Of course, no student would have been interested in this kind of research before, but with the popularity of magical machinery in the Kingdom of Lampari and nearby countries, not only the students studying magic at Baron Ricto's Academy of Magic have a strong interest in learning the theoretical knowledge of magical machines, but even the young magicians of the Royal Academy of Lampari are also actively involved.
Compared with the Lampari Royal Academy, the Bonta City Magic Industry Skills Training Academy has a very important advantage, that is, this academy was originally founded by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and now even if the ownership is under the name of Bangta City, Xu has always paid great attention to this academy, not only will not hesitate to provide a large number of skilled workers of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for on-site training, but also provide the academy with a lot of detailed basic knowledge of magical machinery theory, so that the students of this academy can learn and master these knowledge more conveniently.
Today, Count Revere has come here to attend a ceremony.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will donate a copy of the "Introduction to the Basic Theory of Magical Machinery" jointly written by Evita, the director of the Magic Research Institute of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the director of the Magic Machine Tool R&D Center of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Ai Dwarf Kanby, and several research institutes and engineers within the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
This book is the first real theory book of magic machinery, according to the information provided by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it contains a very complete theoretical foundation related to magic machinery, so that a person who has no foundation in magic machinery can also master the basic theory of magic machinery after reading this book.
This book may not be of much importance to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, but it is an extremely important theoretical book for everyone involved in the magic industry outside of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
Because before this, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce only transferred the relevant technology of other chambers of commerce, and this time, it is the first time to really take out the theoretical system to share.
Therefore, this book not only has a very strong practical meaning, but also a strong symbolic meaning.
The main reason why the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is far ahead of other chambers of commerce in the related technology of magic machinery is that they have an absolute advantage in theoretical research.
The appearance of this book represents the beginning of the willingness of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to share their system of magical mechanical theory, so that the other Chamber of Commerce will finally have the slightest possibility of catching up with the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
And according to the information sent by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to Count Revere, although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will publish this book as a regular publication in the future, it will allow Bangta City to be the first to own it, and it will not be published until half a year later.
In other words, compared to other people and chambers of commerce, Bangta City has half a year more.
This is obviously the special care of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for Bonta City, so Count Revere is very grateful to Xu Yi in his heart and came to attend this book ceremony in person.
However, when Count Revere rushed to the Bonta City Magic Industry Skills Training Academy, he was surprised to find that it was not Xu Yi who was present, but his wife Steele.
After glancing at Steele's already obviously bulging lower abdomen, Count Revere suppressed the question in his heart, and first congratulated Steele, and then asked where Xu Yi was.
"I'm very sorry, Lord Earl, Xu Yi had to temporarily cancel his trip to attend the book ceremony because he was in a hurry. However, he made a point of asking me to attend the ceremony in his place, and apologized to the Earl. β
"Is it urgent?" asked Count Revere, frowning.
With the strong influence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in these surrounding countries now, what urgent things can make Xu Yi temporarily change his scheduled itinerary?
"It's not too strict, but he has to deal with it himself. Steele replied, shaking his head.
"That's right," said Count Revere...... tone of utterly undisguised disappointment and a hint of apprehension.
Xu Yi has always been a person who abides by the agreement, and he doesn't think that there is anything urgent at present that can be urgent enough for Xu Yi to be forced to change his scheduled itinerary, so the current situation only represents a very strict possibility.
Xu Yi was reluctant to come to such a heavy ceremony as this time, so perhaps in his mind, Bangta City was no longer so important. (To be continued......)