Chapter 45: Let's move
A medium-sized freight magic locomotive is speeding through the Black Rice Wasteland.
The road rolled under the tires is the latest investment and construction of the new road with the new technology of the Amritri Chamber of Commerce, the road surface is not only more than ten meters wide, enough to accommodate four large freight magic locomotives running side by side, and is smoother than the previous road.
Even if you are running on it at a speed of nearly 50 kilometers per hour, you will still feel only a slight bump and no discomfort.
In fact, this speed has exceeded the speed rating standard of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce for medium-sized freight magic locomotives, but for old drivers like Sacchi's father, speeding or something is completely commonplace.
If it weren't for the fact that this medium-sized freight magic locomotive had a limit speed of only fifty kilometers per hour, he would have gone a little faster.
Daddy Sakchi put one hand on the steering wheel, and with the other, he grabbed a bottle of fresh juice at hand and poured it down.
It is already early winter, and this bottle of fresh juice has been left for a long time, which is naturally a little cold, and when I pour it down, Father Sacki can't help but shiver.
It's easy to get tired after driving for too long, and drinking a sip of cold fresh juice can not only stimulate the spirit, but also replenish some nutrients, which is what Daddy Sakchi often does on the way to transport goods.
As soon as the juice jar was put down, Papa Batrou, who was lying in the back of the cab, woke up, yawned, got up to look outside, and asked Papa Sack, "Where is it?"
"Just went to the Black Rice Wasteland. Daddy Sackchi replied casually.
Daddy Batru observed the environment outside the car and nodded, "Well, it's okay." All right. Come and change me. You've been driving for hours. ”
"It's fine. Daddy Sacki vetoed. "In a little while, we will be at the base of the Black Rice Wasteland. Wait until you get out of there and then change people, you sober up first. ”
Daddy Batru thought about it, but didn't insist at home, hunched over and crawled from the back row to the passenger seat, and sat down with his body curled.
After looking outside for a while, Papa Batru suddenly asked, "Hey, Sack, are you really planning to move?"
Daddy Sackchi didn't expect him to ask this question as soon as he woke up. After being stunned for a moment, he nodded and hummed.
"I'll take a good look at the environment of the Duchy of Stantin this time, and then decide whether to really move there. However, I heard from the guys in the village who have lived in the Principality of Stantin for more than a year that the environment of the Principality of Stantin is really good, and the climate is good, and they all live very comfortably. So I think...... Most of them will still choose to move. ”
Daddy Batru frowned slightly, and turned his head to look at Daddy Sacki to make sure he wasn't joking.
"This ...... Your family has lived in the village of Mexico for more than 100 years, right? Why are you willing to move?"
Daddy Sacki sneered nonchalantly, "What's so reluctant about this? Where to live is not to live? After all, where can you have a good life." Naturally, they will choose where to go. Now the city of Bangta has been made into a miasma by those chambers of commerce, and it continues to stay there. There must be no good fruit to eat. ”
"Not really...... Daddy Batru retorted: "Although those chambers of commerce are not as real as the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, they are just a few chambers of commerce after all, and can they still turn Bonta City over?"
"You don't believe me?" snorted Daddy Sackchi. "Those guys can even drive away the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, what else can't be done? Even if we don't talk about this, just talk about our family. Now that all three of my boys have lost their jobs, if they want to find a job in Bonta City, they have to go to those few chambers of commerce. But do you know how much they are paid? Six gold coins a month! Not half of what they used to pay a month!"
Daddy Batru said in a sullen voice: "Six gold coins are not unbearable, and we used to live without making much money in a month." ”
"It used to be before, and I will never do it again if I am asked to live a life where I can't even eat enough to eat. Father Sacki snorted coldly: "Those three boys in our family also refused to do it, so we discussed it and decided to move." As long as you run to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, you can earn close to twenty gold coins a month by finding any job, which is not much better than staying in Bangta City. ”
"That being said, but Sackchi, have you ever thought of a question?" asked Daddy Batroux again. "According to the latest regulations of the City Lord's Palace, those who move out of Bangta City without permission will automatically be deemed to have renounced their status as citizens of Bang Ta City. In other words, it's easy for you to move out, but it's hard to move back in. And I'm worried...... If the Royal Council doesn't do it well, it will come up with a similar regulation in the future. What if I don't be recognized by the kingdom as a subject of the kingdom after I move away?"
"If you don't admit it, you won't admit it. "Daddy Sakchi still looks nonchalant, and has obviously thought about this question for a long time. "As I said earlier, where you can live well, then go somewhere, and it has nothing to do with Bunta City, Lampari Kingdom or anything. ”
"But we're Lampari after all, and we're gone...... Are you really willing?"
"Why are we reluctant? Now this bullshit king is tossing around, and doesn't treat us civilians as human beings, why are we so reluctant? Civilians like us don't think about any national affairs, anyway, those big people have never taken us seriously. Daddy Sakchi said with a disdainful expression.
Papa Batru was silent for a moment, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Although he always felt that Sarkozy's attitude was wrong, he could not find any reason to refute him.
Because what Daddy Sackchi said was the truth.
After the new King Eric ascended to the throne, the entire kingdom of Lampari and the city of Bonta changed.
Bonta City, which was once prosperous and prosperous, has now become a plaything in the hands of the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magical Industry Administration.
In addition to driving out the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and squeezing out other chambers of commerce that produce magic machinery, and occupying the magic industry in Bangta City, those ten chambers of commerce have now extended their hands to other fields, gradually trying to encroach on the market of those old chambers of commerce in Bangta City.
Although those veteran chambers of commerce are still desperately resisting with their own background, they have become more and more struggling, and gradually began to show signs of collapse.
If it's just normal business competition, it doesn't have anything to do with ordinary civilians like Daddy Sackchi and Daddy Batru, and maybe there will be some benefits because of the competition between chambers of commerce.
But the problem is that after the ten chambers of commerce control what field, it also deeply affects the lives of ordinary people.
For example, as Daddy Sakchi said just now, the ten chambers of commerce now control the magic industry in Bonta City, but the average salary of this industry that creates the most job opportunities has been pushed to an extremely low standard, which is unacceptable to all the civilians in Bonta City who have been engaged in this industry before.
Taking the transportation of goods that the two of them are now engaged in as an example, if they used to transport goods from Bonta City to Anvimar City, the round-trip freight would be thirty gold coins, and they could earn about ten gold coins from it, regardless of the consumption on the way.
At most in a month, they can even make more than ten trips, and they can earn close to two hundred gold coins.
Divide it evenly, each person gets close to a hundred gold coins, even in the previous Bangta City, it can be regarded as a high income.
However, now these ten chambers of commerce have controlled the commercial transportation of Bangta City, and they have suppressed the freight with all their might, and if they ship the goods to Anweimar City, the freight for a round trip will only give fifteen gold coins, which is only half of the previous one!
With such a low freight, if you put aside the consumption on the way, you can only earn a few gold coins at most.
If something goes wrong on the way, you may lose all your money and even lose money.
So after two trips like this, Daddy Sakchi decided not to take over the freight business of the ten chambers of commerce, but reconnected with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to help the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce carry out various transportation between the Black Rice Wasteland, the Duchy of Stantin and Bunta City.
Although they are much more tired than before because of the long distance, the freight given by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has always been kind, and their profit is only slightly lower than before, but it is not much worse.
There are a lot of private freight like them in Bangta City, and at present, except for some of them who can't stop working, the vast majority of the rest choose to continue to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce like them.
And because of the deliberate suppression of the ten chambers of commerce, the Filson Carriage and Horse Company, which originally occupied most of the freight and passenger business in Bangta City, is now also having a difficult time, and it is said that it is about to be unable to hold on.
The last time Papa Batroux stumbled upon President Pompeiy in the city of Bonta he saw him with a gloomy face, and even his body, which had always been extremely fat, had obviously lost a lot of weight.
Thinking of the gloomy expression on the face of President Pompei at that time, Daddy Batroux suddenly felt that what Sackchi said was actually very reasonable.
If you can't live in Bangta City, why bother holding on.
For those big people in the kingdom, the lives of these commoners from the bottom have never been cared for by them.
If they don't care about themselves, why should they care about them?
After figuring this out, Daddy Batru only felt that his eyes suddenly brightened, and the whole person was a lot refreshed.
After thinking about it, he said to Father Sackchi: "Okay, this time I will also take the opportunity to observe the environment in the Duchy of Stantin, and hope that it is as good as those people say." ”
Seeing that Daddy Batru had finally changed his mind, Daddy Sack suddenly burst out laughing.
"Don't worry, that place is definitely better than you think. ”
Daddy Batru nodded slightly, and his heart couldn't help but have a little more anticipation for this trip. (To be continued......)