Laughter naturally couldn't travel thousands of kilometers to Bonta City.

However, I don't know if it was because he sensed that Her Royal Highness the Queen of Severny and Viscount Leslie were discussing herself, and even if Xu Yi hid in the warm conference hall in the City Lord's Mansion, he suddenly sneezed involuntarily.

This sudden sneeze interrupted Count Satsuma's ongoing reading, and drew the attention of the rest of the people in the chamber who were listening intently.

Count Satsuma put down the report in his hand, looked at Xu Yi with a smile, and said, "What, President Xu, are you dissatisfied with the report in my hand?"

Xu Yi hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, I don't have any opinions." It's just that...... I just suddenly felt a little cold. ”

"Cold?" Count Satsuma glanced at the two magic air conditioners on the wall of the conference hall, and said with a smile: "This is the new flying brand magic air conditioner produced by your Chamber of Commerce, if you still feel cold under their effects, I should have come to ask you, the president of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, if he is derelict in his duties." ”

"Haha-"

Of course, everyone knew that Count Satsuma was ridiculing Xu Yi, and suddenly burst into laughter.

Xu Yi smiled: "That's impossible, the quality of the Xinfei brand magic air conditioner is trustworthy, and there will definitely be no problems." Maybe it's because I accompanied Steele to the Sandy River last night, and I caught a cold wind. ”

There was another burst of laughter in the hall.

President Lanke, who was sitting not far from Xu Yi, let out a long sigh and said, "After all, President Xu is young and strong, and he dares to go to the river to hang out on such a cold night. An old man like me, but as soon as it gets dark, he stays at home and refuses to go out. ”

Everyone immediately chimed in. You laughed at Xu Yilai with every word.

With the development of the new flying chamber of commerce. Now Xu Yi's status in Bangta City has also risen. has gradually been able to truly be on an equal footing with the presidents of these old chambers of commerce in the city.

Although everyone would often tease him because of his age, no one would show any disdain for him.

Even President Morgan, who was the most hostile to Xu Yi before, because of the agreement between Xu Yi and Marquis Joseph, now the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce have begun to cooperate, so that he no longer shows any hostility towards Xu Yi, but will show that he is very close to Xu Yi both in front of everyone and in private.

After laughing with everyone for a while, the originally solemn atmosphere in the conference hall suddenly became relaxed.

When everyone's voices stopped for a while, Xu Yi turned to Count Satsuma and said, "Lord of the city." I have no problem with this report, but I have a suggestion. ”

"Oh, so let's hear it. ”

Not only Count Satsuma, but even the others immediately stopped laughing, and at the same time looked at Xu Yi with a concerned expression.

has been with Xu Yi for a long time, and everyone knows very well that every time Xu Yi says something on this occasion, it will never be untargeted, and it will generally have a greater or lesser impact.

And if it was he who proposed it, the city lord would have almost never rejected it, and it would play a big role.

"Lord of the Castle. According to the report you just read, the plan for this year is to further reclaim wasteland. Of course, I have no problem with expanding the area of farmland and increasing food production. But I think you're ignoring an important point. ”

"What's the problem?" asked Count Satsuma curiously.

"That's the manpower. Xu Yidao. "I think that without these measures, there will only be fewer and fewer farmers in Bonta who are engaged in farming, and eventually there will be no one to cultivate the farmland. ”

Count Satsuma frowned: "How is this possible. Now there are more than 100,000 peasants in the countryside outside Bangta City, how can no one go to farming? If you can't plant before, forget it, now with the help of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's various farmland magic machinery, farming is much easier and more efficient than before, even if there are fewer people than before, there will be no problem. That's why I made this plan because I thought about it. Could it be that your Chamber of Commerce doesn't plan to continue to produce farmland magic machinery in the future?"

"Of course it can't be. Xu Yi immediately shook his head. "But Lord Earl, you may not have noticed a fact. Although there are more than 100,000 registered farming households outside Bangtha, have you counted the actual number of people who are still working in the countryside today?"

Count Satsuma was stunned: "Do you want to say that these peasants have stopped farming, and what are they going to do?"

Xu Yi smiled, pointed to himself, and then pointed to the representatives of other chambers of commerce in Bangta City sitting in the conference hall: "It's very simple, these farmers have gone to work in the factory. ”

Count Satsuma was stunned, and his eyes swept over Xu Yi and the representatives of the other major chambers of commerce, revealing a hint of abruptness.

"Are you trying to say that those farmers are not willing to farm because they have entered the factories of your major chambers of commerce?"

"Of course. Xu Yi nodded. "Now the average monthly salary of the factories run by the major chambers of commerce in Bang Ta City has exceeded seven gold coins. And even probationary workers who have just entered the factory can often get a monthly salary of more than four gold coins a month. Compared to the previous farming years, which earned only a few gold coins a year, it is clear that the income of working as a worker in a factory is much higher. If I were a farmer, I would not want to continue farming, but would choose to go into a factory. ”

"Hmm...... That's a real problem, and I'm ignoring it. Count Satsuma frowned and thought for a moment, then asked, "President Xu, what is the total number of workers in your Chamber of Commerce now?"

"If you don't count the elves and dwarves, just the day before yesterday, it just broke through the four thousand mark. Xu Yi replied with four fingers. "And when the new fruit canning factory is built, we will have to recruit another 500 workers. In addition, according to General Manager Kennard's estimate, at least 1,000 workers must be recruited within this year. ”

"In other words, your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce alone is going to rob more than five thousand people?"

"Yes. ”

Count Satsuma asked the presidents of the other major chambers of commerce, and the answers were all about the same.

As the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce continues to develop various magic machines, it has driven the production mode of other major chambers of commerce in Bangta City to continuously change to the industrial model.

The scale of production is getting bigger and bigger. More and more workers are needed.

Now the Amritra Chamber of Commerce alone is a chamber of commerce. More than 20,000 workers were employed.

In addition to more than 6,000 workers, the traditional construction works of the Amritri Chamber of Commerce are still being carried out. The remaining 13,000 workers are scattered throughout the kingdom of Lampari and Ruerson and the principality of Stantin, working to build road after road.

In comparison, the workers of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are already few.

The combined number of employees of the five recognized five major chambers of commerce in Bonta City, namely the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Amrri Chamber of Commerce, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, the Salak Chamber of Commerce, and the Falcau Chamber of Commerce, has exceeded the terrifying 70,000 people.

And if you add up the employees of the other chambers of commerce in the city, there are now more than 100,000 workers in the factories in the city alone.

And that's not even counting people in other industries.

If all things are counted, the number of people working in industries other than agriculture will even be close to 200,000.

After getting this estimate, Count Satsuma couldn't help but be a little stunned.

Since the number of people working in other industries is close to 200,000. Leaving aside the old and infirm women and children who are unable to do the work, then of course there will be no one left to engage in agriculture.

Moreover, in fact, the total population inside and outside Bangta City was less than 200,000, and if it weren't for the large number of outsiders squeezing into Bangta City, the employees of these chambers of commerce would not have reached such a terrifying number.

What's more, even so, the major chambers of commerce led by the Amritri Chamber of Commerce would often complain to him, the city lord, about the lack of manpower, hoping that he could find a way to get more labor from other places.

Thinking of this, Count Satsuma couldn't help but look down at the report in his hand, and turned to the part of the report that had not yet been read out at the end.

The theme of today's meeting is a summary of the work done in Bang Ta City last year, and the last part of this report is a summary of the tax statistics in Bang Ta City last year.

The reason why representatives of major chambers of commerce are invited to participate in today's meeting. It is because of this tax statistics that the tables of the major chambers of commerce are very good.

But again, we see all sorts of detailed figures in tax statistics. The Count of Satsuma still had a sense of unreality.

According to the final statistics of the Bang Ta City Tax Office, in the past year, the total tax revenue of Bang Ta City actually reached a terrifying 1.37 million gold coins!

You must know that according to the figures released by the Royal Tax Office, the annual financial revenue of the Lampari Kingdom last year was less than 2 million gold coins.

According to the rule of paying one-third of the local tax, the city of Bangta handed over 450,000 gold coins, which accounted for nearly a quarter of the kingdom's annual tax revenue!

Just an extremely terrible achievement.

Because just the year before last, the tax paid by the city of Bangta was only less than 50,000 gold coins, and among the twenty-six cities in the entire kingdom, it was basically the last deposit.

And now, only two years later, the city of Bonta has paid more taxes than the capital city of Anwemar, becoming the city with the most taxes in the entire kingdom!

If we turn our gaze back to the 1,370,000 gold coins that Bangta City itself received, we will find that among them, although the agricultural tax has been greatly increased with the help of the farmland magic machinery, from less than 30,000 gold coins to nearly 100,000 gold coins, it is not worth mentioning at all compared to the terrifying figure of more than 1 million gold coins in the total of commercial taxes.

In other words, the agricultural tax revenue, which used to be the most important for Bonta City, is now negligible, because the most important industry has become commerce.

If you divide it more carefully, then you will find that in the commercial tax, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce alone provides a huge figure of more than 500,000 gold coins, and if you add up the taxes of the various magic industries related to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, this number will exceed 700,000 gold coins, which is more than two-thirds of the total.

In other words, if you really want to calculate it, the most important industry for the entire Bangta City tax is the magic industry represented by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Thinking of this, Count Satsuma couldn't help but deepen the importance of Xu Yi in his heart, raised his head and glanced at Xu Yi, and said with a smile: "It seems that the issue mentioned by President Xu does exist and is very important. So President Xu, what is your mention?"

Xu Yi nodded and replied: "My mention is to promote the development of agricultural industrialization. (To be continued......)