Chapter 76: Small Towns Change a Lot
Hearing this voice, everyone's faces were a little strange.
Because it was Baron Billier who made this sound.
As soon as Baron Billier arrived in Bonta City, he forcibly drove the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce out of the territory, proving to everyone that he had broken off the relationship with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
However, when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce moved to Sanchiton Manor as a whole, Baron Bilier unexpectedly settled down, and did not find trouble with Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce everywhere as everyone imagined.
Based on this situation, everyone couldn't help but speculate that Baron Bilier's expulsion of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce from the territory was actually at the behest of the Stark family, not his original intention.
But now here, Baron Bilier suddenly made such a clear objection, which really surprised everyone.
Xu Yi glanced at Baron Billier, without any sense of anger, and smiled: "Your Excellency, this Bangta City is certainly not mine alone, so if the Bangta City can be successfully transformed, it will be all the people in the Bangta City who will enjoy the benefits." β
Baron Bilier snorted coldly again: "Everyone enjoys the benefits? President Xu, are you lying to the children? I think only you and your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce enjoy the benefits, right? Otherwise, why are you so active?"
Xu Yi glanced at Baron Billier, thought for a moment, and then asked, "So, Your Excellency, are you against this overall renovation project?"
Baron Bilier looked at Xu Yi coldly: "Don't try to trick me with words. The overall renovation project was proposed by the lord of the castle, and of course I will not object to it. But I'm not going to support it. β
The faces of the people were even more strange, thinking that what you said was really wonderful.
Since it was brought up by the lord of the castle. Then not showing support is actually equivalent to opposition, what else do you explain.
Xu Yi's reaction was also wonderful.
After hearing Baron Billier's answer. He simply nodded and said, "Okay." I understand. β
I had no intention of discussing this issue with Baron Billier at all!
Baron Bilier was obviously a little stunned, but since Xu Yi had made such a statement, if he still took the initiative to go up and entangle, it would really hurt his face, so he could only keep his mouth shut and say nothing.
Xu Yi then introduced several other pictures to the crowd, all of which were the scenes outside the city of Bangta after the complete renovation project that Xu Yi expected.
Seeing the beautiful scenes painted on these paintings, everyone in the audience couldn't believe it.
After all, it's a bit dirty compared to Bangta City. The city of Bonta on these paintings is so beautiful that it pales in comparison to the city of Anwemar.
However, everyone naturally hopes that Bang Ta City can really become what these paintings depict, and if it becomes true, Bang Ta City will become an excellent place to live in the envy of everyone in the future.
After demonstrating these renderings, Xu also immediately turned to the topic.
He knew very well that for these people in the audience, no matter how good the things depicted in the paintings were, they were not as important as the benefits they gained from them.
After introducing the renderings, he began to explain the significance of the overall renovation plan for Bangta City.
After talking about the various benefits that come with the concentration of industrial areas and living areas. It can be clearly found that the representatives of the chamber of commerce in the audience have their eyes shining, obviously smelling business opportunities from what Xu Yi said.
And those nobles, although most of them did not think about these, heard the scenes described by Xu Yi. But he was also a little excited.
After Xu Ye spent more than half an hour talking about some specific plans, the expressions on the faces of everyone in the audience were no longer as confused as before, and it was obvious that they had begun to turn their minds.
See this. Count Satsuma couldn't help but smile and smiled appreciatively at Xu Yi.
This kid is really good at finding benefits in one thing that most people can enjoy. It also makes the things he handles more acceptable.
The banquet lasted all night and ended at the end of the day. Xu Yi only felt that his mouth was dry.
At the banquet, representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and nobles kept coming to Xu Yi to inquire about some details of the transformation, and wanted to get some specific information from Xu Yi, so that he could know what specific benefits he could get from it.
Xu Yi had to answer them one by one, and he also had to help the other party analyze.
Although everyone seemed satisfied when they left in the end, Xu Yi struggled to salivate for it, and in the end, even his throat was a little dry and sore.
"Alas, never do such a thankless thing again. Accepting the praise of the Earl of Satsuma, after saying goodbye to him, Xu Yi couldn't help but think to himself.
At this time, it was already late at night, Xu Yi looked up at the moon and stars in the night sky, and directly gave up the idea of riding a carriage and walked to his home in the city on foot.
Bang Ta City is indeed very different from the same period last year.
At this time last year, as the autumn nights had begun to turn cooler, everyone in Bonta had already gone back to their homes to rest, and there was no one to be seen on the streets.
It's late at night, but there are still a number of small shops on both sides of the streets of Bangta City, which are brightly lit and noisy.
Even on the streets, there are small stalls selling supper, from which a variety of aromas emerge, attracting people who have not rested at this time to take out a few or dozens of silver coins from their pockets and enjoy a delicious supper.
Compared to the tranquility of this time last year, the city of Bonta is now very lively even at night, like the densely populated big cities of the Celestial Empire on Earth.
There is only one reason for this, and that is people.
Originally numbered about 50,000 people, the city now houses more than 200,000 people.
The crowding of so many people into this small city has certainly made a huge difference here.
Xu Yi couldn't help but laugh as he watched a pair of young men and women hug each other and walk to a night market stall and sit down.
It's exactly like life in those cities on Earth.
The only difference is that there are no street lights in the city of Bangta, and both the shops on the street and the night market stalls can only rely on magic lamps for lighting.
Thinking of the street lamp, Xu Yi's heart moved, and he raised his head and glanced up.
Although the city of Bangta is too old to be renovated as a whole, it is still possible and necessary to make some improvements.
For example, street lamps, which are very common in cities on the planet, but are basically absent in cities on the continent of Sainz, are actually very practical.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi immediately estimated the cost of a street lamp in his heart.
Because magic lamps don't need to provide additional power like those street lamps on earth, you only need to erect a high enough shelf to hang the magic lamp, and the corresponding cost will be much less.
But there are several problems with this.
The first problem is that although Evita and Akali have made a new breakthrough in the research of remote magic transmission technology, and now the farthest can transmit the magic power of the magic crystal to the magic circle three meters away in a special way, but the transmission of this distance is not stable enough, so in fact, it can only be in the experimental stage and cannot be used practically.
And how can the demand for street lights exceed three meters, so it is very problematic where the magic lamps are hung on high shelves, and where the switches are set.
Moreover, because of the unified power supply used in the street lamps on the earth, the unified switch can be remotely controlled, but with the current technology of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, this is definitely not possible.
And if you put the switch directly on the lamppost, then it is difficult to prevent some boring people from flipping the switch at will.
Although setting up an enclosed space on the lamppost and adding a lock on the outside can prevent this from happening, it is very troublesome to simply have no one to turn these street lights on and off at a fixed time.
Just after thinking about it for a while, Xu Yi found that there were too many problems, which made him can't help but have a headache.
"Well, after all, it's still a lack of technology. Xu Yi sighed in his heart. "It would be much more convenient if Evita and the others could completely handle the remote magic transmission technology, and make the transmission distance infinite, so that the magic power of the magic crystal could be transmitted as freely as electricity. β
After thinking about it for a while, Xu Yi could only sigh helplessly.
After all, magic is not electricity, and it is impossible to transmit it with just a simple wire.
But if you don't solve this problem, you will often face all kinds of tricky problems like those found when thinking about street lights.
"How to solve it?" Xu Yi quickly fell into a preoccupied thought, but suddenly forgot to look at the road.
"Bang-"
Xu Yi slammed into the iron pillar used to prop up the tent at the door of a shop on the street, and immediately gasped in pain, and even Venus was floating in front of him.
The sound of his impact was particularly loud, instantly attracting the attention of the people enjoying supper at the street shop pΓΉ and the night market stalls.
Seeing Xu Yi covering his head with a painful expression, everyone couldn't help but laugh and snickered.
The girl in the young couple that Xu Yi saw just now even secretly pointed at Xu Yi and whispered something to his male partner with a smile.
However, after a while, many people recognized that this person who would actually hit the pillar while walking on the road was actually President Xu of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which is currently very famous in Bangta City!
Just when people were stunned, Xu Yi jumped up from the ground and laughed wildly at everyone's gaze like a madman.
"Haha...... Why do I have to use magic instead of electricity? Am I a fucking stonehead? haha, there's such an easy way to do it, haha......" (To be continued......