<h4>Volume 3 Chapter 168 No alternative</h4>
Looking at the scattered steel pieces that formed an unknown machine under the cloth, Anklo’splicated expression returned to normal in the end. He turned back to Hart and gave a nod, “Chief Hart, please express my gratitude to chairman Xu. He is helping us this much, I will forever remember this in my heart.”
Hart said without any expression, “Chairman Xu told me before leaving that this is just a very normal transaction, everyone is getting what they want.”
Anklo was surprised. After pausing for a bit, he knit his brows as he pointed at the scattered pieces and asked, “But I have a question. Chief Hart, why do the parts of the Magic Trebuchet look this small? If they are assembled, wouldn’t it be much smaller?”
“This is ourpany’s second generation Magic Trebuchet. Although it is much smaller than the first generation, it isn’t weaker and is rather stronger, so it is a bit strongerpared to the first generation Magic Trebuchet. Moreover, because it is smaller, it is easier to carry. Look, we only needed one Magic Car to transport it over.” Hart exined.
“It’s like this.” Anklo looked at the parts of the Magic Trebuchet and still had some questions, “But how do we assemble this thing together? We don’t have anyone for that.”
Hart took out a small book from his chest for Anklo.
“There’s the assembly instructions for the Magic Trebuchet on this and it also includes the main maintenance parts for the Magic Repeating Crossbows, as well as the armours and weapons. After you finish transporting these things, you have to study them. Otherwise, if it breaks because you didn’t maintain it, ourpany won’t provide any repair services.”
Anklo took the small book and didn’t read it as he kept asking, “Chief Hart, why didn’t you just provide a technical personnel to guide us on these things? Wouldn’t that be more convenient?”
Hart shook his head, “Sir chairman said that this is simply a transaction between our two sides. If we send people, it will be interfering in the internal affairs of your Stantine Duchy. He felt that mister Anklo wouldn’t be willing to see that.”
Anklo was silent for a bit before giving a slight nod.
“Chairman Xu had considered everything, but......” Anklo looked at the ten Magic Cars and said with a bitter smile of self ridicule, “Actually, this is equivalent to you participating......”
Hart was silent.
Anklo was quite for a bit before taking a deep breath and regained his energy.
“Alright, chief Hart, I have confirmed these goods and now we’ll do the trade.”
Hart nodded and took out a list of the cargo for Anklo. After Anklo had confirmed it, he gave Hart a signed contract.
This contract was to give an iron mine and a Magic Crystal mine in Anklo’s territory to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
ording to the contract, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have the rights to exploit these mines forever.
In other words, this iron and Magic Crystal mine waspletely handed to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was no longer rted to Anklo or the Stantine Duchy anymore.
These two mines were used by Anklo to pay for these weapons from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
Although it was just the cargo of ten Magic Cars, their total value was two hundred thousand gold coins.
The new Magic Trebuchet was already worth ten thousand gold coins.
As for the three hundred Magic Repeating Crossbows with the arrow chests, each set sold for a high price of four hundred gold coins and three hundred equaled one hundred and twenty thousand gold coins.
As for the remaining weapons and armours, they had a total of seventy thousand gold coins.
Actually, these two mines had a value of over two hundred thousand gold coins, it was no less than three hundred thousand.
But Anklo couldn’t take out that much money, so naturally he could only trade resources for things he needed from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
If he had the choice, Anklo wouldn’t want to give up the resources under his name because he knew the importance these resources had in developing the Stantine Duchy.
But he had no alternative.
Because if he wanted to achieve his goal, he had to spend money and he had to spend arge amount of money.
With Hart’s directions, his subordinates loaded the goods from the ten Magic Cars into their boats. Anklo had aplicated expression, as his eyes revealed anxiety as his lips had a bitter smile.
“I hope that these sacrifices will bring a good result, otherwise I’ll be the most condemned person in the history of the Stantine Duchy.”
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Anklo was worried about the future because of his decision and the people of Banta City were happy about their bright future, as they weed the new year with great enthusiasm.
With another year passed and since her highness Seveni took over Banta City in theter half of the year, Banta City was once again filled with life. It waspletely different from when it was dead and spiritless when Count Stagg was City Lord.
In just half a month, not only did Banta City recovered the prosperity from before, it became even more lively.
As the magic machine industry led by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce entered the hearts of the people, there were more and more people in Banta City dragged into this industry. In Banta City now, everyone could find a satisfying job and wouldn’t need to worry about food or clothing. They could even enjoy a luxurious life that they wouldn’t dare dream of a few years ago.
For example, for things that you didn’t buy because you were stingy or for other reasons, when New Years came, naturally you would make up for it.
So when New Years came, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s household magic machine department hadrge sales.
Just in a single week, their sales numbers were as good as the past two months added together.
ording to the data, in just a short week, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned a shocking five hundred thousand gold coins just from household magic machines.
Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had high profits, in just a single week, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce earned a profit of three hundred thousand gold coins just from household magic machines.
If this was three years ago, Xu Yi would have been wild with joy when he saw these stats.
But when he saw these stats now, Xu Yi found that he didn’t feel anything. Rather he was trying to see if there were any errors from the data, seeing if there were any ces that he could improve on.
There was no other way. ording to this year’s stats, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had broken through to the ten million gold coin mark, so how could Xu Yi feel joy from a trivial three hundred thousand?
Of course, the more they earned, the more they also spent.
The Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s profits were shocking, but they also made shocking investments.
Not mentioning the wages that reached a shocking three million, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started investing in production bases in the second half of the year because of their expansion n, as well as investing in the ck Rice Wastnd, the Stantine Duchy, and Sowell City in thest two months, they had already spent over five million gold coins.
Counting this, by the end of the year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had an excess of a million gold coins.
Compared to the current scale of thepany, this bit of money wasn’t considered anything. When finance manager Sebas was going over the year end reports, he keptining to Xu Yi and kept reminding Xu Yi to bnce out the revenue disbursement next year, or thepany might really have a deficit.
However, Xu Yi just smiled at his warning and didn’t care.
The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had invested this much this year because of the development n he had made.
When the production bases are finished next year and start producing, these investments would turn intorge amounts of profit.
At that time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s profit would increase. It wouldn’t be strange for it to increase by several times.
The more important thing was that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadid down their foundation. They wouldn’t be influenced by the changes of a single city anymore. They could adapt to any situation and wouldn’t have to be passive because a single noble was aiming at them.
“Of course the normal nobles no longer dare plot against you or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Royal father had already disyed his attitudest time at the Royal Parliament, so there is no noble that would dare anger royal father on this matter.”
Seveni looked at Xu Yi who was sitting in front of her looking rxed and shook her head.
“Xu Yi, to be honest, I don’t understand, why do you always have a confident expression when you are always in danger? Tell me, why are you recruiting so many guards? It can’t be that you want to increase the guarding power of yourpany, right?”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “Much? It isn’t much, it’s only five hundred people. Compared to the Falcao Chamber of Commerce that has over two thousand guards, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce with our less than a thousand guards can’t be considered much.”
Seveni red at him, “Stop acting! Yourpany has elf guards, dwarf guards, and even those beastmen guards you just recruited on the ck Rice Wastnd. Right, there’s also the guards that you recruited from the Stantine Duchy that don’t count to your total. If you add them all together, it’s already past two thousand, right?”
Xu Yiughed into the sky, but he didn’t give an answer.
Seeing his reaction, Seveni was a bit angry. She pped the table and knit her brows. It was rare to see her raise her voice and shout in an angry voice, “Xu Yi, the battle strength of those elves, dwarves, and beastmen are all higher than normal humans. If youpare battle strength, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guards canpare to an army of five thousand. Just what do you want to do?”
Seeing Seveni’s serious expression, Xu Yi gave a sigh and spread his hands, “Your highness, I don’t want to do anything, I just want to protect myself. You just said that no nobles dare aim at me or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but does that include his highness Eric?”
Seveni’s eyes trembled as she gave a sigh before not saying a thing.
Seeing Seveni’s reaction, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and continued, “Alright, your highness, let’s not discuss what everyone is aware of, what is the meaning of that? Let’s discuss business, what standard of equipment do you want for your five thousand private guards?”