Of course, President Pompei is not a fool, and Filson is not because he has too much money and has no use.

The reason why he proposed to build a highway from Bonta City to Saltan City was because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had not concealed the highway from Bonta City to Kalma City at all, but was announced to the public by the City Lord's Mansion in the Municipal Square.

Regarding this matter, both the newspapers in Bonta City and the newspapers in Kalma City have been reported in large quantities, and even the newspapers in Anweimar City have also conducted a series of related reports.

Everyone learned from these reports that after the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has built this highway, it will set up a toll station on the highway and charge tolls for all carriages passing by the highway.

Most people say it doesn't matter to this point, and a few people sneer at it.

Is the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce crazy? He actually wants to make money by charging tolls?

You want to collect money, right? That's simple. At worst, I won't just take this broken road.

Anyway, this highway is built with a different location, which does not affect the current road between Bonta City and Kalma City.

The New Air Chamber of Commerce attempts to collect tolls to recover investment in building roads, but I am afraid it is simply a delusion.

However, other people think so, but it does not mean that President Pompei will think so.

As the president of Filson's Carriage, he knows better than anyone how much impact a good road will have on the carriage's business.

Not to mention anything else, Filson's carriage loss alone on the carriage is as high as 100,000 to 150,000 gold coins every year.

If we count the losses caused by horses running on inferior roads, this number is even close to 200,000 gold coins.

President Pompei had thought before that if every road in the Kingdom of Lampari could be as flat as the road paved with pure marble slabs in front of the palace in Anweimar, then Filson could save at least 100,000 gold coins in fixed losses alone.

Moreover, due to the improvement of roads, the speed of carriages will also increase, people's travel efficiency will be improved, and the business of carriages will also be better.

However, all these beautiful wishes were nothing in the end.

Although the road in front of the palace is only five hundred meters long and ten meters wide, because all the materials are made of excellent marble and carefully polished by highly skilled stonemasons, the total cost is as much as 70,000 gold coins.

If you want to turn all the roads in the Lampari Kingdom like that, I am afraid that even the royal family of the Kandra Empire, which is known as the richest in the entire continent, cannot afford it.

President Pompei once gave up this luxury until he saw the road built by the New Air Chamber of Commerce.

Although this road is a little worse than the extremely smooth road in front of the palace, this road is countless times better than the dilapidated gravel roads.

If President Pompei was asked to choose, even if he would pay a certain toll, he would definitely choose to let all the cargo and manned carriages of Filson's carriage walk on such a road.

He was also sure that even if other chambers of commerce could not see the significance of this highway now, after comparison, they would definitely choose to let their chamber of commerce carriages take the flat road.

Putting aside the reduced cargo losses caused by carriages walking on flat roads, the time saved by this is no longer comparable to the toll.

So President Pompei almost instantly made a decision that there is actually a lot to do about collecting road tolls.

So he found Xu Yi immediately and applied to Earl Samo to build a road.

Of course, the most important factor that prompted him to make up his mind was that the cost of the road was low enough.

According to Xu Yi, the road leading to Luoyu Valley is 57 kilometers long. It ends up spending less than 200,000 gold coins.

The total length of a road from Bangta City to Kalma City is nearly 70 kilometers, and it is expected to cost only about 300,000 gold coins.

Although Bonta City is a little further away from Saltan City, according to this standard, it will not cost more than 400,000 gold coins to survive, and Filson's carriage can be fully affordable.

The most important thing is that when other chambers of commerce react, they start to build highways one after another. I believe that it will not take long before all roads in the entire Lampari Kingdom will be replaced with highways.

At that time, the one who benefited the most from this was undoubtedly the Filson carriage that relied most on road traffic conditions.

"Hey, that guy Pompei must be happy now. He thinks that your New Flight Chamber of Commerce is trying hard to help them ride Filson." President Cruise looked at the scenery that quickly retreated outside the galloping carriage, curled his lips, looked back at Xu Yi, shook his head and said, "In fact, he didn't expect that all this was something you planned early in the morning."

Xu Yi also withdrew his gaze from the window, patted the seat cushion casually, and smiled, "You can't say that completely. Look, if all the roads in the Kingdom of Lampari become such flat roads, at least we will feel much more comfortable when riding a carriage."

The carriages they were in were now driving on the Rainy Highway, which had just been completed. Because the road was flat, the entire carriage was still very stable, and it was far from being as bumpy and uncomfortable as before when driving on ordinary gravel and dirt roads.

President Cruise laughed and nodded repeatedly: "That's right. After walking on this road a few times, I can't stand it if you let me take a carriage on the broken roads before. Alas, I don't know when all the roads in our Kingdom of Lampari can become such comfortable roads."

Xu Yi pondered for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be too long. After the rainy road was completed, newspapers from all over the country in Lampa were reported extensively, and the royal family was vigorously promoting it. Now the entire Lampari Kingdom has known the convenience brought by the road. In addition, the royal family promoted the two roads that our New Flying Chamber of Commerce and Filson's Carriage and Horse Carriage. I believe that many chambers of commerce in the kingdom will recognize the benefits of building roads. Perhaps not long after, you will find that many people come to your Amley Chamber of Commerce to help build the road."

President Cruise frowned slightly: "With our Chamber of Commerce's current capabilities, we have done our best to build two highways at the same time. If more people want to build roads, they may not be able to deal with it."

"Then are you willing to give up the technology of building cement roads and let other chambers of commerce share the burden for you?"

Faced with Xu Yi's joke, President Cruise shook his head quickly without thinking.

"Of course it's impossible. Let's do this, President Xu, take this opportunity and I will order you twenty sets of concrete equipment. In addition, I hope you can speed up the research and development of magic machinery in other road engineering. I am in a hurry to use it now."

"The equipment is okay, where are the people?" Xu Yi asked back. "Now in Bangta City, I guess you can't find enough personnel, right?"

When Xu Yi mentioned people, Cruise sighed and said with a wry smile: "When it comes to this, I really don't know whether to praise you or scold you."

"Oh? How do you say this?" Xu Yi asked with a smile.

"Before your New Flight Chamber of Commerce emerged, you could see idle people everywhere in Bonta City. I gave me three gold coins a month and were rushing to work. Now, your New Flight Chamber of Commerce has opened several factories and recruited more than a thousand people, but also created a small Chamber of Commerce support plan, which has caused the entire Bonta City to recruit people everywhere. I want to recruit more people to build roads, but guess what will happen?"

"Why? Can't be recruited?" Xu Yi asked.

"It's not that I can't be recruited at all. But I just want to hire a handyman who shovels soil and levels the roadbed. He actually dares to ask me for a salary of seven gold coins a month. It's simply a robbery!" President Cruise said angrily.

Xu Yi couldn't help laughing: "That's right, there are only seven gold coins, which is not too much. Now we are recruiting a new worker and earning ten gold coins a month."

President Cruise glared at Xu Yi: "Who is comparing with your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce! You guys have always been big-handed, but to put it bluntly, it is a waste of money. In fact, if it weren't for your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to increase the wages of workers so high, we chambers of commerce wouldn't be so difficult to do."

"I explained this issue to you last year. The increase in workers' salaries is an inevitable result of economic development, and it is not something that my new flying chamber of commerce can change. With the current demand for manpower in Bangta City, even if our chamber of commerce does not increase, sooner or later other chambers of commerce will rise. You may not know that some time ago, several chambers of commerce wanted to poach workers from our factory and even offered 20 gold coins a month's salary." Xu Yi said.

"Twenty gold coins? Which chamber of commerce will be crazy than you?" President Cruise asked in surprise. "Then are all your workers poached?"

"It's not a chamber of commerce, but many. As long as the chamber of commerce that wants to produce magic machinery like us, they are now starting to dig our workers. Maybe they think that if we poach all our workers, they will be the same as our chamber of commerce?" A hint of ridicule flashed across Xu Yi's face. "Fortunately, most of our workers are dwarves and have a high loyalty. So far, only a dozen human workers have left, and the impact is not great."

President Cruise looked at Xu Yi enviously: "Why can't I hire so many dwarves? The dwarves are not only strong, have good physiques, but also willing to endure hardships, and have good handicrafts. They are really the most suitable workers. Hey, Xu Yi, since you know so many dwarves, can you introduce some to our chamber of commerce? I promise to give them a high salary! The minimum price of ten gold coins per month, how about it?"

"You shouldn't ask me this, you should ask the dwarves themselves." Xu Yi shrugged and pointed to the shadows of the two green mountains that were gradually showing their figures outside the carriage window. "Now there are so many dwarves living in Luoyu Valley. If you have the ability, you can recruit them all to your chamber of commerce."
Chapter completed!