Even though he had already left the toll station, Sophia's pretty face still had deep disdain and disgust.

Kennard and Baron Hainas were chatting and laughing, not caring at all. Instead, they discussed whether the charge for a carriage was expensive or cheaper.

Seeing that the two of them ignored him at all, Sofia finally couldn't help it and deliberately snorted heavily.

"Hmph! The road was built to facilitate others to walk, and they actually had to charge money. It was too much!" Sophia widened her eyes and looked indignant. "You guys just now kept praising the guy named Xu Yi. I heard that he had the idea of ​​building a toll station to build a road, right? This person is so greedy that he is simply terrified!"

Baron Hainath and Kennard looked at each other, and couldn't help laughing and shook their heads.

"Sophia, I want to ask you a question. Filson invested more than 400,000 gold coins in building this highway. If there was no toll station, where would they recover the investment?" asked Baron Hainas.

"Why must we take it back?" Sophia said loudly. "Since building a highway is a great thing that can facilitate so many people, what should everyone rush to do? Since Filson is willing to pay for the construction of the carriage, many people will praise them and praise them for doing good deeds. Why do they have to build such a toll station? They are scolded by so many people for nothing?"

Kennard sighed softly, shook his head and said, "Sofia, you will be eighteen soon, not young. Can you not think about the problem like a child in the future? Although you are right, if Filson does not build this toll station, then they will do a big good thing and will win many people. But you can't ask all chambers of commerce in our kingdom to become so selfless, right? This is obviously a very unrealistic thing. If everyone finds that building highways is not beneficial, then how many chambers of commerce do you think will be willing to pay for this? "

Although Sophia is a little ignorant of the world, she is not a fool. Of course, she understands what Kennard said, but she is still a little dissatisfied.

"Forty-hundred thousand gold coins are nothing to a chamber of commerce as big as theirs. Wouldn't it be good to use it for free for everyone? The reputation of their chamber of commerce has improved, and the business will definitely be better."

"No one's money has fallen from the sky. Why do you ask others to give it to everyone for no reason?" Kennard said. "The other 400,000 gold coins are definitely not a small amount. Even if it is a very good chamber of commerce in our kingdom, it takes a lot of courage to give out such money to build a road at one time. Speaking of which, the president of the Filson Carriage is still very courageous. He actually chose to build a road at the same time as the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce."

"Well, Xu Yi praised President Pompei in his letter to me, saying that although he is easy to make a fuss, his vision is still commendable." Baron Hainas nodded and responded, turned to Sophia and said, "Sophia, you just said that many people have scolded this toll station, but do you know that the one who should have borne this infamous was actually our noble Majesty, not the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and Filson's carriage?"

Sophia was stunned: "What does this have to do with His Majesty the King? It wasn't what His Majesty the King asked them to charge."

"You are right. To be honest, it's His Majesty the King who asked them to charge." Kennard took the speech and replied. "Because building roads and improving the travel environment of the people should be what a country ruler should do, but now our kingdom's finances are very short of money. His Majesty the King cannot afford such money to build highways. At this time, Xu Yi can propose such a nearly perfect method to solve this problem. To be honest, I really admire him."

"He just wants to make money on this thing, what's there to admire!" Sofia immediately expressed disagreement.

"If he was just to make money, then the toll wouldn't be just a carriage with just fifty silver coins. If it were me, it would probably increase the price several times. Because after experiencing the pleasure of galloping on the road, I think no one would be willing to let the carriage walk on that kind of dirt road." Kennard said. "Sophia, are you willing?"

Although Sofia wanted to continue to refute, they were now riding in a carriage on the road, and they couldn't feel any bumps on their butts. The comfort was countless times stronger than when they ran on the dirt road before. She couldn't tell lies against her conscience.

Seeing Sophia was speechless, Kennard smiled, and did not intend to continue forcing her to admit her mistakes. He turned to the middle-aged man who sat opposite him but had not spoken out: "Uncle Hank, after returning to Anweimar City, you must solemnly suggest to your father that we should also undertake several highways. I am sure that these highways will definitely make a lot of money in the future."

The middle-aged man nodded with a smile: "I am just thinking about this. After personally examining the comfort and convenience of this highway, I am now very optimistic about the prospects of the highway. I even think that if nothing unexpected happens, it will take only a few years for our Lampari Kingdom to be connected by roads everywhere."

"If it really becomes like that, that would be great." Kennard said with emotion: "I can imagine that highways can provide such a convenient transportation environment. When the kingdom is full of roads, there will inevitably be countless carriages running back and forth on these roads, and the entire kingdom will become lively."

When Sophia heard that Kennard, Baron Hainas and Uncle Hank began to discuss business issues again, she suddenly felt bored, pouted, lifted the curtains, and lay on the carriage window to look at the scenery outside.

At this time, she once again felt the benefits of the road.

If she was driving on the bumpy dirt road, if she dared to put her head on the strings of the car window like this, she would soon be dizzy and not say anything, and might even bite her tongue off due to frequent bumps.

But now I just put it on it, but I just felt a very slight vibration coming from the car window. It had no effect at all.

When moving on a flat road, the speed of the carriage is naturally much faster.

Not long after, Sophia saw a huge iron sign on the side of the road, with the bottom of it painted blue, but two rows of large characters were written in white paint.

Welcome to Bonta City

I wish you a happy stay in Bonta City

Sofia was a little surprised.

They walked all the way from Anweimar City and passed several cities along the way, but this was the first time they saw such signs on the roadside.

This sign is so eye-catching that it is hard to ignore it.

Just this alone, Sophia developed a little affection for this city of Bonta, which she had never been to before.

After the carriage entered the boundary of Bangta City, the scenery on both sides of the highway also changed significantly.

While still within the Saltan City, although farmland can be seen from time to time on both sides of the road, many places are still in a barren state.

Although the situation is much better than the large wasteland Sophia saw in other cities in the Kingdom of Lampari, it is still much worse than that of Bonta City.

The carriage had just walked past the huge blue sign, and a large area of ​​brilliant golden yellow rushed towards me.

Looking around, wheat was planted on both sides of the road.

Because it was already the autumn harvest season, all the wheat in the farmland had heavy ears of wheat. It was endless in the fields and endlessly.

Sofia was surprised.

When she was studying at the Royal College of Lampari, she also took some political and agricultural classes. She knew that the Lampari Kingdom was now struggling, which led to a very insufficient staff for farming farmland, so that many fertile fields were forced to be deserted.

This Bangta City is clearly located on the edge of the kingdom. It is a small city with a lot of cultivation of farmland under its name so fully that it allows her to see such a spectacular harvest scene.

Sophia initially thought this was just an individual phenomenon, but when the carriage continued to move along the road towards Bonta City, she found that the farmland on both sides of the road was stretched out. Looking into the distance, it was endless, just as if all parts of Bonta City had been reclaimed and wheat was planted.

"So much wheat can't be harvested, right?" Sophia couldn't help but murmur.

"How come there is no harvest?" Baron Hainas smiled and said. "Don't forget that Bangta City is the base camp of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. Now the magic machinery of farmland has been popularized here. Not to mention the farmland in Bangta City, I even heard from Xu Yi that some farmers in Bangta City can set up a small chamber of commerce that specializes in harvesting for others. They plan to go to the surrounding cities to help others harvest during the autumn harvest."

"It's the New Flight Chamber of Commerce again..." Sophia muttered, turned her head and looked out the window again, but she was so angry that she didn't want to pay attention to Baron Haynas.

But as soon as my eyes jumped out of the window, I saw a larger iron plate erected on the side of the road ahead.

On this huge iron plate, there is a peerless beauty with bright eyes and white teeth and picturesque eyebrows and eyes.

A string of pearl necklaces of exactly the same size were hung around the beauty's neck, and two strings of amethyst earrings with brilliant light were hung on her ears.

Although the necklace and earrings are exquisitely crafted and you can tell at a glance that they are very precious jewelry, they cannot cover up the glory of this beauty.

It can even be said that these two jewelry are so bright and brilliant because they are worn on the beautiful woman's neck and ears.

"What is this?" Sofia asked in surprise, pointing at the huge iron plate.

Baron Hainas stretched out his head from Sophia and glanced at it, and the expression on his face seemed a little puzzled.

"Sarank jewelry makes women more brilliant? Strange, Miss Steele didn't advertise for the New Air Chamber of Commerce, but instead advertised for Sarank. What's going on?"

"Miss Steele? Is it the beauty above?" Sophia asked curiously.

"Yes, she's pretty, right?" Baron Hainas said.

Sophia looked at the iron plate that was getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but nodded: "Well, it's really beautiful. It would be great if I could be so beautiful. But Hainas, this is a painting, it's impossible for real people to be so beautiful, right?"

"No, I can assure you that Miss Steele's real person is even more beautiful than the one in the painting." Baron Hainas glanced at Sophia, who was a little unbelieving, and suddenly a joking smile appeared on his face. "In addition, I want to tell you something about Miss Steele."

"What's up?"

"Miss Steele, now is Xu Yi's girlfriend."

The expression on Sophia's face immediately became extremely exciting.
Chapter completed!