Of course, laughter could not travel thousands of kilometers to Bangta City.

However, I don’t know if it was because I sensed that His Highness Princess Sevini and Viscount Leslie were discussing her. Even though Xu Yi hid in the warm conference hall of the city lord’s mansion, he suddenly sneezes involuntarily.

This sudden sneeze broke the ongoing reading of Count Samo and attracted the eyes of the others in the conference hall who were listening intently.

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

Xu Yi shook his head quickly: "No, I have no objection. It's just... I just suddenly felt a little cold."

"Cold?" Count Samo looked at the two magic air conditioners on the wall of the conference hall and smiled, "This is the new flying brand magic air conditioner produced by your Chamber of Commerce. If you still feel cold under their influence, I should ask you if the president of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has dereliction of duty."

"Ha ha--"

Of course everyone knew that Count Samo was teasing Xu Yi, and burst into laughter.

Xu Yi smiled and said, "That's impossible. The quality of Xinfei Magic Air Conditioner is trustworthy and there will be no problem. Maybe it's because I accompanied Steele to visit the Sandy River last night and caught a cold after roaring the cold wind."

A burst of laughter rang out in the hall again.

President Lanke, who was sitting not far from Xu Yi, sighed: "President Xu is young and strong after all, and he dares to stroll by the river on such a cold night. An old man like me stays at home and refuses to go out as soon as it gets dark."

Everyone immediately agreed. They teased Xu Yilai with one word and one word.

As the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce grows and grows, Xu Yi's status in Bangta City has also risen. He has gradually been able to truly be on par with the old-fashioned Chamber of Commerce presidents in the city.

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

Even President Morgan, who had been the most hostile to Xu Yi, had begun to cooperate with the New Air Chamber of Commerce and the Falcao Chamber of Commerce because of the agreement between Xu Yi and Marquis Joseph, so that he no longer showed any hostility to Xu Yi. Instead, he would show that he was very close to Xu Yi in front of everyone and in private.

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

After everyone's voices stopped for a moment, Xu Yi turned to Earl Samo and said, "Mr. Lord. I have no objection to this report, but I have a suggestion."

"Oh? Come and listen."

Not only Earl Samo, but also the others immediately stopped laughing, and looked at Xu Yi, showing an expression of concern.

After spending a long time with Xu Yi, everyone knows that every time Xu Yi says something in such an occasion, it will never be aimless, and will generally have a big or small impact.

If it were his proposal, the city lord would have almost never rejected it once, which would have played a significant role.

"Mr. The report you read just now said that Bangta City's plan this year is to further reclaim wasteland, expand the area of ​​farmland and increase grain output. Of course, I have no objection to this. But I think you have overlooked a very important issue."

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

"That's the manpower," Xu Yi said. "I think if there are no relevant measures, there will be fewer and fewer farmers engaged in agriculture in Bangta City, and in the end there will be no one to cultivate the farmland."

Earl Samo frowned: "How is this possible? There are more than 100,000 farmers in the rural areas outside Bangta City, so how could no one go farming? If you can't grow it in the past, it would be fine. Now with the help of various farmland magic machinery from your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, farming is much easier and more efficient than before. Even if there are fewer people than before, there will be no problem. It is because of this that I made this plan. Could it be that your Chamber of Commerce will not plan to continue to produce farmland magic machinery in the future?"

"Of course it's impossible." Xu Yi shook his head immediately. "But Count, you may not have noticed a fact. Although there are more than 100,000 registered farmers outside Bangta City, have you ever counted the actual population of these people who still stay in the countryside to engage in agriculture?"

Earl Samo was stunned: "Do you want to say that these farmers no longer farm? Then what are they going to do?"

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

Earl Samo was stunned, and his eyes flashed across Xu Yi and other representatives of the chambers of commerce, revealing a hint of suddenness.

"You mean, those farmers are unwilling to farm if they have entered the factories of your major chambers of commerce?"

"Of course." Xu Yi nodded. "Now the average monthly salary of factories opened by major chambers of commerce in our Bangta City has exceeded 7 gold coins. Even workers who have just entered the factory can often get monthly salary of more than 4 gold coins a month. Compared to the previous year when farming, they only earn a few gold coins after a year. It is obvious that the income of entering the factory as a worker is much higher. If I were a farmer, I would not be willing to continue farming, but would choose to enter the factory."

"Well... this is indeed a problem, I overlooked it." Earl Samo frowned and thought for a while, and asked again: "President Xu, what are 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, you just broke through the 4,000 mark." Xu Yi stretched out four fingers and replied. "When the new canned fruit factory is completed, we will recruit another 500 workers. In addition, according to the general manager Kennard's prediction, within this year, at least 1,000 workers must be recruited."

"In other words, your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce alone will snatch more than 5,000 people?"

"Yes."

Earl Samo asked the presidents of other major chambers of commerce and the answers they got were almost the same.

As the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce continues to develop various magic machinery, the production model of other major chambers of commerce in Bangta City has been continuously transforming towards an industrialized model.

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

Now, the Amrits Chamber of Commerce alone employs more than 20,000 workers.

In addition to more than 6,000 workers, they are still carrying out traditional construction projects of the Amley Chamber of Commerce. The remaining more than 13,000 workers are distributed in the Kingdom of Lampari, the Kingdom of Rulson and the Dutch of Stantin, and are working hard to build one highway after another.

In comparison, there are already fewer workers in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

The five recognized five major chambers of commerce in Bangta City, including the New Air Chamber of Commerce, Amri Chamber of Commerce, Armani Chamber of Commerce, Salak Chamber of Commerce and Falkao Chamber of Commerce, have exceeded the terrifying 70,000 people.

If you add up all the employees of other chambers of commerce in the city, now there are more than 100,000 workers working in factories in Bangta City.

This has not included people in other industries.

If all of them are counted, people who work in other industries other than agriculture will even be close to 200,000.

After obtaining this estimated number, Count Samo couldn't help but feel a little stunned.

Since there are nearly 200,000 people working in other industries, let alone the elderly, weak, women and children who are unable to work, of course no one will be left to engage in agricultural farming.

In fact, the total population inside and outside Bonta City was not as large as 200,000. If a large number of migrants had not been squeezed into Bonta City, the employees of these chambers of commerce would not have reached such a terrifying number.

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

Thinking of this, Count Samo couldn't help looking down at the report in his hand, and turned to the part that had not been read at the end of the report.

The theme of today's meeting is a summary data report on various work in Bonta City last year, and the last part of this report is a tax statistics in Bonta City last year.

The reason why today's meeting invited representatives from major chambers of commerce to attend is because of the outstanding performance of major chambers of commerce in this tax statistics.

But once again, I saw various detailed numbers in tax statistics. Earl Samo still felt unrealistic.

According to the final statistics from the Bangta City Taxation Department, within last year, the total tax revenue in Bangta City actually reached a terrifying 1.37 million gold coins!

You should know that according to figures released by the Kingdom Taxation Agency, the fiscal revenue of the Kingdom of Lampari last year was less than 2 million gold coins.

According to the regulation of paying one-third of local taxes, Bangta City paid 450,000 gold coins, accounting for nearly one-quarter of the kingdom's annual tax revenue!

It's just an extremely terrible achievement.

Because just two years ago, the tax paid by Bangta City was only less than 50,000 gold coins, and among the twenty-six cities in the entire kingdom, it was basically the last-stage existence.

Now just two years have passed, and the taxes paid by Bangta City have even exceeded the capital Anweimar City, becoming the city with the largest tax payments in the entire kingdom!

If you turn your attention to the one hundred and three hundred and seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy-seventy

In other words, the agricultural tax that used to be the most important for Bangta City is now even negligible, because the most important industry has become business.

If we divide it a little more, we will find that in commercial taxation, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce alone provides a huge number of more than 500,000 gold coins. If the Chamber of Commerce taxes related to the various magic industries related to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are added together, the 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 taxation in the entire Bonta City is the magic industry represented by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Thinking of this, Earl Samo's attention in his heart was involuntarily deepened a little further. He raised his head and looked at Xu Yi, and smiled and said, "It seems that the problem mentioned by President Xu does exist and is very important. So President Xu, what is your proposal?"

Xu Yi nodded and replied: "My proposal is to promote agricultural industrialization development." (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!