This document actually only reports a small matter, saying that in a village outside the city, there were several villagers who wanted to work in the Principality of Stantin, so they reported to Bonta City in advance and retained their identity as the people of Bonta City.

There were some similar things in the previous period, but Earl Stark did not care much, but instead gave approval according to previous practices of handling similar situations.

However, after seeing the same report in this official document again this time, Earl Stark suddenly felt a strong sense of crisis in his heart.

After thinking about it carefully for a while, he realized why this strong sense of crisis suddenly appeared.

The reason is very simple, it is because of the tax issue in Bangta City that he has been worried about these days.

Due to the evacuation of the New Air Chamber of Commerce, the followers of other large and small chambers of commerce in Bonta City, and the sudden promulgation of the free trade rights by the Commerce Department, this year, the tax revenue of Bonta City will most likely fall back to the level of a few years ago.

Losing a large amount of taxes paid by major chambers of commerce, Bonta City was almost like a large piece of it being poached.

Now, the civilians under the rule of Bonta City are actually leaving Bonta City. In the eyes of the traditional nobleman of Earl Stark, it has simply shaken the foundation of Bonta City.

Earl Stark recalled the official documents approved a few days ago in his mind, and found an amazing fact that these civilians who applied to leave Bangta City were actually ordinary farmers in the villages outside the city.

For Count Stark, who attaches great importance to agricultural development, these ordinary farmers are the foundation for supporting Bonta City.

A farmer may not affect anything if he leaves. Ten people will not affect anything if he leaves. But one hundred or even hundreds of people will have an astonishing impact.

After recalling the official documents approved these days, Earl Stark was surprised to find that in this short period of time, nearly one hundred farmers had submitted applications.

If this trend continues, wouldn’t Bangta City really shake its foundation?

Thinking of this, Earl of Stark read the official documents again and found that the report stated that these villagers wanted to leave Bonta City and work in the Principality of Stantin, all of whom were preparing to go to the land leased from the Principality of Stantin to do farming.

In other words, they changed from farming in Bonta to farming in the Principality of Stantin.

Thinking of the official documents approved a few days ago, the reasons given by ordinary farmers were the same. When recalling the recent actions of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Earl Stark's eyes flashed by and he snorted heavily.

"This damn Xu Yi, dares to snatch the most important experienced farmers from my hands. Are you trying to dig my corner?"

Earl Stark thought about it, picked up the pen and approved it in the official document. However, he directly rejected the application.

Although theoretically, he does not have this power. As the lord of Bangta City, he has too many ways to force these ordinary farmers to stay.

Just as he had just finished his approval, the door of the office was suddenly knocked gently.

From the frequency of knocking on the door, Earl Stark heard that this was his confidant Chekov, so he let him in in a deep voice.

After Chekov came in, he saluted Count Stark: "Sir, President Xu of the New Flight Chamber of Commerce is asking for a meeting."

Earl Stark was stunned and turned around to look at the dark night sky outside the window.

How could Xu Yi suddenly ask for a meeting at this time?

Ten minutes later, Earl Stark met Xu Yi in the small living room of the City Lord's Mansion.

"President Xu, it's really rare to visit late at night."

Because during the autumn harvest, the city lord's mansion obtained 3,000 farmland magic machinery from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as scheduled to assist in the smooth completion of the autumn harvest, Earl Stark's attitude now changed a lot compared to before.

Except for the first time when Xu Yize met Earl Stark, he always showed a respectful and polite attitude whenever he met Earl Stark, and this time was no exception.

"Master Lord, I'm sorry to bother you late at night." Xu Yi smiled and said, "But I may have to set out to the Principality of Stantin in two days, so there are some things that need to be discussed with Master Lord in advance."

Hearing the words "Stantin Principality", Earl Stark immediately looked dark: "Very good, President Xu, since you took the initiative to mention the Principality of Stantine, I happen to have a question to ask you. Since your chamber of commerce has rented land in the Principality of Stantine, why don't you hire local farmers from the Principality of Stantine to help you cultivate and insist on poaching those experienced old farmers from Bonta City? Do you know that this will have a serious impact on the agricultural development of our Bonta City?"

Xu Yi's smile remained unchanged: "I know this, so I came to discuss with you, Lord Lord, to solve this problem."

"Solve this problem?" Earl of Stark snorted coldly. "It's easy for you to say it. Do you know how important these experienced old farmers are to our Bonta City? You took them all away. If it affects our Bonta City's grain production, can you bear the charge?"

"Of course I can't afford it." Xu Yi smiled and said frankly: "Food production is the top priority of our Lampari Kingdom. No matter how brave I am, I will never be able to do such a thing. But the Lord, I am bluntly speaking, although grain production has a very important relationship with people, it does not require so many people."

Earl Stark frowned: "What? Are you going to sell me your theory of replacing human power with magic machinery?"

Xu Yi shrugged: "I don't think there is anything wrong with this theory. If we can use the help of magic machinery to do more, isn't this a good thing?"

"Hmph, magic machinery is a dead thing after all, while humans are alive. Many magic machinery cannot replace what humans can do."

Xu Yi smiled slightly, thinking that many things that magic machinery can do, people can't do.

But this time he came not to argue with Earl of Stark. He thought for a while and said, "Master Lord, no matter what, I think you should admit that it is with the help of the magic machinery of the farmland that our Kingdom of Lampari can suddenly increase the grain output in the past two years, right?"

Earl Stark remained silent.

The farmland magic machinery helps increase grain production in the Kingdom of Lampari, no one can deny it. Even the conservatives led by the Stark family cannot deny it, because they are one of the biggest beneficiaries.

This is exactly the most important reason why the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi clearly supported Princess Sevini, but they are still safe and sound.

"Of course, I did not come to you to ask for credit for you, Lord Lord. But I came to show you the reason why our New Flight Chamber of Commerce brought the farmers of Bonta City to the Principality of Stantin." Xu Yi said again.

Earl Stark glanced at Xu Yi and nodded slightly: "Tell me."

Xu Yi breathed a sigh of relief and thought that no matter how much this Earl of Stark wanted to target himself and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, he would eventually listen to his opinions patiently in terms of issues related to Bonta City and his fundamental interests.

"Sir, I think the reason why you are worried that we will bring the farmers in Bonta City to the Principality of Stantin is that you think this will affect the grain production in Bonta City, right?" Xu Yi asked.

"Nonsense!" Earl of Stark snorted coldly: "The farmers in Bonta City are already limited. If you take some away some of them, it would be strange if they will not affect them!"

Xu Yi showed a confident smile: "I don't think you have to worry at all, Lord City. First of all, we are only planning to recruit no more than 2,000 people from Bangta City. I think it is nothing to the more than 40,000 farmers outside Bangta City, right?"

"Only two thousand people?" Earl Stark was slightly stunned: "Didn't your New Flying Chamber of Commerce rent a full 100,000 hectares of land in the Principality of Stantin? How can two thousand people be enough?"

“According to the agreement signed by our Chamber of Commerce and the Principal of Stantin, we must recruit no less than five thousand local workers in the Principal of Stantin.”

Earl Stark frowned slightly: "Even if you add five thousand people, it may not be enough, right? It's a full 100,000 hectares. According to my estimate, at least 10,000 talents are barely enough."

Xu Yi shook his head: "Master Lord, to be honest, the people in the Principality of Stantin are really... too lazy, so I don't expect these 5,000 people to help, because their work ability is probably not as good as the two thousand people I recruited from Bonta City."

Earl Stark snorted slightly with a slight smugness: "The people in the Principality of Stantin are too lazy to be surprised, I know this. Your chamber of commerce insists on going to that place to invest, and you will be able to do it if you don't lose money."

"Thank you for your concern, Lord City." Xu Yi smiled and said, "Lord City, Lord City, what I want to say is that the cultivation of this 100,000 hectares of land can actually be solved by the two thousand people recruited from Bangta City alone."

"This is impossible!" Earl Stark said firmly: "Our Stark family has hundreds of years of experience in farmland cultivation, which is much better than you. According to my experience, you may be able to reclaim all of this 100,000 hectares of land with 10,000 people, two thousand people? Don't even think about it!"

Xu Yi smiled lightly and suddenly said, "Then the city lord, how about we bet?"

Earl Stark showed a look of vigilance: "What bet?"

"If our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce cannot fully cultivate the 100,000 hectares of land by relying solely on these two thousand people, then our Chamber of Commerce will send all the 2,000 people back to Bangta City and pay corresponding compensation for each of them. At the same time, it will also pay 500,000 gold coins to the City Lord's Mansion as compensation for the food production in Bangta City. What do you think, Lord?"

Earl Stark looked at Xu Yi in shock: "Are you serious?"

"I'm very serious." Xu Yi nodded. "If you don't believe me, I can make a contract on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the City Lord's Mansion as a guarantee."

Earl Stark looked at Xu Yi for no reason and asked again: "But how is it considered complete cultivation? How to determine this standard?"

"It's very simple. Of course, the grain yield that determines the standard for reclamation is grain yield. The land in the Principality of Stantin is suitable for growing rice. Then, according to the yield standard of about two rice dumps per hectare of farmland in Kalma City, the annual rice harvested in this 100,000 hectares of land should be about 200,000 tons. If it is lower than this amount, then I will lose."

"You really want to do this?" Earl of Stark looked at Xu Yi with a serious expression, with an incredible expression.

In his opinion, it is very difficult to fully cultivate 100,000 hectares of land, and Xu Yi actually completed this arduous task with just two thousand people. This is simply impossible.

Of course, this doesn't matter to Earl Stark. After thinking about it, he asked Xu Yi: "What if you achieve this number?"

"Even if I win, then I hope the city lord will agree to my request." Xu Yi said.

"What request?" Earl of Stark asked curiously.

Xu Yi knew that he was targeting him and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce everywhere, but came to discuss with him to ask him to agree to his request. Could it be that his head was burned out?

"This request is actually very beneficial to Bangta City. That's it..." (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!