This year's New Year, Bonta City is much quieter than in the previous two years...

In the past two years, due to the economic development of Bonta City, many people from other cities have also come to Bonta City to look for jobs.

At its peak, the total registered population in Bangta City even exceeded 200,000, while the lowest number of unregistered people was estimated to be 30,000. Compared with the previous population of only about 50,000 in Bangta City, that is several times more.

Although many people will take advantage of the holiday to rush back to their homes during the New Year, many people think the journey is too far away and simply don’t go back. They stay in Bangta City for the New Year, or continue working during the New Year days, and strive to get far higher than their usual salary in these days.

So the New Year in Bonta City was extremely lively in the past two years. Both the flow of people and supplies were abundant. The bustling and prosperous scene even made Hainas, who came to Bonta City at that time, sighed that Bonta City was probably no less than Anweimar City.

But all this came to an abrupt end with the arrival of Count Stark.

Due to Count Stark's policy of suppressing business and promoting agriculture, the chambers of commerce in Bonta City moved out one after another, and the employees of various chambers of commerce also left Bonta City.

In addition to the workers who came here to work from other cities, even many workers who originally belonged to Bonta City left Bonta City together because they were unwilling to give up their jobs.

Looking out through the window of the City Lord's Mansion, looking at the deserted streets and the lively New Year atmosphere could hardly be seen, Earl Stark couldn't help but sigh deeply.

Turning back to the desk, picking up a document and scanning it, Earl Stark's already frowning became a little deeper.

This document is the full-year fiscal revenue statement for Bangta City this year.

According to statistics, this year's fiscal revenue of Bonta City is 1.17 million gold coins, which is slightly lower than last year.

Although it seems that it has not declined much. However, it can be seen from a waveform chart based on monthly statistics that the fiscal revenue of Bangta City from January to July has been on an upward trend, and the total fiscal revenue combined in these seven months alone has reached nearly one million gold coins.

However, after August, this number suddenly dropped sharply, and continued to drop in the next few months, and even a deficit occurred in the last two months, resulting in the combined fiscal revenue in the last five months being less than 200,000 gold coins.

If this trend continues, I am afraid that Bangta City will have a fiscal deficit all year next year.

If so, even if Count Stark is confident that he can continue to maintain a strong grain harvest next year, a city that always produces a fiscal deficit will still be a negative score in the Kingdom Parliament.

This result basically announced that his experiment in Bonta City had completely failed.

More importantly, his failure represents the failure of the conservatives led by the Stark family, which is something that Earl Stark cannot accept.

The problem is...is there any way to solve this problem?

Earl Stark looked at the financial income statement in his hand and felt a little hesitant.

In fact, although Bonta City did not have too high fiscal revenue in the previous few years, it did not have a deficit. The reason for this year's deficit was entirely because Earl Stark invested a large amount of fiscal revenue in farmland transformation and crop cultivation in Bonta City.

And for the sake of the autumn harvest, he also spent a lot of gold coins on the transactions he made with the Principality of Drake in private.

Although he certainly could not take out the money directly from the fiscal revenue of Bangta City itself, in order to make up for the loss, he inevitably made some of it in other places to compensate himself.

In other words, if we still want to maintain a grain harvest like this year's autumn harvest next year, the fiscal deficit situation in Bangta City will not be improved.

But to solve this problem, the most feasible way that Earl of Stark knew was to restore the previous policy of Earl of Samoy as the city lord and strongly support commercial development, so that the tax revenue in Bonta City could be restored to the level of the previous two years.

But let alone Earl Stark is unwilling to do this. Even if he is willing, how could those chambers of commerce that have been driven out of Bangta City by his policy of suppressing business and promoting agriculture be moved back because of his words?

Thinking of this, Earl Stark couldn't help but smile bitterly.

In fact, when he knew that he was about to take over as the lord of Bonta City, he conducted some corresponding investigations on Bonta City, and that Bonta City could achieve rapid development in more than two years. The reason is the booming development of the magic industry led by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

If Earl Stark, as the city lord, will definitely choose to vigorously support and promote the New Air Chamber of Commerce and the magic industry from an objective standpoint, so as to accelerate the rapid development of Bonta City.

But Earl Stark was unable to stand on an objective standpoint, so even if he was not very willing, he had to come to Bangta City to put an attitude towards Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and even simply promulgated a series of policies to suppress business and promote agriculture to ensure that the concept of the conservatives in the kingdom he represented was correct.

Now, the bitter fruit caused by this idea was bitten by Earl Stark, which made him doubt the idea himself.

Can the people of the kingdom be satisfied by just ensuring enough food and live a peaceful life?

Looking at the new flying magic air conditioner hanging on the private office, Earl Stark smiled bitterly and fell into deep thoughts.

However, this thought did not last long, and the office door was suddenly knocked.

Earl Stark calmed down, sat back on his chair, and said in a deep voice: "Come in."

The door opened, and the clerk of Earl Stark pushed the door in and whispered: "Master Lord, President Xu of the New Flight Chamber of Commerce is asking for a meeting."

Earl Stark was stunned. How could Xu Yi choose to meet him today?

After thinking a little, Earl Stark nodded: "Let him in."

The clerk glanced at Earl Stark in surprise, responded, and retreated.

After a while, the door opened again, and Xu Yi walked into the office under the guidance of the secretary.

After Xu Yi and Earl Stark met, the clerk brought him to the door and kept Xu Yi and met with Earl Stark alone.

"Sit." Perhaps because of the thoughts that were turning in my mind just now, Earl Stark pointed to the chair opposite the desk and showed his politeness to Xu Yi for the first time.

Xu Yi smiled slightly, and was not polite. After thanking him, she sat down and said to Earl Stark: "Sir, I thought you would return to Anweimar City for the New Year. I didn't expect that you would still stay in the lord's mansion. You can really be called a conscientious city lord."

Earl Stark snorted coldly: "If you say this from others, I just think he is a clumsy flattering, but if you say it from your mouth, I will only feel sarcastic. Do you think I am a good city lord? A joke!"

Xu Yi shook his head: "Although I do not agree with your governance philosophy, Lord City, it has nothing to do with your duty and responsibility. My praise comes from the heart."

"Okay, don't talk nonsense to me that you won't believe." Earl Stark waved his hand, glanced at Xu Yi, and asked, "What's the matter with you suddenly came to me today? Tell me directly, it's meaningless to beat around the bush."

"Okay, then I'll just say it." Xu Yi pondered for a while and continued: "Master Lord, I'm here this time to discuss with you about the agricultural development of Bangta City next year."

"Are you discussing agricultural development with me?" Earl Stark looked at Xu Yi in shock, as if he heard a huge joke. "President Xu, is it not enough for your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to produce magic machinery, and you still want to interfere in grain production?"

Facing the slightly sarcastic tone of Earl Stark, Xu Yi's face remained unchanged and said with a smile: "If I have a way to increase the grain output of Bangta City, do you think I have this qualification?"

Earl Stark frowned and sneered: "You have this method? What a joke, our Stark family has a history of agricultural production for hundreds of years. Can't they compare to you, a young man who is less than thirty years old?"

"Mr. City Lord, I think even you can't deny the huge role that the farmland magic machinery I developed has played in improving grain production, right?" Xu Yi asked back.

Earl Stark looked suffocated.

This is indeed something he cannot refute, because no matter how he targets Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, at the critical moment of autumn harvest, he still has to rely on the power of the farmland magic machinery developed by Xu Yi and produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

It can even be said that without the magic machinery of farmland, the grain harvest in Bangta City will only plummet.

Thinking of this, Earl Stark's face eased slightly and asked Xu Yi: "What? What new type of farmland magic machinery has your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce developed?"

"No." Xu Yi shook his head and replied.

Earl of Stark was immediately angry: "Then are you here to deliberately spend my time?"

"No, how dare I do this?" Xu Yi waved his hand quickly. "Master Lord, the magic machinery of farmland can only help reclaim farmland, but it does not help much in increasing the yield of farmland itself. And I came to you this time to tell you that I have a way to increase the grain output in the unit farmland."

"How is that possible!" Earl Stark snorted with disbelief. "We Earl Stark have hundreds of years of experience in food production. How can we have methods that we don't know, but you will know."

Xu Yi smiled and said, "Mr. City Lord, I admit that the Stark family behind you has hundreds of years of history in producing food, but compared with the elves' thousands or even tens of thousands of years of history, isn't it trivial?"

"Elf Clan?" Earl Stark was stunned, and his eyes at Xu Yi became solemn in an instant. (To be continued...)
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