Chapter 45
A medium-sized cargo magic locomotive is fast on the black rice wasteland.
The road rolled under the tire is the latest investment and construction of the New Air Chamber of Commerce that adopts the new technology of the Amley Chamber of Commerce. The road surface is not only more than ten meters wide, but is enough to accommodate four large cargo magic locomotives driving side by side, and is flatter than the previous highway.
Even if you run up at a speed of nearly 50 kilometers per hour, you will still feel a slight bump and you will not feel any discomfort.
In fact, this speed has exceeded the speed rating of the New Air Chamber of Commerce for medium-sized cargo magic locomotives, but for veteran drivers like Dad Sakchi, speeding is simply commonplace.
If it weren't for the extreme speed of this medium-sized cargo magic locomotive, it would have run faster.
Dad Sarkic put one hand on the steering wheel, and his other hand grabbed a bottle of fresh juice at his hand and poured it into one mouthful.
It was early winter now, and after putting the bottle of fresh juice for a long time, it was naturally a little cold. After pouring it in one bite, Dad Sarkic couldn't help but shivering.
It is easy to get tired if you drive for too long. Drinking a sip of cold fresh juice can not only stimulate your energy, but also supplement some nutrition. It is something that Dad Sakchi often does while transporting goods.
The fresh juice jar was just put down. Dad Batru, who was lying in the back of the cab, woke up, yawned, stood up and looked outside, and asked Dad Sarkic, "Where have you been?"
"Just just entered the Black Rice Wasteland." Dad Sarkic replied casually.
Dad Batru observed the environment outside the car and nodded: "Well, it's okay. OK. Come and change me to drive. You've been driving for several hours."
"It's okay." Old Sarkic rejected it. "In a while, we will be at the base of the Black Rice Wasteland. When we come out from there and change people, you can wake up first."
Dad Batru thought about it, but he didn't insist at home. He arched his body and climbed from the back seat to the passenger seat, and sat down with his body curled up.
After looking outside for a while, Dad Batru suddenly asked, "Hey, Sarkic, are you really planning to move?"
Dad Sarkic didn't expect that he would ask this question as soon as he woke up. After a moment of stunned silence, he nodded and said nodded.
"I will take a good look at the environment of the Principal of Stantin this time and decide whether to move in. But I heard from the guys in the village who have lived in the Principal of Stantin for more than a year that the environment of the Principal of Stantin is really good, and the climate is good, and they all live very comfortably. So I think... I will most likely choose to move."
Dad Batru frowned slightly, turned his head to look at Dad Sarkic's expression, confirming that he was not joking at all.
"This... your family has lived in the Mexican village for more than a hundred years, right? Do you really want to move? Why are you willing to bear it?"
Dad Sarkic sneered indifferently: "What are you reluctant to let go of this? Where to live is not to live? After all, where can you live a good life, you will naturally choose where. Now that Bangta City is messy and continues to stay there, there must be no good results."
"It's not that..." Batru's father retorted: "Although those chambers of commerce are not as good as the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, they are just a few chambers of commerce after all. Can they turn Bonta City over?"
"Don't you believe it?" Sakchi's father snorted coldly. "Those guys can even drive away the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. What else can't be done? Even if you don't talk about this, just talk about our family. Now my three kids have lost their previous jobs. If they want to find a job in Bonta City, they can only go to those chambers of commerce. But do you know how much salary they give? Six gold coins a month! It's not as good as half of their previous monthly salary!"
Batru's father said in a muffled voice: "It's not impossible to get through the six gold coins. We used to be unable to make much money in a month, but we still survived."
"It was the past. Anyway, I would never do it if I could not even have enough food for me." Dad Sarkic snorted coldly: "The three kids in our family are unwilling to do it, so we discussed it and decided to move. As long as you go to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, you can earn nearly twenty gold coins in a month if you find a job, which is no better than staying in Bonta City."
"That's right, it's Sarkic. Have you ever thought about a question?" Batru asked again. "According to the latest regulations of the City Lord's Mansion, those who move out of Bangta City without authorization will be automatically regarded as giving up the status of Bangta City's civilians. In other words, it is easy for you to move out, but it is difficult to move back. And I'm worried... the Kingdom Council may make a similar rule in the future. What if the Kingdom is not recognized as the Kingdom's people after moving out, what should I do?"
"If you don't admit it, don't admit it." Dad Sakchi still looked indifferent, obviously he had thought about this question a long time ago. "I just said that where you can live well, go wherever you go, it has nothing to do with Bonta City, Lampari Kingdom, etc."
"But we are from Lampari after all, so we just left like that... are you really willing to bear it?"
"Why can't I bear to let go? Now this bullshit king is messing around and doesn't treat us civilians as humans, why are we so reluctant to let go? Civilians like us should not consider any major national affairs. Anyway, those bigwigs never take us seriously." Dad Sarkic said with a disdainful look on his face.
Dad Batru was silent for a moment and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Although he always felt that Sarkozy's father's attitude was wrong, he could not find any reason to refute him.
Because what Dad Sarkic said is true.
After the new King Eric ascended the throne, the entire Kingdom of Lampari and the city of Bonta changed.
The city of Bangta, which was originally prosperous and prosperous, has now completely become a toy in the hands of the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magic Industry Administration.
In addition to driving away the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and squeezing away other chambers of commerce that produce magic machinery and occupying the magic industry in Bonta City, the ten chambers of commerce have now extended their hands to other fields and gradually want to erode the markets of those old chambers of commerce in Bonta City.
Although the old commerce commerce are still fighting desperately with their own background, it is becoming more and more difficult and gradually starting to show signs of collapse.
It would be fine if it was just normal business competition, but it had no direct relationship with ordinary civilians like Sarkic and Batru. Maybe it would be beneficial to the competition between the chambers of commerce.
But the problem is that after those ten chambers of commerce controlled what areas, they also deeply affected the lives of ordinary civilians.
For example, what Dad Sarkic said just now, the ten chambers of commerce now master the magic industry in Bonta City, but they have suddenly put the average salary of this industry that creates the most job opportunities to an extremely low standard, making it unacceptable for all the civilians in Bonta City who have previously worked in this industry.
Take the goods transportation they are now engaged in as an example. If they had transported goods from Bangta City to Anweimar City before, the round-trip shipping fee was thirty gold coins. Putting aside the consumption on the way, they could earn about ten gold coins.
At the most of a month, they could even make nearly two hundred gold coins by running more than ten times.
If you divide it equally, each person will get nearly one hundred gold coins, which can be considered a high income even in the previous city of Bonta.
However, now these ten chambers of commerce have controlled the commercial transportation in Bangta City and have fully suppressed the freight. If they transport the goods to Anweimar City, the freight for the round trip will only be given fifteen gold coins, which is only half of the previous one!
If you put aside the consumption on the way, you can only earn a few gold coins at most.
If there is any problem on the way, you might lose all your money and even lose money.
So after two trips like this, Sakchi's father decisively stopped accepting the freight business of the ten chambers of commerce, but re-connected with the Xinfei Chamber of commerce to help the Xinfei Chamber of commerce carry out various transportation between the Black Rice Wasteland, the Principality of Stantin and the City of Bonta.
Although the journey is far and I am much tired than before, the freight fees given by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have always been kind, and their profits are only slightly lower than before, but they are not much worse.
There are many private cargo shipments like them in Bonta City. At present, except for some of them who can't do it and stop it, the vast majority of the remaining ones choose to continue to cooperate with the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce like them.
Moreover, due to the deliberate suppression of the ten chambers of commerce, Filson, who originally occupied most of the freight and passenger transport business in Bonta City, is now having a difficult time and is said to be almost unable to hold on.
The last time when Batru's father accidentally met President Pompei in Bonta, he saw his face full of sorrow, and even his extremely obese body had obviously lost a lot of weight.
Thinking of the depressed expression on President Pompei's face at that time, Batru's father suddenly felt that what Sarkic said was actually very reasonable.
Since you can't survive in Bangta City, why bother to stay there?
For those great figures in the kingdom, the lives and deaths of the civilians from the bottom of the country were never taken seriously by them.
Since they don't care about themselves, why should they care about them?
After figuring this out, Batru's father felt that his eyes suddenly became clear and his whole body became much more refreshed.
After thinking about it, he said to Daddy Sarkic: "Okay, this time I will also take the opportunity to observe the environment in the Principality of Stantin, and hope that there will be as good as those people say."
Seeing that Dad Batru finally changed his mind, Dad Sarkic suddenly burst into laughter.
"Don't worry, that place is definitely better than you think."
Dad Batru nodded slightly, and he couldn't help but feel a little more anticipated for this trip. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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