Chapter 53 Doubts About Ideas

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

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

At its peak, the total registered population in Bangta City even exceeded 200,000, and the estimated unregistered population was as low as 30,000. Compared with the previous population of about 50,000 in Bangta City, that was more. out several times.

Although many people will rush back to their homes during the New Year's holiday, many people feel that the journey is too long, so they simply don't go back. Much more than the usual salary compensation these days.

As a result, the New Year in Bangta City in the first two years was extremely lively. Both the flow of people and the materials were greatly enriched. The bustling and prosperous scene even made Hainas, who came to Bangta City at that time, sighed that Bangta City was no better than Anweimar. How bad is the city.

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

Because of Earl Stark's policy of suppressing business and promoting agriculture, the chambers of commerce in Bangta City moved out one after another, and even the employees of the various chambers of commerce left Bangta City together.

In addition to those workers who came to work here from other cities, even many workers who originally belonged to Bangta City left Bangta City because they were unwilling to give up their jobs. Looking outside through the window of the City Lord's Mansion, looking at the deserted streets of Bangta City, where the lively New Year atmosphere could hardly be seen, Count Stark couldn't help sighing deeply.

Turning around and returning to the desk, after picking up a document and scanning it twice, Earl Stark's already wrinkled brows deepened.

This document is Bangta City's annual financial income statement for this year.

According to statistics, the annual fiscal revenue of Bangta City this year is 1.17 million gold coins, which is slightly lower than last year.

Although it doesn't look like it's going down much. However, it can be seen from a waveform chart made according to the monthly statistics that the financial revenue of Bangta City from January to July showed an upward trend. The total financial revenue of these seven months alone has reached nearly a million gold coins.

However, after entering August, this number fell sharply and sharply, and continued to decline in the following months. There was even a deficit in the last two months. As a result, the total financial income in the last five months was only less than 200,000 gold coins.

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

If this is the case, even Earl Stark is confident that he can continue to maintain a strong grain harvest next year. But a city that always has a budget deficit can still only get a negative score in the Kingdom Council. With this result, he basically declared that his experiment in Bangta City had failed completely.

More importantly, his failure represented the failure of the conservatives headed by the Stark family. This is something that Earl Stark cannot accept.

The question is... what is the solution to this conundrum?

Earl Stark looked at the financial income statement in his hand with some hesitation.

In fact, in the past few years, although Bangta City did not have too high fiscal revenue, it did not have a deficit. The reason for the deficit this year is entirely because Count Stark invested a large amount of fiscal revenue into Bangta. The city's farmland transformation and crop cultivation.

And in order to achieve amazing results in the autumn harvest, he also spent a lot of gold coins in the transactions he made privately with the Duchy of Drake.

Although of course he couldn't take the money directly from Bangta City's own financial income. But in order to make up for this loss, in other places, he inevitably brought some back to himself as compensation.

That is to say, if we still want to maintain the same grain harvest as this year's autumn harvest next year, it is impossible for Bangta City's fiscal deficit to improve.

But want to solve this problem. The most feasible method that Earl Stark knows is to restore the policy of Earl Summer as the city owner and vigorously support commercial development, so that the tax revenue of Bonta City can be restored to the level of the previous two years.

But let's not say that Earl Stark is unwilling to do this. Even if he is willing, how can the chambers of commerce that have been driven out of Bangta City by his policy of suppressing business and promoting agriculture, how can they move back because of his words?

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

In fact, when he knew that he was about to take over as the city owner of Bangta City, he did some corresponding investigations on Bangta City. The reason why Bangta City can develop rapidly in more than two years is because of the leadership of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. The booming magic industry.

From an objective standpoint, if Earl Stark is the city lord, then like Earl Summer, he will definitely choose to vigorously support and promote the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and the magic industry, thereby accelerating the rapid development of Bangta City.

But Earl Stark couldn't take an objective stand, so even if he didn't like it very much, he had to take an attitude towards Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as soon as he came to Bangta City, and even promulgated it outright. He adopted a series of policies to suppress business and promote agriculture, to ensure that the ideas of the conservatives in the kingdom he represented were correct.

Now, the bitter fruit caused by this idea is the first bite of Count Stark, so that he himself has doubts about this idea.

Just by guaranteeing enough food, can the people of the kingdom be satisfied and live in peace?

Looking at the Xinfei brand magic air conditioner hanging on the top of this private office, Count Stark showed a wry smile and fell into deep thought.

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

Earl Stark cleaned up his mood, sat back in his chair, and said solemnly, "Come in."

The door opened, and Earl Stark's secretary pushed in and reported in a low voice, "Lord City Lord, President Xu of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce asks to see you."

Earl Stark was startled, why did Xu Yi choose to meet him today?

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

The secretary glanced at Earl Stark in surprise, replied with a sound, and backed out.

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 were greeted, the secretary brought Xu Yi to the door and left Xu Yi to meet Earl Stark alone.

"Sit down." Perhaps it was because of the thoughts that were spinning in his mind just now, Earl Stark pointed to the chair opposite the desk, and for the first time took the initiative to show courtesy to Xu Yi.

Xu Yi smiled slightly, not being polite. After thanking him, he sat down and said to Earl Stark, "Lord City Lord, I thought you would return to Anweimar City for the New Year, but I didn't expect you to stay in the City Lord's Mansion. It can be called a dutiful city lord."

Earl Stark snorted coldly: "When I say this from someone else's mouth, I only think he is flattering clumsily, but when it comes out of your mouth, I will only find it ironic. You will think that I am a Good city lord? Joke!"

Xu Yi shook his head: "Although I don't agree with the city lord's philosophy of governance, it has nothing to do with your due diligence. My praise comes from the heart."

"Okay, don't talk to me about these nonsense that you won't believe yourself." Earl Stark waved his hand, glanced at Xu Yi, and asked, "You came to me suddenly today, what's the matter? Come on, there's no point in going around the bush."…

"Okay, then I'll say it straight." Xu Yi pondered for a while, and continued: "Sir City Lord, I am 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 amazement, as if he had heard a big joke. "President Xu, is it not enough for your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to produce magic machinery, do you still want to get involved in food production?"

Facing Earl Stark's slightly sarcastic tone, Xu Yi's face remained unchanged, and he still smiled: "If I have a way to increase the food production of Bangta City, do you think I have the qualifications, Lord City Lord?"

Earl Stark frowned and sneered: "Do you have this method? What a joke, our Stark family has a history of hundreds of years in agricultural production, is it not as good as your less than thirty years old? young man?"

"Lord City Lord, I don't think even you can deny that the farmland magic machine I developed has played a huge role in improving food production, right?" Xu Yi asked.

Earl Stark was 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 the autumn harvest, he still has to rely on the power of the farmland magic machine developed by Xu Yi and produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. .

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

Thinking of this, Count Stark's expression softened slightly, and asked Xu Yi, "What? What new type of farmland magic machinery has your New Flying Chamber of Commerce developed?"

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

Earl Stark suddenly became angry: "Then are you here to amuse me on purpose?"

"No, how dare I do that." Xu Yi quickly waved his hand. "Sir City Lord, the farmland magic machine can only assist in the reclamation of farmland, but it does not help much to increase the yield of the farmland itself. And I came to you this time, just to tell you that I have a way to increase the amount of farmland in the unit. food production."

"How is that possible!" Earl Stark snorted in disbelief. "Our Earl Stark has hundreds of years of experience in food production. How can there be a method we don't know, but you know."

Xu Yi smiled: "Lord City Lord, I admit that the Stark family behind you has a history of producing food for hundreds of years, but compared to the thousands or even tens of thousands of years of history of the elves, is it insignificant? "

"Elves?" Earl Stark was stunned, and his eyes on Xu Yi instantly became solemn.