Chapter 122 Upgrade of Highway Transportation Network

"Road closed?" Xu Yi looked forward in astonishment, thought for a while, got up and got out of the car.

Walking at the front of the convoy, I found that a wooden fence was erected in the middle of the road as a roadblock, blocking the convoy just in time.

Xu Yi looked far away and found that there was no construction in front of the road, and several carriages could be seen running on the road, and pedestrians were not affected at all.

It seemed that he was the only one who blocked his train team outside.

Behind the barricade stood more than a dozen soldiers wearing uniform armor. Judging from the logo on their chests, they were not the army directly under the kingdom, but the local city guards of Raimate City.

The one who was arguing fiercely with Ankato at this time was a soldier who looked like a small boss.

"Ankato, what's the matter?" Xu Yi stopped Ankato, whose neck was red and angry, and asked him.

"Master President, these guys stopped our convoy without stopping anyone. I think they are clearly trying to embarrass us on purpose!" Ankato said angrily, pointing at the soldiers. "Just now I clearly saw that they put everything in the carriage, but after our convoy arrived, they put up the roadblock again."

"Hey, didn't I tell you just now?" The little boss pointed to the road behind him. "This road is being repaired, so you can't let your heavy cars pass by, don't you understand?"

"But I clearly saw that there was a wagon that big in front of you that you let go. They don't pull less goods than us?" Ankato said unconvinced.

"How do you know that he is heavier than you?" The little head glared at Ankato, then turned to look at Xu Yi. "Hello. Are you the president? Tell you. This road is closed. Take a detour."

"Be polite to our President, let me tell you, the President..."

Xu Yi raised his arm to prevent Ankato from continuing, pondered for a moment, came to the little boss, and smiled: "This officer, can you take a step to speak?"

The little boss looked up and down at Xu Yi. He smiled, waved to Xu Yi, and walked under a big tree beside the road.

Xu Yi followed behind him and came to the place behind the tree trunk that blocked everyone's sight. Without saying a word, he took out a small money bag from his arms and handed it over.

"Sir, can you tell me what's going on with this road closure?"

The little boss was not too polite, took the money bag directly, and weighed it in his hand. Based on experience, he quickly judged that there were at least twenty gold coins in the purse, and the serious expression on his face faded away. Became grinning.

"Hey, well... To be honest, I don't know what's going on." The little boss explained with a smile: "Anyway, the city lord issued a strict order a week ago, ordering that no magic locomotives are allowed to pass on this road. .Before you, I have stopped several convoys of magic motorcycles from chambers of commerce."

After finishing speaking, the little boss looked back at the convoy parked on the road, and asked curiously: "Speaking of which, which chamber of commerce do you belong to? This is the first time I've seen a chamber of commerce with so many magic motorcycles."

"Hehe, it's just a small chamber of commerce. Sir, you must have never heard of it." Xu Yi replied vaguely, and then asked: "Sir, is there any possibility of accommodation? We have all run here, and then turn around, how can we go back?" It's a waste of time. Besides, you can't find a place to rest for a while, right?"

While talking, Xu Yi took out another money bag from his arms and handed it over.

Looking at the purse, which was obviously bigger than the one just now, the little boss swallowed involuntarily, struggled with his expression for a while, but still shook his head vigorously.

"No, the city lord is strictly ordering you this time. If I let you go, you might be caught and thrown into prison by the city lord after you go back."

Seeing the resolute attitude of the little boss, Xu Yi knew that there might not be any room for accommodation this time. After thinking about it, he nodded, looked up at the far side of the road, and turned back to the side of the convoy.

"Master President, how is it?" Ankato immediately leaned over and asked in a low voice.

Xu Yi shook his head: "Turn around, let's go another way."

Ankato frowned immediately: "Turn around now? But Mr. Chairman, this is the only road near Lamart City."

"It's not a road, and it's not impossible to walk. Besides, how much better do you think this road is than those ordinary dirt roads?" Xu Yi asked back.

Ankato glanced at the bumpy road under his feet, sneered, then glanced at the roadblock on the road and the dozen soldiers behind the roadblock, turned around and got into the car.

Seeing that the first cargo magic locomotive driven by Ankato began to make a difficult turn on the broken road, Xu Yi returned to the medium-sized magic bus in the middle of the convoy.

After explaining to Camby and others, everyone was puzzled.

"It's reasonable to talk about road repairs. This road is so broken, it should be repaired. But why only restrict magic motorcycles?" Camby frowned. "Is this aimed at our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?"

Xu Yi glanced at the distant horizon in front of the road, and found that he couldn't even see the walls of Raimat City. He shook his head and said, "I don't know. Maybe there is a reason for this, but it doesn't matter anymore. After all, this place is not Bangta City, I am too lazy to waste time on this to negotiate with the lord of Raimate City. And I also told Ankato just now, taking this road is not much different from taking an ordinary dirt road, isn’t it? "

Everyone in the car laughed.

"That's right, such a broken road is probably not as good as some flat old dirt roads."

"Tch, the previous road in our village was better than this broken road."

"Okay, let's go back and despise the guys from the Amley Chamber of Commerce. It's really embarrassing for them to build such a broken road."

...

Xu Yi did not join in the ridicule of the crowd, but opened the map again, first clicked on the city of Anweimar on the map, and then rowed along the road leading to Sewell City.

Among them, apart from pausing on Lamart City, his fingers also stopped on the other two cities he passed.

The situation of the other two cities is similar to that of Lamart City. They both rejected the investment application of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce because of their support for Prince Eric.

What Xu Yi is worried about now is that now that the team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been refused entry in Lamart City, it is very likely that they will receive the same treatment in the other two cities.

Although the reason Lamart City put forward to prohibit the passage of magic locomotives because of the need for road repairs seems to be no problem on the surface, Xu Yi still smelled a special smell from it that made him very uncomfortable.

If this matter was deliberately targeted at the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce by Lamart City, then Xu Yi would need to consider more issues.

Xinfei Chamber of Commerce went to Serwell City to invest heavily, not only because of Earl Summer's warm invitation, but also because it was more convenient to cooperate with the Duchy of Drake in Sewell City, and more importantly, for Xu Yi's heart. The strategy of spreading the magic industry throughout the Lampari Kingdom has a very important role in promoting it.

So on this point, Xu also can't afford to make mistakes. This time, almost all the elites of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce were mobilized to come together, and he even went out in person.

Now that Lamart City obstructed him halfway, Xu Yi couldn't help thinking about a very real problem.

After all, Sewell City is close to thousands of roads from Bangta City, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce wants to invest in Sewell City, which will inevitably involve a large amount of personnel and material transportation and exchanges, so the transportation problem is the top priority.

If you want to have fast and convenient transportation, the combination of magic locomotive and road is of course the best at present.

But because most of the roads in the Lampari Kingdom are now built by the chambers of commerce of various cities or the cities themselves, the right to operate these roads is in the hands of each city.

For example, if Lamart City doesn't want the magic locomotive to pass, then the team from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will not be able to pass.

And if Lamart City and the other two cities impose restrictions on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the transportation of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce from Bangta City to Sewell City will inevitably be greatly affected.

So Xu Yi began to think seriously about a problem now. Perhaps the road traffic network in the Kingdom of Lampari should be upgraded in advance.

Previously, due to funding constraints and insufficient awareness of road issues within the Kingdom of Lampari, most of the roads built in the Kingdom were completed by the cities themselves. The mileage exceeds 3,000 kilometers, but in fact it is only spliced ​​together by small sections of roads in each city.

According to the standards on earth, these roads can only be regarded as county roads at best, not even provincial roads.

Although this can still make the road traffic network cover all cities in the kingdom, there are actually many problems.

This kind of thing that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce encountered today is one of them.

In addition, the quality of the roads is different because of the different funds invested in the construction of roads in each city. In addition, the roads built only connect the cities, so there will inevitably be many unnecessary twists and turns. Much more than the straight-line distance.

Taking the city from Bonta to Sewell as an example, the straight-line distance between the two cities is actually less than 700 kilometers, but if you follow the roads between cities, the total mileage will exceed thousands of kilometers , more than half more.

Leaving aside the extra shipping cost, Xu Yi felt a bit wasted just by the extra time.

Xu Yi also thought about this problem before, but felt that the time had not come, so there was no need to worry.

However, after encountering this problem in Lamarte City today, it made him seriously consider how to solve this problem.

Xu Yi drew a straight line between Bangta City and Serwell City on the map with his fingers, and then began to look at the various situations around this straight line, thinking that the construction of such a single mileage exceeds more than 700 kilometers, should it be It is the feasibility of the first national road in the Kingdom of Lampari. (To be continued..)