Chapter 53 Exiting the Urban Public Transport System

On the last day of the new calendar year 3783 in the mainland, the "Bangta Daily" published a news in a relatively prominent position on the second page.

"Xinfei Chamber of Commerce signed a tripartite long-term cooperation agreement with the Principality of Mirando and the Principality of Rulson. According to this agreement, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will provide a series of technical support to the Duchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Luerson. The country will jointly build several household magic machinery factories, and the Duchy of Mirando and the Kingdom of Rulson will open up their domestic mineral resources to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce..."

Although many people noticed this news when they read the "Bangta Daily", but generally speaking, this news did not cause much sensation in the city of Bangta.

After all, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been unable to produce magic machinery in the Kingdom of Lampari for more than half a year due to the ban imposed by the Magic Industry Administration, and because of the new regulations of the Commerce Department, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has greatly reduced its sales. The number of magical machines in the Lampari Kingdom.

For the people in the entire Lampali Kingdom and even Bangta City, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has almost disappeared in their world for half a year.

Although the product service centers established by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in various cities in the kingdom are still working, and some research institutions and a factory producing canned fruits have been retained in Bangta City, but in the lives of most people, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce remains The only ones that came down were probably the household magic machines they bought before. People are forgetful. After more than half a year, most people in the Lampari Kingdom have gradually forgotten this chamber of commerce that has led countless trends in the kingdom.

Probably only in Bangta City, many people will occasionally think of it, and have a little nostalgia for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in their hearts.

Chairman Pompey of Felson Car and Horse Company. Perhaps he is one of the people who miss Xinfei Chamber of Commerce the most.

Although I am very dissatisfied with the mandatory purchase of the magic locomotive produced by the Rafaeli Chamber of Commerce as a bus carriage by the City Lord's Mansion. But in view of the fact that there is still a profit to be made from the urban public transport system of Banta City. Moreover, continuing to maintain the city's public transport system will greatly help to enhance the reputation of Felson's Car and Horse Company. Therefore, after careful consideration, Chairman Pomberry did not choose to give up in the end, but followed the regulations of the City Lord's Mansion, All were replaced with magic locomotives produced by the Rafaeli Chamber of Commerce.

However, in the less than four months since the completion of all bus changes, President Pompey made detailed statistics and found that not only did he not make any money on the city's public transport system, but he also made a net profit. The loss exceeded 50,000 gold coins.

And before that. Although Felson's Car and Horse Company has priced the bus prices extremely low because of following Her Royal Highness Seweney's wishes and Xu Yi's advice all along, they are still able to make a profit. Although the profit is not much, there are still ten to twenty thousand gold coins in the account every month.

But now there is a sudden loss, and the amount of the loss is not small. After statistics, Felson Cars and Horses found that the reasons for this result all came from the same point, and that was because of the quality problem of the Rafaeli medium-sized passenger magic locomotive. .

In the last month alone, 374 Rafaeli medium-sized passenger magic locomotives under the name of Felson's Car and Horse Company suffered a total of 176 large and small damages. For this reason, an additional maintenance cost of up to 23,625 gold coins was invested.

And because of such a high frequency of damage, the entire urban bus system of Bangta City has also been greatly affected. There are often situations where temporary replacement is necessary.

For this reason, Felson Carriage and Horse Company paid an additional operating cost of at least 3,000 gold coins.

In addition, these damages vary in size, and even caused several serious accidents.

The most serious one was that a Rafaeli medium-sized passenger magic locomotive driving from Bangta City to Nancheng New District suddenly completely lost control and crashed into a shop next to the street.

Although no one was killed because the speed of the vehicle was not fast, as many as thirteen people were seriously injured and twenty-four were slightly injured.

For this reason, Felson's Car and Horse Company paid a total of more than 5,000 gold coins for medical treatment and compensation.

Added up, in the last month alone, Felson's Car and Horse Company paid an additional expenditure of close to 40,000 gold coins on the city's public transportation system.

Aside from the profit, the net loss even exceeded 20,000 gold coins.

It has been like this for several months, and President Pomberry has always felt that the current city bus system is simply a burden for Felson's car company.

However, maintaining the city's public transport system can not only improve the reputation of Felson's Car and Horse Company in Bangta City, but also get a certain policy preference from the City Lord's Mansion, and thus get a lot of care, so even though he is obviously losing money, President Pomberry But he has never made up his mind to give up, and has been trying his best to maintain it.

However, a new regulation of the City Lord's Mansion came out a few days ago, which forced him to make up his mind.

In this city's public transport system, Filson Cars and Horses can't keep going.

The content of this regulation is very simple, that is, it is announced that starting tomorrow, the special subsidies of Bangta City's finances for the three bus systems in Bangta City will be cancelled.

The reason given by the City Lord's Mansion is very strong, saying that this is to promote a fair business competition atmosphere in Bangta City, and special financial subsidies cannot be given to a certain chamber of commerce.

But how could Chairman Pomberry not know, this is entirely because the City Lord's Mansion is unwilling to continue to spend money.

The reason why this regulation was not revised this year is entirely because the financial subsidy for the urban bus system this year had already been issued by Her Royal Highness Sevigny, who was still the lord of Bangta City, at the beginning of the year.

If they directly change it this year, it will undoubtedly be a great disrespect to Her Royal Highness Princess Seweney.

And in the new year, it is a matter of course that the City Lord's Mansion will change certain policies, and even Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny will not be able to make accusations.

Apparently, Chairman Pomberry also didn't have any qualifications to criticize the City Lord's Mansion, so he could only silently accept it.

After a few days of consideration and precise calculations, Chairman Pompey realized that if the special financial subsidies from the Santo's Mansion were lost. Felson Cars and Horses only makes a net loss on the city's public transport system every year. It will exceed two hundred thousand gold coins. Even close to 300,000 gold coins.

If it was the previous two years, the annual profit of Felson's Car and Horse Company exceeded one million gold coins, then for the sake of reputation and the support of the City Lord's Mansion, they could barely bear this loss.

But now the City Lord's Mansion has made it clear that it will not support Filson's Car and Horse Company, and because the ten chambers of commerce have reduced the freight to an extremely low price, the profits of Felson's Car and Horse Company have dropped sharply. The total annual profit did not even exceed half a million gold coins.

Not to mention having this profit. It also includes the high profits in the first half of this year.

If only counting the second half of the year, the total profit is only less than 200,000 gold coins.

Under such circumstances, Filson Car and Horse Company has been unable to bear the huge losses caused by the urban public transport system.

In desperation, even if President Pomberry didn't want to live up to the expectations of Her Royal Highness Princess Seweni and President Xu, he had to give up.

So it was also the news published by the "Bangta Daily" on the last day of 3783 in the new calendar in the mainland. In the past, as long as it was related to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the report on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would occupy the headlines, but it had to be ranked second. Version location.

Because the news published on the front page was a breaking news released by Felson's Car and Horse Company through the "Bonta Daily".

Filson Carriage Company announced that from next year, Filson Carriage Company will completely withdraw from the urban bus system of Bonta City!

Just one morning. The news spread throughout the city of Bangta.

Everyone who received this message was stunned.

Felson's Car and Horse Company has withdrawn from the city's public transport system. Does it mean that there will be no public transport magic locomotives in the future?

But people in Bangta City have long been used to taking this convenient and fast city bus magic locomotive to wherever they want to go. Now it suddenly disappears, what should I do if I want to go out in the future?

Rich people are fine, most of them have bought magic cars from Xinfei Chamber of Commerce before, but what about those who can't afford magic cars? Is it all about cycling?

The people of Bangta City have been used to the city's public transportation system for nearly two years, but suddenly it disappeared, and a group of people were a little at a loss.

After being dazed, many people became angry again.

At the beginning, Ferson Car and Horse Company was able to take over the urban bus system of Bangta City with the support of Her Royal Highness Sevigny and President Xu. After leaving Bangta City, you actually want to quit?

What did he think of the people of Bangta City!

But after a little calm, people thought of a very crucial question.

Why did Filson Carriage Act withdraw from the city bus system?

For businessmen, making money is of course the first priority.

If operating the city's public transport system could make money, then even if someone put a knife on the neck of President Pompey, he would not announce his withdrawal.

Because of this doubt, people began to re-watch the report of the incident in the "Bonta Daily".

Although the description of this matter in the "Banta Daily" is not very detailed, it points out two key points. Monopoly on the magic locomotive.

As long as those who are interested see these two key points and think about it for a while, they will roughly understand the problem.

Obviously, this is another time that the City Lord's Mansion is protecting the ten chambers of commerce designated by the Magical Industry Administration, as well as squeezing Filson's Car and Horse Company, which was previously closely related to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Reminiscent of the various messy things that the City Lord’s Mansion has done to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the second half of the year, as well as the actions of those ten chambers of commerce, let’s compare the previous time when Her Royal Highness Princess Seweni was the City Lord, and when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was still in Bangta City. The appearance of the people in Bangta City suddenly gave birth to a stronger resentment.

On the last day of 3873 in the mainland's new calendar, Bangta City seemed to be calm on the surface.

But on the day of welcoming the New Year, there is no joyful atmosphere in Bangta City. Instead, there are undercurrents hidden under the calm surface.

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