Chapter 66 In This Land, He Is the King
"Your Majesty, this is actually an opportunity." Duke Stark said with a confident smile while maintaining his usual smile.
"Opportunity?" King Eric looked at Duke Starr wonderingly.
Now that the situation in the kingdom is so bad, he still said it was an opportunity? what chance?
"Your Majesty, have you forgotten? Since Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny gave up competing with you for the throne very simply, although it was much easier for you, those who opposed you in the kingdom were also hidden for this reason Get up. In the past, when they didn't move, it was not easy for us to really distinguish them, let alone do something with them. Now that they jumped out because of this incident, isn't this a good opportunity to deal with them? "
Seeing the dangerous smile on Duke Stark's face, King Eric felt a chill in his heart.
This Duke Stark, who looks ordinary on the surface and always wears a harmless smile, is extremely ruthless in his heart.
The current situation may indeed be a good opportunity for him to eliminate dissidents, and he will never show mercy.
But is this really a good opportunity for him, the king, and the entire Lampari Kingdom? Before that, he was very dissatisfied with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's refusal to support him to take the throne. He always thought that once he ascended the throne, he would definitely get rid of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
And he did.
Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been targeted by those nobles. But in fact, they all got his strong support.
At first, he didn't think there was any problem with this, but as time went by, the impact of the loss of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in Bangta City, and even the entire Lampari Kingdom gradually became apparent.
Even without the outbreak of this bloody conflict, Eric has already passed various data reports and other information reported from various places. Fully understand the influence of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
And this kind of influence, most of the time, is positive and positive.
Even Eric can categorically say that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has played the most important role in the rapid development of Bangta City in the past few years. From the standpoint of the king of the Lampari Kingdom, and from the perspective of the entire Lampari Kingdom, in fact Eric should be the same as his father, Lampari XIII, to firmly support the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce .
But the matter has come to this point, of course he can't stop.
Moreover, the ten chambers of commerce established by the great nobles who supported him had already squeezed the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce out of the Lampari Kingdom. Even if he wanted to keep the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it was impossible.
The nobles who supported him headed by the Stark family have almost completely snatched all the magic machinery market from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce through these ten chambers of commerce, and have obtained great benefits from it.
Even if Eric is the most honorable King of the Lampari Kingdom, he would never dare to compete with these stubborn conservative aristocrats who have real power in their hands and have almost controlled the entire Lampari Kingdom.
Not to mention anything else, just the Stark family represented by Duke Stark in front of him, Eric has no confidence that he can deal with it.
Seeing Eric fell silent, Duke Stark didn't guess his true thoughts. I thought he was just hesitating, so he smiled and continued: "Your Majesty, I know that you may be worried that this may cause turmoil in the kingdom. But don't worry, I already have a series of perfect plans for these things , can slowly and effectively deal with those who oppose you, and guarantee that nothing will go wrong.”…
Eric sighed inwardly. I know that I have no room for objection at all.
When Duke Stark came to tell him this, he might have already started to implement the plan. Now it's just to let him know.
Anyway, basically all the powers of the kingdom are now under his control, and even the imperial guards of the palace almost only obey his orders. What's the point of Eric's opinion?
After pondering for a moment, Eric nodded slightly: "Okay, I will do as the Duke wants."
Duke Stark looked as he had expected, smiled slightly, and saluted Eric.
"Then, Your Majesty, please pay attention to rest, I will take my leave first."
Watching Duke Stark disappear outside the door, Eric's face darkened instantly, and he pinched his right hand hard, and the ink pen, which was as thick as his little finger, broke into two pieces with a "click".
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The riots in Banta City did not have the slightest impact on the Principality of Standing, which is hundreds of kilometers away.
And the spring harvest in Bangta City actually triggered a bloody conflict that shocked the entire Lampari Kingdom, which affected the entire spring harvest and caused many delays. The Xinfei Farm has planted more than 100,000 hectares of farmland as early as It was all harvested half a month ago.
Compared with last year, due to the update of the farmland magic machinery by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce this year, a new type of medium-sized farmland magic machinery has been put into the farmland, making the harvesting efficiency much higher than last year.
Although 20,000 hectares of newly cultivated farmland this year were more than last year, the total harvesting time was three days shorter than last year.
The new generation of Xinfei brand farmland magic machinery naturally aroused unanimous praise. Not only Lord Weilun took the lead in ordering dozens of sets from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but also the Kingdom of Luerson, the Principality of Mirando, and Germany thousands of kilometers away. The Principality of Lak sent representatives to place an order with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, adding up to nearly a thousand sets.
The total value of these orders alone has exceeded three million gold coins, representing the first major sale of civilian magic machinery in Xinfei Chamber of Commerce this year.
As for the military magic machines, because they agreed to use them in exchange for territory from Lord Weilun, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce greatly reduced their sales and only sold them to other chambers of commerce with close ties. The total transaction volume did not exceed one million gold coins, but it has dropped somewhat.
However, if the value of the first batch of military magic machinery supplied to Lord Weilun is included, the total price of the military magic machinery will exceed two million gold coins.
Including all kinds of household magic machines and a small number of magic machine tools sold in the first few months of the first half of this year, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has only opened less than five months this year. The total sales exceeded an astonishing seven million gold coins.
Relying on Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's consistent high profit margin, from the sales of these seven million gold coins, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can at least obtain a net profit of more than three million gold coins.
This surprised Xu Yi a little.
It was originally thought that because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been rebuilding its production base and reopening the market this year, the overall sales and profits of the Chamber of Commerce will drop sharply.
But judging from the current situation, although it has indeed dropped a lot compared to the same period last year. From the total net profit of more than 4.3 million gold coins in the first five months of last year to just over 3 million gold coins, it is not too much less. Not only is it completely acceptable, it even makes Xu Yi And all the top executives of the chamber of commerce were a little surprised.
Can still obtain such a high profit in this situation. It is enough to prove that the world's pursuit of magical machines has not diminished in the slightest.
Although it was forced to withdraw from the market of the Lampari Kingdom, with the continuous development of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it has opened up the markets of many other countries and regions outside the Lampari Kingdom, and the prospects may be even broader.
In the Kingdom of Luerson, the Principality of Mirando, the Principality of Drake, and even the Kingdom of Sark, the Xinfei brand magic machinery has already represented the trend and the most advanced items. Countless families have a Xinfei brand for home use. Proud of Magic Mechanics.
Follow current trends. I believe that it won't be long before the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will occupy most of the magic machinery market in these countries just like it did in the Lampari Kingdom.
Why not all markets?
Of course, it was because Xu Yi had to leave some space for other chambers of commerce that produced magic machines.
But for Xu Yi. During this period of time, the most important thing to him was not how much sales and profits the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had made, how much money he had made, but how much money he had spent.
To be precise, it was how much money was spent on Grand Duke Standing.
Although Lord Weilun said it very easily, he transferred the territory under his name to Xu Yi, an actual foreigner. It is still not easy to get approval from Grand Duke Constantine.
From the signing of the agreement with Lord Weilun, within a short period of one month. Xu Yi and Grand Duke Standing met seven times, and spent a huge sum of more than one million gold coins. It's finally finalized.
Today is the day when Grand Duke Standing honors Xu Yi.
According to the rules of the Principality of Standing, or the rules of the entire Sains Continent, people who are not nobles are absolutely not allowed to own private land.
Therefore, transferring a piece of territory from Lord Weilun to Xu Yi still required a very complicated and troublesome procedure that took several rounds.
First of all, Lord Weilun declared that he was incapable of continuing to manage and operate all the territories under his name, and he voluntarily handed over the territory agreed with Xu Yi to the Principality.
Then, Grand Duke Standing gave a special commendation to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for its outstanding contribution to the prosperity and development of the Principality of Standing. Xu Yi, as the chairman, has made great contributions. status, and was awarded the honorary status of the Duchy of Standing.
After that, Grand Duke Standing will grant the territory handed over by Lord Weilun to Lord Xu Yi as his private territory.
After such a procedure, the territory was legally recognized as Xu Yi's private territory.
After receiving the lord's badge and the certificate of granting the private domain from Grand Duke Standing, it means that from this moment on, that domain has become Xu Yi's private domain.
The situation of the Principality of Standing and the Kingdom of Lampari is different.
As long as Xu Yi has enough power to protect and manage this private territory, then in this territory, he is the king!