Chapter 148 Hot Spring City

"It seems that you have also noticed this problem." Seweini nodded to Xu Yi. "This shows that this problem is already very serious and cannot be delayed any longer."

"Delay?" Xu Yi frowned slightly. "What? Is it difficult to change this?"

Just now, when he saw the crowded situation at the gate of the city outside Anweimar City, Xu Yi thought of canceling the city entrance tax.

But when he entered the city, before he had time to meet Steele, he was directly found by the waiter sent by the palace, and told Her Majesty the Queen to summon him immediately.

It happened that Xu Yi also had a lot of things to set the tone with Seweney as soon as possible, so he asked Liz, Linda, and Yanis to escort Freya to meet Steele at the appointed place, while he followed the attendants into the palace to meet Sevigny.

As soon as he saw Seweini, Xu Yi first told what he had seen and heard at the city gate, and then proposed to Seweini to cancel the city entrance tax, which was obviously outdated.

Seviny agreed with his proposal very much, but now he seems to have encountered some difficulties.

&/Wan//吧/ .nsbnbsp;??? "Of course." Sevini spread his hands with a helpless expression. "The city gate tax has always been an important source of income for the major cities in the Kingdom. If you want to cancel it all at once, it will certainly cause opposition from many people." ?”

Sevini gave Xu Yi a blank look: "Of course, everywhere is the same as Bangta City. The annual tax revenue even exceeds two million gold coins. Don't you need to worry about the mere city entry tax? Let me tell you, according to this year's financial statistics. Lan Among the thirty-seven cities in the Kingdom of Pali, the annual tax revenue of more than half of the cities is even less than 200,000 gold coins. For these cities, more than 50,000 gold coins can be collected in a year to enter the city Taxes, of course, are very important."

Xu Yi couldn't help but shook his head: "There is such a good example of Bangta City in the Kingdom, but they don't know how to learn it, and live poorly by sticking to the ancient traditions like before, what are the city owners of these cities thinking? Sevini, this should also be regarded as your majesty's dereliction of duty, right? They are all cities in the Lampari Kingdom, so you can't favor one over the other."

Sevini snorted lightly, pouted slightly like a little girl.

"Do you think I don't want all the cities in the kingdom to become as rich as Bangta City? But it will take time. Besides, the situation in each city in the kingdom is different. Take the Northwest Province For several cities, because the terrain there is very complicated, it is extremely difficult to build a road there, and the traffic is extremely unfavorable. If it were you, would you like to invest in building factories there?" He is a businessman, of course he would Choose the method that maximizes your benefits.

Investing in a factory in a remote mountainous area with extremely inconvenient transportation in Northwest Province would cost several times that of investing in a factory in other cities. Of course, he would not engage in such a loss-making business.

"So, no matter how much I want to change the situation in the entire kingdom, I can only do it slowly." Seweini glanced at Xu Yi. "Isn't that what you used to say to me?"

Xu Yi touched his nose. He thought that he was not in his position, and he was not the king of the Lampari Kingdom. Naturally, there is no need to worry about the entire Lampari Kingdom.

"But this matter is not without a solution." Xu Yi suddenly changed the subject. "Take this city entry tax as an example. Reforming the entire kingdom at the same time will be opposed, so let's select a few pilot projects first."

"Pilot?" Seweini looked at Xu Yi suspiciously.

"Do you still remember that I hoped that His Majesty Lampari XIII would set the Bangta City area as a special economic zone?" Xu Yi asked again.

"Well, that's a good idea, but it's a pity that it couldn't be carried out because of changes in the situation in the kingdom. I had considered re-implementing this plan before, but I temporarily put it on hold because of concerns." Seweini said.

"Now it's different from before. In the past, I hoped that Bangta City would become a special economic zone so that I could make some reforms in Bangta City. But now that the entire kingdom is under your control, why bother to forcibly designate a special economic zone?" What? Of course, this plan is used in changing the city entry tax, that is, you can first select a few cities as a pilot, and let these cities cancel the city entry tax, as an experiment." Xu Yidao.

"I understand what you mean." Seweney nodded. "If the effect of the experiment is good, then other cities have no reason to object. But what if the effect is not good? Even if the effect is good, some cities in the kingdom do not have the conditions to cancel the city entrance tax, so what should we do? "

"It's simple. When the time comes, you will forcefully implement this reform plan. As for those with insufficient conditions, like a few cities in the western provinces, you can provide subsidies and special support from the kingdom's finances."

Xu also described the practical operability of such a plan to Seweini based on the various reform plans obtained on Earth.

Although he doesn't know how to implement the details, but he is not such a talent in the first place, so he only needs to propose a general direction.

After hearing these general plans, Seweini's eyes lit up, obviously he had found the answer in his heart.

"In addition, just subsidizing from the kingdom's finances cannot fundamentally solve this problem, nor can it fundamentally change those cities with poorer conditions. Therefore, I suggest that we find another way to solve the problems of these cities and increase their tax revenue. , and that's the key."

Seweini glared at Xu Yi: "It's easy for you to say. If there is such a good method, I would have used it long ago."

Seeing the half-smile expression on Xu Yi's face after speaking, Seweini's heart moved immediately: "You already have a solution in your mind, don't you?"

Xu Yi smiled slightly: "This is just a rough idea of ​​mine, not a solution."

"Don't worry about it so much, let's hear it?" Seweini looked very interested.

Xu Yi coughed lightly and opened his mouth slowly.

"Since different cities have different conditions, don't be limited to making every city like Bangta City, relying on the development of magic industry to become rich. After all, besides magic industry, there are many other industries that can make money. .”

Sevini was slightly taken aback.

It was beyond her expectation to hear from Xu Yi, the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, that he proposed to develop industries other than the magic industry.

"For example...Batrou City. When I passed by last time, I found that Batrou City did not have any scarce resources. Because of the mountains and rivers, the terrain is not good, and it is very restricted if you want to develop. But there Yet another very precious resource.”

"What resource?" Seweini asked, recalling the information about Batru City that he had seen before, but he still couldn't think of anything worth noting.

"It's the hot spring."

"Hot spring?" Seweini frowned slightly. "I've heard that there are many natural hot springs in the mountains near Batrou City, and it's very comfortable to soak in them. But what's the use of it?"

"Of course it works." Xu Yi raised his voice exaggeratedly. "Hot springs not only represent excellent tourism resources, but also represent a large number of geothermal resources. If they can be used well, Batru City can definitely be built into a city of hot springs, attracting many people to travel there. And because of the abundant geothermal resources, the entire city of Batrou actually only needs a little development to meet this requirement.”…

"The city of hot springs?" Seweini frowned and thought for a while, then nodded slightly. "This is a good proposal, but it will definitely require a lot of initial investment, which is a problem..."

Bowing his head and thinking for a while, Seweini found that it was not something that he could think of the detailed plan in a short while, so he put it aside first, and asked Xu Yi: "Then what about the cities in the Northwest Province? There is nothing there. There are rich hot spring resources, and the terrain is even worse than that of Batrou City, what can you do to change this situation?"

Xu Yi chuckled: "Dear Your Majesty, in fact, as long as you are willing, no matter how complicated and harsh the terrain of the cities in the Northwest Province is, there is a way to build a road in them to make their traffic smooth Oh."

Sevini sighed and shook his head: "No way. I have asked the Amly Chamber of Commerce to conduct field surveys, and President Cruise told me that their Chamber of Commerce is powerless. Even the Amly Chamber of Commerce can't do it. I don't think this is possible at all."

Xu Yi laughed and said, "That's because Chairman Cruise didn't discuss it with me before. If he knew that our chamber of commerce would soon be able to develop a new type of engineering magic machine with greater power and higher performance, I believe he would definitely I will take that back."

Sevini looked at Xu Yi up and down, with an angry and funny expression on his face.

"After a long time, it turns out that you came to me to promote the latest products of your chamber of commerce? President Xu, if you have the time to promote your newly developed engineering magic machinery, then I would like to ask, I ordered it from your chamber of commerce. When will the one hundred magic airships be delivered? If there are those one hundred magic airships, I don’t think any responsible terrain will be an obstacle, right?”

"Well..." Xu Yi smiled awkwardly. "Your Majesty, the magic airship will also be greatly limited, and it is not as powerful as you think. As for when it will be delivered... Our chamber of commerce is working hard to increase production capacity, and I believe it will not be long before we can give you an accurate answer."

Sevini snorted coldly, but did not continue to question Xu Yi.

Xu Yi wiped his sweat, and decided to put this topic aside first, felt in his bosom, took out a thin booklet, and handed it over.

"When I first entered the city, I saw many different types of magic motorcycles waiting outside the city gate. I suddenly thought of a question, so I wrote it down. Please look over it, Your Majesty the Queen."

Of course, Sevini would not believe that Xu Yi compiled this booklet on a whim, but seeing his solemn expression, he nodded and took it.

Opening the cover, I found a long title written in large characters on the first page——On the important role of energy standardization in the magic industry system.