Chapter 165 Settling down
Although Xu Yi was in name a normal merchant, being at most a viscount, no one looked at him this simply.
Just with the close relationship between him and the City Lord her highness Seveni, it was enough for these small nobles to be respectful to him.
Seeing that Xu Yi’s expression didn’t look good, the nobles that were just cursing old man Sarkozy gave Xu Yi a smile, “This.....Chairman Xu, I wasn’t saying that the Magic Cars aren’t good, I was just saying he wasn’t driving well. Look, we were planning on going to the Falling Rain Valley to test for our license and to get a Magic Car to play with......”
Xu Yi waved his hand, “Alright, stop wasting words. Argue on the side, don’t block the way here. Don’t you see how many people you are delaying?”
Looking back, old man Sarkozy and the small nobles revealed embarrassed smiles. Then looking at the two horse carriages on the ground, they revealed difficult looks.
“Chairman Xu, this horse carriage is very heavy, how will we move it......”
Xu Yi shook his head. He came to the side of the two horse carriages and leaned over, using his magic. He slid his finger across the horse carriages and soon he laid down two Magic Arrays.
Sending magic into the Magic Arrays, the two lit up with a light blue glow and the two horse carriages floated into the air, easily floating there.
Old man Sarkozy, the small nobles, and the surrounding people were stunned.
Although everyone knew that Xu Yi was a magician, because of his identity as the chairman of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, people always forgot about this fact.
However, seeing the scene in front of them, everyone knew that Xu Yi was not just a magician, he was also a powerful magician.
Otherwise, how could he casually make two horse carriages fly up with just a few flicks of his finger?
Moreover, the two horse carriages were firmly floating in the air without shaking at all. It could be seen that Xu Yi had very good control of this Magic Array, clearly having good skills with magic.
Not to mention that with this amazing magic was something that no one had even heard of before.
“Chairman Xu can actually develop this amazing magic on his own, he really is too strong!”
If Xu Yi knew what people were thinking, he definitely would have been embarrassed.
Because this Magic Array wasn’t something he developed, it was something he learned from Evita.
Evita had been researching the Magic Airship recently. She had reached the peak of this Floating Array, it far surpassed the normal magician’s understanding of this Floating Array.
Xu Yi had learned a portion of it from her, which was enough to achieve this amazing effect.
These two horse carriages floated at waist height and Xu Yi pushed them. These two horse carriages that were over five hundred kilograms added together floated to the side of the road.
A few pushes cleared the road and Xu Yi put down the horse carriages as he stopped his magic.
“Alright, you wait here and discuss what just happened. I’ll be back to listen to the results later.”
Xu Yi said this and entered old man Sarkozy’s Magic Car. He opened up the road before coming back to direct the traffic.
Although Xu Yi never did this before, he had seen this countless times on earth, so he did it decently after learning a bit.
Not long after, the vehicles that were blocked for several hundred meters were cleared and the road was unobstructed again.
Several horse carriages and Magic Cars passed. A normal looking horse carriage stopped in front of Xu Yi.
The curtain opened and it revealed Evita’s pleasantly surprised face.
“Sir chairman, I never thought I would see you here.”
Xu Yi was also surprised, “Evita, shouldn’t you be going back home? Why are you still in Banta City?”
“I did go back, but I came back.” Evita smiled with a rarely seen teasing tone to it.
“Why are you back?” Xu Yi was more confused, “Aren’t you planning on celebrating new years with your parents?”
“It’s not that......” Evita shook her head. After thinking for a bit, she had the driver bring the carriage to an open spot on the side of the road before jumping off.
There were two people who followed her, but they were a middle aged man and woman. Based on their appearance, they seemed like a couple.
Looking over the middle aged couple, Xu Yi found that their appearances were similar to Evita’s.
He looked at how close Evita was with this middle aged couple and Xu Yi instantly understood.
“These two.....would they be your parents?” Xu Yi asked.
Evita nodded with a faint smile, “You really are sir chairman, you guessed it right away. Sir chairman, let me introduce you, they are my parents. I went back a few days ago to pick them up from my hometown, we’re planning on spending new years in Banta City. Dad, mom, this is the sir chairman that I mentioned before.”
The middle aged couple had respectful and nervous smiles as they gave a bow to Xu Yi.
“Chair......Sir chairman Xu, our Evita has always had you looking after her at your company and has caused you trouble......”
Xu Yi laughed as he raised his hand, helping the two up, “Evita is the most important magic research facility chief of our company, she has made a big contribution to our company and has helped me with many things, so how could she cause me trouble. To be honest, if Evita wasn’t working at our company, I really would have a headache. Speaking of this, I have to thank you for raising such an outstanding daughter.”
Evita’s parents clearly never thought that Xu Yi would be this polite to them and were immediately stunned, but hearing Xu Yi praise Evita like this, they couldn’t help revealing proud and happy smiles.
After saying a few words to the two of them, Xu Yi turned to ask Evita, “You don’t have any relatives in Banta City, so isn’t it inconvenient spending new years here?”
“Actually we don’t have any relatives in our hometown.” Evita shook her head, “Moreover, sir chairman, I brought my parents to Banta City this time not just to spend new years, I want to let my parents settle down in Banta City.”
“Settle down?” Xu Yi was a bit surprised, “Why?”
Because transportation was inconvenient on the Sines Continent, most people rarely left their hometowns and it made people very unwilling to leave their hometowns.
If it wasn’t for the fact that the average wage in Banta City far surpassed other places, there wouldn’t be so many people who came from afar to Banta City.
But even if Banta City had over two hundred non-natives each year, there were few that were willing to settle in Banta City.
Most people would return to their hometowns during new years to spend it with their families and relatives.
Evita gave a sigh and replied in a low voice, “Because I’m worried my hometown will be covered in the flames of war soon, so it’s dangerous for them to stay in our hometown.”
“Flames of war?” Xu Yi thought about it and remembered that Evita’s hometown was near Lorren City, moreover, it was quite close to the border.
If his highness Eric led the northern army to attack the Sack Kingdom, it was fine if it went smoothly, but if the Sack Kingdom fought back, the northern part of the kingdom would be covered in the flames of war.
Evita’s worries weren’t unreasonable.
“Un.....This is also good. Banta City is much more prosperous compared to before, so if you live here, the living conditions should be better.” Xu Yi gave a nod with a smile to Evita’s parents, “I represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in welcoming you and I hope that you have a happy life in Banta City.”
Evita’s parents nodded and thanked Xu Yi with smiles.
“Sir chairman, you can’t just welcome them, I also need your help.” Evita suddenly said, “I wanted to go to the Falling Star Manor to look for you, but we can talk here since I bumped into you.”
“Oh? What do you need my help with? Is it related to your parents settling down?”
Evita revealed a sweet smile, “Un, sir chairman really is wise. I asked about it before and if people of other cities want to settle in Banta City, the procedure is troublesome. So I hope that sir chairman can help me talk to her highness and help my parents settle down?”
“There shouldn’t be a problem, Banta City is lacking people right now and her highness is welcoming outsiders to settle in Banta City. Moreover, the kingdom doesn’t have any limit on people moving, so I think the procedure shouldn’t be that troublesome.”
Xu Yi nodded as he replied. But after thinking about it, he found that perhaps settling Evita’s parents was a small matter, but to deal with Banta City’s large transient population was a big problem.
“It seems like I have to raise this to her highness Seveni the next time I see her.”
While Xu Yi remembered the various methods from earth on how to deal with the transient population, Evita said, “Right, sir chairman, other than me, there are many people in my hometown who said that they also wanted to settle in Banta City when they heard about my parents moving. Sir chairman, do you have a solution for this?”
Xu Yi thought about it with a frown and found that he had to solve this problem before his highness Eric led the northern army to attack next year, so time was quite tight.
“It seems like I have to discuss this with Seveni as soon as possible.” Xu Yi thought about it for a bit before nodding to Evita, “Alright, I will seriously consider this. Take care of your parents first, if something happens, come looking for me.”
“Un, thanks sir chairman.” Evita revealed a sweet and gentle smile before getting in the horse carriage with her parents and heading off towards the Sandy River.
Under Akali’s urging and the enticement of the installment payment that chairman Cruise mentioned, she finally bought a villa in the upscale neighbourhood near the Sandy River bank.
Xu Yi had seen her busily fixing up her house and teased her that she seemed more enthusiastic about decorating than Akali when she was so opposed to buying it.
But now it seemed like Evita had already considered the problem of bringing her parents over to settle.
Watching the horse carriage head off into the distance, Xu Yi had a strong premonition in his heart.
Although Evita’s parents were only two people, the fact that the two of them were here represented an important scene was coming.
Chapter 166 Who says I can’t afford it
After watching Evita leave, Xu Yi came to old man Sarkozy and the small nobles on the side.
It was completely different from how they were arguing before. Both sides had smiles now and they were much calmer.
Seeing Xu Yi come over, the small nobles took the initiative to reconcile. They said that their horse carriage wasn’t driving properly and hit the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s transport Magic Car, it couldn’t be blamed on old man Sarkozy.
Old man Sarkozy knew that he was being bathed in the light of the “Frestech Chamber of Commerce” and Xu Yi. He was very willing to compensate the small nobles for their losses, including the repair fees for their two horse carriages and the medical costs for their injuries.
The small nobles naturally acted like important people, saying that old man Sarkozy didn’t need to compensate them, they didn’t care about this small matter at all.
Everyone was happy, so one of the small nobles said with a smile, “These two horse carriages have high repair costs, so you might not be able to afford them. Giving chairman Xu some face, we won’t haggle with you that much.”
These words made old man Sarkozy angry as he shouted with wide eyes, “What? You’re looking down on this old man? Your horse carriages cost a lot to repair? Then tell me and let’s see if I can afford it or not?”
That small noble also realized that he had misspoke, but he wasn’t willing to lose face in front of an old farmer, so he raised his neck and said, “What? One horse carriage costs three hundred gold coins to build, can you afford that?”
“Not just three hundred gold coins, it’s just six hundred gold coins for the two horse carriages and I thought it was a lot of money.” Old man Sarkozy gave a cold snort and dug in his chest, taking out a sparkling golden bill, “Here, there’s a thousand gold coins there! Give me four hundred in return!”
The small nobles looked at this gold bill and found that it was indeed for one thousand gold coins, as well as coming from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce. This instantly stunned them.
To these people, old man Sarkozy was just a normal old farmer. Even if he earned a bit from transporting cargo for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he wouldn’t earn that much. How could he take out several hundred gold coins?
But they never thought that old man Sarkozy would take out a thousand gold coins!
The small noble who argued with old man Sarkozy swallowed a mouthful of saliva. He reached out for the gold bill, but a hand from the side stopped him.
“Old man Sarkozy, take back your money.” Xu Yi grabbed the small nobles hand and looked at him, forcing that small noble to shrink his head back, “You do have to compensate them since they are injured, but based on what you just discussed, old man Sarkozy, you just need to pay them a bit of repair fees and mental damage compensation. I think.....fifty gold coins should be enough. Do you guys have any objections?”
The small nobles all shook their heads.
Although their horse carriage had fallen to the ground and seemed seriously damaged, it wasn’t that exaggerated. It would be no problem as long as they brought it back for repairs.
As for their injuries.....It was just a few scrapes, what injuries were there?
As for the mental damage compensation that Xu Yi mentioned, they didn’t know what it meant at all.
In short, fifty gold coins had already surpassed their expectations.
They thought that old man Sarkozy didn’t have money at all and they couldn’t gain anything. It was no use even if they killed old man Sarkozy, so they were prepared to count it as bad luck.
But of course they were satisfied with fifty gold coins as compensation.
Old man Sarkozy naturally didn’t have any objections.
When he took out the thousand gold coin bill, he actually regretted how impulsive he was. Now that Xu Yi had helped him mediate, of course he would take advantage of this opportunity. He dug around in his purse and took out fifty gold coins for the nobles.
With both sides reconciling, Xu Yi nodded and prepared to leave.
He had planned on heading back to have lunch with Still, but he had wasted quite a bit of time on this matter.
When he turned to leave, the small nobles stopped him.
“This.....Chairman Xu, can you tell us, this.....Un.....This old man Sarkozy, does he just help your company transport goods?” A small noble pointed at old man Sarkozy and asked.
“It can’t be considered that because old man Sarkozy bought the Magic Car for himself and was only helping our company transport goods this time. Normally he would be helping other companies.” Xu Yi replied.
The small nobles all looked at old man Sarkozy.
Old man Sarkozy nodded, “Un, I help transport goods for many companies in the city, but I’ve helped the Frestech Chamber of Commerce more.”
“Just this?” The small nobles kept asking, “You didn’t do anything else?”
“What do you mean by that?” Old man Sarkozy was confused by their questions, “I’m only responsible for transporting goods, what else can I do?”
“You can earn that much money from transporting goods?” The nobles didn’t believe this, but they had no choice but to believe when they thought about how old man Sarkozy took out a thousand gold coin bill earlier.
After whispering among themselves for a bit, the small nobles asked Xu Yi, “Chairman Xu.....Do you think.....if we gathered a bit of money, can we buy a few transport Magic Cars from your company?”
Xu Yi couldn’t help smiling, “You can, why can’t you? What? You were moved after hearing that old man Sarkozy earned all this money from transporting goods?”
The small nobles laughed. It was clear that Xu Yi had hit their ideas.
Old man Sarkozy looked at the nobles and gave a snort, “Just with your soft appearances, how can you suffer at all?”
The small nobles angrily glared at him, “What? You think that we can’t compare to you?”
Old man Sarkozy gave a cold laugh and said nothing else.
Seeing his appearance, the nobles became more angry, but they didn’t argue with him as they turned to Xu Yi, “Chairman Xu, then we’ve decided. We will buy two or three Magic Cars first and make the order with you now, how about it?”
Xu Yi gave a sigh and said in a helpless voice, “I do welcome this, but right now our company’s Magic Car capacity is limited and there are many unfinished orders. I’m afraid we won’t be able to sell personal Magic Cars for a while.”
The small nobles were surprised as they pointed at old man Sarkozy and asked, “Where did he buy it from?”
Xu Yi gave a shrug, “To put it accurately, old man Sarkozy’s Magic Car doesn’t belong to him, rather to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. Old man Sarkozy just bought it from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to use for transporting.”
“It’s like this......” The small nobles thought for a bit and looked at each other. They didn’t keep asking questions and bid farewell to Xu Yi.
When they drove the other horse carriage that wasn’t that badly damaged away, old man Sarkozy said with knit brows, “Chairman Xu, if you tell them this, I’m afraid Cantona will be bothered to death by them.”
Xu Yi laughed, “Cantona’s in the Stantine Duchy right now, they can go find him if they have the skills.”
Old man Sarkozy couldn’t help breaking out in laughter.
After laughing for a while, old man Sarkozy looked to the southwest and a sad look flashed on his face.
“Speaking of this, that fellow Cantona isn’t back even now. Could it be he’s not planning on coming back for new years?”
Xu Yi laughed, “This fellow is living quite well in the Stantine Duchy, of course he’s not willing to come back.”
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Cantona didn’t feel like he was living well at all because he was just too busy.
Taking the hundred thousand hectares of land under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt a large opportunity. In his opinion, it would be a good chance to turn the Cantona Chamber of Commerce into a first class company.
But for this large piece of land, there was a lot of work to do to properly manage it.
At the beginning of the year, there was less than forty thousand hectares of land reclaimed and Cantona was busy from morning to night. He didn’t have time to rest at the beginning of the year, not to mention spending several days returning to Banta City.
As for going back to Banta City to celebrate new years, this was a very luxurious thought for him since he didn’t have time at all.
But he didn’t have many relatives and because of the things here, they already moved with him from Banta City. Adding in the fact that there were many people from Banta City here, he didn’t feel that lonely with everyone here.
Moreover, because Xu Yi required Cantona to open ninety thousand hectares of land next year, only leaving behind ten thousand hectares to use on other things, Cantona took his task even more seriously.
As soon as he opened his eyes each day, his mind was thinking about how to reclaim land. He was even thinking about this while eating and going to the bathroom, never idle for a minute.
This morning, he had woken up early and went to inspect the farmland like usual. When he came to the road connecting to the farm, he waited for something with other members of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.
After waiting for around half an hour, there was dust in the distance. There were over ten Magic Cars that were currently driving over.
Seeing this motorcade, Cantona was shocked and went forward with his subordinates.
Although this motorcade had the signs of the Fersen Carriage Company, they were transporting Frestech Chamber of Commerce goods.
Cantona was clear that the cargo was agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
To reclaim even more farmland, naturally they needed the help of agricultural magic machines.
But these agricultural magic machines weren’t bought from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce because Cantona couldn’t afford to buy them. Rather they were directly sent to the Frestech Farm in the Stantine Duchy, used to reclaim more land.
The first transport Magic Car stopped by Cantona.
Seeing the driver that jumped out, Cantona was surprised.
“Why is it you?”