Magic Industry Empire - 448. Chapter 448

“Road closure?” Xu Yi looked forward in shock, thought for a moment, got up and got out of the car.

Walking at the front of the convoy, I found that a wooden fence had been erected in the middle of the road to act as a roadblock, just blocking the convoy.

Xu Yi looked far away and found that there was no construction in front of the highway, and several horse-drawn carriages could be seen running on the highway, and the 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 sign on the chest, it was not the direct army of the kingdom, but the local city guard of Lemmat.

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, who had a red neck and an angry face, and asked him.

“My lord, these guys didn’t stop anyone. They just stopped our convoy. I think they clearly embarrassed us on purpose!” Ankato pointed at the soldiers and said angrily. “Just now I clearly saw that they put the carriage in everything, but when our convoy arrived, they put the roadblock up again.”

“Hey, didn’t I tell you just now?” The little boss pointed to the road behind him. “This highway is under maintenance, so you can’t let your heavy cars pass by, don’t you understand?”

“But I obviously saw a carriage that big in front of you were let go. They pulled less cargo than us, right?” Ankato said unconvinced.

“How do you know that they are heavier than you?” The little head glared at Ankato before turning his head to look at Xu Yi. “Hey, are you the president? Tell you, this road is closed, you can take a detour.”

“You are kind to our president, I tell you, the president…”

Xu Yi raised his arm and prevented Ankato from continuing to speak. He pondered for a moment, then came to the little boss and smiled: “This sir, can you take a step to speak?”

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

Xu Yi followed behind him, came to a place behind the tree trunk that blocked everyone’s view, without saying anything, took out a small purse from his arms and handed it over.

“Sir, can you tell me what is going on with this road closure?”

The little boss was not polite. He took the purse directly, weighed it in his hand, and quickly judged from experience that there were at least 20 gold coins in the purse. The serious expression on his face suddenly faded, and he turned into a grin.

“Hey, this… To be honest, I don’t know what’s going on.” The little boss explained with a smile: “Anyway, Lord City Lord issued a strict order a week ago that no magic locomotives are allowed to pass on this highway. Before you, I have stopped the magic locomotive fleets of several chambers of commerce.”

After that, the little boss looked back at the caravan parked on the highway, and asked curiously: “Speaking of which, which chamber of commerce are you? This is the first time I have seen a chamber of commerce with so many magic locomotives.”

“Haha, it’s just a small chamber of commerce. You must have never heard of it, sir.” Xu Yi answered vaguely, and then asked: “Sir, is there any possibility of accommodation? We all ran here, then turn around and go back. It’s a waste of time. And I can’t find a place to rest for a while, right?”

While talking, Xu Yi took another purse from his arms and handed it over.

Looking at this purse that was obviously larger than the previous one, the little boss swallowed and spit involuntarily, struggling for a while, but still shook his head vigorously.

“No, Lord City Lord is a strict order this time. If I let you go, I might be caught directly by Lord City Lord after I go back.”

Seeing the little boss’s resolute attitude, 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.

“President, how is it?” Ankato immediately leaned in and asked in a low voice.

Xu Yi shook his head: “Turn around, let’s change our way.”

Ankato frowned immediately: “Turn around now? But the president, there is only this road near the city of Lemart.”

“It’s not a highway and it’s not impossible to walk. Besides, how much better do you think this highway is than those ordinary dirt roads?” Xu Yi asked in return.

Ankato glanced at the bumpy road under his feet, sneered, then glanced at the roadblocks on the road and the dozen soldiers behind the roadblocks, and turned to the car.

Seeing that the first freight magic locomotive drove by Ankato himself began to turn around hard on this broken road, Xu Yi returned to the medium-sized magic bus in the middle of the convoy.

After explaining it to Camby and others, everyone was puzzled.

“It’s fair to say that the road is being repaired. This road is so broken, and it should be repaired. But why only limit the magic locomotive?” Camby frowned. “Is this aimed at our new flying business association?”

Xu Yi glanced at the horizon in the distance ahead of the highway, and found that he couldn’t even see the walls of Lemmat City. He shook his head and said, “I don’t know. Maybe there is this reason, but it doesn’t matter anymore. After all, it is here. It’s not Bangta City, and I don’t bother to waste time on it to negotiate with the lord of Lemat City. And I also told Ankato just now that walking on this road is not very different from ordinary dirt roads, isn’t it? ”

Everyone in the car laughed.

“Yes, such a broken road is probably not as good as some fairly flat old dirt roads.”

“Cut, the road in our village before is better than this broken road.”

“Okay, let’s go back and despise the Amli Chamber of Commerce guys. They are so embarrassed to build such a broken road.”

…

Xu Yi did not join in the ridicule of the people, but opened the map again, first pointed his finger on the city of Anweimar on the map, and then drew along the road leading to the city of Severe.

In addition to a pause on Lemmat City, his finger also paused on the other two cities that he passed by.

The situation in the other two cities is similar to that of Lemmat City, both of which have rejected the investment application of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce because of their support for Prince Eric.

What Xu Yi is now worried about is that now the fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has been refused entry in Lemat City, it is very likely that it will be treated the same in the other two cities.

The reason that Lemmat City took out for road repairs and prohibiting the passage of magic locomotives seemed to be no problem on the surface, but Xu Yi still smelled a special smell that made him very uncomfortable.

If this matter was deliberately done by Lemart City against the New Flying Merchants Association, then Xu also needs to consider more issues.

The New Flying Chamber of Commerce went to Sever City to invest heavily, not only because of the warm invitation of the Earl of Summer, but also because it was easier to cooperate with the Duchy of Drake in Sever City, and more importantly, for Xu Yi’s heart The strategy of the magic industry spreading across the entire Kingdom of Lampari played a very important role in promoting.

So at this point, Xu also can’t afford to lose, this time almost all the elites of the New Flying Merchants Association have been mobilized to come together, and even take the initiative himself.

Now encountering Lemmat City’s interruption in the middle, Xu couldn’t help thinking about a very realistic problem.

After all, Sever City is close to thousands of highways from Bonta City, and the New Flying Chamber of Commerce wants to invest in Sever City, which will inevitably involve a large amount of personnel and material transportation exchanges, so the transportation issue 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 built by the chambers of commerce of various cities or the cities themselves, the operation rights of these roads are in the hands of each city.

For example, if Lemmat City does not want the magic locomotive to pass by, the fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce will not be able to pass.

If both Lemat City and the other two cities impose restrictions on the New Flying Merchants Association, the transportation of the New Flying Merchants Association from Bangta City to Sever City will inevitably be greatly affected.

So Xu Yi now began to seriously consider a question. Perhaps the road transportation network in the Kingdom of Lampari should be upgraded in advance.

In the past, due to financial constraints and insufficient awareness of road issues within the Kingdom of Lampari, most of the roads built in the kingdom were built by the cities themselves. Therefore, although the total number of roads in the Kingdom of Lampari is now The mileage is more than 3,000 kilometers, but in fact it is just a small section of roads in each city.

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

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

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

In addition, because each city has different road capital investment, the quality of the road is different. In addition, the road only connects the city. It is inevitable that there will be a lot of unnecessary twists and turns. If the road is used for traffic, the mileage will be reduced. Much more than the straight-line distance.

Take from Bangta City to Sever City as an example, the straight-line distance between the two cities is actually less than 700 kilometers, but if you walk down the road between each city, the total mileage will exceed thousands of kilometers. , Which is more than half more than that.

Leaving aside the extra shipping costs, Xu Yi felt a little wasted just because of the extra time.

Xu Yi had 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 Lemmat City today, he began to seriously consider how to solve this problem.

Xu Yi’s finger drew a straight line between Bangta City and Sever City on the map, and then began to look at the various situations around this straight line, thinking about building such a single mileage of more than 700 kilometers, it should be It is the feasibility of the first national road in the Kingdom of Lampari.