Magic Industry Empire - 636. Chapter 636

“It seems that you have also noticed this problem.” Servigny 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 congestion at the city gate outside Anweimar City, Xu Yi thought about the abolition of the 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 to summon him as soon as possible.

It happened that Xu also had a lot of things to set the tone with Severini as soon as possible, so he asked Lisi, Linda, and Yanis to escort Freya to the agreed place to meet Steele, and he followed the waiter into the palace. Servigny.

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had seen and heard at the gate of the city, and then proposed to Sevigny to cancel the entry tax, which was obviously outdated.

Servigny agreed with his proposal, but now it seems to be encountering some difficulties.

“Of course.” Severini spread out his hands and looked a little helpless. “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 of course arouse opposition from many people.”

Xu Yi frowned a little, and looked puzzled.

“What age is this? Are there cities that rely on the entrance tax as their main tax revenue?”

Sevigny 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 entrance tax? Tell you, according to this year’s financial statistics, Lan Among the 37 cities in the Kingdom of Pali, more than half of the cities have annual tax revenues that are not even 200,000 gold coins. For these cities, more than 50,000 gold coins can be collected in a year. Taxes are of course very important.”

Xu Yi couldn’t help but shook his head: “There are such good examples as Bangta City in the Mingming Kingdom, but I don’t know how to learn it, and live a poor life in keeping with the old traditions like before. What are the lord of these cities thinking? Severini, this should be regarded as the dereliction of your majesty, right? They are all cities of the Lampari Kingdom. You can’t favor one another.”

Sevigny snorted softly, pouting slightly like a little girl.

“Do you think that I don’t want all the cities in the kingdom to become as rich as Bangta? But it takes time. Besides, the situation in each city in the kingdom is different. Take the Northwestern Province. For several cities, because the terrain there is particularly complicated, even building a highway in the past was extremely difficult, and the traffic was extremely unfavorable. If it’s you, would you like to invest and build factories there?”

Xu Yi could only shake his head.

He is a businessman, and of course he has to choose the method of maximizing profits.

Investing in the construction of a factory in a remote mountainous area with extremely inconvenient transportation like the Northwestern Province will require several times the investment cost of investing in the construction of a factory in other cities. Of course, he will not do this kind of loss-making business.

“So, no matter how much I want to change the situation in the entire kingdom, I can only do it slowly.” Servigny glanced at Xu Yi. “Isn’t this what you used to say to me often?”

Xu Yi touched his nose, thinking that he was not in his place and he was not the king of the Lampari Kingdom. Naturally, he didn’t need to worry about the affairs of the entire Lampari Kingdom.

“But this matter is not without a solution.” Xu Yi’s conversation suddenly changed. “Take this entry tax as an example. Reforms in the entire kingdom at the same time will be opposed, so let’s choose a few pilot projects.”

“Pilot?” Severini looked at Xu Yi suspiciously.

“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 was a good idea, but unfortunately, because of the changes in the kingdom’s situation, I couldn’t implement it all the time. I thought about re-implementing this plan before, but I temporarily put it on hold because of my concerns.” Servigny said.

“Now is different from before. I used to hope that Bangta City will become a special economic zone so that I can make some reforms in Bangta City. Now that the whole kingdom is under your control, why bother to forcibly designate a special economic zone? What? Of course, this plan is used to change the entry tax, that is, you can first select a few cities as a pilot, and let these cities cancel the entry tax as an experiment.” Xu Yidao.

“I understand what you mean.” Servigny nodded. “If the test results are good, then other cities will have no reason to oppose it. But what if the effect is not good? And even if the effect is good, some cities in the kingdom do not have the conditions to abolish the entry tax, what should be done? ”

“Simple, you will force this reform plan when the time comes. As for those inadequate conditions, such as several cities in the western provinces, subsidies and special support will be given from the kingdom’s finances.”

Based on the various reform plans previously obtained on the earth, Xu Yi described the practical operability of this kind of plan to Servigny.

Although he doesn’t know how the details should be implemented, he is not such a talented person, so he only needs to propose a general direction.

But after Severini heard these general plans, his eyes gleamed, and it was obvious that he had found the answer in his heart.

“In addition, subsidies from the Kingdom’s finances alone will not solve this problem fundamentally, nor will it allow those cities with poorer conditions to get fundamental changes. So I suggest another way to solve the problems of these cities and increase their tax revenue. , This is the key.”

Severini glared at Xu Yi: “You speak lightly. If there is such a good method, I would have used it a long time ago.”

After speaking, seeing the smile on Xu Yi’s face, Severini immediately moved in his heart: “You already have a solution in your heart, right?”

Xu Yi smiled slightly: “This is just a superficial idea of mine, not a solution.”

“Don’t worry about it, let’s listen?” Servigny looked interested.

Xu Yi coughed slightly and spoke slowly.

“Since different cities have different conditions, don’t limit themselves to making each city the same as Bangta, relying on the development of the magic industry to become rich. After all, besides the magic industry, there are many other industries that can make money. .”

Servigny was startled slightly.

Hearing from Xu Yi, the president of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, that he proposed to develop industries other than the magic industry, it was really far beyond her expectation.

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

“What resource?” Servigny asked, recalling the information about Batrou City he had seen before in his mind, but still couldn’t remember anything worth noting.

“It’s a hot spring.”

“Hot spring?” Servigny frowned slightly. “I heard that there are many natural hot springs in the mountains near Batrut. It is very comfortable to soak in them. But what’s the use?”

“Of course it works.” Xu Yi raised his voice exaggeratedly. “The hot spring not only represents excellent tourism resources, but also represents a large amount of geothermal resources. If it can be used well, Batlu City can definitely be built into a hot spring city, attracting many people to travel there. And because of the rich geothermal resources, the entire Batru City actually only needs a little development to meet this requirement.”

“City of Hot Springs?” Servigny frowned and thought for a while, then nodded gently. “This is a good proposal, but it will definitely require a lot of initial investment, but it’s a difficult problem…”

After lowering his head and thinking for a while, Severini realized that this was definitely not something that could be thought of in detail in a moment and a half, so he put it aside and asked Xu Yi: “So what about the cities in the Northwestern Province? There is nothing there. Abundant hot spring resources, the terrain is even worse than Batru City. What can you do to change this situation?”

Xu Yi smiled: “My dear Queen, in fact, as long as you are willing, no matter how complex and harsh the terrain of the cities in the Northwestern Province is, there is a way to build a road inside to make their traffic smooth. Oh.”

Severini sighed and shook his head: “No. I have asked the Amli Chamber of Commerce to conduct field surveys. President Cruise told me personally that their Chamber of Commerce can’t do anything. Even the Amli Chamber of Commerce can’t do it. I don’t think this thing is possible at all.”

Xu Yi laughed and said: “That’s because President Cruise has not discussed with me before. If he knows that our Chamber of Commerce will be able to develop a new type of engineering magic machinery with higher power and higher performance, I believe he will definitely Will retract this sentence.”

Sevigny looked up and down at Xu Yi, his face a little bit angry and a little funny.

“After doing it for a long time, it turns out that you came to me to promote the latest products of your chamber of commerce? President Xu, you have the leisure to promote your newly developed engineering magic machinery, then I have to ask, I ordered 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 very limited, 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 take long to give you an accurate answer.”

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

Xu Yi wiped his sweat and decided to put the topic aside first, touched it in his arms, took out a thin booklet, and handed it over.

“When I first entered the city, I saw many various magic locomotives waiting outside the city gate, and suddenly thought of a question, so I wrote it down. Please have a look at your Majesty the Queen.”

Severini certainly wouldn’t believe that Xu Yi made up this booklet on a temporary basis, but seeing his expression so solemnly, he nodded and took it.

I opened the cover and found a long headline written in large letters on the first page-On the important role of energy standardization in the magic industry system.