Magic Industry Empire - 930. Chapter 930

The Duke of Windsor stared at the two opposite, his face gloomy.

“What are you talking about? The merchants all ran away? Why did they run? Where did they go? What did they want to do?”

The two subordinates swallowed and spit, and took a careful look at the Duke of Windsor. Then he hesitated and replied: “Duke… Lord Duke, the reason why the merchants ran away is probably… I’m afraid it has something to do with you…”

“It’s about me?” The Duke of Windsor raised his eyebrows and said sharply: “What do you mean? Did I drive them away?”

The two officials in charge of the financial affairs of the southern provinces of the Candela Empire showed helpless bitter smiles at the same time.

During the recent period, the merchants in the southern provinces have left the southern provinces and changed the main business points of their chambers of commerce to other parts of the empire. If the reason is investigated, it is really with the Lord Duke in front of them.

The reason for this is actually very simple, that is, an order issued by the Lord Duke-to not allow any items related to the New Flying Merchants Association to enter the southern provinces.

In the second half of last year, after His Majesty the Emperor changed his attitude towards the New Flying Chamber of Commerce under the advice of the Minister of Finance of the Empire, Hastri The magic machinery produced by the Flying Chamber of Commerce entered the Candela Empire.

Subsequently, the Imperial Navy of Candela reached a private cooperation agreement with the New Flying Chamber of Commerce under the acquiescence of the emperor. After the two sides jointly opened up a maritime trade route, a large number of commodities from the Duchy of Stantin poured in from the southern coast of the empire. Inside the empire.

These products are not only the various magic machinery produced by the New Flying Merchant Association and other Magic Machinery Merchants, but also various magic industrial products produced by the New Flying Merchant Association.

Compared with most of the products in the Candela Empire, these products are extremely high-quality and inexpensive, and their performance is far superior, so they are very popular in the empire.

For businessmen with a keen sense of smell, the business opportunities contained therein are self-evident.

So there is no need for the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to spend too much time. The merchants of the Candela Empire are like cats smelling a fishy smell, pouring into the southern seaport of the empire and the junction of the southwest of the empire and the Principality of Norton. It is to be able to grab some goods from the Duchy of Stantin the first time, and then transport them back to sell them at a good price.

Under the influence of this kind of business trend, a ban issued by the Duke of Windsor before became particularly conspicuous.

This ban bans not only the products of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but all products related to Xinfei merchants.

This “all” almost includes most of the commodities from the Duchy of Stantin and from the Duchy of Norton into the Candela Empire.

Because of these products that are currently popular in the Candela Empire, almost none of them are not related to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

Even the only fruits produced in the Principality of Stantin that could be imported in large quantities from the Principality of Stantin to the Candela Empire before are basically affected by the industrial manufacturing brought by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

For example, all kinds of canned fruits with extremely high sales demand are basically the products of the new magic industry system promoted by the standard new flying business association.

In fact, the Duke of Windsor in the Candela Empire is not the only one who clearly opposes such a large number of imports of products from other countries, because they feel that this will have a major impact on the Candela Empire.

But other people are at best opposed to the New Flying Merchants Association. The reason is that the New Flying Merchants Association supports the Ruelson Kingdom, which is an enemy of the Candela Empire. Of course, the empire cannot cooperate with it.

The Duke of Windsor is simply opposed to everything related to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, and there are too many designs.

Under the high-pressure policy of the Duke of Windsor, any products related to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce cannot enter the southern provinces, which makes the merchants in the southern provinces who are smelling business opportunities very depressed.

To let these businessmen ignore business opportunities is tantamount to letting the cat smelling the fishy odor remain indifferent. It is simply impossible.

But how dare ordinary merchants resist the Duke of Windsor, who can be described as covering the sky in the southern province, so the end result is that these merchants simply shifted their focus directly out of the southern province and moved to the empire. Others did not object to cooperating with the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. The place.

In fact, seriously speaking, these merchants are just now paying more attention to the business developments related to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. It does not mean that they have completely abandoned their original businesses in the southern province.

But now that this situation is reflected, it becomes as if businessmen are fleeing the southern provinces one after another.

For the Duke of Windsor, the most intuitive manifestation lies in financial statistics.

After entering April, the southern provinces carried out fiscal statistics for the first quarter in accordance with the usual practice.

Statistics show that compared with the same period last year, the grain output of the southern provinces is basically the same, and the fiscal surplus obtained from grain has not changed.

However, in terms of commercial taxation, there has been a significant decline over the same period last year, with a decline of as much as 13%.

Originally, this was nothing for the Duke of Windsor, because he was originally a typical Sainz mainland traditional nobleman, and his most important thing was food.

If there is no problem with the food, he will not think there is any problem.

As for business, it is enough to guarantee that there will be no trouble.

However, when the fiscal report for the first quarter was submitted to the Imperial Treasury Department, the southern provinces were criticized by the Imperial Treasury Department by name.

According to the explanation given by the Imperial Treasury Department, the fiscal revenue of the southern provinces in the first quarter ranked second among the nine major provinces of the empire, only slightly better than the northeastern provinces in the Candela Empire, which have always been known as barren.

Compared to the previous fiscal revenues of the southern provinces, at least in the middle reaches of the empire, this is undoubtedly a significant drop.

Moreover, the southeastern province adjacent to the southern province and the Tural province, which has most of its area near the coast, saw a sharp increase in fiscal revenue in the first quarter of this year. The fiscal revenue of the Tural province even exceeded 3,800. Ten thousand gold coins are huge, far beyond the 17 million gold coins in the southern provinces.

This creates a strong contrast, which makes the southern provinces even more dazzling compared to last year’s slight decline.

The Duke of Windsor, who had suffered a lot of blindfolds in the Imperial Treasury Department, was extremely angry about this, and upon returning to the Government House, he immediately ordered a thorough investigation of the cause.

However, the two financial officers who were mainly in charge of the investigation gave an answer such as “a large number of businessmen fleeing the southern provinces”, which of course made him extremely dissatisfied.

“Master Duke… Actually, my subordinates feel that… Compared with the problems of commercial taxation, I think we should pay more attention to the problem of food at this time…” A financial officer hesitated and put forward a suggestion with his neck shrinking. .

“What?” The Duke of Windsor stared. “Do you want to tell me that even the normal grain production in our southern provinces has problems? I tell you that the important spring harvest is about to come. If there is any problem in this regard, don’t say that you all have problems. Don’t think about it, even if I am in trouble!”

The two financial officers could only smile wryly again. The financial officer who had plucked up the courage to speak just winked at his colleagues and motioned him to speak too.

Another financial manager had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: “My lord, it’s not that there’s something wrong with this aspect, it’s just… but we have discovered that as long as you change your mind a little, our spring harvest will be It is going more smoothly, maybe even with the autumn harvest, there is hope that food production will increase substantially.”

The Duke of Windsor was taken aback for a moment: “I only need to change my mind to greatly increase food production? Are you kidding me?”

“No, how dare we make a joke of you.” The financial officer took out a document from his arms and handed it to the Duke of Windsor. “My lord, this is a report on the agricultural industry within the province that Baron Domingo dragged us to you. Please take a look.”

“Domingo? Why didn’t he bring it to me by himself?” The Duke of Windsor looked at them suspiciously.

“This…” The two financial managers smiled bitterly at each other. “Baron Domingo said that he was afraid that this report would make you angry and did not dare to come by himself, so please ask us both.”

“Oh?” The Duke of Windsor glanced at both of them sideways. “Then you are not afraid of me getting angry?”

The two financial officers smiled bitterly again.

“We can’t escape anyway.”

Seeing the bitter expressions on their faces, the Duke of Windsor snorted coldly, took the report and glanced at it, his face sank immediately.

“It’s these shit ideas again, no wonder he didn’t dare to come to see me!” The Duke of Windsor angrily threw the report directly on the ground, pointing at the two and yelling: “Tell Domingo for me if he still insists. If you introduce the farmland magic machinery of the New Flying Merchants Association, don’t show up in front of me again in the future! The same is true for the two of you! Don’t think I don’t know what you are thinking, are you the same as those merchants who only have gold coins? , Want to force me to cooperate with the damn New Flying Business Association? Huh? Isn’t it?”

The two finance officers lowered their heads deeply, not daring to look directly at the Duke of Windsor.

They knew very well that Lord Duke was really angry this time.

The Duke of Windsor cursed at the two of them, and flicked his arm for the last time.

“Get out!”

The two financial officers gave a salute quickly and retired quickly.

After both of them had left, only the Duke of Windsor was left in the room. He gasped for a while and gradually calmed down.

After staring at the report on the ground for a long time, the Duke of Windsor hesitated, picked up the report, and read it again.

This time, he looked far more seriously and more attentively than before.

It took him half an hour to read a report completely. After flipping the last page, he was silent for a long time, and suddenly he let out a sigh, his face seemed to be a teenager in an instant.

“Is this the so-called change of the times?”

The Duke of Windsor sighed again, returned to the table and pulled a rope hanging from the table.

A middle-aged man with the appearance of a housekeeper appeared silently in the room.

“Master, do you have any instructions?” Unlike the others, this middle-aged man called the Duke of Windsor but used the simple “Master”.

The Duke of Windsor waved his hand: “Go get ready, I’m going out for a walk.”

The middle-aged man raised his head and glanced at the Duke of Windsor, with a trace of surprise in his eyes, but did not ask much, bowed his head and replied, and then retired quietly again.