Volume 2 Chapter 1 - Volume Two Fires of Industry Business conference (1/2)

On the fifth day after New Years, Xu Yi received a special invitation.

This invitation came from the City Lord’s Manor. The contents was to invite Xu Yi to represent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in participating in the New Years exchange banquet at the City Lord’s Manor.

It was different from the normal banquet invitations Xu Yi received from the City Lord’s Manor before. This time the invitation was personally signed by the City Lord Count Sean Samo.

Xu Yi could avoid the banquet invitations from before, but since this was an invitation the Lord City Lord was personally sending, it was hard for him to easily avoid them like before.

Moreover, the key point of this invitation was that at this New Years exchange banquet, other than representatives from Banta City companies, there were also merchants from Karma City that was closest to Banta City.

This made Xu Yi a bit surprised.

It was only the fifth day after New Years, why were the Karma City merchants suddenly running over to Banta City?

“Actually this is an old tradition.” The Amrit Chamber of Commerce’s chairman Moon Cruise had a cup of wine in his hand as he explained to Xu Yi with a smile, “Every New Years, Karma City’s City Lord Count Anaris would bring the Karma City merchants to visit our Banta City. Then a few days later, the Lord City Lord would pick some Banta City company representatives to take a trip to Karma City. Chairman Xu, you have only joined the business circle last year, so it isn’t strange that you don’t know about this custom. But your Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just established last year and already has already been invited by the Lord City Lord to this banquet, it really is shocking.”

Xu Yi looked at him, “What? You don’t think our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is qualified?”

“How could that be!” Chairman Cruise called out with an exaggerated expression, “Chairman Xu, although your Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasn’t been established for long, is there anyone in Banta City that still dares to question your qualifications? Then again, we are close partners, so no matter who I think is unqualified here, I wouldn’t think of you, don’t you think so?”

Xu Yi laughed, “I’m just joking, chairman Cruise doesn’t need to be this nervous.”

Chairman Cruise said that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were close partners and although it was a bit exaggerated, it wasn’t that exaggerated.

Since the Amrit Chamber of Commerce obtained cement from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they grasped the various methods of using the cement, the quality of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce’s buildings had soared.

In just a short two months, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had received quite a bit of praise. Their construction orders had increased after the New Years and it had raised by 30% all of a sudden compared to last year.

And this increase of 30% wasn’t including the construction orders the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had made with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

On the third day after New Years, Xu Yi had specially found chairman Cruise. Other than wishing him a happy New Years, his more important goal was to mention the new large scale construction products the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed.

Other than constructing another new factory on Viscount Leslie’s land for the household magic machine workshop to use, there were two other large projects that surprised chairman Cruise.

One of them was building new houses for the Norma and Angola Tribe and to build houses for the new tribe. The other was solving the water problem of the Night Song Tribe, changing that river in the Falling Rain Forest filled with silt.

Xu Yi didn’t tell chairman Cruise why he wanted to do these two projects, but chairman Cruise wasn’t that interested in Xu Yi’s goal. Other than raising some doubts on whether Xu Yi had Count Sean’s approval on changing this river, he was mostly focused on the price of these two projects.

Xu Yi had very high requirements to the quality of these two projects, requesting the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to use their best manpower and materials. This meant that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would receive the most profits from these two projects.

According to Xu Yi’s initial plan, chairman Cruise could easily calculate that the total price of these two projects could surpass three hundred thousand gold coins!

And the lowest profit the Amrit Chamber of Commerce could get was a large profit of over fifty thousand gold coins.

Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had high profits, they had been established for too short, so it was impossible for them to take out three hundred thousand gold coins at once. So Xu Yi proposed to settle this debt with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce using cement, which was greatly welcomed by chairman Cruise.

The construction projects under the Amrit Chamber of Commerce almost couldn’t leave cement now.

Therefore, chairman Cruise had requested several times to Xu Yi on increasing the length of the monopoly right on cement the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had, but it was firmly rejected by Xu Yi.

But no matter what, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce could be considered close.

Actually when Xu Yi said “some people doubted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn’t have the qualification to participate”, he was completely joking.

The ones at the banquet were all merchants from Banta City and just in half a year of development, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was known by all the companies in Banta City. Everyone was very clear on the powerful potential the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had.

And after the auction of the two mines from last time, no one doubted the power of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce anymore.