Volume 2 Chapter 73 - Urban public transport system (1/2)

When the first yellow leaves were blown down by the autumn wind, the road connecting Banta City and Karma City was announced to be finished.

It was different from the Falling Rain Road. This road connecting Banta City and Karma City was the real intercity public road on the Sines Continent.

The completion of this road could represent the public transport system on the Sines Continent entering a new era. It got rid of the bumpy gravel roads from before and now they could enjoy the benefits and speed of concrete roads.

To the Lampuri Kingdom, this was a road with real and symbolic significance. So when this time it wasn’t just Count Sean that came to the opening ceremony, even her highness Seveni came on behalf of the king.

Other than the citizens that came from Banta City to watch the fun, the small and large companies all sent representatives.

For these companies, the most important thing was to gauge the attitude of the kingdom’s upper class through Count Sean and her highness.

Although Count Sean had expressed his support for the roads in many newspapers, to the public, the king had never displayed a concrete attitude.

Even if he didn’t display a concrete attitude, he still secretly supported it. However if it wasn’t said out loud, not everyone could feel confident.

After all, after this road was finished, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be building a toll booth to take tolls.

The companies all cared about what attitude the king had towards this.

So at the ceremony, although the representatives seemed like they were seriously listening to Count Sean’s passionate speech on the surface, they had been secretly paying attention to her highness Seveni standing behind Count Sean.

Standing beside her highness and smiling as they were talking about something was Xu Yi. Naturally everyone’s heart was filled with jealousy towards him.

But they never would have thought that her highness and Xu Yi were discussing an irrelevant issue at this moment.

“Chairman Xu, I really pity your ability to pick names.” Seveni looked at Xu Yi with his relaxed smile and helplessly said, “This road has such a large significance, but you’re actually this lazy to call it a simple name like “Banka Road”. This is simply…..This is simply wasting everyone’s feelings!”

Xu Yi gave a shrug, “It’s just a name, it’s not something incredible. Then again Banka Road is easy to understand, one will know it’s a road connecting Banta City and Karma City as soon as they hear it.”

“But this is the first public road in our Lampuri Kingdom, can’t you put a bit more effort in the name?” Seveni angrily said.

Xu Yi had an uncaring expression, “There really isn’t a need, right? The road is used by people to travel on, the name is just something to call it by. Not calling it Highway One was already good enough……”

Seveni helplessly shook her head and she rolled her eyes at Xu Yi.

When she had just met Xu Yi, Seveni could still keep her grace and dignity as a princess. But when she met him more and more, she found that in front of Xu Yi, her attitude became more and more relaxed. She lost more and more of her important calm and wit, rather it was quite easy for her to react to Xu Yi.

“Forget it, this is the road that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce paid for, so what it is called is the right of you as the chairman, so I don’t care.” Seveni gave a sigh and decided not to continue with this question, “But there is a problem that I hope you can give me your honest reply to.”

“What is it?” Xu Yi asked in a curious voice.

“Although royal father agreed to your plan before, allowing your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in building these roads and allowing you to build toll booths to collect tolls from them, don’t you think that the toll you’ve set is rather high?”

Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, “Your highness, I remember that when we set the amount, didn’t I already contact the king through Count Sean? Why do you feel that the price is too high? Then again, it’s only fifty silver coins per carriage, I don’t think that’s high at all.”

Seveni revealed an awkward expression and paused for a bit before saying with a sigh, “Chairman Xu, actually this is my royal father’s thoughts. This road is mainly used to serve the citizens of the kingdom, specifically the people between Karma City and Banta City. Taking a toll is something that shouldn’t be done and for the price to be this high, it’s even worse.”