Volume 2 Chapter 74 - The price of a horse (1/2)

There wasn’t anything worth noting at the Banka Road opening ceremony. The only highlight was that after Count Sean’s speech, her highness Seveni said a few simple words.

Although her highness didn’t say much and was most likely her extending congratulations to the Banka Road, she had clearly revealed some important information in her words.

That was that the king acknowledged companies investing in building roads and even showed support.

So the representatives of the large companies were all excited.

Since this matter had the explicit support of the kingdom’s royal family, that meant there were bright prospects.

Now they just needed to see if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could earn money from this road.

This question had completely disappeared after a horse carriage from the Fersen Carriage Company had arrived in Banta City.

It was because this horse carriage had set off at the beginning of the ceremony and it didn’t even take an entire morning for it to go an entire round trip!

All the merchants understood that time was money.

When the Banka Road hadn’t been constructed, although Banta City was less than sixty kilometers away from Karma City, it would take most of a day even riding in the fastest horse carriage.

Now that the Banka Road was open, a round trip actually only took a single morning! If this was converted to an one way trip, that was a trip of less than two hours!

Compared to before, this without a doubt saved quite a bit of time.

There was no need to mention that if a horse carriage galloped across sixty kilometers of gravel road, a person’s butt would have been destroyed. If it was cargo, in order to protect the cargo, they could only move as slowly as possible, so it might take more than a day for an one way trip.

But because of the new Banka Road’s smooth concrete surface, their horse carriages didn’t jolt when running across it.

Adding in the fact that the Fersen Carriage Company’s carriage had swapped from the old wooden wheel to the new tire developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not only did it lessen the shaking, it made the horse carriage lighter and allowed it to move much faster.

If it wasn’t for the help of this new tire, even if the Banka Road had this kind of incomparably smooth concrete surface, it definitely wouldn’t take just a single morning to run back and forth between Banta City and Karma City.

So after the «Banta Times» had run a special report on these new tires, there was a new wave that appeared in Banta City and the surrounding cities. All the horse carriages switched tires.

In less than half a month, the large and small carriages in the streets of Banta City and the surrounding cities had all changed to the tires manufactured by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

If there was a horse carriage that was still using the old wooden wheels, they wouldn’t have the face to appear in public!

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Some night in the middle of September, the City Lord’s Manor held another banquet. Almost all the chairman of companies and nobles were invited.

“Chairman Xu, I really am filled with admiration towards you” The Fersen Carriage Company’s chairman Pompeii raised his wine glass and clanked it against Xu Yi’s before saying with a sigh of admiration, “Since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been established, no matter what you’ve researcher, it has led to a buying spree in Banta City and the surrounding cities. Ignoring the magic machines since your Frestech Chamber of Commerce specializes in it, I never thought that this tire that you casually took out would be this popular.”

Xu Yi shook his head, “Chairman Pompeii, you can’t underestimate the tire, this thing can’t be casually taken out. You have to know that although this thing seems like a simple iron ring, there are many levels of things included in it. Just the cushion inside took the Armani Chamber of Commerce several tries before I was satisfied. Because of this, chairman Vincent complained many times that I was being just too picky.”

In all honesty, the most important part of the tire was the tire’s cover.

But on the Sines Continent, Xu Yi had never discovered the existence of rubber trees. Although he wanted to make the tire before, because there was no rubber, he could only give up.

After the Night Song Tribe did all kinds of strange experiments with the resin following Xu Yi’s requests, they accidentally came up with a resin that was close to rubber.

This resin came from a plant that the elves called Tear Fruit.