Volume 3 Chapter 33 - The impact of free trading rights (1/2)

The City Lord’s Manor was brightly lit even at night.

Although the busiest fall harvest was over, as the Banta City City Lord, Count Stagg’s work didn’t decrease at all.

Compared to the previous Count Sean who liked leaving work to his subordinates, Count Stagg liked taking care of everything himself, doing all the big and small things.

He liked this feeling of being in control.

However the price for this was that he was much busier than Count Stagg.

Right after he finished a small conference, he returned to the City Lord Manor office and before even resting, he began looking over documents.

Because there was such a splendid result for this year’s fall harvest, Banta City received the praise of both the king and the agricultural department. Count Stagg was even specially commended by the Royal Parliament, which increased his reputation in both the kingdom and his family, creating another political star from the Stagg Family.

But Count Stagg was very clear that just how much of his performance was real and how fake it was.

So in order to not let things funnel out, he had to spend large amounts of time and energy on the aftermath.

Because he was also clear that although the family and their allies had pushed him to this position, replacing Count Sean as the City Lord, the burden he bore was quite important. There were many families who opposed his family and there were countless eyes fixed on him, so as long as he made a single mistake, there would be a violent storm that greeted him.

Before embarking, the family head who was his biological big brother Duke Stagg had told him that if he couldn’t handle things well here, if there were any problems that occurred, if there was a need, he would be treated as a sacrifice by the family.

So after Count Stagg arrived in Banta City, he put a strong display to ensure that he would create a result that his family and their allies would be satisfied with. At the same time, he shut the mouths of people who doubted him.

Of course, that was on the premise he wouldn’t make any mistakes.

There were certain parts that other people couldn’t do, so Count Stagg had to do them himself.

It was a good thing that his family also gave him great support in this matter.

For example, there were clearly problems with the data from Banta City, but with his family’s control of the agricultural department, the agricultural department didn’t conduct an exhaustive investigation on this matter. They just went around and approved of the data, allowing this data to light up the eyes of all the cities in the Lampuri Kingdom.

With this data, not only had Count Stagg’s reputation increased, the faction led by the Stagg Family that insisted on agriculture in the Royal Parliament was at an advantage.

During arguments, this faction took out the harvest yield from Banta City.

Because according to the calculations of the agricultural department, if all the cities in the Lampuri Kingdom followed the same policies as Banta City, the grain yield would greatly increase in the entire kingdom.

If they could reach the same level as Banta City, the entire Lampuri Kingdom could cast off their famine problems in just three to five years, even creating a grain surplus each year.

Everyone had to admit that maintaining the nation was the most important factor, letting all the citizens eat to their fill.

As long as the citizens can survive, the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn’t be in the same turmoil several years ago.

As long as the Lampuri Kingdom wasn’t in turmoil, they could rest and gather their strength, naturally becoming stronger over time.

This was the truth of the Sines Continent, so the faction that refuted the Stagg Family couldn’t say anything.

Even the king had to recognize the Stagg Family’s point, but he still had some reservations and didn’t truly believe that agricultural development was the most important factor.

Unexpected to everyone, a few days ago, the Lampuri Kingdom’s business department suddenly announced a new decision. In order to promote business development in the Lampuri Kingdom, they decided to give approved companies free trading rights.

This free trading right was to allow companies to easily trade with other countries, without the need to report to the business department or the Royal Parliament. It allowed the companies to be more flexible when dealing with other countries, saving large amounts of time.

Of course, the commodities had to not be on the banned list of the kingdom and of course there was still tax that needed to be paid to the kingdom on trade.

Because there were different tax rates in different cities, in order to make things more convenient, the companies that received free trade rights would be paying taxes directly to the kingdom, they wouldn’t be paying to any of the cities in the kingdom.