Volume 3 Chapter 145 - Watch his highness send himself to death? (1/2)

The paper her highness posted in the «Banta Times» was only a small part, the full text was in front of Lampuri Thirteenth and was a total of thirty seven pages. It was quite thick when it was folded together.

Lampuri Thirteenth spent three hours reading the over thirty thousand characters on the pages and he had a serious look the entire time, not even taking a sip of water.

After he finished, he closed his eyes to rest for a while before letting out a sigh, revealing a happy smile.

Out of his three children, he was most satisfied with his youngest daughter Seveni.

She was very smart and had great control since she was young. Not only was she serious with her learning, she was very good at comprehending and had an understanding of politics since she was young.

When she was a bit bigger, she already started expressing her own opinion towards politics and her views were very certain. Some opinions were even approved by Lampuri Thirteenth.

When she was twenty years old, she began participating in politics and she had an ability that was far above her two older brothers. She took care of everything properly and had helped Lampuri Thirteenth solve many problems.

Although her two older brothers couldn’t be considered fools, they didn’t have the same control as Seveni since they were younger. They were never serious with their studies and after growing up, their abilities were far lacking compared to Seveni and Lampuri Thirteenth was never assured.

If Seveni wasn’t his daughter, or even if she was his oldest daughter instead of his youngest, Lampuri Thirteenth would have already made her the successor to his throne.

But Seveni was his youngest daughter and because of this, there were many hindrances to Lampuri Thirteenth’s idea of making her his successor. It was even hard keeping her in her current status.

If it wasn’t for the dominating performances Lampuri Thirteenth revealed in those years, the Royal Parliament would have rejected the idea of giving her her current status.

Seeing Seveni’s detailed report on the magic machine industry, Lampuri Thirteenth was determined about his thoughts again.

If he had to choose someone to take the throne, the right choice was definitely Seveni.

In this report, Seveni stated that after the magic machine industry appeared, she had analyzed the influence that it had in Banta City in an exhaustive report, with all kinds of detailed forms and data sheets. She made this report very easy to see through and one could directly see the effects the magic machine industry had on Banta City.

Actually other than Banta City, many kingdoms in the Lampuri Kingdom had experienced the magic machine industry brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. However, Seveni didn’t have detailed data from these cities, so she didn’t include them in this report.

Lampuri Thirteenth appreciated Seveni’s realistic approach because he was very clear that although many parts of government are forced to be ambiguous, the parts that shouldn’t should not have a single bit of ambiguity.

With this report, one could clearly tell that Banta City was completely different from four years ago when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hadn’t appeared yet.

The most direct data was that this year’s Banta City tax revenue had broken six million gold coins. Compared to the tax revenue of less than five hundred thousand from four years ago, it had already increased over ten times.

Other than this, Banta City’s grain yield had also greatly increased.

With the use of the fertilizer and the agricultural magic machines, Banta City’s grain yield had broken a shocking one million ton.

It could be said that with just the grain yield of Banta City, it would have been enough to feed a fifth of the Lampuri Kingdom.

And according to the report Seveni had submitted before, when the fertilizer factory’s output increased, they would have enough fertilizer for every farm in the kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn’t have to worry about food.

If they really could do this, it would have solved the Lampuri Kingdom’s biggest problem in several hundred years.

Even ignoring the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s other contributions, just with the agricultural magic machines and the fertilizer, it wouldn’t be too much for Lampuri Thirteenth to give them any reward.

If it wasn’t for Xu Yi being too young and his length as a noble being too short, Lampuri Thirteenth would have raised his rank again.

Other than the most important tax revenue and the grain yield, there was another change in Banta City which was the growth in population.

Banta City that had less than one hundred thousand stable citizens had three hundred thousand people from all other parts of the Lampuri Kingdom, making it the most populated city in the south of the Lampuri Kingdom.

Adding in the fact that Banta City’s economy had developed and business was good, the current Banta City was the economic center of the kingdom’s south.

According to what the report had said, right now there were over five thousand transport horse carriages that came from Banta City each day.

And of these transport teams, there were more Magic Cars from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even surpassing the amount of horse carriages.

Adding in the fact that the Sanglang Canal was complete, people could enter the kingdom’s north through the canal and quickly develop the shipping industry of Banta City.