Volume 4 Chapter 65 - Tide of opposition (1/2)

King Eric pinched his forehead as he felt like his head was so painful that it was about to explode.

The reason for this was that first, he hadn’t properly slept in several months and second, because there were always a pile of documents in front of him.

Although there seemed to be many documents, they were all about the same thing. They were talking about the bloody conflict that had occurred in Banta City before.

If one looked at it from a general sense, this conflict was just an accident and wasn’t worth paying attention to. It was impossible for it to cause a headache for the king.

But the problem was that there was a complicated meaning behind this that was very significant. It caused some people in the Lampuri Kingdom to react stronger, which made it more serious.

This conflict looked very simple on the surface, it was just the Banta City’s city guards killing a commoner by accident while carrying out their tasks.

This thing had happened many times in the history of the Lampuri Kingdom. Before they just shut the mouths of the commoners and just paid a bit of money to settle these matters.

But once this matter occurred, it was immediately spread. Very soon, almost everyone in the kingdom paid attention to this.

The reason for this conflict was that the city guards were following the rules of the City Lord Manor that forbade the agricultural magic machines of other companies to be used in Banta City’s harvest.

After this matter, all the newspapers in the Lampuri Kingdom gave exhaustive reports. There were many newspapers that followed up on this, writing the stories of both sides of the conflict, letting everyone know the reason for this conflict.

By learning the reason for this, it caused a strong reaction from many people in the kingdom.

The Banta City’s City Lord Manor was forcing people to use a brand of agricultural magic machines during the harvest?

This question was the core of everyone’s doubts.

To most people, the goal of the harvest was to harvest as quickly as possible. As long as the grain could be harvested, it didn’t matter what brand of agricultural magic machines were used.

Not to mention that there were only two brands in the kingdom. One was the Frestech Brand, which was used by the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, causing it to be confiscated by the city guards and created this bloody conflict.

The other was the Hayada Brand. Not only was it the one recommended in Banta City, it was also the brand that the magic machine industry management department suggested every other city used.

At the same time, the Hayada Chamber of Commerce was the brand chosen by the agricultural department. Before the spring harvest this year, it had been promoted in many cities of the kingdom and was recommended for use in those cities.

Although business and agricultural departments didn’t force people to use the Hayada Brand, since it was recommended by both the business and agricultural departments, most cities in the kingdom swapped from the Frestech Brand to the Hayada Brand.

This wasn’t much at first, but after the conflict in Banta City, there was a bunch of opposition that came forward.

There were two main reasons for this opposition. One of them was that whether it was the City Lord Manor, the magic machine industry management department, the agricultural department, or the business department, they couldn’t force people to use a single brand.

If people wanted to buy something, it was their right.

Forcing people would go against this basic principle.

The other reason mainly focused on the quality of the Hayada Brand.

According to the reports from various newspapers, there weren’t any good reviews of the Hayada Brand.

The reason the conflict appeared in Banta City was because the Hayada Brand’s magic machines were too lacking. More than half of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce’s Hayada Brand small Magic Harvesters had broken, so they were forced to break the rules of the City Lord Manor and use the Frestech Brand.

The City Lord Manor had tried to enforce this, which created this conflict with the Cantona Chamber of Commerce workers, creating this tragedy.

If the Hayada Brand magic machines had better quality, how could this have happened?

Moreover, other than Banta City, the performance of the Hayada Brand was also poor in the other cities.

The various newspapers reported that the Hayada Brand magic machines had various problems in different areas, causing the normal harvest to be unable to continue.

There were many cities that had to use the Frestech Brand agricultural magic machines because of the problems with the Hayada Brand, only then could they catch up.

Otherwise, the grain yield of the Lampuri Kingdom’s spring harvest might have been greatly affected.

Most newspapers were strongly denouncing the Hayada Chamber of Commerce.

Many people questioned the Hayada Chamber of Commerce. Why did the Hayada Chamber of Commerce produce such bad quality agricultural magic machines with the complete technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the support of the department?

Didn’t they say it would be comparable to the Frestech Brand? At least let it function properly, right?

But some newspapers put out a different point of view.