Volume 4 Chapter 114 - Automatically controlled Magic Punch Press (1/2)

Volume 4 The Lampuri Kingdom situation gradually stabilized and with the wise rule of her majesty Seveni, the prosperity of the kingdom kept growing.

But the situation in the Stantine Duchy was the opposite.

After signing the ceasefire agreement with Xu Yi, although Count Wein had lost close to six hundred square kilometers of territory and handing over many rights, for example, he had some control in the factory that he had built with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but now it was completely controlled by them.

But Xu Yi’s promise to him helped him much more.

Because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided military magic machines to him first, Count Wein had the absolute advantage in weapons when fighting with the other lords.

Even if he couldn’t completely suppress them like before, what decided the fights between lords of the Stantine Duchy now was who had more and better military magic machines.

Count Weing had the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so he surpassed the other lords in this.

So once the new year came, Count Wein once again attacked the four lords that had attacked him before, gaining a series of victories in this war.

Through his win streak, Count Wein had used only three months to completely defeat the opposition of the four lords.

Count Wein took most of the territory from these four lords and was now the strongest lord in the north Stantine Duchy.

At the same time, there was war that erupted in the south of the Stantine Duchy.

Anklo who had been steadily fighting last year began wildly expanding as soon as it entered year 3875.

Because he also had the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, Anklo’s subordinates swept through all obstacles in the southern Stantine Duchy.

In just four months, he went from having one city, five thousand troops, and a small territory of less than a thousand square kilometers to over five cities, twenty thousand soldiers, and a large territory of over ten thousand square kilometers.

In the Stantine Duchy, Anklo had become one of the two strongest lords in the north and south along with Count Wein.

Everyone believed that there would be a life and death fight between these two lords.

The reason why these two lords were invincible in the country was because they had the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

But if they were to fight, who would win?

When most people considered this issue, they immediately came up with an answer.

Whoever the Frestech Chamber of Commerce supported more would win.

Who would the Frestech Chamber of Commerce support?

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Xu Yi didn’t have the time to consider who to support right now.

After the new years, he had fallen into a period of busy work and didn’t have any free time to consider these matters.

After obtaining the six hundred square kilometers of land from Lord Wein, his territory had increased by several times.

But to control this territory, there were many things that he had to do.

After deep consideration, Xu Yi gave up the idea of building up this new territory like his previous territory.

Because to achieve this, he had to invest in an astronomical figure. With the current strength of the Frestefch Chamber of Commerce’s strength, they couldn’t achieve this and there was no need at all.

After obtaining this territory, the first thing Xu Yi needed was to count the population.

In the final data for this six hundred square kilometers of land, there were only thirty thousand people living there.

Among the thirty thousand people, there were less than a thousand young men between the ages of sixteen and forty.

Actually there weren’t few young men before, but Count Wein had been fighting with the lords and had recruited all the young men on this land, so being able to have close to a thousand people was already considered quite good.

It was a good thing that the manpower that Xu Yi needed was as workers who operated the simple machinery, it didn’t mean that he had to have young men.

After counting the people, Xu Yi gathered all the people who could work together and began training them. Finally he picked the nineteen thousand people who had the best skills to enter the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s factories, dong simple mechanical jobs.

Although these Stantine Duchy locals were lazy, with the forced training from Xu Yi, they had trained a bit of discipline. Adding in the deterrent Xu Yi’s status as the lord had, they all began working properly in the factories.

Not to mention that it was different from when they were under Lord Wein. Although they were forced to work in the factories under Xu Yi’s orders, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would still give them proper wages and benefits.

Even if their wages were lower than other workers for only doing simple mechanical jobs, they earned at least five gold coins a month, as well as a series of benefits. This was something the poor Stantine Duchy people never dreamed of, which made them very happy.

Now that these workers had more enthusiasm for working, their efficiency quickly increased.

With these workers taking these simple jobs, the more skilled workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were freed which also greatly increased the production efficiency of the factories.