Volume 5 Chapter 41 - Old fashioned Wimbledon City (1/2)

Riley was sitting at a table on the second floor of a restaurant, looking out the window at the bustling crowd walking through the street and he couldn’t help giving a sigh.

He had already been in Wimbledon City for a month and a half now.

According to the plan, on his trip to the Candra Empire this time, he would be discussing the matter of laying down roads in the Candra Empire between the Amrit Chamber of Commerce and the Candra Empire.

He and chairman Cruise had thought that this would be easy since he had come with ambassador Hakanin this time. With ambassador Hakanin’s status, they should have been able to easily open up the situation in Wimbledon City and quickly reach an agreement with the Candra Empire.

But facts were completely different from what he imagined.

Ambassador Hakanin was the emperor’s brother in law, but he didn’t have any real power in the Candra Empire, his position wasn’t as high as Riley had thought it would be.

Through the nobles of Wimbledon City that he had been able to meet through ambassador Hakanin these days, Riley could see that although these nobles gave ambassador Hakanin some and met Riley, when it came to matters, they all used tactful, but firm voices to reject him.

It was clear that these nobles with real power didn’t pay any attention to ambassador Hakanin at all, so naturally they wouldn’t treat the roads that he bragged about as something important.

There were even several nobles that looked at Riley with deep suspicion, like they were treating him as a swindler.

At first, ambassador Hakanin had warmly brought Riley to meet the nobles. He even led him to several noble gatherings, allowing him to become acquainted with quite a few nobles.

But because of the attitudes of each noble, ambassador Hakanin perhaps felt that this was no longer interesting and gradually wasn’t willing to care about this matter, so his passion faded.

In the last half a month, ambassador Hakanin had rarely met with Riley. Whenever Riley mentioned the matter of the road, he only received a perfunctory answer from ambassador Hakanin.

At this point, Riley naturally knew that chairman cruise had been wrong.

This ambassador Hakanin couldn’t be relied on at all.

There were many times that Riley felt a bit of regret. If the Amrit Chamber of Commerce entered the Candra Empire through official channels and discussed the issue of cooperation with the Candra Empire, the effects would have been much better.

After all, the convenience of the roads were very clear. As long as the Candra Empire could attach great importance to this, Riley was confident enough that he could make the Candra Empire accept this new thing.

However, Riley and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had left a bad impression on many of the nobles of Wimbledon City. If they wanted to sign a cooperation, it would be very hard.

“Were we too anxious?” Riley asked with knit brows.

Although the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was a first class company in the Lampuri Kingdom and because only they had the technology for building roads and tall buildings with reinforced concrete, they had some fame in the surrounding countries. But because the Lampuri Kingdom and the surrounding countries didn’t enter the eyes of a colossus like the Candra Empire, those nobles of Wimbledon City hadn’t heard of them at all. Naturally they wouldn’t care about Riley or the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

So Riley couldn’t help thinking that the Amrit Chamber of Commerce trying to enter the Candra Empire, which was one of the two empires on the Sines Continent was too rushed.

Actually, with the current development of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, it was best if they kept opening markets in the small countries and built up their foundation. When the time was right, they could think about entering the Candra or Marlow Empires.

Chairman Cruise had been planning like this at first, but because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly had the idea of entering the Candra Empire, chairman Cruise as Xu Yi’s faithful ally had the same thoughts.

But reality was very cruel, the Candra Empire didn’t even spare a glance for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

Whenever he heard of this, Riley couldn’t help feeling a bit of complaint in his heart towards Xu Yi.

If it wasn’t for Xu Yi being in a rush to enter the Candra Empire, chairman Cruise wouldn’t have been this impulsive.

But Riley also found it very strange.

He had known Xu Yi for over five years and knew that Xu Yi wasn’t an impulsive person, he always had a detailed plan for anything he did and he had powerful foresight. No matter what he did, it would seem ordinary at first, but there would be a powerful effect that shocked everyone later.

This time he decided to have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce enter the Candra Empire definitely wasn’t because of an impulse.

But thinking of this, Riley’s thought changed and he discovered a fact that made him unsure whether he should laugh or cry.

Him representing the Amrit Chamber of Commerce hitting a wall in Wimbledon City wasn’t related to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.

Before ambassador Hakanin came back, he made a special trip to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a large batch of household magic machines, which had filled up twenty large transport Magic Cars.

In less than ten days after ambassador Hakanin and Riley reached Wimbledon City, they were all swept up.

According to the number ambassador Hakanin told Riley in secret, from these household magic machines, he had earned a large profit of over two hundred thousand gold coins!

It had to be known, if ambassador Hakanin stayed in the Rudson Kingdom all year, he wouldn’t earn more than thirty thousand gold coins. This time he had just resold a batch of household magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and received such a terrifying profit.

It was no wonder that whenever ambassador Hakanin mentioned Xu Yi or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was a smile that bloomed on his face.

But Wimbledon City was known as the number one city on the Sines Continent. It was said that the stable population in the city was one and a half million while the transient population was at least over two million.