Volume 6 Chapter 93 - The Rudson Kingdom’s situation was very bad (1/2)

After lunch, a delegate from the Rudson Kingdom secretly arrived in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s main base.

After being received, their representative, who was the speaker of the Rudson Kingdom parliament, Duke Boris and two vice leaders came as guests to Xu Yi’s private manor.

“Chairman Xu, this is my first time in the Stantine Duchy. Along the way, it really seemed like the rumours couldn’t compare and it was far more shocking than I had imagined.” Duke Boris praised with a smile as soon as he sat down.

Xu Yi looked at the smiling Duke Boris who was very polite and found it a bit funny.

When he went to the Rudson Kingdom before, he had met this noble and aloof Lord Duke twice before, but in those two times, this Duke Boris never looked at him with a good look.

Now he not only took the initiative to lead a delegation to the Stantine Duchy, he even tried to flatter Xu Yi like this, it really was a clear difference.

The reason for this change was his goal in coming here this time.

Although the Rudson Kingdom had pushed back the Candra Empire, making the other countries of the continent hold them in high esteem, that didn’t mean that the Rudson Kingdom could compete with the Candra Empire.

Although the Candra Empire had been careful and didn’t launch a third invasion, they had fortified the troops that were on the border with the Candra Empire and firmly closed it. They had blocked the Rudson Kingdom from accessing any channels into their territory.

At the same time, the Candra Empire had officially listed the Rudson Kingdom as an enemy nation, asking the other countries of the continent to also blockade the Rudson Kingdom.

Because of the threat of the Candra Empire, other than those countries that were close to the Marlow Empire and supported them, all the countries near the Rudson Kingdom had agreed to this.

Even the Lampuri Kingdom who had a good relationship with the Candra Empire before, who had also secretly helped the Rudson Kingdom fight back the Candra Empire didn’t oppose this.

Of course, this was mainly because the Lampuri Kingdom and the Candra Empire had signed trade agreements. The Candra Empire had listed the Lampuri Kingdom as an allied nation, so naturally the Lampuri Kingdom couldn’t be as close to the Rudson Kingdom as before.

Because the countries that supported the Marlow Empire and opposed the Candra Empire were at least a thousand kilometers away, the Rudson Kingdom could be considered isolated.

The only exception was the Stantine Duchy.

The Stantine Duchy had never given a formal response to the blockade of the Rudson Kingdom that the Candra Empire had proposed, so they continued trading with the Rudson Kingdom like before, not caring about the warning and the threats of the Candra Empire.

Now that the Rudson Kingdom had come, naturally they were hoping to get some assistance from the Stantine Duchy to help deal with the blockade of the Candra Empire.

This was why the specifications of this delegation were so high. The leader was the parliament speaker Duke Boris and he was very polite after meeting Xu Yi.

“The Lord Duke’s praise are too much.” Xu Yi said with a smile, “I wonder, how has the Rudson Kingdom been recently?”

Hearing this question, the expressions of Duke Boris and the two vice leaders beside him became very ugly.

Duke Boris gave a dry laugh before shaking his head, “It isn’t that good. Chairman Xu, I think that you should be clear on the situation. Because of the Candra Empire’s blockade, our kingdom has been seriously impacted. In the past few months, there has been no exports of our products and many merchants in the city have gone bankrupt, with many of them even killing themselves.”

“Yes……” One of the vice leaders on the side, who was the one of the leaders of the Rudson Kingdom’s department of commerce, Count Gandal gave a deep sigh, “The kingdom’s business taxes have dropped by at least 60%. If this continues, it would be hard to imagine this year’s business taxes. The plans that were scheduled for next year will be stopped which will be bad for our kingdom.”

“It isn’t just the business tax, it’s also affecting the livelihoods of people. Although after getting the agricultural magic machines and the fertilizer, the kingdom’s grain yield has increased and there’s no need to worry about a famine, other than this, the kingdom is lacking other goods that we need because it’s being blocked.”

The other vice leader was the Rudson Kingdom’s department of civil welfare’s chief Count Anke, so naturally what he cared about was different from the rest.

“Right now, the most important problem is medicine. Most of our Rudson Kingdom’s medicine was imported from other countries, but now that there is the blockade, there are many essential medicines that we can’t buy. It isn’t enough to rely just on the medicine inside the kingdom and……”

After saying this, Count Anke looked depressed as tears appeared in his eyes.

“There was a flood in the kingdom’s southeast last month which caused serious damage and even a plague. When we left the kingdom, there were already two hundred people who died from the plague. If we don’t take care of this medicine problem soon, there will be more and more people dying…..”

Duke Boris and Count Gandal both had the same heavy expressions, confirming that what Count Anke was saying wasn’t false.

Xu Yi was a bit surprised.

Although he knew that the Rudson Kingdom would be heavily affected by the Candra Empire’s blockade, he never thought it would be this serious, which was a bit surprising to him.

“Chairman Xu……”