Magic Industry Empire - 1095. Chapter 1095

The location of Door City is delicate.

This city originally belonged to the Frankish kingdom, and was located to the north of the Frankish kingdom, close to the border between the Frankish kingdom and the Marlow Empire.

Because the northern part of the Frankish Kingdom and the Malo Empire is also divided by a mountain range, and Dole City is stuck at the exit of a valley with different numbers of mountains that can be passed through, which can be regarded as holding this connecting Frankish kingdom. The position of the throat of the main road of communication with the Marlow Empire.

In the past, the Frankish Kingdom and the Marlow Empire had always had a good relationship, which could be regarded as an alliance, so Dole City only served as a transportation hub.

And now with the demise of the Frankish Kingdom, the area where Dole City is located is divided into the Duchy of Drake, Dole City has changed, and its strategic location is extremely significant.

If the Maro Empire wants to invade again, Dole City is a point that cannot be ignored.

Therefore, Xu Yi cooperated with the Duchy of Drake this time, preparing to build a complete urban defense system for the Duchy of Drake. With this defense against the invasion of the Maro Empire, Dole City became the first choice.

As Xu Yi said, this system was developed to provide a complete magic protection system based on military magic machinery for the entire city, so that it can easily withstand the attacks of the Maro Empire.

The ultimate goal is to complete the defensive task even when the opponent even dispatches a magister, making Dole City become solid.

But this system has a very serious problem, that is, the cost is too high.

If you want to fully deploy such a system in a not-so-large city, Dole City, according to the budget made by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, you need to invest a minimum of more than 8 million gold coins.

Therefore, even if the New Flying Chamber of Commerce took the initiative, there was no way to install such a system for all the cities currently controlled by the Duchy of Drake, and could only select the final city layout.

Dole City is just one of them. Later, this system will be deployed in several cities near the northern border of the Malo Empire in the Principality of Drake, completely blocking the Malo Empire from invading the Principality of Drake. route.

For this reason, the total investment amount estimated by the Duchy of Drake is as high as 70 million gold coins.

Although the Duchy of Drake said that through the development of the magic industry industry in recent years, the financial income was guaranteed, but it was unable to make such a huge investment.

Therefore, according to the agreement between the two parties, the Principality of Drach will allocate one third of the various mineral resources on the 170,000 square kilometers of land in the original Franconian kingdom to be sold to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, and will use the remaining various types of mineral resources. The mineral resources are jointly developed with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which is regarded as payment.

Because the mineral resources involved in this agreement were too large, there were even some discordant voices in the Duchy of Delar, claiming that Grand Duke Caroline was simply taking advantage of the difficult-to-obtain mineral resources to please the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. It could even be said. It’s a traitor!

But from a practical point of view, with the current capabilities of the Duchy of Drake, there is no way to effectively develop and utilize these mineral resources. Instead, they are handed over to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce for cooperative development, which can be fully utilized.

The most important thing is that the Duchy of Drake is inseparable from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

Without the support of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, the Duchy of Drake would never develop to the present level, nor would it be possible to fight against a behemoth like the Maro Empire.

Therefore, compared to the voices of doubt and opposition, Duke Drake still has the most voices in support of Grand Duke Caroline.

This time, the Duchy of Drake directly annexed the land of the Frankish kingdom of up to 170,000 square kilometers, which expanded the territory of the Duchy of Drake by nearly twenty times. It can be said that the Duchy of Drake has been completed for more than three hundred years. The greatest of all, even the feats that the former Duke Draco dare not even imagine.

Supported by such achievements, the prestige of Grand Duke Caroline is naturally beyond doubt.

Because of this, there are already many nobles in Principality Drake who have voiced their hopes that Duke Caroline will be crowned directly as king, but Duke Caroline vetoed it.

“How could I not understand the thoughts of these guys.” Duke Caroline’s still gorgeous face showed a disdainful smile. “They are just expecting me to be crowned as king, and then re-subscribe again. Hmph, these guys are staring at this newly acquired land. This group of ignorant guys must be full of heads now. Thinking of gaining a larger territory.”

“This is normal, after all, it is a nobleman. Gaining more territory is originally the tradition of the nobleman, and it also represents the glory of the nobleman.” Xu Yi smiled.

“Cut, even if I gave them a large territory, do they have the ability to hold it?” The mockery on Duke Caroline’s face became deeper. “It’s just like you. Xu Yi, you still have the title of earl in the Principality of Stantin, right? How many territories do you have, does it have any influence on you? Could anyone look at you because your territory is not big enough? Nothing?”

“I have always emphasized that my identity is a businessman, nobleman or magician, it’s just incidental.” Xu Yi shrugged and said with a relaxed expression: “It’s not as meaningful as the size of my territory. Come and me, who makes more money than every year.”

“Money earned every year?” Grand Duke Caroline glanced up and down Xu Yi and squinted slightly. “Xu Yi, can you tell me how much money your New Flying Chamber of Commerce can make in one year now?”

Xu Yi suddenly laughed: “This is not a shameful secret. You don’t need to ask in this tone. Let me tell you the truth. Last year, our Chamber of Commerce made about 150 million gold coins a year.”

“One hundred and fifty million gold coins!” Grand Duke Caroline took a breath. “The gods are here! I always know that your chamber of commerce makes a lot of money, but I never thought that you made so much! Our principality’s annual fiscal revenue is less than 20 million gold coins!”

“That’s when you were just a small principality. Now that you have obtained this large area of territory, as long as you run it well, I think in a few years your fiscal revenue in one year can easily exceed ours.” Xu Yi smiled. “In addition, I need to tell you the fact that the income statement of our chamber of commerce at the end of this year may be difficult to read.”

“This is not surprising. After all, your new flying chamber of commerce guards also directly participated in the war this year. Fighting is a very costly thing. If it weren’t for the military magic machinery you produced to have an absolute advantage in combat effectiveness, the war would last for a long time, regardless of our principality. It’s your chamber of commerce, and in the end it will definitely be dragged down by the two huge empires of the Maro Empire and the Candela Empire.”

“You are right, so we can’t delay, we must end this war in the shortest time.” Xu Yizheng said.

“How to do it?” Grand Duke Caroline frowned. “The Maro Empire and the Candela Empire are too deep, and they both have so many magisters. When we face them, we can only be completely passive. It is up to them to decide when to end the war.”

“That’s not necessarily. As long as it hurts them and let them know that continuing to maintain the state of war will only hurt them more deeply, they will actively choose to end the war.” Xu Yi showed a dangerous smile. “First of all, what I need to tell them is that Magisters are not that safe.”

Grand Duke Caroline looked at Xu Yi suspiciously.

In the past few years, Xu Yi has shown indifference or even disdain for the Magister more than once, which makes her very strange.

It stands to reason that Xu Yi is already a magister himself, so he should know better than anyone how terrifying the magister’s ability is.

Although the military magic machinery developed by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is equally powerful, the most terrifying thing about the Magister is that he is far more flexible than military magic machinery, and it is difficult to really limit it.

Moreover, the magister is not very laborious to use the forbidden spell like the great magician. Once a magister is used to do it with all his strength, the destructive power caused is extremely terrifying.

If it’s just defense, maybe you can think of a way. But if you want to counterattack, it will be a headache for the powerful destructive power of the Magister.

This is why Grand Duke Caroline believes that although they easily defeated the Candela Empire, the Malo Empire and the regular army of other countries on the frontal battlefield, they still occupy an absolute disadvantage in the overall situation.

With the military magic machinery produced by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, they can easily resist the attacks of the two empire camps, but it is basically useless to counterattack.

Not to mention the magister, judging from the background of both sides, that is too far away.

“Our best choice now should be to consolidate the results we have obtained so far, absorb them well, and then improve our own strength, so that we can have the capital to truly compete with the two empires. If we act rashly, I don’t think it is a good choice… …” Hearing the hint of madness revealed in Xu Yi’s words, Grand Duke Caroline couldn’t help but persuade.

“This is your choice as the leader of a country. It’s true. But…” Xu Yi smiled and patted her on the shoulder. “Have you ever thought about a question, what is it that our side can easily defeat the two empires on the battlefield now?”

“Of course it depends on the military magic machinery provided by your chamber of commerce, can there be others?” Grand Duke Caroline asked in confusion.

“That’s right, but it’s not completely accurate.” Xu Yi shook his head lightly. “In fact, in the many battles with the two empires this time, we can find that the two empires actually have a certain degree of research on military magic machinery, and many military magic machinery have been put into practical use. And we Can easily defeat them, relying on the current technical advantages of our Chamber of Commerce in military magic machinery. Have you ever thought about it, if the time is long, our Chamber of Commerce has no technical advantages on this, what will be the result?”

Grand Duke Caroline’s face changed slightly: “No… Your chamber of commerce’s military magic machinery is obviously stronger than them. How could they be caught up.”

“Nothing is impossible in this world. So we have to take advantage of their current technology in this area is still at an absolute disadvantage, to win enough for ourselves.”

“Are you planning to…” Caroline looked at Xu Yi suspiciously.

Xu Yi smiled and patted her shoulder again: “Waiting for my good news.”