Magic Industry Empire - 559. Chapter 559

Many people were quite puzzled about Leslie’s decision on his future arrangements, and Xu Yi was even more surprised.

Because Leslie actually wants to ride on the endless sea in the future, and his dream is to become the overlord of the sea!

When he heard Leslie say this idea, Xu Yi almost blamed him directly for being whimsical.

Overlord of the sea?

Even the sea can’t be touched, so what kind of overlord to talk about!

Due to the limitations of craftsmanship in this world, it is impossible to produce large enough and strong enough large ships for ocean voyages.

In the history of Sainz mainland, only the Candela Empire ever tried once, built twenty huge wooden sea ships, and formed a fleet for ocean voyages, claiming to explore the legendary endless In the depths of the sea, there is another continent far away.

However, this fleet only went out to sea for less than three days before it encountered a storm. In the end, all 20 wooden ships were crushed by the storm, and most of the explorers on board were killed, with fewer than ten people. Luckily survived.

Since then, the people on Sainz mainland have cut off the idea of ocean navigation, and even listed the endless sea as a forbidden zone.

Except for people living on the seashore who can find opportunities to fish in the offshore waters, at other times, no one dares to step into the depths of the endless sea even half a step.

Now Leslie actually claims that he wants to become the overlord of the sea…If he only rules the offshore part, it has nothing to do with the strength of the sea, but the decisive factor is the strength on the coastline.

“Xu Yi, you are all old ideas on Sainz mainland, now it’s out of date.” Leslie looked at Xu Yi in confusion. “It’s really strange. You clearly proposed the design concept and participated in the research and development of this magic ship, but now you tell me that ocean voyage is a luxury? Are you so insecure about what you have designed?”

“It is precisely because I designed this thing by myself, so I know its limitations better than anyone else.” Xu Yizheng said. “Although I can say with certainty that this magic ship is far more capable of resisting storms than wooden ships, and is much better in terms of safety in ocean navigation, but it only improves safety from zero. It’s only one, there is no particularly exaggerated improvement, and there is no guarantee that you will survive at sea.”

“According to what you said, isn’t this thing much better than those wooden boats? Then what did you put so much effort into building him?” Leslie frowned, looking disappointed. “I thought that with this thing, I could accomplish the dream of sailing the entire endless sea that I had since I was a child.”

“I promise you this dream will come true in the future, but not now.” Xu Yi shook his head and said with a serious tone: “I will give you a more practical suggestion. First set the goal realistically, and don’t expect to sail too far as soon as you come up. The place. Ocean sailing is a thing that requires a lot of experience. You might as well take it one step at a time and explore it a little bit.”

Leslie glared back at Xu Yi: “Do you think I’m an idiot? Of course, I wouldn’t be like the idiots of the Candela Empire before, rushing into the depths of the endless sea as soon as I got up. My original plan was to think Use this magic ship you developed to explore the depths of the endless sea little by little. Do you think I will plunge into it like a fool?”

Xu Yi couldn’t help rolling his eyes.

After doing it for a long time, he was worried.

“Well, how do you plan to do it?” Xu Yi asked again: “This medium-sized magic freighter is priced at 800,000 gold coins by our Chamber of Commerce. I don’t think you can get so much now. The money is coming.”

“800,000 gold coins?” Leslie was taken aback. “So expensive?”

“Of course.” Xu Yi said proudly. “This medium-sized magic freighter has a queuing capacity of 5,000 tons, and the cargo capacity can even exceed 3,000 tons. In other words, if it is full of cargo, it can be transported hundreds of times on land with one run. Do you think it’s expensive? I think it’s very cheap.”

“Can carry three thousand tons of cargo at a time?” Leslie glanced at the medium-sized magic freighter that was sailing slowly along the coastline in the blue waves of the endless sea after the launching ceremony had been held in the distance, and nodded: “If it is In this case, it is indeed worth so much money. But Xu Yi, it seems that my initial estimate was wrong. In fact, what I need most now is not this kind of cargo magic ship, but something similar to those small magic assault boats. A battle magic ship with soldiers.”

“Magic ships for battle?” Xu Yi frowned slightly and looked at Leslie in surprise. “Why? Do you want to be a pirate?”

Leslie laughed and did not answer.

After a glance at the slightly weird smile on his face, Xu Yip didn’t ask much. After thinking about it, he nodded and said, “It’s actually easy. You only need to make some necessary modifications and add some weapons on it. And defense facilities can meet the requirements.”

“Well, I need something slightly smaller than these medium-sized magic freighters, with magic mechanical weapons on them, such as military magic ships such as small magic trebuchets, and the best speed can be faster than now. How about, Xu Yi? Can it be done?”

Xu Yi spread his hands: “It can be done, but with the current production capacity of our Chamber of Commerce, it may not be able to complete one ship in half a year. If you are in a hurry, you will definitely not be able to do it. And if you order it according to your requirements. , Although the cost is much lower than that of a medium-sized magic freighter, I am afraid it will not be less than 400,000 gold coins. Are you sure you want it?”

“OK.” Leslie nodded affirmatively, then took out a gold ticket from his arms and stuffed it into Xu Yi’s hand. “This is the first order. I hope you can deliver it as soon as possible.”

Xu Yi glanced at it and found that the gold ticket issued by the Chimera Chamber of Commerce amounted to 50,000 gold coins, which was suitable as a deposit for a small magic warship with a price of about 500,000 gold coins.

But Xu Yi still doesn’t understand what Leslie intends to do.

Large-scale sea-going vessels are not just buying, and the subsequent maintenance costs should also not be underestimated. If you can’t get enough benefits from it, it may not be a good thing to own these things.

Xu Yi’s vigorous research and development of the magic ship is to advance the research and development process of the new flying chamber of commerce in magic machinery and improve the existing magic industry system. On the other hand, he intends to form an ocean freight fleet to satisfy Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has increasingly urgent transportation needs.

And if Leslie wants to buy a few military ships, if he is not going to be a pirate, then this thing can be equivalent to a bottomless pit, can only continue to throw money into it.

Even if Leslie was not driven out of the house by the Duke of Stark and had the huge financial support of the Stark family, it would be difficult to do this kind of loss-making business.

And now that even his territory has been taken back by the Lampari Kingdom Council, it is even more impossible to have such financial resources.

However, Leslie obviously did not intend to explain his plan to Xu Yi, and Xu Yi naturally would not ask what happened.

Compared to Leslie’s indifferent attention to this medium-sized magic freighter, Xu Yi paid more attention to it.

The ability to successfully manufacture this medium-sized magic freighter means that Xinfei merchants have achieved breakthroughs in many technical aspects.

The first of these is engine technology.

Although both the magic locomotive engine and the magic ship engine are wind-based magic engines, they are roughly the same in principle, but in fact they are very different.

Regardless of the Magic Research Institute and the Magic Machine Tool R&D Center, the research and development of the magic locomotive engine and the magic ship engine are separate.

Now that this medium-sized magic cargo ship has been successfully manufactured and sailed smoothly on the sea, it shows that the research and development of the magic ship engine has made a major breakthrough, and it also means that the research and development of the new flying chamber of commerce on the wind system magic engine has reached a new level. In turn, it will promote the development of magic locomotive engines.

For example, in the recent period, with the launch of the magic ship and the above research breakthroughs, the research and development of the new flying chamber of commerce magic locomotive engine has also made great progress. In the test, it has successfully developed a large-scale car with a cargo capacity of more than 20 tons. Cargo magic locomotive.

However, due to the inherent disadvantage of the wind magic engine, there is still no way to make a major breakthrough in speed.

At this point, we can only wait for the development of the fire magic engine to make progress.

In addition to the engine, the successful manufacturing of this medium-sized magic freighter also includes another breakthrough in the large-scale magic machinery of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, which includes the most basic steel welding, large-scale parts forming and casting, and the overall design combination of large-scale magic machinery. …And so on, the process of designing and manufacturing this medium-sized magic freighter has been significantly improved.

It took nearly two years for this medium-sized magic cargo ship from Xu Yi to put forward the concept at the beginning to the real successful construction now.

Even on the earth, this is already a very fast speed.

And on this groundless Sainz continent, it is even more miraculous speed.

Now that the medium-sized magic freighter has been successfully launched, the time will obviously be much faster when the second medium-sized magic freighter is built.

After the New Flying Chamber of Commerce successfully set up the first ocean shipping fleet, the goods of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce can be more conveniently transported to various places on the Sainz continent through the endless sea.

Take the Kingdom of Ruelson as an example.

Now that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce wants to transport the various magic machinery produced to the Ruelson Kingdom, because of the terrain restrictions of the Duchy of Stantin, it can only pass through the Black Rice Wasteland, enter the Kingdom of Lampari, and then pass through Bangta City. , Turned to the south, and finally entered the Kingdom of Ruelson.

After such a trip, the total mileage will be close to one thousand kilometers, not to mention the high transportation cost, but also because the middle of the Kingdom of Lampari must pay an additional tariff, the total transportation cost is extremely high.

Once the ocean-going fleet is completed, these cargoes can be loaded directly on the cargo ships here, and then make a small circle from the south of the Duchy of Stantin, and finally land on the coastline of the south of the Kingdom of Ruelson.

There is no need to pay any extra fees in the middle, and coupled with the super cargo capacity of the magic cargo ship, one transportation is enough to cover countless land transportations, which will undoubtedly reduce the cost significantly.

Moreover, if you transport from the endless sea, you can easily reach the farther countries with coastlines on the Sainz continent. This is why Xu Yi wants to promote the magic machinery produced by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to the entire competition. Enns continent is very helpful.

It’s just that the current production capacity of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is quite insufficient. Even if the test is successful now, the construction time of the next medium-sized magic freighter will take several months at the earliest.

When an ocean-going transportation fleet can be formed, I am afraid it will be a few years later at the earliest.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn’t help but glanced at Leslie angrily.

Originally, his own schedule was urgent enough, and this guy now has to run sideways.

It’s a waste of time!