Magic Industry Empire - 953. Chapter 953

Xu Yi did not deliberately avoid seeing him, as the Grand Mage Ferguson thought, but something really happened.

After more than half a year of preparation, the first offshore base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has officially entered the state of construction.

Xu Yi attaches great importance to this overseas base, so this time he went there personally to show everyone his importance.

This first overseas base is located at the junction of the southern seas of the Principality of Stantin and the southern seas of the Kingdom of Ruelson. It is more than two hundred kilometers away from the nearest coast, and is slightly south of the shipping route planned by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. More than kilometers.

If this base is built, the New Flying Merchants Association will have a real foothold in the southern waters of the Endless Sea.

Any fleet and personnel of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce can come to this base to obtain adequate supplies and shelter, but this is only limited to the personnel and ships belonging to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, but it is not open to the outside world.

Simply put, this is an extension of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in the endless sea. Its mission is not just a simple supply task like the small supply bases established by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce on several islands before. It is a military base where two escorts of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce will be stationed throughout the year, and it also has a military base with 2,000 escorts of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

In addition to the active military force, this base established on Julu Island, the largest island in the southern waters of the Ruelson Kingdom, will gradually add up to 150 magic artillery, Five hundred magic trebuchets, combined with the powerful firepower brought by the powerful military magic machinery equipped by the 2,000 new flying chamber of commerce escorts, and the powerful dominance of the two escort fleets over the sea, it can be said that this The island is solid.

“Chairman Xu, with such a powerful force here, even if the Candela Imperial Navy is dispatched, I am afraid I can only do nothing about it.”

Standing next to Xu Yi is General Kassadin Monroe, one of the four commanders of the Army of the Ruelson Kingdom.

Seeing a hideous magic artillery and a magic trebuchet from the huge cargo ship, which was transported first and installed in the settlement points built in advance on the shore of the island, he couldn’t help sighing with emotion.

Xu Yi glanced at him and smiled slightly: “With the strength of the Candela Imperial Navy, they still don’t have the courage to do anything to us. But when the Candela Imperial Navy develops in the future, it won’t be easy to say.”

“This…” General Monroe hesitated for a moment, and grudgingly said with a smile: “President Xu, in fact, as long as your Chamber of Commerce does not continue to sell frigates to the Candela Imperial Navy… I think they will never be able to threaten here.”

Xu Yi’s expression on his face looked like a smile instead of a smile, and asked, “Why don’t we sell it if we have money?”

General Monroe’s expression suddenly suffocated, and he was speechless.

After being silent for a while, he sighed, shook his head lightly, pondered in his heart, and continued to ask: “So… President Xu, the matter of selling us the frigate of the Ruelson Kingdom…”

Xu Yi extended a hand to General Monroe: “I said it a long time ago. It’s very simple. Pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other.”

General Monroe could only smile wryly again: “President Xu, you know we can’t spend so much money now.”

“Then you should think of other ways.”

Xu Yi smiled slightly, thinking that General Monroe was right when he said that the Kingdom of Ruelson is indeed out of money now.

Although the two successive invasions of the Candela Empire were repelled, the reputation of the Ruelson Kingdom on the Sainz Continent was greatly increased.

However, the huge empire that completely offended the Candela Empire, one of the two major empires on the continent, still brought huge disasters to the Ruelson Kingdom.

Although the Candela Empire suffered from two consecutive defeats, it did not dare to easily invade the Ruelson Kingdom again, but after all, there was a huge gap in national strength between the two countries. After the war, the Candela Empire immediately imposed a complete blockade on the Ruelson Kingdom, which easily made it The Ruelson Kingdom almost completely cut off contact with the outside world.

Originally, the Ruelson Kingdom had been relying on exporting a large number of materials and commodities to other countries because of its relatively rich products, and had a good life. However, because of the blockade of the Candela Empire, the Ruelson Kingdom not only could not export many products of the new type of magic machinery industry. , The traditional export of various types of wood, minerals and unique handicrafts was also hit hard.

If it hadn’t been for the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to lend a helping hand at a critical moment, repelling the Candela Imperial Navy, ensuring that the Ruelson Kingdom can still have an export such as the southern seaport, and helping the Ruelson Kingdom to transport most of the domestic products. Going to further places for trade and sales, the current Ruelson Kingdom has already become chaotic due to the blockade.

However, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce can only help the Ruelson Kingdom to retain a sea passage, but cannot break through the blockade of the Candela Empire on land, so the development path of the Ruelson Kingdom is greatly limited.

Although the current domestic situation in the Ruelson Kingdom is still stable, and even the majority of the people are living better than before because of the stability of the magic machinery industry, it is difficult to go further and achieve greater development.

Regarding this situation, how can King Trutz, who has always been ambitious, bear it?

Breaking through the blockade of the powerful Candela Empire on land is absolutely impossible with the current national strength of the Ruelson Kingdom. Therefore, the Ruelson Kingdom decided to form a navy of its own to completely break through the blockade of the Candela Empire from the sea. , To operate this maritime trade channel on its own.

To achieve this, of course, it is inseparable from the support of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

If you don’t buy a sufficient number of frigates and corresponding military magic machinery from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, breaking through the blockade of the Candela Imperial Navy is simply a dream.

However, whether the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce or Xu Yihas, their attitude towards the request made by the Ruelson Kingdom has always been ambiguous, and they have not explicitly rejected it, but they are not willing to accommodate.

Xu Yi has always said that as long as the Ruelson Kingdom comes up with money, the New Flying Merchants Association will sell them the magic warships and matching military magic machinery they want.

But the Ruelson Kingdom just has no money…

The combined price of a frigate and supporting military magic machinery is 1.4 million gold coins!

And the total revenue of the Ruelson Kingdom last year was only 9.3 million gold coins. If all of them were taken out, only seven ships could be bought. How could it be possible to form a complete escort fleet.

However, the Ruelson Kingdom is still very clear that the price given by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is indeed very fair.

You know, the price of a frigate they sold to the Candela Imperial Navy was 1.5 million gold coins, and there were a lot of supporting equipment missing.

So in fact, the current offer of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to the Kingdom of Ruelson is already a very conscientious price, and there is no way to blame.

However, the problem is that the Ruelson Kingdom can’t even get this amount of money…

Hearing Xu Yi’s “think about other ways”, the bitter smile on General Monroe’s face became more intense.

Of course he understood what Xu Yi meant.

The New Flying Chamber of Commerce has always been very interested in the rich mineral resources in the Ruelson Kingdom, and has always hoped that the Ruelson Kingdom can fully open the mineral resources to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, but King Trutz has never agreed to this request.

Even if the Ruelson Kingdom was invaded by the Candela Empire before, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce had the greatest support to the Ruerson Kingdom. During the period when the relationship between the two was the closest, King Trutz gave the New Flying Chamber of Commerce a lot of convenience in other aspects. Conditions, but there is still no relaxation in opening up mineral resources.

The “other methods” Xu Yi is talking about now undoubtedly refers to this point.

If the Ruelson Kingdom is willing to agree to the request of the New Flying Merchants Association to open up mineral resources, and even sell a few more minerals to the New Flying Merchants Association, then General Monroe can be sure that the New Flying Merchants Association will readily sell them enough. The frigate, even the more advanced military magic machinery they had always hoped for before.

But General Monroe knew very well in his heart that the reason why His Majesty King Trutz had been reluctant to agree to the request of the New Flying Merchants Association was also for the sake of the long-term development of the Ruelson Kingdom.

Now the several countries in the southwest corner of Sainz Continent have already been very clear that the magic industry industry brought by the New Flying Merchants Association not only brought some novel gadgets and powerful military magic machinery, But it is an extremely important industry that can change the overall appearance of a country.

Since this is the case, then every country has been very focused on the development of its own magic industry industry.

Although the Ruelson Kingdom is not as good as the Lampari Kingdom in this respect, it has the unique conditions that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce strongly supports, but under the attention of King Trutz, the magic industry has been developing very well.

However, at the core of the magic industry, in addition to technology, the most important thing is materials.

The so-called materials correspond to various mineral resources in most cases.

The reason why the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is so thirsty for all kinds of mineral resources, to put it bluntly, is to meet the needs of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to produce all kinds of magic machinery.

The Principality of Stantin is a poorly small principality after all. Even if the New Flying Chamber of Commerce controls the entire Principality of Stantin, there are only a few mineral resources that can be held in its hands.

Therefore, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce will continue to ask other countries for various mineral resources, and it is normal to keep making this request to the Ruelson Kingdom.

In fact, both the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and the Ruelson Kingdom knew this situation well, so this contradiction was actually clear.

The difference is that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce cannot meet the needs here in the Ruelson Kingdom. It can also look for cooperation with other countries on the mainland. There are many options.

However, the Ruelson Kingdom had the only option for the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

So General Monroe was silent for a long time, but he could only nod slightly.

“I will return President Xu your ideas to His Majesty the King, and hope that His Majesty the King can change his mind.”

Xu Yi glanced in the direction of the Northeast Ruelson Kingdom.

“hope so.”