Magic Industry Empire - 954. Chapter 954

According to the preliminary plan, the investment in the Julu Island offshore base of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce will exceed 20 million gold coins, and the construction time is expected to exceed three years at a minimum. It can be said to be the first mega project since the establishment of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

When this sea base is completely completed, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce will have a stronghold in the southern waters of the endless sea that can be attacked, retreated and defended.

In addition, the location of this base was extremely clever, just blocking all sea lanes from the southern waters of the Endless Sea to the Duchy of Stantin.

Any ship that wants to go to the Principality of Stantin through the sea channel cannot completely escape the control of this base. This is equivalent to setting up a gate in the southern waters, so that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce no longer has to worry about sudden incidents from the southern waters. attack.

For Xu Yi, this sea base is just an attempt.

As long as he has accumulated enough experience, when the conditions are right, he will inevitably expand this sea base from the endless sea all the way, and eventually cover the endless sea, forming a chain of sea bases on the endless sea. Cooperating with the small bases distributed on various islands, it will form the most complete control over the entire endless sea.

The reason for doing this is actually just a conjecture derived from Xu Yi.

Through all kinds of detailed observations that have traveled to Sainz for so many years, Xu also determined that this world should still be on a planet similar to the Earth, rather than a world in an inexplicable space.

In this case, he firmly believes that this world is definitely not just the continent of Sainz.

Moreover, all races on this continent have legends about other continents, which indirectly proves Xu Yi’s conjecture.

Well, since this world is not just a continent, it was extremely mysterious and unpredictable in the eyes of many people. It can be said that the endless sea that no stranger should enter has become a treasure house with countless treasures in Xu Yi’s eyes.

He firmly believes that with absolute control over the endless sea, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has endless possibilities, and is no longer confined to Sainz Continent, a land that has long been divided up by the great powers.

However, the price to be paid to achieve this goal is also quite staggering.

According to preliminary estimates, the construction of this offshore base on Julu Island requires investment of at least 20 million gold coins, and the annual fixed investment will never be less than 3 million gold coins.

A new maritime base can easily afford it, but if it becomes ten or even dozens, it will be a huge burden.

So while building this offshore base, Xu Yi is already considering the possibility of profitability from this offshore base.

But for now, he doesn’t have any clues yet…

This time, Xu Yi spent a full week at the sea base in one breath. After seeing the foundation of the sea base taking shape, he took the magic airship and left for the southern military port of the Candela Empire farther to the northeast.

Compared to the Ruelson Kingdom’s desire for frigates, the Candela Empire is much more straightforward.

Although the relationship between the two parties is not very harmonious on the surface, the Candela Empire officials will not contact the New Flying Chamber of Commerce with fanfare, but in private, many people in the Candela Empire are actively contacting the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, trying to seek cooperate.

One of the most positive is the Candela Imperial Navy.

Because it chose to open three military ports after cooperating with the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, in just the last six months, the Candela Imperial Navy has received an astonishing tax revenue of up to three million gold coins through the extremely prosperous shipping.

Coupled with the influx of seas, the three military cities and the entire southern province of Tural have brought prosperity that was unthinkable before. It has also increased the tax revenues of these places and made it practical. The Candela Imperial Navy, which controls this large area, has benefited a lot from it.

The first thing the Candela Imperial Navy did, which had tasted the benefits, was disarmament…

Don’t be surprised, it is disarmament.

When the Candela Imperial Navy announced that it would lay off up to 60% of the service personnel in the Imperial Navy and at the same time cut nearly half of the naval warships, everyone was surprised.

Most people believe that this must be due to the tight annual budget of the Candela Imperial Army. In the end, it was forced to cut the navy budget drastically in order to ensure the army’s budget, leading to substantial layoffs and reductions in warships.

However, in fact, these actions were proposed by the Candela Imperial Navy to the Military Department, and were finally approved by the Military Department and the Imperial Chamber and His Majesty the Emperor.

The reason for this, of course, is to reduce the current high expenditure of 25 million gold coins in the Candela Imperial Navy every year.

After the disarmament, the annual expenditure of the Candela Imperial Navy will directly save more than 10 million gold coins. With the corresponding income now obtained through the opening of the three military ports and surrounding cities, the Candela Imperial Navy will even be able to spend as much as one thousand eighteen within a year. A huge sum of millions of gold coins.

The reason why the Candela Imperial Navy tried to save such a large sum of money, of course, was to buy more magic frigates from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

This is something that the Candela Empire and the New Flying Chamber of Commerce have agreed long ago, so the New Flying Chamber of Commerce took this huge order worth 15 million gold coins in one go.

Of course, this is not enough for Xu Yi to go to the Candela Empire in person. He came this time, besides signing a new batch of magic frigate sales agreement on behalf of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and the Candela Empire Navy, the main purpose is to come. Meet the Duke of Peresco, governor of the province of Tural.

Because of the increasing prosperity of shipping in the southern part of the Candela Empire, the booming magic industry in several countries in the southwestern corner of the Sainz continent has also been brought into the Candela Empire. Province.

Now in the province of Tural, you can see all kinds of magic machinery and various products related to the magic industry.

There are even several magic machinery chambers other than the New Flying Chamber of Commerce that have invested in the province of Tular, and opened several magic machinery factories, turning Tular province into an emerging magic in the Candela Empire. Industrial Base.

Compared with the magic industrial base near the capital city of Wimbledon, which was officially presided over by the Candela Empire, the development of the magic industry in the province of Tulare is slightly fragmented, but it is more dynamic and the development momentum is much better.

But Duke Peresco is obviously not satisfied with this.

No matter how good the development of the magic industry industry in the province of Tular, but the lack of the participation of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, it always seems to be missing something, so he took the initiative to send an invitation to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce through the Candela Imperial Navy as an intermediary. I hope Xu Yi can come to the province of Tural for cooperation and negotiation.

This is the first time in the Candela Empire that a person at the level of the governor of a province has officially sent an invitation to the New Flying Merchants Association, revealing his willingness to cooperate, and Xu Yi naturally attaches great importance to it.

However, Xu Yi did not expect that at the banquet hosted by Duke Peresko, there was an extra guest who was completely unexpected.

“Chairman Xu, this is Duke Chris Windsor, governor of the southern province of the empire. I think you must have heard of his name.” He also gave an introduction, and then stepped aside, putting on a posture of standing idly by.

“The Duke of Windsor?” Xu Yi looked at the unexpected guest opposite, who looked quite majestic. He was born of a nobleman, but he was a plain middle-aged man, the Duke of Windsor, the Governor of the Southern Province?

The Candela Empire has different attitudes towards the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. There are those who support it, and of course there are those who oppose it.

Among those who oppose the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, the Duke of Windsor is definitely one of the most prominent and conspicuous.

One is because as the governor of the southern provinces, he is equivalent to a prince in the Candela Empire. He has an extremely powerful voice, and any statement will have a great impact.

Secondly, his actions were also quite amazing.

Compared with other people’s opposition to the New Flying Merchants Association, most of them are just shouting slogans. The governor of the southern provinces actually directly ordered the rejection of any goods related to the New Flying Merchants Association to enter the southern provinces, completely cutting off the southern provinces and the new provinces. The link between the flying chambers of commerce.

This approach is almost like a deep hatred with his new flying business association.

Of course, Xu Yi still knew very well that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce had already forged an enmity with the Duke of Windsor because of the affairs of the Duchess of Windsor and the Earl of Dole.

Later, the Duke of Windsor actually sent a private guard to invade the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, which completely violated Xu Yi’s bottom line.

The private guards were almost completely wiped out in the Duchy of Stantin by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, which also caused the Duke of Windsor and the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to forge private feuds.

Therefore, Xu Yi was not surprised that the Duke of Windsor would oppose the New Flying Merchants Association so decisively. After the Duke of Windsor put on such a decisive posture to refuse the New Flying Merchants Association to enter the southern provinces, he gave up the idea of opening the southern provinces market.

Anyway, the Candela Empire has dozens of provinces, but there is no shortage of the southern province.

It is precisely because he is very clear about these issues that Xu Yi has no idea why the Duke of Windsor is here.

He did not believe that the Duke of Peresco did not know the attitude of the Duke of Windsor to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, nor did he believe that the Duke of Windsor did not know that the guests that the Duke of Peresco would entertain today were himself.

So the reason for this arrangement must be of ulterior motives.

Xu Yi and the Duke of Windsor remained silent at the same time, looking at each other.

After unceremoniously looking at the Duke of Windsor for a while, Xu Yi suddenly flashed in his mind, opened his mouth slightly, and looked a little surprised.

Then he reacted again, the surprised expression on his face instantly changed into a friendly smile, and he reached out to the Duke of Windsor.

“My Lord Duke, this is our first meeting. I hope this can be a good opportunity for us to cooperate happily. Are you right?”

The Duke of Windsor stared at Xu Yi for a while, stretched out his hand to hold Xu Yi gently, and said solemnly, “President Xu, I hope you won’t let me down.”