Watching the office door slowly closing, Xu Yi curled the fingers of his right hand on the table, tapping the table lightly while frowning slightly, lost in thought.
He had known Kennard for more than twelve years, and Kennard had worked under him for a full twelve years.
In the past twelve years, Kennard has been an extremely outstanding CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, fully responsible for the specific internal management affairs of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and many external affairs.
It has to be said that Kennard is worthy of being a family successor carefully cultivated by the Emma family. He has super multi-faceted qualities and is very suitable for this management position that requires extremely strong abilities. He will build the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the past twelve years. Keeping everything organized saved Xu Yi a lot of energy and time.
If possible, Xu Yi certainly hopes that he can continue to work for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce until he eventually grows old.
However, Xu Yi smelled something unusual from what Kennard said just now.
That's ambition.
Yes, ambition.
During the twelve years that Kennard worked for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, he had basically been doing his best for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in accordance with the development strategy formulated by Xu Yi, and never exceeded the rules.
However, his proposal today revealed that he also had his own ambitions after all.
In other words, this can be regarded as representing the ambitions of many people within the Chamber of Commerce.
Xu Yi has always been willing to treat and operate Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as a simple chamber of commerce, and use this as the development direction of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
But many senior officials in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, including Kennard, may not think so.
In the past, when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was still small and not strong, this could not be reflected.
But after the conflict with the Magic Kingdom of Mana six years ago. And after this year’s conflict with the Dero Kingdom. Everyone found out. The strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has unknowingly become extremely powerful, and even the two major empires must be somewhat wary of it.
This made some people's minds become active, including Kennard.
Although Kennard's second proposal of "directly annihilating the Dero Kingdom" was mentioned by him, Xu Yi could tell that this was probably his true idea.
Unlike the Principality of Standing, if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce really sends troops to destroy the Dero Kingdom, then according to the rules of this continent and the current strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Then all countries and everyone on the continent will acquiesce that the Dero Kingdom will be included in the name of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
Xu Yi does not doubt this, nor does he doubt that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort team has the ability to do this.
But if it is true that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has incorporated the Dro Kingdom into its own name, then it cannot be like the Principality of Standing, which only uses a parliament as a cover to secretly control it. Instead, a government belonging to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce must be truly formed. organization to control.
And if this is really done, the nature of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will inevitably change, and it will officially transform from a normal chamber of commerce into a national organization.
This change is undoubtedly huge, but it is something that some of the senior officials of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce headed by Kennard are happy to see.
After all, the people on Sainz Continent, especially the nobles who are influenced by traditional thinking, attach great importance to the control of land.
In their view. No matter how powerful a businessman is, he cannot control enough land. In fact, their status is still far inferior to that of the nobles.
If the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can officially control the entire Dro Kingdom, it will be a huge leap for Kennard.
This was something Kennard had revealed to Xu Yi implicitly more than once when they worked together in the past few years.
And this time's statement can be considered very naked for him.
In other words, this time can be regarded as a test for him to test Xu Yi's attitude towards this.
If Xu Yi is willing to do this, then with the current strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it will not be difficult to achieve the destruction of the Dero Kingdom and make it completely fall under the name of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
And once this goal is achieved, then Xu Yi can fully imagine that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will definitely go further and further on this road in the future, and eventually embark on the road to dominate the entire continent.
At that time, I'm afraid that even if Xu Yi doesn't want to, he will have no choice but to do it himself.
"But I don't want to now..."
Xu Yi sighed lightly.
At this time, he really hoped that he was one of those overlord protagonists who was eager to conquer the entire world after traveling to another world, but he knew very well that he was not this type, and he really had no interest.
If you do it reluctantly, you may not get good results in the end.
Moreover, building a country and competing for hegemony on the entire continent is easy to say, but extremely difficult to do in practice.
Xu Yi didn't have the interest, let alone the time.
Therefore, Xu Yi could only apologize for the ambition in the hearts of Kennard and many senior officials of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
"Perhaps Kennard will regret that he followed the wrong person?" Xu Yi smiled mockingly, then after thinking for a while, he stood up and left the office.
After leaving the main building of the Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi drove the magic car all the way to the seaside.
It was already mid-August, which was the hottest stage.
The hot sun shines down from above, making the cabin of the Magic Car very hot.
Xu Yi did not turn on the magic air conditioner in the car. Instead, he opened all the windows, increased the speed, blew the oncoming hot wind, and drove towards the seaside at high speed.
It didn't take long for him to arrive at the observation tower set up on a cliff somewhere on the seaside.
"President, you are here again."
As soon as I got off the car, a clear shout came from above my head.
Xu Yi raised his head and glanced at the young man wearing the work uniform of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce who looked down from the observation deck. He smiled and raised his hand, and then flew up with the magic power in his body.
"Bensak, how is the situation? Have you noticed any movement in the past few days?" Xu Yi asked the young man while walking towards the side of the observation tower close to the Endless Sea.
"Nothing happened." The young man called Bensak shook his head. "If I find anything, I will definitely inform you as soon as possible."
"Yeah." Xu Yi nodded. No comment on this answer.
Arrive at the edge of the lookout. Xu Yi used a special telescope placed here to observe the sea in the distance, and found that because it was approaching afternoon, the bright sunlight reflected on the sea had already brought out a bright red color, and was no longer as white as at noon.
Xu Yi frowned slightly after staring at the junction of the horizon and the sky in the distance for a long time.
The ocean exploration fleet has been sailing for nearly ten months, but there is still no news coming back, which makes him feel a little worried.
Although the agreement was to complete this exploratory voyage within one year, it would depend on the speed of the magic ship. Even if the planet beneath our feet is larger than the earth, ten months is enough for the ocean exploration fleet to travel around the world two or three times without any problem.
Counting anything that happens along the way, ten months are more than enough.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn't help but look up at the sky.
He had considered this issue before. If a few communication satellites could be hung on this planet, he would not have to worry about information communication with the ocean exploration fleet.
But for the current Sainz continent, this technology is still too far away, and he can only be forced to accept the reality.
"President, have you encountered anything that bothers you?" Bensak on the side couldn't help but asked curiously when he saw Xu Yi frowning and staring at the sky.
Xu Yi turned his head and glanced. He smiled and waved his hand.
There are many things that worry him, but no matter whether it is the differences between the ideas of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce represented by Kennard and his own. Even if he couldn't communicate with the ocean exploration fleet, Bensack, a young man who was only responsible for guarding the observation tower here, couldn't help him.
After another glance at the sea level in the distance, Xu Yi patted Bensak on the shoulder, encouraged him a few words, and flew down, planning to leave.
"President, when will you come next time?" Bensak suddenly rushed over and shouted loudly.
Xu Yi waved his hand at him: "Come back when you are in the mood. You can watch carefully."
Bensak muttered and stepped back somewhat dejectedly.
He originally thought that the president had been coming here every other day recently, and maybe he had taken a fancy to him and planned to promote him in any special way, but now looking at the president's attitude, it seemed that he had no intention of doing so at all.
"Do you think we have to stay in this boring place?"
Hearing the sound of the magic car starting up from under the observation deck, Bensak sighed and moved closer to the special telescope to look at the sea level in the distance.
"What's so good about this? How could the president care so much? It's just the sea. It's not surprising at all. I..."
Bensak's eyes widened suddenly and he stared at the sky where it met the sea level in the distance. Then he quickly reacted and rushed to the edge of the observation deck as quickly as possible.
"President! There is a situation! There is a situation!"
At this time, Xu Yi had just started the magic car and completed the U-turn, and was about to leave when he suddenly heard Bensak's shout and stopped in surprise.
"What's going on?" Xu Yi stuck his head out of the car window and asked.
"That... seaside... there is... there is... over there..." Bensak waved his arms, looking incoherent. "There's... something's flying over!"
"Flying over?" Xu Yi was stunned.
His first thought was seabirds, and then he thought that if it were seabirds, Bensack would never be so excited.
Then he thought of another possibility.
"Is it the magic airship sent back by the ocean exploration fleet?"
Thinking of this, Xu Yi opened the car door, activated his magic power, and instantly reached the observation deck.
"Over there! Over there..." Bensak pointed to the sea in the distance and said eagerly to Xu Yi.
Xu Yi quickly walked to the special telescope, raised his eyes and looked into the distance.
After a moment, Xu Yi opened his mouth slightly and spit out a word full of exclamation.
"Dragon..." (To be continued...)