Today is May 7th. It is not a special day for the Principality of Standing or the entire Sainz continent, because it is neither a festival nor any special event. It is no different from ordinary days. .
But for Xu Yi, this day was a little special.
Because... this is the day when he traveled to this world.
Moreover, May 7th of this year happens to be exactly 20 years since he traveled to this world.
I remember this day ten years ago, which was exactly ten years after Xu Yi traveled to this world. Xu Yi deliberately came to a pure place by himself, calmed down and stayed alone for a while. To remember your time on earth.
However, on this day that has passed twenty years this year, he does not have much meaning to remember it.
He has been in this world for a long time, and when he thinks about his time on earth, except for a trace of yearning for his relatives on earth, in fact, he does not even feel any sadness or sentimentality at all.
Now, he is a complete mainland Sainz, who has his family, his career, and his ideals here.
Many times when he thinks about this, he feels that compared to living a mediocre life as an ordinary researcher at a research institute on earth, it is actually more difficult to travel to this world than to live a mediocre life. , striving to help the world create a complete industrial system, and striving to achieve comprehensive industrialization is more meaningful and more fulfilling.
You see, when you walk on the streets now, you can see flat roads and magic motorcycles speeding on the roads everywhere, indicating a huge change in the transportation methods of people in this world.
Tall, sturdy buildings with more than ten floors or even higher can be seen everywhere on both sides of the road. Together with the various household magic machines in the rooms, it marks an equally huge change in the living quarters of people in this world.
The people walking on the street are all full of energy, their faces are glowing, and they look extremely healthy, which shows that people have improved their diet.
As for the clothes they wear, they are even more colorful. There are various styles, which are no longer the same as the gray and white clothes that Xu Yi saw when he first traveled to this world.
It can be seen that people have also undergone great changes in their clothing.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, the four basic human needs, have been greatly improved in these years.
And caused these improvements. There is no doubt that it is the contribution of the magic industry brought by Xu Yi.
At the very least, in countries such as the Principality of Standing and the southwest corner of Sainz Continent, when people mention the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, they can only praise it and thank the New Flying Chamber of Commerce for the huge changes it has brought to their lives.
Xu Yi was very satisfied with this, so he decided to do it on this special day today. Stop for a moment as you move forward.
"Dad, look, it's mom!" Freya suddenly pointed to the right and shouted loudly.
Xu Yi looked in the direction Freya pointed and saw Steele's figure projected on a huge magical illusion.
"Well, it's mom. Freya, let me test you. Do you know where mom is now?" Xu Yixiao asked.
Freya nodded her chin, tilted her head and thought for a moment, then clapped her hands vigorously.
"I know! Mom went to the Lampali Kingdom three days ago. She was accompanied by Aunt Sevini, so she must be in Anvilmar City now, right?"
"Yes, your logical ability is good." Xu Yi praised her with a smile, and looked up at Steele, who was smiling in the magic illusion and reading a statement.
Steele did go to the Lampali Kingdom three days ago. She went to the Lampali Kingdom this time to discuss with the Lampali Kingdom to increase the coverage of the magic illusion projection device and strive to achieve the Lampali Kingdom. Not only all the cities in the kingdom, but even all the towns can see magical illusions.
Judging from the fact that she will now stand with Sevigny to read the statement. This negotiation between her and the Lampali Kingdom should go very smoothly.
Of course, all major cities in the Lampali Kingdom already have magic illusion projection devices, and they have received unanimous praise. Now the Crescent Chamber of Commerce is willing to spend its own money to increase coverage. Naturally, the Lampali Kingdom had no reason to refuse.
After all, this thing can bring a richer entertainment life to the people of the Lampali Kingdom. At the same time, it can also allow the Lampali Kingdom to announce some upcoming policies to the people through the regularly broadcast "News Weekly", which is far more efficient. It is much higher than distributing official documents one by one and letting the city lords of each city find ways to publicize it themselves.
According to what Steele said before leaving, because of the huge role of the magical illusion projection device arranged by the Crescent Chamber of Commerce, not only the Lampali Kingdom. In addition, many countries are discussing this cooperation with the Crescent Chamber of Commerce.
Even the two empires have already extended an olive branch to the Crescent Chamber of Commerce, and warmly welcomed the Crescent Chamber of Commerce to visit the two empires to inspect investment.
The reason why the Crescent Chamber of Commerce is so sought after by various countries is that, in addition to the huge publicity convenience that the magic illusion projection device can bring, there is also a very important reason, that is, no country needs to make additional investment in this, because Crescent The Chamber of Commerce arranges the magic illusion projection devices in each city by itself, without any other investment.
In the eyes of many people, this approach is simply stupid, because even if we put aside the huge cost of the large-scale magic illusion projection device itself that needs to be installed in each city, it is just to maintain the responsible management and operation of the magic illusion projection device in each city. All manpower costs a lot of money.
The Crescent Merchant Guild's behavior seemed to many to be like throwing gold coins into the water.
Many people even secretly speculated that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce must be behind the Crescent Chamber of Commerce, otherwise the Crescent Chamber of Commerce itself would never be able to support such a huge investment.
And as the Crescent Chamber of Commerce expands its stall, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can only continue to invest money into this bottomless pit.
But there's nothing we can do about it. Miss Steele, the president of the Crescent Chamber of Commerce, is the most cherished wife of Xu Yi, the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
However, Xu Yi knew very well that these people were wrong.
On this investment, the Crescent Chamber of Commerce not only did not lose money, but actually made a lot of money.
For most people, the way a chamber of commerce makes money is nothing more than profiting from selling goods.
A model like the Crescent Chamber of Commerce only invests a lot of manpower and materials, but does not see any income at all. It is simply burning money.
But they don't know. Crescent Chamber of Commerce actually sells products, namely various magic illusion video modules.
As the Crescent Chamber of Commerce produces more and more magical illusion films, the Crescent Chamber of Commerce's income in this area also increases.
According to Steele, throughout last year. The profits earned by the Crescent Chamber of Commerce in this area have exceeded 700,000 gold coins.
Although this number does not seem to be much, considering that the profits in this area are actually very stable, and the prospects will become better and better with the gradual popularization of Magic Phantom Projector, so it is actually a very good profit point.
And that's just a tiny fraction of all the Crescent Chamber of Commerce's profits, actually all of last year. The total profits of the Crescent Chamber of Commerce have exceeded 8.7 million gold coins.
Although compared to the terrifying profit of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce last year, which exceeded 140 million gold coins, this profit is obviously not enough, but it cannot be regarded as a loss-making business in any way.
And among the profits of 8.7 million gold coins, the majority was actually advertising revenue.
That’s right, it’s advertising.
The large-scale magic illusion projection devices set up by the Crescent Chamber of Commerce in every city will play illusion videos at a fixed time every day in the evening. However, outside of the night, they are not completely idle, but will continuously scroll and play advertisements.
These advertisements are short fantasy videos produced by the Crescent Chamber of Commerce in response to the requests of various chambers of commerce, organizations and special individuals. After being broadcast, they are equally interesting and intuitive. So the publicity effect is very good.
When the Crescent Chamber of Commerce first launched this advertising service, only Xu Yi commissioned the Crescent Chamber of Commerce to produce several advertising illusion videos on behalf of the The Moon Chamber of Commerce paid an advertising fee of 300,000 gold coins.
Later, when other chambers of commerce realized the huge effectiveness of this kind of advertising, they followed suit.
There are currently seventy-six chambers of commerce that have signed advertising agreements with the Crescent Chamber of Commerce, covering almost all known industries.
Through these advertisements, the Crescent Chamber of Commerce made a huge profit of 6.17 million gold coins last year.
Now that Steele has gone to the Lampali Kingdom to sign a new promotion agreement, the coverage of the Crescent Chamber of Commerce's large-scale magic illusion projection device has been further expanded, and the income from this will naturally increase further.
Xu also believes that after the Crescent Chamber of Commerce sets up large-scale magic illusion projection devices in every city on the Sainz continent. The Crescent Chamber of Commerce’s annual advertising revenue alone is jaw-dropping.
"Dad, mom is so beautiful!" Freya suddenly looked at Steele in the magical illusion and praised loudly.
Xu Yi laughed and rubbed her head: "Of course, she is your mother. But Freya is not bad either. You are also very beautiful."
Freya shook her head with a serious expression: "No, Dad, I just look good now, but I'm not beautiful."
Xu Yi was startled: "What does it mean to be good-looking but not beautiful? This doesn't mean the same thing."
"Of course it's different." Freya shook her head again, and her golden hair with a few strands of dark brown hair swayed as her head swayed, making her look more agile and lively.
She is fourteen years old this year. The growth was completed as early as last year, and now she has completely grown into a big girl.
Relying on the genes inherited from Steele, Freya can be said to be a pretty girl with a perfect standard. When walking on the street, her head-turning rate is almost 100%.
However, she now says that she is good-looking but not beautiful, which is really strange.
"Then tell me, why is it different?" Xu Yi asked in a funny tone.
"Hmm..." Freya tilted her head and thought for a while. "Mom is beautiful because... because she has a good temperament. Well, it's her temperament. Dad, look, Mom, she looks confident and charming at a glance, and people can't help but listen to what she says. do you think so?"
"Really?" Xu Yi looked at Steele in the magic illusion and found nothing special.
Perhaps it was because he and Steele were an old couple and were extremely familiar with each other, so they couldn't have too many special feelings.
But Freya will be more sensitive to this aspect because she has just grown into a sensible girl.
"I understand why!" Freya suddenly clapped her hands vigorously again, shouting as if she suddenly understood. "Dad, the reason why mom looks so beautiful... Oh no, I should say she has temperament, is because she is the president! So dad, I want to be the president too!"
"Ah?" Xu Yi looked at Steele in astonishment, completely unable to understand the magnitude of her thinking. "Why did you suddenly have this idea?"
"Because I have wanted to be the president since I was a child!" Freya said matter-of-factly. "Dad, I have always thought you were very majestic since I was a child. Now that I see my mother acting like this, I have made up my mind. I want to be the president! Dad, didn't you ask me before what I want to do in the future? Now I have decided! I I want to succeed you and become the president of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!”
The look on Xu Yi's face was strange.
He had asked Freya many times before about this topic, and every time he got a different answer from her.
However, today he didn't ask at all, and Freya suddenly said this.
I hope she didn’t just have a whim... (~^~)