This special object is Viscount Leslie.
Viscount Leslie has led the remaining men of the Stark family to stay on Paradise Island for ten years, and has already completely brought Paradise Island under his control.
With the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Paradise Island has already developed a good magic industry. And because of Xu Yi's proposal, Viscount Leslie positioned Paradise Island's main development direction in the shipbuilding industry and marine fishery. .
Paradise Island now has four ports and three shipyards. It can produce at least five large cargo magic ships and more than twenty frigates every year. The output is even comparable to several shipyards at the main base of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
Most of these built ships were supplied to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, while a small number were retained by Viscount Leslie for his own use.
Equipped with the marine military magic machinery provided by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, Viscount Leslie has controlled a huge fleet of eight large cargo magic ships and twenty-seven magic frigates after years of development.
These eight large cargo magic ships, combined with other small cargo magic ships, form a fleet with extremely strong transportation capabilities. They can not only undertake the trade between Paradise Island and Sainz Continent, but also take over Sainz Continent. Many countries and chambers of commerce have put forward shipping requirements.
The Leslie Chamber of Commerce's reputation for shipping is second only to the Xinfei Transportation Chamber of Commerce. Even the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce sometimes hires Leslie Chamber of Commerce ships to help complete shipping.
It can be said that after Leslie arrived at Paradise Island, he found a new world, giving him a space to fully utilize his abilities and stretch his fists.
And he performed very well, running Paradise Island in an orderly manner.
Last year, Xu Yi went to Paradise Island at Leslie's invitation and found that the island had greatly changed from the desolate and backward situation when he first discovered it.
Although it is only an island with a total area of just over 20 square kilometers, Leslie has built a complete road network on the island, and also built a ring road along the coast, making transportation on the island extremely convenient. .
At the same time, he also strictly divided the various areas on the island. The industrial area and the living area are completely separated and do not affect each other. All buildings have been specially planned to be neat, tidy and beautiful.
Then he specially invited a group of elves to come over. The vegetation on Paradise Island has been re-planned so that the entire island is bathed in green grass and red flowers. Whether you look down from the sky or from anywhere on the island, it looks fresh and pleasant.
Xu Yi even felt that he would choose to settle on Paradise Island. A total pleasure.
And according to the information provided by Leslie, the residents of Paradise Island have not only solved the problem of food and clothing, but the average annual income of each person has exceeded one hundred gold coins. Everyone has lived a good life with ample food and clothing, and Compared to before, it is simply not the same world.
Because of this, although Leslie and the Stark family he led were later rulers, they gained strong support from all residents on the island and had a high reputation on the island.
Xu Yi couldn't help but sigh after seeing the situation on Paradise Island with his own eyes. The life here is now truly worthy of its name, it is like paradise.
Another meaning of his emotion is that he has worked hard on the continent of Sainz for twenty years, although it has brought about great changes in the continent of Sainz, such as the Principality of Standing and the Kingdom of Lampali. People's lives in these two countries have greatly improved, but what is really close to his ideal state is the paradise island that only started to develop later.
Of course, after all, Paradise Island is small in area and has a small population. As long as it chooses the right industry and develops it carefully. Change will be much easier.
Moreover, because Paradise Island is too small, its development space is limited and it is very fragile.
If it loses its advantage in the shipbuilding industry in the future, Paradise Island may be instantly knocked back to its original shape.
for this. Xu also knew it, and Leslie certainly knew it better.
Therefore, Leslie has been looking for more development space and solutions for Paradise Island. He suddenly visited Xu Yi in person last month and asked Xu Yi to share some of his military magic machinery technology. This is also what he did.
Leslie was not willing to just manufacture magic ships for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but also tried to build magic ships and brand-new magic battleships independently on this basis.
for his idea. Xu Yi agreed very much, but when it came to whether to support it specifically... Xu Yi was very hesitant.
Obviously, if Paradise Island really has the ability to independently build various types of magic ships, then it can be said to have a long-term iron rice bowl, ensuring that Paradise Island will not have to worry about running out of money in the future.
In addition, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can also have a more powerful partner, which can also enable the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to obtain more supplies of magic ships, which will be of great help to the development of the Magic Cloud Continent and the development of more new continents in the future.
But what Xu Yi is worried about is that Paradise Island may be able to have close and happy cooperation with Xinfei Chamber of Commerce under the leadership of Leslie, and may even continue to cooperate with Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for a long time in the future due to the situation. But if the situation changes in the future, and there is friction or even a direct conflict of interest between Paradise Island and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, then this current partner may directly become a powerful enemy.
Personally speaking, Xu Yi is very happy to help Viscount Leslie, but from the perspective of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce, it is obviously more in the interests of continuing to use Paradise Island as its own foundry.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn't help but smile bitterly.
As the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce gradually grew, he faced more and more dilemmas like this.
At the beginning, he could still stick to his original philosophy without any scruples, continue to open up technology sharing, and promote the common development of everyone.
However, the scale of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is getting bigger and bigger, and now it has even developed into a very large chamber of commerce with a total number of employees of nearly 300,000. Any decision he makes will directly affect the fate of these nearly 300,000 employees, and it is not up to him. Be willful again.
"Is there a way to help Paradise Island achieve better development without harming the interests of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?"
Xu Yi frowned and thought.
In fact, if Leslie is willing to accept it and continue to be a partner of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, helping Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to do various OEMs, Paradise Island will also be able to prosper in the long term.
But Leslie's ability is strong enough and his ambition is not small, so he will definitely not be willing to accept this arrangement.
He is making this request now, obviously for a more ambitious goal.
He even expressed it directly to Xu Yi. In order to fulfill this request, he can completely open up all the human and material resources in Paradise Island to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which shows how determined he is.
"But how can the resources of a mere paradise island be compared with such an important technology as military magic machinery?"
Xu Yi thought for a long time. Still feel embarrassed.
If he agrees, it will probably be detrimental to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the long run.
But if he doesn't agree, it might make Leslie feel bad now, which will still be detrimental to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
How to grasp the middle degree is a difficult problem to grasp.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk-"
A very rhythmic knock on the door suddenly sounded.
"Cindy. Come in." Xu Yi shouted without looking back.
The door was pushed open and Cindy walked in. She saw Xu Yi staring at the map on the wall with a knowing smile.
The president often stared at the map and thought about some very important issues, and she was not surprised.
"How is it? What did the guys in the logistics department say?" Xu Yi suddenly asked.
"They said that since this is the president's order, they will strictly follow it." Cindy responded.
"Didn't you say anything else?"
"No."
"Oh, I guess they understand. It's okay to complain, and it's okay to give opinions, but things must be done. This is the iron rule of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce." Xu Yi said with a smile. Then he turned around and saw that Cindy was still holding a thick document in her hand, and asked in surprise: "What is this?"
Cindy immediately handed the document to Xu Yi.
"This is a report sent back by the Southern Airship Exploration Team. Sir, please take a look at it."
"Oh? The news came back so soon?"
Xu Yi took the file and opened it, and saw a huge title in front of him.
"The Southern Continent has been confirmed!"
Xu Yi suddenly opened his eyes in surprise and quickly looked at it carefully.
This so-called Southern Airship Exploration Team is one of several other exploration teams recently sent by the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce outside the Sainz Continent after confirming the existence of the Demon Cloud Continent. It is specifically responsible for exploring the southern part of the Sainz Continent. Go ahead and explore.
For the sake of efficiency and safety. These exploration teams are all directly equipped with magic airships.
Although this kind of long-lasting endurance is not as good as that of the maritime fleet, with the performance of the current magic airship, a cruise can already break through the remote distance of 5,000 kilometers.
And if no new continent is discovered within a range of five thousand kilometers, then there is little point in continuing to explore. Because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce currently does not have that much financial and human resources to develop another continent.
What Xu Yi didn't expect was that less than two months after the expedition team was sent out, clear news had already come back, and the first news was such important news.
In this report, the exploration team described in detail the situation of their team's flight and exploration to the south.
In the first month, they followed Xu Yi's arrangements. Keep circling the southern sea of Sainz continent and expand your exploration scope as much as possible.
However, they only discovered endless sea water and scattered islands on the sea within this month.
Although some of the islands are very large, they are far from being a completely new continent.
It was not until the beginning of the second month that they finally discovered a continent that could not be seen at a glance on the sea more than 3,000 kilometers away from the Sainz continent.
Later, after a week of exploration, they determined that this continent was a real continent and not a relatively large island, because they flew along the mainland coastline for nearly a week without seeing another edge of the continent.
After confirming this, the exploration team immediately wrote a preliminary report on the observation results so far and sent it back.
Next, they will continue to further explore that continent and determine more detailed information.
Xu also noticed a sentence in this report.
"I don't know what's going on. This continent seems to be extremely hot. It's almost like summer. After we got off the magic airship, everyone was forced to wear single clothes. If the winter here is already so hot , then in the summer, the heat may be unimaginable, and it may not be suitable for human habitation. "
After seeing this sentence, Xu Yi couldn't help laughing.
The continent in the south is not a winter, but a real summer.
The reason why the Sainz continent has entered winter and the climate is severely cold, while that continent is hot, is very simple, because that continent is at the other end of the equator of the planet below, and the season is the same as that of Sainz continent north of the equator. Completely opposite of course.
Turning to the last page of the report, there is also a simplified map sent back by the exploration team.
Xu Yi glanced at the map with a smile on his face.
"Okay, I found a solution." (~^~)