This public auction that attracted the attention of countless people, and eventually attracted dozens of large and small chambers of commerce from the Lampali Kingdom to gather in Bangta City, was actually just a show performed by Xu Yi in cooperation with the royal family of the kingdom. That’s all.
Of course, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce cannot afford an exaggerated amount of two million gold coins, and indeed, as everyone thinks, there is no qualification to apply for a huge loan of five million gold coins from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce.
This loan of five million gold coins was actually a loan applied for by His Majesty the King in the name of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The two million gold coins used in the auction of the first mine naturally returned to the hands of His Majesty the King. In the end, the three million gold coins that could not be spent were directly returned to the Chimera Chamber of Commerce.
In this auction, after settlement, Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce did not spend a penny at all, and His Majesty the King only paid a paltry interest of only 20,000 gold coins on the short-term loan of five million gold coins.
Compared to the 2.3 million gold coins earned from selling the second mine, this is really nothing.
Of course, according to the contract between Xu Yi and His Majesty the King, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was originally supposed to obtain two mines. Now, although one of them ended up in the hands of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce through this method, there is still one mine that Falcao Obtained at auction from the Chamber of Commerce.
However, in Sevini and Xu Yi's plan, they had already dealt with this.
It would be great if Xu Yi could buy the second mine at a suitable price, but when Chairman Morgan made harsh remarks at the auction, Xu Yi chose to give up after careful consideration.
In this situation, Sevini gave Xu Yi two options.
First, according to the valuation of 1.3 million gold coins for the second mine in the contract, His Majesty the King directly paid 1.3 million gold coins to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Counted as payment for the next farm magic machinery order.
The second is to choose another iron mine of comparable size in the kingdom and find a way to hand it over to Xu Yi. This is no different from the previous contract.
However, Xu Yi told Sevini another plan. That is, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will lease a part of the land from the royal family of the Kingdom and use the rent of this part of the land as payment.
As for the land area, Xu Yi's initial requirement is that it is the size of ten Bangta cities.
Sevigny's answer to this was...
"President Xu, are you crazy?"
Of course Xu Yi was not crazy. On the contrary, he was extremely sober.
It was precisely because he was so sober that he proposed a plan to lease land from the royal family, instead of directly obtaining the territory as before.
Because Xu Yi specially studied the history of the Lampali Kingdom for this purpose, and then discovered that since the founding of the country. Although the royal family of Lampali Kingdom has promoted new nobles, they have never entrusted even an inch of land.
It can be seen that the royal family of Lampali Kingdom attaches great importance to land ownership.
Xu Yi didn't think he was qualified to get the royal family to grant him land as an exception, so after consideration, he decided to do the next best thing and lease land from the royal family.
It is also a lease, but there is a big difference between renting territory from the royal family and renting territory from the nobles.
First of all, the royal family is the ruler of the Lampali Kingdom, and owns more than 70% of the kingdom's territory excluding the territories of various nobles.
If you want to rent it from the royal family, you can be more generous and ask for a large area to rent.
And if you rent it from the nobles. Even from the Stark family, which currently has the largest territory, it is impossible to lease an area that satisfies Xu Yi.
Secondly, the royal family is undoubtedly much better at stabilizing their appearance than the nobles.
If you are renting territory from nobles. The nobles only need to make a random change in their thoughts to cause the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to become passive in various ways.
As the ruler of the kingdom, the royal family pays more attention to reputation and the overall situation than the nobles. Under normal circumstances, they will not change established policies easily.
The main reason why Xu Yi is so eager for his own territory is actually from the latter point.
Now the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is leasing the territory of Viscount Leslie. Although Xu Yi has a good relationship with Viscount Leslie, and Viscount Leslie himself is the major shareholder of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, there will usually be no problems. But Xu Yi doesn't have high expectations for this relationship.
This can be seen from the three hundred slaves Viscount Leslie placed into the household magic machinery production workshop some time ago.
Obviously, these 300 slaves did not belong to Viscount Leslie. Viscount Leslie himself seemed to be dissatisfied with the placement of these 300 slaves, so much so that he once privately hinted to Xu Yi not to bring these 300 slaves in. The three hundred slaves are treated as real workers, and they are not allowed to have access to all the techniques in the workshop.
But no matter how reluctant Viscount Leslie was, these three hundred slaves still entered the workshop, and after more than a month of study, a large number of slaves have now mastered considerable skills.
Of course Xu Yi knew very well that these three hundred slaves should have been installed by the Stark family behind Viscount Leslie.
From this we know that Viscount Leslie must be influenced by the family behind him.
So no matter how good his relationship with Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was, he still couldn't decide everything.
So Xu Yi wanted to avoid uncontrolled situations, and of course he wanted to have his own territory.
Even if the lease of the royal family's land is still subject to restrictions, in any case, it will be much better than the current situation.
So even if Sevini couldn't help but scold Xu Yi for being crazy, Xu Yi still insisted on this request.
At Xu Yi's insistence, Sevini finally decided to report Xu Yi's plan to His Majesty the King.
As for whether Xu Yi would get his wish, Sevini couldn't guarantee it.
The closing work of the auction took Xu Yi a while. By the time he completed all the procedures and successfully completed the work of taking over the mine in the name of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the time had quietly reached the end of December.
Sainz Continent also celebrates the New Year, and the New Year, of course, requires a holiday.
Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce still has a lot of unfinished orders. but no matter. Xu Yi has no choice but to ask workers to continue working overtime during the New Year period.
After discussions with Heinze, Camby and others. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce finally decided to start the holiday on December 25th and end on January 7th.
On December 20th, the two workshops of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce were full of joy again.
Because the New Year holiday announced by Xu Yi was longer than that of most chambers of commerce in Bangta City, once it was announced, it naturally received strong support from all workers.
What made the workers of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce even more happy was that Xu Yi announced that in addition to settling everyone’s salary during this period before the Chinese New Year, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would also pay everyone an extra month’s basic salary. As a year-end bonus!
Before this, no one knew what the year-end bonus was!
After hearing Xu Yi personally announce the news. All the workers were almost crazy with joy!
Because according to the information announced by Xu Yi, most workers will not only receive last month's salary, plus half a month's salary, but even a full month's basic salary!
Calculating this, any worker can receive a salary of more than thirty gold coins before the Chinese New Year!
Even workers with higher job wages and more overtime can receive high salaries of more than forty gold coins, or even close to fifty gold coins!
For these workers who might only be able to earn at most three to four gold coins per month before joining the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it can be considered a huge sum of money!
With this money. These workers from poor families no longer have to worry about their family's livelihood every time they celebrate the Chinese New Year as before.
I thought that I could go home with a lot of gold coins and let my parents and wives live an extraordinarily solid and prosperous New Year. The workers looked at Xu Yi with eyes filled with gratitude.
At this moment, Xu Yi's image in their minds became extremely tall.
However, not all workers would be so excited. The biggest exception was the three hundred slaves installed by Viscount Leslie.
Unlike the one hundred slaves that had been transferred to Xu Yi's name, these three hundred slaves, Viscount Leslie, had specifically stated that they would not be given any preferential treatment, so even if Xu Yi felt a little sorry, he still could not give them any preferential treatment. They also pay salaries.
Even if he wanted to give them some material compensation, he had a lot of scruples. In the end, Xu Yi had no choice but to buy some small things that might be used during the New Year and send them to them as a commendation for their work.
However, even if it was such a small thing with a total value of less than one gold coin, these slaves felt as if it was hot to hold. If Xu Yi hadn't forcefully ordered their subordinates, no one would have dared to accept it.
In addition to these three hundred slaves, the nine magicians who were mainly responsible for drawing the magic circle were not as excited as the other workers.
First of all, these magicians have only entered the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for less than a month, and they still have no sense of identity here, so naturally they will not be as excited as the workers.
Secondly, after all, the magicians are much more knowledgeable than the workers, so how can they be easily impressed.
Of course, it would be false to say that he was unhappy.
Even though they only worked at the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for less than a month, because their work efficiency was much higher than those of the students, after settlement, their salary actually exceeded twenty gold coins!
If it were a complete month, their monthly salary might be close to or even exceed thirty gold coins!
For these magicians, whose highest level is only level two, this is a high salary that makes them happy.
On this day, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce did not work as usual. Instead, it finished some work in the morning and packed up the two workshops.
At noon, we had dinner together. After a good meal, we started to pay wages again.
After struggling like this, the whole day passed like this.
After finally settling the final arrangements for the workers this year, Xu Yi, Heinze, Canby and other leaders of the chamber of commerce came to Bonta City and asked them to go to the restaurant to get seats first, while he came to Ivy The research institute where Ta and Akali are located.