The carriage ran smoothly and quickly on the Luoyu Highway, carrying Xu Yi and President Cruise towards the Luoyu Valley.
An oncoming carriage carrying a large amount of cargo passed by. President Cruise glanced at the large cargo carriage in the distance through the car window, then looked at the road where the wheels rolled over, and suddenly looked toward Xu Yidao: "This road should be widened."
Xu Yi nodded: "Yes, I have considered this matter a long time ago. When we first built this highway, we had no money and you had little experience, so we only built it four meters wide. Now it seems , this width is still not enough, it would be better to double it.”
"It doesn't have to be as exaggerated as doubling the width. I think an additional two meters will be enough." President Cruz said.
"No, since it needs to be widened, then add more. After all, this road will not only have horse-drawn carriages, but also other vehicles..."
"Another car?" President Cruise's expression changed. "President Xu, I heard President Pompeii say that you promised him that you would develop a new type of magic locomotive within this year, which can replace the carriages used by their horse and carriage shops and significantly reduce their costs?"
"I'm just trying to comfort him." Xu Yi said helplessly. "Actually, the main components of this magic locomotive have not yet been fully developed. I am not sure whether this magic locomotive can be launched this year. If President Pompeii hadn't urged me to do so, I would not have deliberately made up such words. Lie to him."
President Cruz didn't care whether Xu Yi was comforting President Pompeii. He only cared about the most important meaning expressed in Xu Yi's words.
"In other words, this magic motorcycle is real?"
Xu Yi glanced at him: "Why do you care so much about this thing?"
"Why can't I care?" President Cruise asked immediately. "If this magical locomotive can run as well as you described it to President Pompeii, and can even run forty kilometers in one hour, it will definitely completely eliminate horse-drawn carriages. In addition, this thing runs so fast. It will definitely be even more unbearable. Planting dirt roads. If this is the case, it means that the demand for roads will increase countless times than it is now, which has a lot to do with our Amuli Chamber of Commerce."
Xu Yi couldn't help laughing: "You reacted really quickly. Yes, this kind of magic motorcycle has higher requirements for road conditions, so for the sake of magic motorcycles, roads must be popularized first, and the road construction of your Amuli Chamber of Commerce will be has become more important.”
"Then can you tell me when this magic locomotive will be developed? Give me an accurate time so that I can expand our road construction team in advance to avoid being overwhelmed by the time." President Cruise asked again road.
Xu Yi pondered for a moment and shook his head: "I can't give you an accurate time for this. Doing experiments and doing research is inherently uncertain. For example, our Chamber of Commerce has a magic research institute called Sancheli. It’s been more than a year since I gave him a research task, and he still hasn’t produced any results, but I can only wait patiently, because it doesn’t make much sense no matter how hard you push it.”
"It's been more than a year and there's been no results at all?" President Cruise was a little surprised. "Xu Yi, you are really patient enough. According to me, this guy must be eating and drinking in your chamber of commerce, right? No matter how difficult the experimental research is, it should have some results in more than a year. How can it be possible? There are no results.”
"No, the thing he is studying is different. It is indeed difficult." Xu Yi smiled. "As long as he can finally research this thing, I will have no problem raising him for ten or twenty years in vain. Anyway, our Chamber of Commerce can still afford to support him alone."
President Cruise couldn't help but shook his head: "You guy, you can't even say you're a waste of money. But then again, you can't give me an exact time. Then you can give me an approximate time, right? For example If it doesn’t work this year, what about next year? If it doesn’t work next year, what about the year after that?”
"Uh... let me think about it..." Xu Yi touched his chin and thought for a while, frowned slightly, and said with a wry smile: "Actually, even I am not sure that it will not be done this year, so there is no way to tell you whether it will be this year or not. Next year. But what I am sure of is that even if it cannot be developed this year, judging from the current progress, it will definitely be developed next year.”
"In other words, it's just these two years?"
After getting confirmation from Xu Yi. President Cruz quickly calculated.
"Even if it is developed at the end of next year, it will only take two years. In addition, it may take about a year to promote, so it will be three years. In other words, the time left for me is only three years at most, hurry up Maybe only about a year and a half. In that case..."
Seeing President Cruise's confused look. Xu Yi thought for a while and said: "Actually, even if the magic motorcycle has not been developed, your Chamber of Commerce still needs to quickly expand the road construction team. Now everyone in the kingdom is clamoring to build roads, and you are already very short of people. Is it possible? Do you still have to wait until the magic motorcycle comes out? "
"That's different." President Cruise shook his head and said: "Before the magic locomotive appeared, our Chamber of Commerce could invest less in road construction, but after the magic locomotive comes out, we will definitely increase our investment significantly. So this thing When it appears determines the overall plan of our chamber of commerce.”
"That can't be helped. I can only tell you an approximate time, but I can't tell you the exact time." Xu Yi shrugged.
"That's enough. In fact, you just need to make sure that your chamber of commerce will develop this thing." President Cruise said with a smile. "Many times, a certain piece of news can affect a lot of things."
"I deeply agree with this." Xu Yi nodded and said with a wry smile: "For example, this time President Leersa confirmed that three orc tribes are interested in us, I have to immediately consider establishing a guard team. ”
President Cruise glanced at Xu Yi and gave up the suggestion to him again to jointly establish a non-ferrous metal smelting plant. He thought for a while and said: "Actually, if it doesn't work, I know a few mercenary group leaders. You You can ask them to hire some mercenaries to serve as guards."
"This can only be used as a last resort. The mercenaries' wages are too high, and after all, they are not our own, so it is not reassuring." Xu Yi shook his head.
"Yes. That's right. If you want to be easy to use and rest assured, of course it is best to have your own chamber of commerce's escort team." President Cruz said with emotion: "Actually, I envy your chamber of commerce. You can recruit dwarves and elves to serve as chamber of commerce guards." . They are much stronger than ordinary human guards."
"I don't know if the deal can be concluded yet." Xu Yi shook his head. "Dwarves and elves can accept working in our Chamber of Commerce, but they may not accept being the guards of our Chamber of Commerce. Because this is equivalent to them coming to protect us humans, and I am very worried that they may not accept it."
It turns out. Xu Yi's worries are not unfounded.
The carriage carried the two of them to the Falling Rain Valley. Xu Yi and President Cruise parted ways, letting President Cruise go first to the small town of Samara to meet up with President Relsa. Chief Shirui and Chief Monto were sweating profusely in the steel mill in Yugudi.
Of course, when he proposed to the two patriarchs that he wanted to establish a chamber of commerce guard and hire some dwarves to serve as guards, the two patriarchs had troubled looks on their faces.
"Master President. This... Although we and our brothers are very willing to work for the Chamber of Commerce, working is just to make money, and serving as a guard is tantamount to sacrificing your life. I am afraid that many brothers are not willing to work for you humans..." Shrubi The patriarch said a little embarrassedly.
Xu Yi turned to Patriarch Mengtuo, and Patriarch Mengtuo also scratched his head and said with an embarrassed look on his face: "Chief Shilui is right. Working to make money is no problem. Working hard is probably a big problem. After all... we are not after all. Same race."
Seeing that Xu Yi's face was a bit ugly, Chief Mengtuo quickly waved his hand and said: "President Xu, Chief Shilui and I have no other intentions. We just... just want us dwarves to work hard for you humans. This sounds very strange." ”
Chief Shilui nodded repeatedly: "Yes, except when we fought against the rule of the elves thousands of years ago, we dwarves and humans have joined forces. But we dwarves have never accepted the command of you humans, let alone sacrifice our lives for humans. So this doesn’t make sense just from history.”
Xu Yi thought for a while, frowned and said: "Can't you treat being a guard as an ordinary job? I will still pay the salary to the dwarf brothers. And I guarantee that the salary as a guard will be higher than that of an ordinary worker. higher."
Seeing that Xu Yi still refused to give up, Chief Shilui and Chief Mengtu looked at each other and said helplessly: "Well, we will go and talk to the brothers. But President, we can't guarantee that the brothers will agree. Of course, we will try our best. After all, we have been able to live well because of your care. Now if you are in trouble, we will definitely help."
Xu Yi could only say helplessly: "That's it. Just do your best. Tell the dwarf brothers that this is just an ordinary job. Everyone participates voluntarily. I don't mean to force you."
Compared to dwarves. The elves have always been known for being arrogant and looking down on humans.
Xu Yi originally thought that it would be a failure among the dwarves, but it would be even more impossible among the elves.
But when he came to the Yege tribe with a trace of luck and made this request to Elder Elusia, he was extremely surprised to receive a positive answer.
"Why not?" Elder Elusia looked at Xu Yi who looked in disbelief, and smiled: "Although we elves are arrogant, we will always admit the facts. Thousands of years ago, we lost to the race war If you, humans, must be better than us elves. Moreover, after the special training in your chamber of commerce, the discipline of the tribe has indeed improved, which makes me see the hope of their new life. I think it will also be helpful to them if they give you the role of escort.”
Hearing the comment of "gaining new life", Xu Yi felt wary.
Is it possible that the elves still want to counterattack humans and regain control of this continent
But after thinking about it, Xu Yi felt that this idea was a bit ridiculous.
When the elves were at their strongest, they were no match for humans. Now that their numbers have become so small, they are even less likely to be human opponents.
The most important thing is that the fertility rate of the elves is too low. The total number of people in the group cannot be increased significantly and quickly anyway, so it is even less likely to pose a threat to humans.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi felt relieved and asked Elder Elusia: "So, are you willing to let your tribe members join the Chamber of Commerce Guards as guards?"
Elder Elusia smiled slightly: "Of course. Since I have decided to let the clansmen put aside their useless pride and join your chamber of commerce to work for mankind, then if I refuse this job now, wouldn't it mean that I have completely negated everything I have done before? Do you want to do something? President Xu, the greatest advantage of our elves is that we will definitely complete the things we set out to do, and we will not give up halfway. "
Looking at Elder Elusia whose face seemed to be radiating light, Xu Yi added silently in his heart.
"This advantage, in other words, is called stubbornness."