Xu Yi and the great magician Camilla were stunned at the same time.
The great magician Camilla glanced at the great magician Trucchi with a strange look on his face, and couldn't help but chuckled: "Hey, Trucchi, I always thought you were one of us old guys facing gold coins. The least important thing is that you have changed so much and are even more greedy for money than me! If ten thousand gold coins a year are not enough, how much do you want?"
Seeing the embarrassment and shame on the face of the great magician Truqi, Xu Yi shook his head slightly at the great magician Camilla, turned to the great magician Truqi and said in a very calm tone: "I'm afraid I can only do this. I'm sorry. The salary of our Chamber of Commerce is established by strict rules and regulations, and you can't add it at will. And you have just joined our Chamber of Commerce. It would be a bit unreasonable if your salary exceeds that of the Great Magician Camilla."
Archmage Truchi sighed and nodded: "I understand. This is just me being greedy."
Archmage Camilla frowned and said, "Trucci, what kind of difficulties have you encountered? Are you so short of money?".
"It's hard to explain in words." Archmage Truchi shook his head and stood up. "In short, ten thousand gold coins a year is probably not enough. Since Xu Yi can't agree to give me a higher salary, I can only find another way." "Your Majesty the Great Magician, if the difficulties you encounter require It takes a lot of gold coins to solve it. I think I am capable of helping you. How about you tell me the difficulties you are encountering and let me think about how to help you?" Xu Yi said sincerely.
"It's useless." Archmage Truchi sighed. "That place is basically a bottomless pit. I can't keep borrowing money from you, right? It's a lot of words and I'm afraid I won't be able to repay it."
"That's not necessarily the case. If you join the Magic Research Institute of our New Flying Chamber of Commerce, as long as you develop sufficiently outstanding magic mechanical technology in the future, the bonus will definitely not be small." Xu Yi said with a smile.
"No matter how much the bonus is, can I still earn at least 40,000 to 50,000 gold coins a year?" Archmage Truchi smiled bitterly.
"Forty or fifty thousand gold coins?"
Xu Yi frowned, exchanged a look with the Great Magician Camilla, pondered for a moment, and said seriously to the Great Magician Truqi: "Your Excellency, the Great Magician, if you encounter financial difficulties and need to invest four or five dollars a year, If it's 10,000 gold coins, I think you should sit down and talk to me about this matter in detail. I may not have much ability elsewhere, but when it comes to making money... I don't think there is any magician in the entire Lampali Kingdom. Can you compare with me? Even the great magician Aisenka can't do it." The great magician Truchi glanced at the great magician Camilla, then looked at Xu Yi, thought for a while, and sat down again. Went back.
"Xu Yi, I suddenly remembered. Your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce seems to have been investing in various parts of the kingdom during this time, right?"
"That's right." Xu Yi nodded, a little surprised. "I didn't expect you to care about these things."
"I can't help it. During this time, all I can think about is how to make money." Archmage Truchi smiled mockingly. "Xu Yi, if I invite your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to invest in a place, can you guarantee that you will help the people here earn at least 40,000 to 50,000 gold coins every year?"
Xu Yi frowned: "It depends on what place you're talking about. If it's a desert with nothing in the first place, then no matter how capable I am, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do."…
The great magician Truchi smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, the place I mentioned is similar to the desert. Have you heard of Kalaska Island?".
"Kalaska Island?" Xu Yi thought for a while. "It seems to be an island not far from the west coast of Black Rice Wasteland? It is said to be rich in pirates?"
"Rich pirates?" Archmage Truchi continued to smile bitterly. "Although I really want to praise Xu Yi, you are very knowledgeable and know about Carrasca Island, but you said it is rich in pirates... Well, in fact, this is not wrong. Who said that the living conditions on the island are too poor to be considered pirates? If so, many people won’t be able to survive at all.”
Xu Yi and Camilla, the great magicians, looked at the great magician Truchi with strange expressions. Why did he suddenly mention the island of Kalaska? Does he have any connection with this island famous for pirates
"No need to guess, I was born on the island of Carrasca and grew up there."
Xu Yi and the great magician Camilla were startled at the same time.
They never expected that the great magician Truchi was actually born on this pirate island!
Xu Yi looked at the great magician Camilla, who shook his head.
"Don't look at me. Although Trutch and I are old friends, I have never heard him mention his life experience."
"Being born on Kalaska Island is not an honorable thing. Of course I don't want to mention it casually." Archmage Truchi sighed. "If I didn't have expectations for you, Xu Yi, I wouldn't tell you this either."
"Thank you for your trust." Xu Yi thought for a while and then asked: "So, Your Majesty the Great Magician, you want to earn a minimum of forty to fifty thousand gold coins a year, are you doing it to change the lives of people in your hometown by yourself? Conditions?"
The great magician Truchi glanced at Xu Yi in surprise: "You actually guessed it?"
"It's not difficult to guess. If it weren't for this reason, I can't think of any reason why a great magician like you would be so worried." Xu Yi said with a smile.
"Okay, you guessed it right. Carrasco Island is my hometown, but the living environment on the island is really bad. I grew up there, and later learned magic by coincidence, and finally became a magician. The magician has always wanted to use his own power to change the lives of those in his hometown, so he has been supporting them all these years. But... I can't hold on anymore."
"No wonder you have always been poorer than me..." Camilla, the great magician, muttered. "I said Truchi, since the living environment on Kalaska Island is so bad, why don't you let them move out? In your capacity, it's okay to ask the Kingdom Council for some Kingdom resident qualifications, right? It's quite a lot. Character"
"No, it's very problematic." The wry smile on the face of the great magician Truchi never stopped. "I once made this request to the Kingdom Council, but it was rejected by the Kingdom Council. Do you know the reason?"
"Because of pirates?" Archmage Camilla guessed.
"Yes." The smile on the face of the great magician Truchi became even more bitter. "Although I strongly refute the reasons given by the Kingdom Council, there is nothing I can do about it. In fact, from an objective point of view, it is not wrong for Kalaska Island to be called the island of pirates. If I had not left by learning magic, then If he lives on an island, he might become a pirate now... "
"A pirate at the level of a great magician?".
Xu Yi looked at the Great Magician Truchi with a strange expression, and then returned to his normal expression.
"Your Majesty the Great Magician, based on what you said, I think your initial thought was to rely on yourself to earn 40,000 to 50,000 gold coins a year to support the people on the island and improve their lives, right?"
"Yes, that's my plan. The total population of the island is now close to 5,000 people. In fact, even 40,000 or 50,000 gold coins are not enough. However, the island can still be partially self-sufficient, so it is still Enough. In fact, I just hope that after they can have a stable life, they will stop being pirates. In a few years, I can apply to the Kingdom Council again to move them to our Kingdom of Lampali. "…
Xu Yi pondered for a moment, sighed, shook his head slightly and said: "Your Majesty the Great Magician, I have to say that your idea is really... too naive."
Archmage Truqi's eyes suddenly widened, and Archmage Camilla also looked at Xu Yi in surprise.
This kid actually dares to say that a great magician is too naive? I simply don’t know how high the sky and the earth are!
"Your Majesty the Great Magician, people's greed is never-ending. I'm sure that even if you make so much money to support them, they will always want a better life. Then even if you get what you gave them For money, they will also become pirates because they think it can make their lives better. "
The great magician Truchi looked sad: "How could I not know this truth, but I always feel that the help I gave them is not enough. If you can have a stable and prosperous life, who is willing to risk his life?" And being a pirate with a sinful reputation.”
Xu Yi couldn't help but sigh and shook his head gently.
Perhaps the Great Magician Truchi was not naive and stupid, but that he had too deep feelings for the island of Kalaska where he was born.
Xu Yi couldn't understand the price he paid for this relationship, but this did not affect his understanding of the thoughts of the great magician Truchi.
"Okay, Your Majesty the Great Mage, I understand what you mean. But I must remind you that even if you can really support them with 40,000, 50,000, 50,000 gold coins or even 100,000 gold coins every year, it will still not help. For nearly five For the island of Kalaska with thousands of people, such a small amount of gold coins can't change anything at all," Xu Yi said seriously.
"I just want to try my best." Archmage Truchi sighed.
"There are many ways to try your best. To put it bluntly, you chose the most inefficient method." Xu Yidao. "If I had to choose, I would definitely use another method."
The great magician Truchi's eyes lit up: "So, Xu Yi, do you have any good way to solve this problem?".
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "Of course."