Many people expressed confusion about Leslie's decision on his future arrangements, and Xu Yi was even more surprised.
Because Leslie actually wants to ride on the endless sea in the future, and his dream is to become the overlord of the sea!
When he heard Leslie say this idea, Xu Yi almost scolded him directly for being fanciful.
Overlord of the sea
If you can't even touch the sea, how can you talk about being a hegemon
Due to limitations in technology, this world simply cannot produce large ships that are large enough and strong enough for ocean voyages.
In the history of Sainz Continent, only the Candela Empire has tried once. It built twenty huge wooden ships and formed a fleet to sail across the ocean, claiming to explore the legendary infinity. Deep in the sea, there is another continent far away.
However, this fleet only went to sea for less than three days when it encountered a storm. As a result, all twenty wooden ships were shattered by the storm, and most of the explorers on board were killed. Less than ten people were lucky enough to survive.
Since then, people on the continent of Sainz have given up on the idea of ocean voyages, and even listed the Endless Sea as a restricted area. Except for people living by the sea who can look for opportunities to fish offshore, at other times, no one else dares to step even half a step into the depths of the endless sea.
Now Leslie actually claims that he wants to become the overlord of the sea... If he only controls the offshore part, it has nothing to do with the strength at sea. The decisive factor is the strength on the coastline.
"Xu Yi, this is an old concept in Sainz continent. It is outdated now." Leslie looked at Xu Yi in confusion. "How strange. You clearly proposed the design concept yourself and participated in the development of this magic ship. Now you tell me that ocean voyage is a luxury? Are you so unsure of what you designed?"
"It's precisely because I designed this thing myself, so I know its limitations better than anyone else." Xu Yi said seriously. "Although I can definitely say that this magic ship's ability to withstand storms is far better than that of a wooden ship, and its safety on ocean voyages is much better, but it only improves safety from zero. Once you get there, there is no particularly exaggerated improvement, and there is no guarantee that you will survive at sea. "
"If you say so, isn't this thing no better than those wooden boats? Then why did you spend so much effort to build it?" Leslie frowned. He looked a little disappointed. "I thought that with this gadget, I could fulfill my childhood dream of sailing the entire endless sea." "I guarantee that you will realize this dream in the future, but not now." Xu Yi shook his head and said seriously: "I I would like to give you a more practical suggestion. Set your goals realistically first. Don’t expect to sail very far right away. Ocean sailing is something that requires a lot of experience. You might as well start step by step and proceed little by little. groping.”
Leslie glared at Xu Yi: "Do you think I'm an idiot? Of course I won't be like the idiots in the Candela Empire before, rushing into the depths of the endless sea as soon as I came up. My original plan was to Use this magic ship you developed to explore the depths of the endless sea little by little. Do you think I will dive in like a fool?"
Xu Yi couldn't help but rolled his eyes.
It took a long time. He was worried blindly.
"Okay, then how do you plan to operate it specifically?" Xu Yi asked again: "Our chamber of commerce has priced this medium-sized magic freighter at 800,000 gold coins. I don't think you can afford so much now. Money comes.”…
"Eight hundred thousand gold coins?" Leslie was surprised. "So expensive?"
"Of course." Xu Yi said proudly. "The queue capacity of this medium-sized magic freighter is a full five thousand tons, and the cargo capacity can even exceed three thousand tons. In other words, if it is full of cargo, one trip on it can be worth hundreds of land transportations. You think it’s expensive? I think it’s cheap.”
"Can it carry three thousand tons of cargo at a time?" Leslie glanced at the medium-sized magic freighter in the distance that had completed its launching ceremony and was sailing slowly along the coastline in the blue waves of the Endless Sea, and nodded: "If it is In this case, it is indeed worth so much money. But Xu Yi, it seems that my initial estimate was wrong. In fact, what I need most now is not this kind of magic cargo ship, but something like those small magic assault boats. A magic ship loaded with soldiers."
"A magic ship for combat?" Xu Yi frowned slightly and looked at Leslie in surprise. "What? Do you want to become a pirate?"
Leslie laughed and didn't answer.
Glancing at the slightly weird smile on his face, Xu Yi didn't ask any more questions. After thinking about it, he nodded and said: "This is actually simple. You just need to make some necessary modifications and add some weapons to it. and defense facilities can meet the requirements.”
"Well, I need some military magic ships that are slightly smaller than these medium-sized magic freighters, with built-in magic mechanical weapons, such as small magic trebuchets, and preferably faster than now. How about, Xu Yi? Can you do it?”
Xu Yi spread his hands: "It can be done, but with the current production capacity of our chamber of commerce, we may not be able to complete one in half a year. If you are in a hurry, it will definitely not work. And if it is customized according to your requirements , although the cost is much lower than that of a medium-sized magic freighter, I’m afraid it won’t be less than 400,000 gold coins per ship. Are you sure you want it?”
"Sure." Leslie nodded affirmatively, then took out a golden ticket from his arms and stuffed it into Xu Yi's hand. "This is the first order, I hope you can deliver it as soon as possible."
Xu Yi glanced at it and found that the gold ticket issued by the Chimera Chamber of Commerce was for fifty thousand gold coins, which was suitable as a deposit for a small magic warship worth about five hundred thousand gold coins.
But Xu Yi still didn't understand what Leslie planned to do.
Large sea-going ships are not just a matter of buying them, the subsequent maintenance costs should not be underestimated either, if sufficient benefits cannot be obtained from them. Having these things is not necessarily a good thing.
The reason why Xu Yizhi conducted vigorous research and development on the magic ship. On the one hand, it is to promote the research and development process of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in magic machinery. To improve the existing magic industrial system, on the other hand, it plans to build an ocean-going cargo fleet to meet the increasingly urgent transportation needs of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
And if Leslie wants to buy a few military ships, if he doesn't go to work as a pirate, then this thing is equivalent to a bottomless pit, and he can only keep throwing money into it.
Even if Leslie had not been kicked out of the house by Duke Stark, with the huge financial support of the Stark family, it would probably be difficult to do such a loss-making business.
And now even his territory has been taken back by the Lampali Kingdom Council. It is even more impossible to have such financial resources.
However, Leslie obviously did not intend to explain her plan to Xu Yi, and Xu Yi naturally would not ask what happened.
While Leslie didn't care much about this medium-sized magic freighter, Xu Yi paid much more attention to it.
The ability to successfully manufacture this medium-sized magic freighter means that Xinfei merchants have achieved breakthroughs in many technical aspects.
The first of these is engine technology.
Although the magic locomotive engine and the magic ship engine are both wind-based magic engines and are roughly the same in principle, they are actually very different.
Both in the Magic Research Institute and the Magic Machine Tool R&D Center, the research and development of magic locomotive engines and magic ship engines are carried out separately.
Now that this medium-sized magic freighter has been successfully built and sailed smoothly on the sea, it shows that the research and development of magic ship engines has achieved a major breakthrough, and it also means that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's research and development on wind-based magic engines has reached a new height. In turn, it will promote the research and development of magic motorcycle engines.
For example, in recent times, with the launch of magic ships and the above research breakthroughs. The research and development of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Magic Locomotive engine has also made great progress. In the test, it has successfully developed a large freight magic locomotive with a cargo capacity of more than 20 tons.
However, due to the inherent disadvantage of the wind magic engine, it was still unable to achieve a major breakthrough in speed.
At this point, we can only wait for the development of the fire magic engine to make progress.
In addition to the engine, the successful manufacturing of this medium-sized magic freighter also includes another breakthrough by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in large-scale magic machinery, which includes the most basic steel welding, mold casting of large parts, and the overall design combination of large-scale magic machinery. ...and so on, have all been significantly improved through the process of designing and manufacturing this medium-sized magic freighter.
This medium-sized magic freighter took nearly two years from the time Xu Yi proposed the concept to its successful construction.
Even on earth, this is already very fast.
And on this continent where Sainz has no foundation, his speed is even more miraculous.
Now that this medium-sized magic freighter has been successfully launched, when the second medium-sized magic freighter is built next, the time will obviously be much faster.
When the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce successfully forms its first ocean-going transport fleet, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's goods can be more conveniently transported to various places on the Sainz continent through the endless sea.
Take the Kingdom of Luersun as an example.
Now if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce wants to transport the various magic machines produced to the Kingdom of Luersun, due to the terrain restrictions of the Principality of Standing, it can only enter the Kingdom of Lampali through the Black Rice Wasteland, and then pass through Bonta City , turned south, and finally entered the Luersun Kingdom.
The total mileage of such a transportation trip will be close to one thousand kilometers. Not only the transportation cost is high, but also because it passes through the Lampali Kingdom, an additional tariff must be paid. The total transportation cost is extremely high.
Once the ocean transport fleet is built, the goods can be loaded directly onto cargo ships here, then make a small circle from the south of the Principality of Standing, and finally land on the coastline south of the Kingdom of Lursun.
There is no need to pay any additional fees, and coupled with the super cargo capacity of the magic cargo ship, one transportation is enough to be worth countless land transportations, which will undoubtedly significantly reduce the cost.
Moreover, if you transport from the endless sea, you can easily reach the countries with coastlines on the continent of Sainz. This is very important for Xu Yi who wants to promote the magic machinery produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to the entire game. Enns continent is very helpful.
However, the current production capacity of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is quite insufficient. Even if the test is successful now, the construction time of the next medium-sized magic freighter will take several months at the earliest.
By the time an ocean-going transport fleet can be truly established, it will probably be a few years at the earliest.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn't help but glance at Leslie with some annoyance.
My own schedule was already tight enough, but now this guy had to come and interfere.
What a waste of time!