Lord Wei Lun initially transferred the territory of more than 240,000 hectares to Xu Yi. When it became Xu Yi's private territory, only the land was transferred, but the population on the territory was not transferred as well.
This resulted in that after Xu Yi obtained this territory, there were only about 170,000 Xinfei Chamber of Commerce employees who moved here with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Although compared to the average population density on the Sainz continent, this land of less than fifteen square kilometers has a population of more than 17,000, which is already quite good.
However, because most of the factories of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are intensive industries, just one factory covering an area of no more than a thousand square meters can accommodate hundreds of workers.
Adding up all the factories and living areas, the area does not exceed 50,000 hectares.
This makes the rest of Xu Yi's territory look extremely empty and slightly underpopulated.
The more important problem is that without a large amount of population replenishment, it will be extremely difficult for Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to expand production and increase production capacity.
Although people from the Lampali Kingdom have been coming one after another to join the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, in more than a year, the total number of people who have actually come here is less than 2,000. For Considering the large manpower needs of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it is simply a drop in the bucket. The main reason for the production capacity issue that Xu Yi has been having a headache with before is actually the population issue.
Human resources cannot be satisfied, and no matter how abundant the funds of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are now, there is no way to quickly increase production capacity.
The reason why Xinfei Chamber of Commerce cooperates with the Kingdom of Luersun and invests heavily in the Principality of Milan is to establish more production bases. Improve overall production capacity.
But the Kingdom of Luersun and the Principality of Mirando are not within the control of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce after all. Although the cooperative relationship between Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and them is now extremely close. But no one can guarantee whether there will be changes in these two countries in the future.
In order to solve the manpower problem, Xu Yi previously recruited a large number of local civilians from the Principality of Standing in his territory through Lord Wei Lun to join the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to assist in production.
But according to the traditional rules on the Sainz continent, since these civilians are the subjects of Lord Weilun's territory, they belong to Lord Weilun.
Xinfei Chamber of Commerce employs these people of Lord Weilun. Not only does it have to pay a large amount of fees to Lord Weilun, but it also does not have the right to manage these people.
This resulted in Xu Yi being unwilling to provide skills training and later training to these people, and had always only let them do the simplest jobs. Rather than allowing them to engage in technical work. But in this way, hiring these workers will provide much less help to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Xu Yi once proposed to Lord Wei Lun to move a group of civilians directly from his territory to join his territory, but Lord Wei Lun flatly rejected it.
The population on Sainz Continent is already very tight. For all noble lords, people are the most important resource in the territory. Lord Wei Lun will naturally not agree to Xu Yi's request.
However, according to the practice on the continent of Sainz, if the people on the territory of a noble lord want to move away, they only need to pay a certain price to leave the jurisdiction of the noble lord.
"President, are you really going to pay for their relocation expenses?" Sebastian glanced at the people not far away who were milling around the latest magic air conditioner launched by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and frowned.
"Of course." Xu Yi nodded.
It was different from the disdainful look Sebas looked at those people. Xu Yi looked very interested, as if these ragged people, who were almost the same as beggars, had some kind of treasure hidden in them.
"Mr. President, the Principality of Standing is much stricter in this regard than our Kingdom of Lampali, and the Grand Duke Standing has express regulations on this. If we really want to do this, we are just one person. The relocation fee is at least 100 gold coins. And since they are coming from Lord Weilun's territory, Lord Weilun will definitely demand more." Sebas added.
"So what if he asks for two hundred gold coins?" Xu Yi turned his head and said sternly to Sebastian: "If Lord Wei Lun is willing to give me all the hundreds of thousands of people currently in his territory, I will spend all the money. I’m willing to buy it. The problem is that Lord Weilun will definitely not do it, so we should buy as many as we can.”
Sebastian suddenly smiled bitterly: "But Mr. President, the total funds that our Chamber of Commerce can use now are less than two million gold coins. How can it be possible to buy so many people?"
"So, you can buy as much as you can." Xu Yi smiled slightly. "What's more, at this time, even if we give Lord Wei Lun real gold coins, he probably won't want them."
"The president is right." Kennard, who had finished a brief exchange with those people, came over at this time, took over what Xu Yi said and said: "Compared with gold coins, what Lord Wei Lun needs most now is I'm afraid it's still the various military magic machines provided by our Chamber of Commerce. I think when the president negotiates with him later, he will make requests in this regard. "
Sebas frowned even closer.
Although he is the financial director of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and is mainly responsible for the financial aspects and basically does not intervene in the specific production, he is still very familiar with the current production situation of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Of course, he is very clear about the situation that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is facing now.
"But if we agree to Lord Wei Lun's conditions, we will have problems with supply in other areas, right? Quite a few words."
"So, in order to completely solve this situation of demolishing the east wall to pay for the west wall, we must find a way to solve the capacity bottleneck of the chamber of commerce. And to solve this problem, human resources is the most important factor. This is a good opportunity , we must not miss it." Xu Yi said with a serious face: "In terms of finance, Sebastian, you must make specific statistics and related preparations. If Lord Weilun really needs gold coins, you must be able to meet the specific needs. In terms of production arrangements, Kennard, I leave it to you.”
"Understood." Kennard nodded. "If that doesn't work, we can actually coordinate with the chambers of commerce in Heimi Wasteland and ask them to help process some parts."
After finishing speaking. Kennard looked at Xu Yi with a questioning look.
Previously, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was producing various military magic machines. From early research and development to specific parts processing, equipment assembly, etc., everything is handled by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. No other chambers of commerce or unrelated people have ever been allowed to interfere.
Now Kennard came up with this idea, which was to suggest to Xu Yi that other chambers of commerce should also be included in the military production ranks of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Xu Yi pondered for a moment and nodded slightly: "Yes. But we must carefully select and give priority to those small chambers of commerce that have long-term cooperation with our chamber of commerce."
"I will consider it seriously." Kennard replied seriously.
"Okay, let's do it."
Xu Yi turned to look at Sebas. Sebas thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay, Mr. President. I will prepare enough liquidity to prepare for this. But Mr. President, Si The second phase of the Lu Highway project is about to start, and we must prepare a minimum initial investment of 500,000 gold coins. If this is included, our Chamber of Commerce may not have any liquidity left in case there is any need again. , I’m afraid there will be difficulties, and it may even be that the wages of the workers are not enough.”…
"Don't worry about this." Xu Yi waved his hand. "I have contacted Newman. The Luersun Kingdom will order a large number of household magic machines from us in the next three months. We can make enough profits from them to ensure the basic liquidity of the Chamber of Commerce."
"But this is still a bit dangerous..." Sebastian muttered and shook his head.
As the financial director of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Sebastian had always felt very relaxed before.
Because the sales of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce products have always been very high. The profit margin is high, so the financial situation has always been extremely good. Never had any issues.
However, in the past year or so, the financial situation of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has become somewhat tense.
This is not to say that there is any crisis in Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, because except for the decline in product sales and lower profits when Xinfei Chamber of Commerce first left the Lampali Kingdom, it still maintained high sales and high profits in the rest of the time.
But in more than a year, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce spent too much money.
Especially after acquiring this territory from Lord Wei Lun, Xu Yi finally obtained a piece of land that he could completely control, so he began to invest heavily in this land.
Now in this territory of less than 25 square kilometers, there are actually thirteen roads crisscrossing it, connecting almost every part of the territory.
After acquiring the territory, Xu Yi also re-planned and built the workers' living area of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the territory.
Now when you walk in the living area, you can see neat and beautiful houses, which look extremely spectacular.
At the same time, Xu Yi also provided a large amount of daily necessities sales from many other chambers of commerce, making life here extremely convenient and comfortable.
In addition, Xu Yi also invited the elves from the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe to re-green the territory, making the entire territory vibrant and beautiful.
Almost everyone who comes to this territory will be shocked by the living environment here that is completely different from other places.
Even Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny and her personal guards were extremely satisfied with the place after living here for more than four months, and even lingered a little bit.
But creating such a living environment is extremely expensive.
Since Xu Yi obtained this territory, up to now, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has invested a total of 4.68 million gold coins in this territory.
It can be said that most of the profits obtained by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have actually been invested in the transformation of this territory.
And that's not all.
According to Xu Yi's plan, there are still many places in this territory that need improvement.
For example, Xu Yi's latest plan is to install a complete automatic water supply system for the entire territory.
In order to perfect this system, not only at least 300 magic water pumps newly developed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are needed, but also a large number of water supply pipelines need to be laid.
Even though the very important water purification device uses the green cleaning plant filtration solution provided by the Night Song Tribe, which is extremely low-cost, the overall cost of this automatic water supply system is still extremely shocking.
According to Sebastian's budget statistics, if you want to build this automatic water supply system according to Xu Yi's idea, the minimum investment will be more than 800,000 gold coins.
It is precisely because a lot of money will be spent next that Sebas objects to Xu Yi's "buying people" from Lord Wei Lun this time.
"Don't worry." Xu Yi understood Sebas' concerns, but as the president, he certainly had more to consider than Sebas. "This is also so that the Chamber of Commerce can obtain higher profits in the future, and you, the financial director, will be more confident in the future. As long as you persist, the dawn will come soon. And... I have gone through so many things, in the final analysis, it is to let other people Life is better, isn’t it?”
"Well, the president is right." Kennard also smiled: "Sebas, do you know what those people said when I asked them why they wanted to move to our territory?" .
Sebas and Xu Yi looked at Kennard with interest.
"They told me that the reason why they want to move here is because life will be more comfortable in our territory. But what makes me a little funny is that what they value most is exactly the automatic water supply system you were worried about just now. They To be able to drink clean and sweet water without leaving home is simply a life that even the gods cannot afford.”
Xu Yi laughed when he heard this, but Sebas remained silent. After turning his head to look at the people for a while, he nodded slightly.
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