Whether Xu Yi's ambition is big or not is not a problem for others in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. ￥f summit novel,
On the contrary, the senior officials of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are more willing to know that their president has such ambitions.
Because from another perspective, the word ambition is also called ambitious.
Compared to following a president who has no ambitions and whose goals are limited to the immediate situation, of course they would rather follow a president who has ambitions and long-term goals.
Only in this way will Xinfei Chamber of Commerce continue to maintain its current situation and continue to develop at a high speed. It will not only become a super first-class chamber of commerce in several surrounding countries, but also become a super first-class chamber of commerce in the entire Sainz continent.
The stronger the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce becomes, the higher-ups of the chamber of commerce will naturally be able to follow the chamber of commerce to gain even more amazing benefits.
What's more, even if you don't consider it from the perspective of actual benefits, just following the president and achieving the goal of spreading magic machines throughout the continent is already enough to attract people's hearts, isn't it
The last month of the year 3875 in the mainland calendar passed quickly. As soon as the New Year passed, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce once again openly recruited a large number of workers.
This is not surprising. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been desperately recruiting workers in the past two years and has never relaxed its demand in this regard.
However, the recruitment this time is slightly different from the past, mainly focusing on recruitment in the resource collection industry.
Moreover, there is another very significant condition in terms of recruitment conditions, that is, the workers who apply for the job are expected to be willing to stay away from their hometowns and work in places thousands of kilometers or even two thousand kilometers away.
At the same time, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce stated that the initial conditions for this job are very difficult, and it is not easy to go home. You must be able to endure hardship. You just have to be able to bear the loneliness.
Such a request has attracted the attention of many people. Because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had previously given very good conditions to its employees, but now it has become clear that this job position is very difficult, which is really strange.
But these conditions and requirements immediately became less important when compared with the salary stated in the job advertisements published in major newspapers.
Minimum three hundred gold coins per year!
Although such a salary is not a particularly high salary in the current Bangta City, it can be regarded as a truly high salary in both the Lampali Kingdom and the Luersun Kingdom.
You know, since Xinfei Chamber of Commerce laid off more than 18,000 workers at one time. This has led to other chambers of commerce competing for these workers, raising the average salary in the magic industry to an astonishing level, but for ordinary workers, twenty gold coins a month is already considered a very good income.
What's more, although the salary of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has never had an absolute advantage compared to other chambers of commerce, it has always far exceeded all other chambers of commerce in terms of various benefits.
According to private opinions, working in Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, even if you only receive a salary of ten gold coins per month, is much better than receiving twenty gold coins per month in other chambers of commerce.
Now Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is willing to offer newly recruited workers an annual salary of three hundred gold coins, which not only breaks the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's own practice. It even suddenly affected the salary level of the entire magic industry.
As soon as the recruitment news was published, countless people immediately flocked to the recruitment points set up by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in surrounding countries.
But one month has passed since the new year. The number of people actually recruited by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was less than 2,000, which was far lower than the initial expectations of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
This made Xu Yi a little disappointed and a little confused.
Although it is a bit uncomfortable to be far away from home and work on an unknown island in the endless sea, which is a thousand or two thousand kilometers away from here, it is not that difficult to accept.
More than 20,000 people came to apply, but in the end only 2,000 people were willing to go, less than one-tenth. It was really too few.
And even if there are two thousand people, not all of them can go.
Xu also attaches great importance to the resource development of these islands in the endless sea and the supporting sea area control plan. The workers sent there must not only be trustworthy, but also need to possess certain special qualities.
For example, you need to be able to endure loneliness, have the ability to live normally on an island with harsh conditions, etc...
According to Xu Yi's estimation, it would be good if a quarter of the two thousand newly recruited people could eventually go to those islands.
The real main force has to be selected from the veteran workers of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce itself.
But even if we select from those old workers, there are still not many workers willing to accept such a transfer.
Of course Xu Yi could force them to work on those islands, but from a stability perspective, Xu Yi was unwilling to do so.
"It seems that the progress of this plan can only be postponed." Xu Yi looked at the recruitment progress report Kennard gave him and couldn't help but sigh.
Kennard glanced at Xu Yi, hesitated, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. President, actually... if you are willing to increase the salary level in this area, for example, from the annual salary of three hundred gold coins to four hundred With gold coins, I think it won’t be a problem in terms of manpower.”
"No." Xu Yi shook his head very simply. "When setting such a salary, we not only take into account the overall salary level of our chamber of commerce, but also the salary level of the entire industry. If we set it too high all at once, it will make it very difficult for other chambers of commerce."
Kennard smiled bitterly and shook his head.
He wanted to say that in fact, other chambers of commerce that are also engaged in the magic industry have never cared about this. They have been poaching people from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce with high salaries, so we don't need to worry about it at all.
However, after working with Xu Yi for so long, Kennard understood Xu Yi's goals very well and knew that he valued the development of the overall industry the most, and he would not care if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce suffered a loss for this reason.
And Xu Yi is right, even within the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, if the salaries of workers sent to work overseas are set too high at once, it will inevitably affect the salary standards within the chamber of commerce and cause internal chaos.
The current salary standards of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce were re-established after the previous large-scale layoffs. It's only been less than a year since it broke. This is obviously inappropriate.
Xu Yi pondered for a moment. Then he smiled and said: "Okay, actually, if you think about it carefully, it's okay. We can't rush the development of those islands. If nothing else, at least we don't have so many magic ships now, right?"
Kennard nodded: "Yes, President, we currently only have eight large cargo magic ships, which are not enough to support a large number of maritime cargo missions. In addition, in terms of combat magic ships, although they are enough to assemble two complete The fleet is not sufficient in terms of training and personnel. It is too difficult to completely dominate this huge sea area in the southern part of the continent. "
"Well, that's it. We will proceed step by step, starting from the islands off the coast of Principality Standing, and then advance step by step to the southern waters of the mainland. At the same time, we must pay close attention to personnel recruitment, training and ship construction. We must have a ship as soon as possible. A strong enough escort fleet.”
Kennard looked at Xu Yi thoughtfully: "Isn't Viscount Leslie's fleet enough?"
"Of course." Xu Yi had no special expression on his face. He just nodded without explaining much.
Although Leslie is now under the name of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Guards, commanding the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort fleet. But Xu Yi knew very well that Leslie might not be under him for a long time.
Wait until the time is right. It is very likely that he will leave the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and establish his own maritime fleet.
The reason why Xu Yi now gives him the command of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort team is, firstly, because of their personal relationship, and secondly, because Leslie has the ability in this area and also inherited some resources from the previous Stark family.
Now that he is commanding the escort fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, it can actually be regarded as a cooperation between Xu Yi and Leslie, because both parties need to accumulate relevant experience in the maritime fleet.
Now that the situation has changed, Xu Yi and Kennard made corresponding changes to the overall plan.
Because before this, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had actually conducted detailed exploration of the waters near the Principality of Standing, and had done statistics and preliminary development of islands with resources in the nearby waters, so this sea area was used as the basis for this plan. starting point.
According to Xu Yi's plan, Xinfei merchants will set up small bases on these islands and deploy a small number of defense measures, and then connect these islands to serve as the first defense island chain outside the coastline of the Principality of Standing.
If a situation similar to the previous situation where the Sack Kingdom and Earl Weilun colluded to attack the New Flying Chamber of Commerce occurs again, they must first break through the defenses of the first island chain before they can threaten the main base of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
Next, Xu Yi's plan is to extend this first island chain all the way to the southern waters of the Luersun Kingdom, and then to the southern waters of the Candela Empire, and finally draw a semicircle in the southern waters of the Sainz continent, covering the entire Sainz continent. The southern part of Sri Lanka continent is wrapped up.
To achieve this goal, it is obviously not enough to only develop islands with various resources. Some islands with strategic significance must also be utilized.
In this way, the investment of this entire plan will become extremely staggering.
Xu Yi and Kennard made a rough estimate that the total investment in this plan would be over 100 million gold coins.
"Okay, President, this plan cannot be achieved in one or two years. We can only take our time." Kennard sighed.
Xu Yi smiled: "Of course, I never thought that we could complete this plan in a short time. In short, we just need to work hard in this direction."
Kennard also laughed, and just as he was about to speak, there was a sudden strong knock on the office door.
Kennard frowned slightly and shouted, "Come in."
The door opened, and the human secretary who served as Kennard's assistant rushed in with a very strange expression on his face. His eyes swept over Kennard and landed on Xu Yi's face. After swallowing hard, he said with a In a tone mixed with panic, shock, doubt and other emotions, he said: "Yes... Mr. President... I just received the news that Her Majesty Queen Sevigny... officially announced that she is pregnant..."
Kennard opened his mouth in surprise, but didn't say anything. He just turned to look at Xu Yi.
Xu Yi was stunned, turned to look in the direction of Anvilmar City in the northeast, and remained silent for a long time. (To be continued...)