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After sailing into the southern waters of the Candela Empire for about four hours, the convoy stopped near an island with an area of about five or six square kilometers. ∮,
There are no mineral resources on this island, and there are no other resources worth mentioning. It was not originally among the escort fleet's original goals.
However, just two months ago, Xu Yi changed the maritime strategy of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and planned to build an island chain on the endless sea to connect all islands with resources and bring them completely under control, so there is nothing like this Islands that have resources, but whose terrain and area are very suitable for establishing a base, are also included in the scope of the investigation.
There are countless islands like this in the vast sea south of the Candela Empire. It is of course impossible to build bases on all the islands.
After many investigations and comparisons, Xu Yi finally determined this and two islands about 100 kilometers away and 200 kilometers away from here as the first step of construction goals based on Leslie's report.
Although the escort fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has actually been very active in the southern waters of the Candela Empire before, strictly speaking, the establishment of bases on these three islands truly means that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has officially entered the waters of the Candela Empire.
Although all countries on this continent do not have a very clear concept of their own waters, after all, the shortest straight-line distance from the coastline of the Candela Empire is only less than a hundred kilometers, and it can actually be regarded as within the control of the Candela Empire Navy.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce established bases on these three islands without notifying the Candela Empire. How will the Candela Empire react? It's really unpredictable.
After the escort fleet stopped near the island. Instead of doing nothing, they put down dozens of small magic assault boats, carrying hundreds of sailors, transported some of the building materials purchased from Port Nissi to the island, and built a simple settlement on the coast. .
About two hours later, before this simple settlement was completely set up, a huge magic ship with silver light shining in the sun came quickly from the western sea.
Leslie led the escort fleet to meet him, and met Nieval, the general manager of the transport fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, on the "Tuoyuan" large cargo magic ship that was built and launched into the sea last month.
The two of them didn't exchange much greetings. After a brief handover of work, all the small magic assault boats were put down at the same time, and all the large number of personnel and subsequent construction materials that came with the "Tuoyuan" were transported to the island.
This group of personnel is not just personnel from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but also includes a large number of construction engineering personnel from the Amli Chamber of Commerce.
The only purpose of these people coming here is to first build a port on this island.
Only by building the port first can subsequent supplies be delivered to the island more conveniently and quickly, facilitating the construction of the entire island base.
Seven similar island bases have been constructed in the southern waters of the Kingdom of Luersun, so there is no need for Nerval and Leslie to do any more command, whether it is the entourage of the Amri Chamber of Commerce or the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. They all started the initial construction very skillfully.
A row of simple houses were quickly built on the coast almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then the first batch of construction workers from the Amuli Chamber of Commerce moved in with a variety of daily necessities.
According to the plan. Starting tomorrow, they will spend a minimum of three months on this island until they successfully build the initial buildings of the port and island base, and then enter the next stage based on specific circumstances.
After staying on an otherwise uninhabited island for such a long time and working very hard every day, the living environment is naturally extremely harsh.
However, no matter whether it was the construction workers from the Armli Chamber of Commerce or the personnel sent by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, no one had any resentment on their faces. Instead, they all smiled and acted very enthusiastically.
Working here is a bit hard, but you can get a basic salary of at least thirty gold coins every month.
And because of the rush to work, I work a lot of overtime. If I add overtime pay, I can even get as much as fifty gold coins a month.
This alone is already a large amount of money, not to mention that in addition, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has also provided various subsidies with many names.
For example, because the weather in the southern sea area has always been very hot, a high-temperature subsidy worth three gold coins will be given every month.
At the same time, because the living conditions here are poor and the work intensity is high, a nutritional subsidy worth five gold coins will be given every month.
Coupled with some messy subsidies, if converted into money every month, this part would be at least more than ten gold coins.
Under such astonishing treatment conditions, no matter how hard the work is, what does it mean
"Hey, Nerval, you see, this is the benefit of having money." Leslie looked at the workers working enthusiastically on the island, shrugged and said to Nerval beside him. "As long as I give them enough money, I think they are willing to let these workers sell their lives to the Chamber of Commerce."
"It's not that difficult to buy life with money." Nerval glanced at Leslie. "On the island of Kalaska five years ago, you could buy a life on the island with just ten gold coins."
Leslie glanced at Nerval, speechless.
He knew that Nerval was from Karaska Island, and he also knew that Karaska Island used to be known as the island of pirates. The island was full of desperadoes. It was indeed not unusual to buy a life for ten gold coins.
But now that I heard Neval say these words himself, it still felt very strange.
"If President Xu and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce hadn't changed the life on the island, Kalaska Island would not be any different from before." Nevaar suddenly sighed softly and said with emotion. "In fact, don't talk about Kalaska Island five years ago. Even now, if you take ten gold coins to other countries on this continent, you can easily buy a life."
Leslie was silent for a moment and nodded slightly.
Staying in Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for a long time will always give him an illusion. I think life has become very good for the people around me. Everyone is well fed and clothed. The world is far better than before.
But in fact, apart from the places affected by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, even in the surrounding countries, there are still some places where people are unable to solve even the most basic food and clothing problems.
As for the entire Sainz continent? There are countless places where countless people are still hungry and living in poverty.
Leslie once persuaded Xu Yi before that he didn't need to work so hard and should learn to enjoy himself, but Xu Yi shook his head and refused.
Leslie felt that Xu Yi was simply a workaholic. Don't know how to enjoy life at all.
After chatting with Nerval, I suddenly discovered that the reason why Xu Yi is a workaholic is probably because the goals in his heart are too lofty.
He works so hard in the hope that everyone on this continent can enjoy a better life as soon as possible...
Thinking of this, Leslie couldn't help but feel a sense of shame in her heart.
In his more than thirty-five years of life, this was the first time he felt ashamed.
"Actually, I once advised the president that we can buy some slaves from other countries and let the slaves do the work. That way we can save a lot of money. Now this base really needs to be built. At the very least It also costs 300,000 gold coins. And if you use all slaves, you can save tens of thousands of gold coins in salary alone."
"There's no way he can agree." Leslie shook his head. "What Xu Yi hates most is the existence of slaves. He has told me many times. If he has enough money, he must buy all the slaves on this continent and restore their freedom. You now Come and tell him to buy slaves, it would be strange if he doesn't scold you."
"Well... Although the president didn't scold me directly, I could tell that he was very angry, so I will never mention this matter in front of him again." Nerval nodded. "But Master Leslie, I have been thinking about a question..."
"what is the problem?"
"There is no problem that our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce does not use slaves as workers, but if other chambers of commerce use a large number of slaves as workers in the future, their cost of trial workers will be much lower than ours, and then their products can be sold much cheaper than ours. . Now because the quality and performance of our chamber of commerce are much better than those of other chambers of commerce, this is no problem. But in the future... if the quality and performance of other chambers of commerce are not bad, then our chamber of commerce will probably face a big problem. The problem..."
Leslie was slightly startled, as if meeting Nerval for the first time, and glanced at him up and down.
"How did you come up with this question?"
"When I was in Port Nissi, I met the president of a magic machinery chamber of commerce in the Kingdom of Luersun. His chamber of commerce hired and bought some slaves as workers, and he even boasted about it in front of me. Later I I have been thinking about this problem, and the more I think about it, the more serious it becomes. Mr. Leslie, you have a good relationship with Mr. Chairman, could you please remind him? "
Leslie frowned, thought for a moment, and shook his head slowly.
"I'm afraid it's useless. Xu Yi is a person who sticks to his principles very much. I remember when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was first established, I sent him a group of my slaves to work in his factory. At that time, he treated these slaves The attitude he showed was different from others. I think if he hadn't known that he was not strong enough at that time, he would have bought all the slaves from me and restored their freedom. "
This was the first time Nerval heard about the establishment of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. He couldn't help but widen his eyes and looked at Leslie attentively, for fear of missing a sentence.
"Then you look at now. The entire Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is up and down. The total number of employees is close to 100,000, but there is not even a single slave among them. Even the two slave maids beside him were restored by him. Free status. He is even pushing a bill in the Principality of Standing to abolish slavery in the entire Principality. Do you think... is it possible for him to accept slaves as workers? "
Nerval pondered for a moment, smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"What should we do? If the president refuses to use slaves, our chamber of commerce will definitely be at a disadvantage when facing other chambers of commerce in this regard. How to solve this problem?"
Leslie paused, suddenly burst out laughing, patted Neva's shoulder hard and said: "Okay, you can think of this problem, can't Xu Yi not think of it yet? The two of us have been discussing here for a long time, and worrying for a long time. , Maybe Xu Yi already has a solution in mind. I have known this guy for six years, and I have never seen him really stumped by any problem, so let's not worry here. "
Nerval tilted his head and thought for a moment, smiled and nodded.
"That's right. Chairman, we don't need to worry about anything. We just need to believe in him and do what he says." (To be continued...)