Billil's letter and the accompanying progress report were delivered to Xu Yi three days later. ▲∴，
Seeing that the letter mentioned that someone in the Candela Empire was interested in the magic freight locomotive, Xu Yi was not too surprised.
In fact, compared to magic cars, Xu Yi has always felt that all kinds of freight and passenger magic motorcycles are more practical.
From a practical perspective, it is obvious that all types of passenger and freight magic locomotives should be more popular.
This is clearly reflected in the sales in the Lampali Kingdom and surrounding countries.
From the time Xinfei Chamber of Commerce started selling various magic motorcycles to now, the total sales of magic cars are less than 50,000 units. The cumulative sales of various types of freight passenger and freight magic motorcycles have exceeded 500,000 units, which is enough for magic cars. More than ten times the sales volume.
Now in the surrounding countries, all kinds of magic motorcycles have completely replaced traditional horse-drawn carriages. Except for some nostalgic people who are still using them, others range from the kings and nobles of various countries to the common people, whether traveling or carrying goods. They will choose all kinds of magic motorcycles.
After all, compared to traditional carriages, magic locomotives far exceed them in terms of carrying capacity, speed, and the comfort that carriages value most.
Nowadays, even those who do not have the conditions to buy a magic car will first choose the new passenger magic motorcycles replaced by various carriages and horses when traveling, or simply take a rental magic car popularly opened from the Lampali Kingdom instead of going to the auto industry. If you want to beg for trouble, choose to ride a horse-drawn carriage.
Of course, this is also due to the establishment of road transportation networks in surrounding countries, which creates good traffic conditions for the operation of magic locomotives.
The reason why Xu Yizhi first launched the magic car in the Candela Empire. He just hopes to impress those qualified people in the upper echelons of the Candela Empire through the magic car. Get them interested in the Magic Car. This led to an interest in paving roads.
After the Candela Empire also begins to build a road transportation network, it will become logical to promote various types of passenger and freight magic locomotives.
But now that some people have noticed the convenience brought by the freight magic locomotive and become interested in the freight magic locomotive, Xu Yi will naturally not refuse.
The reason why the chamber of commerce opened by Billier was called "Billier's Magic Motorcycle Company" instead of "Billier's Magic Car Company" was originally Xu Yi's idea.
Xu Yi made it clear in his reply to Billier. If anyone wishes to purchase a freight or passenger magic locomotive, Bilier can definitely agree.
And Xu also assured Billier that he would hand over all the magic motorcycle-related business of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Candela Empire to Billier, so as to reassure Billier.
As for the progress report Billier sent with the letter, it was a report about Xu Yi asking him to prepare a magic car race in the Candela Empire.
It should be said that Billil moved very quickly.
In less than half a year since he went to the Candela Empire, he has already made a name for himself in the aristocratic circle in Wimbledon, and has successfully organized some young aristocrats who love magic cars and drag racing together to start privately Racing competitions are held here.
According to Billiel's description. This racing competition was very popular among the young aristocratic circles in Wimbledon, and it was deliberately arranged by him. It has formed a rhythm that will be held every week.
Next, Billil will gradually formalize this event as planned, and then rely on Prince Frank's relationship to make this event open and transparent, making it a regular event that attracts attention.
Therefore, Billier needs Xu Yizai to give him some support. For example, they currently lack a formal track and a certain amount of experienced management talents...
Xu Yi had already prepared these requirements for Billier, so it was naturally not a problem.
Judging from Billier's progress report, if all goes well, it may be possible to hold the first formal racing competition in Wimbledon by the end of this year.
This is very good news for Xu Yi, because it means that the Magic Car will gain public attention in Wimbledon, and it means that the products of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have officially entered the market of the Candela Empire for the first time.
In addition, there is good news, that is, through some unknown relationship, Ambassador Hakan finally got the Kandra Empire official to agree to his private construction of a road in the southwest province of the Kandra Empire.
This road will start from the border between the Principality of Norton and the Candela Empire and run through the entire Southwest Province.
Although the end point is not directly connected to Wimbledon City as Xu Yi expected, it is more than 700 kilometers long and can fully become the main transportation road for the southwestern province of the Candela Empire.
The total cost of this road is approximately 1.5 million gold coins. It was nominally laid by Ambassador Hakanin and the Governor-General of the Southwest Province of the Kandela Empire. Ambassador Hakanin contributed 1 million gold coins. The provincial governor's office contributed 500,000 gold coins.
But in fact, half of the one million gold coins invested by Ambassador Hakanin was borne by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Amri Chamber of Commerce each, and Ambassador Hakanin only occupied one name.
The nominal payment of 500,000 gold coins for the Governor's Mansion of the Southwest Province of the Candela Empire was also offset by various preferential policies for this highway. In fact, there was no need to pay a single gold coin at all.
Of course, these preferential policies only provide some nominal conveniences. For example, after the paving of this road, the Southwest Provincial Governor's Office will provide support to the construction team of the Amuli Chamber of Commerce and assist the Amuli Chamber of Commerce in expropriating land along the road. And adjust the relocation of people along the highway, etc...
But in actual implementation, many things are just a matter of words from the Southwest Provincial Governor's Office, and at most they only send one or two people to assist. The real work is still done by the Armli Chamber of Commerce.
And in order for these manpower to work hard and cooperate, the Armli Chamber of Commerce has to take good care of them in private, and has spent a lot of invisible capital investment for this purpose.
Faced with this situation, President Cruise was naturally full of complaints.
"Damn it, this must be the most uncomfortable road I have ever built." President Cruise cursed unceremoniously. "The noble officials begged me to build the road here. They tried their best to say good things to us. But when we went to the Kandra Empire to build this road, we in turn required us to beg them desperately and say good things to them. Damn, This is building roads for them and creating convenience for them! As a result, they still have to face all kinds of difficulties. Are these guys all idiots?"
Seeing President Cruz's angry look, Xu Yi laughed, waved his hand, and said with relief: "Okay. After all, this is the first road in the Candela Empire. If we can build it, we will succeed. You have to be right Do you have confidence in the roads you built? Think about it, once this road is built and the guys in the Candela Empire see that the roads are so useful, how could they not want to build more roads? You don’t need to be so aggrieved when they build roads.”
President Cruise snorted heavily: "When that happens, I'll make them pay a price!"
Xu Yi smiled and had no reaction to President Cruise's idea.
Not only did the Amri Chamber of Commerce suffer aggrieved when dealing with the Candela Empire, but their New Flying Chamber of Commerce also often suffered from the arrogance of this huge empire when they came into contact with the Candela Empire.
If the Candela Empire could be made to pay more, Xu Yi would not be polite at all.
"The Candela Empire doesn't need to worry for now. We will be very anxious then." Xu Yi paused and said. "Now the slaves have been settled on the islands, but there are only some simple houses on those islands. There is no resettlement at all, so I hope you can send enough manpower as soon as possible. Now the resettlement houses on those islands Build it up.”
President Cruise frowned: "Xu Yi, you also know how troublesome it is to build a house on those islands? The manpower is not bad, but the supply of some required building materials is far less than that on land. Easy. Speaking of which, why do you have to send all those slaves to the island? If you really want to get the slaves back to the Principality of Standing as others fear, you must let them return to civilian status. If they are not easy to control, then it is the same as leaving them in the Black Rice Wasteland. Anyway, the Black Rice Wasteland still belongs to the Lampali Kingdom in name, but the Slave Abolition Act has not been passed."
"No, I'm not worried about this." Xu Yi smiled and shook his head. "And actually after I accepted those slaves, I have abolished their slave status. They are actually ordinary civilians now."
"Ah?" President Cruise was stunned. "No? Did you really restore them all to civilians? You... you won't be so stupid?"
"Silly?" Xu Yi shrugged. "I don't think so. I have already said that the identity of slaves is a major obstacle to liberating their productivity. Only by solving this identity problem can I better utilize the value contained in them."
"But if they are restored to civilian status, why should they obey your arrangements?" President Cruz asked with a frown.
"It's very simple, profit." Xu Yi replied with a smile. "You may not know much about these slaves. In fact, even if they return to civilian status, because they were slaves before, even if they continue to stay here, they will still suffer discrimination and will not be accepted by most people. So. Even after regaining their status as civilians, almost all of them still obeyed my arrangement and settled on the island I arranged for them. In addition, although they were no longer slaves, they all took the initiative to recognize me as their lord. I still have jurisdiction over them."
President Cruz frowned and looked at Xu Yi for a long time, then slowly shook his head.
"Xu Yi, to be honest, sometimes I really think you are a particularly hypocritical guy."
"Oh? What do you say?"
"You clearly need these slaves to listen to you completely, but you also want to occupy a noble name. I said, why are you doing this? Even if you really use them as slaves, no one will accuse you. Anyway, the history of slaves on this continent has existed for thousands of years, so what you do is very strange. "
Xu Yi was silent for a moment and sighed softly: "Maybe you are right, I am a hypocritical guy. The reason why I have to go to so much trouble is actually just for my own peace of mind. I hope to liberate these slaves. Productivity, just making excuses.”
President Cruise frowned even more: "So I don't understand even more. Why do you have such an idea? What makes you uneasy about using slaves? This is too strange."
Xu Yi shook his head, thinking that this was entirely because he came from an earth that was far more civilized than this world. He had received an education that everyone was equal since he was a child. He had also read countless criticisms of the slavery system in books since he was a child, so he hated this thing deeply.
But this involves his biggest secret, so how can he explain it to President Cruise? (To be continued...)