Since Xu Yi announced that he would reveal his steel-making technology and require slaves in exchange, in the past few months, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has successively taken over more than 30,000 slaves. ∷,
Xu Yi sent all these slaves to the overseas islands and used them as the manpower of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to control these islands.
These islands are large and small. The large ones can accommodate thousands or even tens of thousands of people, but the small ones can only accommodate hundreds of people. After all the more than 30,000 slaves were sent there, only a small half of them were filled. There were still dozens of islands left that Xu Yi had delineated before, but not enough manpower could be sent there.
Xu Yi is not too anxious about this. Anyway, the island chain construction plan cycle is extremely long and the investment is huge. Of course, it cannot be completed in a short time.
According to the plan, the islands that need to be initially built are mainly concentrated in the outer waters of the Principality of Standing, the outer waters of the Black Rice Wasteland further north, and the outer waters of the Kingdom of Luersun further south.
After successfully constructing all the islands that have yet to be encountered, the next plan is to build islands in the southern waters of the Candela Empire, and... islands in the outer waters of the Sark Kingdom.
# # #
In April of the continental calendar year 3787, the early spring in the Principality of Standing was already a little hot like the early summer in other places.
At this time of year, the coastal beach at the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is always filled with people during their free time.
Bikinis have long been completely popular in the Principality of Standing, so now when you look at the beach, you will see beauties wearing sexy bikinis swaying around everywhere, either snow-white or showing healthy bronze skin. Flesh bodies shuttled back and forth on the beach. It's dazzling to see.
However, the situation on the beach today was slightly different from usual. People's eyes were not focused on the fleshy bodies on the beach. Instead, they fell on the sea one after another.
Today is the day when the New Flying Chamber of Commerce’s transport fleet returns.
Different from the usual return of the transport fleet, this time the transport fleet is said to have spanned more than 5,000 kilometers of sea, heading all the way to the easternmost coast of the continent and then returning.
It is said that this time the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom on the east coast of the mainland have reached a cooperation agreement. The two parties have reached the first real cooperation through this New Flying Chamber of Commerce transport fleet. So since the New Flying Chamber of Commerce transport fleet transports from here After carrying a large amount of supplies, it was obvious that a large amount of supplies should be transported back from the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom.
The Principality of Standing is located in the southwest corner of the continent of Sainz, and the envoy of Nozdormu is said to be located in the southeast corner of the entire continent. The two are separated by more than 5,000 kilometers.
For most people, this is a distance that they cannot cross in their lifetime.
If the New Flying Chamber of Commerce had not reached a cooperation with the United Kingdom of Nozdormu and used the powerful New Flying Chamber of Commerce's transport fleet to get in touch with each other, I am afraid that most people in the Principality of Standing would not have had anything to do with this country. touch.
Now that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's transport fleet has returned from the United Kingdom of Nozdormu, it will definitely bring back many rare treasures that can only be found there, which will definitely open people's eyes.
So after learning that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's transport fleet would arrive today, countless people gathered on the beach, enjoying the sea breeze while eagerly anticipating the arrival of the transport fleet.
"Hey, President Xu. Do you really think Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom is worth investing in?"
In Xu Yi's private estate on a cliff not far from the beach, a fat middle-aged man withdrew his gaze to the sea in the distance. He turned to Xu Yi and asked.
Hearing his question, dozens of men dressed as businessmen gathered on the platform near the cliff all focused their attention on Xu Yi, with questions in their eyes.
These dozens of people are all the presidents of some magic machinery chambers of commerce that are closely related to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. They were specially summoned by Xu Yi today to discuss with them the investment in Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom.
Although these presidents have made a lot of profits through their cooperation with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce over the years, and are therefore very convinced of Xu Yi, they are very hesitant about Xu Yi's proposal to let them invest in the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom.
After all, the commercial kingdom of Nozdormu is too far apart.
That place is more than 5,000 kilometers away from here. To them, it is like two different worlds. Naturally, they cannot rest assured.
"Purely from a business perspective, I must say it's very worthwhile." Xu Yi glanced around the people around him, smiled and nodded. "The United Commercial Kingdom of Nozdormu is equivalent to the Lampari Kingdom before our New Flying Chamber of Commerce appeared. It can be said that it is completely blank in terms of magic machinery. If there is any chamber of commerce that is willing to go there to open up the market, it will definitely be possible. Easily occupy that market.”
Everyone looked at each other and nodded in unison.
"But President Xu, if that's your idea, why don't you, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, just monopolize it yourself, instead of inviting us to come with you?" Another person asked.
Xu Yi spread his hands and said calmly: "My point of view has always been that everyone can make money. Since this market is very promising, of course I hope that everyone can develop it together and earn the benefits we need together."
Everyone was silent for a moment, and couldn't help but nod in unison again.
If this sentence were said by other people, they would only think it was hypocritical.
However, Xu Yi has always supported the development of his colleagues, so others will never think that Xu Yi is lying.
"I know that you are all worried about investing in the United Kingdom of Commerce in Nozdormu because it is too far away from here. But I must remind everyone that as a qualified businessman, we must have certain skills when necessary. The spirit of adventure. As the saying goes, interests always coexist with risks, and in turn, risks also coexist with interests. Isn’t this the consciousness that we businessmen should have?”
Everyone was silent for a while, and a businessman coughed lightly and said: "President Xu, you are right. But I think... before the representatives of the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom arrive. It seems that we have to say so much. It’s no use.”
Xu Yi smiled. He nodded and said, "Yes. When the representatives arrive, I think it will be easier for you to make up your mind."
Seeing that the topic was easily shifted by these people to the various businesses they were currently conducting, Xu Yi secretly sighed in his heart.
Among the businessmen here, many of the chambers of commerce under their names were founded from scratch with the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
At the beginning of their establishment, the presidents of these chambers of commerce were full of adventurous spirit, otherwise they would not be willing to make a determined investment in the unprecedented magic machinery industry.
But now after several years of development, after these chambers of commerce have reached a certain scale, these presidents have begun to have some thoughts of settling down with a small fortune. Became less willing to take risks.
This made Xu Yi a little disappointed with them.
If we talk about the development speed and current scale, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will undoubtedly completely crush these chambers of commerce that are also in the magic machinery industry. However, as the president of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yi has a very adventurous spirit until now.
Not to mention investing in the Commercial United Kingdom of Nozdormu, which is more than 5,000 kilometers away from here. If conditions permit, it would be no problem for him to invest in another continent.
Of course, this is due to the gap in vision between the two parties.
Xu Yi traveled from the earth and has long been accustomed to the concept of the global village.
More than five thousand kilometers is not an obstacle at all for Xu Yi, but for people who are accustomed to living on the Sainz continent who may never leave their birthplace for hundreds of kilometers, it is no different than a natural chasm.
Think of this. Xu Yi did not urge or simply force them.
He believes that there is no shortage of people in the world who are willing to take risks.
After a while, representatives from the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom arrived. I believe that some of these people will see the business opportunities contained in it and be willing to take these risks.
An hour passed in the blink of an eye, and Xu Yi still did not receive any information about the fleet's return. He couldn't help but glanced at the sea to the south in confusion, but could not see any trace of the large cargo magic ship.
This made him a little strange.
Nerval sent news back from Port Nissi seven days ago, and he was sure to return today.
According to his usual habit, he would choose to arrive in the morning every time he returned, so as to facilitate the delivery of goods on the same day.
However, now that the morning is about to pass, there is still no trace of the transport fleet, which is really abnormal.
Glancing at the people still chatting and laughing next to him, Xu Yi remained calm and continued to wait patiently.
But another hour passed, and it was obviously past the lunch time, but there was still no news.
At this time, other people present also noticed something was wrong, and gradually stopped talking and looked at Xu Yi.
Xu Yi frowned, signaled everyone to wait, walked quickly to a small room in the manor, took out the small magic call box in his arms, and pressed the button.
"Hello, I'm Xu Yi. Evita, immediately send out a magic airship to search southward along the coastline to find traces of the transport fleet."
The call box was silent for a while, and then he remembered Evita's slightly surprised voice: "Yes, President, I'll leave immediately."
After a while, Xu Yi walked out of the manor, looked up at the southern sky, and saw a magic airship slowly rising into the sky, and then quickly flying towards the southern sea.
"President Xu...what happened?" A voice sounded from behind.
Xu Yi looked back and found that the presidents who were still on the platform just now had also walked to the front yard at some time, and they all looked at Xu Yi in surprise.
"It's nothing, there was a little accident." Xu Yi said with a smile.
Everyone looked at each other, obviously not believing it.
Just when Xu Yi was about to ask everyone to return to the platform and wait patiently, the magic call box in his hand rang again.
Xu Yi frowned, walked aside, and connected the magic call box.
Evita's voice sounded, with a hint of panic in her tone.
"President, the transport fleet has been discovered, but they... seem to be being besieged!" (To be continued...)