The important guest, the Marquis of Southgaard, has not yet left, and another equally important guest has come to the Principality of Standing.
This is Russell's third visit to the Principality of Standing.
Different from the previous two times, this time he did not choose to have Ambassador Hakanine accompany him. Instead, he brought several subordinates of the Kandra Empire Navy with him, riding the pure black magic motorcycle he purchased from Billier Magic Motorcycle Company. , driving all the way from the Candela Empire.
Although he had informed Xu Yi in advance through the contact information Xu Yi had left for him, Xu Yi was still a little surprised when he saw the serious faces of Russell and the subordinates he led.
Looking at their posture, I am afraid they are not just here to continue their inspection this time.
Sure enough, after meeting Xu Yi and exchanging a few words, Russell went directly to the topic.
"President Xu, the cooperation model proposed to you last time has been approved by the Navy Headquarters. Now as long as you can agree on behalf of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce, the first cooperation between us can officially take effect." Russell stared at Xu Yi's eyes were serious.
Xu Yi pondered for a moment, then smiled and asked: "Lord Russell, how many frigates do you plan to purchase?"
A trace of embarrassment flashed across Russell's face, he hesitated for a moment, and then reluctantly stretched out three fingers to Xu Yi.
"Thirty frigates? This may be a bit difficult. With the current production capacity of our chamber of commerce, it may take several years to build thirty frigates."
"No... it's three ships..." After saying this, Russell's old face couldn't help but blush slightly.
As the glorious Imperial Navy of the Candela Empire, it is already embarrassing to purchase warships from a chamber of commerce from another country. What’s even more embarrassing is that they only purchased three ships at a time!
Xu Yi was startled. There was a hint of weirdness in his eyes. Then he suppressed it and put on his still enthusiastic smile.
"Three? That's no problem. We can complete the construction of these three frigates within three months at the earliest. But how should the cooperation you proposed be completed?"
"Don't worry, we are already prepared."
Russell took out a document from the bag in the entourage's hand and handed it to Xu Yi.
This is a cooperation agreement. It clearly states that as compensation for the purchase of three frigates from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Candela Empire Navy will pay 1.5 million gold coins and at the same time jointly develop several areas in the southern waters of the Candela Empire with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Mineral resources on a small island.
at the same time. The Kandera Empire Navy will also cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to establish several sea bases in the southern waters of Kandela for supply and rest when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's transport fleet passes by.
In addition, the Candela Empire Navy will also open two corresponding ports to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce transport fleet and escort fleet.
The port open to the transport fleet is a civilian deep-water seaport in the southern part of the Kandra Empire. After opening to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's transport fleet, it can allow the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to transport large amounts of goods back and forth through the transport fleet.
This is equivalent to indirectly opening the southern part of the Candela Empire's market to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
If it were placed in a highly commercially developed society like this on Earth, this approach would obviously be very sloppy, and it would never be so easy to open up under normal circumstances.
But for various countries on the Sainz continent, this is not a big problem.
These seaports are under the control of the Candela Imperial Navy. As long as the Imperial Navy agrees, there will be no problem.
On the other hand, there are some problems with opening the Imperial Navy military seaport to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort fleet. However, in the name of cooperating with the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort fleet to fight against pirates, the Candela Imperial Navy gave the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort fleet the status of a non-staff cooperative combat fleet of the Imperial Navy. Allowing them to freely enter and exit the Imperial Navy Port.
"President Xu, this is to take into account the opinions of the military department, so I just gave you an identity to cooperate with the combat fleet. Please don't care about it." Russell explained to Xu Yi.
He knew very well that in fact, if we simply compare the combat effectiveness, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort fleet is actually far higher than the Imperial Navy, which has not yet assembled a large number of frigates. Therefore, in name, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort fleet serves as a cooperating combat fleet, but in fact if it really When encountering pirates, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's escort fleet is the main combat force.
The pirates in the southern waters of the Candela Empire have been rampant for more than a day or two. The Candela Empire Navy has also encircled and suppressed them many times before, but because the performance of the naval fleet's ships cannot completely suppress the pirates, it has been unable to achieve truly excellent results.
After the arrival of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort fleet, with the super attack power and extremely fast speed of the fine frigates, as long as they encounter pirates, the pirates will be unable to resist at all, and they will not even be able to escape.
In just half a year, most of the pirates in the southern waters of the Candela Empire disappeared, and they were no longer as rampant as before.
"Oh, it's nothing." Xu Yi waved his hand to show that he didn't care.
He really didn't care about the name in name. After all, the Candela Empire was one of the two major empires on this continent. It was understandable that he wanted to have a little sense of superiority in name.
In comparison, Xu Yi pays more attention to the practical significance of this.
Opening civilian ports to the transport fleet means taking the initiative to open the market to the New Aviation Chamber of Commerce, which is actually enough.
Opening the military port to the escort fleet will allow the escort fleet to have a relatively stable and sufficient supply base when it cruises in the southern waters of the Kandra Empire in the future, without the need to go all the way back to the port of Nisi in the Kingdom of Lursun for supplies every time. .
In this way, it will greatly increase the scope of activities of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's escort fleet, and help the New Flying Chamber of Commerce conduct more in-depth exploration and development of the southern waters of the Candela Empire and surrounding waters.
Xu Yi took a closer look at the cooperation agreement and found that the contents listed above not only included everything Russell mentioned to him last time, but also included many more items. He couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.
It can be seen that the Candela Imperial Navy has really shown considerable sincerity in cooperating with the New Flying Chamber of Commerce this time.
This is a good start, proving that the Candela Imperial Navy has sufficient considerations to continue to cooperate with the New Aviation Chamber of Commerce in the future.
After discussing some details of the agreement with Russell, the two parties quickly reached an agreement. Their names were owed on the agreement respectively.
I saw Xu Yi signed the agreement. A bright smile immediately appeared on Russell's face. He extended his hand to Xu Yi: "President Xu, happy cooperation."
"Happy cooperation." Xu Yi smiled and shook hands with Russell, and then asked: "Sir Russell, I have another question. How do you plan to use these three frigates after you purchase them?"
Russell gave Xu Yi a strange look: "Of course they should be put into service in the naval fleet immediately. Only if others see the power of these frigates with their own eyes will they support the navy's large-scale replacement of such frigates. What? President Xu, don’t you want this?”
"No, no, no. I very much hope that your country's navy can replace a large number of frigates, because only in this way can our chamber of commerce make money from it, right?" Xu Yi laughed and glanced at several followers with the same weird expressions behind Russell. Ask more.
The construction of any frigate is not a matter of one or two days, so it certainly makes no sense for Russell to continue to stay here.
However, he still left a subordinate behind, claiming to Xu Yi that he was supervising the progress of the frigate construction and serving as a go-between for the two parties.
Xu Yi was not surprised by this and had no objections, so he readily accepted it. And immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare a place for this so-called Candela Empire naval observer to settle down.
Seeing that Xu Yi was very cooperative, Russell felt relieved. Just stayed in the Principality of Standing for one day.
Early the next morning, before leaving, Russell decided to visit the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Shipyard.
In addition to watching the construction work process of the frigate, it can also be regarded as allowing the remaining observers to prepare for the first day of work.
Seeing that all the work in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Shipyard was in order, and that every worker was extremely energetic and moved smoothly, Russell expressed great satisfaction and decided to leave.
Accompanied by Xu Yi, Russell walked to the pier of Xinfei Port, looked at the endless sea in the distance, and sighed to Xu Yi: "President Xu, I heard that you have a wish to explore the endless sea. the deepest part?”
Xu Yi nodded lightly: "Yes. In fact, my original purpose of developing the magic ship was to one day be able to explore all parts of this vast sea through the magic ship. I have always believed that outside the continent we are on , there is definitely another continent or several different continents.”
"Is it because of the legend of the dwarfs?" Russell asked with a smile.
After coming to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce several times, he had long known that there was a legendary dwarf in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and Xu Yi had introduced him to him when he visited the shipyard just now.
"Not only because of the dwarfs, but also because exploring this unknown world is the most desirable thing." Xu Yi replied. "Lord Russell, don't you think that exploring new worlds is always exciting?"
Russell laughed: "I am already old, and this kind of thing should still be left to young people like you. Of course, I very much hope that by then our Imperial Navy can go to the depths of the endless sea with your new Flying Chamber of Commerce escort fleet. Explore everywhere. After all, in addition to a whole new world, there are also endless dangers, right?"
Xu Yi smiled and did not respond to Russell's words.
As if he realized something from Xu Yi's reaction, Russell's expression changed slightly. He turned his head and looked into the depths of the sea, only to find several ships the size of hills in the distance approaching the port quickly.
"This should be the transport fleet of your New Flying Chamber of Commerce? I have long heard that they are extremely huge. I saw them with my own eyes today. They are indeed well-deserved." Russell praised.
"You will see them often in the future." Xu Yi replied with a smile, but then he suddenly thought of something and his expression moved slightly.
Sensing Xu Yi's strangeness, Russell asked: "What? Is there any problem?"
"No... it's nothing..." Xu Yi looked up at the Paladin, which was approaching the dock, and felt a strange feeling in his heart.
After a while, the bridge of the Paladin was lowered. Accompanied by the captain of the Paladin, the Marquis of Southgaard, who had followed the Paladin to visit Hemi Port yesterday, stepped off the ship.
Seeing Xu Yi standing on the dock, Marquis Southgaard walked over with a big smile.
"President Xu, you are so polite, you actually came to greet me in person, I..."
Marquis Southgaard suddenly paused, his eyes moved away from Xu Yi and fixed directly on Russell next to Xu Yi. The smile on his face disappeared instantly.
The smile on Russell's face has also disappeared long ago. (To be continued...)