Seeing the resentment on President Cruise's face, Xu Yi could only smile bitterly. ∑,
When Ambassador Hakan got approval to build the road, Xu Yi was very happy. He felt that he had finally knocked on the door of the Kandela Empire. From now on, they would be able to realize the convenience brought by the road, so that they would be like the original one. What affected the Lampali Kingdom also affected the Kandra Empire.
However, he did not expect that when the Amri Chamber of Commerce was laying roads in the southwestern province of the Kandela Empire, it had been encountering all kinds of strange obstacles. The most important problem was the work of officials in the southwestern province of the Kandela Empire. The efficiency was extremely low, and it took a long time to requisition a small piece of land at will, causing huge delays in the construction period.
Moreover, the corruption of those officials was extremely serious. According to President Cruz, in the first half year alone, the Amuli Chamber of Commerce paid more than 300,000 gold coins for this, which was almost worth the price of this article. half of the expected investment in roads.
Moreover, most of the actual investment in building this road came from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the smaller half came from the Amri Chamber of Commerce. The Candela Empire did not contribute even a copper coin, but in the end, it had to fully enjoy the various conveniences and benefits brought by this road. For Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, For the Flying Chamber of Commerce and the Armli Chamber of Commerce, it is really an extremely loss-making business.
This has made President Cruz always dissatisfied with the Candela Empire. However, the road has been half completed and has great symbolic significance. Therefore, no matter how dissatisfied he is, he can only bite the bullet and continue to work.
Xu Yi thought for a while, and could only helplessly pat President Cruz on the shoulder, and comforted: "After all, it is the first highway, so be patient for now. As long as this highway is repaired. I don't believe that the Candela Empire will not find out This road has brought them all kinds of benefits. As long as they want to continue to build the road, they will definitely have to come to your chamber of commerce to get back any grievances they have suffered on this road."
President Cruise snorted coldly: "I'm not as optimistic as you. In my opinion, this Candela Empire is dead from the bones to the skin. Even if they can realize the convenience brought by the highway, in the end we may not be able to benefit from it." What’s the benefit?”
Xu Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, and a sneer flashed across his lips: "At that time, I'm afraid they won't be able to choose."
President Cruz glanced at Xu Yi in surprise.
He smelled a very dangerous breath from Xu Yi's words, but where did this breath come from
The Candela Empire is one of the two major empires on the Sainz continent. Xu Yi always wants to do something to the Candela Empire after taking advantage of the lion's heart and the courage of the leopard
Xu Yi waved his hand, stopped the topic, stretched out his finger and tapped on the bottom red line.
"Actually, compared to the transportation line that runs through the Candela Empire, I think this transportation line that connects the southernmost tip of the entire continent is much more difficult. Cruise, do you feel confident?"
Cruise glanced at the thick red line extending from the Principality of Standing, along the southern section of the Sainz continent on the map near the edge of the Endless Sea, looking eastward, and finally leading straight to the east coast of the continent, and smiled bitterly.
"Xu Yi, I thought that the plan proposed by the guy from Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom when he came to us was just a whim. I didn't expect you to take it seriously. Have you forgotten what I said last time? ? Theoretically, it is entirely possible to build such a highway that runs from east to west. But the biggest problem is that the investment required is too huge. Didn’t I tell you last time that I want to build this highway successfully? , the total investment is even more than 50 million gold coins. This amount of money... we can't get it out even if we sell both chambers of commerce."
"So I said last time that I don't expect to complete this project within one or two years." Xu Yi shrugged. "And the three transportation lines that I am planning to run through the mainland cannot be completed in a short time. If I have to put them in order, I hope that this transportation line can be established first."
Seeing Xu Yi's finger pointing at the top red line, President Cruz breathed a sigh of relief.
"It seems that you are not really crazy. Yes, in comparison, this transportation line is currently the most promising to be completed. Whether it is the Principality of Standing, the Kingdom of Lampali or the Principality of Drake, there are already ready-made road transportations. Net, we just need to lay roads in Falk Kingdom. As for the Maro Empire... it depends on the cooperation between you and the Maro Empire."
Facing President Cruise's questioning gaze, Xu Yi smiled and nodded: "I have confidence in the Marquis of Southgaard. If nothing else happens, news from him should come through soon."
"hope so."
After the two discussed the three planned highway transportation routes for a while, President Cruz said goodbye and left.
After Xu Yi sent him away, he returned to the map and looked at it intently for a long time. Then he took out a pen and clicked on the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. However, it extended westward and drew a blue line into the Endless Land. sea, and then all the way south, bypassing the Principality of Standing, the Kingdom of Lulsun, and the southern seas of the Candela Empire, and finally connected to the Commercial United Kingdom of Nozdormu on the east coast.
The port of Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom has been built for more than five months. During this period, the transportation fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce can make a round trip every month. So far, it has completed five successful cargo transportations and officially established a A maritime transportation line connecting the southwestern coast and the southeastern coast of Sainz continent.
It is too difficult to build the cross-continental coastal road in the southern part of Sainz continent that President Cruz just claimed to be almost impossible to complete. Therefore, as far as is known, the most reliable transportation line that can connect the east and west sides of the continent is this one. sea lanes.
Through these five transportations, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has transported a large number of personnel and materials to the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom, and has now successfully begun to establish the initial cement processing plant and steelmaking required in the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom. factory.
According to the plan, these factories will be completed and put into production early next year. At that time, with the subsequent investment of manpower and materials from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, a preliminary production base can be built in the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom, striving to bring magical machinery to the United Kingdom. Nozdormu's Commercial United Kingdom spreads.
And before this production base was established. Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not idle either. Through the transport fleet, they transported a large amount of various engineering and farm magic machinery that they urgently needed to the Commercial United Kingdom of Nozdormu. There are also a variety of popular household magic machines.
Accordingly, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce obtained a large amount of local specialty herbs, animal furs and some specialty goods from the United Kingdom of Nozdormu, transported them back to the Principality of Standing, and then resold them to surrounding countries, making a huge profit from them.
From just five transportations, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce gained huge profits of more than two million gold coins.
Therefore, the senior officials of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have hailed this maritime transportation road as the "Golden Sea Road."
Looking across the map, Xu Yi pointed his pen at the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Once again draw a line westward into the Great Sea.
This time, he turned the line northward, passing through the Black Rice Wasteland and the western waters of the Kingdom of Sark, then bypassing the Kingdom of Alas in the northeastern corner of the continent and entering the northern waters of the entire continent.
But when the line drawing came here, Xu Yi paused, then stopped and frowned slightly.
Although Xu Yi has never been to the northernmost country of Sainz continent, according to records in various books, it is extremely cold in the northernmost part of the continent when winter enters. Even the endless sea will be covered by thick ice with no visible edges, making sea navigation impossible.
Therefore, this route is bound to not be as smooth as the southern route all year round.
After thinking for a moment. Xu Yi moved his hand slightly and drew a dotted line that continued to extend eastward in the northern sea area of the mainland, and finally stopped at a position in the middle of the northernmost part of the mainland.
This is the northern coast of the Malo Empire. If the route can be expanded here, a sea transportation line can be established connecting the Malo Empire. This will undoubtedly make it more convenient to enhance the relationship between the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and the Malo Empire. connect.
After scanning the vast territory of the Malo Empire on the map, Xu Yi turned his attention to the northeastern corner of the continent and drew a dotted line extending eastward from the northern coast of the Malo Empire to the northeastern corner of the entire continent. , then continues downwards to the south, and finally enters the commercial kingdom of Nozdormu in the southeast corner, connecting it with the sea route to the south.
In this way, it is equivalent to completely surrounding the entire continent with a blue sea route.
Theoretically, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can transport its goods to any coastal country on this continent simply by relying on sea transportation.
Of course, in fact, most countries on the Sainz continent do not have coastal areas at all. If you want to promote the products of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to every inch of land on this continent, sea transportation alone is far from enough.
This is the main reason why Xu Yi wants to lay three highway transportation lines that run through the entire road.
However, it is too difficult to lay these three highways. In addition to the most critical financial issue, the biggest obstacle is actually the attitude of other countries towards this matter.
Xu is also confident that the northernmost communication line can obtain the consent of the Falk Kingdom, but the Maro Empire's attitude on this matter may not be completely sure.
As for the transportation line in the middle that runs through the Candela Empire, its prospects are not optimistic enough based on the current performance of the Candela Empire.
"Is this huge empire really completely corrupted as Cruise said?"
Xu Yi frowned and looked at the Kandra Empire on the map, which had a much wider territory than the Maro Empire, and couldn't help but sigh softly.
At this moment, a slight sound of footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door, waking Xu Yi up.
Turning around, he saw Teresa's little head poking in from the door, with a cautious expression on her face.
Seeing Xu Yi's gaze directed towards her, Teresa suddenly retracted like a frightened little rabbit. After a moment, she reappeared hesitantly.
Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and looked at her, smiled slightly and said: "Come in." (To be continued...)