The trip to the Candela Empire was a success for the various chambers of commerce in the Lampali Kingdom.
Not only were all the goods they brought robbed by the Candela merchants in Canberra City, representatives of major chambers of commerce also signed investment agreements with the Governor-General of the Southwest Province of the Candela Empire.
According to the plan in the agreement, these chambers of commerce will enter the southwest province of the Kandela Empire in the next six months to select sites and prepare to invest in the construction of various factories.
This can be regarded as the first tentative cooperation between the Kingdom of Lampali and the Candela Empire in the magic industry. If it goes well, Duke Mogudu officially stated clearly on behalf of the Candela Empire that they will strengthen further cooperation and introduce more Lampa. It is even possible to cooperate with the magic machinery-related chamber of commerce in the Kingdom of Li in other aspects.
This result is of course something that both the Lampali Kingdom and the Candela Empire are very willing to see.
The Candela Empire hopes that by introducing the magic industry industry, the Candela Empire can have an in-depth understanding of this emerging industry, so as to achieve its own research, mastery and production of military magic machinery.
For the Lampali Kingdom, entering the huge market of the Candela Empire is even more of a dream.
After so many years of development, the Lampali Kingdom's domestic market is close to saturation, and of course it needs new profit growth points.
If the huge markets in the two empires of Candela Empire and Malo Empire can be opened at this time, the benefits to the Lampali Kingdom can be imagined.
As for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce represented by Xu Yi, the actual benefits obtained during this trip do not seem to be very great.
Because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is now nominally affiliated with the Principality of Standing, it cannot be counted as a chamber of commerce involved in this cooperation between the Lampali Kingdom and the Candela Empire. There is no way to enjoy the many preferential policies proposed by the Candela Empire for this point - such as reduced tariffs, investment assistance policies, etc...
Seriously. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce just reached a cooperation agreement with Prince Frank to jointly build a magic motorcycle factory. Moreover, the Magic Motorcycle Factory is still nominally owned by Prince Frank, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce only plays an assisting role.
On the other hand, although the military magic machines sold to Prince Frank's personal guard involved sixteen types, the total quantity was not large, and the total order amount barely exceeded 600,000 gold coins.
Compared with the military magic machinery that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had previously sold to the Maro Empire's military headquarters for a total amount of 3.8 million gold coins, it was undoubtedly a small thing.
However, Xu Yi and Prince Frank knew very well that this was just a tentative contact between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Candela Empire, and there would be many areas where cooperation would be needed in the future.
Perhaps the Candela Empire is confident that it can abandon the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in the future and conduct research and production on its own. But Xu Yi was not worried at all.
Moreover, compared to the military magic machinery, the civilian magic machinery that Xu Yi attaches more importance to actually has a better development momentum through the cooperation between the Lampali Kingdom and the Candela Empire.
Although Xinfei Chamber of Commerce cannot enjoy tariff concessions because it does not belong to the Lampali Kingdom, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's various civilian, especially household magic machines are high-end products with the best quality and strongest performance, and their prices are lower than similar household products. It is normal for magic machines to be higher.
For example, in the current city of Wimbledon, the magic air conditioner is also currently the most popular. The average price of the magic air conditioner produced by several chambers of commerce in the Lampali Kingdom that entered the Candela Empire through formal channels is only twenty-five gold coins. People like Ambassador Hakan entered the Candela Empire's new flying brand magic air conditioners through channels, but the price has soared to a minimum of forty gold coins per unit, and the supply is simply in short supply among the aristocratic circles in Wimbledon.
From this point of view. I have to admit that the nobles in Wimbledon have really good vision.
Therefore, Xu Yi was not in a hurry at all.
Anyway, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's production capacity is still limited. The supply has always been far less than the demand. Suddenly a huge market fell in front of it, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was really overwhelmed.
Xu Yi's current development strategy for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is still to operate steadily and increase production capacity while also improving the core strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
And these core forces include not only technical research, but also the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort team.
After returning from the Candela Empire, Xu Yi and the entire Xinfei Chamber of Commerce temporarily entered a period of calm.
Of course, this quiet period does not mean that nothing is done, but that everything is being implemented in an orderly manner according to the plan, and it does not require Xu Yi to devote too much energy to deal with it personally.
At present, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has four main development directions.
The first point is to further promote household magic machines to the Malo Empire and the Candela Empire, and at the same time drive other magic machine-related chambers of commerce to enter these two empires to popularize the use of household magic machines on a large scale.
The second point is based on the first point. After people in the two empires generally accepted the existence of magic machines as a novelty, other civilian magic machines were promoted.
In this regard, the Malo Empire is further ahead than the Kandra Empire. Because of the Marquis of Southgaard, the Malo Empire has early introduced farmland magic machinery to assist in harvesting, and has begun to promote farmland transformation on a small scale.
The Marquis of Southgaard and several other nobles, who had tasted the sweetness from it, certainly would not let go of this opportunity to publicize, so much so that the Ministry of Commerce of the Malo Empire directly ordered a large number of farmland magic machinery from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and negotiated with Canton. The Cantona Chamber of Commerce held close consultations and hoped that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce would help guide the overall farmland transformation within the Maro Empire.
If nothing else happens, in the next few years, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce will focus its main energy on the Marlow Empire.
The third point is to expand the area directly controlled by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
This is obviously difficult to implement on the Sainz Continent, because the Sainz Continent has been divided up by various countries, and the New Flying Chamber of Commerce can only seize land from other countries unless it launches a war.
With the current strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, this is of course impossible.
So Xu Yi set his sights on the sea.
Not only does the Principality of Standing face the sea, but its maritime control also includes a large area of sea in the southern part of Sainz continent.
What Xu Yi hopes to achieve is to control a large number of islands on the endless sea, then connect these islands by establishing bases on these islands and deploying magic signal towers, and then use the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort fleet to carry out actual control.
At present, the progress of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in this regard can only be said to be less than one-fifth of the progress.
So far, there are just over a hundred islands under the control of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, half of which are concentrated along the coast of the Principality of Standing.
In the southern waters of Sainz continent, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce currently only controls less than fifty islands scatteredly, and they only rely on the powerful indirect control of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort fleet, which cannot be regarded as true complete control. .
Xu Yi plans to continue to invest no less than 10 million gold coins in this area in the next five years and continue to strengthen control.
The last point, and the most critical point, is to strengthen the formation of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort team.
After years of continuous development and Xu Yi's huge investment at almost no cost, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Guards has now become a team with a total of more than 8,000 members, including elites from various races such as humans, elves, dwarves, and orcs. Warriors are armed with the latest military magic machines developed by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
Although they have not experienced many actual battle tests, when the military representatives of the Lampali Kingdom and the Luersun Kingdom visited the actual combat drill of the Xinfeisa Chamber of Commerce escort team, they said without hesitation that the Xinfeisa Chamber of Commerce Although the escort only has 8,000 people, its combat effectiveness is enough to match the 50,000 legions of the two countries.
As for comparing it with the traditional army on the Sainz continent... there is no comparison at all.
However, Xu Yi still felt that it was far from enough.
To this end, he directly doubled the annual investment of 1.5 million gold coins by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's escort team to 3 million gold coins per year.
This resolution was unanimously opposed by the senior officials of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, because they felt that the current strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort team was enough to defend, and that was enough, and there was no need to increase investment at all.
However, Xu Yi hopes that the escort can not only easily guard the main base of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and even the entire Principality of Standing, but also be able to attack at any time and achieve the goal when necessary.
So despite all the opposition from other senior officials, Xu Yi still used the authority of the president to forcefully pass the resolution.
In fact, we can't blame those high-level officials for their opposition. The original investment of 1.5 million gold coins per year for the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Guards was already extremely exaggerated.
You must know that among the surrounding countries, even the Luersun Kingdom, which has increased its military investment because of the threat from the Candela Empire, this year's annual military budget is only two million gold coins.
As for the Lampali Kingdom, which has become rich in recent years and its military budget has also increased significantly, its annual military expenditure is only about 1.5 million gold coins.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, a mere chamber of commerce, actually invested enough money in its own escort team compared to these two kingdoms. It was already incredible.
Now Xu Yi wants to double his level, which in the eyes of others is simply crazy.
However, many of the things Xu Yi did seemed to others to be crazy, so one more thing made it hard for everyone to be too surprised.
But people still can't understand it.
In the final analysis, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is just a chamber of commerce, not a country. What does it want to do by investing so much money into its own escort team
In early September, a conflict occurred on the southwest border of the Sac Kingdom, which seemed to indirectly answer the questions in everyone's minds. (To be continued...)