Chapter 79 Troops

This is the third time that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's guard team has held an open recruitment in just three months since entering the 3802 year of the Continental Calendar.

In the first two open recruitments, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce guards recruited a total of 2,739 members, which is considered a strong supplement.

However, after the third recruitment ended, only 398 people were recruited.

Compared with the previous two recruitments, the number of personnel recruited for the third time has undoubtedly dropped significantly.

There are many reasons for this result, but in the eyes of many people, one of the most important reasons is that in the third recruitment, there is one more test than the previous two, and that is the intelligence test.

Just this intelligence test has already eliminated nearly half of the applicants, resulting in a sharp drop in the number of successful guard candidates.

Countless people are very puzzled by this test, and they are equally puzzled by the results of this test.

The intelligence test is indeed a very strange thing, but it is just a simple intelligence test, but the number of passing guards has dropped to such an exaggerated level, it is a bit unreasonable.

"Actually, the reason is very simple. The reason why only so few people were recruited is entirely because the vast majority of qualified candidates have already been recruited in the previous two recruitments."

Xu Yi shook the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's guard recruiting progress report in his hand, and the expression on his face was far less dignified than Hart, the captain of the guard on the opposite side.

"But Mr. President, the number of people who came to apply for these few recruitments is very small. The total number of applicants for the third time is less than 5,000. The attraction of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Guards is not that low. Right?" Hart looked puzzled. "But among the people who came to apply for the job, human beings only accounted for a very small part, and the total was less than a thousand people, which is too strange."

"You have to be clear about one thing. It's not that our chamber of commerce guards are not attractive enough, but that our requirements are high." Xu Yi shook his head. "To be honest, how many do you think can meet the requirements?"

"Well...that's really not much." Hart smiled wryly, and looked at Xu Yi with a strange expression. "But Mr. President, it's all because your requirements are too high. Otherwise, I think it would be no problem to recruit ten times more people based on the conditions we offered."

"Then what? What's the use of recruiting a group of guys who can't do anything?" Xu Yi asked back. "To tell you the truth, I am also very dissatisfied with the guards you have recruited now. If it weren't for the rush to employ people, I can't wait to weed out another batch of these guys."

The wry smile on Hart's face deepened.

"Master President, don't talk about you, even I can't wait to throw out many guys in it. At the beginning, I didn't understand why you insisted on adding an intelligence test item, but now I fully understand. These days we Training these new guards and letting them learn to master the operation of military magic machinery will be exhausting."

"Ha. Now you understand why I have been asking you to spend more time in the guards for training, right? Let me tell you, the Chamber of Commerce will develop more and more types of military magic machines in the future, and the operation will become more and more cumbersome. If you don't hurry up Time to study, maybe you won’t be able to use the good things you get in the future.” Although Xu Yi had a smile on his face, his tone was very serious.

Hart nodded slowly, humming.

"I understand. My lord, in fact, I feel more and more lately that I can't keep up. So... I want to make a request to you..."

"What? Do you want me to send some researchers to the guard?" Xu Yi asked with squinted eyes.

Hart was stunned: "Master President, how do you know? Has anyone mentioned it to you?"

"No. It's just based on my inference that you should also make this request. That's fine. You don't need to say this, I have already had this idea. Taking advantage of this expansion of the chamber of commerce's guard team, I will make additional contributions from the researchers. Mobilize a few researchers who are interested in and researching the practical application of military magic machinery to your escort team to help you better understand and operate various military magic machinery." Xu Yi waved his hand.

"Great!" Hart immediately rejoiced. "Master President, I didn't expect you to attach so much importance to our guard, this is really..."

Xu Yi couldn't help snorting.

"What you said, why don't I pay attention to the guard team? To tell you the truth, the guard team will be the most important department of our chamber of commerce for a long time to come. You are the person in charge of the guard team, so you have to be mentally prepared. Prepare."

Hart stood up abruptly. He saluted with a snap.

"Master President, please rest assured that all the guards are fully prepared and willing to dedicate everything to the Chamber of Commerce at any time!"

Xu Yi looked at Hart with some amusement.

"Hey, Hart. When did you learn that?"

Hart smiled: "I saw it in "Legend of the Sunset Empire" before, and thought it was very good, so I used it."

Xu Yi couldn't help laughing, thinking that he and Hart had worked together for so many years, and only today did he know that this guy also has such a humorous side.

The so-called "Legend of the Sunset Empire" is the latest phantom film released by the New Moon Chamber of Commerce. It tells the story of a fictional sunset empire from its rise to glory and finally its decline. Because of the grand scene and the story's atmosphere and twists and turns, it was very popular once it was broadcast.

Unexpectedly, Hart also read this, and even learned this pose from it, which is really surprising.

But if Hart knew that the pose he learned and the sentence he said were written by Xu Yi himself, how would he feel?

After discussing with Xu Yi for a while about the escort of the chamber of commerce, Hart said goodbye and left.

Xu Yi picked up the recruitment progress report he left behind, with a trace of hesitation in his eyes.

Although the open recruitment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's escort team eventually recruited too few people, the main reason is that the standards set by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's escort team are too high, but there is another reason that cannot be ignored, which is the problem of the source of troops.

After all, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is just a chamber of commerce, and the so-called chamber of commerce guards are just ordinary chamber of commerce staff in the eyes of everyone.

Although Xu Yi has been working hard to cultivate the sense of identity and belonging of those guards in the chamber of commerce guards through Hart and others, and has achieved great results, but the chamber of commerce is only a chamber of commerce after all, not a country after all.

If a country wants to recruit for the army, it can even take coercive means to force all those who meet the conditions in the country to join the army.

But a chamber of commerce can only use the conditions it offers to attract others to join.

Although the conditions offered by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are enough to make everyone and all races tempted, but limited to the Chamber of Commerce, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has a very limited source of soldiers.

If it wasn't for the good relationship between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the foreign races on the mainland, and they could get a lot of supplements from the foreign races, then the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's guards might have to recruit from the stragglers in the Principality of Standing and some other countries. .

The quality of the soldiers recruited in this way can be imagined.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has high requirements, and the final pass rate is of course extremely low.

In this way, the fact that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's guards have particularly high requirements will spread more and more, further limiting the source of troops.

So in fact, regardless of the fact that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is famous enough, the remuneration offered by the guards of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is also good enough. In fact, the number of people who really come to apply for the guards of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not as many as imagined.

For example, in the third public recruitment, out of less than 5,000 applicants who came to apply, there were less than 1,000 human beings, and the rest were all alien races.

One is because most human beings are unwilling to leave their hometowns and go to the Principality of Standing to join the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce guards, and the other is that many human fighters who came to apply for the job before are old-fashioned mercenaries in the human world, which can also be called soldiers. It was far from meeting Xu Yi's requirements, so he was always eliminated, and naturally not many people were willing to come.

Of course, the problem of the source of troops is not unsolvable.

For example, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce now has branches and many factory bases in most countries on the Sainz continent, and has also established strategic partnerships with many countries.

If Xu Yi is willing, it is entirely possible to directly set up military bases in these countries and recruit guards locally, so as to expand the size and radiation range of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's guards.

But in this way, the nature of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the eyes of other countries is bound to change instantly.

If the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce could be regarded as an ordinary chamber of commerce before, and most countries could cooperate with it normally, then once the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce really starts to build military bases in various places, it will seriously pose a threat to other countries.

Compared with before, this is a completely different matter.

This is where Xu Yi hesitated.

The development of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the continent of Sainz has fallen into a bottleneck. If it wants to break through, it needs strong force as support, so that it can continue to gain room for development in the hands of other countries.

And if it expands its force, it means that its relations with other countries have become tense, which limits its own development space in a certain sense.

And the investment required to expand force can almost be regarded as a bottomless pit.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is still in a critical period of development. There are too many places where money is needed. It is not impossible to increase the investment in the escort team, but too much investment will cause too much pressure, which is not advisable.

As for how to allocate this ratio and implement it, it can only be decided by Xu Yi, the chairman, but no one else can share his worries for him.

That's why Xu Yi rarely hesitated.

Because he is very clear that his decision will not only affect the fate of nearly 300,000 people in the entire Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but may even affect the fate of the entire Sains Continent. (~^~)