Chapter 119 Controlling the Sea Area
Great Magician Truchi was fine. When Smilton saw these military magic machines, his eyes lit up immediately, and he strode over. First, he picked up a cylindrical magic crossbow and looked left and right, his face full of joy Then he picked up a small magic bazooka, looked up and down for a long time, and then turned to look at Xu Yi.
"President Xu, are all these good things for us?"
Xu Yi couldn't help but rolled his eyes in his heart.
This Smilton is really used to being a pirate. He has delivered so many important daily necessities to Karaska Island before, and he has never been so happy. When the weapons and equipment were delivered this time, he was so excited. There is no need to speculate at all, it is clearly put on the face.
Of course, Xu Yi still kept a smile on his face and nodded slightly.
"Yes. But it's not free. Master Smilton, the demand for military magic machinery is extremely high at present. These are the ones I've received from the large number of orders I've received, so it's impossible to give them away for nothing. "
"Well, I understand that." Smilton nodded vigorously, and said with a big laugh, "President Xu, you don't {}book% {small} say 3.nsb.m need to say more, we accept you on the island The free assistance from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is already enough. Now the brothers on the island can live such a good life because of your help. In fact, you don’t need to talk nonsense, if you want us to help you with something , just say it straight. Although I am a rough man with little knowledge, I still understand the basic rules." A thoughtful expression flashed across the face of the great magician Truchi, who nodded slightly: "President Xu, are you A businessman. You definitely can’t do business that loses money. We can’t let you do this. Although I am a great magician, I still have some value. But I know very well that I am not worth the price you paid for me. If you help the island so hard, you must have your plan, and everyone knows this in their hearts."
Xu Yi spread his hands helplessly, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "It seems that I am really not suitable for acting, and what I did was too straightforward."
Smilton waved his hand: "Okay, Chairman Xu, don't say these words. It doesn't matter what you want to do. With the help you Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will give us, let everyone live a good life. Then we should work hard for you, this is the most basic rule that everyone understands. Tell me clearly, what do you want us to do?"
Seeing the questioning eyes of the great magician Truchi, Xu Yi smiled and shook his head: "Don't worry, Your Excellency the great magician, I didn't intend to let the residents of the island go through life and death for me. As a As a businessman, I have always felt that this approach is very inefficient and cannot bring the greatest benefit to me at all." The great magician Truchi and Smilton exchanged glances. There was curiosity in their eyes.
"Then what do you want us to help you with? If it's something else, what do you send these military magic machines for?" Smilton asked.
"Well...it's not right to say that you don't need to take risks at all. After all, I can't guarantee whether these places will be in danger." Xu Yi waved to the two of them, motioning them to come closer.
The two approached in confusion, and Xu Yi took out a blueprint from his pocket and spread it out on the floor of the warehouse.
With the bright light of the magic lamp in the warehouse, the two looked down and found that the blueprint was a map.
If you look closely, you will find that most of the map shows sea areas, and only a few places show land.
And these lands are naturally islands.
The eyes of the two passed over the line representing the coastline on the right edge of the map, and finally landed on a marked island.
"Is this our Karaska Island?" Smilton asked in surprise, pointing to the island. "Why is this shape so weird?"...
"What? Island owner, have you never seen the shape of the entire island from the sky?" Xu Yi asked with a smile. "Indeed, it looks like a flower. It looks very nice when viewed from a high altitude."
Grand Magician Truchi nodded slightly: "Yes, this is indeed Karaska Island. I used to fly to high altitudes to observe when I was free. This shape is exactly the same as this island."
Immediately, he turned his head and asked Xu Yi, "Is this a map drawn from a high-altitude observation? The surrounding ones should be the nearby islands."
"Well, this is a detailed map of the nearby sea area drawn by my people through the magic airship. What do you think, Your Excellency the Great Mage?" Xu Yi asked back.
The great magician Truchi observed the map for a while, and his expression became cautious.
"Such detailed and accurate maps can only be drawn at high altitudes, and in order to draw accurately, they can only be hovered at high altitudes. Indeed, only magic airships are the most suitable. But President Xu, you let people draw such accurate maps. What does a map want to do?"
Smilton also looked at Xu Yi, but there was a hint of excitement in his eyes, as if he had guessed what Xu Yi was planning.
Sure enough, Xu Yi smiled, clicked on the map a few times, and replied: "Your Excellency the Great Magician, the island owner, look, there are a total of thirty-four islands from the Black Rice Wasteland to the coastline of the Principality of Standing." Large and small islands, six of which are much larger than Karaska Island. But among these islands, except for Karaska Island, only twelve islands are inhabited, and the other twenty-two islands are It's an uninhabited island."
Smilton raised his eyebrows: "President Xu, do you want me to help you take all these islands into your own hands?"
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "To be precise, I want these islands to be under my control. I am not very interested in these islands themselves, but in the various resources on these islands. Karaska Island If there is an iron mine with a good amount of mineral deposits on the island, it is very likely that these islands also have equally important resources."
"Well, that's true." Smilton nodded. "I know that there is also an iron mine on an island called Saxon not too far from here. Someone from your Kingdom of Lampari went there to investigate it before, but later felt that mining iron ore from Saxon Island was too uneconomical to transport back, so No one ever paid attention to it.”
"I don't think it's a good deal either." Grand Magician Truchi frowned. "President, if you want to extract resources from these islands and transport them back, I think the cost is too high, and I'm afraid it's not suitable."
"You only feel this way because the current sea transportation is not developed enough." Xu Yi shook his head and pointed to the soles of his feet. "But do you see where you are staying now?"
The great magician Truchi and Smilton were startled, and then they remembered that the place where the two of them were staying now was in the warehouse on the ground floor of a super large magic ship.
This magical ship named Spread Wings is too big, the warehouse they are staying in now can even hold a large wooden sea ship in their previous impression.
With such a super-large magic ship, the cargo that can be loaded at one time can be several times or even dozens of times more than the previous wooden sea ship.
In addition, the possibility of such a large magic ship encountering danger on the sea must be much lower, so if calculated, the cost of sea transportation must be much lower than the previous sea transportation that almost risked its life. If there are more, it will not seem so uneconomical.
No wonder Xu Yi is so confident, but it is because of the Zhanchi ship as his confidence.
Seeing the dazed expressions of the two, Xu Yi smiled, slid his finger, and drew a circle on the map.
"In fact, compared to the resources on these islands, what I value more is actually this sea area."
The great magician Truchi and Smilton immediately showed puzzled expressions again.
This so-called sea area is all sea water, what's so important?
"At present, I still have a way to explain to you the importance of controlling this sea area. You will only understand this when everyone's competition for the sea becomes more intense in the future." Xu Yi smiled. "But no matter what, I need this sea area, and it is best to completely control this sea area. Master Smilton, can you do it for me?"
Smilton looked down at the map, pondered for a moment, then looked back at the various military magic machines in the warehouse, and finally looked at the ceiling and floor of the warehouse above his head, and then said to Xu Yi seriously: "In addition to these military magic machines, Give me a few ships, preferably a big one like this, and I'm sure I can do it."
Xu Yi laughed: "It's okay to give you a few ships, but there is no way for a big ship like Zhanchi for the time being. Such a ship has consumed all the strength of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and it took a full eight It took more than a month to complete. The next few cars produced will also be used for ocean transportation by the chamber of commerce, but there is no way to provide them to you in the short term.”
"Oh..." Smilton was a little disappointed. "If there is no such a big ship, I am afraid that the deterrent effect on the sea will be much smaller. Things on the sea are very simple. Whoever has a big ship will have the loudest voice. If there is such a big ship, I just need to open this ship. In the past, it was guaranteed that all other ships in this sea could only be obedient."
Xu Yi smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "You don't have to be too disappointed. I can't provide you with such a large ship in a short time, but other smaller ships can still be provided. Those ships are smaller than Zhanchi True, but it's still a lot bigger than your heaviest other sea boats. And I promise, none of those sea boats can come close to him in terms of performance."
Smilton's eyes lit up: "Really? President Xu, do you plan to give me a good boat like a small magic assault boat?"
Xu Yi chuckled: "It depends on how much sincerity you can show."
Smilton immediately gathered up his fists, slammed his chest hard, and said in a deep voice: "President Xu, in front of the great magician Truchi, I assure you. I, Smilton, will definitely I will firmly control every inch of this sea for you, even if a fish swims through this sea, it must first ask me... no, I ask for your permission!"