Chapter 119 Puzzling Objection

"Is Lord Caroline coming?"

Steele took back the personal letter written on pink letter paper in Xu Yi's hand, and looked up at Xu Yi with a half-smile on his face. ←,

"Did she come to see you specially?"

Xu Yi gave her an annoyed look: "How could she be so free? This time, she came here on business, and said she would bring me two very special guests."

"A very special guest?" Steele frowned slightly. "Is there any guest that she needs to bring here in person?"

"It didn't say anything in the letter, and I don't know why she kept it a secret." Xu Yi shook the letter in his hand, a little puzzled.

Although Princess Caroline often sends herself some private messages, most of the letters are asking herself about the cooperation between the Duchy of Drake and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but it is the first time that she has made it clear that she will go to the Duchy of Standing come see her.

If Princess Caroline had tried to seduce him before, then since he married Steele and had a child, and the cooperation between the Duchy of Drake and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has stabilized, she has restrained herself. A lot, just to tease Xu Yi verbally.

This time, he suddenly came here in person and said that he would bring him two special guests, which really surprised Xu Yi.

"I think it's just an excuse to come to see you." Steele chuckled lightly.

"You really can think blindly." Xu Yi glared at Steele, put the letter aside, his eyes fell on Steele's lower abdomen, and said with concern: "I think you are pregnant, which makes me think wildly." .Listen to me, Steele, you'd better take some rest during this time. It's better not to get too involved in the work."

"That's not okay." Steele shook his head. "Now is an important time for our New Moon Chamber of Commerce to promote illusion films. I must personally participate in the command. Create a brand new entertainment model through illusion films and fantasy magic projectors. Isn't this what you have always expected?"

"But I didn't expect you to be pregnant."

"What does that matter? I was still working when I was pregnant with Freya, so it doesn't matter."

Seeing Steele's resolute attitude, Xu Yi thought about it, and stopped persuading him, but reminded Steele to pay attention to his body and not to be too tired.

Steele is naturally kind, saying that she is already pregnant for the second time and has enough experience to deal with it.

"Speaking of Freya... She seems to have let Lise and Linda take her to the signal tower to play again. Aren't you going to inspect the erection of the signal tower later, and bring her back at night by the way." Er confessed.

Xu Yi hummed, and chatted with Steele about the phantom film before leaving the private estate.

As soon as he walked out of the manor and looked up into the distance, he could find seven towering iron towers standing on the land in the distance.

This is a new signal tower recently erected by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which is specially used to spread magic fluctuations.

Because of the Akali research team's further breakthrough in the magic array resonance technology, the transmission range of the signal tower's magic fluctuations has increased from the previous five kilometers to seven kilometers, so the distance between the seven signal towers is about six kilometers. . Arranged in random order, the magic fluctuations can be transmitted to any place in the large area where the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is located through the seven signal towers. It's perfect coverage.

Xu Yi took out the magic talking box from his bosom, pressed the button, and Akali's excited voice sounded though slightly tired.

"Hey, my lord, do you have any instructions?"

Xu Yi laughed: "I don't have any instructions, I just want to see your work progress. Where are you now? By the way, have you seen Freya?"

Before Akali could answer, a clear and sweet child's voice sounded from the magic communication box.

"Dad, I'm with Aunt Akali and the others. Come quickly, Aunt Akali won't let me play on the top of the tower."

Xu Yi couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Freya, listen to Akali Akali obediently, and don't be naughty to hinder their work, so I'm here."

"Well, I'm waiting for you."

"Freya is very good, don't worry. President, come here, we are currently doing maintenance work on the No. 4 signal tower."

"it is good."

Xu Yi raised his head, looked carefully, and confirmed the position of the No. 4 signal tower. When the magic power in his body moved, he did not directly use space magic to send it there, but flew up, came to the midair and slowly sent the No. 4 signal tower. Fly past the place of the tower.

If you look down in the sky, you can easily see the current layout of the main base of the entire Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Compared with when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce came here, this place has completely changed from a barren place.

At present, on the huge land of more than ten square kilometers, there are all kinds of buildings standing everywhere.

Among them, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's industrial area and residential area are clearly separated. Various factories in the industrial area occupy more than half of the site in the north, while the residential area occupies the remaining site in the south.

Seeing that the newly built residential area in the southernmost area was already close to the Abdant River, Xu Yi confirmed his previous thoughts in his heart.

With the continuous development of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, this main base must also face further expansion.

When he obtained this territory of more than ten square kilometers from Earl Wei Lun, Xu Yi originally thought that it could at least support the development needs of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce within ten years.

However, it has only been more than four years now, and this piece of land has been fully utilized, which cannot meet the growing demand of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the next step.

In order to develop demand, it is imperative to expand the scope of this territory.

However, at the previous Congress meeting of the Principality of Standing, when Xu Yi proposed to the Congress that he needed to expand his territory, he was unexpectedly opposed by many members of the Congress, so that this proposal was not passed at the Congress meeting.

Although the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ankruh, told Xu Yi privately that he could propose to the National Assembly to lease new land, and it would definitely be passed, but this meeting still made Xu Yi feel a little vigilant.

Originally, he thought that relying on the current strong influence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the Duchy of Standing. He will have no problem making any request.

But I didn't expect to be on this territory expansion request that is critical to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. It was resisted.

The reasons given by those against the proposal are strong. Claiming that the Principality of Standing has never granted a private aristocratic territory, Xu Yi suddenly raised this demand, which violated the tradition of the Principality for hundreds of years.

Xu Yi originally sneered at this reason, because before that, there was no fixed statement about how many territories the noble lords in the Duchy of Standing had under their names. Grab it and it's yours.

Now when he needs a new territory, he says that the Principality of Standing has never had such a tradition, which is simply ridiculous.

However, after an on-the-spot explanation at the congress meeting, he realized that the previous territorial competition among the noble lords in the Principality of Standing had indeed not been officially recognized.

The so-called official recognition of Grand Duke Standing is just a private act of Grand Duke Standing, and it is not officially recognized by the Principality of Standing in the strict sense.

From this point of view, the MPs who opposed Xu Yi's proposal were not wrong.

But this nominal problem should not have been a problem for Xu Yi.

With the current strong influence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the Duchy of Standing. Even if there is any problem in name, it must be able to think of countless ways to solve this problem.

It just so happened that so many members of Congress clearly expressed their opposition at this congressional meeting. This made Xu Yi feel a little annoyed, but also vigilant.

Behind every member of Congress stands a noble lord in the Principality of Standing. The opposition of these members means that these noble lords oppose Xu Yi.

However, this is what puzzled Xu Yi the most.

Why do these noble lords in the principality oppose Xu Yi's proposal?

And who gave them the courage to oppose Xu Yi's proposal?

You must know that according to the statistics of the Congress, the total fiscal revenue collected by the Duchy of Standing last year was about 4.7 million gold coins, of which a full three million gold coins were handed over by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

From this point alone, it can be seen that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has an extremely powerful influence on the Duchy of Standing.

And if you consider the impact of reality, it is even more amazing.

At present, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has opened 93 factories of various types in the Duchy of Standing, with more than 200,000 employees.

Among these employees, more than 70,000 were recruited locally from the Duchy of Standing.

In addition, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and all noble lords in the principality have cooperated to jointly establish various factories-most of which are fruit canning factories and rubber processing factories, and the total number of workers employed in these factories exceeds 100,000.

Therefore, the number of people in the Principality of Standing directly benefited by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has exceeded 180,000. In addition, because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has driven the magic industry in the Principality of Standing, it has also driven the strong development of other industries. , because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce indirectly benefited more than hundreds of thousands of people in the Principality of Standing.

It is not an exaggeration to say that in the entire Principality of Standing, there is almost no one who has not been influenced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

And these effects are all positive.

With the emergence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, almost all civilians in the Principality of Standing have formal jobs, and their income is far higher than before, greatly improving their lives.

Moreover, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has also laid roads everywhere in the Principality of Standing, built street lights, and invested a lot in infrastructure such as automatic water supply systems, making the Principality of Standing from a small principality with blocked traffic and extremely backward living standards into one fell swoop. The "most advanced country" in the mouth of several surrounding countries has a very strong influence in the nearby countries.

Therefore, it can be said that the current Principality of Standing is basically the country of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

If there is no Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Principality of Standing is nothing.

So Xu Yi couldn't understand anyway, why did these noble lords oppose him?

Are these guys looking for death? (To be continued..)