Chapter 130 Opening the Port

The important guest of the Marquis Southgate has not yet left, and another equally important guest has come to the Principality of Standing.

This is the third time that Russell has come to the Principality of Standing.

Unlike the previous two times, this time he did not choose to be accompanied by Ambassador Hakain, but brought a few subordinates of the Candela Imperial Navy himself, and rode the pure black magic locomotive he bought from Bilier Magic Locomotive Firm , driving all the way from the Candela Empire.

Although he had notified Xu Yi in advance through the contact information that Xu Yi had left for him, Xu Yi was still a little surprised when he saw the serious faces of Russell and his subordinates.

Look at their posture, this time I am afraid they are not just here to continue the investigation.

Sure enough, after meeting Xu Yi and exchanging pleasantries, Russell directly entered the topic.

"President Xu, the cooperation model proposed to you last time has been approved by the Navy Headquarters. Now as long as you can agree on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, then the first cooperation between us can officially take effect." Russell stared Xu Yi's eyes were serious and authentic.

Xu Yi pondered for a moment, smiled and asked, "Master Russell, how many frigates do you plan to buy specifically?"

A trace of embarrassment flashed across Russell's face, he hesitated for a while, and then reluctantly stretched out three fingers to Xu Yi.

"Thirty frigates? I'm afraid this is a bit difficult. With the current production capacity of our Chamber of Commerce, it may take several years to build 30 frigates."

"No... it's three ships..." After saying this, Russell's old face couldn't help turning slightly red.

As the glorious Imperial Navy of the Candela Empire, it would be embarrassing to ask a chamber of commerce of another country to buy warships. What's even more embarrassing is that they only bought three ships at a time!

Xu Yi was startled. There was a strange look in his eyes. Immediately he was pressed down, and put on a still enthusiastic smile.

"Three ships? Then there is no problem. We can complete the construction of these three frigates within three months at the earliest. However, how should the cooperation proposed by you be completed?"

"Don't worry, we are already prepared."

Russell took out a document from the bag in his entourage and handed it to Xu Yi.

This is a cooperation agreement, which clearly states that as compensation for the purchase of three frigates from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Kandela Empire Navy will pay 1.5 million gold coins and jointly develop the number of ships located in the southern waters of the Kandela Empire with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Mineral resources on a small island.

at the same time. The Kandela Imperial Navy will also cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to establish several sea bases in the southern waters of Kandela, which will be used for replenishment and rest when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce transport fleet passes by.

In addition, the Kandela Imperial Navy will also open two corresponding ports to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's transport fleet and escort fleet.

The port open to the transport fleet is a civilian deep-water seaport in the southern part of the Candela Empire. After opening to the transport fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it will allow the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to transport a large amount of goods back and forth through the transport fleet.

This is tantamount to indirectly opening up the southern part of the Candela Empire market to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

If it is placed in a society with highly developed commerce like this on earth, this approach is obviously very sloppy, and it is absolutely not so easy to open up under normal circumstances.

But for the various countries on the Sainz continent, this is not a big problem.

These seaports are all under the control of the Kandela Imperial Navy, as long as the Imperial Navy agrees, there will be no problem.

It is somewhat problematic to open the Imperial Navy military seaport to the escort fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. However, the Candela Imperial Navy, in the name of cooperating with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's escort fleet to jointly combat pirates, gave the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's escort fleet the status of an imperial navy's non-staffed combat fleet. Make it free to enter and exit the Imperial Navy Naval Port.

"President Xu, this is to take care of the views of the military department, so you are only given the status of a cooperative combat fleet, please don't care about it." Russell explained to Xu Yi.

He knew very well that in fact, if we simply compare the combat effectiveness, the escort fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is actually much higher than that of the Imperial Navy, which has not assembled a large number of frigates. When encountering pirates, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort fleet is the main force.

It has not been a day or two since the pirates in the southern waters of the Candela Empire have been rampant. The Candela Empire Navy has also encircled and suppressed them many times before, but because the performance of the naval fleet's ships cannot completely suppress the pirates, it has not been able to achieve truly excellent results.

After the arrival of the escort fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, relying on the super attack power and extremely fast speed of the fine frigates, as long as they encounter pirates, the pirates will be unable to resist at all, and they will not even be able to escape.

In just half a year, most of the pirates in the southern waters of the Candela Empire disappeared, and they were no longer as rampant as before.

"Oh, it's nothing." Xu Yi waved his hand to express his indifference.

He really doesn't care about the title in name. After all, the Candela Empire is one of the two largest empires on this continent, and it is understandable to want to have a little sense of superiority in name.

In comparison, Xu Yi pays more attention to the practical significance of what it represents.

Opening the civilian port to the transport fleet means actively opening up the market to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which is actually enough.

The opening of the military port to the escort fleet will allow the escort fleet to have a relatively stable and sufficient supply base when cruising in the southern waters of the Candela Empire in the future, without the need to go all the way back to Nisi Port in the Kingdom of Roulson for supplies every time. .

In this way, the scope of activities of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's escort fleet will be greatly increased, and it will help the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to conduct more in-depth exploration and development in the southern sea area of ​​​​the Kandela Empire and surrounding sea areas.

Xu Yi took a closer look at the cooperation agreement again, and found that the content listed above not only included all the content that Russell mentioned to him last time, but also added a lot of items, so he couldn't help but nodded in satisfaction.

It can be seen that the Candela Imperial Navy has really shown considerable sincerity to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce this time.

This is a good start, which proves that the Candela Imperial Navy has sufficient consideration for continuing to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the future.

After discussing some details of this agreement with Russell, the two parties quickly reached an agreement. They owed their names on the agreement respectively.

Seeing Xu Yi sign the agreement. A bright smile immediately appeared on Russell's face. He stretched out his hand to Xu Yi: "President Xu, happy cooperation."

"Happy cooperation." Xu Yi smiled and shook hands with Russell, and asked, "Master Russell, I have another question. After you buy these three frigates, how do you plan to use them?"

Russell gave Xu Yi a strange look: "Of course they were put into service in the naval fleet immediately. Only when others have seen the power of these frigates with their own eyes, will they support the Navy's large-scale replacement of such frigates. Why? Chairman Xu, don't you want this?"

"No, no, no. I very much hope that your country's navy can replace a large number of frigates, because only in this way can our chamber of commerce make money from it, right?" Xu Yi laughed, and looked at the entourage behind Russell who also looked weird. Ask more.

The construction of any frigate is not a matter of a day or two, so of course it does not make any sense for Russell to stay here.

However, he still left a subordinate who claimed to Xu Yi that he was supervising the construction progress of the frigate and used it as an intermediary between the two parties.

Xu Yi was not surprised by this, nor did he have any objections, and expressed his willingness to accept it. And immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare a residence for this so-called Candela Imperial Navy observer and settle down.

Seeing that Xu Yi was very cooperative, Russell felt relieved. Just stayed in the Duchy of Standing for a day.

Early the next morning, before planning to leave, Russell decided to visit the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce shipyard.

In addition to watching the construction workflow of the frigate, it can also be regarded as letting the remaining observers prepare for the first day of work.

Seeing that all the work in the shipyard of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is in order, and every worker is extremely energetic and smooth, Russell expressed his satisfaction, so he decided to leave.

Accompanied by Xu Yi, Russell walked to the pier of Xinfei Port, looked at the endless sea in the distance, and said to Xu Yi with emotion: "President Xu, I heard that you have a wish to explore the endless sea the deepest part of

Xu Yi nodded slightly: "Yes. In fact, the original purpose of my research and development of the magic ship was to hope that one day I could explore all the places in this vast sea through the magic ship. , there must be another or several different continents."

"Is it because of the legend of the dwarves?" Russell asked with a smile.

He has been to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce several times, and he has long known that there is a legendary dwarf in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and Xu Yi introduced him to him when he visited the shipyard just now.

"Not only because of the dwarves, but also because exploring this unknown world is the most desirable thing." Xu Yi replied. "Master Russell, don't you think that exploring new worlds always makes people's hearts surge?"

Russell laughed: "I'm old, and this kind of thing should be left to young people like you to do. Of course, I very much hope that our Imperial Navy can go to the depths of the endless sea with your new flying chamber of commerce escort fleet." Explore everywhere. After all, in addition to the brand new world, there are endless dangers in this vast sea, right?"

Xu Yi smiled, but did not respond to Russell's words.

As if he had realized something from Xu Yi's reaction, Russell's expression changed slightly, and he turned his head to look into the depths of the sea, only to find that in the distance several ships the size of a hill were rapidly approaching the port.

"This should be the transport fleet of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce? I have heard that they are extremely huge. I saw them with my own eyes today, and they really live up to their reputation." Russell admired.

"You will see them often in the future." Xu Yi replied with a smile, but then suddenly thought of something, and his face moved slightly.

Sensing Xu Yi's strangeness, Russell asked, "What? Is there any problem?"

"No...it's nothing..." Xu Yi looked up at the Paladin which was already approaching the pier, feeling strange in his heart.

After a while, the bridge on the Paladin was lowered. Accompanied by the captain of the Paladin, Marquis Southgate, who followed the Paladin to visit Hemi Harbor yesterday, got off the ship.

Seeing Xu Yi standing on the pier, Marquis Southgate laughed and walked over.

"President Xu, you are too polite to come to greet me in person, I..."

The Marquis of Southgate suddenly stopped, his eyes moved away from Xu Yi, and fixed on Russell beside Xu Yi, the smile on his face disappeared instantly.

And the smile on Russell's face had also long since disappeared. (To be continued..)