Chapter 65 Spring of the Marlo Empire
Spring is the season when everything grows.
In Marquis Southgate's private domain, along with the spring breeze, besides the wild flowers and weeds everywhere, and the green wheat seedlings in the fields, there are tall and large factory buildings covering a wide area.
This brand new magic industrial base should have been half completed by the end of last year, but it should have been basically completed and put into production at the beginning of this year according to the scheduled plan.
It's just that when making the plan, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce underestimated the engineering environment. Although it was expected that the winter of the Maro Empire would be earlier than that of the Lampari Kingdom in the deep south of the mainland, it did not expect it to come so soon. It was early, and the winter chill was several times stronger than that of the Lampari Kingdom. It was even more unexpected that the winter of the Maro Empire would have such a great impact on the close combat of the project, so that the planned progress of the project could not be completed before the end of the year.
Fortunately, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and other magic machinery chambers of commerce who came to the Maro Empire to invest and build factories did not expect to be able to officially put into production in the first year. Although the progress was delayed, the impact was not great. It also gives them more time to prepare.
Then, at the beginning of spring this year, a large amount of materials flooded into Marquis Southgate's private domain along with the convoys of freight magic locomotives from various chambers of commerce.
Because of sufficient preparations, after the start of work again, the construction speed of the factory buildings in this magical industrial base is much faster than before.
Judging from the current progress, as long as there are no accidents, the construction will be basically completed within six months at the most. It was only one month longer than the original plan. Not too exaggerated.
certainly. The completion of these factories can be delayed by a month, and it will not affect anything, but for the large farmland on the private territory of Marquis Southgate, let alone a delay of one month, even a delay of one week will be a problem.
Last year, with the help of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, Marquis Southgate nearly doubled the plantable farmland on his private domain, and with the help of magic planters and other farmland magic machinery, these extra The fields are all planted with wheat.
Now spring is here. All these reclaimed farmlands have also grown smoothly, and it is seeing another bumper harvest.
But without the help of farmland magic machinery, Marquis Southgate can be sure that he would not be able to find enough manpower to harvest.
So when the first ray of spring breeze blew, he had already begun to look forward to the return of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.
One day in early April, he finally arrived at the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.
At the same time, he also waited for another group of people that he was looking forward to even more, that is, the team from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Seeing the stretching out all the way, a large convoy of freight magic locomotives that was at least more than two kilometers long and formed on the far side of the road, Marquis Southgate couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional in his heart.
Except for the general logistics mobilization that the empire will have during the war, I usually want to see such a huge convoy galloping on the road. That chance is pretty slim.
And now this convoy is not the traditional freight carriages of the past, but all the most advanced large freight magic locomotives.
Not to mention that the loading capacity is several times or even more than ten times that of traditional freight carriages. Even the speed and staying power are far superior.
Of course, such a convoy composed of large freight magic locomotives is extremely astonishing in terms of supplies.
The 20 large freight magic locomotives at the front of the convoy were all marked by the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. After entering the private estate of Marquis Southgate, President Cantona started from the first large freight magic locomotive. jumped out of the passenger cab.
"Master Marquis, I'm not late." As soon as he got out of the car, President Cantona immediately laughed and waved his hand to Marquis Southgate.
Marquis Southgate nodded with a smile, looked at the long convoy behind, and then said to President Cantona: "President Cantona, you have worked hard all the way. What is behind this is the freight magic of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Is it a locomotive?"
"Of course. Except for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, how can other chambers of commerce make such a big battle now. But it is not right to say that these freight magic locomotives belong to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, because they all belong to the Filson Transport Chamber of Commerce. Just helping the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce deliver the goods." President Cantona replied.
Marquis Southgate frowned slightly, a little puzzled.
"Large freight magic locomotives are all manufactured by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Why don't they build a transport fleet by themselves, and let others help them transport the goods?"
"I actually asked President Xu this question before. He said that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce mainly focuses on the research and manufacture of magic machinery, and other aspects will leave space for other people and the Chamber of Commerce to get involved. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will try not to intervene The reason why they didn’t set up their own transport convoy was probably in this way.”
Marquis Southgate shook his head, still seemingly puzzled.
However, he didn't care much about this issue. He paused and looked at the team behind him again.
"Since the convoy of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has arrived, what about Mr. Xu? Why didn't you see him?"
"It will take us four days to come all the way. President Xu is very busy and doesn't want to waste so much time on the road, so he set off behind us this time. If you do the math..." President Cantona replied, but turned Turning around, he raised his head and looked at the sky in the distance behind him. "It should be almost there by now."
Marquis Southgate was startled, thinking that since Xu Yi started after you, how could he have arrived now that you have just arrived?
Just when he was about to ask what was going on, President Cantona suddenly pointed his finger in the direction he was looking up.
"coming!"
Marquis Southgate looked up in that direction in astonishment, and found a black spot approaching here from the distant sky.
After a while, the black spot has quickly turned into a black cloud.
Hearing the faint sound of mechanical rotation coming from the distant sky, Marquis Southgate reacted instantly.
"Magic airship? So President Xu came here in a magical airship?"
"Yeah, otherwise, how could we have arrived so soon." President Cantona smiled back.
Marquis Southgate stared at the rapidly approaching magic airship in the sky with a strange expression on his face.
When he was inspecting the Kingdom of Lampari and the Principality of Standing. Of course, I have seen the existence of the magic airship with my own eyes. He was even invited by Xu Yi to go up and ride in person to experience it.
At that time, he was amazed by the magic of the magic airship. It's just that when he proposed to buy a few ships and bring them back to the Maro Empire, Xu Yi diverted them with other topics.
Unexpectedly, now Xu Yi ran over by himself in a magic airship.
He believes that Xu Yi is definitely not doing something meaningless. Does this mean that he is finally willing to sell the magic airship when he comes here with the magic airship?
If so, that's really good news.
"Lord Marquis, you and President Xu must have a lot of things to talk about, so I won't bother you here. I'll go and arrange the preparations for my workers first. It seems that there are not many days until the spring harvest, so hurry up Just a few." President Cantona suddenly withdrew his gaze towards the sky and said.
"Oh? Ah, that's right." Marquis Southgate was stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted. He waved behind him and summoned Baron Franklin, who had been waiting by the side for a long time.
"President Cantona, you are more familiar with Franklin, and I have asked him to assist you in your work during this time. By the way, you are not busy with work today, just unload your things. I will be at the manor in the evening. There is a banquet here. President Cantona also invites you to come to attend.”
President Cantona laughed: "How could I miss the banquet of the Marquis. That's all right. See you tonight, Mr. Marquis."
After leaving these words, President Cantona greeted the excited Baron Franklin, and the two of them took the twenty large cargo magic locomotives with the flag of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce in front of them to Southgate. De Marquis walked to the warehouse that had been prepared for a long time.
They had just walked away, when a burst of not particularly strong, but distinctive sound of mechanical rotation came down from above their heads.
The magic airship landed steadily on the open space not far from Marquis Southgate, the hatch opened, and Xu Yi walked out of it.
Marquis Southgate immediately greeted him with a big smile.
"President Xu, welcome to come again."
Xu Yi hurriedly walked a few steps, bowed slightly to the Marquis Southgate, and said with a smile: "Master Marquis, I have kept you waiting for a long time."
"No, I didn't wait for a long time. I just waited for President Cantona and the others, and you came, President Xu. Could it be that you have already made an appointment?"
"It's just a coincidence." After Xu Yi responded casually, he turned to look at the convoys that were still parked in the distance, and then said to Marquis Southgate, "My lord Marquis, why don't you take a look at the goods we brought in this time?" ?”
"Okay." Marquis Southgate agreed without hesitation, and he walked quickly towards the convoy behind him without hesitation.
Seeing his fast pace, Xu Yi couldn't help but smile, and hurriedly followed.
This convoy was taken away by President Cantona with 20 large freight magic locomotives, and there are a total of 73 remaining.
Xu Yi took Marquis Southgate to look at the front forty large freight magic locomotives, and found that they were all loaded with various farmland magic machinery.
All these farmland magic machines were ordered from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce by various nobles in the Marlow Empire. Only a small part of them belonged to the Marquis of Southgate, but most of them belonged to others who had a close relationship with the Marquis of Southgate. The nobles who have no chance to cooperate with the Cantona Chamber of Commerce for the time being.
Among the last thirty-three large-scale cargo magic locomotives, the first twenty-three hit all kinds of household magic machines and some engineering magic machines currently developed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, as well as bicycles and other non-magic machines. , but it is also a product created by the magic machine tool.
Each of these items is less than five copies. The purpose of this shipment is not to meet the needs of Marquis Southgate, but for other purposes.
As for the remaining ten large magic freight locomotives, they were loaded with the things that Marquis Southgate cared about most. (To be continued..)