Chapter 88 The Development Direction of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce

The trip to the Candela Empire was a success for the chambers of commerce in the Lampari Kingdom.

Not only were all the goods brought in by the Candela merchants in Canberra City snatched up, representatives of major chambers of commerce also signed investment agreements with the Governor's Office of the southwestern province of the Candela Empire.

According to the plan in the agreement, these chambers of commerce will enter the southwestern province of the Kandela Empire to select a site in the next six months, preparing to invest in the construction of various factories.

This is the first tentative cooperation between the Lampari Kingdom and the Candela Empire in the magic industry. If it goes well, the Duke of Mogudu, on behalf of the Candela Empire, made it clear that they will strengthen further cooperation and introduce more Lampa The chamber of commerce related to magic machinery in the Li Kingdom, and it is even possible to cooperate in other areas.

Of course, this result is what both the Lampari Kingdom and the Candela Empire are very willing to see.

The Candela Empire hopes that by introducing the magic industry, the Candela Empire can also gain an in-depth understanding of this emerging industry, so as to achieve the goal of self-research, mastery and production of military magic machinery.

And for the Lampari Kingdom, entering the huge market of the Candela Empire is even more dreamy.

After so many years of development of the Lampari Kingdom, the domestic market is close to saturation. Of course, new profit growth points are needed.

If we can open up the huge markets of the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire at this time, the benefits to the Lampari Kingdom can be imagined.

As for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce represented by Xu Yi, the actual benefits obtained during this trip do not seem to be very great.

Because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is now nominally affiliated to the Principality of Standing, it cannot be counted as the chamber of commerce involved in the cooperation between the Lampari Kingdom and the Candela Empire. There is no way to enjoy the many preferential policies proposed by the Candela Empire for this point - such as lowering tariffs, investment assistance policies, etc...

Seriously. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce just reached a cooperation agreement with Prince Frank to jointly build a magic locomotive factory. Moreover, this magic locomotive factory is still owned by Prince Frank in name, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce only played a supporting role.

On the other hand, although the military magic machines sold to Prince Frank's private guard involved 16 types, the total amount was not much, and the total order amount barely exceeded 600,000 gold coins.

Compared with the military magic machinery sold by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to the military headquarters of the Maro Empire for a total amount of 3.8 million gold coins, it is undoubtedly nothing.

However, Xu Yi and Prince Frank are very clear that this is just a tentative contact between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Candela Empire, and there will be a lot of cooperation in the future.

Perhaps the Candela Empire is confident that it can leave the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the future to research and produce by itself. But Xu Yi was not worried about it at all.

Moreover, compared with the military magic machinery, Xu Yi paid more attention to the civil magic machinery. In fact, the cooperation between the Lampari Kingdom and the Candela Empire has made the development momentum even better.

Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce cannot enjoy preferential tariffs because it does not belong to the Kingdom of Lampari, the various types of civilian, especially household magic machines of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are high-end products with the best quality and the strongest performance. It is normal for magic machines to be higher.

For example, in the current city of Wimbledon, which is also the most popular magic air conditioner at present, the average price of magic air conditioners produced by several chambers of commerce in the Lampari Kingdom that entered the Candela Empire through formal channels is only 25 gold coins. The price of the new Flying brand magic air conditioner that someone like Ambassador Hakain opened up to enter the Candela Empire has soared to a minimum of 40 gold coins a set, and the supply in the aristocratic circles in Wimbledon is simply in short supply.

From this point of view. I have to admit that the aristocrats in Wimbledon have a good vision.

Therefore, Xu Yi was not in a hurry at all.

Anyway, the production capacity of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is still limited. The supply has always been far less than the demand, and suddenly there is a huge market in front of it, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is really overwhelmed.

Xu Yi's current development strategy for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is still to operate steadily, while increasing production capacity, it is also necessary to enhance the core strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

And these core strengths include not only technical research, but also the guards of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

After returning from the Candela Empire, Xu Yi and the entire Xinfei Chamber of Commerce temporarily entered a period of calm.

Of course, this quiet period is not about doing nothing, but because everything is being implemented in an orderly manner according to the plan, and Xu Yi doesn't need to devote too much energy to deal with it.

At present, there are four main development directions of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

The first point is to further promote the use of household magic machinery to the Maro Empire and the Candela Empire, and at the same time drive other magic machinery-related chambers of commerce into these two empires, and popularize the use of household magic machinery on a large scale.

The second point is based on the first point. After the people of the two empires generally accepted the existence of the novelty of magic machinery, they promoted other civilian magic machinery.

In this regard, the Maro Empire is ahead of the Candela Empire. Because of Marquis Southgate, the Maro Empire has introduced farmland magic machinery to assist in harvesting, and has begun to promote farmland transformation on a small scale.

Marquis Southgate and several other nobles, who had tasted the sweetness from it, certainly would not let go of this opportunity to publicize, so that the Marlow Empire Commerce Department directly ordered a large number of farmland magic machines from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and communicated with Canton It is hoped that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce will assist in guiding the overall farmland transformation within the Maro Empire.

If nothing else happens, in the next few years, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce will focus on the Maro Empire.

The third point is to expand the area directly controlled by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

This is obviously difficult to implement on the Sainz Continent, because the Sainz Continent has been divided up by various countries. Unless the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce launches a war, it is possible to grab land from other countries.

With the current strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, this is of course impossible.

So Xu Yi set his goal at sea.

Not only is the Principality of Standing facing the sea, but the control range of this sea also includes a large area of ​​sea in the southern part of the Sainz continent.

What Xu Yi hopes to achieve is to be able to control a large number of islands in the endless sea, and then connect these islands by establishing bases on these islands and arranging magic signal towers, and then rely on the escort fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for actual control.

At present, the progress of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in this area can only be said to have just started less than one-fifth.

So far, there are just over a hundred islands under the control of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, half of which are concentrated along the coast of the Principality of Standing.

In the southern waters of the Sains Continent, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce currently only controls less than fifty islands sporadically, and all of them rely on the powerful indirect control of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's escort fleet, which is not really complete control. .

Xu also plans to continue to invest no less than 10 million gold coins in this area in the next five years and continue to strengthen control.

The last point is the most critical point, which is to strengthen the formation of the guard team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

After these years of continuous development and Xu Yi's substantial capital investment almost regardless of cost, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Guard has now become a team with a total of more than 8,000 members, including elites from various races including humans, elves, dwarves, and orcs. Warriors, armed with the latest military magic machinery developed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Although they have not experienced many actual combat tests, the military representatives of both the Lampari Kingdom and the Rulson Kingdom said without hesitation that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Although the guards only have 8,000 people, their combat effectiveness is comparable to the 50,000 troops of the two countries.

As for the comparison with the traditional army on the continent of Sainz... there is no comparison at all.

However, Xu Yi still felt that it was not enough.

For this reason, he directly doubled the investment of 1.5 million gold coins that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce invested in the guards of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce every year, rising to 3 million gold coins a year.

This resolution was unanimously opposed by all the senior executives of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, because they felt that the current strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's escort team was sufficient for defense, and that was enough, and there was no need to increase investment at all.

However, Xu Yi hopes that what the guards can do is not only to easily guard the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and even the entire Principality of Standing, but also to be able to attack at any time when necessary and achieve their goals.

So even though all the other high-level officials opposed it, Xu Yi still took out the authority of the president and forcibly passed the resolution.

In fact, we can't blame those high-level objections. The original investment of 1.5 million gold coins a year for the guards of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is already very exaggerated.

You must know that among the surrounding countries, even the Luerson Kingdom, which has strengthened its military investment because of the threat of the Candela Empire, has a military budget of only two million gold coins for this year.

As for the Kingdom of Lampari, which has become rich in recent years and its military budget has also increased significantly, the annual military expenditure so far is only about 1.5 million gold coins.

It is incredible that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, a mere chamber of commerce in this district, invested enough funds in its own guards to compare with these two kingdoms.

Now Xu Yi has to double his growth rate, which in the eyes of others is simply crazy.

However, many things that Xu Yi has done are no different from going crazy in the eyes of others, and it is impossible for everyone to feel too surprised by one more thing.

It's just that people still can't understand.

After all, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is just a chamber of commerce, not a country. What is it trying to do by raising so much capital investment for its own escort team?

At the beginning of September, a conflict occurred on the southwestern border of the Kingdom of Sark, which seemed to indirectly answer the questions in everyone's mind. (To be continued..)