Chapter 143 Two Duke Governors

According to the preliminary plan, the investment of the Julu Island sea base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will be at least more than 20 million gold coins, and the estimated construction time will be at least three years. It can be said that this is the first super-large project since the establishment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

When this sea base is fully completed, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will have a stronghold in the southern waters of the endless sea that can be attacked and defended.

Moreover, the location of this base is extremely ingenious, and it just guards all sea routes from the southern waters of the Endless Sea to the Principality of Standing.

Any ship that wants to go to the Principality of Standing through the sea channel cannot completely escape the control of this base. This is equivalent to setting up a gate in the southern waters, so that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce no longer has to worry about sudden attacks from the southern waters. attack.

For Xu Yi, this sea base is just an attempt.

As long as he has accumulated enough experience, when the conditions are right, he will definitely expand this sea base from the endless sea all the way, and eventually cover the entire endless sea, forming a chain of sea bases on the endless sea. Cooperating with those small bases distributed on various islands, they will form the most thorough control over the entire endless sea.

The reason for doing this was actually just a conjecture from Xu Yi.

After so many years of traveling to Sainz continent and observing various details, Xu Yi determined that this world should still be on a planet similar to the earth, rather than a world in an inexplicable space.

Since this is the case, then he firmly believes that this world is definitely not just the continent of Sainz.

Moreover, all races on this continent have legends about other continents, which indirectly proved Xu Yi's conjecture.

So since this world is not just a continent, it was extremely mysterious in the eyes of many people before. It can be said that strangers should not enter the endless sea. In Xu Yi's eyes, it has become a treasure house containing countless treasures.

He firmly believes. Being able to have absolute control over the endless sea, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has infinite possibilities, and is no longer limited to the Sains Continent, a land that has already been divided up by the great powers.

However, in order to achieve this goal, the price to be paid is quite staggering.

According to preliminary estimates, the construction of this Julu Island sea base will require an investment of at least 20 million gold coins, and the annual fixed investment will never be less than 3 million gold coins.

A sea base Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can easily afford it, but if it becomes ten or even dozens, it will be a huge burden.

So while building this sea base. Xu Yi is already considering the possibility of making profits from this sea base.

But for now, he has no clue...

This time, Xu Yi stayed at the sea base for a full week. After witnessing the foundation of the sea base taking shape, he left in a magic airship and headed for the southern military port of the Kandela Empire farther to the northeast.

Compared with the Rulson Kingdom's desire for frigates, which can only stay on the lips, the Candela Empire is much more straightforward.

Although the relationship between the two parties is not very harmonious on the surface, the Candela Empire officials will not contact the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce with great fanfare, but in private, many people in the Candela Empire are actively contacting the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, trying to find cooperate.

One of the most active ones is the Candela Empire Navy.

Because after cooperating with Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, they chose to open three military ports. In the past six months alone, the Candela Empire Navy has obtained an astonishing tax revenue of up to three million gold coins through extremely prosperous shipping.

Coupled with a large influx of sea freight. It brought prosperity that was unimaginable to the three cities near the military, as well as the entire southern province of Tulare. The Navy has profited handsomely from this.

The first thing the Candela Imperial Navy did after enjoying the benefits was disarmament...

Don't be surprised, it's disarmament.

When the Kandela Imperial Navy announced that it would lay off up to 60% of the service personnel in the Imperial Navy, and at the same time reduce nearly half of the naval warships, everyone was taken aback.

The vast majority of people believe that this must be due to the tight budget of the Candela Imperial Army every year, so in the end, in order to ensure the army's budget, it was forced to drastically cut the navy's budget, resulting in the navy's substantial layoffs and cuts in warships.

However, in fact, these actions were proposed by the Kandela Imperial Navy to the military department, and finally obtained the approval of the military department, the Imperial Council and His Majesty the Emperor.

The reason for doing this, of course, is to reduce the current high expenditure of the Candela Empire Navy, which is as high as 25 million gold coins per year.

After the disarmament, the Kandela Imperial Navy’s annual expenditure will directly save more than 10 million gold coins. Cooperating with the corresponding income obtained through the opening of the three military ports and surrounding cities, the Kandela Imperial Navy can even spend up to 1,800 gold coins within a year. A huge sum of millions of gold coins.

And the reason why the Kandela Imperial Navy took such painstaking efforts to save such a large sum of money was, of course, to buy more magic frigates from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

This is something that the Candela Empire and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had agreed on long ago, so the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce accepted this huge order with a total value of 15 million gold coins.

Of course, this is not enough for Xu Yi to go to the Kandela Empire in person. Apart from signing a new batch of magic frigate sales agreements on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Kandela Empire Navy, the main purpose of his visit is to come Meet Duke Peresco, Governor of the Province of Tular.

Because of the increasingly prosperous shipping in the southern part of the Candela Empire, the booming magic industries in several countries in the southwest corner of the Sainz continent have also been brought into the Candela Empire little by little. Province.

Now in the province of Tular, all kinds of magic machines and products related to the magic industry can be seen everywhere.

There are even several magic machinery chambers of commerce other than the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce that have already invested in the Tular province and opened several magic machinery factories, turning the Tular province into a new magic in the Kandela Empire. Industrial Base.

Compared with the magic industry base near the capital city of Wimbledon, which was officially hosted by the Candela Empire, the development of the magic industry in the province of Tulare is slightly fragmented, but it is more dynamic and its development momentum is much better.

However, Duke Peresco is obviously not satisfied with this.

No matter how good the development of the magic industry in Tular Province is, without the participation of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it always seems that something is missing, so he took the initiative to send an invitation to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce through the Kandela Empire Navy as an intermediary. I hope that Xu Yi can visit Tular Province to discuss cooperation.

This is so far the first time in the Candela Empire that a person at the level of the provincial governor has formally invited the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, revealing his willingness to cooperate, and Xu Yi naturally attaches great importance to it.

However, Xu Yi did not expect that at the banquet hosted by Duke Peresco, there would be an extra guest that was completely unexpected to him.

"President Xu, this is the Governor of the Southern Province of the Empire, Duke Chris Windsor. I think you must have heard of his name." Duke Peresco smiled at another guest beside Xu Yiwei. He also gave an introduction, and then stepped aside, assuming a posture of standing on the sidelines.

"Duke of Windsor?" Xu Yi looked at the unexpected guest opposite him in astonishment. This man looked quite majestic, and at first glance he was from a noble family, but he was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man. He was the Governor of the Southern Province, the Duke of Windsor?

The Candela Empire has different attitudes towards the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, some support it, and of course some oppose it.

Among those who opposed the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Duke of Windsor was definitely the most prominent and conspicuous one.

One reason is that, as the governor of the southern province, he is equivalent to a prince in the Candela Empire. He has a very important voice, and any statement will have a great impact.

Secondly, what he did was also amazing.

Compared with other people who opposed the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, most of them just shouted slogans, the governor of the southern province actually ordered to refuse any goods related to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to enter the southern province, completely cutting off the southern province and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Fly links between chambers of commerce.

This approach is almost like there is some deep hatred between him and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, Xu Yi is still very clear that because of the Duchess of Windsor and the Earl of Dole, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has already formed a grudge with the Duke of Windsor.

Later, the Duke of Windsor even sent his private guards to invade the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which completely violated Xu Yi's bottom line.

And those private guards were almost completely wiped out in the Principality of Standing by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which also made the Duke of Windsor and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce forge a personal enmity.

So Xu Yi is not surprised that the Duke of Windsor is so opposed to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. After the Duke of Windsor put on such a resolute refusal of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to enter the southern province, he gave up the idea of ​​opening the market in the southern province.

Anyway, the Candela Empire has dozens of provinces, and there is no shortage of the southern province.

It was precisely because he was very clear about these issues that Xu Yi had no idea why the Duke of Windsor appeared here.

He did not believe that the Duke of Peresco did not know the attitude of the Duke of Windsor towards the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, nor did he believe that the Duke of Windsor did not know that the guest that Duke Peresco entertained today was himself.

So the reason for this arrangement must be ulterior motives.

Xu Yi and the Duke of Windsor remained silent at the same time, looking at each other.

After unceremoniously looking at the Duke of Windsor for a while, Xu Yi suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and opened his mouth slightly with a surprised expression.

Then he came back to his senses, and the surprised expression on his face instantly changed into a friendly smile, and he stretched out his hand to the Duke of Windsor.

"Your Excellency, this is our first meeting. I hope this will be a good opportunity for us to cooperate happily. Are you right?"

The Duke of Windsor stared at Xu Yi for a while, stretched out his hand and held Xu Yi lightly, and said in a deep voice, "President Xu, I hope you won't let me down." (To be continued...)