Chapter 16 Opening the Era of Great Navigation

Hearing this question, Xu Yi immediately put away his laughter, thought for a while and replied: "It's basically confirmed. Elder Elusia, have you selected the manpower on your side?"

"Well, I have selected a ten-person team, and I will set off with you when the time comes. I hope you can help arrange them."

"It's easy to say, next time you bring them over, I'll wait for them to meet with Noval. Noval is the commander-in-chief of this ocean exploration, and he will make proper arrangements."

"Okay." Elder Elusia nodded and replied with a smile to Xu Yi: "President Xu, our Yege tribe has been enjoying your help for so many years, but we can't give you much in return. I'm a little embarrassed."

Xu Yi was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes widened in disbelief, staring at Elder Elsia from top to bottom, and then from bottom to top carefully several times back and forth.

Elder Aluxia was uncomfortable seeing him, and couldn't help asking: "President Xu, did I say something wrong?"

"No...that's right...just..." Xu Yi had a very strange expression on his face. "Elder Alucia, this is a standard polite saying among us humans. I really feel how weird it is when it comes out of your mouth..."

"Polite words?" Elder Elusia shook her head. "This is not a polite word, but a feeling from my heart. We elves advocate the way of nature and balance. If we have been receiving favors from others but can't repay them, I will really feel very embarrassed."

Xu Yi wiped his face speechlessly, waved his hands and said: "Okay, Elder Elsia. It's better not to be so serious. I have discussed this kind of thing with you a long time ago. The reason why I chose Help you Nightsong tribe. I just hope that the elves can also be included in the magic industry system I ideally built. After so many years, you have developed very well, and now you have become an indispensable part of this system .For me, this is enough. As for other rewards... Do you think I am lacking?"

Elder Alusia tilted his head slightly and thought about it, then shook his head helplessly: "You don't lack everything we have, so this is the most important question that can't repay you."

"Okay, don't dwell on this issue." Xu Yi smiled wryly and waved his hand again, deciding to end the topic.

He is very aware of the stubborn character of the elves, if he really continues to discuss with Elder Elusia. Not sure what idea she will come up with in the end.

"If I really want to say it, I'm actually curious about why you elf tribes must send people to participate in this ocean-going exploration operation." Xu Yi thought for a while. "This is only the first ocean-going exploration conducted by our Chamber of Commerce. There are too many unknown dangers. If you send people rashly, you may suffer unexpected losses."

This is indeed the question that Xu Yi has been having all this time.

Knowing that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce intends to organize a fleet for ocean exploration, not only Elder Elsia expressed the wish to send elves from the tribe to participate in this ocean exploration, but even Elder Lisanya and Elder Wentini also expressed their wishes for the Moon Shadow Tribe And the Azshara tribe also need to send manpower to participate.

This made Xu Yi very strange. He didn't understand why the three elf tribes were so enthusiastic about this ocean exploration.

It’s okay if Lumi, a dwarf, was so excited that she couldn’t sleep for several days after knowing that Xu Yi finally decided to organize an ocean-going exploration fleet. After all, she has been looking forward to finding her own in another legendary continent. tribe.

But the elves don't have a history of all the people of this race relocating away from the Sains continent. What's wrong with being so active?

"We just want to find out some things." Elder Elusia smiled, but the answer he gave was very vague. Clearly do not want to explain the problem.

Xu Yi frowned, knowing that if Elder Alucia didn't want to say something, it would be useless for him to inquire about it, so he had to give up.

Anyway, it was initially agreed that the ocean-going exploration fleet would be composed of five large magic cargo ships and fifteen magic frigates, and it would not affect anything if dozens of elves followed.

In comparison, Xu Yi paid more attention to this ocean-going exploration operation itself.

Through the various legends circulating on the Sainz Continent over the years, Xu Yi has basically determined that the planet under his feet is most likely not only the Sainz Continent, but other continents should exist.

If this continent can be explored, it means that the world that Xu Yi understands will be further expanded.

In addition to satisfying his spiritual needs for exploration, the more practical meaning is that more land, corresponding resources, and possibly more population can be incorporated into the magical industrial system he planned.

Creating a complete magic industrial system not only takes time, but also requires a lot of manpower.

If more people can participate in it, it will naturally develop faster.

In addition, from a very realistic point of view, the current situation in the Sainz continent is basically stable, almost all the land has been divided up by various countries, and various resources are also firmly controlled by these countries in their own hands.

Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce relies on its dominant position in the magic industry, it has good cooperative relations with most countries on the mainland, allowing it to obtain a large amount of resources to support its own development.

But if these resources are not in their own hands, they will not be so reliable after all.

Although Xu Yi can completely start wars continuously to occupy more land resources for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, as Sevini proposed a few years ago, but although the current strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can deter all countries on the mainland , so that they dare not attack easily, but if they want to attack other countries, it will be extremely insufficient.

After all, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is just a chamber of commerce, not a country.

For the escort of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it is not difficult to completely defeat all the regular troops of another country, but it is almost impossible to completely occupy and rule this country.

So under such circumstances, exploring more land and seeking more resources is one of the most effective options.

In fact, Xu Yi already had this idea when he met Lumi for the first time and basically confirmed that this world is very likely to have another continent, but it was not until after several years of accumulation and preparation that he really confirmed that The establishment of a fleet can officially carry out ocean-going exploration operations.

Regarding this matter, not only Lumi was too excited, but Xu Yi was also very excited.

Because this is simply equivalent to opening the age of great navigation in this world!

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Half a month later, after half a year of preparations, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's ocean-going exploration fleet finally officially set out to sea.

For this event of great significance, all major newspapers on the Sainz continent carried out large-scale and detailed reports.

All the newspapers were surprisingly unanimous in their views on the matter.

Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's ocean exploration operation this time is very likely to be a major event that will change the history of Sainz's continent.

Prior to this, there were countless legends about another continent circulating on the Sainz continent, but they had never been confirmed.

If the ocean-going exploration fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can truly explore another continent, it will not only confirm the legend, but also change the world view of almost everyone on the entire Sainz continent.

Prior to this, people on the Sainz continent generally believed that the world consisted of this continent plus the boundless endless sea.

Even if there are still some islands in the surrounding endless sea, they are nothing compared to the Sainz Continent, so the Sainz Continent is of course the center of the world.

But if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's ocean-going exploration fleet confirms the existence of another continent, wouldn't that mean that Sainz Continent is not the only continent that exists in this world, and naturally it is not the center of this world?

People are both looking forward to and worrying about this possibility.

What I am looking forward to is of course hoping to discover another continent, to discover the legendary creatures living in another continent, as well as the legendary dwarfs who have crossed the endless sea and lived on other roads, and have long since disappeared in Sainz. other races on the continent.

What worries me is that if the Sainz continent is not the center of this world, where is the center?

With the attention of countless people, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's ocean-going exploration fleet set off from the harbor of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's main base, heading towards the west of the boundless sea.

According to Xu Yi's roughly calculated situation after observing various details over the years, it can be judged that the autobiographical time of the planet where Sainz Continent is located is almost exactly the same as that of the earth, and the radius is not too different, so basically it can be used on the earth. Apply basic geographic knowledge.

Then, according to the sailing speed of this fleet of more than 500 kilometers per day, if everything goes well, they will be able to sail around this planet in just over three months.

Of course, the first voyage could not be so smooth, so Xu Yi estimated the time for them to be one year.

This does not mean that Xu Yi has no confidence in them, on the contrary, he is very confident in the successful completion of this ocean exploration.

After all, when Magellan sailed around the world for the first time on the earth, he was only on a dilapidated wooden ship, and the conditions in all aspects were far worse than that of this ocean-going exploration fleet.

Magellan was able to successfully end his voyage, and it is impossible for this ocean-going exploration fleet to fail.

The only thing he is worried about is that if he really explores another continent, there will be all kinds of accidents that may be encountered on that continent.

But these worries were left behind by Xu Yi when he witnessed the fleet disappearing on the distant sea level.

Now that the fleet was out to sea, he couldn't do anything more.

In comparison, it is more important to concentrate on the upcoming magic industry industry standard setting meeting. (To be continued..)