Chapter 77

This special object is Viscount Leslie.

Viscount Leslie has led the rest of the Stark family on Paradise Island for ten years, and has already brought Paradise Island under his control.

With the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Paradise Island has already developed a good magic industry, and because of Xu Yi's proposal, Viscount Leslie positioned the main development direction of Paradise Island in the shipbuilding industry and marine fishery. .

The current Paradise Island has four ports and three shipyards, which can produce at least five large cargo magic ships and more than twenty frigates every year.

Most of these ships were supplied to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and a small part was kept by Viscount Leslie for his own use.

Coupled with the marine military magic machinery provided by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, after years of development, Viscount Leslie has controlled a huge fleet of eight large cargo magic ships and 27 magic frigates.

These eight large-scale cargo magic ships cooperate with other small cargo magic ships to form a fleet with extremely strong transportation capacity, which can not only afford the trade between Paradise Island and the Sainz continent, but also receive the Shipping requirements from many countries and chambers of commerce.

The shipping of the Leslie Chamber of Commerce is second only to the Xinfei Shipping Chamber of Commerce, and even the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce sometimes hires the ships of the Leslie Chamber of Commerce to help complete the shipping.

It can be said that after Leslie arrived at Paradise Island, he found a new world, allowing him to give full play to his abilities and stretch his fists.

And he's done a great job running Paradise Island well.

Last year, Xu Yi was invited by Leslie to visit Paradise Island, and found that the island has greatly improved compared to the desolate and backward situation when it was first discovered.

Although it is only an island with a total area of ​​less than 20 square kilometers, Leslie still built a complete road network on the island, and also built a road around the island along the coast, making the traffic on the island extremely convenient .

At the same time, he also strictly divided the various areas on the island. The industrial area and the living area are completely separated and do not affect each other. All the buildings have been specially planned to be neat, tidy and beautiful.

Then he specially invited a group of elves to go there. The vegetation on Paradise Island has been re-planned, so that the entire island is bathed in a patch of grass and flowers, and it looks fresh and pleasant no matter looking down from the sky or standing on the island.

Xu Yi even felt that he chose to settle on Paradise Island. Totally a treat.

Moreover, according to the information provided by Leslie, the residents on Paradise Island have not only solved the problem of food and clothing long ago, but the average annual income of each person has exceeded one hundred gold coins. Compared with before, it is simply not the same world.

Because of this, although Leslie and the Stark family led by him were the later rulers, they won the strong support of all residents on the island, and their reputation on the island was extremely high.

After Xu Yi saw the situation on Paradise Island with his own eyes, he couldn't help expressing emotion. Life here is now truly worthy of its name, and it is almost like paradise.

And another meaning of his emotion is that he has worked hard on the Sainz continent for 20 years, although it has brought about great changes in the Sainz continent, such as the Principality of Standing and the Kingdom of Lampari. The lives of people in these two countries have greatly improved, but what is really close to his ideal state is Paradise Island, which began to develop later.

Of course, Paradise Island has a small area and a small population after all, as long as one industry is selected and developed with care. It will be much easier to change.

Moreover, because Paradise Island is too small, its development space is limited and it is very fragile.

In case of losing its advantage in the shipbuilding industry in the future, Paradise Island may be beaten back to its original shape in an instant.

for this. Xu Yi knew it well, and of course Leslie knew it better.

So Leslie has been looking for more development space and outlets for Paradise Island. Last month, he suddenly visited Xu Yi in person and asked Xu Yi to share some of the military magic machinery technology. This is what he did.

Leslie was unwilling to only manufacture magic ships for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but tried to build magic ships and brand new magic battleships on this basis.

For him this idea. Xu Yi agrees very much, but when it comes to whether to support it...Xu Yi is very hesitant.

Obviously, if Paradise Island really has the ability to independently build all kinds of magical ships, then it can be said that it has a long-term iron job, ensuring that Paradise Island will not have to worry about running out of money in the future.

Moreover, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can have a more powerful partner, and it will also allow the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to obtain more supplies of magic ships, which will be of great help to the development of the Magic Cloud Continent and more new continents in the future.

But what Xu Yi is worried about is that Paradise Island, perhaps under the leadership of Leslie, can achieve close and happy cooperation with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and even continue to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for a long time due to the situation. But if the situation changes in the future, and there is friction between Paradise Island and Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, or even a direct conflict of interest, then this current partner may directly become a powerful enemy.

From a personal emotional point of view, Xu Yi is very happy to help Viscount Leslie, but from the perspective of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it is obviously more in the interest to continue to use Paradise Island as its own foundry.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn't help but smile wryly.

With the gradual growth of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, he encountered this dilemma more and more.

At the beginning, he was still able to stick to his original philosophy without any scruples, continue to open technology sharing, and promote the common development of all.

However, the scale of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is getting bigger and bigger, and now it has even developed into a super-large chamber of commerce with a total of nearly 300,000 employees. Any decision he makes will directly involve the fate of these 300,000 employees. No longer capricious.

"Is there a way to help Paradise Island to achieve better development without harming the interests of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?"

Xu Yi frowned and thought.

In fact, if Leslie is willing to accept it, he will always be a partner of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and help Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to do various OEMs, and Paradise Island will also be able to prosper for a long time.

But Leslie is capable enough and ambitious enough, so he is definitely not willing to accept this arrangement.

He made this request now, obviously aiming at a more ambitious goal.

He even told Xu Yi directly. In order to achieve this request, he can completely open up all the human and material resources in Paradise Island to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which shows how determined he is.

"But how can the resources of a mere paradise island compare with such an important technology as military magic machinery technology?"

Xu Yi thought for a long time. Still feel embarrassed.

If you agree, it may be a little disadvantageous to Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the long run.

But if he doesn't agree, maybe it will make Leslie feel bad now, and it will still be detrimental to Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

How to grasp the degree in the middle is a difficult problem to grasp.

"Tuk-tuk--"

A very rhythmic knock on the door suddenly sounded.

"Cindy, come in." Xu Yi shouted without looking back.

The door was pushed open, and Cindy walked in, seeing Xu Yi staring at the map on the wall, showing a knowing smile.

The chairman often stares at the map and thinks about some very important issues, she is no stranger to it.

"How is it? What did the guys in the logistics department say?" Xu Yi asked suddenly.

"They said that since this is an order from the chairman, they will definitely obey it," Cindy replied.

"Didn't you say anything else?"

"No."

"Heh, they are sensible. It's okay to complain, and it's okay to give opinions, but things must be done. This is the iron law of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce." Xu Yi said with a smile. Then he turned around and saw that Cindy was still holding a thick document in his hand, and asked in surprise, "What is this?"

Cindy immediately handed the document to Xu Yi.

"This is the first issue of the report sent back by the Southern Airship Exploration Team. Please read it, Mr. Chairman."

"Oh? There is news coming back so soon?"

Xu Yi took the file and opened it, and saw a huge title head-on.

"The Southern Continent has been confirmed!"

Xu Yi's eyes widened in surprise, and he quickly looked at it carefully.

This so-called southern airship exploration team is one of several other exploration teams that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce sent out to the outside of Sainz Continent recently after confirming the existence of Moyun Continent. Go, explore.

For the sake of efficiency and safety. These exploration teams are directly equipped with magic airships.

Although this kind of long-lasting endurance is not as good as that of the sea fleet, with the performance of the current magic airship, a cruise can already break through the long distance of 5,000 kilometers.

And if no new continents are discovered within a range of 5,000 kilometers, then there is little point in continuing to explore. Because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce does not have so much financial and human resources to develop another continent for the time being.

What Xu Yi didn't expect was that less than two months after the exploratory team was sent out, there was already a clear news, and the first news was such a big news.

In this report, the exploration team described in detail how their team flew to the south to explore.

For the first month, they followed Xu Yi's arrangement. He kept circling in the southern waters of the Sainz continent, expanding his exploration scope as much as possible.

However, they only found boundless sea water and various islands dotted on the sea during this month.

Although some of the islands are large in size, they are far from a brand new continent.

It wasn't until the beginning of the second month that they finally discovered a continent beyond the horizon at a distance of more than 3,000 kilometers from the Sainz continent.

After a week of exploration, they determined that this continent was a real continent, not a relatively large island, because they flew along the coastline of the mainland for nearly a week without seeing another edge of the continent.

After confirming this point, the exploration team immediately wrote a preliminary report and sent back the observation results so far.

Next, they will continue to conduct further exploration of that continent to determine more detailed information.

Xu also noticed a sentence in the report.

"I don't know what's going on, this continent seems to be extremely hot, it's almost like summer, after we got off the magic airship, everyone was forced to wear only single clothes. If the winter here is already this hot , then in summer, the heat may be unimaginable, and it may not be suitable for human habitation.”

After seeing this sentence, Xu Yi couldn't help laughing.

The southern part of the continent is not a winter, but a real summer.

The reason why the Sainz continent has entered winter and the climate is extremely cold, but the weather on that continent is hot, the reason is very simple, because that continent is basically at the other end of the equator of the planet under our feet, and the seasons are the same as the Sainz continent north of the equator. Quite the opposite of course.

Turning to the last page of the report, there is also a brief map sent back by the exploration team.

Xu Yi glanced at the map twice, with a smile on his face.

"Okay, I found a solution." (~^~)