Chapter 151 The Poor Army

"This..." Major McGonley opened his mouth, took a long breath, and said with a wry smile, "President Xu, this price... is really too expensive..."

"Is it expensive?" Xu Yi shook his head. "Major, I thought that after reading the drawings, you should have a clear understanding of the power of this magic catapult. With such a strong power, do you think this magic catapult might be cheap?"

"I know that too, but..." McConley's face was full of helpless smiles. "This price is still too high. To tell you the truth, our logistics agency's budget for this year is less than 300,000 gold coins, and it is only less than 100,000 gold coins used for armaments. If it weren't for your new flight chamber of commerce We cooperated to build an arsenal, which reduced the cost of supplying armor and weapons several times, so I couldn't even get more than one copper plate."

Xu Yi couldn't help shaking his head, thinking that the Kingdom of Lampari was really poor, the annual financial income was less than 2 million gold coins, and the military expenditure was only 300,000 gold coins, which was pitiful.

With so little money just enough to cover the army's daily expenses, it's no wonder that Major McConley vomits every time he sees him.

But sympathy is sympathy, this price Xu Yi is not going to let a copper coin.

"Major, although I want to help you too, the cost of this magic catapult is too high. If nothing else, it takes more than three tons of steel to make a magic catapult. And this new type of steel costs more than three tons. , the selling price of our Chamber of Commerce is as high as one hundred gold coins per ton. In addition to the cost of materials, labor costs are a big expense, and the most important thing is the cost of research and development. In order to develop this magic trebuchet, our Chamber of Commerce Magic Research Institute The magicians, including the great magician Camilla, and the magic mechanical engineers in the magic machine tool research and development workshop have spent more than two months on this, forgetting to sleep every day, even working overtime all night. Do you think...the price of a thousand gold coins is high?"

"It's really not high." Major McConley nodded and sighed: "But President Xu, the problem is that our military department really can't come up with so much money. With the remaining budget this year, the military department is probably the most It would be nice to only buy three.”

"If you want to buy it, you don't have to spend gold coins..." Xu Yi mentioned softly.

Major McConley glanced at Xu Yi with a complicated expression.

After thinking for a while. But he waved his hand: "Let's not talk about this for now. Even if you want to buy it, you have to wait until your chamber of commerce brings out the real thing and let the big people above see the actual effect. We will discuss other things now. It's too early for something."

Seeing that Major McConley didn't intend to talk in depth, Xu Yi also stopped the topic interestingly.

Of course, aside from this topic, Xu Yi also did not mention a more important purpose of his trip. After seeing that Major McConley had carefully put away the drawings, Xu Yi directly extended his hand to him.

"Major, I have done what I promised you, so what about the person you promised me?"

"follow me."

Major McConley waved to Xu Yi. Take him out of the office and go straight to the training ground outside. He reached out and beckoned to a big man standing upright outside the training ground.

The big man trotted over, gave Major McConley a neat military salute, and stared at Major McConley without even squinting at Xu Yi.

Judging from his sturdy physique, straight posture, determined expression, and deep scars on his exposed skin, it is obvious that he should be a battle-hardened veteran.

"Come on, President Xu, let me introduce you. His name is Hart, and he's a veteran who just retired this year. Since he joined the army, Hart has been working hard with the bastards of the Sark Kingdom on the northern battlefield, and he has absolute combat experience. Rich. The most important thing is that he also served as an instructor of Zhenbei Army before, and he once led a group of brothers. If you let him be the captain of your Chamber of Commerce escort team, he is definitely the most suitable person. "McConley The major pointed to the big man and introduced.

Hearing Major McConley's words, Hart turned his head to look at Xu Yi.

The eyes of the two just collided, and Xu Yi's scalp suddenly numb, and a murderous aura that seemed to be real hit his face, making him almost instantly get goosebumps.

Xu Yi narrowed his eyes, took a deep breath, and managed to calm himself down, trying to face Hart as much as possible.

Hart's eyes were particularly bright. Seeing that Xu Yi did not avoid his gaze, he seemed a little stunned, and then an admiring smile flashed across his face.

"You are President Xu of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?" Hart took the initiative to extend his hand. "It's a lot better than I thought."

Xu Yi reached out and shook his hand, and asked with a smile, "In your imagination, what should I be like?"

"In my imagination, businessmen are rubbish with only money in their eyes!" Hart said rudely. "If the major hadn't found me and assured me that President Xu, you are different from other businessmen, I would not have come to see you at all."

Major McGonley immediately smiled awkwardly: "President Xu, Hart is this character, don't know him in general."

Xu Yi laughed: "It doesn't matter, I like this kind of straightness. If a soldier like Hart can serve as the captain of our Chamber of Commerce's escort team, I believe that no one will dare to take the initiative to provoke our Chamber of Commerce in the future."

Since both Xu Yi and Hart were satisfied, this meeting was considered a success.

Witnessed by Major McConley, Xu Yi and Hart initially signed an agreement to hire him to be the captain of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's escort team.

In addition to Hart, Major McConley also recruited a total of 200 retired veterans similar to Hart for Xu Yi.

These veterans are all battle-hardened elite soldiers, and after they retire, they will become the target of competition among the major chambers of commerce in the Lampari Kingdom.

If it weren't for the relationship with Major McConley, it would be impossible for Xu Yi to obtain a full two hundred such veterans in one go.

Of course, this requirement can only be regarded as a small price paid by the military, compared to the deep cooperative relationship between the military and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

After doing this, Xu Yi left the military. Meet again Marquis Joseph.

Came to Anweimar Chengshi last year. Xu Yi and Marquis Joseph discussed the mining of non-ferrous metal veins in the Kingdom of Lampari.

Several months have passed now. The preparations for both parties are basically ready, and the dwarves of the Norma tribe have explored a non-ferrous metal vein near Karamay City and decided to mine it.

According to the previous agreement between the two parties, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Joseph family originally planned to cooperate to open a steelmaking plant near Karamay City.

Now that this non-ferrous metal vein was discovered, Xu Yi simply expanded the steel plant so that it could simultaneously smelt special steel and non-ferrous metals required for military equipment.

In this way, the scale of this steel plant can even be compared with the steel plant in the Falling Rain Valley from the beginning.

Even for the Joseph family, the opening of this steel mill is a very meaningful event. Therefore, Marquis Joseph was very cautious about Xu Yi's visit.

The negotiation process between the two parties was also very smooth.

On the surface, Marquis Joseph did not reveal much of his own intentions, but for adults like him who played an important role in the Lampari Kingdom, sometimes as long as he did not clearly express his opposition, he could represent his inner approval.

Xu also didn't expect him to bargain with him nakedly like President Morgan, but after learning his basic intention from him, he had already achieved his goal.

The only accident was that when Xu Yi left the Marquis Mansion, he happened to bump into Sente who was returning home.

The moment he saw Xu Yi, Sente's face became very exciting.

The last time he was scolded severely by his father in front of Xu Yi. And after being forced to ask him to apologize to Xu Yi, no matter how unwilling and angry Sente is. But he also clearly knew that Xu Yi was no longer of the same level as him. No matter how much he hated Xu Yi, he wouldn't dare to do anything to Xu Yi.

So Sente just glared at Xu Yi fiercely, and passed him by as if he didn't see it.

Xu Yi naturally didn't care about this kind of guy, just smiled and left the Marquis Mansion.

This time, when he came to Anweimar City, Xu Yi only stayed for three days, and met with Major McConley, Marquis Joseph, and Great Magician Isenka respectively.

In addition to the important transaction to be completed with Major McConley, the meeting with Marquis Joseph and the Great Magician of Isenka was only a further confirmation of the previous cooperation. Just visit.

Xu Yi originally wanted to take the opportunity to meet with Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny, and it was better to ask to see Her Majesty the King, but she was told that the Princess was going to the northern border for inspection, and she did not know when she would be able to return.

In general, for Xu Yi, this trip to Anweimar City did not achieve much, except to achieve the most important purpose of his trip and to solve the problem of the escort team.

However, judging from the reaction of Major McConley, Xu can also be sure that as long as the New Flying Chamber of Commerce can actually make the magic catapult, so that the big figures in the military can really see the great power of the magic catapult, then this thing will definitely be There are existing sales.

Although Xu Yi said to Major McConley that he was basically right, the cost of the magic trebuchet was very high, but it was still a little exaggerated.

According to the budget, if the research and development costs are aside, the cost of a day's magic trebuchet should be between 100 and 700 gold coins.

The R&D cost is mainly reflected before mass production. Once the R&D is successful, it will be quickly apportioned by mass production, and will not occupy such a large proportion in the end.

According to this calculation, as long as the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can sell a magic catapult, it can obtain a huge profit of more than 200 gold coins or even close to 300 gold coins.

The only obstacle is probably that the military is out of money...

But for Xu Yi, this is not a big problem.

Money, Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are not so in short supply.

In comparison, many things that money cannot buy are the most important. (To be continued..)