Chapter 69 Oceanic Dream

Many people were quite puzzled about Leslie's decision on his future arrangements, and Xu Yi was even more surprised.

Because Leslie actually wants to gallop on the endless sea in the future, and his dream is to become the overlord of the sea!

When Leslie uttered this idea, Xu Yi almost reprimanded him directly for being whimsical.

Overlord of the sea?

You can't even touch the sea, so what kind of overlord are you talking about!

Due to the limitations of craftsmanship, this world cannot manufacture large ships that are large enough and strong enough to sail on oceans.

In the history of Sainz Continent, only the Candela Empire has tried once, built 20 huge wooden sea ships, and formed a fleet for ocean voyages, claiming to explore the legendary location in the endless sea. In the depths of the sea, there is another continent far away.

However, this fleet had only been out to sea for less than three days before encountering a storm. As a result, all twenty wooden ships were crushed by the storm, and most of the explorers on the ship.nsb.cm were killed. Fewer than ten were lucky enough to survive.

Since then, people on the continent of Sainz have cut off the idea of ​​ocean voyages, and even listed the endless sea as a restricted area. Except for people living by the sea who can look for opportunities to fish in the offshore, at other times, no one else dares to step even half a step into the depths of the endless sea.

Now Leslie actually claims that he wants to become the overlord of the sea... If he only rules the offshore part, it has nothing to do with the strength of the sea, but the strength on the coastline is the decisive factor.

"Xu Yi, you are an old idea on Sainz's continent. It is outdated now." Leslie looked at Xu Yi puzzled. "It's so strange. You obviously proposed the design concept and participated in the development of this magic ship yourself. Now you tell me that ocean sailing is a luxury? Are you so unconfident in the things you designed?"

"It's precisely because I designed this thing with my own hands, so I know its limitations better than anyone else." Xu Yi said seriously. "Although I can say with certainty that the ability of this magic ship to resist storms is far superior to that of wooden sea ships, and the safety of ocean voyages is much better, but it is only an improvement in safety from zero. It’s just one day, there is no particularly exaggerated improvement, and there is no guarantee that you will survive at sea.”

"According to what you said, isn't this thing much better than those wooden boats? Then why did you spend so much effort building it?" Leslie frowned. Look a little disappointed. "I thought that with this thing, I could fulfill my dream of sailing the entire endless sea that I have had since I was a child." "I promise you will realize this dream in the future, but not now." Xu Yi shook his head and said seriously: "I I would like to give you a more practical suggestion, set your goals realistically first, and don’t expect to sail so far as soon as you come up. Ocean sailing is a thing that requires a lot of experience. You might as well start step by step and proceed little by little. grope."

Leslie glared back at Xu Yi: "Do you think I'm an idiot? Of course I won't rush into the depths of the endless sea as soon as I come up like the idiots in the Candela Empire. My original plan was to Use this magic ship developed by you to explore the depths of the endless sea little by little. Do you think I will plunge into it like a fool?"

Xu Yi couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

It took a long time. He was just worrying.

"Okay, then how do you plan to operate it?" Xu Yi asked again: "Our chamber of commerce has priced it at 800,000 gold coins. I don't think you can afford so much now. Here comes the money.”…

"Eight hundred thousand gold coins?" Leslie was taken aback. "So expensive?"

"Of course." Xu Yi said proudly. "The queue capacity of this medium-sized magic freighter is a full 5,000 tons, and the cargo capacity can even exceed 3,000 tons. That is to say, if it is full of cargo, one run can be worth hundreds of land transportations. You think it's expensive? I think it's cheap too."

"It can hold 3,000 tons of cargo at a time?" Leslie glanced at the medium-sized magic freighter that was sailing slowly along the coastline in the blue waters of the endless sea after the launching ceremony in the distance, and nodded: "If it is In this case, it is indeed worth so much money. But Xu Yi, it seems that my initial estimate was wrong. In fact, what I need most now is not this kind of cargo magic ship, but something similar to those small magic assault boats that can A combat magic ship loaded with soldiers."

"A magic ship for battle?" Xu Yi frowned slightly, looking at Leslie in surprise. "What? Do you want to run off and be a pirate?"

Leslie laughed, but did not answer.

Glancing at the slightly weird smile on his face, Xu Yi didn't ask any further questions. After thinking for a while, he nodded and said, "It's actually quite simple. You just need to make some necessary modifications and add some weapons to it. And defense facilities can meet the requirements."

"Well, I need some military magic ships that are slightly smaller than these medium-sized magic cargo ships and have magic mechanical weapons on them, such as small magic power catapults. It is best that they can be faster than they are now. How about it? Xu Yi? Can you do it?"

Xu Yi spread his hands: "It can be done, but with the current production capacity of our chamber of commerce, it may not be possible to complete one in half a year. If you want it in a hurry, it will definitely not work. And if you order it according to your request , although the cost is much lower than that of a medium-sized magic freighter, I am afraid it will not be less than 400,000 gold coins, are you sure you want it?"

"Sure." Leslie nodded affirmatively, then took out a golden ticket from his pocket and stuffed it in Xu Yi's hand. "This is the first order, I hope you can deliver it as soon as possible."

Xu Yi glanced at it, and found that the amount of the gold ticket issued by the Chimera Chamber of Commerce was 50,000 gold coins, which was just right to be used as a deposit for a small magic warship with a price of around 500,000 gold coins.

But Xu Yi still didn't understand what Leslie was going to do.

Large-scale sea-going ships are not just good enough to buy, the follow-up maintenance costs should not be underestimated, if you can't get enough benefits from it. Having these things is not necessarily a good thing.

The reason why Xu Yi vigorously researched and developed the magic ship. On the one hand, it is to promote the research and development process of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in magic machinery. To improve the existing magic industry system, on the other hand, it plans to form an ocean-going cargo fleet to meet the increasingly urgent transportation needs of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

And if Leslie wants to buy a few military ships, if he doesn't run to become a pirate, then this thing is equivalent to a bottomless pit, and he can only keep throwing money into it.

Even if Leslie was not kicked out of the house by Duke Stark, with the huge financial support of the Stark family, it would be difficult to do this kind of loss-making business.

And now even his territory has been taken back by the Lampari Kingdom Council. It is even more impossible to have such financial resources.

But Leslie obviously didn't intend to explain his plan to Xu Yi, so Xu Yi naturally wouldn't ask the question.

Compared with Leslie not paying much attention to this medium-sized magic freighter, Xu Yi paid much more attention to it.

Being able to successfully manufacture this medium-sized magic freighter means that Xinfei Merchant has made breakthroughs in many technical aspects.

The first of these is engine technology.

Although the magic locomotive engine and the magic ship engine are both wind-type magic engines, they are roughly the same in principle, but they are actually very different.

No matter in the Magic Research Institute and the Magic Machine Tool R&D Center, the research and development of the magic locomotive engine and the magic ship engine are carried out separately.

Now this medium-sized magic cargo ship has been successfully built and sailed smoothly on the sea, which shows that the research and development of the magic ship engine has achieved a major breakthrough, and it also means that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has reached a new height in the research and development of the wind system magic engine. In turn, it will promote the research and development of the magic locomotive engine.

For example, in the recent period, relying on the launch of the magic ship and the above research breakthroughs. The research and development of the magic locomotive engine of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has also made great progress. In the test, it has successfully developed a large cargo magic locomotive with a cargo capacity of more than 20 tons.

However, due to the inherent disadvantages of the wind magic engine, there is still no way to make a major breakthrough in speed.

At this point, we can only wait for the development of the fire magic engine to make progress.

In addition to the engine, the successful manufacture of this medium-sized magic freighter also includes another breakthrough of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in large-scale magic machinery, which includes the most basic steel welding, large-scale parts molding casting, and the overall design combination of large-scale magic machinery ... and so on, all have been significantly improved through the process of designing and manufacturing this medium-sized magic freighter this time.

It took nearly two years for this medium-sized magic freighter to be successfully constructed from Xu Yi's conception at the beginning.

Even on Earth, this is already a very fast speed.

And on this groundless Sainz continent, it is even more miraculous speed.

Now that this medium-sized magic freighter has successfully launched, the time will obviously be much faster when the second medium-sized magic freighter is built next.

When the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce successfully forms the first ocean-going transport fleet, it will be more convenient to transport the goods of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to various places on the Sainz continent through the endless sea.

Take the Kingdom of Rulson as an example.

Now if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce wants to transport all kinds of magical machines produced to the Kingdom of Rulson, because of the terrain restrictions of the Principality of Standing, it can only enter the Kingdom of Lampari through the Black Rice Wasteland, and then pass through the city of Bangta. , turned to the south, and finally entered the Kingdom of Rulson.

After such a trip, the total mileage will be close to 1,000 kilometers, not to mention the high transportation cost, and because the middle passes through the Lampari Kingdom, an additional tariff must be paid, the total transportation cost is extremely high.

And once the ocean-going transport fleet is built, these goods can be directly loaded onto the cargo ship here, and then make a small circle from the south of the Principality of Standing, and finally land on the coastline in the south of the Kingdom of Rulson.

There is no need to pay any additional fees during this process, and coupled with the super cargo capacity of the magic cargo ship, one transportation is enough to be worth countless land transportations, which will undoubtedly greatly reduce the cost.

Moreover, if it is transported from the endless sea, it will be convenient to reach countries with coastlines that are farther away on the Sainz continent, which is very important for Xu Yi who wants to promote the magic machinery produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to the entire Sainz. Enns Continental was very helpful.

It's just that the current production capacity of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is quite insufficient. Even if the test is successful now, the construction time of the next medium-sized magic freighter will take several months at the fastest.

When an ocean-going transport fleet can really be formed, I am afraid that it will be a few years at the earliest.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn't help but look at Leslie angrily.

Originally, his own schedule was tight enough, but this guy still had to come here to interfere.

What a waste of time!