Chapter 102 Buyer

Lord Weilun initially transferred the more than 240,000 hectares of land to Xu Yi, and when it became Xu Yi's private land, only the land was transferred, but the population on the land was not transferred.

As a result, after Xu Yi obtained this territory, there were only about 170,000 employees of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce who moved here with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Although compared to the average population density on the continent of Sainz, this land of less than 15 square kilometers has a population of more than 17,000, which is quite good.

But because most of the factories of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are intensive industries, only a factory covering an area of ​​only a thousand square meters can accommodate hundreds of workers.

But adding up all the factories and living quarters, the area does not exceed 50,000 hectares.

This made the rest of Xu Yi's territory appear extremely empty and slightly underpopulated.

The more important problem is that because of the lack of a large number of population supplements, it is extremely difficult for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to expand production and increase production capacity.

Although there have been people from the Lampari Kingdom coming to join the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce one after another, but in the past year or so, the total number of people who have actually come here is less than 2,000. In terms of the large manpower demand of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it is simply a drop in the bucket. The production capacity problem that Xu Yi has been troubled with before, in fact, the main reason is the population problem.

The human resources are not satisfied, even if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has sufficient funds now, there is no way to quickly increase production capacity.

The reason why the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce cooperated with the Kingdom of Luerson and invested heavily in the Principality of Mirando is to establish more production bases. Improve overall productivity.

However, the Kingdom of Luerson and the Principality of Mirando are not within the control of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce after all. Although the cooperation between Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and them is extremely close now. But no one can guarantee whether these two countries will change in the future.

In order to solve the manpower problem, Xu Yi previously recruited a large number of local civilians from the Principality of Standing in his territory through Lord Weilun to join the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to assist in production.

However, according to the traditional rules of Sainz Continent, since these civilians are the subjects of Lord Weilun's territory, they belong to Lord Weilun.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce hired these Lord Weilun's subjects, not only had to pay a large amount of fees to the Lord Weilun, but also did not have the right to manage these people.

As a result, Xu Yi was unwilling to conduct skill training and post-training for these people, and had always only let them do the simplest work. Don't let them involve in technical jobs. But in this way, hiring these workers will provide much less help to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Xu Yi once proposed to Lord Weilun to directly move a group of civilians from his territory to join him, but was flatly rejected by Lord Weilun.

The population on Sainz Continent was already very tense. For all the noble lords, people are the most important resource on the territory. Naturally, Lord Weilun would not agree to Xu Yi's request.

However, according to the practice in Sainz Continent, if the people in the noble lord's territory want to move away, they only need to pay a certain price to leave the noble lord's jurisdiction.

"Master President. Are you really going to pay for their relocation expenses?" Sebastian glanced at the few people who were walking around the latest magic air conditioner launched by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce not far away, and frowned.

"Of course." Xu Yi nodded.

It was different from Sebastian's disdainful look at those people. Xu Yi, on the other hand, looked very interested, as if these ragged, almost beggar-like people were hiding some treasures.

"Master President, the Principality of Standing is much stricter than our Kingdom of Lampari in this regard, and Grand Duke Standing has a clear rule on this. If we really want to do this, it is only a person The relocation fee is at least one hundred gold coins. And they came from the territory of Lord Weilun, Lord Weilun will definitely ask for more." Sebastian said again.

"So what if he asks for two hundred gold coins?" Xu Yi turned his head and said to Sebas sternly: "If Lord Weilun is willing to give me all the hundreds of thousands of people currently in his territory, I will spend all the money. I am willing to buy it. The problem is that Lord Weilun will definitely not do it, so we can still buy a few."

Sebastian smiled wryly: "But Mr. President, our Chamber of Commerce has less than two million gold coins in total. How could it be possible to buy so many people?"

"So, as much as you can buy." Xu Yi smiled slightly. "What's more, at this time, even if we give real gold coins to Lord Weilun, he probably won't want it."

"Master President is right." Kennard, who had finished a brief exchange with those people, came over at this time, took what Xu Yi said, and said, "Compared to gold coins, what Lord Weilun needs most now is gold coins. I'm afraid it's the various military magic machines provided by our chamber of commerce. I think that when the chairman negotiates with him later, he should make a request in this regard."

Sebastian frowned even closer.

Although he is the financial director of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, mainly responsible for financial aspects, and basically does not intervene in specific production, he also has a very good understanding of the current production situation of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Of course, he is very clear about the situation that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is facing now.

"But if we agree to Lord Weilun's conditions, there will be problems with our supply in other areas, right? A lot of words"

"That's why, in order to completely solve this situation where we are tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, we must find a way to solve the bottleneck of the Chamber of Commerce's production capacity. To solve this problem, human resources are the most important factor. This is a good opportunity , we must not miss it." Xu Yi said with a serious face: "In terms of finance, Sebastian, you have to make specific statistics and related preparations. If Lord Weilun really needs gold coins, you must be able to meet the demand. As for the specific In terms of production arrangements, Kennard, I leave it to you."

"Understood." Kennard nodded. "If it doesn't work, we can actually coordinate with those chambers of commerce on the Black Rice Wasteland and ask them to assist in the processing of some parts."

After speaking. Kennard looked at Xu Yi with a questioning look.

Before the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was making various military magic machines. From the preliminary research and development to the specific parts processing, equipment assembly, etc., all are handled by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Never let any other chamber of commerce and irrelevant people intervene.

Now that Kennard proposed this idea, he suggested to Xu Yi that other chambers of commerce should also be included in the military production ranks of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Xu Yi pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly: "Yes. But we must carefully select and give priority to those small chambers of commerce that have long-term cooperation with our chamber of commerce."

"I will seriously consider it." Kennard replied seriously.

"Okay, let's do that."

Xu Yi turned his head to look at Sebas, Sebas thought for a moment, and nodded: "Okay, Mr. President. I will prepare enough working capital to prepare for this. But Mr. President, Si The second phase of the Lulu Highway is about to start construction, and we must prepare a minimum initial investment of 500,000 gold coins. If this is included, then our chamber of commerce may not have any liquidity left. In case there is any need , I am afraid there will be difficulties, and there may even be insufficient wages for the workers.”…

"Don't worry about that." Xu Yi waved his hand. "I've already contacted Newman. The Rulson Kingdom will order a large number of household magic machines from us in the next three months. We can make enough profits from them to guarantee the basic liquidity of the chamber of commerce."

"But it's still a bit dangerous..." Sebas muttered, shaking his head.

As the treasurer of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Sebastian had always felt very relaxed.

Because the product sales of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have always been high. Profit margins are high, so the financial position has been extremely strong. Never had any issues.

But in the past year or so, the financial situation of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has become a little tense.

This is not to say that there is any crisis in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce still maintains high sales and high profits except for the decline in product sales and lower profits when it first left the Lampari Kingdom.

But in more than a year, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce spent too much money.

Especially after obtaining this territory from Lord Weilun, because Xu Yi finally obtained a piece of land that he could completely control, he began to invest heavily in the construction of this land.

Now in this territory of less than 25 square kilometers, there are actually thirteen highways intersecting and connecting almost every part of the territory together.

After obtaining the territory, Xu Yi also re-planned and rebuilt the workers' living quarters of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the territory.

Walking in the living area now, you can see pieces of neat and beautiful houses, which look very spectacular.

At the same time, Xu Yi also sold a large number of daily necessities from many other chambers of commerce, making life here extremely convenient and comfortable.

And Xu Yi also invited the elves of the Night Song Tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe to re-green the territory, making the whole territory full of vitality and beauty.

Almost everyone who comes to this territory will be greatly shocked by the living environment here which is completely different from other places.

Even Her Royal Highness Princess Seweni and her personal guards are very satisfied with this place after living here for more than four months, and even linger a little bit.

But creating such a living environment is extremely costly.

Since Xu Yi obtained this territory, up to now, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has invested a total of 4.68 million gold coins in this territory.

It can be said that most of the profits obtained by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are actually invested in the transformation of this territory.

And that's not all.

According to Xu Yi's plan, there are still many areas in this territory that need to be improved.

For example, Xu Yi's latest plan is to install a complete automatic water supply system for the entire territory.

To perfect this system, not only need at least 300 magic water pumps newly developed by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but also need to lay a large number of water supply pipes.

Even if the very important water purification device adopts the green and clean plant filtration solution provided by the Nightsong tribe, and the cost is extremely low, the overall cost of this automatic water supply system is still extremely staggering.

According to the budget statistics made by Sebastian, to build this automatic water supply system according to Xu Yi's idea, the minimum investment would be more than 800,000 gold coins.

It is precisely because a lot of money will be spent in the future that Sebastian objected to Xu Yi's "buying" from Lord Weilun this time.

"Don't worry." Xu Yi understood Sebastian's worries, but as the president, he had to think more about it than Bass. "This is also for the Chamber of Commerce to obtain higher profits in the future. You, the financial director, will have more confidence in the future. As long as you persist, the dawn will come soon. And... I have tossed so many things, in the final analysis, to let others People live better, don't they?"

"Well, the president is right." Kennard also smiled: "Sebas, do you know how those people answered when I asked them why they wanted to move to our territory?" .

Sebastian and Xu Yi looked at Kennard with interest.

"They told me they wanted to move here because life would be more comfortable on our territory. But to my amusement, the thing they valued the most was the automatic water system you were just worrying about. They Said, to be able to drink clean water with a hint of sweetness without leaving the house, is simply a good life that even the gods can't live."

Xu Yi laughed loudly when he heard this, but Sebastian remained silent. He turned his head to look at those people for a while, and then nodded slightly.

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