Chapter 76 Revising the Plan

Whether Xu Yi's ambition is big or not is not a problem for other members of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. ￥f Vertex Fiction,

Even on the contrary, the executives of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are more willing to know that their president has such ambitions.

Because from another perspective, the word ambition is also called ambition.

Compared to following a leader who has no ambitions and whose goals are limited to the present, of course they prefer to follow a leader who has ambitions and long-term goals.

Only in this way, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will continue to maintain the current situation and continue to develop at a high speed, not only to become a super-class chamber of commerce in several surrounding countries, but also to become a super-class chamber of commerce in the entire Sainz continent.

The stronger the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce becomes, the higher-ups of the Chamber of Commerce will naturally be able to follow the Chamber of Commerce to obtain even more amazing benefits.

What's more, even if you don't consider it from the perspective of actual benefits, just following the chairman and achieving the goal of spreading magic machines all over the continent is already enough to attract people's hearts, isn't it?

The last month of 3875 in the mainland calendar passed quickly. As soon as the New Year passed, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce once again publicly recruited a large number of workers.

This is not surprising. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been desperately recruiting workers for the past two years, and has never relaxed its demand in this regard.

But this time the recruitment is slightly different from the previous ones, mainly focusing on the recruitment of the resource gathering industry.

And there is another very obvious condition in the recruitment conditions, that is, it is hoped that the workers who apply for the job will be willing to work in places thousands of kilometers or even two thousand kilometers away from their hometowns.

At the same time, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce stated that the initial conditions of this job are very difficult, and it is not easy to go home. Must be able to endure hardship. Can bear the loneliness.

Such a request has drawn the attention of many. Because Xinfei Chamber of Commerce gave very good conditions to its employees before, but now it is clear that this job is very difficult, which is really strange.

But what these conditions require, compared with the salary indicated in the job advertisements published in major newspapers, it immediately becomes less important.

Minimum 300 gold coins per year!

Although this kind of salary is not considered a particularly high salary in the current city of Bonta, it can be regarded as a real high salary whether it is in the Kingdom of Lampari or the Kingdom of Rulson.

You know, since the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce dismissed more than 18,000 workers at one time. This caused other chambers of commerce to compete for these workers, raising the average salary of the magic industry to an astonishing level, but for ordinary workers, 20 gold coins a month is already considered a very good income.

What's more, although Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's salary has never had an absolute advantage compared to other chambers of commerce, it has always far surpassed all other chambers of commerce in terms of various benefits.

According to private accounts, working in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, even if you only get a salary of ten gold coins a month, is much better than getting twenty gold coins a month in other chambers of commerce.

Now the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is willing to offer an annual salary of 300 gold coins to newly recruited workers, which not only breaks the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's own practice. It even touched the salary level of the entire magic industry all of a sudden.

As soon as the recruitment news was published, it immediately caused countless people to flock to the recruitment points set up by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in various surrounding countries.

But one month into the new year has passed. The actual number of people recruited by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is less than 2,000 people, which is far lower than the initial expectations of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

This made Xu Yi a little disappointed and a little confused.

Although it is a bit uncomfortable to be away from home and work on an unknown island in the endless sea that is a full one or two thousand kilometers away from here, it is not so unacceptable.

More than 20,000 people came to apply for the job, but only a mere 2,000 people were willing to go in the end, less than one-tenth, which is really too small.

And even if there are two thousand people, not all of them can go there.

Xu also attaches great importance to the resource development of these islands in the endless sea and the supporting sea area control plan. The workers sent there not only need to be trustworthy, but also need to have certain special qualities.

For example, you must endure loneliness, you must have the ability to live normally on an island with harsh conditions, etc...

According to Xu Yi's estimation, among the 2,000 newly recruited people, it would be considered good if a quarter could go to those islands in the end.

The real main force has to be selected from the old workers of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce itself.

But even if they were selected from among those old workers, there were still not many workers willing to accept such a transfer.

Of course Xu Yi could force them to be transferred to those islands to work, but from the perspective of stability, Xu Yi was unwilling to do so.

"It seems that the progress of this plan can only be postponed." Xu Yi couldn't help sighing as he looked at the recruitment progress report Kennard gave him.

Kennard on the side glanced at Xu Yi, hesitated for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Master President, in fact... If you are willing to raise the salary level in this area, for example, from three hundred gold coins per year to four One hundred gold coins, I don't think it will be a problem in terms of manpower."

"No." Xu Yi shook his head very simply. "To formulate such a salary, not only consider the overall salary level of our chamber of commerce, but also the salary level of the entire industry. If we set it too high at once, it will make it very difficult for other chambers of commerce."

Kennard smiled wryly and shook his head.

He really wanted to say that in fact, other chambers of commerce that are also engaged in the magic industry have never been concerned about this, and have been poaching people from Xinfei Chamber of Commerce with high salaries, so we don't need to worry about it at all.

But after working beside Xu Yi for so long, Kennard knows Xu Yi's goals very well, and knows that he values ​​the development of the industry as a whole, so he doesn't care if Xinfei Chamber of Commerce suffers a little.

And what Xu Yi said was right, even if it was only within the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, if the salaries of those workers sent overseas were set too high, it would definitely affect the salary standards within the Chamber of Commerce and cause internal chaos.

The current salary standard of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was re-established after the previous major layoffs. It's broken in less than a year now. This is obviously wrong.

Xu Yi pondered for a moment. He smiled again: "Okay, actually it's good to think about it carefully. We can't rush the development of those islands. Among other things, at least we don't have so many magic ships right now, right?"

Kennard nodded: "Yes, sir, we currently only have eight large cargo magic ships, which are not enough to support a large number of sea cargo missions. In addition, in terms of combat magic ships, although it is enough to assemble two complete Fleet, but the training and personnel are also not enough. It is too difficult to completely dominate the huge sea area in the south of the mainland."

"Well, that's it. Let's take it step by step, starting with the islands off the coast of the Principality of Standing, and then step by step to the southern waters of the mainland. At the same time, we must pay close attention to personnel recruitment training and ship construction. We must have a A strong enough escort fleet."

Kennard looked at Xu Yi thoughtfully: "Isn't Viscount Leslie's fleet enough?"

"Of course." There was no special expression on Xu Yi's face, he just nodded without further explanation.

Although Leslie is now counted under the name of the escort of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, he is in command of the escort fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. But Xu Yi knew very well that Leslie might not be under him for a long time.

Wait until the time is right. It is very likely that he will leave the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and build his own maritime fleet.

The reason why Xu Yi now entrusts him with the guards of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is because of their personal relationship, and because Leslie has the ability in this area, and also inherited some resources from the former Stark family.

Now that he is commanding the escort fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it can actually be regarded as a cooperation between Xu Yi and Leslie, because both parties need to accumulate relevant experience in maritime fleets.

Now that the situation has changed, Xu Yi and Kennard made corresponding changes to the overall plan.

Because before this, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has actually done a detailed survey of the waters near the Principality of Standing, and has made statistics and preliminary development of the islands with resources in the nearby waters, so this sea area is used as the basis for this plan. starting point.

According to Xu Yi's plan, Xinfei merchants will set up small bases on these islands and deploy a small number of defensive measures, and then connect these islands to serve as the first defensive island chain outside the coastline of the Principality of Standing.

If there is another situation similar to the previous situation where the Sac Kingdom and Earl Weilun colluded to attack the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, they must first break through the defense of the first island chain before they may threaten the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Next, Xu Yi's plan is to extend this first island chain all the way to the southern waters of the Rulson Kingdom, and then to the southern seas of the Candela Empire, and finally draw a semicircle in the southern seas of the Sainz continent, covering the entire Sainz. The southern part of the Sri Lankan continent is wrapped up.

To achieve this goal, it is obviously not enough to only develop islands with various resources, and some islands with strategic significance must also be utilized.

In this way, the investment of this whole plan will become extremely amazing.

Xu Yi and Kennard roughly estimated that the total investment of this project might be calculated in the hundreds of millions of gold coins.

"Okay, Mr. President, this plan cannot be achieved in a year or two, we can only take it slowly." Kennard sighed.

Xu Yi smiled: "Of course, I never thought that I could complete this plan in a short period of time. In short, we just need to work hard in this direction."

Kennard also laughed, and was about to speak when the office door was suddenly knocked hard.

Kennard frowned slightly, and said in a low voice, "Come in."

The door opened, and the human secretary who served as Kennard's assistant rushed in with an extremely weird expression on his face. His eyes swept over Kennard and fell on Xu Yi's face. After swallowing hard, he used a In a tone mixed with panic, shock, doubts, etc., he said: "Yes... Mr. Chairman... just received the news that Her Majesty Queen Seweigny... officially announced that she is pregnant..."

Kennard opened his mouth in surprise, but didn't say anything, but turned to look at Xu Yi.

Xu Yi was stunned, turned his head to look in the direction of Anweimar City in the northeast, and remained silent for a while. (To be continued..)