Chapter 141 Golden Sea Road

Seeing the resentment on Chairman Cruise's face, Xu Yi could only smile wryly. ∑,

Xu Yi was very happy when Ambassador Hakan got the approval to build the road. He felt that he had finally knocked on the door of the Candela Empire. Affecting the Lampari Kingdom affects the Candela Empire as much.

However, he did not expect that when the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was laying roads in the southwestern province of the Kandela Empire, it has been encountering various strange obstacles. The most important problem is the work of officials in the southwestern province of the Kandela Empire. The efficiency is extremely low, and it takes a long time to requisition a small piece of land at will, which greatly delays the construction period.

Moreover, those officials are extremely serious. According to Chairman Cruise, in the first six months alone, the Amley Chamber of Commerce paid an extra 300,000 gold coins for this, which is almost equivalent to this policy. Half of the projected investment in roads.

Moreover, most of the actual investment in the construction of this road came from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the smaller half came from the Amley Chamber of Commerce. The Candela Empire did not issue even a single copper coin, but in the end they had to fully enjoy the various conveniences and benefits brought by this road. For the Fei Chamber of Commerce and the Amley Chamber of Commerce, it is really an extremely loss-making business.

This made President Cruise always feel dissatisfied with the Candela Empire. However, this road has been half built and has great symbolic significance, so no matter how dissatisfied he is, he can only bite the bullet and continue working.

Xu Yi thought for a while, and could only helplessly pat President Cruise on the shoulder, and comforted him: "After all, it is the first road, so bear with it. As long as this road is repaired. I don't believe that the Kendela Empire won't find out. The various benefits this road has brought them. As long as they want to continue to build roads in the future, they must find your chamber of commerce. At that time, you can get back any grievances you have suffered on this road.”

President Cruise snorted coldly: "I'm not as optimistic as you. In my opinion, the Candela Empire is dead from bone to skin. Even if they can realize the convenience brought by the road, we may not be able to benefit from it in the end." What good do you get?"

Xu Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, and a sneer flashed across his mouth: "At that time, I'm afraid they won't be able to choose."

Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

He smelled a very dangerous aura from Xu Yi's words, but where did this aura come from?

The Candela Empire is one of the two largest empires on the Sainz continent. Xu Yi has never eaten the courage of the lion heart and leopard, what else does he want to do to the Candela Empire?

Xu Yi waved his hand, stopped the topic, stretched out his finger and tapped on the bottom red line.

"In fact, compared to the line of communication that runs through the Candela Empire, I think this line of communication connecting the southernmost tip of the entire continent is much more difficult. Cruise, do you think you are sure?"

Cruise glanced at the thick red line extending from the Principality of Standing, along the southern section of the Sainz continent on the map, close to the edge of the endless sea, all the way to the east, and finally went straight to the east coast of the mainland, and smiled wryly.

"I said Xu Yi, I thought that the plan proposed by the guy from the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom was simply his whimsy. I didn't expect you to take it seriously. Have you forgotten what I said last time? ?Theoretically speaking, it is entirely possible to build such a highway that runs through the east and west of the mainland. But the biggest problem is that the investment required is too large. Didn’t I calculate with you last time, and I want to build this highway successfully? , the total investment even exceeds 50 million gold coins. This is so much money... Even if we sell both of our chambers of commerce, we can’t get it out.”

"That's why I said last time that I don't expect to complete this project within a year or two." Xu Yi shrugged. "Furthermore, the three transportation lines that I plan to run through the mainland will not be completed in a short while. If there is a priority, I hope to be able to establish this transportation line first."

Seeing Xu Yi's finger pointing at the top red line, President Cruise breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that you are not really crazy yet. Yes, in comparison, this traffic line is currently the most promising to be completed. Whether it is the Principality of Standing, the Kingdom of Lampari, or the Principality of Drake, there are already ready-made road traffic Wang, we only need to lay the roads in the Falk Kingdom. As for the Maro Empire... it depends on the cooperation between you and the Maro Empire."

Facing Chairman Cruise's questioning gaze, Xu Yi nodded with a smile: "I have confidence in Marquis Southgate. If there is no accident, there should be a message from him soon."

"hope so."

After the two discussed the three planned road traffic routes for a while, Chairman Cruise said goodbye and left.

After Xu Yi sent him away, he returned to the map, looked at it intently for a while, then took out a pen, and clicked on the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but it extended westward, drawing a blue line into the endless land. Sea, and then all the way south, bypassing the Principality of Standing, the Kingdom of Rulson, and the southern seas of the Candela Empire, and finally connecting to the Commercial United Kingdom of Nozdormu on the east coast.

The port of Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom has been built for more than five months so far. During this period, the transport fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can make a round trip every month. So far, it has completed five successful cargo transports, officially establishing a A marine transportation line connecting the southwest coast and southeast coast of the Sainz continent.

It is too difficult to build the trans-continental coastal road in the southern part of the Sainz continent, which President Cruise claimed to be almost impossible to complete. Therefore, as far as we know, the most reliable transportation route that can connect the east and west coasts of the mainland is the only one. sea ​​passage.

Through these five transportations, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has transported a large number of personnel and materials to the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom, and has successfully established the initial cement processing plant and steelmaking in the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom. factory.

According to the plan, these factories will be completed and put into production at the beginning of next year. At that time, with the subsequent investment of manpower and materials from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, a preliminary production base can be built in the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom, and strive to make magic machines in the market. Commercial United Kingdom of Nozdormu launched.

But before this production base was established. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not idle either. A large number of various projects and farmland magic machinery they urgently needed were transported to the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom through the transport fleet. There are also a variety of popular home magic machines.

Correspondingly, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce obtained a large number of local specialty herbs, animal furs and some special commodities from the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom, shipped them back to the Principality of Standing, and resold them to surrounding countries to make a fortune.

In just five transports, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has gained a huge profit of more than two million gold coins.

Therefore, among the high-level executives of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, this sea transportation road has been hailed as the "Golden Sea Road".

Sweeping his gaze over the map, Xu Yi pointed his pen at the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Draw a line again westward into the Great Sea.

This time, he turned the line to the north, passing through the Black Rice Wasteland, the western sea area of ​​the Sark Kingdom, and then bypassing the Arras Kingdom in the northeast corner of the continent, entering the northern sea area of ​​the entire continent.

But when the line was drawn here, Xu Yi paused, then stopped, frowning slightly.

Although Xu Yi has never been to the northernmost country in the Sains Continent, according to the records in various books, the northernmost part of the mainland is extremely cold after winter. Even the boundless endless sea will be covered by a thick layer of ice that can't see the edge at all, making it impossible to sail at sea.

Therefore, this route is bound to be impossible to be unimpeded all year round like the southern route.

After thinking for a moment. Xu Yi moved his hand slightly, and drew a dotted line that continued to extend eastward in the northern sea area of ​​the mainland, and finally stopped at a position in the middle of the northernmost part of the mainland.

This is the northern coast of the Maro Empire. If the route can be extended to here, a sea transportation route from the Maro Empire can be established, which will undoubtedly increase the distance between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Maro Empire more conveniently. connect.

After scanning the vast territory of the Maro Empire on the map, Xu Yi turned his gaze to the northeast corner of the continent, and then drew a dotted line extending eastward from the northern coast of the Maro Empire, extending all the way to the northeast corner of the entire continent , and then continue to protrude southward, and finally enter the Nozdormu Commercial United Kingdom in the southeast corner, connecting with the sea route to the south.

In this way, it is equivalent to completely enclosing the entire continent with a blue sea route.

Theoretically speaking, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can transport its goods to any coastal country on this continent just by sea transportation.

Of course, in fact, most of the countries on the continent of Sainz do not have coastal areas at all. If you want to promote the products of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to every inch of land on this continent, it is far from enough to rely on sea transportation.

And this is the main reason why Xu Yi wants to lay three highway transportation lines that run through the entire road.

However, the difficulty of laying these three roads is too great. Apart from the most critical funding issue, the biggest obstacle lies in the attitudes of other countries towards this matter.

Xu Yi is also confident that the northernmost line of communication can be approved by the Falk Kingdom, but the Maro Empire's attitude towards this matter may not be fully sure.

As for the communication line in the middle that runs through the Candela Empire, given the current performance of the Candela Empire, the prospects are really not optimistic enough.

"Is this huge empire really completely decayed like Cruise said?"

Xu Yi frowned and looked at the Candela Empire on the map, which had a much wider territory than the Maro Empire, and couldn't help sighing softly.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the door, waking Xu Yi up.

Turning her head to look, she found Teresa's little head poking in from the door with a cautious expression on her face.

Seeing Xu Yi's gaze just shot over, Teresa shrank back like a frightened little rabbit, and after a while, she hesitated to reappear.

Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and looked at her, then smiled slightly and said, "Come in." (To be continued...)