Chapter 130 Opening the Port
Before the important guest of the Marquis of Southgide, the Marquis of Southgide, had yet to leave, another guest of the same heavyweight came to the Principality of Stantin.
This is Russell's third time to come to the Principality of Stantin.
Unlike the previous two times, this time he did not choose to accompany Ambassador Hakanin, but instead brought several subordinates of the Kandra Empire Navy, riding the pure black magic motorcycle he bought from the Billy Magic Locomotive Trading Company, and drove all the way from the Kandra Empire.
Although he had notified Xu Yi in advance through the contact information left to him by Xu Yi, when Xu Yi saw Russell and several subordinates led by him, he was still a little surprised.
Judging from their attitude, this time I am afraid it's not just coming to continue the investigation.
Sure enough, after meeting Xu Yi for a few words, Russell went straight to the topic.
"President Xu, the cooperation model proposed to you last time has been approved by the Navy Headquarters. Now, as long as you can agree on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the first cooperation between our two sides can officially take effect." Russell stared at Xu Yi's eyes and said with a serious look on his face.
Xu Yi pondered for a moment, asked with a smile, "Sir Russell, how many frigates do you plan to buy?"
A hint of embarrassment flashed across Russell's face. He hesitated for a while, and then he barely stretched out three fingers to Xu Yi.
"Thirty ships? This is probably a bit difficult. With the current production capacity of our Chamber of Commerce, it may take several years to build thirty frigates."
"No... it's three ships..." After saying this, Russell's old face couldn't help but turn slightly red.
As the Imperial Navy, which is extremely glorious in the Kandra Empire, it is already embarrassing to open a list of warships from a chamber of commerce in other countries. What’s even more embarrassing is that they only buy three at a time!
Xu Yi was stunned. There was a hint of strangeness in his eyes. He then suppressed him and replaced him with a still enthusiastic smile.
"Three ships? That's fine. We can complete the construction of these three frigates in as early as three months. But how should the cooperation you proposed be completed specifically?"
"Don't worry, we're ready."
Russell took out a document from his bag from his entourage and handed it to Xu Yi.
This is a cooperation agreement, which clearly shows that as compensation for purchasing three frigates from the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce, the Kandera Empire Navy will jointly develop mineral resources on several islands in the southern waters of the Kandera Empire while paying 1.5 million gold coins.
At the same time, the Candela Empire Navy will cooperate with the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce to establish several maritime bases in the southern waters of Candela for supply and rest during passing through the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce's transport fleet.
In addition, the Kandra Empire Navy will also open two corresponding ports to the New Air Chamber of Commerce Transport Fleet and the Frigate respectively.
The port open to the transport fleet is a civilian deep-water seaport in the south of the Candela Empire. After opening to the Shipbuilding Fleet of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce, it can be allowed to transport large amounts of cargo back and forth through the transport fleet.
This is equivalent to indirectly opening up part of the southern market of the Candela Empire to the New Air Chamber of Commerce.
If it is placed in a highly developed commercial society on earth, this practice is obviously very hasty, and under normal circumstances it is absolutely not so easy to open up.
But for various countries on the Synes continent, this is not a big problem.
These harbors are under the control of the Kandra Empire Navy. As long as the Imperial Navy agrees, there will be no problem.
It is somewhat of a problem to open the Imperial Navy military harbor to the Frigate of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce. However, the Kandera Empire Navy gave the Imperial Navy a special combat fleet in the name of working with the Frigate of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce to fight pirates, so that it can freely enter and exit the Imperial Navy military harbor.
"President Xu, this is to take care of the views of the military headquarters, so I just gave you the identity of a cooperative warship. Please don't care." Russell explained to Xu Yi.
He knew very well that if he was simply comparing combat power, the frigate of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce was actually far higher than the Imperial Navy, which had not yet been equipped with a large number of frigates, so it was the frigate of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce as a cooperative warship. But in fact, if you really encounter pirates, the frigate of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce was the main combat power.
The pirates in the southern waters of the Kander Empire have been rampant for a long time. The Kander Empire Navy has also encircled and suppressed many times before, but because the ship performance of the naval fleet cannot completely suppress the pirates, it has never been able to achieve truly excellent results.
After the arrival of the Frigate of the New Air Flight Chamber of Commerce, with the super attack power and extremely fast speed of the frigate, the pirates would be unable to resist at all and could not even escape.
In just half a year, most of the pirates in the southern waters of the Kandra Empire disappeared, no longer as rampant as before.
"Oh, this is nothing." Xu Yi waved his hand and expressed his inattention.
He really doesn't care about the nominal title. After all, the Candela Empire is one of the two empires on this continent, and it is understandable to have a little sense of superiority in name.
In comparison, Xu Yi paid more attention to the practical significance represented by this.
Opening civil ports to transport fleets means actively opening up markets to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which is actually enough.
Opening the military port to the frigate will allow the frigate to have a relatively stable and sufficient supply base when cruising in the southern waters of the Candela Empire, without having to travel far back to Nissi Port in the Kingdom of Rulson for supply.
In this way, the scope of activities of the frigate of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce will be greatly increased, which will help the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce to explore and develop the southern and surrounding waters of the Candela Empire.
Xu Yi looked at the cooperation agreement carefully and found that the content listed above not only contained all the content Russell mentioned to him last time, but also had a lot of additional entries. He couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.
It can be seen that the Kandra Empire Navy has really shown quite good sincerity this time to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
This is a good start, proving that the Kandera Empire Navy has very sufficient considerations for further in-depth cooperation with the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce in the future.
After discussing some details of the agreement with Russell, the two sides quickly reached an agreement and owed names on the agreement respectively.
Seeing Xu Yi signing the agreement, a bright smile immediately appeared on Russell's face. He stretched out his hand to Xu Yi: "President Xu, happy cooperation."
"Happy cooperation." Xu Yi smiled and shook hands with Russell, and asked again: "Sir Russell, I still have one question. How do you plan to use these three frigates after you buy them?"
Russell looked at Xu Yi with some surprise: "Of course, they will be allowed to enter the naval fleet immediately to serve. Only when others have witnessed the powerful power of these frigates with their own eyes can they support the navy to replace such frigates on a large scale. What? President Xu, don't you want this?"
"No, no, no. I really hope that your navy can change its frigates in large quantities, because only in this way can our chamber of commerce make money from it, right?" Xu Yi smiled, looked at the same strange-looking entourage behind Russell, and stopped asking more.
The construction of any frigate is not a matter of one day or two, so there is certainly no point in Russell staying here.
However, he still left a subordinate who claimed to Xu Yi as a supervisor of the construction progress of the frigate and used it as an intermediary for contact between the two parties.
Xu Yi was not surprised by this, nor had any objections, and expressed his willingness to accept it. He immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare a residence for the so-called Kander Empire Naval Observer.
Seeing that Xu Yi was very involved, Russell felt relieved and just stayed in the Principality of Stantin for one day.
The next morning, before he was about to leave, Russell decided to go to the Shin Air Chamber of Commerce shipyard for a visit.
In addition to watching the construction workflow of the frigate, it is also a way to allow the remaining observers to prepare for the first day of work.
Seeing that all the work in the Shipyard of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was orderly, and every worker was extremely full of spirit and movements, Russell expressed his satisfaction and decided to leave.
Accompanied by Xu Yi, Russell walked to the pier of Xinfei Port, looked at the endless sea in the distance, and sighed to Xu Yi: "President Xu, I heard that you have a wish to explore the deepest part of the endless sea?"
Xu Yi nodded slightly: "Yes. Actually, my original purpose in developing a magic ship was to hope that one day I could explore all the places in this vast ocean through the magic ship. I have always believed that there will definitely be another or several different continents besides the continent we are in."
"Because of the legend of the dwarfs?" Russell asked with a smile.
After coming to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce several times, he had known that there was a legendary dwarf tribe in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and when he visited the shipyard just now, Xu Yi introduced it to him.
"It's not only because of the dwarfs, but also because exploring this unknown world is the thing that makes people long for the most." Xu Yi replied. "Mr. Russell, don't you think exploring a new world will always make people excited?"
Russell laughed: "I am old, so I will leave this kind of thing to you and young people to do. Of course, I really hope that our Imperial Navy will be able to explore the depths of the endless sea with your New Flying Chamber of Commerce frigates. After all, in addition to a brand new world, this vast ocean also has endless dangers, right?"
Xu Yi smiled, but did not respond to Russell's words.
It seemed that he had realized something from Xu Yi's reaction. Russell's expression changed slightly. He turned to look deep in the sea, but found that several ships as big as a hill in the distance were quickly heading towards the port.
"This should be the transport fleet of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, right? I have heard that they are extremely huge. What I saw with my own eyes today is indeed worthy of its reputation." Russell exclaimed.
"You will see them often in the future." Xu Yi replied with a smile, but then suddenly thought of something, and his face moved slightly.
Seeing Xu Yi's strangeness, Russell asked, "What? Is there any problem?"
"No... nothing..." Xu Yi looked up at the Paladin, which was already close to the dock, and a trace of strangeness flashed through his heart.
A moment later, the bridge on the Paladin was lowered, and accompanied by Captain Paladin, the Marquis of Southgide, who followed Paladin to visit the Port of Hemi yesterday, walked off the boat.
Seeing Xu Yi standing on the dock, Marquis Southgheed walked over with a smile.
"President Xu, you are so polite, you actually come to greet me in person, I..."
The Marquis Southgide suddenly stopped, his eyes moved away from Xu Yi, and he fixed directly on Russell next to Xu Yi, and the smile on his face disappeared instantly.
The smile on Russell's face has also disappeared long ago (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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