According to the preliminary plan, the investment of this New Air Chamber of Commerce Julu Island marine base will exceed at least 20 million gold coins, and the construction time is expected to exceed three years at least. It can be said that it is the first super-large project since the establishment of the New Air Chamber of Commerce. +◆

When this maritime base is completely built, the New Air Chamber of Commerce will have a stronghold that can be attacked and defended in the southern waters of the Endless Sea.

Moreover, the site selection of this base is extremely clever, just guarding all the maritime channels from the southern waters of the Endless Sea to the Principality of Stantin.

Any ship that wants to go to the Principal of Stantin through the sea passage cannot completely escape the control of the base, which is equivalent to erecting a gate in the southern waters, so that the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce will no longer have to worry about sudden attacks from the southern waters.

For Xu Yi, this sea base is just an attempt.

As long as he accumulates enough experience, when the conditions are right, he will inevitably expand this sea base from the endless sea, and eventually spread the entire sea, forming a chain of sea bases on the endless sea. Combined with the small bases distributed on various islands, he will have the most thorough control of the entire sea.

The reason for doing this is actually just a conjecture from Xu Yi.

Through the observations of various details of traveling to the Continent of Sains for so many years, Xu Yi was sure that this world should still be on a planet similar to the earth, rather than the world in inexplicable space.

Since that's the case, he firmly believes that this world is definitely not just a continent called Sains.

Moreover, all races on this continent have legends about other continents, which indirectly proves Xu Yi's conjecture.

So since this world is not just a continent, it was extremely mysterious in the eyes of many people before. It can be said that the endless sea that no one should enter. In Xu Yi's eyes, it has become a treasure house with countless treasures.

He firmly believed that if one could have absolute control over the endless sea, the New Air Chamber of Commerce would have infinite possibilities, and would no longer be limited to the land of the Synes Continent, which had long been divided up by the great powers.

However, the price to achieve this goal is also quite amazing.

According to preliminary estimates, the construction of this Julu Island sea base alone requires investment of at least 20 million gold coins, and the annual fixed investment will never be less than 3 million gold coins in the future.

A new airfield commerce can easily afford it, but if it becomes ten or even dozens of them, it will be a huge burden.

So while building this offshore base, Xu Yi was already considering the possibility of profitability of this offshore base.

But for now, he has no idea yet...

This time, Xu Yi stayed at the sea base for a full week. After seeing the foundation of the sea base with his own eyes, he left on a magic airship and headed to the southern military port of the Kandra Empire further northeast.

Compared to the Rulson Kingdom's desire for frigates can only be kept in their mouths, the Candela Empire is much more.

Although the relationship between the two sides is not very harmonious on the surface, the official Kander Empire will not have a lot of contact with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but in private, many people in the Kander Empire are actively contacting the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and trying to seek cooperation.

The most active one is the Navy of the Candela Empire.

Because after cooperating with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, three military ports were chosen to open. In the past six months, the Candela Empire Navy has obtained an amazing tax revenue of up to three million gold coins through extremely prosperous sea transportation.

In addition, a large amount of sea transport influx brought prosperity to the three cities near the military and the entire southern province of Tular, which had never been imagined, also enhanced the tax revenues in these places, and made the Kandra Empire Navy, which actually controlled this large area, profited greatly from it.

The first thing the Kander Empire Navy did when it tasted the benefits was disarmament...

Don't be surprised, it's just disarmament.

When the Kandera Empire Navy announced that it would sack up to 60% of its service personnel within the Imperial Navy and cut nearly half of its naval warships at the same time, everyone was surprised.

Most people believe that this must be because the Candelati*** department has a tight annual budget every year, so in the end, it was forced to significantly reduce the Navy's budget in order to ensure the Army's budget, resulting in significant layoffs and reductions in combat ships on the Navy.

However, in fact, these actions were proposed by the Kandra Empire Navy itself to the military headquarters, and finally obtained the approval of the military headquarters, the Imperial House and His Majesty the Emperor.

The reason for this is of course to reduce the current high expenditure of the Candela Empire Navy up to 25 million gold coins per year.

After the disarmament, the annual expenditure of the Kander Empire Navy will directly save more than 10 million gold coins. In conjunction with the corresponding income obtained by opening the three military ports and surrounding cities, the Kander Empire Navy can even take out a huge sum of up to 18 million gold coins within one year.

The reason why the Candela Empire Navy tried his best to save such a large amount of money was of course to buy more magic frigates from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

This is something that the Candela Empire and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had already agreed, so the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce took on a huge order worth up to 15 million gold coins in one go.

Of course, this is not enough to make Xu Yi go to the Candela Empire in person. This time, in addition to signing a new batch of magic frigate sales agreements on behalf of the New Air Chamber of Commerce and the Candela Empire Navy, his main purpose is to meet with the Duke of Peresco, the governor of the Tural Province.

Because of the increasing prosperity of the southern sea transportation of the Candela Empire, the magic industry that flourished in several countries in the southwest corner of the Sainz continent has also been brought into the Candela Empire bit by bit. Among them, the most affected is the Tular province near the sea in the southernmost part of the south.

Nowadays, various magic machinery and various products related to the magic industry can be seen everywhere in the Tular province.

Even several magic machinery chambers outside the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have invested in the Tular province, opened several magic machinery factories, turning the Tular province into an emerging magic industrial base in the Kandra Empire.

Compared with the magic industrial base near the capital Wimbledon, which was officially hosted by the Candela Empire, the magic industrial industry in the Tular province is slightly scattered, but it is more dynamic and has a much better development momentum.

However, the Duke of Peresco was obviously not satisfied with this.

No matter how good the magic industry development in the Tular province is, it always seems that it lacks something without the participation of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. So he took the initiative to invite the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce through the Kandra Empire Navy, hoping that Xu Yi could visit the Tular province in person for cooperation and negotiations.

This is the first time that a person of the provincial governor of the Candela Empire has officially invited the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to reveal his willingness to cooperate, and Xu Yi naturally attached great importance to it.

However, Xu Yi did not expect that at the banquet where the Duke of Peresco was entertained, there was a guest who was completely unexpected to him.

"President Xu, this is the governor of the Southern Province of the Empire, Duke of Chris Windsor, I think you must have heard of his name." Duke Peresco smiled and introduced to another guest beside Xu Yi, then stepped aside and looked at him.

"Duke of Windsor?" Xu Yi looked at the unexpected guest opposite in shock. This middle-aged man who looked quite majestic and looked like a great nobleman, but he looked ordinary. He was the Duke of Windsor, the governor of the Southern Province?

The Kandra Empire has different attitudes towards the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and some supportive ones and of course oppose ones.

Among those who oppose the New Air Chamber of Commerce, the Duke of Windsor is definitely the most prominent and conspicuous one.

First of all, he was the governor of the southern province, equivalent to a prince in the Kandra Empire. He had a strong voice and any statement would have a great impact.

Secondly, his actions were also amazing.

Compared to other people who opposed the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce, most of them were just shouting slogans. The governor of the Southern Province actually directly ordered that any cargo related to the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce be refused entry into the Southern Province, completely cutting off the ties between the Southern Province and the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce.

This approach is like a deep hatred with him.

Of course, Xu Yi was still very clear. The New Air Chamber of Commerce had already formed a feud with the Duke of Windsor because of the Duke of Windsor and Earl of Dole.

Later, the Duke of Windsor actually sent a private guard to invade the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce, which completely violated Xu Yi's bottom line.

The private guards were almost completely eliminated by the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce in the Principality of Stantin, which also led to the Duke of Windsor and the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce in private.

So Xu Yi was not surprised that the Duke of Windsor would oppose the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce so much. After the Duke of Windsor took the stance of resolutely rejecting the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce into the southern province, he gave up the idea of ​​opening the southern province market.

Anyway, the Kandra Empire had dozens of provinces, and there was no shortage of southern provinces.

It is precisely because he is very clear about these issues that Xu Yi has no idea why the Duke of Windsor appears here.

He did not believe that the Duke of Peresco did not know the Duke of Windsor's attitude towards the New Air Chamber of Commerce, nor did he believe that the Duke of Windsor did not know that the guest the Duke of Peresco was his present today.

Then the reason for such an arrangement must be of ulterior motives.

Xu Yi and the Duke of Windsor remained silent at the same time, looking at each other.

After looking at Duke Windsor without hesitation for a while, Xu Yi suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, he opened his mouth slightly, and looked a little surprised.

Then he reacted again, and the surprised expression on his face instantly changed to a kind smile, and reached out to the Duke of Windsor.

"Sir Duke, this is our first meeting. I hope this will be a good opportunity for us to have a happy cooperation. Are you right?"
Chapter completed!