"Caroline County is coming?"

Steele took back the personal letter written on the pink letter in Xu Yi's hand, and looked up at Xu Yi with a smile on his face.

"Did she come to see you?"

Xu Yi glanced at her angrily: "How could she be so free." This time, I came over for something, and said that I would bring two very special guests. ”

"Very special guest?" said Steele, frowning slightly. "Is there any guest she needs to bring in person?"

The letter didn't say anything, and I don't know why she sold it. Xu Yi shook the letter in his hand, a little puzzled.

Although the Caroline Lord often sent some private messages to himself, most of the letters were asking about the cooperation between the Duchy of Drake and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but it was the first time that he made it clear that he wanted to come to the Duchy of Stantin to meet her.

If in the past, Lord Caroline still put on a posture that wanted to tempt him, then since he married Steele and had children, and the cooperation between the Duchy of Drake and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce gradually stabilized, she has restrained a lot, and she will only verbally flirt with Xu Yi.

This time, he suddenly came in person, and also said that he would bring him two special guests, which really surprised Xu Yi.

"I think it's just an excuse to come to see you. Steele chuckled.

"You're really foolish. Xu Yi glared at Steele, put the letter aside, his eyes fell on Steele's lower abdomen, and said with concern: "I see that you are pregnant, so you will lead yourself to cranky thoughts." Listen to me, Steele, you better rest more during this time. It's better not to get too involved in the work. ”

"That's not going to work. Steele shook his head. "This is an important time for us at the Crescent Chamber to promote illusion films. I had to be personally involved in the command. Through guò fantasy films and fantasy magic projectors create a whole new mode of entertainment. Isn't that what you've always been looking forward to?"

"But I didn't expect you to get pregnant. ”

"What does it matter? I used to work the same way when I was pregnant with Freya, and it didn't matter. ”

Seeing Steele's resolute attitude, Xu Yi thought about it, so he didn't persuade him more, but just reminded Steele to pay attention to his body and not to be too tired.

Steele is naturally as good as a stream, saying that he is already pregnant for the second time and has enough experience to deal with it.

"Speaking of Freya...... She seems to have asked Lisy and Linda to take her to the signal tower again. Aren't you going to inspect the erection of the signal tower in a moment, and bring her back in the evening? Steele explained.

Xu Yi hummed and chatted with Steele about the illusion film before leaving the private manor.

As soon as you walk out of the manor and look up into the distance, you can see that seven towers have risen on the ground in the distance.

This is a new signal tower recently erected by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, which is specially designed to propagate magic fluctuations.

Due to the further breakthrough of the magic array resonance technology by the Akali research team, the transmission range of magic fluctuations of the signal towers has been increased from the previous five thousand meters to seven kilometers, so the seven signal towers are about six kilometers apart from each other. The staggered arrangement is just enough for the mana fluctuations to be transmitted through the seven signal towers in Guò to any part of the large area where the main base of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is located. It's a perfect coverage.

Xu Yi took out the magic call box from his arms and pressed the button, and Akali's voice was immediately heard inside although she was slightly tired but still very excited.

"Hey, Elder, any instructions?"

Xu Yi laughed: "I don't have any instructions, I just want to see the progress of your work." Where are you now? By the way, did you see Freya?"

Before Akali could reply, a crisp and pleasant child's voice sounded from the magic box.

"Dad, I'm with Aunt Akali, come on, Aunt Akali won't let me go to the top of the tower to play. ”

Xu Yi couldn't help but roll his eyes: "Freya, obediently listen to Aunt Akali's words, don't be naughty and interfere with their work, I'll come over." ”

"Well, I'll be waiting for you. ”

"Freya is very well-behaved, don't worry. Come here, Sir, we're doing maintenance work on Tower 4 right now. ”

"Good. ”

Xu Yi raised his head, looked carefully, and confirmed the location of the No. 4 signal tower, and the magic power in his body moved, but he did not directly use space magic to teleport over, but flew up, came to mid-air and slowly flew towards the place of the No. 4 signal tower.

If you look down from the sky, you can easily see the current layout of the main base of the entire Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Compared to when the New Flyers first came here, this place has completely changed from a barren place.

At present, this huge area of more than 10 square kilometers is full of all kinds of buildings.

Among them, the industrial area of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the residential area of the living area are clearly distinguished, and the various factories in the industrial area occupy more than half of the land in the north, and the living residential area occupies the remaining land in the south.

Seeing that the newly built residential area in the southernmost part was already close to the Abdant River, Xu Yi confirmed his previous thoughts.

As the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce continues to grow, this main base must also face further expansion.

When he obtained this territory of more than ten square kilometers from Earl Wei Lun before, Xu Yi originally thought that it would at least be able to support the development needs of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce within ten years.

However, now that just over four years have passed, this land has been completely utilized, and it cannot meet the growing demand of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the next step.

In order to meet the demand, it is imperative to expand the scope of this territory.

However, at the previous parliamentary meeting of the Principality of Stantin, when Xu Yi proposed to the parliament that he needed to expand his territory, he was unexpectedly opposed by many members of the parliament, so that this proposal was not approved in the parliamentary meeting.

Although the speaker of the National Assembly, Ankru, privately told Xu Yi that he could fully propose to the National Assembly to lease new land, and that he would definitely be able to pass Guò, this meeting still made Xu Yi feel a little vigilant.

Originally, he thought that with the current strong influence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the Duchy of Stantin. He will not have any problem making any requests.

But I didn't expect to be on this territory expansion requirement that is very critical to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. It was actually resisted.

The arguments given by those who oppose the proposal are strong. Claiming that there was no precedent for the Duchy of Stantin to grant territory to private nobles, Xu Yi suddenly made this request, contrary to the centuries-old tradition of the principality.

Xu Yi originally scoffed at this reason, because before that, there was no fixed statement on how many territories the noble lords in the Duchy of Stantin had in their names, and they relied entirely on their personal strength to grab what they wanted. It's yours to snatch it.

Now, when he needs a new territory, it is simply funny to say that the Duchy of Stantin has never had such a tradition.

However, after explaining on the spot at the meeting of the National Assembly, he learned that the territorial struggle between the noble lords of the former Duchy of Stantin was indeed not nominally truly recognized.

The official recognition of the so-called Grand Duke of Stanting is only a private act of the Grand Duke of Stantin, and is not strictly an official recognition of the Principality of Stantin.

From this point of view, the lawmakers who opposed Xu Yi's proposal were not wrong.

However, this kind of nominal problem should not have been a problem for Xu Yi.

With the strong influence of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce on the Duchy of Stantin. Even if there is any nominal problem, there must be countless ways to solve it.

However, so many congressmen at this session of the National Assembly clearly expressed their opposition. This made Xu Yi a little annoyed in his heart, but also gave birth to a sense of vigilance.

Behind every member of the parliament stood a noble lord in the Duchy of Stantin, and the opposition of these councilors meant that these noble lords were against Xu Yi.

However, this is what makes Xu Yi the most puzzled.

On what basis did these noble lords in the principality oppose Xu Yi's proposal?

And who gave them the courage to oppose Xu Yi's proposal?

You must know that according to the statistics of the Congress, the total financial revenue collected by the Duchy of Stantin last year was about 4.7 million gold coins, of which 3 million gold coins were handed over by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

This alone shows the incomparably strong influence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the Duchy of Stantin.

And when you consider the real-world impact, it's even more striking.

At present, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has opened 93 factories of various types in the Principality of Stanting, and its subordinate employees have exceeded 200,000 people.

Of these employees, more than 70,000 were recruited locally from the Duchy of Stantin.

In addition, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce cooperated with all the noble lords in the principality to create various factories - most of which were fruit canning factories and rubber processing factories, which employed more than 100,000 workers.

Therefore, because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce directly benefited from the people of the Principality of Stantin, there are already more than 180,000, and because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has driven the magic industry in the Principality of Constantine, which has led to the strong development of other walks of life, the people of the Principality of Stantin, which has been indirectly benefited by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, are even more than hundreds of thousands.

It is not an exaggeration to say that in the entire Principality of Stantin, there is hardly even one who has not been affected by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

And all of these effects are positive.

With the advent of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, almost all civilians in the Principality of Stantin have formal jobs, earning far more than before, and their lives have been greatly improved.

Moreover, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce also paved roads, built street lights, and invested heavily in infrastructure such as automatic water supply systems in the Principality of Stantin, which made the Principality of Stantin from a small principality with closed traffic and extremely backward living standards into the "most advanced country" in the mouth of people in several surrounding countries, and had a very strong influence in nearby countries.

Therefore, it can be said that the current Duchy of Stantin is fundamentally the country of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

If there were no Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Duchy of Stantin would be nothing.

So Xu Yi couldn't figure out why these noble lords were against him?

Are these guys looking for death? (To be continued......