Many people were quite puzzled by Leslie's decision on his future arrangements, and Xu Yi was even more surprised.

Because Leslie actually wants to gallop on the endless sea in the future, and his dream is to become the overlord of the sea!

When Leslie said this idea, Xu Yi almost directly reprimanded him for being whimsical.

Maritime hegemon?

I can't even touch the sea, what kind of hegemon to talk about!

Due to the limitations of technology, the world simply cannot make large ships that are large enough and strong enough to carry out ocean voyages.

In the history of the Sainz continent, only the Candela Empire has tried once, built twenty huge wooden ships, and formed a fleet to sail the ocean, claiming to explore another continent that is said to be located in the depths of the Endless Sea, far away.

However, the fleet was only at sea for less than three days before a storm broke all twenty wooden ships, and most of the explorers on board were killed, with less than ten lucky survivors.

Since then, the people of Sainz have cut off the idea of ocean voyages, and even made the Endless Sea a forbidden area.

Except for those who live by the sea, who look for opportunities to fish inshore, at other times, no one else dares to step even half a step into the depths of the endless sea.

Now Leslie actually claims to be the hegemon of the seas...... If you only rule the coastal part, it has nothing to do with the strength of the sea, but the strength of the coastline.

"Xu Yi, you are all old concepts on the Sainz Continent. It's outdated now. Leslie looked at Xu Yi puzzled. "It's weird. This magic ship was developed by yourself and you came up with the design concept yourself. And now you tell me that ocean voyages are extravagant, and you are so unconfident in what you have designed?"

"Because I designed it myself, I know better than anyone what its limitations are. Xu Yizheng said. "Although I can safely say that this magic steamer is far superior to a wooden ship in its ability to withstand storms, and is much safer on ocean voyages, it is only an increase in safety from zero to one, and it is not particularly exaggerated, and there is no guarantee that you will survive at sea. ”

"Isn't this thing much better than those wooden boats, according to you?" and what did you put so much effort into building it?" Leslie frowned. He looked a little disappointed. "I thought I could fulfill my childhood dream of sailing the Endless Sea. ”

"I promise you'll make it come true later, but not now. Xu Yi shook his head and said, "I'll give you a more practical plan, set the goal realistically first, and don't expect to sail far as soon as you come up." Ocean voyage is a very experience-based thing, so you might as well take it step by step and explore it little by little. ”

Leslie glared at Xu Yi back: "Do you think I'm an idiot? Of course I won't rush into the depths of the Endless Sea as soon as I come up like the idiots of the Candela Empire before." My original intention was to use this magical ship you developed to explore the depths of the Endless Sea little by little. Do you think I'm going to jump headlong into it like a fool?"

Xu Yi couldn't help but roll his eyes.

It took a long time. He was blindly worried.

"Okay then, then how are you going to do it?" Xu Yi asked again: "This medium-sized magic cargo ship, our Chamber of Commerce has priced it at 800,000 gold coins. I don't think you're going to be able to get that much money right now. ”

"Eight hundred thousand gold coins?" Leslie was taken aback. "So expensive?"

"Of course. Xu Yi said proudly. "This medium-sized magic freighter has a queue of 5,000 tons, and it can even carry more than 3,000 tons. In other words, if it is fully loaded, it can be transported on land hundreds of times in one run. You think it's expensive? I think it's cheap. ”

"Can you hold three thousand tons of cargo at a time?" Leslie nodded after glancing at the medium-sized magic freighter in the distance, which had already completed its launching ceremony and was slowly sailing along the coastline in the blue waters of the Endless Sea, "If that's the case, it's worth so much money." However, Xu Yi, it seems that my initial estimate was wrong. In fact, what I need most now is not this kind of cargo magic steamer, but a combat magic ship that can carry soldiers, like those small magic assault boats. ”

"Combat magic ship?" Xu Yi frowned slightly, looking at Leslie in surprise. "Do you want to run away and be a pirate?"

Leslie laughed and didn't answer.

Glancing at the slightly weird smile on his face, Xu Yi didn't ask much, after thinking about it, he nodded and said: "This is actually very simple, you only need to make some necessary modifications, and then add some weapons and defenses on top of it to meet the requirements." ”

"Well, I'll need some military magic ships that are slightly smaller than these medium-sized mana freighters, with magical mechanical weapons on them, such as small mana trebuchets and the like, preferably faster than they are now. How is it, Xu Yi, can you do it?"

Xu Yi spread out his hands: "It can be done, but with the current production capacity of our Chamber of Commerce, it may not be possible to complete one in half a year, if you are in a hurry, it will definitely not work." And if you order it according to your requirements, although the cost is much lower than that of a medium-sized magic freighter, I'm afraid it won't be less than 400,000 gold coins, are you sure you want it?"

"Sure. Leslie nodded affirmatively, then took out a golden ticket from his arms and stuffed it into Xu Yi's hand. "This is the first order for the ship, and I hope you can deliver it as much as possible. ”

Xu Yi glanced at it and found that the amount of this golden ticket issued by the Chimera Chamber of Commerce was 50,000 gold coins, which was just right as a deposit for a small magic warship with a price of about 10,000 gold coins.

However, Xu still didn't understand what Leslie was planning to do.

Large seagoing vessels are not only good to buy, but also the subsequent maintenance costs should not be underestimated, if not enough benefits can be obtained from them. It's not necessarily a good thing to have these things.

The reason why Xu Yi has made great efforts to develop the magic steamer. On the one hand, it is to promote the research and development process of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in magic machinery. On the other hand, it is planned to build an ocean-going cargo fleet to meet the increasingly urgent transportation needs of the New Flying Chamber.

And if Leslie wants to buy a few military ships, if he doesn't run to be a pirate, then this thing is equivalent to a bottomless pit, and he can only keep throwing money into it.

Even if Leslie was not kicked out of the house by Duke Stark and had the huge financial support of the Stark family, it would be difficult for him to do this kind of loss-making business.

And now he has even his territory taken back by the Lampari Kingdom Council. It is even more impossible to have such financial resources.

However, Leslie obviously did not intend to explain his plans to Xu Yi, and Xu Yi naturally did not ask about it.

Compared to Leslie's lack of care about this medium-sized magic freighter, Xu Yi paid much more attention.

Being able to build this medium-sized magic freighter means that the new flying merchant has made a breakthrough in many technologies.

First and foremost is engine technology.

Although the Magic Locomotive Engine and the Magic Ship Engine are both wind magic engines and are roughly the same in principle, they are actually very different.

Both in the Magic Research Institute and the Magic Machine Tool R&D Center, the research and development of the Magic Locomotive Engine and the Magic Ship Engine are carried out separately.

Now that this medium-sized magic freighter has been successfully built and sailed on the sea, it shows that the development of the magic ship engine has made a major breakthrough, and it also means that the research and development of the new flying power engine has reached a new height. This, in turn, will promote the development of magic locomotive engines.

For example, in the recent period, with the help of the magic power of the ship and the research breakthrough on it. The development of the new flying car engine has also made great progress, and in the trial, a large cargo magic locomotive with a cargo capacity of more than 20 tons has been successfully developed.

However, due to the inherent disadvantage of the wind magic engine, it is still unable to achieve a heavy breakthrough in terms of speed.

At this point, we can only wait for the development of the fire magic engine to progress.

In addition to the engine, the successful construction of this medium-sized magic freighter also contains another breakthrough in the large magic machinery of the new flying chamber, which includes the most basic steel welding, the forming and casting of large parts, and the overall design combination of large magic machinery...... In this time, the process of designing and building this medium-sized magic freighter has been significantly improved.

It took nearly two years for this medium-sized magic freighter to be built from the initial concept to the actual success.

Even on Earth, this is already a very fast speed.

And on this foundationless Sainz continent, it is even more miraculous speed.

Now that the medium-sized Magic Freighter has been successfully launched, it is clear that the time will be much faster when a second medium-sized Magic Freighter is built.

When the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce successfully forms its first ocean-going shipping fleet, it will be able to transport the goods of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to various places on the Sainz continent more conveniently through the Endless Sea.

Take, for example, the Kingdom of Ruerson.

Now if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce wants to transport the various magical machines produced to the Ruerson Kingdom, due to the terrain restrictions of the Duchy of Stantin, they can only pass through the Guò Black Rice Wasteland, enter the Lampari Kingdom, and then pass through the city of Bonta, turn to the south, and finally enter the Ruerson Kingdom.

In this way, the total mileage will be close to 1,000 kilometers, not to mention the high transportation costs, but also because of the intermediate pass to the kingdom of Guò Lampari, an additional customs duty must be paid, and the total transportation cost is extremely high.

Once the ocean-going fleet is built, these goods can be loaded onto cargo ships directly here, and then make a small circle from the south of the Duchy of Stantin, and finally land on the coastline of the southern kingdom of Ruerson.

There is no additional cost to pay for this, and coupled with the super cargo capacity of the Magic Cargo Steamer, one transportation is enough to cover countless land transportation, which will undoubtedly significantly reduce costs.

Moreover, if it is transported from the endless sea, it will be more convenient to reach the countries with coastlines on the Sainz continent farther away, which is very helpful for Xu Yi to promote the magic machinery produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to the entire Sainz continent.

It's just that the current production capacity of the new flying chamber is really insufficient, and even if the test has been successful, the construction time of the next medium-sized magic freighter will be several months at the earliest.

When we can actually form an ocean-going shipping fleet, I am afraid that it will be a few years away at the earliest.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn't help but glance at Leslie with some annoyance.

Originally, his schedule was tight enough, and this guy now had to run around and intervene.

What a waste of time!(To be continued......)