Chapter 76: Financial Pressure

The report of the Demon Cloud Continent Branch arrived in Xu Yi's hands twenty days later.

Xu also did not put forward any comments on the various countermeasures taken by the senior management of the branch.

The Demon Cloud Continent and the Sainz Continent are separated by tens of thousands of kilometers, and it will take more than a month for the two sides to get in touch and go back and forth, and even if Xu Yi makes changes to the decisions made by the branch, it is already more than a month late, and he can't keep up with the changes in the situation at all.

Therefore, unless there is an obvious and particularly serious mistake in the decision-making of the branch, Xu Yi will not point fingers from tens of thousands of kilometers away.

What's more, although the coping strategy made by the branch this time was a little passive, it was no problem to be cautious when they didn't know enough about the situation on the Demon Cloud Continent.

As for Captain Reinhall's proposal to take the initiative to attack the goblins, Xu also rejected it.

Whether it is from the information provided by the natives of the Demon Cloud Continent such as the Dragon Clan, the Elf Clan, or the Dwarf Clan, it proves that the power of the goblins on the Demon Cloud Continent far exceeds that of other races, and it is a very difficult enemy.

Taking the initiative to provoke the other party without being fully prepared is tantamount to asking for trouble.

However, since the goblin clan has appeared only a few dozen kilometers away from the base, with the characteristics of the goblins frantically expanding their territory, I am afraid that the existence of the branch base will soon be discovered, and the two sides will inevitably still clash, leaving little time for the base to prepare.

Thinking of this, Xu Yiti wrote his name on the material aid report submitted by the branch, and then handed it to Cindy on the side.

"Take it to the logistics department and let them prioritize it. ”

Cindy took the report and glanced at it. Two eyebrows furrowed slightly. Hesitated. He whispered: "Lord Elder, the logistics department has already put forward an opinion last time, saying that the material support requirements of the Demon Cloud Continent branch are getting higher and higher, and the pressure caused to them is too great......"

"Oh?" Xu Yi glanced at Cindy. "They said that directly to you?"

"Hmm. Cindy nodded slightly.

"I see. Xu Yi pondered for a moment and waved his hand. "Take it to them, and by the way, tell them that the construction of the sub-base of the Demon Cloud Continent is for the long-term development of our Chamber of Commerce, and even if there is pressure, it must be resisted. ”

"Yes. ”

Watched as Cindy turned away. Xu Yi leaned back, also frowning, and fell into deep thought.

It's no wonder that the people in the logistics department feel too much pressure, since the year before last, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce began to send personnel and materials to the Demon Cloud Continent to build a branch base, and it has only been less than two years now, and the total value of the materials invested by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in this has been as high as 30 million gold coins.

Compared with materials, what is more important is all kinds of personnel.

Other departments are quite easy to say, in order to ensure the smooth construction of the sub-base of the Demon Cloud Continent, the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has sent a total of 6,000 escort teams.

The value of this escort group alone is immeasurable, plus the various military magic machines equipped for them and the various military supplies for subsequent reinforcements. The cost is even more astronomical.

And because six thousand guards were sent to the Demon Cloud Continent, the Sainz Continent wanted to make up for this gap. You have to retrain and have a bunch of guards come out.

In the past six months, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has invested more than 10 million gold coins in this area.

And the combat effectiveness of the newly recruited thousands of guards is obviously not as good as the old guards sent out, so in fact, the armed forces of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the Sainz Continent have decreased a lot compared to before.

However, the situation on the Sainz continent has not been stable recently, and the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has to continue to expand its sphere of influence, so it needs a more powerful armed force.

Therefore, in terms of the investment in the escort team, it is necessary to continue to significantly strengthen it.

According to the plan, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is expected to invest at least more than 20 million gold coins in the escort team in the next two to three years.

In this way, because of the opening of the Demon Cloud Continent sub-base, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will spend at least 30 million gold coins on average every year, which will naturally make the logistics department now responsible for the logistics supply of the Chamber of Commerce feel great pressure.

This situation will only be alleviated when the sub-bases become self-sufficient and gradually produce more output, but with the current situation of the sub-bases, the current situation will continue for at least several years.

Therefore, for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the last few years have been the most critical years, and there is no room for mistakes.

Xu Yi thought for a while, got up and came to the map of the Sainz Continent hanging on the wall, and his eyes slowly swept over the map.

In reality, although the logistics department complained that the pressure was too great, for the current Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, spending an extra 30 million gold coins a year is not completely unbearable, after all, the net profit of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce last year has reached an astonishing 150 million gold coins.

Aside from the investment in other aspects, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce still has a large profit surplus, and it is not a big problem to invest 30 million gold coins in the sub-base every year.

However, the premise of this is that the development of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been smooth, so as to ensure that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce continues to have high profits and high investment that are incomparable to almost all other chambers of commerce on the mainland.

Under normal circumstances, this is of course no problem.

After the drive and influence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, almost all qualified countries on the Sainz continent have begun to desperately invest in the magic industry industry, but their foundation is far less than that of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so their development of the magic industry is actually equivalent to indirectly expanding the market for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

On this basis, the sales of the new flying chamber are now soaring like a rocket.

However, due to the decline in profit margins, the total profit did not soar as much as the sales, and it can only be said that it has increased steadily and rapidly.

An important reason for this result is that other countries on the mainland have begun to suppress the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the open and covert, trying to suppress the rapid development of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Among them, the establishment of the Chino Federation and the Valley Coordination Association is an example of these countries against the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

Fortunately, Xu Ye was prepared in this regard, as early as more than ten years ago, he tried his best to control all kinds of mineral resources at all costs, and obtained a lot of results by virtue of the lack of attention to mineral resources in various countries at that time.

Although the various mineral resources controlled by the current Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce cannot be compared with the two major mineral organizations of the Chino Federation and the Valley Coordination Association, if it is only used by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it is enough for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to have no worries for a hundred years.

More importantly, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has far more technical strength than the two major organizations in the smelting of steel and various non-ferrous metals, so that the steel and other non-ferrous metal materials produced by the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce occupy the absolute market, and even the two major mineral organizations have to cooperate with the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce to take out a part of the various mineral resources under their name and hand them over to the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce for smelting.

In this way, the two major mining organizations will not be able to completely block the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so the impact on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in this regard is almost zero, but it makes other magic machinery chambers of commerce that are in urgent need of steel and non-ferrous metal raw materials more aware of the technical advantages of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so that the profits of the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce have skyrocketed.

However, Xu is also well aware that all this is only temporary.

Now the major countries on the mainland still have some scruples about the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and when their technical strength is still far inferior to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, then they must put on an attitude of cooperating with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and there is no way to restrict the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce too much.

However, once their technological strength grows and their dependence on the New Flying Chamber of Commerce gradually decreases, they will definitely try their best to restrict the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

"Hey, no wonder Grandpa and Steele always say I'm doing it myself. Xu Yi shook his head and let out a soft sigh.

He has always dreamed of developing a complete industrial system on the entire Sainz continent, so he has always been stingy in transferring technology to other countries and chambers of commerce, and even personally guiding it.

But once other countries and chambers of commerce have greatly improved their technology, then their dependence on the new flying chamber of commerce will naturally decrease.

Even in the future, if their technology surpasses the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in turn, then it is very normal for them to bite the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce again.

So this is a dilemma, if you want to quickly promote the development of the magic industry, Xu Yi must share some unique technologies of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so that everyone can develop together.

But the more it is shared, the faster other forces can catch up with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the greater the difficulties faced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

How to control the type and progress of sharing technology is a very difficult test for Xu Yi.

If you are not careful, you may make the new flying chamber fall into passivity.

Of course, one thing can be confirmed, that is, in terms of the technology related to military magic machinery, Xu Yi must be very stuck.

The reason why the current Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can still make other countries have scruples is because of its absolute superiority in the field of military magic machinery, which makes other countries have scruples about the force of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

If the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce loses this advantage, then it is certain that other countries will inevitably rush over and carve up the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible.

Therefore, Xu Yidu was extremely cautious about the request of any other country and force to share the technology of military magic machinery, strictly following the strategic partner plan specified before, and not allowing himself to cross the line.

But...... When a special subject asked Xu Yi to transfer military magic machinery technology, Xu Yi hesitated. (To be continued......)