The open recruitment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort team this time is the third time in just three months since entering the mainland calendar in 3802.

In the first two open recruitments, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort team recruited a total of 2,739 people, which can be regarded as a strong addition.

However, after the third recruitment, only 398 people were recruited.

Compared with the first two recruitments, the number of recruits in the third recruitment has undoubtedly dropped significantly.

There are many reasons for this result, but in the eyes of many people, one of the most important reasons is that in the third recruitment, there is one more test than the previous two, and that is the intelligence test.

This intelligence test alone has eliminated nearly half of the applicants, resulting in a significant drop in the number of successful escort candidates.

Countless people are puzzled by this test, and they are also puzzled by the results of this test.

The intelligence test is indeed a very strange thing, but it is just a simple intelligence test, and it is a little unreasonable to reduce the number of approved guardian candidates to such an exaggerated level.

"In fact, the reason is very simple, the reason why only such a few people have been recruited is because the vast majority of qualified candidates have been recruited in the first two recruitments. ”

Xu Yi shook the progress report on the recruitment of the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in his hand, and the expression on his face was far less solemn than that of Hart, the captain of the escort team opposite.

"But Lord Grow, these few recruitments, there are very few people who come to apply. The total number of people who came to sign up for the third time was less than five thousand, and the attraction of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort team was not that low, right?" "But of the people who came to apply, humans were only a small fraction. Added up to less than a thousand. It's also weird. ”

"You have to figure out one thing. It's not that the appeal of our chamber of commerce escort is not high enough, but that our requirements are high. Xu Yi shook his head. "Honestly, how many do you think can meet the requirements?"

"Hmm...... That's not much. Hart smiled bitterly and glanced at Xu Yi with a strange expression. "But Lord Grower, it's all because your requirements are too high, otherwise I don't think it's a problem to recruit ten times more people with the conditions we offered. ”

"And then, what's the use of recruiting a bunch of guys who can't do anything?" Xu Yi asked rhetorically. "I'll tell you the truth, just the guards you've brought in now. I was also very dissatisfied. If I wasn't in a hurry to hire people, I would have liked to weed out another batch of these guys. ”

The wry smile on Hart's face deepened.

"Don't talk about you, Lord, even if I want to throw a lot of guys out there. At first I didn't understand why you had to add an intelligence test, but now I totally understand. These days, we're training these new convoy mates to learn how to master the operation of military magic machines. ”

"Ha, now you understand why I keep asking you to take more time out of your escort team for training, right? If you don't get it in the future, you won't use it. Although Xu Yi had a smile on his face, his tone was very serious.

Hart nodded slowly. Hmmm.

"I understand. Grown, I've actually been feeling a little overwhelmed lately. So...... I would like to make a request to you......"

"What, you want me to send a few researchers to the escort team?" Xu Yi asked with squinted eyes.

Hart was stunned: "Lord, how do you know?

"Nope. It's just that based on my reasoning, you should need to make this request as well. Okay, I don't need you to say this, I already had this idea. Taking advantage of this expansion of the Chamber of Commerce's escort team, I will mobilize a few additional researchers from among the researchers who are interested in and research on the practical application of military magic machinery to your escort team to help you better understand and operate all kinds of military magic machinery. Xu Yi waved his hand.

"Great!" said Hart, who was immediately overjoyed. "Lord, I didn't expect you to pay so much attention to our escorts, it's really ......"

Xu Yi couldn't help but snort.

"What you said, why don't I pay attention to the escort team? To tell you the truth, the escort team will be the most important department of our Chamber of Commerce for a long time to come, and you are the person in charge of the escort team, so you must be mentally prepared. ”

Hart jerked to his feet and snapped in a salute.

"Please rest assured, the entire escort team is fully prepared and ready to dedicate everything to the Chamber of Commerce!"

Xu Yi looked at Hart with some amusement.

"Hey, Hart, when did you learn this?"

Hart smiled: "I saw it in "Legend of the Sunset Empire" before, and I thought it was very good, so I used it." ”

Xu Yi laughed dumbly, thinking that he and Hart had worked together for so many years, and today I realized that this guy also has this kind of humor.

The so-called "Legend of the Sunset Empire" is the latest fantasy film launched by the Crescent Chamber of Commerce, which tells the story of a fictional Sunset Empire from its beginnings to glory and finally decline.

Unexpectedly, Hart also watched this, and even learned this POSE from it, which is really surprising.

But if Hart knew that the POSE he learned and the sentence he said was written by Xu Yi himself, how would he feel?

Hart and Xu Yi discussed the matter of the Chamber of Commerce Escort for a while, and then left.

Xu Yi picked up the recruitment progress report he left behind, and a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes.

Although the open recruitment of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Escort Team ended up with too few recruits, the main reason was that the standards set by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Escort Team were too high, but there was another reason that could not be ignored, and that was the problem of soldiers.

After all, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is just a Chamber of Commerce, and the so-called Chamber of Commerce Escort is just an ordinary Chamber of Commerce employee in the eyes of everyone.

Although Xu Yi has been working hard to cultivate the sense of identity and belonging of those guards in the chamber of commerce escort team through Hart and others, and has also achieved great results, the chamber of commerce is only a chamber of commerce after all, not a country after all.

If a country wants to recruit for military recruitment, it can even use coercive means to force all those who meet all the conditions in the country to join the army.

But a chamber of commerce can only use its own conditions to attract others to join.

Although the conditions offered by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are enough to make everyone and all races excited, the limited amount of the Chamber of Commerce makes the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's military resources very limited.

If it weren't for the fact that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had always had a good relationship with the alien races on the continent and could get a lot of replenishment from the different races, then the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort team could only recruit from within the Duchy of Stantin and some stragglers from other countries.

The quality of the soldiers recruited in this way can naturally be imagined.

The requirements of the new flying chamber of commerce are high, and the final pass rate is of course extremely low.

This will make the requirements of the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce particularly high, which will spread higher and higher, further limiting the source of troops.

So in fact, don't look at the reputation of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is big enough, and the treatment offered by the guards of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is good enough, in fact, there are not as many people who will really come to apply for the escort of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as expected.

For example, in the third open recruitment, among the less than 5,000 applicants who came to apply, there were not even 1,000 human beings, and the rest were all of different races.

One is because most human beings are unwilling to leave their homeland and run to the Duchy of Stantin to join the escort team of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, and the second is that many of the human warriors who came to apply before are those veteran mercenaries in the human world, which can also be called soldiers, far from meeting Xu Yi's requirements, so they are always eliminated, and naturally not many people are willing to come later.

Of course, the problem of troop sources is not unsolvable.

For example, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce now has branches and established many factory bases in most countries on the Sainz continent, and has also established strategic partnerships with many countries.

If Xu Yiken is willing, he can directly set up military bases in these countries and recruit local escorts, so as to expand the scale and radiation range of the escort team of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

But in this way, it is bound to make the nature of the new flying chamber of commerce in the eyes of other countries change instantly.

If the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was an ordinary chamber of commerce before, and most countries were able to cooperate with it normally, then once the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce really began to build military bases in various places, it would pose a real threat to other countries.

Compared to before, these are completely different things.

This is where Xu Yi hesitated.

The development of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the Sainz continent has now fallen into a bottleneck, and if it wants to break through, it needs strong military support in order to continue to gain development space in the hands of other countries.

However, if you expand your force, it means that your relations with other countries will become tense, and in a certain sense, you will limit your own development space.

And the investment required to expand the force is almost a bottomless pit.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is still in a critical period of development, and there are too many places that need to use money, and it is not impossible to increase the investment in the escort team, but too much investment will cause too much pressure and is not advisable.

In terms of how to distribute this proportion and implement it, it can only be decided by President Xu Yi, but no one else can share his worries.

That's why Xu Yi rarely hesitated.

Because he knew very well that his decision would not only affect the fate of nearly 300,000 people up and down the entire Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but might even affect the fate of the entire Sainz Continent. (To be continued......)