"Spending two million gold coins just to exchange for the right to garrison a chamber of commerce escort team of no more than five hundred people?" President Cruise looked at Xu Yi with an inexplicable expression, frowned and asked, "Xu Yi, how did I find out that since you came to the Duchy of Stantin, your head seems to have burned out, and you are always doing some loss-making business?"

"Is it a loss?" Xu Yi smiled slightly. "First of all, you have to figure out that although these two million gold coins were generated by our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and used to transform the environment here, in the end, it was our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce itself that benefited the most from these environments, so in fact, seriously speaking, this can be regarded as our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's own investment. ”

"The problem is that after all, this is the territory of the Duchy of Stantin, and your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can invest in construction here now, but you can't take the good things here, and if you don't do it here one day, aren't these things still wasted?" President Cruise wondered.

"Who said I was going to leave later?" Xu Yi asked rhetorically.

"If you don't leave, you still want to stay, ...... here" President Cruise suddenly paused, glanced at Xu Yi with a surprised face, and then looked left and right, suddenly approached Xu Yi, lowered his voice slightly, and asked in a slightly trembling voice: "Hey, Xu Yi, are you trying to ......?"

Xu Yi waved his hand: "Don't ask me, I won't say." ”

President Cruise closed his mouth, narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at Xu Yi meaningfully for a long time, then he stood up again, looked him up and down as if he was meeting Xu Yi for the first time, shook his head lightly and sighed: "Xu Yi, I just found out today that your ambition is much greater than I imagined. But what do you think...... Is 500 men enough? You're underestimating the Duchy of Constantine, aren't you?"

"What do you think of the last time our four chambers of commerce were in a joint operation on the Black Rice Wasteland? How is the combat effectiveness of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's escort team?" Xu Yi asked a question that seemed to be insignificant.

President Cruise was slightly stunned. I thought about it. frowned and said: "It's very strong, but I want to keep this combat power all the time...... I'm afraid it's hard, right?"

"That's not what we're talking about now. Xu Yi smiled and shook his head slightly. "If you really want to talk about it, maybe I don't need to do it myself at all, and something will happen within the Duchy of Stantin. ”

"People here are too lazy to sleep to death all day, what can be a surprise change?" President Cruise snorted.

Xu Yi couldn't help laughing, patted President Cruise on the shoulder, and said, "What's the matter?

President Cruise snorted, "I wonder how the people here can be so lazy, out of the five thousand people you threw over, I took two thousand to put them in charge of the simplest of the leveling work. And guess what? It's been a week now, and two thousand people...... Two thousand! Less than 10 kilometers of ground have been leveled. With their efficiency, if they want to repair all the roads in this large area of the area you mentioned, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it when I die!"

"So I said, don't expect the efficiency of the workers here, it's better to bring people from our Lampari kingdom. Besides, I don't want to waste my precious salary on these people anymore, if there is money to be made, why not let us people of the Lampari Kingdom earn it. Xu Yidao.

"Well, I've decided. When I'm back in a few days, I'll be in Bonta City. Oh no, not only Bangta City, but also all the surrounding cities have to recruit workers on a large scale, otherwise, I am afraid that it will really not be able to catch up. ”

"It's for the best. Xu Yi nodded. "I'm sure you're not going to be doing less to build roads, but more and more to the point where you can't keep them busy. ”

"That's for sure. President Cruise smiled a little meaningfully, "After realizing the benefits of roads, many people are now coming to us to build roads. We have built more than 1,000 kilometres of roads not only in the Lampari Kingdom, but also more than 300 kilometres in the Kingdom of Ruersun. With you here, the road mileage we have booked next year will be more than 1,500 kilometers. ”

"It's still too little. Xu Yi sighed. "According to my estimates, if you want to have roads everywhere in the Lampari Kingdom, the total mileage will be at least more than 50,000 kilometers. It's still too far away. ”

"Fifty thousand kilometres?" said President Crews, "this is too exaggerated, isn't it?

"Why not?" Xu Yi asked rhetorically. "Don't you think it's a good thing to do?"

"This ......" President Cruise paused, nodding involuntarily. "Well, I think it's very much right. But now there is a problem, Xu Yi, although it is very convenient to build the highway, but the road you said drives the improvement of transportation capacity, and thus drives the economic improvement, which is not very reflected. The carriage is just a little faster and a little easier than before, but it hasn't really improved much. ”

"If you want to ask when the magic locomotive will be made, just ask, why are you beating around the bush?" Xu Yi said angrily.

President Cruise smiled, "It's good that you know." Then you tell me the truth, when will the magic locomotive you said be made?"

Xu Yi looked to the northeast, where the Falling Rain Valley was located.

"Before coming here, I had already made a breakthrough in the research of magic locomotives. If I can see the real results of their research when I go back this time, then I may be able to give you an accurate answer. ”

President Cruise sighed in disappointment.

"I've been waiting for your magic locomotive for almost a year, and I still haven't made it. ”

Xu Yi shook his head with a wry smile: "Not only you, but also me, I don't know how many people are waiting for the official suppression of the magic locomotive." But this matter is not rushed, there are too many things in the design of the magic locomotive, and if the success is not guaranteed, there will be a lot of problems. ”

President Cruise could only shrug his shoulders helplessly: "Well, it's been almost a year anyway, but I don't care about waiting a little longer." ”

"Well, until then, you'd better build the road honestly. Xu Yi said with a smile. "Don't let the magic locomotive be launched at that time, but because the road is not repaired, the magic locomotive can't run at all, that's a tragedy. ”

President Cruise snorted coldly, "Don't worry, I'm already adjusting the focus of our Chamber of Commerce's work now. With the current efficiency of our chamber of commerce, the road can be paved and built more than two or three hundred kilometers in a month, and when your magic locomotive is built, at least in the kingdom of Lampari, I can guarantee that it can run to any city by guò road. ”

"That would be great. ”

Xu Yi smiled and admired, put down the question about the magic locomotive, and began to discuss with President Cruise the planning plan for the territory under the name of the Weilun patriarch in the north of the Duchy of Stantin.

According to Xu Yi's initial idea, of course, the road should be paved in this territory first, and the traffic problem should be solved first.

According to President Crews' estimates, a minimum of 200 kilometers of roads would be needed to meet Xu Yi's basic requirements.

At the same time, although the road connecting the Rainfall Valley to the small town of Samara has been completed, a road from the small town of Samarra, passing through the werewolf tribe of Worrall, and then through the Black Rice Heath, and finally connecting to the Duchy of Stantin.

The length of the road is close to 100 kilometers, so the initial plan is to complete the more than 300 kilometers first.

Due to the special climate of the Principality of Stantin, although it is now winter, construction can still be started, so President Cruise decided to take advantage of the winter when other places cannot start construction, pull a few construction teams from other places, and make a surprise construction here, and strive to complete the 200 kilometers of roads required here within this winter.

Naturally, Xu Yi received strong support for this plan, so he offered to cooperate with Filson Motors to open a long-distance bus line from Bonta City to Weilun City, Duchy of Stantin, which was responsible for transporting the residents of Bonta City back and forth between the two cities.

The only problem is that even if the road is completed, it will take more than 20 hours to complete the whole journey at the speed of Filson's carriage, and it will take two to three days to complete the journey.

So the question goes back to the question that President Crews asked Xu Yi before.

"When will the magic locomotive be developed?"

If the speed of the magic locomotive can reach the speed of those long-distance buses on the earth, and the minimum speed is maintained at 60 kilometers per hour, then the distance of more than 400 kilometers from Bangta City to this place is only seven or eight hours, and it can be reached in one day.

But as he said in his reply to Chairman Chris, the development of a magic locomotive is extremely demanding, and how can it be so easy to make it thoroughly.

After talking to President Cruise, Xu Yi left the city of Velon, and met Yanis and Deliel, who had been waiting here for a long time, in the forest by the roadside, as well as Starxia.

This time, I'm going to meet with the Elder of the Moon Shadow Clan, Lisanya Shadowsong, and Annis and him are both intermediate liaisons, Deliel is the representative sent by the Nightsong Clan, and Starsha is an observer of the Moon Shadow Clan, responsible for providing reference to Elder Lisanya Shadowsong.

Although this time it was nominally the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to set up a rubber processing factory here, Xu also took the initiative to propose to Elder Elucia that Delil could propose to the Moon Shadow Clan on behalf of the Nightsong Clan.

Since both sides are of the same elven race, Elder Lisanya Shadow Song will inevitably dispel a lot of vigilance, which will be more conducive to the success of the cooperation.

What's more, there's also Stasia there. (To be continued......)