Chapter 104: The Kingdom of Krusk that is powerless to resist
The delegation of the United Kingdom of Commerce of Nozdorm stayed in the Duchy of Stantin for half a month.
During this period, they not only inspected the Duchy of Stantin, but also had a lot of contacts with many chambers of commerce in neighboring countries such as the Kingdom of Lampari and the Kingdom of Ruerxun.
In just this half-month alone, as many as 16 chambers of commerce from neighbouring countries have confirmed their intention to invest in the United Kingdom of Commerce in Nozdorm, and more than 30 of them have expressed the same interest.
The United Kingdom Mission of Nozdorm Business was very satisfied with the outcome and said that the trip was very fruitful.
Of course, everyone understands that if it weren't for the emergence of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's transport fleet, which gave the New Flying Chamber of Commerce the ability to transport people and materials to more than 5,000 kilometers away, such cooperation would not have been possible.
It should be said that such cooperation is extremely beneficial for both sides.
Because the distance was too far, there was hardly any communication between the two sides before this, so through this contact, both sides found that the other had a lot of resources that they could not ask for.
If this cooperation goes well, both parties will benefit a lot from it.
For example, the Duchy of Standine produces a large number of high-end, rainforest-specific wood, while the commercial United Kingdom of Nozdorm has many swamps, in addition to producing many rare plants and trees, which can be used to refine many precious medicinal materials and magical materials, it also produces a particularly variety of rare animals, which also contain strong value.
It was precisely because of the large number of special products brought by the Nozdorm Business United Kingdom delegation that attracted the attention of many chambers of commerce, which finally made them decide to cooperate with the Norddorm Business United Kingdom.
And in all the relevant cooperation, the focus of everyone's attention. Of course, it is a matter of cooperation between the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and the United Kingdom of Commerce in Nozdorm.
According to the message brought by the United Kingdom Mission of Nozdorm Business. The United Kingdom of Nozdorm Commerce has fully completed two deep-water harbours that can accommodate large magic steamers. This means that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce can easily send large quantities of supplies and related personnel to the United Kingdom of Commerce in Nozdorm.
So in this half month, the new flying chamber of commerce also reached a number of agreements with the United Kingdom of Nozdorm business.
According to the terms of the agreement, the new flying chamber of commerce will first invest in the construction of a steel mill, a fertilizer processing plant, and a magic machinery processing plant in the Nozdorm Commercial United Kingdom, and first help the Nozdorm Commercial United Kingdom solve the most basic food production problems.
Later, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce will set up a small production base for home magic machinery in the United Kingdom of Nozdorm Commerce.
However, this production base is not entirely owned by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but is jointly invested and built by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and 17 other small household magic machinery chambers in the Lampari Kingdom.
Among them, the new flying chamber of commerce only provides an organization name. Not only is there no specific production, but even the new flying brand household magic machinery is only sold in small quantities.
In effect, this is equivalent to completely handing over the market of the Nozdorm Business United Kingdom to other chambers of commerce.
Correspondingly, the other seventeen Household Magic Machinery Chambers of Commerce promised to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce that they would strictly abide by the standards related to household magic machinery designated by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
In addition, the 17 chambers of commerce are also responsible for assisting the Amritra Chamber of Commerce in carrying out infrastructure work such as road paving in the Nozdorm Business United Kingdom, and helping the Nozdorm Business United Kingdom to carry out related infrastructure improvements.
And this is actually the most important reason why the new flying chamber of commerce will give up the Nozdorm business United Kingdom, which has opened up the market it has opened up.
Quite simply, it's a shortage of manpower.
Although there are still many noble lords in the Lampari Kingdom who use their slaves to exchange steelmaking technology with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the number of noble lords within the Lampari Kingdom is limited. The noble lords who are willing to exchange slaves for technology are even more limited, so in addition to the early days, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce accepted a large number of slaves. Since then, there have been fewer and fewer of them, and there has been no one recently.
This led to the manpower growth of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to stagnate again, forcing Xu to abandon many plans that required a lot of manpower investment.
Originally, he planned to build a complete sub-base of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in the Nozdorm Commercial United Kingdom, striving to take the entire Nozdorm Commercial United Kingdom into his control, and use this sub-base as the basis to expand the influence of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, and eventually affect the southeast corner of the entire Sainz continent.
However, the lack of manpower limited his idea, so he had to take the initiative to give up the market in the United Kingdom of Nozdorm Commerce, so as to cooperate with other magical mechanical chambers of commerce to create this project.
In Xu Yi's heart now, the problem of lack of manpower has become the biggest problem that bothers him.
He has countless development plans for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but he always has to put it on hold due to manpower, which makes him always feel helpless that he has nowhere to go.
However, the Principality of Statine is only a small country after all, and the total population of the entire Principality is only less than a million people, of which the available labor force is only less than 400,000.
Of course, it is impossible for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to get all these 400,000 people into its own hands, because after all, there is still a lot of labor left behind to do some other necessary work.
In addition, the education process of these laborers within the Duchy of Stantin is generally not high, and the overall quality is far less than that recruited in the Lampari Kingdom and the Ruerson Kingdom, so it is not very helpful for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Now all the employees of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have exceeded 150,000, but less than half of them are from the Duchy of Stantin, the remaining half are mainly from the Lampari Kingdom, a small part are from the Ruerson Kingdom, and the rest are employees of various different races.
Of course, it is impossible for the population of the Principality of Stantin to skyrocket instantly, so in order to increase the usable labor force, Xu also imitated the vocational training colleges built in the city of Bonta, and also opened a large number of vocational training colleges in the Principality of Stantin.
Unlike the vocational training institutes in Bonta City, these vocational training institutes in the Principality of Stantin are completely free of charge, and the only requirement for students is that they must work at the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce after completing their studies.
In fact, such conditions are not a restriction for the vast majority of people, but a temptation, because entering the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to work is originally a dream for many people.
Therefore, after the opening of these vocational skills training colleges, not only countless people in the Principality of Stantin enthusiastically signed up, but also many people in the Kingdom of Lampari, the Kingdom of Ruerson, and the Principality of Drake, the Principality of Mirando, and even the Principality of Norton came all the way to receive training after hearing the news.
In the first phase of these vocational training institutes this year, more than 30,000 people signed up.
I believe that as long as they are given another two or three years, and when all these students graduate, they can greatly alleviate the personnel problem of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
But before that, Xu Yi still had to continue to have a headache for manpower problems.
However, at this time, an unexpected situation happened, but Xu Yi saw a glimmer of light.
After staying in the Principality of Stanting for half a month, the delegation of the United Kingdom of Nozdorm left the Principality of Constantin with a large number of preliminary construction materials and returned to the United Kingdom of Notzdorm Commerce, together with the transport fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce that set off again, and a bunch of representatives sent by the Chamber of Commerce.
After they left, Xu Yi immediately ordered the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort to launch an attack on the Krusk Kingdom.
As Hart said, this so-called kingdom of Krusk is actually just a large pirate collective composed of a group of pirates, which is completely different from the real country.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's attack on the Kingdom of Krusk is nothing more than a horde of pirates.
As for the combat effectiveness of these pirates......
Perhaps the pirates that Leslie encountered in the southern waters of the Ruerson Kingdom and the southern waters of the Candela Empire were slightly stronger, but when facing the powerful New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort fleet, it was undoubtedly not enough.
Xu Yi didn't care much about the specific battle process, because he knew very well that with the powerful firepower provided by frigates far beyond this era and a variety of military magic machines, it was absolutely impossible for the New Flying Chamber of Commerce frigates to have any comparable targets in the entire Endless Sea.
And the truth is exactly what he expected.
From the very beginning of the operation, the news coming back from the front was all good news.
The Second Fleet, the escort fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce under Hart's personal command, was invincible in the endless sea, and easily defeated all the sea forces of the Krusk Kingdom.
In the news that Xu Yi received, in addition to all the changes in the number of ships sunk every day, it was basically a message repeated every day - the convoy had won again.
In less than twenty days after the operation began, the Second Fleet, the New Flyer Escort Fleet under Hart's command, had made its way around almost every island within the territory of the Kingdom of Krusk without encountering any real obstacles.
Among them, all the ships of all the pirate regiments under the Krusk Kingdom did not even touch the side of the escort fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
Twenty days later, the Second Fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escorted the fleet without any resistance, and the marines landed on the island of Krusk, which is known as the capital of the Kingdom of Krusk, and easily captured the palace of Krusk on the island and captured the current king of the Kingdom of Krusk alive.
Xu Yi was not surprised by this result, the only thing he cared about was why this so-called Krusk Kingdom would seek its own death and suddenly come to attack the transport fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
However, in the news from Hart, there was a message that caught his attention.
The captured King Krusk said that the Kingdom of Krusk was originally formed by a group of slaves who had been tortured by noble lords and had been exiled overseas.
Now that it has been captured by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, as long as Xu Yiken bypasses the lives of all the people in the Krusk Kingdom, then they are willing to reinstate their status as slaves and return to the name of Xu Yi, the lord. (To be continued......)