As the depths of winter approached, the weather in the city of Sewell grew colder.

Early this morning, the sky was already covered with snowflakes, each piece of which was like cotton wool, and it took only one morning to dye the city of Sewell inside and outside the city of Sewell.

Looking out from the windows of the top floor of the City Lord's Mansion, in addition to the white snow that could be seen everywhere, only the walls made of black stone bricks that were more obvious in the snow were condensed in this white world like ugly scars.

"Count Satsuma, I have to say that the color of your house in the city of Sewell is really not very pretty, especially after the snow. Lord Caroline withdrew her target and shook her head at Count Satsuma and sighed.

Count Satsuma and Xu Yi on the side glanced at each other and smiled: "Your Royal Highness, don't you think that the black house will give people a warm feeling? ”

"No, the houses in our Duchy of Drake are all crimson. Compared to the gloomy black, I think the flaming red gives a better feeling of warmth in winter. Lord Carolyn shook her head. "What's more, red is far more beautiful than black, isn't it?"

The Earl of Satsuma shook his head slightly, deciding not to continue arguing with Lord Caroline on the issue.

Years of life experience told him that arguing with women, especially on aesthetic issues, is completely self-inflicted and meaningless.

Xu Yi on the side said with a smile: "Theoretically, color will indeed have a certain impact on your psychology. But it's obviously more direct and effective to make people feel warm directly than to feel warm from the psychological aspect, isn't it?"

Caroline County Lord Mei glanced over. Smile lightly. Unceremoniously, he sat down next to Xu Yi. Xiang Xu Yi asked softly: "Then President Xu, I mentioned to you before, how do you think about directly establishing a household magic machinery factory in our Principality of Drake? If we can directly produce magic air conditioners in the principality, I don't think the people of our principality will be so obsessed with the color of the house." ”

Xu Yi coughed lightly, forced to tilt his head slightly by the burning gaze of the Caroline County Lord, and replied, "I also said before, it's no problem to go to your Duchy of Draco to invest and build a factory. But how can your principality ensure that the factories of our Chamber of Commerce are not threatened by the Kingdom of Sark?"

Lord Caroline snorted softly: "Severny City is only about a hundred kilometers away from the border of the Sark Kingdom, why don't you worry that building a factory here will be threatened by the Sark Kingdom? ”

Xu Yi exchanged a look with Count Satsuma, thinking that even the Lord Caroline knew the news, so as long as anyone in the Lampari Kingdom knew about it, they would probably know it.

"Your Royal Highness, I don't agree with this. Count Satsuma said. "Now the city of Sewell not only has a well-equipped 8,000 city guards, but His Majesty the King has also sent the garrison corps of the Third Army. The current garrison of the entire city of Sewell is more than 30,000, which is more than enough to protect one city of Sewell. ”

Lord Caroline glanced at the Earl of Satsuma. He rolled his eyes, clapped his hands and said, "Okay, I'm just kidding." Indeed, Chairman Xu, you may be a little worried about investing in our principality now, so you won't have to worry about the safety of our cooperation in building a factory here, right?"

Xu Yi couldn't help laughing, it seemed that Lord Carolyn was bargaining just now, her original purpose was just to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to build a factory in Sewell City.

Of course, this was also Xu Yi's plan, so he didn't refute, but nodded and said, "Of course it's no problem here." However, His Royal Highness the county lord, you want to invest in the construction of the magic machine tool factory in cooperation with our chamber of commerce, and participate in the research and development and design of the magic machine tool, I can't agree to this. The technology related to the magic machine tool is not currently within the scope of our Chamber of Commerce, and we will not cooperate with anyone on this. ”

"Stingy ghost ......" Caroline glanced at Xu Yi, her expression was extremely charming. "If you don't let us participate in the design and development, then we won't participate, but President Xu, I mentioned to you before that our principality has a demand for various types of engineering magic machinery, I think we can always cooperate to build a magic machine tool factory, although we don't participate in the research and development design, but this magic machine tool workshop has to be developed according to our requirements, this is no problem, right?"

"Yes, you can, but you have to remember that you only prioritize research and development based on your requirements, not entirely on you. Do you understand what I mean?" said Xu Yizheng.

"Of course I do. Seeing Xu Yi's agreement, the smile on the face of Lord Caroline immediately bloomed like a flower. approached Xu Yi, grabbed his arm, threw him a provocative wink and said, "You are a man, of course I hope you have the initiative." ”

Feeling the softness on his arm, Xu Yi smiled bitterly, shook his head, stood up, and said to Count Satsuma: "Lord of the city, when the time comes, let's go out of the city." ”

Count Satsuma also immediately got up: "Okay, it's better to send those things directly to the factory, and it also saves them from having to go to the city for nothing." ”

Xu Yi turned his head to look at Lord Caroline, thinking that she would definitely follow, but he didn't expect her to smile and shake her head.

"Go ahead, I have to seriously consider the cooperation of this magic machine tool factory. ”

Xu Yi nodded, put on his coat with Count Satsuma, and walked out of the City Lord's Mansion.

The Earl of Satsuma's private luxury carriage drove the two out of the Lord's Mansion at a rapid pace, heading towards the south gate of Sewell City.

"Xu Yi, do you really plan to cooperate with the Duchy of Draco to build a magic machine tool factory?" Count Satsuma glanced at the City Lord's Mansion that was left behind by the carriage, and asked Xu Yi with a frown. "Even if you refuse to allow the Duchy of Draco to participate in the R&D and design, since this magic machine tool factory will develop the corresponding engineering magic machinery according to their requirements, then some of the technology will inevitably leak out. ”

"I understand. Xu Yi nodded. "Actually. I did it on purpose. ”

"Oh, what do you think? Count Satsuma asked curiously.

Xu Yi pondered for a moment. He asked rhetorically, "Lord Castle." You should know very well that compared to the Duchy of Drake, the Kingdom of Sark is a greater threat to our Kingdom of Lampari, right?"

"Of course. The Duchy of Drake is a small principality, and it is unlikely that it poses any real threat to our Lampari Kingdom. Count Satsuma nodded.

"So, Lord Count, what do you think...... If we completely draw the Duchy of Draco to our side, will it in turn threaten the Kingdom of Sark?"

Count Satsuma narrowed his eyes slightly, thought for a while, and nodded: "I see what you mean." If you can pull the Duchy of Drake over completely. Obviously it will be of great help to our Lampari Kingdom. But have you ever thought about the question, the reason why the Duchy of Drake has been able to survive in the gap between us and the Kingdom of Sark for so many years is because they have swayed back and forth, making both of us have all scruples. If they really choose one of the sides, I'm afraid that what awaits them will only be ruined miè's fate. Do you think they'll do that?"

Xu Yi smiled slightly: "No matter how weak a country is, it will not give up the hope of becoming strong, so Lord Caroline has always hoped that I can transfer the technology of magic machinery, especially military magic machinery, to the Duchy of Draco." Of course, I can't agree to these conditions, but it's okay to let them taste a little sweetness first. And when they taste a little sweetness, they can't help but make a choice. ”

Count Satsuma looked at Xu Yi for a moment, shook his head lightly and sighed: "Sometimes I really don't know what to say about you. Say you're an idiot. You're so sharp about these things. But are you really sure you can get the right balance?"

"This needs your attention and attention, Lord Lord. Xu Yi said with a smile. "If nothing else, I'll be out of here in three days. Go back to Bonta City. It will not be possible to stay here in the future, so I can only do remote command here, and I still need to worry about how to do it, Lord Castle. ”

Count Satsuma nodded: "This is the responsibility of me, the lord of the city. ”

The carriage drove out of the south gate of Thurwell City, and waited for about twenty minutes at the edge of the city, when a convoy of magical locomotives slowly drove over in the snowstorm in front of the road.

Compared with the previous team led by Xu Yi, this fleet of magic locomotives is even larger and more spectacular, and it is actually composed of a full fifty freight magic locomotives!

And after a medium-sized magic bus that was walking in front stopped, the first person to jump off from it was actually President Pompeiy of Filson's carriage.

Xu Yi jumped out of the carriage with some surprise and greeted him.

"President Pompei, why did you personally escort this batch of goods?"

President Pompeiry's fat face was blown red by the cold wind, and his body was trembling, and when he saw Xu Yi, he immediately complained: "President Xu, I didn't think of this problem before, but this time I found out that when you Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was making this medium-sized magic bus, can't you add a magic air conditioner to it? If there is, now you can give me an extra hundred gold coins per medium-sized magic bus!"

Xu Yi smiled, thinking that the configuration and installation of the passenger magic locomotive would come step by step, how could it be done in one step. And it has to be priced differently by grade, of course, it is impossible to configure it all for you.

Of course, there is no need to tell President Sù Pomberg about this, Xu Yi just smiled and nodded: "Okay, I will go back and tell the people in the Sù R&D Center and let them think about this problem." You've had a hard time making the journey, but President Pompeiy, why did you come here in person this time?"

"It's not to see the Earl. President Pombéry smiled and saluted Count Satsuma as he stepped out of the carriage. "Look, Lord Earl, we at Filson are able to transport so many goods from as far away as Bonta City, what do you think of our Horses' and Carriages' capacity?"

Count Satsuma nodded and said appreciatively, "Very good. I don't think there is any other carriage and horse shop in the whole of Lampari that can complete such a difficult task in this weather except for you. ”

President Pompei's fat face immediately burst into laughter.

"So, Lord Earl, do you think that we at Filson Carriage and Horse Company are qualified to take charge of the transportation business of Thurwell City?"

Xu Yi and Count Satsuma glanced at each other and laughed at the same time.

This president of Pompei, in order to expand the business scope of Filson's car and horse dealers, is really desperate enough. (To be continued......)