After staring at the pile of steel parts that looked messy under the tarpaulin, and at a glance didn't know what they were used for, the complicated expression on Ankru's face finally returned to calm, and he turned his head to Hart and nodded: "Captain Hart, please convey my gratitude to President Xu, his great help to me, I will always remember it." ”

Hart said expressionlessly: "The elder explained before leaving, this is just a very ordinary transaction, everyone takes what they need." ”

Ankru was slightly stunned, paused, but then frowned, pointed to the messy parts under the tarpaulin, and asked, "But I have a question." Captain Hart, why do these Mana Trebuchet parts look so small, and when assembled, they're a lot smaller, right?"

"This is the second generation of the magic trebuchet that we have newly developed from the Chamber of Commerce. Although the size is much smaller than the first-generation Magic Trebuchet, the ejection power is not weak at all, but has been enhanced, so the power is actually stronger than the first-generation Magic Trebuchet. And because it's small, it's extremely portable. You see, all it takes is a freight magic locomotive to get it. Hart explained.

"That's right. Ankru glanced at the parts of the Magic Trebuchet again, still questioning. "But how do you put this thing together? We don't have anyone to do this. ”

Hart pulled a thin pamphlet from his bosom and handed it to Ankru.

"There's a diagram of how to assemble a magic trebuchet, as well as a guide to the maintenance of the magic repeater and those weapons and armor, so be sure to study them when you get them back. Otherwise. If it's because of your own misconduct, the malfunction is triggered. Our Chamber of Commerce will not provide follow-up repair services. ”

Ankru took the booklet. But instead of looking at it, he continued to ask, "President Hart, why don't you just provide a technician to help guide us through these things?

Hart shook his head: "The elder said, it is just a normal transaction between the two of us, if you send someone over, it will be to personally participate in the internal affairs of your Duchy of Stantin, he thinks that Mr. Ankru you are afraid that you are not willing to do it." ”

Ankru was silent for a long time, and nodded slightly.

"President Xu is very thoughtful. But ......" Ankrë looked at the ten freight magic locomotives. A wry smile full of self-deprecation appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Actually, now you're already involved......

Hart was silent.

Ankroid was distracted for a moment, took a breath, and reinvigorated himself.

"Alright, Captain Hart, I've confirmed the receipt of these goods, now let's go to harvest. ”

Hart nodded, took out the list of goods for Ankru to see, and after Ankru confirmed, he took a signed agreement from Ankru.

The content of this agreement is the agreement of Ankrug to transfer an iron ore and a magic crystal mine in his territory to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

According to the terms of the agreement, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will have the permanent mining rights of this iron ore and magic crystal mine.

In other words. The Iron Mine and the Mana Crystal Mine have since been completely owned by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, and have nothing to do with the Anglo or Duchy of Stantin.

These two mines. Naturally, it was used by the Anglo to pay for the purchase of these weapons and equipment from the New Flying Chamber.

Although it was only the cargo of ten magic locomotives, the total value reached 200,000 gold coins.

Among them, the new magic trebuchet alone is worth 10,000 gold coins.

A total of 300 sets of magic repeaters on the two magic locomotives, with the arrow box, each set is priced at as much as 400 gold coins, and 300 sets are 120,000 gold coins.

As for the remaining 1,000 sets of weapons and armor, they were only worth 70,000 gold coins.

In fact, the valuation of these two mines is far more than 200,000 gold coins, or even no less than 300,000 gold coins.

But it is impossible for the Ankru to come up with such a large amount of cash, and of course they can only use resources to exchange for what they need from the hands of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

If given a choice, Ankru did not want to sell the resources in his own name, because he knew that the resources were important for the future development of the Duchy of Staten.

But he had no choice.

Because if you want to achieve your goals, you have to spend money, and you have to spend a lot of money.

Watching his subordinates carry all the goods on the ten freight magic locomotives onto the small ship he brought under Hart's command, Ankru had a complicated expression, his eyes were full of worry, and the smile on his lips was full of bitterness.

"I hope that the current sacrifice will bring good results in the end, otherwise I may become a sinner of the principality through the ages. ”

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While the Anglo is full of anxiety about the uncertain future because of their choices, the people of Bonta City are now full of joy and excitement because of the bright future, and are welcoming the arrival of the new year with the greatest enthusiasm.

Another year has passed, and since Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny took over as the lord of Bonta City in the second half of the year, the entire Bonta City seems to have regained its vitality and enthusiasm all of a sudden, changing the lifeless atmosphere of Count Stark when he was the lord of the city.

In just half a year, the entire city of Bang Ta has not only fully restored its previous prosperity, but has even become much more lively than before.

With the magic industry led by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce gradually gaining popularity in Bang Ta City, and many people in Bang Ta City have been pulled into this industry, everyone in Bang Ta City can easily find a satisfying job, enough to make themselves worry about food and clothing, and even enjoy a slightly luxurious life that they couldn't even think of a few years ago.

For example, if you haven't bought something you didn't buy because of shyness or various reasons, you will naturally have to take this opportunity to make up for it at an important time like the New Year.

So as the New Year approached, the sales of the household magic machinery department of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had a blowout.

Sales in one week alone are enough to equal the sales in the previous two months combined.

According to statistics, in the last short week, the sales of the new flying company on household magic machinery alone reached a staggering 500,000 gold coins.

And because of the consistently high profits of the new flying chamber of commerce. So in just one week. The new flying chamber of commerce is only on the home magic machine. The net income exceeded 300,000 gold coins.

If it was three years ago, Xu Yi would have seen such profit statistics, he would have been dancing with joy and couldn't help it.

However, after seeing this number now, Xu Yi found that he didn't feel it at all, but tried to find out if there were any errors and omissions from this number and the various statistics that followed, and whether there was anything that could continue to be strengthened.

No way, according to the annual statistics. This year's total profit of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has even exceeded an unusually staggering 10 million gold coins, how can Xu Yihui be happy with a mere 300,000 or 300,000 gold coins?

Of course, the more you earn, the more you spend.

This year's total profit of the new flying chamber of commerce is of course extremely amazing, but the various input expenditures are also amazing.

Aside from the salary of more than 3 million gold coins issued throughout the year, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce began to invest in the construction of production bases in many cities because of the development and expansion strategy that began to be implemented in the second half of this year, plus the large investment in the Black Rice Wasteland, the Duchy of Standine and the last two months in Sewell City, the total investment has exceeded 5 million gold coins.

In this way, it is the end of the year. In fact, the current balance in the account of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is only about one million gold coins.

Compared to the current scale of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, this little money is actually nothing at all. So much so that when the financial director Sebas made the year-end summary report, he complained to Xu Yi and kept reminding him, hoping that he could pay attention to the balance of fiscal revenue and expenditure next year to avoid the first deficit of the Chamber of Commerce.

However, Xu Yi only smiled at his warning, and didn't care at all.

The reason why the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has spent so much this year is entirely because of the development and expansion policy he has determined.

And when the production bases in various places are basically established next year and start to officially put into production, these investments will be converted into huge profits.

At that time, it is not surprising that the profits of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will be much higher than now, even several times more.

More importantly, the layout of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can be basically established, and it will no longer be so easily affected by changes in one city and one place in the future, and there will be ways to deal with it in any situation, so that it will not be targeted by any nobleman and become extremely passive.

"Of course, ordinary nobles don't dare to target you or the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce now, because my father has already made his attitude clear about the matter of the last noble council, and no nobleman would risk angering his father to do such a thing. ”

Sevini looked at Xu Yi, who was sitting on the chair opposite him with a leisurely appearance, and shook his head slightly.

"Xu Yi, to be honest, I don't understand why you always look confident on the surface, but in fact you are always full of a sense of crisis? Sue me, why do you recruit so many people into your Chamber of Commerce's escort team? Don't sue me, you are just trying to enrich your Chamber of Commerce's escort force. ”

Xu Yi smiled slightly: "Is it much? It's not much, it's just that five hundred more people have been recruited, compared to the Falcao Chamber of Commerce's escort team, which even exceeds two thousand people, the number of escorts in our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is less than a thousand people now, which is not much at all." ”

Sevini glared at him: "Don't play stupid! The elven guards, dwarf guards, and even the orc guards you recruited in the Black Rice Wasteland, by the way, and the guards of the Duchy of Stantin, which you recruited in the Duchy of Stantin, are not counted in the number of your Chamber of Commerce escorts. If it were all combined, I'm afraid it would have been more than 2,000 people, right?"

Xu Yi looked up to the sky and snorted, but did not make any answer.

Seeing his reaction, Sevini was a little angry, slapped the table lightly, frowned, raised his voice a little rarely, and shouted in an angry tone: "Xu Yi, the combat effectiveness of those elven clans, dwarf clans, and orc clans is much higher than that of ordinary human guards, if it is really counted as combat effectiveness, the escort team of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can even be compared with an army of five thousand people." What the hell do you want to do?"

Seeing Sevigny's serious expression, Xu Yi sighed and spread his hands: "Your Royal Highness, I don't want to do anything, I just want to protect myself." You just said that no nobleman dares to target me and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but among the nobles you are talking about, I am afraid that none of these nobles include His Royal Highness Prince Eric, right?"

Sevigny's eyebrows twitched slightly, and he sighed softly, but did not speak.

Taking Sevigny's reaction into his eyes, Xu Yi smiled slightly, and continued: "Okay, Your Royal Highness, let's not discuss this kind of thing that everyone knows and doesn't make any sense, right?" What standard weapons and equipment do you want your 5,000 personal guards to equip with?" (To be continued......