Chapter 47: Budget Increases
"In the next year, our main R&D goal, in addition to the Magic Steamer, is the most important Magic Airship. ”
As soon as Xu Yi's voice fell, everyone's eyes focused on Evita.
As we all know, Evita has always been in charge of the research and development of the magic airship.
Evita nodded slightly, "Lord, I'll hold on." ”
"It's not just about hurrying, I'm going to make specific requests to you. Xu Yizheng said. "Evita, tell me, how far has the development of the magic airship progressed now?"
Evita pondered for a moment and replied: "Specifically, the magic airship we are currently developing can have a maximum load capacity of 17 tons, a maximum load volume of 36 cubic meters, a maximum sailing speed of 70 kilometers per hour, and a maximum one-way non-endurance sailing distance of more than 930 kilometers. ”
Hearing Evita's introduction, everyone else showed a look of admiration.
Although I don't know much about the magic airship, judging from the number reported by Evita, it is clear that this magic airship already has very good performance.
What's more, the magic airship is completely flying in the sky, and for that alone, it is much superior to the magic locomotive and magic ship.
The Lord will value the magic airship so much, apparently for this reason.
"Well, not bad. Xu Yi nodded, but his expression was not too satisfied. "But it still doesn't meet my requirements. Evita, my request is that the magic airship can sail more than 1,500 kilometers without endurance in a single way, and the speed needs to exceed 100 kilometers per hour. Can you do it?"
"100 kilometers per hour?" everyone was stunned.
Even if it is a magic car powered by the newly developed fire magic engine of the Chamber of Commerce. The maximum speed is currently just over 80 kilometers per hour.
The Lord would have asked the magic airship to travel at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour. That's a bit too demanding, isn't it?
However, Evita only thought for a moment, and then nodded firmly.
"No problem. ”
"Good. Xu Yi was satisfied, smiled and motioned for Evita to sit down, and then turned to Camby. "Evita has confidence, what about you?"
Camby grinned: "As long as the Magic Research Institute can design the model, there will be no problem with our Magic Machine R&D Center." ”
Xu Yi smiled and motioned to Kennard to continue.
Although everyone here is a high-level executive at the director level of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, they are not interested in the situation of the entire Chamber of Commerce. But I don't fully understand it, and now that I have listened to Kennard's work report, I have a general understanding of the current situation of the entire Chamber of Commerce.
I didn't know before I knew it, but once I understood, everyone was surprised to find that before I knew it, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had become such a huge chamber of commerce, not only in the Principality of Stantin, but also able to greatly influence several countries, including the Lampari Kingdom and the Ruerson Kingdom.
This is something that even the first-class chambers of commerce in the Lampari Kingdom can hardly do.
However, their surprise was only the beginning. When Kennard finally asked Sebas to make his annual financial report, the surprise in everyone's hearts turned to shock.
The financial report made by Sebas shows: This year, the total profit obtained by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the field of household magic machinery alone actually exceeded 10 million gold coins.
In terms of the application of magic machinery, it mainly focuses on engineering magic machinery and magic locomotives, with a total profit of more than six million gold coins.
In terms of magic machine tools, it brought a profit of about 1.8 million gold coins to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to this, there are more than a million gold coins in profits from additional goods such as bicycles, cement, fertilizer, etc.
If we add up to the profits of up to 4 million gold coins generated by the five steel-making mills in one year this year, the total profit obtained by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in one year this year has actually reached an astonishing more than 23 million gold coins!
This number was not expected by anyone.
When I made the year-end summary report last year, the total profit of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had just exceeded 10 million gold coins.
Unexpectedly, just a year later, the total profit has more than doubled!
Such a speed of development is unbelievable!
"Grow up...... We...... Even in the Lampari Kingdom now, I'm afraid we can be regarded as a super-first-class chamber of commerce, right?" After a moment of silence in the conference room, Ankato swallowed hard and said with difficulty.
"Nonsense!" Hein reprimanded, and said with a smug expression: "The largest chamber of commerce in the Lampari Kingdom should be the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, and it would be good to earn 10 million gold coins a year." I dare to say that if our chamber of commerce is placed in the kingdom of Lampari, it will definitely be the most profitable chamber of commerce!"
Seeing the excited looks on the faces of several people, Xu Yi shook his head with a smile.
"Don't rejoice too soon, everybody. It is true that our chamber of commerce is making a lot of money now, but if you really want to compare it with those old chambers of commerce, it is actually a lot worse. Because after all, we have been established for too short a time, and the foundation is still too thin. ”
"What do you mean, Elder?" asked Camby, confused.
"In many ways. Xu Yi replied with a smile. "If we want to catch up with those old chambers of commerce, and even according to the plan, enter a huge empire like the Candela Empire in the future, and compete with those super-first-class chambers of commerce on the entire continent in the Candela Empire, there are still many places that we need to supplement and strengthen. So don't look at how much money we make, we also need to spend a lot of money. ”
Speaking of this, Xu Yi clapped his hands vigorously, motioned for Sebas to sit down, raised his voice and continued: "After talking about the good things of the Chamber of Commerce, it's time to summarize the bad things about the Chamber of Commerce." Let's talk casually, let's talk about what aspects of the Chamber of Commerce still need to be improved. You're welcome, just say it. ”
Everyone looked at each other.
After a few moments of silence, it was Evita who was the first to raise her hand.
"Well, Evita, you speak first. ”
Evita nodded lightly and said, "Elder, I hope that the Chamber of Commerce can continue to recruit more magicians into the research institute, and it is best to recruit more high-level magicians." Because the large-scale magic machinery currently developed by our Chamber of Commerce has higher and higher requirements for power and other aspects, and the low-level magic array can no longer meet the requirements, we will continue to contribute to the research of high-level magicians in the high-level magic array. ”
"Well, that's a very reasonable request. If possible, I'd love to be able to recruit more great magician-level magicians to the Academy of Magic. It would even be better if there was even a Magister-level mage willing to come. ”
The crowd looked at each other again.
Is the Elder talking in his sleep?
Great magician-level magicians already have an extremely high status in most countries, where would they join a chamber of commerce at will.
As for the Magister, he is a top figure in both the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire, so how could he come to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to participate in the research work.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is now able to have a magister like Camilla, as well as the three great magicians of Truqi, Rena and Dwarf Lumi, which are already an outlier among all the chambers of commerce in the entire continent, and Xu Yi wants more, which is simply a dream.
But after thinking about it, even Xu Yi himself is a great magician, and he is also extremely rare in the chambers of commerce of the entire continent, so it doesn't seem difficult to understand this idea.
Evita was very confident in Xu Yi, and nodded with a smile, which was regarded as approving Xu Yi's reply.
With Evita starting out, the others also let go of their worries and spoke to Xu Yijin in turn.
However, compared to Evita's request to recruit more high-level mages, the requests made by others were much simpler.
To sum up, it's actually one word, money.
So in the end, the requests and questions raised by these people were counted, and the treasurer Sebas came up with a number.
"Elder, if you want to solve these problems, the Chamber of Commerce will also invest more than five million gold coins at least next year. ”
Everyone was shocked.
It's not that I don't know, but after I calculated, I found out that these requests they put forward would actually cost so much money.
Xu Yi didn't have any surprised expression, and pointed at Evita and Camby with a smile and said, "Increase the budget of the Magic Research Institute and the Magic Machine Tool R&D Center by thirty percent." The Chamber of Commerce will have higher development requirements in the next two years, and must continue to improve in technology research and development. ”
No comments were made.
Xu has always been strict in R&D, and has spared no effort in investment.
The Magic Research Institute and the Magic Machine Tool R&D Center can almost be said to be two very special departments within the Chamber of Commerce, and their status naturally seems to be a line higher than other departments.
However, at this time, what they won was particularly valued by Xu Yi, so no one would have an opinion.
After everyone stopped, Xu Yi suddenly pointed to the farthest end of the conference table.
"In addition to these, multiply the original budget of the Chamber of Commerce Escort by five. ”
"Huh?"
Everyone, including Hart, the captain of the escort team of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, who also participated in this year-end summary meeting but had not spoken, widened his eyes and looked incredulous.
According to the budget plan just announced by Sebas, the budget of the Chamber of Commerce escort team next year will be as high as 300,000 gold coins, far exceeding the budget of any chamber of commerce escort team that has a cooperative relationship with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
And Xu Yi now said that he would multiply this original budget by five, which was a full 1.5 million gold coins!
The total profit of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is more than 20 million gold coins a year, but it suddenly took out 1.5 million gold coins on the chamber of commerce escorts, which is not much worse than the army budgets of the Lampari Kingdom and the Ruerson Kingdom.
He will grow up...... What do you want to do?(To be continued......