Chapter 75: The Struggle for Standards
Admiral Lantis's plan, as Xu Yi guessed, was to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, obtain support from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in terms of military magic machinery, and then invade the Sark Kingdom, seize a territory from the Sark Kingdom, and then hand over the mineral resources in this territory to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as compensation for the purchase of these military magic machines.
The idea is obviously crazy.
First of all, the national strength of the Sark Kingdom exceeds that of the Sark Kingdom, and in the king's hundreds of years of history, the Sark Kingdom has always suppressed the Sark Kingdom, and the Sark Kingdom is just barely supporting its efforts not to be invaded by the Sark Kingdom.
In this case, Admiral Lantis told Xu Yi that he wanted to use the mineral resources in the territory of the Kingdom of Sark as payment, which was even more ridiculous than painting bread to satisfy hunger.
If the territory of the Saar Kingdom was so easily occupied, how could the Lampari Kingdom be bullied by the Sak Kingdom for so many years.
Secondly, even if the national strength of the two countries is about the same, the Zhenxi Army, with the support of enough military magic machinery given by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, does have the strength to invade the Sark Kingdom and snatch this large territory from the Sark Kingdom as it wishes, but the Zhenxi Army is undoubtedly guilty of a great taboo.
The military headquarters of the Lampari Kingdom may be able to allow the Zhenxi Army to purchase military magic machinery from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to improve the combat effectiveness of the Zhenxi Army, but it is absolutely impossible for the military headquarters to allow the Zhenxi Army to invade the Sark Kingdom on its own initiative.
Because this is equivalent to taking the initiative to provoke a war between the two countries, and under the current internal stability of the Lampari Kingdom, and it is even very likely that a civil war will break out, whether it is the military department or not. Or other high-ranking people in the kingdom. Absolutely unwilling to take the initiative to provoke the Lampari Kingdom again.
Leave these two main issues aside. There is also a very realistic but important problem, that is, with the current production capacity of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it cannot meet the needs of the Zhenxi Army at all.
Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been researching military magic machinery for nearly three years, because of Xu Yi's deep resistance, the investment has not been particularly large, until the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce moved to the Duchy of Stantin, and it was forced to start to fully develop the R&D investment in military magic machinery, and gradually increase the scale of production.
With the current production capacity of the new flying chamber. In addition to being able to meet the needs of the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and several other cooperative chambers of commerce, even the orders for military magic machinery put forward by many lords in the Duchy of Stantin could not be fully satisfied, and how could they have the spare strength to meet the huge needs of the Zhenxi Army, which had as many as 30,000 sergeants.
Besides, even if this problem really doesn't exist, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has produced enough military magic machinery to fully arm the Zhenxi Army, but the Zhenxi Army will really be able to complete this plan smoothly, or will Admiral Landis really go all out to implement this plan?
Xu is also very skeptical.
After listening to Admiral Lantis's enthusiastic description of the grand plan in his mind, Xu Yi pondered for a while and slowly shook his head at Admiral Lantis.
Obviously, there are other aspects of the mind that cannot be expressed directly. Xu Yi mainly focused on the lack of production capacity of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the inability to meet the needs of the Zhenxi Army. It means that the new flying chamber of commerce is unable to undertake such a huge order.
Admiral Rantis smiled nonchalantly: "It's okay, I didn't think that I could equip all the 30,000 brothers of the entire Zhenxi Army at one time, as long as I came a little bit, I could slowly and naturally equip all of them." ”
Xu Yi smiled reluctantly.
If according to the standards of the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, if you want to fully equip a soldier, it will cost at least hundreds of gold coins on your body.
And that's not even counting other military magic machines like Magic Trebuchets, Magic Bazookas, Magic Armored Transporters, and so on.
If all the Zhenxi troops are equipped according to this standard, the minimum investment will exceed 10 million gold coins.
If you count the usual training consumption, you will have to spend hundreds of thousands of gold coins every year, or even more.
With such a huge consumption, not to mention that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is impossible to hold on, even the entire Lampari Kingdom can't hold it either.
Besides, if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can really come up with so much money, then why not invest in the escort team of its own Chamber of Commerce, and throw it on the unrelated Zhenxi Army?
Xu Yi had already closed the door of this cooperation in his heart, but looking at Admiral Lantis's eyes full of expectation and enthusiasm, and at the same time, because he was worried about the huge influence of the Zhenxi Army on the Black Rice Wasteland, he did not immediately refuse, but thought seriously for a while before speaking.
"Lord Admiral, it's better to do this, since you didn't think about fully equipping the Zhenxi Army at one time, and our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not capable of doing this, then we might as well stretch the cooperation between the two sides, divide it into more batches, and solve it little by little. What do you think? In the first batch, our chamber of commerce will first ask the Zhenxi Army to provide ......."
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After leaving the Zhenxi Military Camp and getting into the magic car, Xu Yi started the magic car and drove out of the camp, the smile on his face immediately disappeared, and he smiled bitterly.
According to the negotiation between him and Admiral Landis, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce will provide the Zhenxi Army with 500 magic repeaters, 10 medium-sized magic trebuchets, 1,000 sets of weapons and armor, 100 individual magic bazookas, and 5 magic armored transporters in the next month.
The total value of these things was close to 200,000 gold coins, and the price paid by the Zhenxi Army was only two promises from Admiral Landis.
Admiral Rantis promised that in the future, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will receive the full support of the Zhenxi Army, and no matter what the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce wants to do in the Black Rice Wasteland, it can get the help of the Zhenxi Army.
Even if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce wants to do something in the Principality of Stantin, the Zhenxi Army will also support it.
At the same time, if the Zhenxi army can attack the Sark Kingdom along the way, then Admiral Lantis will hand over all the mineral resources in all the captured territories to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce according to the plan.
The latter promise about the kingdom of Sark is only regarded as not existing, but the previous promise is also more satisfied.
With the support of the Zhenxi Army, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will gain the absolute right to speak in the Black Rice Wasteland. For the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it is extremely beneficial to the development plan of the entire Black Rice Wasteland.
And the situation within the Duchy of Stantin was even more chaotic. If you can get the support of the Zhenxi Army. It can greatly increase the security of the territory obtained by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yixin.
To put it bluntly, this military magic machinery material of nearly 200,000 gold coins is equivalent to the protection fee handed over by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to the Zhenxi Army.
It's a bit expensive, but it's practical.
Of course, Xu is also very unhappy with this situation.
He very much hoped that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would no longer be influenced by anyone and forces, and would continue to develop smoothly.
However, the strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not strong enough, and many times it has to compromise.
And in many cases, such compromises are not uncommon not only in the military but also in the commercial sphere.
After leaving the camp of the Zhenxi Army. Xu Yi drove the magic car back to Heimi City, without any rest, and directly convened representatives of various chambers of commerce in Heimi City to hold a joint meeting of the Heimi City Business Federation.
At this meeting, there was only one topic to be discussed, and that was to clarify the criteria.
In the past, when the various chambers of commerce were still in Bunta City, because of the undisputed dominance of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, almost all the standards for the magic industry were determined and promoted by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the other chambers of commerce had to comply with this standard.
With the change of the situation since then, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has now withdrawn from the Lampari Kingdom, and the Magic Industry Administration, which currently controls almost all the magic industries in the Lampari Kingdom, has reformulated a set of standards that are completely different from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. It also requires magical machinery to be produced within the Kingdom of Lampari or elsewhere. All magical machines brought into the Lampari Kingdom for sale must be implemented in accordance with this standard, otherwise they will not be approved for sale.
The Magical Industries Administration's practices have had a great impact not only in the Lampari Kingdom, but also on the various chambers of commerce that produce magical machines in the Black Rice Wasteland.
Although most of these chambers of commerce have been completely withdrawn from the Lampari Kingdom, for many chambers of commerce, their main market is still in the Lampari Kingdom, and the magic machinery they produce is still sold to the residents of the Lampari Kingdom.
Now that the Lampari Kingdom Magical Industry Administration has introduced a new standard, these chambers of commerce will either comply with this standard, or they will be forced to abandon the Lampari Kingdom, a relatively mature market that has been cultivated by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
However, it is not so easy to change the standards comprehensively, for many chambers of commerce, this is equivalent to completely tearing down the previous foundation, and for many chambers of commerce whose strength is not particularly strong, it is tantamount to a catastrophe.
However, if the standards are not changed, they will only lose the main market of the Lampari Kingdom, which is still a dead end for these chambers of commerce.
In desperation, the chambers of commerce could only focus on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for help.
If the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is willing to cater to the regulations of the Magic Industry Administration of the Lampari Kingdom and assist them, the less powerful Chamber of Commerce, to make changes to the entire production line, then they may survive this crisis.
However, Xu Yi has only one evaluation of their thoughts.
"Stupid!" Xu Yi had never shown such a grim expression in front of these people, and his tone rarely seemed so stern and low. "Do you really think that if you change the standards, those guys will let you go?
A bunch of chamber of commerce representatives sitting in the conference room looked at each other with helpless expressions.
"President Xu, in fact, we understand this, but we can't help it. ”
"Yes, President Xu, it's not so difficult for your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to change the standards, you only need to make some adjustments to the magic machine equipment, I think it should be able to meet the regulations of the Magic Industry Administration, it's nothing, right?"
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Looking at the people who were still lucky, Xu Yi sneered and shook his head.
"No, your understanding of standards is too shallow. I tell you that the battle of standards is actually a battle of life and death. Once we obey the new standards proposed by the Magical Industry Administration this time, all of us will have to be toyed with by the Magical Industry Administration in the palm of our hands. Even our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has no room for resistance, which of your chambers of commerce do you think can be stronger than us?"
Everyone was silent, and after a while, a representative of the Chamber of Commerce asked Xu Yi, "That...... President Xu, do you have any solutions to solve this problem?"
Facing the hopeful gaze projected by everyone, Xu Yi smiled and replied, "It's very simple. Since those guys in the Lampari Kingdom don't want us to continue to meddle in the market of the Lampari Kingdom, then we will abandon this market. ”
"Ninety percent of the goods produced by our Chamber of Commerce are sold to the Lampari Kingdom, and if we abandon this market, aren't we waiting for death?"
"yes, we're pretty much the same. ”
"So do we. ”
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"Don't forget, at this time last year, with the exception of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, all the goods produced by your Chamber of Commerce were sold within the Lampari Kingdom, and now some of them have been sold to other regions. ”
Xu Yi smiled confidently.
"Believe me, abandoning the market of the Lampari Kingdom may make it difficult for you for a while, but you can take the opportunity to usher in a much wider market. And it won't be long before I can be sure that the market in the Lampari Kingdom will open up to us again. (To be continued......)