Chapter 123: Breathe a sigh of relief first
If the communication on the continent of Sainz is basically based on roaring...... That's a bit of an exaggeration.
However, if you put aside the completely magical-level communication method of using space magic for real-time video communication, which can only be used by magicians at the level of great magicians, which is super high-end and cannot be touched by ordinary people, the communication method on the Sainz continent ...... Basically, it's just a roar.
Although there are also correspondence correspondence on the Sainz continent, the cost of correspondence is extremely high due to the inconvenience of transportation.
Specifically, if you want to send a letter from the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Duchy of Stantin to Anvimar City, which is about 1,300 kilometers away, even if you don't consider the gap between the two countries, the letter may not be able to reach this problem, and the postage cost will be as high as thirteen gold coins.
That's right, a hundred kilometers for a gold coin, no more, no less.
Such an expensive price is simply not something that the vast majority of ordinary people can afford.
This leads to the fact that the vast majority of ordinary people on the Sainz continent basically do not have any communication with places outside the circle of life, plus it is difficult for them to leave the place where they live, so almost all of them will be born, grown, and live in the same place for the rest of their lives, and eventually die of old age, never in contact with the outside world, and have no understanding of the outside world at all.
Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Amrley Chamber of Commerce have improved the transportation situation in a large area, so that ordinary people who have never left their villages before have the opportunity to go to the vast world outside for a long time, it is still a great problem in terms of communication.
Take many workers under the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as an example. They may only be able to go home once a year. There was no way to communicate with the rest of the family. In Xu Yi's view, this is an almost unbearable situation.
Fortunately, Akali and her research team have studied the magic array resonance technology more and more thoroughly, and finally succeeded in creating a relatively complete magic communication network based on this technology.
After the last two years of laying out the architecture, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has successfully built a magical communication network in the Principality of Stanting that can cover all parts of the Principality.
Now, as long as Xu Yi is in the Principality of Stantin, he can contact anyone in the Duchy of Statine who also has a magic communication box at any time through the magic communication network of Guò.
Moreover, a magical communication line from the Duchy of Stante to the Kingdom of Lampari, which was jointly built by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Kingdom of Lampari last year, has also been completely laid.
Now, Xu Yi can even chat with Thurwell, who is 1,300 kilometers away, when he has nothing to do.
Compared to when Xu Yi wanted to contact Thurwell, he could only write a letter to her. It would take as little as five days to reach Cerwell, and this method of communication is undoubtedly much more convenient now.
Of course, this new type of communication also has many drawbacks.
From a personal point of view, compared to the mobile communication network on the earth, which can connect to countless mobile phones at multiple points at the same time, this magic communication network can only easily distinguish several magic phone boxes for different conversations.
As for the various services and conveniences that can be enjoyed on the planet, such as using mobile communication networks, you can't even think about it.
More broadly, the biggest problem with this mobile network is that the cost is too high.
In order to build a complete magical communication network in the Principality of Stantin, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has erected more than 700 magic signal towers before and after, many of which are erected in mountains that are difficult for human beings to reach. The total cost of the project is as high as more than 3 million gold coins.
And this is just the Principality of Stantin, a small country with an area of less than one-tenth of the Lampari Kingdom, which is erected, and the Lampari Kingdom wants to be completely erected. It would cost more than ten times as much.
Thurwell had been tempted to complete the project before, but when she obtained from Xu Yi that the estimated total cost of the project would be at least more than 30 million gold coins, she immediately dispelled this idea.
Xu Yi was helpless about this.
Of course, he hoped that the Lampari Kingdom, as well as the Ruerson Kingdom, and even the Sark Kingdom, the Falk Kingdom, and even the huge empires such as the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire, would completely set up a magical communication network, so that the communication problem that bothered him the most could be completely solved.
But if you think about it, you can see that this beautiful wish is absolutely impossible to realize, at least at present.
For example, although the Lampari Kingdom has been driven by the magic industry in recent years, the annual financial income has been rising, and last year, according to the number revealed to Xu Yi, it even exceeded 16 million gold coins, far exceeding the previous situation where the annual financial income was simply unable to be registered, but this still could not support Sevigny to make up his mind to spend an astonishing 30 million gold coins on the construction of a magic communication network.
Of course, from a fair point of view, Thurwell's concerns are not unreasonable, as the magical communication network currently laid by the New Flyers Chamber of Commerce is very limited.
The most critical problem is that because the magic signal is transmitted at a fixed frequency, it is difficult to get more people to use this magic communication network to talk at the same time.
This is also a problem that Xu Yi is very unhappy with, but fortunately, Akali and her research team have recently made a breakthrough to make subtle changes to the hypothetical communication magic array inside each magic box, so as to realize the transmission of different magic signals.
However, compared to mobile phones and mobile networks on the planet, this is still very inconvenient.
So all together, this magic communication network is very cost-effective in Sevigny's opinion.
And even Sevini can't accept this, so other countries naturally don't have to count on it.
As a result, although the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is now constantly erecting new magic signal towers, it is actually only erecting them within the scope of its own control, and it is simply extending the magic communication network in the Principality of Stanting outward.
One of the more obvious examples is the sea route between the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and the Candela Empire's navy, connecting the Duchy of Stantin and the southern ports of the Candela Empire.
On the face of it. Merchant ships on this sea route can use this magical communication network to send a distress signal. However, the specific operation and use of this magical communication network is firmly in the hands of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. It is a private communication network that belongs to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Xu Yi's next step is to continue to lay the magical communication network in the Endless Sea to the east, all the way to the commercial United Kingdom of Nozdorm, and then to the east coast of the Sainz continent to the north.
In this way, the new Flyer Chamber of Commerce can respond to the situation in each base outside the control of the main base at any time under ideal conditions.
With this foundation, the idea of opening up sub-bases elsewhere can be realized.
It's just that this is undoubtedly an extremely huge project, so let's estimate it casually. The investment in it is calculated in tens of millions of gold coins.
Even if the annual income of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is extremely amazing, it can't easily come up with such a huge investment.
Therefore, after Xu Yi made a summary of the various plans in his mind, he finally found that they all focused on one key factor, that is, time.
It takes time to make a research breakthrough, it takes time to change the infrastructure, and it takes even more time to get everyone on the continent to embrace the newness of the magical industry, and to change their conventional views.
In short, it takes a lot of time to achieve whatever you want to achieve.
After figuring this out, Xu Yi suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.
Before, he always seemed to have a leather whip behind him constantly whipping him, forcing him to tense his mind all the time. I think about a variety of issues and want to achieve the goals I have set.
Now that I understand this, it takes a lot of time to build on it. Xu Yi is no longer in such a hurry.
He decided that he would be relieved for a while.
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Bright sunlight poured down from the diagonal upwards, and after passing through a small gap in the dense foliage, it fell to the ground into patches of equally bright light.
Freya was bouncing back and forth in the clearing in the grove, stepping on patches of light, and letting out a few crisp and cheerful laughs from time to time.
After Xu Yi looked at it for a while, he stretched his waist and sat up from the recliner.
Looking at Freya's cheerful appearance, Xu Yi only felt that his whole body was relaxed.
In the past week, he has given himself a good vacation, staying at home every day to play with several children, although he is also busy, but it is a completely different feeling.
After staying with the children for a long time, Xu Yi even felt lazy, and felt that it was a good choice to live peacefully like this.
"Hey, Freya, come here. Xu Yi thought about it for a while, and suddenly beckoned to Freya.
Freya glanced back at Xu Yi, ran over with a silver bell-like laugh, plunged into Xu Yi's arms, and then pulled him out.
"Dad, get up and play with me. ”
Xu Yi smiled and shook his head: "Don't worry about it first." Freya, I have a question for you now, and you need to think about it before you answer it. ”
"Huh?" Freya blinked, two bright little eyes rolled around, and said with a grin, "Dad, Mom sent you to ask me, right?"
Xu Yi was stunned, then smiled, reached out and scratched Freya's nose, and asked, "Yes, your mother asked me to ask." But I'm also very concerned about this issue, you can sue me, have you decided what you want to do in the future?"
Freya wrinkled her beautiful nose and replied with a soft snort: "How do I know what I want to do in the future, my mother always asks me this, and I can't answer it at all." ”
Seeing the dissatisfaction on Freya's little face, Xu Yi couldn't help but laugh.
Although Freya has just turned 7 this year, she is already extremely intelligent, and she has shown great talent in both magic and other aspects, so Steele has high expectations and requirements for her.
This made Freya a little resistant in front of Steele now, and instead asked Xu Yi to run to ask these questions.
"Then tell me, what do you like to do?" Xu Yi asked.
"Do you like it? I like a lot, such as magic, such as machinery, such as history, such as ......" Freya replied as she folded her fingers one by one, looking very serious.
However, Xu Yi had to plan for her.
"Wait, Freya, listen, you can't be the best at everything, you have to make trade-offs. And what I want to ask you now is, which of these things do you like the most?"
"Favorite?" Freya frowned, thought for a moment, and shook her head. "I don't know...... Dad, Mom has taught me a lot of things, and I like everything, but Mom always forces me to learn the way she says, and I don't like that, can you help me sue Mom?"
Xu Yi suddenly smiled bitterly.
This Freya, who is only 7 years old, is so eccentric, and she has it when she grows up.
Just as she was about to speak, Freya suddenly clapped her little hand vigorously and said excitedly, "Dad, I know what I like to do the most!"
"Huh?" Xu Yi was stunned and asked, "What do you like to do the most?"
"I like it the same as you the most!" said Freya pointed at Xu Yi with her little finger. "When I grow up, I will be the president!"
Xu Yi blinked: "Why?"
"Because it will make others do my bidding!" Freya said with a sense of urgency.
Xu Yi slapped his forehead weakly.
It seems that he needs to talk to Steele about Freya's education.
Judging from Freya's reaction now, I'm afraid that she was oppressed too much when she was usually educated, and she had already had such a strong idea of resistance.
But after thinking about it, Xu Yi's eyes suddenly lit up, he smiled, pulled Freya in his arms, and said to her slowly and seriously: "Freya, listen up, being a president is not so easy, first you have to ......"
On an ordinary early summer afternoon, the woman who would be called the most powerful woman on the entire continent of Sainz for many years to come began her first lesson at the pinnacle of her life. (To be continued......)