(Chapter 90 is here ^-^)

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After sailing into the southern waters of the Candela Empire for about four hours, the convoy came to a halt near an island about five or six square kilometers in size.

The island had no mineral resources, no other resources worth mentioning, and was not originally among the original objectives of the convoy.

However, just two months ago, Xu Yi changed the maritime strategy of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, intending to build an island chain in the endless sea, connecting all the islands with resources, and completely bringing them into the scope of control, so islands like this, which have no resources, but are very suitable for establishing bases in their own terrain and area, are also included in the scope of investigation.

There are countless islands like this in the vast waters south of the Candela Empire, and it is of course impossible to build a base on all of them.

After many investigations and comparisons, Xu also determined that this and two islands about 100 kilometers away and 200 kilometers away from here were the first steps based on Leslie's report.

Although the escort fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has actually been extremely active in the southern waters of the Candela Empire before, strictly speaking, the establishment of bases on these three islands is really the official entry of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce into the waters of the Candela Empire.

Although all the countries on this continent do not have a very clear concept of their own waters, after all, it is only less than a hundred kilometers away from the shortest straight line of the coastline of the Candela Empire, and it can actually be regarded as within the control of the Candela Imperial Navy.

Without informing the Candela Empire, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce set up bases on these three islands. What kind of reaction will the Candela Empire make. It's unpredictable.

After the convoy stopped near the island. Instead of idleness, dozens of small magic assault boats were laid down, carrying hundreds of sailors, and some of the building materials purchased from Porto Nissi were transported to the island first, and a simple settlement was set up on the coast.

About two hours later, before the improvised settlement was fully erected, a huge magic steamer shimmering silver in the sunlight approached the western sea.

Lesley led the convoy to meet him, and met Neval, the head of the transport fleet of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, on the large cargo magic steamer "Tuoyuan", which had been completed and launched to the sea only last month.

The two didn't exchange pleasantries. After a brief handover of work, he put down all the small magic assault boats at the same time, and transported a large number of personnel and subsequent construction materials with the "Tuoyuan" to the island.

This group of personnel is not only the personnel of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but also a large number of construction engineering personnel of the Amrley Chamber of Commerce.

These people came here for the sole purpose of building a port on the island in the first place.

Only by building the port first, can the follow-up materials be delivered to the island more conveniently and quickly, and facilitate the construction of the entire island base.

The construction of similar island bases has already been completed in the southern waters of the Ruerson Kingdom, so there is no need for Neval and Leslido to do any command, whether it is the entourage of the Amrley Chamber of Commerce or the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. The initial construction began with great skill.

A row of improvised houses was quickly erected on the shore at a rate almost visible to the naked eye, and then the first construction workers of the Amrley Chamber of Commerce moved in with all the necessities of life.

According to the plan. Starting tomorrow, they will spend as little as three months on the island until the initial construction of the port and island base is successfully completed, and then move on to the next phase on a case-by-case basis.

Staying on an otherwise uninhabited island for so long, and still having a lot of work intensity every day, the living environment is naturally extremely harsh.

However, whether it was the construction workers of the Amrley Chamber of Commerce or the personnel sent by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, none of them were resentful, but they were all smiling and enthusiastic.

It's a bit hard to work here, but you can get a basic salary of at least 30 gold coins every month.

And because of the rush to work, there is a lot of overtime, and if you add overtime pay, you can even get as much as 50 gold coins a month.

This alone is already a lot of money, not to mention that in addition, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has also issued a variety of subsidies with various names.

For example, because the weather in the southern sea is always very hot, a high temperature subsidy worth three gold coins will be given every month.

At the same time, because of the poor living conditions here and the high intensity of work, nutritional subsidies worth hardware coins will be given every month.

Coupled with some messy subsidies, if converted into money every month, this part is at least more than ten gold coins.

Under such amazing conditions, no matter how hard the work is, what is it?

"Hey, Neval, see, that's the good thing about having money. Leslie looked at the workers on the island and shrugged his shoulders to Neval. "As long as enough money is given, I think they are willing to let these workers sell their lives to the Chamber of Commerce. ”

"It's not difficult to buy a life with money. Neval glanced at Leslie. "Five years ago, on the island of Carrasga, you could buy a life on the island for ten gold coins. ”

Leslie glanced at Neval, speechless.

He knew that Neval was born on the island of Carrasga, and he also knew that the island of Carrasga used to be known as the island of pirates, and the island was full of outlaws, and it was indeed not unusual for ten gold coins to buy a life or something.

But now it still feels very strange to hear Neval say it himself.

"If it weren't for President Xu and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to change the life on the island, there would be no difference between the current Carrasga Island and the past. Neval suddenly sighed softly, quite emotionally. "Actually, don't talk about Carrasga Island five years ago, even now, if you take ten gold coins to other countries on this continent, you can easily buy a life. ”

Leslie was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly.

Staying in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for a long time will always give him a delusion. Think that the people around you have become very good. Everyone has no worries about food and clothing. The world is so much better than it used to be.

But in fact, in addition to the places affected by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, even in the surrounding countries, there are still some places where people can't even solve the most basic food and clothing problems.

As for the entire Sainz continent, there are countless places, and countless people are still starving and living in poverty.

When Leslie had persuaded Xu Yi before, he didn't need to work so hard and learn to enjoy himself, but Xu Yi shook his head and refused.

At the time, Leslie thought Xu Yi was simply a workaholic. I don't know how to enjoy life at all.

Now after chatting with Neval for a few words, he suddenly found that the reason why Xu Yi is a workaholic is probably because the goal in his heart is too ambitious.

He is working so hard in the hope that he can do his best to make everyone on this continent enjoy a better life......

Thinking of this, Leslie couldn't help but feel a trace of shame in her heart.

For the first time in his more than thirty-five years of life, this was the first time he had a feeling of shame.

"Actually, I once advised the elders that we could buy some slaves from other countries and let them do these jobs, so that we could save a lot of money. Now this base is really going to be built. At the very least, it will cost 300,000 gold coins. And if all slaves were used, tens of thousands of gold coins could be saved in wages alone. Neval said again.

"There's no way he'll say yes. Leslie shook her head. "What Xu Yi hates the most is the survival of slaves. He's said it to me many times. If he had enough money, he would buy all the slaves on the continent and restore their freedom. Now you run to him and tell him to buy slaves, it's strange that he doesn't scold you. ”

"Hmm...... Although the elder didn't scold me directly, I could see that he was angry, so I didn't talk about it in front of him again. Neval nodded. "But Lord Leslie, I've been thinking about something......"

"What's the problem?"

"It's okay for our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to not use slaves as workers, but if other chambers of commerce use a large number of slaves as workers in the future, their cost of trial workers will be much lower than ours, and their things can be sold much cheaper than ours. Now because the quality and performance of our chambers of commerce are much better than those of other chambers of commerce, so this is no problem. But later...... If the quality and performance of the things of other chambers of commerce are not bad, then our chamber of commerce will probably face a big problem......"

Leslie was slightly stunned, as if she were meeting Neval for the first time, and glanced him up and down.

"How did you come up with this idea?"

"When I was in Port Nissy, I met the president of a Chamber of Magical Machinery in the Kingdom of Ruersun, who had hired some slaves to work as workers, and had boasted to my face. I've been thinking about this since then, and the more I think about it, the more I feel that this question is very strict. Mistress Leslie, you have a good relationship with the Elder, can you remind him of this?"

Leslie frowned, thought for a moment, and shook her head slowly.

"I'm afraid it's useless. Xu Yi is a person who sticks to his principles very much. I remember that when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was first established, I sent him a group of my slaves to work in his factory, and his attitude towards these slaves at that time was different from that of the others. I think if he hadn't known that he didn't have enough strength at that time, I'm afraid that he would have bought all those slaves from me and restored their freedom. ”

This was the first time Neval had heard about the new flying chamber of commerce when it was first created, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes and look at Leslie intently, for fear of missing a word.

"And then you look at the whole Xinfei Chamber of Commerce up and down now, all the employees together are even close to 100,000 people, and there is not a single slave among them. Even the two slave maids beside him were restored to their free status by him. Even now he is pushing for a bill in the Duchy of Stantin, intending to abolish slavery throughout the Duchy of Stantin. What do you think...... Is it possible for him to accept hired slaves as laborers?"

Neval groaned for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile.

"What should I do? If the Lord refuses to use slaves, our Chamber of Commerce will definitely face the disadvantages of other Chamber of Commerce in this regard. How can we solve this problem?"

Leslie paused, suddenly laughed, patted Neval's shoulder vigorously and said, "Okay, can you think of this problem, can't Xu Yi think of it?" The two of us discussed here for a long time, worried for a long time, but in fact, Xu Yi already had a solution in his heart. I've known this guy for six years, and I've never seen him really stumped by something. So let's not worry about it here. ”

Neval tilted his head in thought, smiled and nodded.

"That's right. Where we need to worry about the Elder Growth, we just need to trust Him and do what He says. (To be continued......)