Chapter 16: The Duchy of Drake
After discussing some details with President Vincent, Earl Stark unsurprisingly sent someone to invite Xu Yi into the side hall for a talk.
However, to Xu Yi's surprise, after entering the side hall, in addition to Earl Stark, there were actually two other people he didn't know.
"Come, President Xu, and introduce to you, these two are Miss Caroline and Mr. Anduin from the Duchy of Draco. When Earl Stark saw Xu Yi coming in, he took the lead in getting up, introduced him to the other man and woman, and then pointed to Xu Yi and introduced to the two people: "Miss Caroline, this is Xu Yi, the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce." ”
Xu also noticed that when Earl Stark introduced himself, he put this Miss Caroline in front, which means that her status should be higher than that of this Anduin.
Sure enough, after listening to Earl Stark's introduction, Miss Caroline stretched out her slender right hand to Xu Yi, and said with a bright smile on her face: "President Xu, I have heard of your name for a long time, and I have always wanted to see you. I am very happy and honored to finally be able to see a real person in person today. ”
His eyes officially fell on the face of this Miss Caroline, and Xu Yi suddenly felt that his eyes lit up.
It has been more than five years since he came to the Sainz Continent, and Xu Yi has seen countless young and beautiful girls so far, and before that, no girl could be as gorgeous as Steele.
But now, Steele has clearly met an opponent.
This Miss Caroline, in terms of appearance alone, is not half as inferior to Steele.
However, unlike Steele's bright and sunny appearance, this Miss Caroline's facial features were softer, matching her watery eyes. The whole person reveals a coquettish taste. But it's completely different from Steele's feeling.
Xu Yi stretched out his hand and shook her gently. smiled: "It's my honor to be appreciated by a beautiful lady like you." But why do you keep wanting to see me, Miss Caroline?"
Miss Caroline pursed her lips and smiled lightly, her eyes moved slightly, and she gave Xu Yi a slightly coquettish look: "Of course, it's because I've seen the magic machines produced by your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so I'm curious about the people who can make these magic machines." President Xu, I'm really curious, how did you come up with the idea of making those novel but useful magic machines?"
"Well...... You can think of it as a flash of inspiration in my mind. Xu Yi snorted. Turning to Count Stark, he said, "Your Excellency, you have called me here and let me meet these two distinguished guests, so you must have something to discuss, right?"
Earl Stark frowned slightly, then unfolded, smiled and nodded, and motioned for Xu Yi to sit down with the other two.
After everyone was seated, Earl Stark coughed lightly and said to Xu Yi, "President Xu, first of all, I think I should give you some explanations. During this time, a rumor was spreading in and around the city of Bontah. It is said that the policy of suppressing business and rejuvenating agriculture that I promoted, as well as the land re-planning implemented at the beginning, were deliberately aimed at you and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. I have to say. That's not what I intended, it's just that some people misinterpret what I mean. ”
Xu Yi looked at the sincere expression on Count Stark's face, held back his smile hard, nodded slightly, and tried to say in the same sincere tone: "I understand." If the City Lord really wants to deliberately target me and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, how can our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce still be alive and well now?
The muscles on Earl Stark's face trembled slightly, and then he laughed: "Of course this is impossible. As the lord of Bang Ta City, although I pay more attention to agricultural development in comparison, there is no reason for our Chamber of Commerce in Bang Ta City to die. This is obviously impossible, so President Xu, you need to understand this, so as not to be misled by the villain. ”
"I understand. Xu Yi nodded, too lazy to waste time with Earl Stark on such boring nonsense, and continued to ask: "So Lord City, let's talk about business." ”
"Well, President Xu cherishes his time so much, no wonder he can be so successful. Earl Stark praised it, nodded to Miss Caroline and Mr. Anduin, and then continued to Xu Yi: "President Xu, just now I just wanted you to introduce the names and origins of Miss Caroline and Mr. Anduin, but I didn't introduce their identities to you. Now let me reintroduce you to it. Miss Caroline is the youngest daughter of Archduke Draco, and Mr. Anduin is the Minister of Commerce of the Duchy of Dedraco. ”
Xu Yi was slightly stunned, and hurriedly stood up again, solemnly re-imposing a noble etiquette to the two.
"It turned out to be His Royal Highness the Lord of Caroline, it was really rude just now. ”
Lord Caroline and Prime Minister Anduin also stood up again and returned the salute, and Lord Caroline smiled: "This is not a formal occasion, Viscount Xu, you don't have to mind." ”
Because Xu Yi performed aristocratic etiquette to her, the Lord of Caroline also changed the title of Xu Yi from "President Xu" to "Viscount Xu".
Anduin also nodded and said, "Viscount Xu, you don't have to worry about this, in fact, this time I came down to see you with His Royal Highness the County Lord, hoping to have some commercial cooperation with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so we prefer to limit your title to 'President Xu', do you understand what I mean?"
"Business cooperation?" Xu Yi glanced at Count Stark with some confusion.
This Earl Stark is obviously suppressing the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce everywhere, but why would he take the initiative to bring such a guest to himself?
As for this Duchy of Drake, according to Xu Yiyi's geographical knowledge about the Sainz Continent, he knows that it borders the northeast border of the Lampari Kingdom, and also borders the Sark Kingdom, which is a small principality that is just in the middle of the Lampari Kingdom and the Sark Kingdom.
Although it is also a principality, the evaluation of the Duchy of Draco is much stronger than that of the Duchy of Constantine, because after all, it has been able to survive for hundreds of years between the Kingdom of Lampari and the Kingdom of Sark, which shows that the Grand Duke of Drake's family, who rule this principality, still has some skills.
However, because the Duchy of Draco is connected to the northeastern border of the Lampari Kingdom, and the city of Bonta is in the southwest of the Lampari Kingdom, the distance between them is close to a thousand kilometers in a straight line.
This Caroline County Lord and Anduin are both big names in the Duchy of Drake, and it took so long to travel such a long distance to come to Bonta City to meet Xu Yi, which shows that they are full of sincerity.
But Xu Yi is very strange that if it is just a normal business cooperation, then it is necessary for this Anduin to come to talk to Xu Yi in person because he is the Minister of Commerce, but what is this Royal Highness Queen Caroline also running to do?
"Because I really want to see President Xu in person. In the face of Xu Yi's question, Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline showed a sweet smile and said: "I have been very interested in magic since I was a child, but because my talent is not high, my magic strength has always been very poor, so I can only be very interested in some gadgets made by magic. Ever since I was a child, I've fantasized that if magic is so magical, it must be possible to rely on magic to create a lot of equally magical things to accomplish things that we humans can't do on our own. This kind of thing rarely appeared on this continent before, and I didn't have the ability to study it, so I always regretted it. But after seeing all kinds of magical machines produced by your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, I found that my regrets had finally been made up! President Xu, can you understand my excitement when I saw those magic machines?"
Seeing the excitement of Lord Caroline's approaching body and the surprise on her face as she spoke, Xu Yi smiled and raised her gaze slightly to avoid looking directly at the snow-white chest that was exposed after leaning over.
"I can't believe that Lord Carolyn has the same interests as I did when I was a child. These magical machines originated from my childhood fantasies. Being able to make so many kinds of magic machines is also a dream come true. ”
Lord Caroline sighed, "President Xu, it would be nice if I could meet you when I was a child, so that we could have a common dream and grow up together and study magic machinery together." ”
Xu Yi coughed lightly, feeling that Lord Carolyn's words were a little **.
Besides, he grew up on Earth when he was a child, and no matter how much Lord Caroline had the same dreams as him, it was impossible for him to grow up with him.
"If Lord Caroline still has this dream, it's not impossible to start researching magical machinery from now on. Xu Yi smiled, turned to Anduin and said, "Mr. Anduin, what exactly do you mean by business cooperation just now?"
Anduin pondered for a moment and said, "President Xu, I heard that your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has already cooperated with the Duchy of Stantin and the Ruerson Kingdom?"
"Yes. Xu Yi nodded.
"Then President Xu, if our Principality of Drake wants to carry out more in-depth cooperation with your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, are you willing to accept it?"
"I'm a businessman. Xu Yi smiled: "As long as you can make money, of course there is no problem with in-depth cooperation." But Mr. Anduin, you still haven't said exactly how you should cooperate?"
"Hmm...... I've heard that the Kingdom of Ruerson has purchased tens of thousands of Farmland Magic Machines from your Chamber of Commerce, and although we in the Principality of Drake also need these Farmland Magic Machines, I don't think simply buying them will solve the problem. ”
"So what?"
"Therefore, on behalf of Grand Duke Drac, I hereby sincerely invite the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to invest in our Duchy of Drak, not only to build a factory for the production of magic machinery for farmland, but also to build a factory to produce all the magic machinery that your Chamber of Commerce is currently producing. Anduin waved his hand rather proudly.
"It's a good idea, and I agree with it in theory. But ......" Xu Yi smiled slightly. "In practice, it's not realistic. (To be continued......)