Chapter 37: This is our strength
It wasn't until he returned to Kennard's CEO's office that Kennard, who had been silent, spoke: "Elder, don't you worry that you will really anger the Duke of Windsor if you adopt this attitude?"
Xu Yi glanced at him, thinking that he had actually explained this problem to Kennard several times, but he still hadn't figured it out.
It seems that the fear of people in this world for a huge country like the Candela Empire is really deep-rooted, and even a person like Kennard who was born in a great noble family in the Lampari Kingdom is difficult to change.
But it's no wonder that they are, after all, the Candela Empire can be regarded as the largest and oldest empire on the Sainz continent at present, and it has a better status in people's minds than the Maro Empire.
It is not uncommon for people in other small countries on the continent to be afraid of the Candela Empire.
Xu Yi is different, he is from the earth, and he does not have a deep perception of the countries on the Sainz continent, plus he was originally from the Celestial Empire, a country that has always existed as a big country on the earth, but he has never had the natural fear of people from small countries facing big countries.
The Candela Empire may be a formidable behemoth to Kennard, but in Xu Yi's opinion, it is too big to be feared.
Even every time he thought that Chalon's 3,000 men were easily defeated by Baron Prado's 300 or so subordinates in an encounter, Xu Yi couldn't help but want to laugh.
Baron Prado's subordinates are only equipped with some magic repeaters and individual magic rocket artillery, and they can defeat 3,000 enemies with 300 people, which shows how terrifying the equipment of military magic machinery is to improve the combat effectiveness of soldiers.
And Baron Prado's men are simply a rabble. There is no war literacy at all. The use of military magic machinery is only at the level of being able to use it. The corresponding tactics have not even been developed.
Compared with the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort team, which is equipped with a large number of high-level military magic machines, and the daily training revolves around various military magic machines, the combat effectiveness of Baron Prado's subordinates is definitely several times worse.
Even if they were able to defeat these men of the Duke of Windsor so easily, if they were replaced by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Escort, they would only be crushed more easily.
It should be said that since experiencing the civil war in the Lampari Kingdom and the battles between the Duchy of Stantin and the Grand Duke of Weilun and other nobles, Xu Yi has a deeper understanding of the combat effectiveness of those traditional armies in this world.
In his opinion, the emergence of military magic machinery has completely subverted the mode of war in this world. The army, which still holds the previous model, has no possibility of being able to compete with an opponent equipped with military magic machinery.
Several surrounding countries have already felt this to a certain extent, so they have been very eager to ask the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to purchase all kinds of military magic machinery, hoping to improve the combat effectiveness of their own national army.
At the same time, this is also the reason why several surrounding countries are so scruples about the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to not wanting to offend the director of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, he was also afraid of the combat effectiveness of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's escort team.
And the Candela Empire knows too little about the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so they still put on a high-minded posture and don't take the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in their eyes.
However, in Xu Yi's view, although the Candela Empire is one of the two major empires on this continent, it is actually just a paper tiger.
Kennard was still so fearful of the Candela Empire. In addition to the deep-rooted concepts in his heart, it is also because he has always dealt with the internal management of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. There is very little involvement in the military magic machinery department and the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so I don't know much about the strength of the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi felt that he had made some mistakes before.
No matter how Kennard is the CEO of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, it doesn't seem so appropriate to completely isolate him from the military department of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
After a moment of silence, Xu Yi no longer explained so much to Kennard, but pulled him, and the two left the office again, got into Xu Yi's personal magic car together, and drove quickly towards the northwest of the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The location of the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was originally located in the northwest corner of the entire Duchy of Stantin, with the sea to the west and the junction of the Black Rice Wasteland and the Duchy of Stantin to the north.
And in the northwestern corner of this vast land, another site was opened up two years ago, which was specially used as a test ground for the new military magic machinery of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and a training base for the escort team of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
Kennard couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw that Xu Ye had brought him here.
Because Xu Yi had never taken the initiative to let him contact the specific affairs of the Military Magic Machinery Department of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce before, he also consciously did not touch these aspects.
Now Xu Yi suddenly brought him here, why?
However, Xu Yi didn't give him time to ask questions, and drove the magic car directly into the base, and then drove to a wide field north of the base, and then stopped.
As soon as Kennard got out of the car, he heard a loud bang in the sky ahead.
When I looked up, I saw that there were five magical airships suspended in the air.
In front of the magic airship, beams of light were being unleashed, crisscrossing the air back and forth.
And in the gap between these beams, a shadow scurried around at an extremely high speed, not touching the slightest bit of these beams.
"What is this doing?" Kennard asked, stunned.
"This is the Guardian conducting a combat exercise with the Grand Wizard of Rainer. Xu Yi glanced up and replied with a smile. "Looks like these guys in the Guardian Team have improved again, and they can press the Grand Mage of Rena like this with only five magic airships, not bad......
"Grand Magician Rainer?" Kennard was even more stunned.
Looking at the sky, he realized that the shadow scurrying in the sky was really a figure.
According to what Xu Yi just said, that is the Grand Magician of Rena?
But Archmage Rena is a mighty mage!
In Kennard's view, almost everyone who can become a great magician is a powerful character who can push mountains and seas, just like the kind of myths and legends, and is not at all something ordinary people can compete with.
However, the Chamber of Commerce Escort in front of him forced this great magician to flee in all directions with five magic airships, which was too subversive of Kennard's common sense.
After staring intently for a while, the five magic airships in the sky stopped attacking, and the scurrying figure also stopped in midair.
Kennard looked closely, and it was none other than Grand Magician Rainer.
"Kennard, do you know why I brought you to see this?" Xu Yi, who was beside him, suddenly asked.
"This ......" Kennard muttered for a long time, then looked up at the magic airship and the Grand Mage of Rena in the sky, and said with a slight hesitation, "I want to ...... Judging from your attitude towards Baron de Chalon, I think you want to tell me that our Chamber of Commerce has the ability to compete with that Duke of Windsor, so you can be tougher?"
"Well, Kennard, you're a man who understands. Xu Yi smiled and nodded. "In the previous meeting, you once suggested that I should cede some of my interests to the Candela Empire, so that it would be easier to find agents from the Candela Empire, so as to achieve our goal of entering the market of the Candela Empire, but I refused, do you remember?"
"Yes. Kennard nodded, recalling the situation at that time, and responded, "Your Excellency, you told me at the time that although our Chamber of Commerce definitely needs to enter the market of the Candela Empire, we must maintain a complete posture and should not leave our fate in the hands of others. ”
"Yes. I also said at the time that if you want to control your own destiny, you need to have enough strength. And what I'm showing you now is where the real strength of our Chamber of Commerce lies, do you see anything from it?" Xu Yixiao asked.
Kennard raised his head and silently looked at the five magic airships and Grand Magician Rena in the sky that were moving again, pondered for a long time, and then exhaled lightly, nodded and said, "I probably understand what you mean, Lord Lord. But Elder, the Candela Empire is one of the two great empires after all, and its heritage is far beyond your imagination, and it will be far beyond the limits of what our Chamber of Commerce can afford. We may be able to compete with the Duke of Windsor, but we definitely can't compete with the entire Candela Empire. And...... What good will it do us if we completely anger the Duke of Windsor?"
"The benefits are certainly there, and they will be profound. As for the immediate benefit, it is to show everyone our attitude. I just want to use this incident to tell others that the Duchy of Stantin is the territory of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and any attempt to get involved in the Duchy of Stanting is against our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yidao.
Kennard smiled bitterly: "Even if the object is the Candela Empire, isn't it an exception?"
"Why should the Candela Empire be an exception?" Xu Yi pretended to be surprised.
Kennard was stunned, then smiled wryly again.
"Grown, you...... Isn't it a little too confident?"
Xu Yi laughed and patted Kennard on the shoulder, not wanting to explain.
The reason why Kennard was brought here today to watch the training of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Escort was just to let him understand his true thoughts, and he had no intention of really changing his concept.
For example, the deep-rooted concept of "the Candela Empire is strong", Xu Yi understands very well that it cannot be shaken for a while.
If you want to change, you can only wait until the future to wash it again and again with more facts.
And the key lies in the present. (To be continued......)