Chapter 69 Competition for Mineral Resources
Two months later, a fleet much larger than the reinforcement fleet sent by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce slowly sailed out of Xinfei Port.
In addition to a large number of reinforcements and materials sent by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, this fleet also includes the Candela Empire, the Maro Empire, the Lampari Kingdom, the Luxon Kingdom, the Drake Principality, and a total of 11 countries' cooperators and some supplies.
After the last meeting, only these 11 countries finally decided to cooperate with the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to enter the development of the New World, accounting for less than a quarter of the countries represented at the meeting at that time.
This is also normal, after all, for this new continent that suddenly appeared, except for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, no one else knows very much, and of course it is impossible to invest a lot of money when it comes up.
This time, these eleven countries sent only a very simple investigation team, and the materials sent were also only some of the daily necessities that were nominally taken out to support the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and they did not have any specific significance.
So in fact, in this much larger fleet, the most important thing is from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce itself.
Xu Yi is not like those countries who are still hesitating, through the continuous exploration of the exploration team in front of him for a year, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has already had a certain understanding of the situation on the Demon Cloud Continent, and Xu Yi has already determined the plan to develop the new continent.
This time, the reinforcement fleet not only included a large number of personnel and materials, but also sent a full 3,000 New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort guards, as well as military magic machinery filled with two large cargo magic ships, just to be able to build a forward base smoothly.
Of course. In order to truly take root in the New World, this base still needs to take on a lot of tasks.
Because the distance between the two continents is tens of thousands of kilometers, it takes nearly a month for the fleet to travel a lot. Therefore, the base on the Demon Cloud Continent cannot completely rely on the Sainz Continent to transport supplies from the past, and must try its best to be self-sufficient.
Therefore, according to Xu Yi's plan, a complete small industrial base must be established in this base, which is enough to meet the various needs of the base.
One of the most basic needs is the supply of daily necessities and some military magic machinery.
To meet these two needs, it means that the base must obtain sufficient resources from the local area of the Demon Cloud Continent.
Of course, these resources cannot fall out of thin air.
According to the agreement reached between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Zanzas Elf Clan and the Karrom Gnome Clan, the two clans will help the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce obtain some resources in the early stage. Meet the early needs of the new flying chamber of commerce base.
However, the strength of these two tribes themselves is limited, and it is impossible to meet the requirements of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to become more and more powerful after that.
So in the final analysis, it is still up to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to obtain it itself.
But want to get resources. It is inevitable to face all kinds of expected and unanticipated dangers on the Demon Cloud Continent, so it is even more necessary to have sufficient military support, simply put, it is necessary to have enough escorts and military magic machinery.
And this, too, is not entirely dependent on the support of the headquarters of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the Sainz continent. You still need to figure it out yourself.
So to put it bluntly. It is an extremely difficult thing to establish a complete sub-base tens of thousands of kilometers away from the main base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and Xu Yi cannot be 100% optimistic about it.
But he couldn't help but do it, because the New Flyers wanted to get enough room for development, and this new continent was a more suitable place for the Race Continent.
The deepest reason is that the Sainz continent is already a continent with a basically fixed form, and all the land and resources have long been divided up by other countries.
It will be extremely difficult for the New Flying Chamber to get involved, especially now that the magic industry is getting more and more developed. A period of time when countries are paying more and more attention to relevant resources.
A month after the departure of the reinforcement fleet, including the Chimera Chamber of Commerce. A total of 46 chambers of commerce mainly engaged in mineral resources on the Sainz continent announced that they have jointly established a joint meeting of mineral resources to integrate and cooperate with all mineral resources under their names and unify business standards.
This is the first time that an organization of this nature has appeared on the continent of Sainz, so when the organization called the Chino Mineral Resources Joint Organization Agreement Conference, referred to as the Chino Federation, was just announced, many people did not understand what they were going to do.
However, several events that happened in the next half month told others the answer to this question.
In order to ensure the stability and controllability of mineral resources, the mineral prices of all chambers of commerce under the name of Chino Federation will be uniformly formulated.
After research, the Chino Federation officially announced the preliminarily determined price.
Then everyone found that compared with the previous prices of various mineral resources, the price drawn up by the Chino Federation has all increased, and the iron ore, which is the most demanding, has increased by as much as 15%!
And the same huge demand, but because the price has been very low before, the price of magic crystals, which has not been paid attention to, has also increased by a full ten percent, officially breaking through one gold coin and one ton.
This price increase, of course, is the most affected by the demand for these mineral resources, the magic machinery chambers of commerce led by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Although it seems to be only a dozen percent increase, it is really a significant increase in the manufacturing cost of these magical mechanical chambers, directly weakening their profits.
The profit margin of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has always been very high, which is not fatal to them, but for those small chambers of commerce, it has further weakened their already low profits, and has even directly affected the survival of many small chambers of commerce.
In order to keep costs low, many small chambers of commerce began to buy mineral resources from mineral resource chambers outside the Chino Federation.
However, these chambers of commerce under the name of the Chino Federation control almost all the mineral resources in most of the countries in the south and central parts of the entire Sainz continent, including the Candela Empire, and most of these small-scale magical machinery chambers of commerce are concentrated in the southeast of the Sainz continent, making it difficult for them to obtain sufficient mineral resources through other channels.
As a result, the establishment of this Chino Federation almost announced the death of many small-scale magical mechanical chambers.
Xu Yi was very unhappy about this.
In February 3781 of the continental calendar, that is, three months after the establishment of the Chino Federation was announced and the price of new mineral resources was announced, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced that out of the self-needs of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would set up an additional chamber of commerce under its name, called the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce.
As the name suggests, the main business of this Xinfei mining chamber of commerce is all kinds of mineral resources.
In the news released by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce said that the purpose of establishing this Chamber of Commerce is mainly because with the gradual expansion of the scale of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the demand for various mineral resources is increasing, and it is not appropriate to purchase all kinds of minerals from other channels, so it decided to solve this problem on its own.
But as long as you are not a fool, you can see that the establishment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is obviously directly aimed at the Chino Federation.
Prior to this, although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce also mastered some mineral resources under its own name, in fact, most of the mineral resources were directly purchased from other mineral chambers of commerce.
In the early days, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce mainly purchased from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Lampari.
Later, with the expansion of the scale of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the demand for mineral resources increased, coupled with the substantial development of the magic industry in the Kingdom of Lampari, the internal demand for various mineral resources also increased significantly, so the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce began to turn to other sources.
Among these channels, the most important ones are actually from the various chambers of commerce under the current name of the Chino Federation.
Now that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce suddenly announced the establishment of this Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce, it is clear that it wants to fight against the Chino Federation, doesn't it mean that the cooperation between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the chambers of commerce under the name of the Chino Federation has broken down?
However, the Chino Federation controls almost all the mineral resources in the southern and central parts of the continent, and if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce does not cooperate with them, where will it get enough mineral resources?
In mid-February, the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce officially announced its establishment, and at the same time announced that it has mastered and has been in the state of mining of 17 mines, indicating that the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce now has enough mineral resources to provide, and the outside world is welcome to order.
As soon as the news was announced, the outside world was in an uproar.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has been trying to control some of the mineral resources by itself, which many people know, but it is really surprising that it controls so much.
What is even more surprising is the price of various mineral resources announced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Taking iron ore as an example, the price announced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is seven gold coins and forty silver coins per ton, which is basically the same as the iron ore price of many previous chambers of commerce, and it is also the price at which the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has always purchased iron ore from other chambers of commerce.
But if compared with the iron ore announced by the Chino Federation, this price is nearly 20% lower!
If people thought that the establishment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was against the Chino Federation, it was still a guess in everyone's minds.
So now that the Xinfei Mining Chamber of Commerce has announced the price of such a mineral, it is completely equivalent to telling everyone nakedly, I just want to work against the Chino Federation!
Everyone was amazed at this.
Why did the new flying chamber do this?
If the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is the most powerful chamber of commerce in the magic industry, no one will have any doubts about it.
However, in the mining industry, where does the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce get its confidence?
You must know that the Chino Federation represents not only the forty-six Mineral Resources Chambers of Commerce, including the Chimera Chamber of Commerce, but also a large number of countries, including the Candela Empire. (To be continued......)