This special target was Viscount Leslie.
Viscount Leslie had led the remaining subordinates of the Stagg Family to stay on Paradise Island for ten years, so he had already taken control of Paradise Island.
With the support of the New Flyer, Paradise Island had already developed a decent magic machine industry. Moreover, because of Xu Yi's suggestion, Viscount Leslie had placed Paradise Island's main development in the shipbuilding and fishing industries.
Now that Paradise Island had four harbours and three shipyards, they could make at least five large transport Magic Ships and over twenty guard ships each year. Their output could even compare to the shipyards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's main base.
Most of these ships were given to the New Flyer and a small part was kept by Viscount Leslie for his own use.
Adding in the military magic machines provided by the New Flyer, Viscount Leslie had developed over the years. He now had a fleet of eight large transport Magic Ships and twenty seven guard Magic Ships under his name.
These eight large transport Magic Ships with the small transport Magic Ships formed a very strong transport fleet. Not only could they handle the trade between Paradise Island and the Sines, they could also handle the sea transport requests of many countries and companies in the Sines.
The Leslie Chamber of Commerce's sea transport was second only to the Xinfei Transport Company. Even the New Flyer sometimes hired the Leslie Chamber of Commerce's ships to help with the sea transport.
It could be said that after Leslie came to Paradise Island, he had found a new world. He had a place to display his abilities and stretch his muscles.
Furthermore, he had performed exceptionally well and had managed Paradise Island well.
Last year, Xu Yi had been invited by Leslie to Paradise Island. He found that this island was much better compared to the desolate and backward state it was when he first found it.
Although it was only an island with a total area of less than twenty square kilometers, Leslie had built a complete road network on the island. Moreover, he had built a road around the island, making transportation on the island incomparably convenient.
At the same time, he also carried out a strict division of each area on the island. The industrial area and the living area were completely separated and did not affect each other. All the buildings were specially planned to be neat, tidy, and beautiful.
After that, he even invited a group of elves to rearrange the vegetation on Paradise Island, causing the entire island to be bathed in green grass and red flowers. Regardless of whether one was looking down from the sky or standing on the island, it was a refreshing sight.
Xu Yi even felt that choosing to live on Paradise Island was a kind of enjoyment.
Moreover, according to the information Leslie provided, not only did the residents of Paradise Island solve the problem of food and clothing, each person's annual income was already over a hundred gold coins. Everyone was living a good life and compared to before, it was simply a different world.
Because of this, although Leslie and the Stagg Family led by him were the rulers, they received the support of all the residents on the island and had a high prestige on the island.
After Xu Yi personally saw the situation on Paradise Island, he couldn't help feeling emotional. The life here was truly worthy of its name, it was simply like heaven.
The other meaning behind his emotional feelings was that he had worked hard on the Sines for twenty years. Although he had brought large changes to the Sines, like the Principality of Constantine and the Lampari Kingdom, the one that was closest to his ideal state was Paradise Island that had only started developing later.
Of course, Paradise Island was small and had a small population. As long as he focused on developing an industry, it would be much easier to change it.
Moreover, because Paradise Island was too small, it had limited space to develop and was very fragile.
If they lost their advantage in the shipbuilding industry, Paradise Island would instantly return to its original state.
Xu Yi was clear on this, but Leslie was even more clear on this.
So Leslie had always been looking for a way out for Paradise Island to develop. He had suddenly visited Xu Yi last month and asked Xu Yi to share some of the military magic machine technology with him because of this.
Leslie wasn't willing to only work for New Flyer on the Magic Boats, so he wanted to build new Magic Boats and Magic Battleships on this basis.
Xu Yi approved of his idea, but as for whether he would support it or not ….. Xu Yi was very hesitant.
It was very clear that if Paradise Island could build their own Magic Boats, they would have a long term iron rice bowl that would guarantee that Paradise Island wouldn't need to worry about not earning money in the future.
Moreover, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have an even stronger partner, allowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to obtain more Magic Ships. This would be of great help to developing the Demon Cloud Continent and developing new continents in the future.
But what Xu Yi was worried about was that perhaps under Leslie's leadership, Paradise Island could maintain a close relationship with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and cooperate with them happily, even continuing to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a long time. But if the situation changed and there was friction between Paradise Island and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, or even a direct conflict of interest, this current partner might become a powerful enemy.
In terms of personal feelings, Xu Yi was very happy to help Viscount Leslie, but from the perspective of New Flyer, it was clear that it would benefit them to continue using Paradise Island as their OEM factory.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn't help revealing a bitter smile.
As New Flyer gradually became stronger, there were more and more situations where he had to make a choice.
In the beginning, he didn't have any scruples sticking to his original idea, continuing to share technology and promoting everyone's development.
However, as New Flyer became bigger and bigger, it had already developed into a large company with close to three hundred thousand employees. Any decision he made would affect the fates of these three hundred thousand employees, so he couldn't be willful anymore.
"Is there a way to help Paradise Island develop better without harming the benefits of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?"
Xu Yi knit his brows in thought.
Actually, if Leslie was willing to accept this and continued to be a partner of New Flyer, helping New Flyer with various OEM projects, Paradise Island would be able to prosper for a long time.
But Leslie was strong enough and his ambition wasn't small, so he definitely wouldn't accept this arrangement.
Him making this request now was clearly aiming for an even bigger goal.
He even directly told Xu Yi that in order to fulfill this request, he was willing to open up all of Paradise Island's manpower and resources to New Flyer. It could be seen how determined he was.
"But how can a mere Paradise Island's resources compare to something as important as the military magic machine technology?"
Xu Yi thought for a while and still felt troubled.
If he agreed, it would be disadvantageous for New Flyer in the long run.
But if he didn't agree, Leslie might have a grudge against him, which would still be disadvantageous for New Flyer.
How to grasp the middle degree was a very difficult problem to grasp.
"Knock, knock, knock."
A series of rhythmic knocks suddenly came from the door.
"Cindy, come in." Xu Yi didn't even turn his head as he called out.
The door was pushed open and Cindy walked in. When she saw Xu Yi staring at the map on the wall, she revealed a knowing smile.
Mr. President would often stare at the map and ponder about important issues, so she wasn't surprised.
"How is it?
What did the guys from the logistics department say? "Xu Yi suddenly asked.
"They said that since it's Mr. President's order, they will strictly follow it." Cindy replied.
"They didn't say anything else?"
"No."
"Ha, at least they know what's good for them.
It's fine to complain, it's fine to give suggestions, but they have to do it. This is the iron law of New Flyer. "
Xu Yi said with a smile. Then he turned around and saw a thick document in Cindy's hand. He asked in surprise, "What is this?"
Cindy immediately handed the document to Xu Yi.
"This is the latest report from the Southern Airship Exploration Team. Please take a look, Mr. President."
"Oh?
There's news back so soon? "
Xu Yi took the document and opened it to see a large title.
"The Southern Continent has confirmed it!"
Xu Yi's eyes opened wide in surprise as he quickly read it.
This so called southern airship exploration team was one of the exploration teams that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sent to the Sines Continent after confirming the existence of the Demon Cloud Continent. They were responsible for heading to the south of the Sines Continent to explore.
For efficiency and safety, these exploration teams were all equipped with Magic Airships.
Although this kind of endurance couldn't compare to a fleet on the sea, with the current performance of the Magic Airships, they could travel five thousand kilometers in a single trip.
If they couldn't find a new continent within five thousand kilometers, there wasn't much meaning in continuing to explore. This was because the New Flyer didn't have the financial resources and manpower to explore another continent for now.
What Xu Yi didn't expect was that in less than two months after the exploration team was sent out, there was already clear news that came back. Moreover, the first piece of news was such an important piece of news.
In this report, the exploration team described in detail the situation of their exploration to the south.
In the first month, they followed Xu Yi's arrangements and went around the southern seas of the Sines, expanding their exploration range as much as possible.
However, they only found endless sea water in a month, as well as islands dotting the surface of the sea.
Although some of the islands were very large, they were still far from being a whole new continent.
At the beginning of the second month, they finally found a continent that they couldn't see the end of on the sea three thousand kilometers away from the Sines.
After a week of exploration, they were certain that this continent was a real continent and not an island that was rather large. This was because they had been flying along the coast of the continent for close to a week, but they still hadn't seen the other side of the continent.
After confirming this point, the exploration team immediately wrote an advance report on the results of their observations and sent it back to them.
Following this, they would continue to explore the continent and confirm more detailed information.
Xu Yi noticed a sentence in the report.
"I don't know why, but this continent is very hot, it's just like summer. After we got off the Magic Airship, everyone was forced to wear a single layer of clothing.
If it's already this hot in winter, it's hard to imagine how hot it will be in summer. It might not be suitable for humans to live here. "
Seeing this, Xu Yi couldn't help smiling.
The continent to the south didn't have winter, rather it was summer.
The reason why the Sines Continent was already in winter and the weather was cold while the other continent was hot was very simple. It was because that continent was on the other side of the equator, so the season was completely different from the Sines Continent to the north of the equator.
On the last page of the report, there was a simple map that the exploration team had sent back.
Xu Yi looked over the map and revealed a smile.
"Alright, I've found the solution."