Freya felt a little impatient.
She had never liked this kind of banquet. Because of her status, or even purely because of her beauty, she would always be the center of attention at the banquet. She had no choice but to deal with an endless stream of harassers. Most of the time, she didn't even have time to eat.
However, she had a lively and active personality since she was a child. When she grew up, other than studying magic, she also paid attention to exercise under the influence of Xu Yi. Therefore, her body was actually much healthier than her appearance, and her appetite was also much bigger.
Attending this kind of banquet was not only troublesome, but she also couldn't fill her stomach. Of course, she didn't like it.
She definitely wouldn't come to this event, but this morning, there was a piece of news from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's headquarters that forced her to personally come. She replaced the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's Wimbledon City branch chairman who was planning on coming.
All he wanted was to have a few words with Duke Garbut at the banquet.
Even though she could directly visit Grand Duke Garbut and relay the message her father sent through the headquarters, Freya would rather participate in this activity and meet Grand Duke Garbut than pay a visit to a great noble, she would rather participate in this activity and meet the grand duke.
Moreover, when she came to the Kandla Empire, she represented the entire New Flyer, so she couldn't just visit anyone casually. Otherwise, it would easily arouse suspicion.
If she met Duke Garbutt at this event and chatted with him, she wouldn't have to worry about that.
Moreover, the first steel mill in Wimbledon City was the first steel mill that New Flyer helped to build in the Kandla Empire. It represented the close cooperation between the Kandla Empire and New Flyer in the past ten years, which was indeed significant.
For her, as the daughter of the president of the Chamber of Commerce, to come in person, it also showed that New Flyer attached great importance to this event.
Fortunately, because Grand Duke Garbut was sitting next to Freya, no one dared to come over and harass Freya. This allowed her to enjoy the delicious food on the table — it would be better if she didn't pay so much attention to her manners.
As they ate, they chatted indifferently with Duke Garbut. Soon, the banquet was coming to an end, and Duke Garbut invited Freya to rest elsewhere with him.
Freya gladly complied.
After a while, the two of them led the representatives of the Kandla Empire and the New Flyer into a small room.
After taking their seats, Grand Duke Garbut chatted with Freya for a while before getting down to business.
"Miss Freya, the empire is determined to obtain the magic communication network technology.
Even if your chamber of commerce is unwilling to sell it, the empire is already researching and developing this technology. I believe that it won't be long before a major breakthrough is made.
At that time, even if your chamber of commerce transfers the relevant technology, I'm afraid it won't be valued by the Empire. "
Freya smiled, thinking that this was a threat.
"As I said just now, as long as the conditions are right, our chamber of commerce doesn't mind transferring the relevant technology."
"But the conditions proposed by your chamber of commerce are really …" Grand Duke Garbut glanced at Askendall Marquis, who was sitting on the other side, and shook his head.
"It's difficult to accept.
Your chamber of commerce wants to continue to be involved in the operation of the empire's magic communication network in the future. This is a condition that we cannot accept.
I think your chamber of commerce is also very clear that the magic communication network involves many secrets and has a great impact on the empire.
If there are other chambers of commerce outside the empire involved, it will be difficult for the empire to be at ease. "
"I understand.
But in the plan I submitted to you, I also made it clear that the magic communication network can be divided into several different systems.
Our chamber of commerce is not involved in the secrets of your empire, so you can create a secret magic communication network system on your own. "
"But this system can easily overlap with the ordinary magic communication network system," Askendall Marquis interjected.
"And it's also difficult to ensure secrecy. We can't take this risk."
"From a technical point of view, this is actually a very easy problem to solve," Freya said seriously.
"On this point, I think the people in your empire who have studied the magic communication network are very clear. I don't need to say more."
Grand Duke Garbut looked at Askendall Marquis. Askendall Marquis thought for a moment and nodded in agreement with Freya's statement.
"As for your concern that our chamber of commerce will steal the secrets of your empire, you can rest assured about this.
First of all, our chamber of commerce has no such thoughts. Second, as I said just now, the technical problem is very easy to solve. As long as you obtain the relevant technology, I believe that with the ability of the Kandla Empire, you will be able to study and understand it very quickly.
In addition, the most important point of the conditions proposed by our chamber of commerce is actually not this, but the integration into the mainland's magic communication network system. You have never objected to this point. "
Askendall Marquis muttered, "Realizing long-distance instant communication throughout the Sines is also beneficial to our empire, so of course we won't object to the integration of this system.
Of course, we also require the internal magic communication network system of the empire to have its own independence and be completely detached from the mainland's magic communication network system when necessary. "
"This is still just a technical problem. It's not difficult."
Freya paused and continued, "Since the Grand Duke is also here, then I'll simply say it.
In fact, what our chamber of commerce wants to see is that your Kandla Empire can fully promote the laying of the magic communication network. "
Askendall Marquis looked displeased, "Miss Freya, do you think the empire won't do this?
The magic communication network is so important to the empire, how can we not take it seriously? "
"Is that so?" Freya smiled and did not refute this sentence.
In fact, in the past ten years, New Flyer had vigorously promoted the magic communication network to all the countries in the Sines, but so far, not a single country had been able to achieve the original goal of New Flyer.
There were many reasons for this, but the main reason was that these countries were not very enthusiastic about it.
Even the two empires with stronger national strength did not attach much importance to it, and there were often conflicts in some places, causing progress to be slow.
The reason for this situation was actually related to the problem that the people from the Kandla Empire had just mentioned.
New Flyer had helped to lay out the magic communication network, which was a good thing, but New Flyer had taken control of the magic communication network, which made the other countries very dissatisfied and unwilling to pay attention to it.
Moreover, even if New Flyer had provided a lot of manpower, materials, and technical support in the beginning, the main investment in laying out the magic communication network in the country was still from the various countries.
Then, these countries invested a lot of manpower and materials, but were unable to take control of the magic communication network in their own hands. Of course, they would not be enthusiastic about it.
Therefore, in fact, the request made by the Kandla Empire this time was also a very reasonable request from an objective point of view. It was also within the expectations of Xu Yi and New Flyer.
Xu Yi let Freya be fully responsible for this matter this time, and at the same time expressed that he could hand over the magic communication network to the Kandla Empire, which meant that he had already planned to hand it over.
However, Freya certainly did not intend to let the Kandla Empire get what they wanted so easily. Before she obtained enough benefits for New Flyer, she would not relent.
In the past few days, she had been in contact with the Kandla Empire several times, and she had not relented in the aspect of handing over control, which was to force the Kandla Empire to come up with better conditions.
Grand Duke Garbutt glanced at Freya, knowing that the Empire's parliament and the Empire's magic machine industry management department were not ready yet, but it was meaningless to drag this matter on.
In the face of the absolute technological advantage that New Flyer had, the Kandla Empire did not have many conditions to negotiate at all.
"Miss Freya … Since this magic communication network is set up in our Kandla Empire, then there is no doubt that it should be controlled by our empire. There is no compromise on this point." Grand Duke Garbutt's expression was serious, and his tone was firm.
"Of course, your Chamber of Commerce has paid a huge price to assist the empire in setting up this magic communication network, and the empire will definitely give appropriate compensation."
Freya looked at Askendall Marquis, then at Grand Duke Garbutt. After a moment of silence, she suddenly sighed and shook her head.
"Grand Duke, Lord Marquis, in fact, I don't understand. Your Kandla Empire is clearly very confident that you can develop military magic machines without the assistance of our New Flyer, but why are you not confident that you can protect the privacy of the magic communication network after receiving the technology transfer from our Chamber of Commerce?"
Grand Duke Garbutt and Askendall Marquis' expressions changed at the same time.
After a while, Grand Duke Garbutt narrowed his eyes and shook his head with a smile. "Miss Freya, I'm afraid there is something wrong with your analogy. Our Kandla Empire has signed the 'Continental Peace Convention'. How can we develop military magic machines on our own?"
Freya pursed her lips and smiled. "Really?"
After saying that, Freya took out two thin drawings from her small bag and handed them to Grand Duke Garbutt.
Grand Duke Garbutt took a look, and his expression changed drastically.
Askendall Marquis also leaned over to take a look and found that there were two pictures on the two pieces of paper.
The first picture was a portrait of a young and beautiful woman. Judging from the portrait, she was probably in her twenties.
The second painting was a landscape painting, depicting the appearance of a valley.
After seeing these two pictures clearly, Askendall Marquis' expression also changed greatly.
His face, which had turned red because of the deliberate anger, had turned pale when he looked at Freya again.
Freya looked at the drastic changes in the expressions of the two senior officials of the Kandla Empire in front of her with great interest. After a while, she asked with a smile, "How is Sister Teresa doing?"