This time, Xu Yi used a huge fleet to bring a huge number of people and materials in order to strengthen the development of the Demon Cloud Continent.
The so-called development, of course, did not just stop at words.
After the fleet arrived at the Demon Cloud Continent before Xu Yi, all kinds of work had already begun.
Along with the New Flyer, the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce brought a huge construction team of more than three thousand people.
The task they were responsible for was to continue widening the roads, building factories and residences in the base, greatly expanding the base. They wanted to make it as close as possible to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's main base on the Sines Continent, or even surpass it.
Xu Yi attached great importance to the Demon Cloud Continent. The main reason was that the Demon Cloud Continent was not like the Sines, where every inch of land had been divided up by various countries or other forces.
If the New Flyer wanted to obtain even one more mine in the Sines, it would have to pay a high price.
If they wanted to obtain other benefits, they would most of the time have conflicts with other forces in the Sines.
In comparison, the Demon Cloud Continent could almost be called a land without a master.
On this continent, the Goblins were in a dominant position.
However, the Goblins were a backward race with a very low level of civilization. So far, they did not even have a complete country.
Therefore, although the Goblins were far stronger than other races, they did not really control this continent.
As for the use of the various resources on this continent, there was almost no use for them.
After the New Flyer established a base here, they just casually explored the surroundings and found several mines that had not been developed at all.
Now the area controlled by the New Flyer had expanded to more than forty thousand square kilometers, including all kinds of mineral resources. It was already extremely rich, even exceeding all the mineral resources that the New Flyer currently controlled in the Sines.
It was precisely because of this that the New Flyer's higher-ups had always agreed to maintain a huge investment in the Demon Cloud Continent, and also unanimously agreed to greatly increase the investment this time.
It must be known that the total investment budget for this operation led by Xu Yi alone had exceeded one hundred million gold coins, and it would continue to increase. It could be said that this was the largest investment in the history of the New Flyer.
Of course, the investment needed to be repaid.
The Amrit Chamber of Commerce's construction team was building bricks for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's main base on the Demon Cloud Continent, desperately expanding it. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce's guards in front also had the five thousand guards that Xu Yi brought, increasing the speed at which they expanded their territory.
After the New Flyer fleet arrived at the Demon Cloud Continent, and before Xu Yi arrived at the Demon Cloud Continent, the New Flyer Guards had already swept through the goblins on the periphery of the territory. In just 13 days, they had fought with the goblins more than 50 times, wiped out more than 10 large and small goblin tribes, and eliminated more than 7,000 goblins.
While expanding their territory, they also gained control of an iron mine and a precious non-ferrous metal vein.
After Xu Yi arrived, New Flyer continued to expand under his personal planning.
In just two months, the area controlled by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce went from forty thousand square kilometers to fifty thousand square kilometers.
In the process of expanding their territory, the New Flyer Guards drove out the goblins in the front while the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce's engineering team built roads and railroad tracks in the back. At the same time, they kept building sentry forts along the way.
At the same time, New Flyer built more magic signal towers to maintain the magic communication coverage in their new territory.
Through convenient transportation and communication methods, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's new territory could be firmly controlled.
Even if the goblins attacked out of revenge, they were quickly counterattacked by the New Flyer Guards each time and didn't even have time to cause any damage.
The goblins were a backward race that relied on their large numbers to dominate the Demon Cloud Continent. The weapons they used were stone weapons that couldn't even be considered sharp. So in front of the military magic machines of the New Flyer Guards that far surpassed the standards of this world, they were like helpless children.
The New Flyer Guards fought the goblins countless times, but they didn't feel threatened at all.
Although the goblins didn't have high intelligence, they weren't stupid. After fighting many times, they found that when faced with these strange enemies, it didn't matter how many they sent out. They knew that they couldn't fight them at all.
So after a long time, the goblins regarded the area controlled by New Flyer as a forbidden area and didn't dare invade.
After expanding their territory to over ten thousand square kilometers in a single breath, in order to stabilize the situation and let the guards rest, New Flyer stopped expanding their territory and began to focus on developing.
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A drop of sweat came out of Xu Yi's forehead and gathered into the sweat on his forehead. It formed a small stream that flowed down his cheeks and finally dripped down his chin.
Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and looked up at the blazing sun in the sky. He thought that the summer here was even more uncomfortable than the summer in the Principality of Constantine. Could it be because the dimension was lower and it was closer to the equator of the planet under him?
If possible, he wanted to stay in his room in the base and enjoy the coolness of the Magic Air Conditioner.
But he couldn't, at least not today.
Today was a very memorable day.
The New Flyer Base on the Demon Cloud Continent had been proposed by Xu Yi. They had decided to open up new land on the Demon Cloud Continent, breaking away from the situation where they had to rely on the Sines Base for food and becoming self-sufficient.
In order to show how important this decision was, Xu Yi even personally went to the ground to plow and plant seeds.
Because he hadn't done this kind of physical work in a long time, after working for less than half an hour, Xu Yi was already covered in sweat.
Actually, he didn't need to do this.
After all, this was the land reclamation led by New Flyer. With the various agricultural magic machines that New Flyer had, there wasn't anything that needed manpower.
Xu Yi doing this was purely for show.
After he finished his show, the agricultural magic machines that had already been prepared charged into the field. It didn't take long before they finished plowing several dozen hectares of land.
Xu Yi could only give a self deprecating laugh at this.
These agricultural magic machines were developed by him, but now these fellows had humiliated him in front of all these people.
According to the plan, the New Flyer's first cultivation this year would be opening up thirty thousand hectares of land.
After all of this land was planted with wheat, even if they used the agricultural magic machines and fertilizers on the Sines Continent, with the lowest yield of wheat, they would still be able to produce close to a hundred thousand tons of wheat. It would be enough to satisfy the basic rations of over sixty thousand people in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's base for a year, saving quite a bit of effort for the main base.
Of course, this was just barely enough to satisfy the demand.
According to Xu Yi's plan, the base here still had a lot of space to expand. It wouldn't just hold sixty thousand people in the future, it would be six hundred thousand or even six million people.
As the New Flyer Base's territory on the Demon Cloud Continent became bigger and bigger, it wouldn't be strange for them to have over sixty million people.
So this was just the beginning. The final goal was to promote the agricultural magic machines on the Demon Cloud Continent, allowing the base to become truly self sufficient.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi turned to look at the Demon Cloud Continent natives who were stretching their necks out in the distance.
It was a bit funny speaking of this.
Whether it was the Sines Base or the Demon Cloud Continent, there were all kinds of other races. But other than humans, no matter what kind of civilization the other races had, there had never been a single other race that practiced farming.
These other races, if they wanted to solve the problem of their survival, most of them would obtain it from nature and never thought of farming.
Xu Yi had considered this problem before and found that it was because of this that the other race population on the Sines was much smaller than humans.
On the Demon Cloud Continent, there were only the gnomes.
But the gnomes couldn't be used as a reference. This was a race with a backward civilization, they even ate human flesh.
The reason why they had such a large population was mainly because they had strong reproductive abilities, just like the mice on earth.
The gnomes had very short lives. They could be considered adults at the age of ten and there were only a few that could live past twenty.
So Xu Yi rarely treated the gnomes as an intelligent race.
These fellows that were more terrifying than locusts and mice, if they continued to develop, the entire Demon Cloud Continent might be swallowed by them.
Of course, the other races under the Gnome King were another matter.
For example, the elves, dwarves, and pygmies that Xu Yi saw the most here had a relatively complete civilization. With a bit of guidance, they could become very good helpers.
So Xu Yi deliberately held this cultivation ceremony with great fanfare, but it was also for these other races to see.
At the same time, he had the Sines under the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce secretly contact these other races, telling them the benefits of farming and trying to attract them.
Xu Yi wanted to control the entire Demon Cloud Continent, so he wouldn't allow these natives to break away from their own lives. He wanted to bring them in and use them for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
In the end, what New Flyer lacked the most was manpower.