In the Lampari Kingdom that was southwest of the center of Sines, spring came earlier than most Sines countries.
In the middle of March, the south wind blew, blowing away the snow on the ground. There were even a few sprouts sprouting out of the fresh soil, embellishing the barren and monotonous ground with a few moving spots of emerald green.
Xu Yi looked at the dazzling green outside the office window and after being in a daze, his eyes turned to the map of the kingdom on the wall.
To the west of Banta City, other than the red that represented where the New Flyer's factory was, there was a large patch of light red to the west, which meant that this area would be under New Flyer's name.
Of course Seveni didn't only bring bad news. For example, when New Flyer spent two months to finish the first batch of agricultural magic machines, Seveni immediately brought good news to Xu Yi. It was that after careful consideration, the king had agreed to Xu Yi's request to rent royal land.
Moreover, contrary to Xu Yi's expectations, the king was even more generous than Xu Yi had imagined.
Xu Yi had only tentatively wanted to rent a square kilometer of land, but the king had increased it by ten times!
He agreed to rent a large piece of land of ten square kilometers to New Flyer!
Moreover, the rent the king gave was much cheaper than Xu Yi had imagined.
At first Xu Yi wanted to rent a square kilometer of land and pay at least five thousand gold coins a year, but after the king agreed to rent ten square kilometers of land, the rent he gave was only thirty thousand gold coins a year!
According to purchasing power, thirty thousand gold coins a year was around three million RMB.
If any company in the Celestial Empire on Earth knew that they could rent 10 square kilometers of land by spending only 3 million RMB a year, they would definitely faint from joy.
Of course, the rent was cheap, which meant that the location wasn't that good.
Although the king had Xu Yi choose a piece of land near Banta City, he requested that it be at least ten kilometers away from Banta City.
Normally speaking, because this place was too far from Banta City, it could be considered very bad.
But Xu Yi had exceeded the king and Seveni's expectations. He had actually chosen an incomparably desolate area that was fifty kilometers away from Banta City's western suburbs.
Seveni even thought that Xu Yi was crazy.
Although based on the map, this place was between Banta City, Saltan City, and Karma City, being around the same distance from the three cities, it was still over fifty kilometers away from the closest Banta City.
With such a long distance, even if New Flyer built a factory here and produced large amounts of magic machines, if they wanted to transport these magic machines to the city, there was no doubt that it would cost a large amount of transport costs.
Thinking of how Seveni persuaded him back then, Xu Yi couldn't help smiling.
Although Seveni was truly thinking for New Flyer, she didn't know about Xu Yi's overall plan, so she could only be anxious for nothing.
Xu Yi stood up and walked in front of the map. He first looked at the large piece of land marked in light red before looking at the upper left side of the land. Finally he stopped at a place where a forest, a river, and a mountain met.
That forest was the Falling Rain Forest.
Those two mountains were the Transverse Mountain Range where the Norma Tribe, the Angola Tribe, and the other dwarven tribes lived.
That river was naturally the Sandy River that went through the Falling Rain Forest, but because of the silt, it had changed its course.
Xu Yi's eyes fell on the new settlement that chief Siluka and chief Monto had chosen after discussing with Xu Yi.
In this place, the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce had sent out large amounts of people, working hard to build houses one after another.
After two months of construction, this new settlement that was over ten thousand square meters and had over a thousand dwarven houses had taken shape.
Once it was finished, according to the estimates of the two dwarven chiefs, it could hold over three thousand dwarves at the same time.
Not only could it let the Norma Tribe and the Angola Tribe move in, it could also leave over half of the houses for the other dwarven tribes.
His eyes followed the dried up Sandy River to the upper left side of the map and he could see the Falling Rain Forest where the Nightsong tribe was hiding.
In these two months, the elves hadn't been idle.
According to Xu Yi's request, they had been researching the resin while the elves and the human experts that Xu Yi had sent out to investigate the upper reaches of the Sandy River.
After a month of investigation, they had finally decided on a complete management plan.
The one in charge of this project was still the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce.
The Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce that had gradually grasped the various uses of cement could be considered the only company in Sines that could follow Xu Yi's request and use reinforced concrete to build a strong dam on the Sandy River.
Although the Sandy River was not particularly large, the construction period was still tentatively set at two years or even more.
Xu Yi didn't have a way to deal with this since Sines didn't have as many large scale construction machines as earth and the New Flyer didn't have enough mature magic machine technology to make these machines.
But as this project progressed, Xu Yi requested the company's research department to study the related magic machines according to the progress of the project. Perhaps they would be able to develop one or two in the future.
For example, the Magic Concrete Mixer didn't require much technology, but it had already been developed and given to the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce to use. Because the results were good, chairman Kuris had placed an order for a hundred of them.
Elder Elucía didn't feel that this project would take a long time.
For the elves who lived for several hundred years, two years passed in the blink of an eye and wasn't considered anything at all.
Moreover, the Nightsong tribe had plenty of underground water to use, so they weren't in a rush to change the river like before.
Looking over the map, Xu Yi reached out a finger to point at Banta City on the map. Then he dragged his finger from Banta City and drew a straight line that passed through the New Flyer factory. Then he looked at the rented land and the new dwarven tribe before finally entering the Falling Rain Forest.
"At the very least, we need to build a real road to connect these places."
Xu Yi muttered to himself before dragging his finger to create two more branches from the rented land, connecting to Saltan City and Karma City.
"Other than this, we still need two more roads."
According to Xu Yi's plan, this rented land would become the New Flyer's most important large scale production base in the future. It would take care of most of the tasks of producing magic machines in the New Flyer.
For a production base, the most important thing was convenient transportation. So Xu Yi's first thought was to build several roads and not the normal roads like the ones in Sines that were made of gravel and mud.
Of course, this plan couldn't be completed in a short period of time. Right now it could only exist in Xu Yi's mind.
For now, the New Flyer's production base was still the factory that Xu Yi was currently in.
"Alright, there's still the factory outside Karma City." Seeing Heinz come in, Xu Yi calmly added in his heart.
Then he asked Heinz with a smile, "Hey, Heinz, are you setting off?"
Heinz's calm face actually revealed a trace of nervousness. After circling around the office twice, he asked Xu Yi, "Xu Yi, you're really not planning on coming with me?"
Xu Yi said with a smile, "Why should I go?
Didn't we already agree that you'll be in charge of Karma City and I won't meddle?
Then again, I already went to the opening ceremony the day before yesterday. If I go now, the people there will misunderstand and it won't be a good thing for your management there. "
"I know what you said makes sense, but …" Heinz smiled bitterly.
Heinz said with a bitter smile, "Xu Yi, I've never managed such a large place before, I really ….. am a bit nervous."
Xu Yi couldn't help but laugh. "Didn't you heroically say that you'll work hard to share my responsibilities and take over the factory in Karma City by yourself? Now you're telling me that you're nervous?
Alright, no one is born capable. You see, I don't have any experience in managing a Chamber of Commerce. Isn't New Flyer still developing well? "
"That's not the same. You ….. you have talent, I don't ….."
"What talent? Isn't management all the same?
If you can manage a few hundred people in a workshop, then you can definitely manage the entire factory in Karma City. "Xu Yi patted Heinz's shoulder and said," Alright, let's set off.
Today is the official start of work. If you, the factory director, are late, then you'll really lose face. "
"Then ….. I'll set off?" Heinz asked with some uncertainty.
Xu Yi couldn't help shaking his head with a smile. He forcefully pushed him out of the office and into the already prepared horse carriage.
Seeing Heinz's horse carriage disappear into the distance, Xu Yi shook his head. When he was about to go to the magic machine workshop to take a look, he suddenly saw another horse carriage coming from the distance. It directly stopped in front of Xu Yi.
When the horse carriage stopped, a familiar figure jumped out of the horse carriage and threw herself into Xu Yi's embrace with a fragrant wind.
Feeling two warm lips on his face, Xu Yi said in a surprised voice, "Stiel, why are you here?"
It was different from when the two of them had just established their relationship. Now that Stiel had adapted to their relationship, she had regained her warm personality. Even in front of others, she didn't hide it at all. She was so bold that it made Xu Yi's face turn red sometimes.
But Xu Yi's personality was a bit passive in this aspect, so he enjoyed Stiel's method more.
"I brought a special guest, look." Stiel pointed at the horse carriage with a smile.
"Special guest?"
Xu Yi looked at the horse carriage and saw a middle aged magician wearing a magician's robe who had the shrewd aura of a merchant jumping out.
Seeing Xu Yi look over, the middle aged magician said with a faint smile, "Hello Chairman Xu. Let me introduce myself, I am Gordon Eisenkel."