After a while, Xu Yi let out a soft sigh.
"What?
Causing trouble again? "
At the beginning of last year, New Flyer cooperated with the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, and the Renekton Chamber of Commerce to invest in a production base in the Black Rice Wasteland.
At the beginning, everything went smoothly for this production base. They hired many beastmen workers from the Black Rice Wasteland, reducing the cost of hiring workers. This allowed the four companies to taste quite a bit of benefits.
However, in the second half of the year, the beastmen of the Black Rice Wasteland began to harass the production base. This caused the production of the base to be forced to stop, resulting in very serious losses.
Moreover, it wasn't just the beastmen from the other tribes that came to cause trouble. Even the beastmen workers in the factories had repeatedly caused trouble. Once, they even clashed head-on with the human workers in the base, almost killing them.
Due to the repeated incidents, it was very difficult to maintain the production base. At the end of the year, the four Chamber of Commerce had suffered losses.
Although there wasn't a single company that wanted to retreat because of these losses, if this situation continued, the production base would not be able to hold on in the end.
"Isn't that so." Chairman Cruz helplessly spread his hands.
"I really don't understand what those beastmen are thinking.
Everyone is clearly working together to make money, it's good for you, good for me, good for everyone. These fellows just have to cause trouble for no reason, forcing us to stop production. Not mentioning the losses we suffered, did they not suffer any losses? "
Xu Yi rubbed his head and said with a sigh, "There's nothing we can do about it. The beastmen just don't have a brain and their nature is untamed. They just don't want to submit to us humans, so no one can do anything about it."
"It's not right to say that there's nothing we can do." Chairman Cruz shook his head.
"When the elves were still ruling the continent, the beastmen were all as obedient as kittens. There was never a beastman that dared to cause trouble, let alone go against the elves.
In the end, the first ones to stand up and overthrow the elves were us, the humans that the beastmen looked down on and thought were cowardly. "
"Oh?
What special method did the elves have to make the beastmen obedient? "Xu Yi asked in curiosity.
"What special method? It's very simple, just beat them up." Chairman Cruz said with a look of disdain.
"Let me tell you, the beastmen are the typical bullies.
If you are a bit tough to the point that they have no choice but to submit, they will listen to you and not resist.
But if you're not tough enough with him, then he'll think that you're incapable, and instead, he'll bully you. "
"Why is this like a race from earth?" Xu Yi felt a bit amused.
"What's your opinion?"
"My opinion ….. To be honest, chairman Vincent, chairman Renersa, and I all have the same opinion. We feel that chairman Xu isn't strong enough, making the beastmen feel that our companies are too weak." Chairman Cruise honestly said.
"You can just say that I'm too weak." Xu Yi glared at him.
"Alright, then … What do you think is called not being weak, or being tough?
Are we going to kill all the beastmen in the Black Rice Wasteland?
The problem is that we are going to make money, not slaughter. "
"How could it be that exaggerated?" Chairman Cruz waved his hand.
"The three of us want to strengthen our guards there. It would be best if, in addition to protecting the safety of the production base, we can also leave the production base and show off our strength to the beastmen tribes in the Black Rice Wasteland. This way, they won't dare to harass us in the future."
"So?
How do you plan to strengthen them?
Don't forget, manpower, especially qualified guards, is very hard to find.
Our company has spent a lot of effort, but we don't have more than a thousand guards. "Xu Yi said.
"If you have the ability, why don't you try including your elven and dwarven guards?" Chairman Cruz glared at Xu Yi and waved his hand.
"But that's not what I meant.
It's not easy to increase the number of qualified guards, but increasing the number of guards isn't the only way to increase the number of guards, right?
For example ….. Giving them better weapons and equipment? "
Seeing chairman Cruz raise his eyebrows and smile with a deep meaning, Xu Yi couldn't help but laugh.
"Alright, Cruz, you've gone around in a big circle. In the end, you just want to buy some military magic machines from me for your company's guards."
"That's right." Since Xu Yi had exposed him, chairman Cruz no longer hid it.
"That's what I was thinking.
Since your New Flyer has such good military magic machines and powerful weapons and equipment, if you give them to our company's guards, we can guarantee that our battle strength will greatly increase. We won't have to worry about the beastmen's harassment. "
"The idea is good, but there is a problem." Xu Yi sighed.
"Ordinary weapons and armor are fine, but all kinds of military magic machines are controlled by the kingdom's military. Ordinary company's guards aren't allowed to be equipped with them."
Chairman Cruz stared, "Then why are your New Flyer's guards equipped with them?"
"Because not only are they our company's guards, they are also nominally the personal guards of a viscount.
What?
Are any of the chairmen of your three companies nobles? "
Chairman Cruz rolled his eyes, "You ….. In the entire Lampari Kingdom, you're the only one who is both a noble and a merchant. Why are you still asking when you already know the answer?"
"So even if I want to do this, I can't do anything about it, right?" Xu Yi spread his hands.
"No, of course there is a way."
Chairman Cruz suddenly showed a sly smile. He took out a document from his chest and handed it to Xu Yi.
Xu Yi took it to take a look and found that this was a standard business order for nobles.
The one who sent this order was a small noble of Banta City, Baron Qetsi. The contents of the order were that Baron Qetsi wanted to go on a trip to the Black Rice Wasteland, but because he was worried that the beastmen of the Black Rice Wasteland would harm him, he decided to provide himself with no more than three hundred personal guards set by the Royal Parliament.
In order for these three hundred personal guards to protect his life, he wanted to increase their battle strength. So he sent an order to New Flyer, ordering three hundred Magic Repeating Crossbows and three portable Magic Trebuchets.
After reading this order, Xu Yi looked at Baron Qetsi's noble seal at the bottom of the order for a while before looking up at chairman Cruz with a strange look.
"It's good that you thought of this method, but are you certain that this won't attract the attention of the Royal Parliament, restricting or even punishing you?"
Chairman Cruz revealed a faint smile, "What is there to worry about?
It's not like we're the only company doing this.
Where do you think the Falcao Chamber of Commerce has over two thousand guards? "
Xu Yi thought about it before nodding. His eyes fell back onto the order and it was like a large door was slowly opening for him.
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After the New Years, winter passed day by day, as if it had passed in the blink of an eye.
With the flowers blooming in spring, Banta City became more and more lively with each passing day because of the influx of people.
The renovation of Banta City began on the day the spring breeze blew and didn't stop for a single day.
The entire Banta City seemed to have become a giant construction site, with all kinds of buildings being built in every place.
Almost every day, there were changes happening in Banta City.
In the new district outside the city, the roads were extending bit by bit. Now not only were they connected to every village outside the city, they were connected in all directions. It allowed people to take public transport Magic Cars that were gradually being developed to easily go anywhere in the city.
And in the new district, not only were there all kinds of factories, there were also many buildings that the people of Banta City had never seen or even heard of before.
For example, there was a nursing home beside the hospital, it was said that the Armani Chamber of Commerce had donated money to build it.
In this nursing home, as long as one was an old person over sixty, they could receive a set of clothes that matched the season, as well as bedding and other daily necessities.
If there was no one to support them and they lost the ability to live, they could directly move to this nursing home. Naturally there would be people who would take care of their lives and let them live without worrying about food or clothing.
Other than the nursing home, there was an aid station not far away that was said to be built by the Falcao Chamber of Commerce.
The use of this aid station was to help people who were in trouble.
As long as they were in trouble, they could ask for help from this place.
Not only could the aid station provide basic food and lodging, it could also give people a chance to find jobs based on their own choices or send them to their friends and family.
Moreover, not far from the aid station, there was a large vocational training school that the City Lord Manor had built with the support of the large companies of the city.
There was no need to pay tuition and anyone could choose a vocational training course.
The price they had to pay was that after the training, if they finished, they had to work for a Banta City company that needed this job for at least three years.
Once they violated this, they would be blacklisted by all the companies in Banta City and they would never be able to find a job in Banta City.
In these new new buildings, people found that the various companies of Banta City were participating, but they didn't see the New Flyer's name.
So everyone was very curious.
Wasn't the New Flyer always interested in these "public welfare matters" that Chairman Xu mentioned?
Why was it that for these public welfare matters, there wasn't a trace of the New Flyer?
Perhaps in response to everyone's questions, in the spring Xinfei bicycle race that was added this year, the New Flyer also announced something.
In a week, the New Flyer would be holding a product announcement that hadn't been held in a long time.
The one hosting this product announcement was actually Xu Yi himself.