Xu Yi walked out of the western army camp and looked back before slightly knitting his brows.
The New Flyer guards had fought with the beastmen of the Black Rice Wasteland many times in the past two years, so they had a good understanding of the beastmen of the Black Rice Wasteland. So they could easily tell that the beastmen that attacked the Black Rice Wasteland didn't belong to any beastmen tribe of the Black Rice Wasteland.
The Black Rice Wasteland was bordered by the Principality of Constantine to the south and the Sack Kingdom to the north. There were no beastmen in the Principality of Constantine, so these beastmen could only have come from the Sack Kingdom.
There was a strong proof for this, which was that among the people attacking the Black Rice Wasteland, there were actually magicians!
Although for Xu Yi, magicians weren't that rare, for most people on the Sines, magicians were very rare.
Even in the regular army of the Lampari Kingdom, magicians weren't a high level battle strength.
The beastmen weren't that good at magic, so it was even more impossible for them to have magicians.
These beastmen that attacked the Black Rice Wasteland not only had complete equipment and clearly trained fighting methods, they even had magicians. Other than the explanation that they were sent by the Sack Kingdom, there was no other possibility.
After Xu Yi made this inference, he brought the corpses of the two beastmen to the western army camp. One was to give the western army a warning.
The Sack Kingdom had already made a move on the Black Rice Wasteland, so their next step was to invade the Lampari Kingdom through the Black Rice Wasteland.
The western army was in charge of guarding the Lampari Kingdom's western border, mainly guarding against attacks from the Black Rice Wasteland to the west and the Lampari Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom to the northwest.
Now that the Sack Kingdom had made a move on the Black Rice Wasteland, the western army should make a move.
Second, Xu Yi was planning on using this chance to propose a new cooperation plan to the western army's commander Varian Lantis. He wanted to strengthen the connection with the western army and increase the defenses of the border between the Black Rice Wasteland and the Sack Kingdom through the western army, creating a stable environment for the Black Rice Wasteland. It would be beneficial for the New Flyer and the other companies that had taken root in the Black Rice Wasteland.
However, contrary to Xu Yi's expectations, whether it was the warning to Xu Yi or the new cooperation plan, commander Lantis was indifferent, as if he wasn't interested at all.
In the meeting with Xu Yi just now, although commander Lantis was very polite to Xu Yi, it was clear that his attitude was perfunctory and he wasn't interested at all.
Xu Yi was at first.
Normally speaking, Xu Yi's warning was deeply related to the western army and the new cooperation plan was very beneficial to the western army.
If it was before, commander Lantis would definitely agree to Xu Yi's plan and would definitely agree.
But this time, even if Xu Yi gave many favourable conditions, commander Lantis didn't show any signs of relenting.
No matter what Xu Yi said, commander Lantis used excuses to avoid it.
After the meeting was over, Xu Yi had just bid farewell to commander Lantis when he turned around and suddenly understood something.
The problem came from the Lampari Kingdom.
After Seveni was crowned as the Lampari Kingdom's queen, with the support of the people and the strength she displayed during the civil war, she obtained the support of all the nobles in the kingdom. In less than half a year, she controlled the entire Lampari Kingdom.
Compared to the previous King Eric, her majesty Seveni's control over the Lampari Kingdom far surpassed that of the previous King Eric.
Xu Yi even believed that as long as Seveni was given a short period of time, she would be able to control the entire Lampari Kingdom.
Moreover, because of the civil war that defeated all the opposition forces in the Lampari Kingdom, Seveni's control over the Lampari Kingdom might even surpass Lampuri Thirteenth's.
In this situation, commander Lantis naturally couldn't treat the western army as his back garden like before.
If something went wrong, her majesty wouldn't let him off.
According to the strategy of the Lampari Kingdom's army headquarters, the kingdom's main defense forces would be concentrated on the northern border with the Sack Kingdom. The western army's main task would be to guard against the harassment of the beastmen on the Black Rice Wasteland.
Because they had the Black Rice Wasteland as a buffer, the Lampari Kingdom's western side wasn't too worried about attacks from the west, so they didn't invest that much in the western army.
The more important thing was that the Lampari Kingdom's finances didn't have the ability to invest in this side.
So for commander Lantis, the best way to deal with this was to honestly guard the western border and not do anything else.
After thinking through these problems, Xu Yi understood why commander Lantis reacted differently, but he was also a bit helpless.
Even if his relationship with Seveni was good, when it came to the national policy of the Lampari Kingdom, it was impossible for Seveni to take special care of him and the New Flyer.
To put it simply, the western army couldn't be relied on. If he wanted to create a peaceful environment for the Black Rice Wasteland, he could only rely on himself.
After thinking this through, Xu Yi drove the medium transport Magic Car and quickly left the western army's camp. He quickly headed back to Black Rice City that was less than two hundred kilometers away from the western army's camp.
Another year had passed, and Black Rice City had gradually developed from an embryonic form into a city that was gradually perfecting itself.
Not only was the living area, the industrial area, and the business area clear, there were also various infrastructures that were gradually built.
When he entered Black Rice City, there were street lamps that lit up the sides of the wide road.
The light of the Magic Lamps scattered in all directions and with the light of the various rooms in the city, the entire city was lit up.
Even if it couldn't compare to the large cities on earth, it was definitely unique in the Sines.
There were many people who came to Black Rice City to find work, but when they saw the lights at night, they were deeply attracted.
According to the statistics of Black Rice City last time, there were already one hundred and eighty six thousand people registered in Black Rice City and there were at least fifty thousand people who weren't registered.
A city with close to two hundred and fifty thousand people, even in the Lampari Kingdom, it was definitely one of the top cities.
In terms of business prosperity, there wasn't a single city in the Lampari Kingdom that could compare to Black Rice City.
Xu Yi drove the Magic Car from the darkness of the Black Rice Wasteland into the bright lights of Black Rice City. The two Black Rice City guards on duty looked over, but they didn't care that much.
There were at least a thousand transport Magic Cars that came in and out of Black Rice City each day. There were many even at night, so a trivial medium transport Magic Car naturally wouldn't attract their attention.
However, Xu Yi slowed down the car and looked at the two guards. Based on the insignia on the two guards, he could tell that they were guards from the Armani Chamber of Commerce.
Black Rice City was managed by the New Flyer, the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce, the Armani Chamber of Commerce, and the Rimet Chamber of Commerce, so naturally the defenses were also managed by the four companies.
In this regard, the four companies were each in charge of an area of Black Rice City, so this had already become a fixed pattern.
Xu Yi didn't have any objections to this pattern before because he didn't care that much about the defenses.
But after the matter of the Black Rice Harbour, Xu Yi found that there was a flaw in this pattern.
This pattern was fine in a normal situation, but once there was an emergency and it was a situation that required large amounts of defenses, this pattern was very likely to reveal hidden dangers.
Xu Yi drove the medium transport Magic Car to the gate of the Black Rice City joint management council.
When he jumped out, the guards at the gate immediately recognized Xu Yi and quickly invited him in.
It was impossible for the important leaders of the four companies to stay in Black Rice City for long periods of time to participate in the management. Normally the people in the joint management council were the representatives of the four companies.
New Flyer was without a doubt the boss of the four companies, so Xu Yi's position in the joint management council was very high.
His sudden visit in the middle of the night caused quite a stir.
Not long after, the representatives of the four companies who had basically gone to sleep all rushed over.
New Flyer's representative was an old employee who had joined the company when New Flyer was established. When he saw Xu Yi, he saw the serious look on Xu Yi's face and his heart skipped a beat.
He had followed Xu Yi for over five years, but this was his first time seeing such a serious look on sir chairman's face.
Could it be that something big had happened?
Xu Yi waved his hand at the four representatives and had them sit in front of him. He looked over the four of them and after thinking for a bit, he asked, "You've been in the Black Rice Wasteland for quite some time, so I'll ask you a question now and I hope that you can answer truthfully."
The four representatives looked at each other with a bit of doubt in their eyes.
Chairman Xu was this serious, so this question wouldn't be easy to answer.
"Sir chairman, please ask." After being silent for a bit and seeing that no one answered, the New Flyer's representative spoke up.
The representatives of the other three companies finally reacted and quickly said, "Right, right, please ask Chairman Xu. As long as we know, we will definitely answer."
"Alright." Xu Yi nodded.
"Tell me, how many people do we need? Or to be more specific, what kind of defense do we need to be able to control the Black Rice Wasteland?
Even if the Sack Kingdom wants to invade the Black Rice Wasteland, can we fight back? "
"Ah?"
The four representatives looked at Xu Yi in shock.
Chairman Xu, he ….. He actually wanted to fight the Sack Kingdom?