"Sir chairman, I understand your feelings and also feel pain and anger for the workers of the company who died at the harbour, but ….." Kennard looked at the calm Xu Yi and hesitated a bit before continuing, "Just because of this, blindly increasing the strength of our company's guards, isn't this a bit ….. a bit impulsive?"
"Blindly?" Xu Yi turned to look at him.
"Why do you feel that this method is blind?"
Kennard gave a bitter laugh and spread his hands, "Although this word isn't polite, sir chairman, I can't understand why you're suddenly investing over three million gold coins in the company's guards and gradually increasing the investment each year. According to your plan, why do you want to invest at least five million gold coins each year?
If it's just to prevent the company's workers from dying in the future, there are many other methods that we can use that will cost less. "
"I've always said that I am a merchant.
But looking at it now, Kennard, you really are from the Emma Family, your thoughts as a merchant are much deeper than mine. "Xu Yi said with a smile.
Kennard knit his brows and said with a sigh, "Sir chairman, we are only a company."
"No, for me, the New Flyer is just a tool in my hand." Xu Yi shook his head.
"Although the New Flyer has developed to this point and is already the best tool, it is still just a tool.
My dream is to change the lives of the people of the Sines, this goal won't change.
Making money is just to achieve this goal. "
Seeing the expression on Xu Yi's face, Kennard knew that there was no meaning in continuing to persuade him. He could only give a sigh and stop discussing this.
However, no matter what, Kennard couldn't understand Xu Yi's actions.
Because several people had died in the Black Rice Harbour, Xu Yi suddenly had the idea of controlling the Black Rice Wasteland.
If this idea wasn't that strange, then Xu Yi's idea of fighting back against the Sack Kingdom after controlling the Black Rice Wasteland really shocked Kennard.
Even if the New Flyer had developed into a large company and had a strong influence in the surrounding countries, it was still just a company in the end.
With the strength of the New Flyer and the more important military magic machines produced by the New Flyer, it wasn't hard to control the Black Rice Wasteland. After all, the beastmen of the Black Rice Wasteland didn't have any organization and their resistance was weak.
But if they wanted to fight against the Sack Kingdom, that was just wishful thinking.
A country and a chamber of commerce were two completely different concepts.
Kennard looked at the side of Xu Yi's face, thinking that because the New Flyer could control the situation in the Principality of Constantine, he estimated the New Flyer's abilities and had the misconception that the New Flyer could even fight against the Sack Kingdom?
This was a question that Kennard couldn't ask.
As the CEO of the New Flyer, he was mainly responsible for the management of the company, but as for the direction of the New Flyer's development, he could only give suggestions and didn't have any authority.
Xu Yi had absolute control over the New Flyer, so as long as Xu Yi made a decision, the others could only listen.
This was something that even Kennard couldn't go against.
Kennard silently thought for a bit. He had worked with Xu Yi for all these years and their ideals were very similar, so how could he just watch him go down the wrong path?
After pausing, Kennard said with a serious look, "Sir chairman, I hope that you can think this through clearly.
Our Chamber of Commerce does indeed have enough strength to strengthen our own defensive forces, but there is a limit to our strength. With the current profitability of our Chamber of Commerce, we can at most maintain no more than 5,000 guards of the same level as the current guards. If we exceed this number, our strength may even decline. "
Xu Yi smiled and asked back, "You think that five thousand people is very little?"
Kennard was stunned, "Of course it's very little.
Sir chairman, don't forget, even if it's Count Wein, he still has thirty thousand people under him. "
Xu Yi laughed, "Is thirty thousand people strong?
Don't forget, Count Wein's thirty thousand people couldn't even deal with the one hundred people led by Hart. "
Kennard knit his brows, "You can't count it like that.
Sir chairman, there are many reasons why Count Wein couldn't deal with Captain Hart's one hundred guards.
If it was a direct confrontation ….. "
"Even if it was a direct confrontation, Count Wein's subordinates couldn't deal with Hart's one hundred people." Xu Yi waved his hand and interrupted Kennard's words.
Kennard was stunned, "How is that possible?
That's thirty thousand people!
How could they not deal with a mere one hundred people! "
"That's why you and most of the people on this continent are still stuck in the old ways." Xu Yi smiled faintly.
"This world is already completely different from the world you're familiar with."
Kennard looked at Xu Yi strangely. He was the CEO of New Flyer, so his understanding of New Flyer was much deeper than most people on this continent.
But even if it was him, he wasn't optimistic about the scene Xu Yi described at all. Why was Xu Yi this confident?
Xu Yi smiled and didn't explain much to Kennard.
Although Kennard was the CEO of New Flyer, he was mainly in charge of administrative matters. He was still limited in many aspects. His grasp of the overall situation was far inferior to that of the chairman.
Of course, it wasn't just Kennard. Almost everyone on the continent was like Kennard, they couldn't understand Xu Yi's thoughts at all.
They couldn't be blamed because Xu Yi used the mechanical engineering knowledge he brought from earth to bring magic machines that far surpassed their imaginations. This was equal to a large leap in the level of Sines technology.
It would take some time for people's thoughts to catch up to this change.
What Xu Yi wanted to use was this period of time where there was a gap.
The two fell silent at the same time. The Magic Sedan they were sitting in continued driving through the northern Principality of Constantine that used to belong to Count Wein, but was now ceded to Xu Yi.
This road was part of the Stru Road and was in a half finished state. There were only two lanes open right now and it was far from the six lanes that would be finished.
When the Magic Sedan drove down the road, they could see countless workers from the Lampari Kingdom, the Kingdom of Ruhr, the Black Rice Wasteland, the Mirando Duchy, and the Principality of Constantine working on the road.
Most of these workers belonged to the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce, only a small part of the workers in charge of supervising the project and providing the magic machines belonged to the New Flyer.
The two companies had been working together for four years now, so the workers on both sides were very familiar with each other, so their work efficiency was very high.
According to the estimates of the manager of the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce who was in charge of the Stru Road, Xu Yi's old friend manager Riley, by the middle of next year, the Stru Road would be finished.
At that time, from the west coast of the Principality of Constantine to the Kingdom of Ruhr's capital, Caraca City, although it was over a thousand kilometers, there would always be a smooth road connecting it.
If one drove a transport Magic Car that could maintain a speed of over forty kilometers an hour, it would only take a single day to get there.
If one drove the latest model Magic Sedan that Xu Yi and Kennard were sitting in, they could maintain a speed of over sixty kilometers an hour, so it would only take around ten hours.
Of course, to complete the Stru Road, the most important part was the cliff between the Principality of Constantine and the Ruhr Duchy.
Specifically, it was whether the Stru Road viaduct could be finished.
The Magic Sedan drove the two of them on the road for a bit before entering a lush forest that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Entering this forest, it was considered entering the territory controlled by the Moon Shadow Tribe.
Before the New Flyer, no one in the Principality of Constantine dared to enter the Slight Dream Forest because it was very likely that they would suffer the revenge of the Moon Shadow Tribe's elves.
However, the forest that had existed quietly for thousands of years was now in an uproar.
As soon as they entered the forest, they could hear thunderous sounds coming from afar.
Looking up, they could even see a towering tree falling crookedly, smashing into the ground, sending broken branches and dust flying into the air.
"Sir chairman, if I didn't personally see it, I really wouldn't have believed that the elves would allow humans to create such a large disturbance in their homeland, even allowing humans to cut down their most precious thousand year old trees." Kennard looked at the giant tree that fell in the distance and spoke in an emotional voice.
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, "If the elves want to develop again and integrate into human society, this is a necessary step."
"That is because sir chairman's charm is different from others.
The elves have lived with us humans on the Sines for thousands of years, but this is their first time trying to integrate with humans. "Kennard said.
Xu Yi laughed. He didn't know about the other elves, but in the eyes of the elves of the Nightsong tribe and the Moon Shadow Tribe, there was indeed a strong charm.
Otherwise, elder Elucía and elder Lisanya wouldn't have forced him to marry an elven girl.
Thinking of how he was about to see elder Lisanya, Xu Yi couldn't help feeling a headache.
He hoped that elder Lisanya would let him go this time and not force him to choose an elven beauty as soon as they met.