Whether Xu Yi's ambition was big or not, it wasn't a problem for the other people of the New Flyer.
It was even the opposite. The high level members of the New Flyer were more willing to know that their sir chairman had this kind of ambition.
This was because from another angle, ambition was also called having great ambitions.
Compared to following a sir chairman who didn't have any ambition and only had goals in front of him, of course they wanted to follow a sir chairman who had great ambition and long term goals.
Only like this could the New Flyer maintain its current situation and quickly develop. Not only would it become a first class company in the surrounding countries, it would also become a first class company in the Sines.
The stronger the New Flyer became, the more shocking benefits the high level members of the company would receive.
Not to mention that even if they didn't consider benefits, just by following sir chairman and achieving the goal of spreading magic machines across the continent, wasn't that already enough to attract people's hearts?
The last month of year 3875 quickly passed. After the new years, the New Flyer began recruiting large amounts of workers again.
This wasn't strange, the New Flyer had been desperately recruiting workers in the past two years and had never relaxed their demands.
But this time's recruitment was different from before, it was mainly focused on recruiting workers in the resource gathering industry.
Moreover, there was a very clear condition in the recruitment, which was that the workers had to be willing to leave their homes and work in places that were over a thousand kilometers or even two thousand kilometers away.
At the same time, the New Flyer stated that the initial conditions of this job would be very hard, so it wasn't easy to go home. They had to be able to endure the hardships and the loneliness.
This requirement attracted the attention of many people because the New Flyer had given their employees very good conditions, but now it was clear that this job was very hard, which was very strange.
But these conditions, compared to the salary advertised in the newspapers, it didn't seem that important.
At least three hundred gold coins a year!
Although this salary wasn't considered high in Banta City, whether it was in the Lampari Kingdom or the Kingdom of Ruhr, it was considered a high salary.
It had to be known, since the New Flyer fired eighteen thousand workers at once, it caused the other companies to compete for these workers, raising the average wage of the magic machine industry to a shocking level. But for normal workers, twenty gold coins a month was already considered quite a good income.
Not to mention that although the New Flyer's wage didn't have an absolute advantage over the other companies, their benefits far surpassed those of the other companies.
According to what they said in private, working at the New Flyer, even if they only received a wage of ten gold coins a month, it was still better than receiving twenty gold coins a month at the other companies.
Now that the New Flyer was willing to give three hundred gold coins a year, it didn't just break the rules of the New Flyer, it would also affect the entire wage scale of the magic machine industry.
Once the recruitment was announced, countless people flocked to the recruitment sites that the New Flyer had set up in the surrounding countries.
But after a month of the new year, the people that the New Flyer had recruited were less than two thousand people. It was far lower than the New Flyer's initial expectations.
This made Xu Yi a bit disappointed and a bit confused.
Although it was uncomfortable to work on an unknown island in the Endless Ocean that was 1,000 to 2,000 kilometers away from his hometown, it wasn't that hard to accept.
There were over twenty thousand people who came to apply, but only two thousand people were willing to go in the end. It wasn't even a tenth, it really was too little.
Moreover, even if there were two thousand people, not all of them could go.
As for the development of resources on the islands on the Endless Sea, as well as the sea area control plan, Xu Yi attached great importance to it. Not only did the workers he sent have to be trustworthy, they also had to have special qualities.
For example, they had to be able to endure loneliness, they had to have the ability to live normally on the islands with bad conditions, etc … …
According to Xu Yi's estimation, it would be considered good if a quarter of the two thousand newly recruited people went to those islands.
The real main force had to be selected from the old workers of the New Flyer.
But even if they were to be selected from the old workers, not many of them were willing to accept such a transfer.
Of course, Xu Yi could forcibly transfer them to those islands to work, but for the sake of stability, Xu Yi wasn't willing to do so.
"It seems that the progress of this plan can only be delayed," Xu Yi looked at the recruitment progress report that Kennard had given him and couldn't help but sigh.
Kennard glanced at Xu Yi and hesitated for a moment before saying in a deep voice, "Sir President, actually … … If you are willing to raise the salary level in this area, such as from three hundred gold coins to four hundred gold coins per year, I think there won't be a problem in terms of manpower."
"No." Xu Yi shook his head very straightforwardly.
"Setting this kind of salary is not only considering the overall salary level of our Chamber of Commerce, but also the salary level of the entire industry.
If we set it too high, it will make it very difficult for the other Chambers of Commerce. "
Kennard smiled bitterly and shook his head.
He really wanted to say that the other Chambers of Commerce that were also in the magic machine industry had never considered this point. They had always been using high salaries to poach people from New Flyer, so they didn't have to worry about it at all.
But after working by Xu Yi's side for so long, Kennard understood Xu Yi's goal very well. He knew that Xu Yi placed the most importance on the development of the entire industry, so he didn't mind letting New Flyer suffer a bit of loss.
Moreover, Xu Yi was right. Even if it was within New Flyer, if they suddenly set the salary of the overseas workers too high, it would definitely affect the internal salary level of the Chamber of Commerce and cause internal chaos.
The current salary level of New Flyer was set after the mass layoffs, so it was clearly inappropriate to break it in less than a year.
Xu Yi was silent for a bit before saying with a smile, "Alright, actually it's also good if I think about it.
We can't rush the development of those islands.
Not mentioning anything else, at least we don't have that many Magic Boats right now, right? "
Kennard nodded, "Yes, sir chairman. We only have eight large transport Magic Boats right now, it's not enough to support large amounts of sea transport.
Other than that, although we have enough combat Magic Boats to support two fleets, we don't have enough training and personnel. It's too hard to control the large seas to the south of the continent. "
"Un, then let's do this.
We'll do it step by step, first we'll develop the islands outside the Principality of Constantine and then we'll push our way to the southern seas.
At the same time, we'll focus on recruiting people and building ships, we have to create a strong guard fleet as soon as possible. "
Kennard looked at Xu Yi with a thoughtful look, "Viscount Leslie's fleet isn't enough?"
"Of course." Xu Yi didn't have any special expression, he just gave a nod and didn't explain anything.
Although Leslie was now under the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's guard fleet, leading the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's guard fleet, Xu Yi was very clear that Leslie wouldn't be under him for long.
When the time was right, it was very likely that he would leave the New Flyer and establish his own fleet.
The reason why Xu Yi gave him command of the New Flyer guard fleet was one, because of their relationship and two, because Leslie had this ability, as well as inheriting some resources from the Stagg Family.
Now that he was leading the New Flyer guard fleet, it could be considered a cooperation between Xu Yi and Leslie because both sides needed to accumulate experience in controlling fleets.
Since the situation had changed, Xu Yi and Kennard made some changes to the overall plan.
Because before this, the New Flyer had already explored the seas around the Principality of Constantine and had done some preliminary research on the islands with resources, so this sea area was the starting point of this plan.
According to Xu Yi's plan, the Xinfei merchants would set up small bases on these islands and set up some defenses. Then they would connect these islands and they would become the first defensive island chain outside the Principality of Constantine.
If there was a situation like the Sack Kingdom and Count Wein colluding to attack the New Flyer, they would have to break the first island chain's defenses before they could threaten the New Flight Commerce Main Base.
Following this, Xu Yi's plan was to extend this first island chain to the southern seas of the Kingdom of Ruhr and then to the southern seas of the Kandla Empire. Finally they would draw a semicircle in the southern seas of the Sines, surrounding the entire southern Sines.
To achieve this goal, it was clear that it wasn't enough to develop islands with resources. They also needed to use islands with strategic significance.
Like this, the investment for this plan would be shocking.
Xu Yi and Kennard gave a rough estimate. This plan would cost over a hundred million gold coins.
"Alright, sir chairman, this plan can't be completed in a year or two, we can only take it slow." Kennard said with a sigh.
Xu Yi revealed a smile, "Of course, I never thought that we could complete this plan in a short period of time.
In short, we just need to work hard in this direction. "
Kennard also revealed a smile. When he was about to speak, there was a strong knock on the door.
Kennard slightly knit his brows before saying in a low voice, "Come in."
The door opened and the human secretary who was Kennard's assistant came in. He had a strange expression on his face as he looked over Kennard before looking at Xu Yi. After swallowing a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, he said in a voice filled with panic, shock, and doubt, "Sir ….. Sir chairman ….. I just received news that her majesty Seveni ….. has officially announced that she is pregnant ….."
Kennard opened his mouth in surprise, but he didn't say anything as he turned to look at Xu Yi.
Xu Yi was stunned. He turned to look in the direction of Anvilmar City to the northeast, not saying a thing for a while.