The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom's delegation stayed in the Principality of Constantine for half a month.
During this time, not only did they inspect the Principality of Constantine, they also made contact with many companies from the Lampari Kingdom, the Luer Kingdom, and the other surrounding countries.
In just half a month, as many as 16 chambers of commerce from the surrounding countries had confirmed their intention to invest in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom. Among them, more than 30 chambers of commerce had expressed the same interest.
This result made the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom's delegation very satisfied, showing that they had gained a lot from this trip.
Of course, everyone understood that if it wasn't for the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's transport fleet, allowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to transport people five thousand kilometers away, this cooperation wouldn't have been possible.
It should be said that this cooperation was very beneficial for both sides.
Because they were too far away, both sides didn't have any contact before. So through this contact, both sides found that the other side had many resources that they couldn't ask for.
If this cooperation went smoothly, both sides would obtain large benefits.
For example, the Principality of Constantine had large amounts of high end and rainforest wood. The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had many swamps, so other than producing many rare plants that could be used to refine many precious herbs and magic materials, they also produced many rare animals that had a strong value.
It was because the large amount of products brought by the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom's delegation attracted the attention of many companies that they finally made the decision to cooperate with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.
Of all the cooperation, the focus of everyone's attention was naturally the cooperation between the New Flyer and the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.
According to the information brought by the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom's delegation, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had already built two deep water harbours for large Magic Boats. This meant that the New Flyer could easily transport large amounts of goods and people to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.
So in this half a month, the New Flyer had reached many agreements with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.
According to the agreement, the New Flyer would first invest in a steel mill, a fertilizer factory, and an agricultural magic machine factory in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom. They would first help the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom solve the most basic food production problem.
Then the New Flyer would establish a small household magic machine production base in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.
But this production base wasn't completely owned by the New Flyer, rather the New Flyer and the other seventeen small household magic machine companies in the Lampari Kingdom worked together.
Among them, the New Flyer only provided a name. Not only did they not produce any products, they only sold a small amount of Xinfei brand.
This was equivalent to handing over the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom's market to other chambers of commerce.
Correspondingly, the other seventeen household magic machine companies promised the New Flyer that they would strictly follow the standards set by the New Flyer for household magic machines.
Other than this, these seventeen companies would also help the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce with the construction of roads in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, helping the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom with the construction of roads.
This was the most important reason why the New Flyer gave up the market they had opened in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.
It was very simple, they didn't have enough people.
Even if there were many nobles in the Lampari Kingdom who used their slaves to exchange for steel making technology from the New Flyer, the number of nobles in the Lampari Kingdom was limited and the number of nobles willing to exchange slaves for technology was even more limited. So other than the large amount of slaves that the New Flyer took in in the beginning, there were fewer and fewer of them and there wasn't a single one recently.
This caused the growth of the New Flyer's manpower to stagnate and forced Xu Yi to give up a lot of plans that required a lot of manpower.
Originally, he planned to build a complete New Flyer base in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom and strive to control the entire Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom. With this base as a foundation, he would expand the influence of the New Flyer and eventually influence the entire southeastern corner of the Sines.
However, the lack of manpower limited this idea and forced him to give up the market in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom to cooperate with other magic machine companies to build this plan.
In Xu Yi's heart right now, the problem of not having enough people had already become his biggest problem.
He had countless plans for the development of the New Flyer, but he was always limited by manpower and had to postpone it. This made him feel helpless.
After all, the Principality of Constantine was only a small country. The entire population of the Principality was less than a million people and the available labor force was less than four hundred thousand people.
Of course, the New Flyer couldn't get all four hundred thousand people in their hands because they had to leave behind a lot of labor force to do some other necessary work.
In addition, the labor force in the Principality of Constantine wasn't well educated and their overall quality was far inferior to the people recruited in the Lampari Kingdom and the Kingdom of Ruhr. Therefore, they weren't of much help to the New Flyer.
Now that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had over a hundred and fifty thousand employees, less than half of them came from the Principality of Constantine. The other half came from the Lampari Kingdom, a small part came from the Kingdom of Ruhr, and the rest came from other races.
It was impossible to make the population of the Principality of Constantine explode, so in order to increase the available labor force, Xu Yi imitated the vocational training school in Banta City and opened a large number of vocational training schools in the Principality of Constantine.
It was different from the vocational training school in Banta City, the vocational training schools in the Principality of Constantine were completely free. The only requirement for the students was that they had to work in the New Flyer after they finished their studies.
This condition wasn't a restriction for most people, rather it was a kind of temptation because working in the New Flyer was something that many people dreamed of.
So after these vocational training schools were opened, not only did countless people in the Principality of Constantine sign up, even people from the Lampari Kingdom, the Kingdom of Ruhr, the Drake Duchy, the Mirando Duchy, and the Norton Duchy all came from afar to receive training.
In the first semester of the vocational training schools this year, there were over thirty thousand people who signed up.
He believed that as long as they were given another two or three years, when these students all graduated, they would be able to solve the manpower problem of the New Flyer.
But before this, Xu Yi still had a headache over the manpower problem.
But at this time, an unexpected situation occurred that allowed Xu Yi to see a glimmer of hope.
The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom delegation stayed in the Principality of Constantine for half a month before setting off with the New Flyer transport fleet, as well as the representatives sent by the companies, carrying large amounts of construction materials as they left the Principality of Constantine, returning to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.
After they left, Xu Yi immediately ordered the New Flyer guards to attack the Cruz Kingdom.
Just as Hart had said, the so-called Crusk Kingdom was nothing more than a large pirate colony formed by a group of pirates. It was completely different from a real country.
The New Flyer's attack on the Cruz Kingdom was just a group of pirates.
As for the battle strength of these pirates … …
Perhaps they were a bit stronger than the pirates Leslie encountered in the southern seas of the Kingdom of Ruhr and the southern seas of the Kandla Empire, but in front of the powerful New Flyer guard fleet, there was no doubt that they weren't enough.
Xu Yi didn't care about the specifics of the battle because he was very clear that with the powerful firepower provided by the guard ships that far surpassed this era and the various military magic machines, the New Flyer's guard ships couldn't be matched by anyone on the Endless Seas.
And the facts were just as he expected.
From the start of the operation, the news sent back were all reports of victory.
The Frestech Chamber of Commerce's second guard fleet led by Hart was invincible on the endless seas, easily defeating all the naval forces of the Crusk Kingdom.
In the news Xu Yi received, apart from the changes in the number of ships sunk every day, it was basically the same news every day – the guard fleet won again.
In less than twenty days of the operation, the New Flyer's second guard fleet led by Hart went around every island in the territory of the Cruz Kingdom and didn't encounter any real obstacles.
Among them, all the ships of the pirates under the Cruz Kingdom didn't even touch the New Flyer's guard fleet.
After twenty days, the New Flyer's second guard fleet didn't encounter any resistance. The marines successfully boarded the Cruz Island that was known as the capital of the Cruz Kingdom and easily conquered the Cruz Palace on the island. They also captured the current king of the Cruz Kingdom alive.
Xu Yi wasn't surprised by the results of the battle. The only thing he cared about was why the so-called Cruz Kingdom was looking for death and suddenly attacked the New Flyer's transport fleet.
But in the news sent back by Hart, there was a piece of information that caught his attention.
The captured king of the Cruz Kingdom said that the Cruz Kingdom was actually formed by a group of exiled slaves who couldn't bear the torture of the noble lords.
Now that it was captured by the New Flyer, as long as Xu Yi was willing to spare the lives of all the people of the Cruz Kingdom, they were willing to restore their status as slaves and return to the name of Xu Yi.