It would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that communication on the Sines relied on roaring.
But if only Great Magicians could use it with each other, the super high end spatial magic that normal people couldn't use at all, the only method of communication on the Sines Continent ….. was basically shouting.
Although letters could be sent to and fro on the Sines, due to the inconvenience of transportation, the cost of sending letters was extremely high.
To be specific, if one wanted to send a letter from the Principality of Constantine's New Flight Commerce Main Base to Anvilmar City, which was approximately 1,300 kilometers away, even if one didn't consider the fact that the letter might not reach its destination due to the distance between the two countries, the postage would still be as high as 13 gold coins.
That's right, one gold coin per hundred kilometers, no more, no less.
Such an expensive price wasn't something that most ordinary people could afford.
As a result, most ordinary people on the Sines didn't have any communication with the outside world. In addition, it was difficult for them to leave the place where they lived, so almost all of them would be born, grow up, and live in the same place for their entire lives before eventually dying of old age. They had never come into contact with the outside world and didn't understand it at all.
Although the New Flyer and the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce had improved the transportation situation in a large area, allowing ordinary people who had never left their villages to have the opportunity to experience the outside world, communication was still a huge problem.
Take the many workers under the New Flyer for example. They could only return home once a year, and there was no way for them to communicate with others at home. In Xu Yi's opinion, this was an unbearable situation.
Fortunately, Akali and her research team were becoming more and more thorough in their research on magic resonance technology. Finally, they relied on this technology to successfully build a relatively complete magic communication network.
After two years of laying down the framework, the New Flyer had successfully built a magic communication network in the Principality of Constantine that could cover all places in the Principality of Constantine.
Now, as long as Xu Yi was in the Principality of Constantine, he could use this magic communication network to contact anyone in the Principality of Constantine who also had a magic communication box.
Moreover, the magic communication line from the Principality of Constantine to the Lampari Kingdom that was built by the New Flyer and the Lampari Kingdom last year had been completed.
Now Xu Yi could even chat with Sowell who was one thousand and three hundred kilometers away when he had nothing to do.
Compared to when Xu Yi wanted to contact Sowell, he could only write a letter to her and it would take at least five days to reach her. This method of communication was without a doubt much more convenient.
Of course, this new method of communication had many flaws.
From a personal point of view, compared to the mobile communication network on earth that could connect countless cell phones at the same time, this magic communication network could only separate several Magic Communicators and have different conversations.
As for the various services and conveniences of the mobile communication network on Earth, there was no need to even think about it.
From a broader point of view, the biggest problem with this mobile communication network was that the cost was too high.
In order to build a complete magic communication network in the Principality of Constantine, the New Flyer had built a total of seven hundred magic signal towers. There were quite a few of them that were built in the mountains that were hard to reach, so the total cost was over three million gold coins.
And this was only in the Principality of Constantine that was less than a tenth the size of the Lampari Kingdom. If it was the Lampari Kingdom, it would cost over ten times as much.
Sowell had been moved before and wanted to complete this project, but when she learned from Xu Yi that the cost was over thirty million gold coins, she immediately gave up on this idea.
Xu Yi was very helpless about this.
Of course he hoped that the Lampari Kingdom, the Kingdom of Ruhr, and even the Sack Kingdom, the Falk Kingdom, the Kandla Empire, and the Malor Empire would have a complete magic communication network, which would solve the communication problem that troubled him the most.
But thinking about it, this beautiful wish definitely couldn't be realized right now.
For example, although the Lampari Kingdom had been driven by the magic machine industry in recent years and their annual revenue kept rising, according to the data that Seveni gave Xu Yi last year, it had already surpassed sixteen million gold coins. It far surpassed the previous revenue that couldn't be reached, but this still couldn't support Seveni's decision to spend a shocking thirty million gold coins on a magic communication network.
Of course, from a fair point of view, Sowell's worries weren't unreasonable because the magic communication network that New Flyer had set up was very limited.
The most important problem was that because the magic signal was transmitted at a fixed frequency, it was hard for many people to use the magic communication network at the same time.
This was also a problem that Xu Yi was very dissatisfied with, but it was a good thing that Akali and her research team had made a breakthrough recently. They could make slight changes to the Magic Array inside each Magic Communicator, allowing different magic signals to be transmitted.
But compared to the cell phones and mobile networks on earth, this was still very inconvenient.
So in summary, this magic communication network wasn't very cost-effective for Seveni.
If even Seveni couldn't accept this, there was no need to count on the other countries.
So even if New Flyer kept building magic signal towers, they were only building them in the area they controlled. They were just extending the magic communication network in the Principality of Constantine.
A clear example was the sea route that New Flyer opened with the Kandla Empire navy, connecting the Principality of Constantine to the southern ports of the Kandla Empire.
On the surface, the merchant ships on this sea route could use this magic communication network to send out distress signals, but this magic communication network was firmly controlled by New Flyer, so it was completely New Flyer's private communication network.
Xu Yi's next step was to continue building a magic communication network on the endless seas to the east, extending it all the way to the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom before going north to the east coast of the Sines.
Like this, New Flyer would be able to control the situation in the other bases in an ideal situation and respond at any time.
With this foundation, the idea of opening bases in other places could be realized.
Only this was without a doubt a large project. With a casual estimate, it would cost tens of millions of gold coins.
Even though New Flyer's annual income was amazing, there was no way they could easily come up with such a huge investment.
Therefore, after Xu Yi made a summary of the various plans in his mind, he finally found that they were all focused on one key factor, and that was time.
It took time to make breakthroughs in research, time to change the infrastructure, time to let everyone on this continent accept the new magic industry, and time to change their traditional views.
In short, no matter what goal he wanted to achieve, it would take a lot of time.
After figuring this out, Xu Yi suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.
Previously, he always felt as if there was a whip constantly whipping him from behind, forcing him to be tense all the time, thinking about all kinds of problems, hoping to achieve the goal he set as soon as possible.
Now that he understood that it would take a lot of time as a foundation, Xu Yi was no longer in a hurry.
He decided to breathe a sigh of relief first.
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Bright sunlight sprinkled down from above, passing through the small gaps in the dense leaves, and falling on the ground, turning into bright spots of light.
At this moment, Freya was jumping back and forth in the empty space in this small forest. She stepped on the spots of light here and there, occasionally letting out a few clear and cheerful laughter.
After watching for a while, Xu Yi stretched and sat up from the recliner.
Seeing Freya's cheerful appearance, Xu Yi only felt his whole body relax.
In the past week, he gave himself a good vacation, staying at home every day to play with the children. Although it was still busy, it was a completely different feeling.
After staying with the children for a long time, Xu Yi even felt lazy, and felt that it was a good choice to live peacefully like this.
"Hey, Freya, come here." Xu Yi thought for a while, and suddenly waved to Freya.
Freya looked back at Xu Yi, and ran over with a string of bell-like laughter. She plunged into Xu Yi's arms, and then pulled him out.
"Dad, get up and play with me."
Xu Yi smiled and shook his head, "Don't be in a hurry.
Freya, I have a question to ask you now, you have to think carefully before you answer. "
"Ah?"
Freya blinked, and her two bright little eyes turned, and said with a smile, "Dad, mom sent you to ask me, right?"
Xu Yi was startled, and then laughed. He reached out and scratched Freya's nose, and asked, "Yes, your mom sent me to ask you.
But I am also very concerned about this question. Tell me, have you decided what you want to do in the future? "
Freya wrinkled her beautiful nose, and replied with a snort, "How would I know what I want to do in the future? Mom always asks me this, I have no way to answer, okay?"
Seeing the dissatisfaction on Freya's little face, Xu Yi couldn't help but laugh.
Although Freya had just turned seven this year, she was already very smart, and showed great talent in both magic and other aspects, so Stiel had high expectations for her, and was also very strict with her.
This made Freya somewhat resistant in front of Stiel, and it was Xu Yi who came to ask these questions.
"Then tell me, what do you like to do?" Xu Yi asked.
"Like?
I like a lot of things, like magic, like machinery, like history, like … "Freya answered with her fingers one by one, looking very serious.
However, Xu Yi had to stop her.
"Wait!
Freya, listen, it is impossible for a person to be the best in all aspects, you have to choose.
What I want to ask you now is, among all the things you like, which one do you like the most? "
"Favorite?" Freya wrinkled her little brows, thought for a while, and shook her head.
"I don't know … Dad, mom made me learn a lot of things, and I liked everything, but mom always forced me to learn according to what she said. I don't like this, can you help me tell mom?"
Xu Yi smiled bitterly.
This Freya was only seven years old, and she was already so weird, what would happen when she grew up?
Just as he was about to speak, Freya suddenly clapped her little hands, and said excitedly, "Dad, I know what I like to do the most!"
"Ah?" Xu Yi asked in surprise, "What do you like to do the most?"
"I like to be like you the most!" Freya pointed her little finger at Xu Yi.
"When I grow up, I also want to be a president!"
Xu Yi blinked, "Why?"
"Because people will listen to my orders this way!" Freya said confidently.
Xu Yi weakly slapped his forehead.
It looked like he needed to have a good talk with Stiel about Freya's education.
Judging from Freya's reaction, it was likely that she had suffered too much oppression during her education, causing her to have such strong thoughts of resistance.
But after thinking about it, Xu Yi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he laughed, pulled Freya into his arms, and said to her slowly and seriously, "Freya, listen well, being a president is not an easy thing, first you have to …."
On an ordinary afternoon in the early summer, the woman who would be called the most powerful woman in the Sines for many years to come began her first lesson at the peak of her life.