Duke Windsor's sudden change in attitude surprised Xu Yi, but he also felt that it was reasonable.
In the end, no one would go against benefits.
The magic machine industry had already developed to a certain extent in the Kandla Empire and everyone could see that there were large benefits hidden in this new industry.
The Torea Province was ranked at the bottom of the Candra Empire and was a poor coastal province. However, with the introduction of large amounts of magic machines and the magic machine industry, it immediately went from being at the bottom to being one of the top five provinces in terms of revenue.
Moreover, the benefits of the magic industry weren't only reflected in the financial income of Torea Province. It was also reflected in changing the appearance of Torea Province.
The most important thing was that it brought large amounts of work opportunities to the Torea Province.
Because these merchant guilds involved in the magic industry had extremely high requirements for manpower, when a large number of factories were set up, almost every able-bodied person in the Torea Province could find a job, no longer having to worry about their livelihood.
Even the manpower in the Torea Province couldn't meet the needs of these companies, so there were countless people from the surrounding provinces who came to the Torea Province to find work.
Among these people, there were many who came from the southern province.
After personally witnessing the large impact the magic machine industry had on the Torea Province, if Duke Windsor still didn't know how to change, he wouldn't be worthy of being the southern province's governor for all these years.
The only thing he was worried about was the attitude of the New Flyer.
After all, there was a deep grudge between them, so if he rashly came looking for them this time, the New Flyer wouldn't agree to cooperate that easily.
However, Xu Yi's attitude was something that Duke Windsor didn't expect.
Without waiting for Duke Windsor to speak, Xu Yi actually revealed his intentions. Moreover, he showed a very enthusiastic attitude, taking the initiative to propose a cooperation.
With Xu Yi being this enthusiastic, even if Duke Windsor had some grudges in his heart, they were thrown to the back of his mind.
He had been in the Torea Province and the surrounding provinces for close to half a year, so he had a deep understanding of the large influence of the magic machine industry. He was certain that this new thing brought by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a hidden power that could change the entire Sines Continent.
If he didn't make any changes at random, he would probably lose the initiative and might even be eliminated by the times.
As the head of the Windsor Family and also the governor of the southern province of the Kandla Empire, if he didn't know how to change, he would become a sinner in the history of the Windsor Family and the southern province.
With the idea of following the times, a trivial personal grudge didn't count for anything.
So Xu Yi had only been in the Torea Province for three days, but he had already signed a private agreement with Duke Peresco and Duke Windsor.
According to this agreement that wouldn't be made public, the New Flyer would be cooperating with the Torea Province and the southern province at the same time.
Of course, because of the awkward relationship between the Kandla Empire and the New Flyer, in order to give face to Duke Windsor, the New Flyer wouldn't directly invest in these two provinces. Rather they would establish a company in the Kandla Empire that wasn't related to the New Flyer in name and belonged to the Kandla Empire. It would be called the "Tunan Chamber of Commerce".
This Tunan Chamber of Commerce was just a shell company and the funds were injected by the New Flyer. They were actually responsible for the investments that the New Flyer made in the two provinces.
According to the agreement, the New Flyer would build an agricultural magic machine factory in the Torea Province through the Tunan Chamber of Commerce, supplying agricultural magic machines to the two provinces.
After that, they would build two small magic machine factories in the Torea Province and the southern province. Other than mainly producing household magic machines, they would also produce some factory magic machines, mainly used in the construction of the two provinces.
This was one of the requests that Xu Yi had made to the two dukes.
He clearly told the two dukes that if they wanted to develop the magic machine industry and truly enjoy the benefits of the magic machine industry, they had to solve the problem of the infrastructure in the two provinces.
Among these infrastructures, the most important one was road transportation.
So not long after Xu Yi left, the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce's chairman Cruz received an invitation from Duke Peresco and also entered the Torea Province. He signed a road construction agreement with Duke Peresco and the southern province representative that Duke Windsor had left behind.
This agreement was different from the private agreement that Xu Yi had signed before. This was an official agreement that had the seal of the Torea Province and the southern province's governor.
According to the agreement, the Torea Province and the southern province would invest one million and two hundred thousand gold coins and one million and seven hundred thousand gold coins to build four roads between the two provinces. The total distance was estimated to be one thousand and two hundred kilometers.
Once these four roads were built, the goods that came from the southern Torea Province, which was the ports on the southern coast of the Kandla Empire, would be able to smoothly enter the Torea Province and the southern province through these roads.
At the same time, the goods in the two provinces could be conveniently connected to the ports through these roads before being transported to other places by sea.
So in order to solve the transportation problem, the two provinces had ordered two hundred large transport Magic Cars from the New Flyer.
Of course, since Duke Windsor had announced that he wouldn't allow any items related to the New Flyer to enter the southern province, the two hundred large transport Magic Cars that the southern province ordered from the New Flyer were under the name of an unknown company that belonged to the Torea Province.
As for how this company would drive the large transport Magic Cars into the southern province without arousing suspicion, that was something that Duke Windsor should consider. It wasn't Xu Yi's turn to worry about it … …
While chairman Cruz was in the Torea Province discussing the four roads with the representatives of the two provinces, Xu Yi had already returned to his private manor by the sea at the New Flight Commerce Main Base.
After coming home, the first thing Xu Yi did was go to the giant Sines map hanging on the wall of the study.
He picked up a pen and first painted the southern Torea Province of the Kandla Empire red before pointing at the area that represented the southern province. After hesitating a bit, he didn't paint the entire area red and just pointed at a few red dots.
He was assured about the Torea Province, believing that Duke Peresco was sincere enough to cooperate with the New Flyer to develop the magic machine industry. But as for the southern province, Xu Yi wasn't that confident.
Although Duke Windsor had shown enough sincerity, based on his previous performance, Xu Yi felt that he needed to observe him for a while.
After painting the two different shades of red, Xu Yi looked at the entire Kandla Empire on the map. He found that there were many areas of the Kandla Empire that were dyed red. It could be seen that the magic machine industry was developing very quickly in the Kandla Empire, it wasn't as difficult as before.
Xu Yi was the person who believed in the magic machine industry the most. He believed that when everyone in the Kandla Empire understood the benefits of the magic machine industry, the Kandla Empire would definitely fall.
This was the trend of the era, there wasn't a single person or country that could resist it.
Moving his eyes away from the Kandla Empire, Xu Yi looked at the Malor Empire that also took up a large area to the north and his expression became even more satisfied.
Although the Malor Empire didn't have as many red areas as the Kandla Empire, the colour was much deeper. This meant that in Xu Yi's mind, the magic machine industry in the Malor Empire was much deeper than in the Kandla Empire.
The reason for this was because the Malor Empire's geography was special, there weren't many places suitable for developing the magic machine industry.
The second reason was that the New Flyer's situation in the Malor Empire was different, so they mainly expanded with the Marquess Of Southguard as the center. This made the development more concentrated and deeper.
Of course, if one were to talk about the development of the two empires, the Malor Empire had the Marquess Of Southguard as their leader and the positive attitude of the Malor Empire's officials, so they were clearly much stronger than the Kandla Empire.
Now the Malor Empire had enough agricultural magic machines. With the help of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, over 30% of the Malor Empire's farmland had been harvested with the new agricultural magic machines. The efficiency was more than ten times higher compared to previous years.
The Malor Empire that had tasted the sweetness had clearly expressed to the New Flyer that they hoped that they could receive the technical support of the New Flyer in terms of agricultural magic machines, helping the Malor Empire completely transform their farmland.
For this, the Malor Empire had even taken the initiative to reduce the tariff on all New Flyer's products by 5%, which could be considered very sincere.
Don't underestimate this 5% tariff.
Last year, including the agricultural magic machines, the New Flyer's products that entered the Malor Empire had a total value of seventeen million gold coins.
Although the Malor Empire's tariff on the various magic machines wasn't that high, only being 54%.
But if they reduced the tariff by 5%, it was equal to saving the New Flyer over eight hundred thousand gold coins.
This didn't seem like much, but if one considered that the products that the New Flyer imported from the Malor Empire next year would be worth over thirty million gold coins, this was a number that couldn't be ignored.
Not to mention that because the tariff was reduced, the New Flyer could adjust the price, making it easier to promote in the Malor Empire. It would also make the New Flyer's products more competitive with the products of the other magic machine companies.
Considering this, the benefits that the New Flyer gained from this were even more shocking.
However, this condition to Xu Yi was far from enough … …