Volume 2 Chapter 9 - Long term plan (1/2)

For the Lampuri Kingdom that was to the southwest of the Sines Continent, spring came earlier than most other countries on the continent.

Entering March, the south winds came. The snow on the ground had already been blown away and there were even some sprouts in the fresh soil, bringing a touching trace of green to the monotonous ground.

Xu Yi looked at the eye catching green outside the window and was stunned for a bit before turning back to the kingdom’s map on the wall.

To the west of Banta City, other than the area of red where the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s factories were, there was a large area of light red to the west. It represented the area the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was going to take under them.

Of course Seveni didn’t only bring bad news. After spending two months at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and completing the first batch of agricultural magic machines, Seveni gave Xu Yi some good news. The king had seriously considered it and had agreed to Xu Yi’s request to rent some land from the royal family.

And unexpected to Xu Yi, the king was even more generous than he had thought.

Xu Yi just tentatively wanted to rent a land with an area of one square kilometer, but the king had increased it by ten times! He agreed to rent the Frestech Chamber of Commerce a giant area of over ten square kilometers!

Moreover, the rent the king had set was even cheaper than Xu Yi had expected.

At first Xu Yi was planning on renting a square kilometer of land and was planning to pay at least five thousand each year in rent, but after the king agreed to rent him ten square kilometers, he actually gave him a rent of only thirty thousand gold coins each year!

If one used conversion based on purchasing power, thirty thousand gold coins was equal to three million RMB.

If any company on earth knew about this, that they could rent a full ten square kilometers with only three million RMB each year, they would have fainted from happiness.

Of course, with the rent being cheap, it meant that the land wouldn’t be that good.

Although the king allowed Xu Yi to pick land near Banta City, he requested that it was at least ten kilometers away.

Normally because this land is far away from Banta City, it would be quite bad.

But unexpected to the king and Seveni, Xu Yi actually chose a desolate piece of land that was fifty kilometers to the west of Banta City.

Seveni even thought that Xu Yi was insane.

Although on the map, this place seemed to be in between Banta City, Saltan City, and Karma City, not being that far away from the three cities, it was still over fifty kilometers from the closest Banta City.

With such a large distance, even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce built a factory here and produced large amounts of magic machines, it would without a doubt cost a giant amount to transport the magic machines to these cities.

Thinking of how Seveni tried to talk him out of it, Xu Yi couldn’t help smiling.

Although Seveni was seriously thinking about the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, she didn’t know Xu Yi’s plan at all, so she could only worry in vain.

Xu Yi stood up and moved in front of map. He first looked at the large fire red area before looking to the top left, finally stopping at some forests, rivers, and mountains.

This forest was the Falling Rain Forest.

Those two mountains were the Crossing Mountains where the Norma Tribe and the Angola Tribe’s dwarves lived.

The river was naturally the one that passed through the Falling Rain Forest, the river that was now filled with silt.

The place Xu Yi’s eyes fell was where the new tribe was to be constructed after Xu Yi talked with chief Siluka and chief Monto.

The Amrit Chamber of Commerce had already sent large amounts of people there and were currently building houses in full force.

After two months of construction, this place of over ten thousand square meters would have buildings of a new tribe that could host over a thousand dwarves.

Once it was complete, according to the estimates of the two dwarven chieves, it could host over three thousand dwarves at once.

Not only would it allow all the dwarves of the Angola and Norma Tribes to move in, it would also leave over half the houses for other dwarven tribes.

His eyes then fell onto a place to the top left of the river where the Night Song Tribe had hidden themselves.

In these past two months, the elves haven’t been idle.

They had been studying the resin according to Xu Yi’s requests, while also bringing some human irrigation specialists upriver to see what the situation was.

After a month of inspection, they had finally finished their plan.