Volume 2 Chapter 57 - Two more identities (1/2)
“I’m not thinking of doing anything.” Seeing the inquisitive Seveni, Xu Yi casually responded, “It’s just recruiting a hundred elves, is there anything strange about it? Don’t forget, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has over five hundred dwarven workers right now. The worker cards that these dwarves have, it was something your highness personally issued for me.”
Seveni’s expression wasn’t as relaxed as Xu Yi’s as she shook her head and said, “Elves are different from dwarves. Although dwarves can’t be considered to have a close relationship with humans, it isn’t that bad. Moreover, there are quite a few dwarves that live in the human world, so humans can accept dwarves much more easily. But elves used to be the rulers of the continent and although it’s been several thousand years since the race wars, there are still many humans who are still wary of elves.”
“You’re thinking too much.” Xu Yi said with a frown, “There are so few elves on the Sines Continent, I estimate there are less than ten thousand in the Lampuri Kingdom alone, so what is there to be worried about? Not to mention that elves have much lower fertility than us humans. According to what elder Illusia said, their tribe has only given birth to two elven children in the past ten years. You think a race like this is worthy of humans worrying about or being wary of?”
“I don’t think so, but some humans do. I am not worried about these elves, rather some people using this as a pretext to attack the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, causing trouble for you.” Seveni said with a serious face.
Xu Yi smiled, “The people who want to attack our company will always be able to find excuses, they won’t care about an extra few elves. Then again, your highness is supporting our company, so you can’t just sit by and not care, right?”
Seeing Xu Yi’s smiling appearance, Seveni rolled her eyes at him, “Chairman Xu, do you know that I’ve kept away quite a bit of trouble away from your company already?”
“Of course. Your highness is the saviour guiding the way for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I’m very clear on this. I really wish I could pull out my heart to show you my gratitude.”
Seveni’s face turned a bit red and reprimanded Xu Yi. When her face became serious again, she asked Xu Yi, “Alright, you should pay attention to this problem. I came this time mainly this time for the order of weapons and armours.”
“I also thought so. Your highness can be assured, currently we’ve finished eight thousand sets of armour. If you give us a few more months, we can complete over fifty thousand sets of armours.” Xu Yi said.
“This speed isn’t bad.” Seveni nodded, “But I came this time not to add onto the order, rather I wanted to revise the order a bit.”
“Revise?” Xu Yi saw the unnatural expression on Seveni’s face and knew that this revision wasn’t small.
As expected, Seveni paused for a bit and an apologetic look appeared in her face before she continued, “Although the army was very satisfied with the quality of the first batch of armour, some people made suggestions that production of large amounts of armour can’t be held by a normal company and needs to be controlled by the royal family and the army. So…..”
“So you’re not allowing us to make armour anymore, rather you’re changing the order to production magic machines?” When Seveni hesitated, Xu Yi casually asked this.
Seveni looked at Xu Yi in surprise, “Chairman Xu, you’re reactions are really fast.”
“It isn’t anything, I’ve heard this request countless times.” Xu Yi gave a shrug, “Everyone doesn’t hope that the things they need are controlled by others, they are most relieved as long as they control it themselves. I understand his majesty and the royal army’s worry, this is very normal.”
“That means…...chairman Xu agrees to this?”
“Of course, why wouldn’t I?” Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “Then again, do I have the right to disagree? Alright, your highness, you don’t need to be sorry to me because I understand that the military is the foundation of a country, they definitely wouldn’t let a small company like ours control it. Even if you didn’t request this today, I would have found a chance to discuss this problem with you eventually.”
Seveni nodded, “Chairman Xu truly is a wise person, you don’t need me to explain anything. Since chairman Xu understands my meaning, then I’ll give the request the military headquarters has for you. We’ll retain the order of fifty thousand sets of armour, but the military headquarters wants to raise a special order with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They hope that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can build a special factory that produces weapons and armour for the military headquarters.”
Xu Yi wasn’t surprised by this order. He stroked his chin in thought before asking, “Your highness, building a complete military factory is a very troublesome matter, other than the machines, it also requires a large amount of manpower. Could it be that you can find that many workers?”
“We can’t.” Seveni honestly shook her head, “So we need the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s help to solve these problems.”
“Relying on us?” Xu Yi pointed at himself, “Honourable highness, do you and the military headquarters think this highly of us?”
“Is there any difference? Anyway other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there is no other company that can do this, right?” Seveni said with a faint smile.
Xu Yi thought about it and could only helplessly admit this was the truth.
“Alright, then what should we do?”
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It should be said that Seveni was mentioning the king and the military headquarter’s request to cooperate with Xu Yi.
With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s current abilities, investing too much into the military business was not a good thing because it was easy to make certain people vigilant.
But helping the royal army create a military factory like this, it was easy for those people to accept.
After this matter, Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have a deeper relationship with the royal army and would gain many advantages.
In terms of benefits for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, other than the large amount of income from the fifty thousand sets of armour, there was also the income from the large amounts of magic production machines and technical guidance.
The more important thing was that through this cooperation, Xu Yi had obtained the rights to mine another two Magic Crystal mines from the royal family.
Like this, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had three iron mines and five Magic Crystal mines.