Volume 3 Chapter 9 - Endless equipment (1/2)

In any event, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce opening a factory in the Rudson Kingdom was a large matter, so it couldn’t be possibly set with a simple conversation between Newman and Xu Yi.

After Newman confirmed Xu Yi’s intentions, he spent three days solving the problem for this batch of agricultural magic machines before bringing back three thousand agricultural magic machines from this batch with him.

According to his ideas, as long as he returned to Caraca City, he would immediately transfer Xu Yi’s idea to King William. He believed that with how important the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was to King William, there wouldn’t be too big of a barrier in this matter.

Three days later, watching Newman leave the Falling Rain Valley with the agricultural magic machines loaded into his horse carriage, Xu Yi couldn’t help stroking his chin. He turned to look in the direction of the Stantine Duchy to the southwest.

Although he hadn’t gone to the Rudson Kingdom for an inspection, he was certain from the enthusiasm that Newman demonstrated and the attitude that King William demonstrated through Newman, going to build a factory in the Rudson Kingdom would be much easier compared to the Stantine Duchy.

Moreover, according to the introduction of the surrounding countries from acquaintances, the Rudson Kingdom’s people weren’t as lazy as the Stantine Duchy’s. King William was a determined king and the Rudson Kingdom’s national strength progressed with each day, already far surpassing the Lampuri Kingdom.

Thinking of the Lampuri Kingdom’s national strength, Xu Yi couldn’t help giving a sigh.

Sometimes he couldn’t help feeling, why didn’t he arrive in a stronger country when he transmigrated? For example, the two big empires of Candra and Marlow?

If he was in such a powerful country, the magic machine industry he single handedly built would be easily recognized by the upper echelon of the country and there would be quite the room to develop. It wouldn’t be like in the Lampuri Kingdom where every single step was hard.

Because the Lampuri Kingdom’s national strength was weak, there were many things that they couldn’t support Xu Yi in. It made him also have to consider the development of the Lampuri Kingdom while developing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

The more important thing was that for a weak country like the Lampuri Kingdom, it was easy for things like power struggles to appear.

If it wasn’t for the old stubborn fools that Count Stagg represented aiming for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, forcing Xu Yi to relocate the foundation of the company and even transferring Count Sean who supported him away, according to Xu Yi’s plan, Banta City would have already become the economic center that would create large strides for the magic machine industry in the Lampuri Kingdom. It wouldn’t have been forced down this step like how Count Stagg treated it now.

The Banta City citizens reviled and cursed Count Stagg, but if one was to talk about real hatred, no one could compare to Xu Yi.

To Xu Yi, this fellow was not just a criminal in Banta City, he was a criminal to the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

But Xu Yi was helpless on this matter. Count Stagg represented the Stagg Family and the Stagg Family represented the will of the conservative stubborn old fools.

If this became more serious, those stubborn old fools were backing the eldest son to take the throne and openly supported his highness Eric. It meant that they would definitely be incompatible with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who supported her highness Seveni.

It wasn’t that Count Stagg didn’t see the benefits the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had brought to the development of Banta City, but he was stuck in his ways and decided to aim for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

It was a good thing that although the king didn’t explicitly show any attitudes towards the issue of succession, he was currently supporting Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce through her highness Seveni.

Whether it was making Xu Yi a baron before, making him the only person who was both a noble and a merchant, or when he made Xu Yi a viscount and broke conventions by giving him the Falling Rain Valley and the surrounding area as his territory. It all demonstrated the king’s full support of Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

It was because of this that although Count Stagg wanted to deal with the Frestech Chamber of commerce, he could only make moves with reasonable cause and couldn’t force his way.

Now that he had his own territory, Xu Yi could boldly develop as per his plan and didn’t need to worry about another Count Stagg issue again.

Turning back to look at the Falling Rain Valley that he was familiar with after living here for some time, Xu Yi thought for a bit before heading towards the residential district.

The current Falling Rain Valley residential district was very different compared to before.

After the workshops at Sandton Manor and the magic research facility in Banta City were moved, there were much more humans in the Falling Rain Valley. A new area was opened in the residential district for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce human workers to live in.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce already had over six thousand workers. Dwarves and elves took up over a thousand of them, with the rest being human workers.

But the dwarves moved their tribe to the Falling Rain Valley, while only a part of the human workers chose to live in the Falling Rain Valley since it was so far away. So while there were over ten thousand people in the Falling Rain Valley, humans only made up less than half of that and were far less compared to dwarves and elves.

Xu Yi entered the residential area and walked along a road that passed through the dwarf and human living areas. After a while, he came to a large training field outside of the residential area.

There were several hundred people on the training field currently training in three groups. They were separated into close to three hundred human warriors, one hundred dwarf warriors, and a hundred elf warriors.

The human warriors were conducting drills under Hart’s lead and the dwarf warriors were currently dueling with each other.