Volume 4 Chapter 69 (1/2)
Many people were confused about Leslie’s plans for the future, but Xu Yi was more surprised.
Because Leslie actually wanted to run around on the endless sea and become a ruler of the sea!
Hearing Leslie’s idea, Xu Yi almost couldn’t help saying that he was dreaming.
Ruler of the sea?
He can’t even touch the sea, how could he be a ruler!
Because of the limits with this world’s crafting techniques, they couldn’t make large ships that were big and sturdy enough to sail the open seas.
In the history of the Sines Continent, only the Candra Empire had attempted this once. They had built twenty large wooden boats and formed a fleet to conduct a journey to the open seas. They wanted to reach the legendary other continent that was far off across the sea.
However, this fleet had encountered a storm in just three days of heading out. In the end, the twenty wooden boats were crushed by the storm and most of the people that went on the journey died. There were only less than ten people who were lucky enough to survive.
Since then, the people of the Sines Continent had given up the dream of sailing the seas, even listing the endless seas as a forbidden zone.
Other than people who lived by the sea who fished off the shore, normally no one dared to take a single step into the boundless seas.
Now Leslie said that he wanted to become the ruler of the sea……If it was just near the sea, it would be unrelated to one’s marine strength and one’s strength near the coast.
“Xu Yi, this is the old concept of the Sines Continent, it’s already gone.” Leslie looked at Xu Yi in confusion, “It really is strange, you were the one who personally thought of and developed this Magic Boat. Now you’re telling me that you’re not confident in designing a seafaring vessel?”
“It is because I developed this thing that I know its limits better than anyone.” Xu Yi said with a serious look, “Although I’m certain that this Magic Boat is better at resisting a storm compared to the wooden boats, this thing will be safer to go on the seas with, saying that there is no danger at all is an exaggeration. It can’t guarantee that you will survive on the seas.”
“According to what you said, this thing isn’t that much better than wooden boats? Then why did you spend all that effort making this?” Leslie knit his brows and looked a bit disappointed, “I thought that with this thing, you could navigate the endless seas like my dreams from my youth.”
“I can guarantee that you will accomplish those dreams, but not now.” Xu Yi shook his head and said with a serious look, “I’ll give you a better suggestion, make your goals a bit more realistic and don’t decide on something that is so far away first. A voyage on the seas is something that needs to be accumulated, you should go step by step and prepare bit by bit.”
Leslie looked back at Xu Yi, “You think I’m dumb? Of course I won’t be like those idiots from the Candra Empire, going right into the depths of the seas. I was planning to explore the deep seas bit by bit with the Magic Boat that you developed. You think that I would charge in like a fool?”
Xu Yi couldn’t help rolling his eyes.
After all this time, he was worried for nothing.
“Alright, then what is your specific plan?” Xu Yi asked, “This medium sized Magic Boat that our company makes is priced at eight hundred thousand gold coins, I don’t think you can take out that much money now.”
“Eight hundred thousand gold coins?” Leslie was surprised, “It’s this expensive?”
“Of course.” Xu Yi proudly said, “This medium sized Magic Boat can take up to five thousand tons and has three thousand tons of cargo space. This means that the cargo for a single trip is better than going by land a hundred times. You think it’s expensive? I think that it’s very cheap.”
“It can hold three thousand tons of cargo each time?” Leslie looked at the ceremony on sea, looking at the Magic Boat that was currently slowly gliding along the waves before nodding, “If it’s like this, it is indeed worth quite a bit. But Xu Yi, it seems like my estimates were wrong. What I need isn’t this kind of cargo Magic Ship, rather I want a smaller faster one, the kind that can carry soldiers.”
“Battle Magic Ship?” Xu Yi knit his brows and looked at Leslie in surprise, “What? You want to become a pirate?”
Leslie laughed, but he didn’t answer.
Looking at the strange smile on his face, Xu Yi didn’t ask. After thinking for a bit, he said with a nod, “Actually it’s very simple. We just need to make a few necessary changes and then add in weapons and defenses to meet this need.”
“Good, I need some that are a bit smaller than these medium sized Magic Boats and they need magic weapons on them. For example, a small Magic Boat with a Magic Trebuchet on it, it would be better if it was also a bit faster. What do you think, Xu Yi? Can you do it?”
Xu Yi spread his hand, “We can do this, but with our company’s current productive forces, we might not be able to make it within half a year. If you’re in a rush, it definitely won’t work. Moreover, with your request, although the cost would be less than this medium sized Magic Boat, it would still cost four hundred thousand for one. Are you certain you want on?”
“Definitely.” Leslie gave a certain nod before taking a gold note from his chest for Xu Yi, “This is for the first order, I hope that you can deliver it as soon as possible.”
Xu Yi looked down and found that it was a fifty thousand gold coin note from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce. It was to be used as a deposit for the military Magic Boat that would cost around five hundred thousand gold coins.
But Xu Yi didn’t understand what Leslie was planning to do.
Boats couldn’t just be bought, the maintenance expenses weren’t considered small. If he couldn’t gain enough benefits, this might not be a good thing to have.
Xu Yi had focused on studying Magic Boats for one, he wanted to advance the research progress of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, improving the current magic machine industry system. On the other hand, he planned to form an open sea transport fleet to be used to transport goods for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.