Volume 4 Chapter 75 - Standard of struggle (1/2)

Commander Lantis’ plan was as Xu Yi had guessed. He wanted to cooperate with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, receiving the support of their magic machines to invade the Sack Kingdom, taking territory from the Sack Kingdom. Then he would hand the mineral rights of that land to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to pay for those military magic machines.

This place was simply crazy.

First, the Sack Kingdom was stronger than the Lampuri Kingdom. In the hundreds of years of history, the Sack Kingdom had always been suppressing the Lampuri Kingdom and the Lampuri Kingdom had been barely able to keep back to the Sack Kingdom’s invasion.

In this situation, commander Lantis was telling Xu Yi that he wanted to use the mineral rights of the Sack Kingdom’s territory to pay. This was even funnier than feeding on painted cakes.

If the Sack Kingdom was that easy to invade, the Lampuri Kingdom wouldn’t have been bullied for so many years.

Next, even if the national strength between the two didn’t differ, if the western army with the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s military magic machines were to take territory from the Sack Kingdom, it would without a doubt go against the taboo.

The Lampuri Kingdom’s royal army could allow the western army to buy military magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to increase their power, but they definitely wouldn’t allow the western army to invade the Sack Kingdom by themselves.

This was because this was equal to provoking a war between the two countries. The Lampuri Kingdom wasn’t stable right now and the situation could explode into a civil war at any moment. Whether it was the military headquarters or the upper stratum, they definitely wouldn’t take the initiative to provoke the Sack Kingdom.

Putting aside these two main problems, there was another very important problem. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s production couldn’t match the needs of the western army.

Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been developing military magic machines for three years, because of the resistance in Xu Yi’s heart, they didn’t invest that much. Until after they moved the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to the Stantine Duchy and were forced to focus on developing military magic machines, as well as increasing the scale of their production.

With the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s current production, other than being able to satisfy the needs of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the guards of the other companies, they couldn’t even satisfy the orders from the lords of the Stantine Duchy. How could they have the energy to satisfy the needs of the thirty thousand soldiers of the western army?

Then again, even if these problems didn’t exist and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could produce enough military magic machines to arm the western army, would the western army put this plan in order? Rather would commander Lantis really put his efforts into this?

Xu Yi was very doubtful.

After hearing commander Lantis passionately describe the plan in his mind, Xu Yi thought for a bit before slowly shaking his head.

Not mentioning the other aspects that he was worried about, Xu Yi mainly focused on the fact that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s current production couldn’t match the demands of the western army. He expressed that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn’t take this large order.

Commander Lantis gave a smile that wasn’t worried at all, “That doesn’t matter, I didn’t want to arm all thirty thousand of my brothers at once. We can go bit by bit and slowly arm them all.”

Xu Yi forced out a smile.

If they followed the standards of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guard, it would take over a hundred gold coins to equip a soldier.

Then there was the Magic Trebuchets, the Magic Bazookas, and the Magic Armoured Vehicles.

If the western army followed this standard, it would cost at least ten million gold coins to invest in them.

Then taking in the training, it would cost several hundred thousand gold coins a year or even more.

This large consumption, not mentioning the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, even the Lampuri Kingdom couldn’t support.

Then again, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce really took out this much money, why wouldn’t they equip their guards and throw it away on the western army that wasn’t related to them?

Xu Yi had already closed the door on cooperation, but seeing the hopeful look in commander Lantis’ eyes and because of the western army’s great influence on the Black Rice Wasteland, he didn’t immediately reject him. After thinking about it, he said.

“Sir commander, how about this? Since you don’t want to equip the entire western army at once and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn’t have the ability to achieve this, then let’s stretch out our cooperation and solve this bit by bit. What do you think? For the first batch, I think our company can……”

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After leaving the camp, Xu Yi entered his Magic Sedan and drove off. The smile on his face quickly disappeared to be replaced with a bitter look.

After his discussion with commander Lantis, in the next month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be providing five hundred Magic Repeating Crossbow, ten medium sized Magic Trebuchets, one thousand sets of Magic Armour, one hundred personal Magic Bazookas, and five Magic Armoured Vehicles.

This had a value of close to two hundred thousand and the price that the western army was paying was only two promises from commander Lantis.

Commander Lantis promised that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would receive the full support of the western army. The western army would help no matter what the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to do on the Black Rice Wasteland.

Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wanted to do something in the Stantine Duchy, the western army would support them.

At the same time, if the western army could invade the Sack Kingdom, commander Lantis would give all the mineral rights in the territory captured to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

Xu Yi completely ignored the promise about the Sack Kingdom, rather the first promise had satisfied him.

With the support of the western army, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had the right to speak on the Black Rice Wasteland. It would be of great help to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s development on the Black Rice Wasteland.

With how chaotic the situation in the Stantine Duchy was, if they could obtain the support of the western army, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be safer on the land Xu Yi obtained.