Volume 5 Chapter 67 - A cooperation of over five thousand kilometers (1/2)

But facts proved that Gaza was completely overthinking things.

The thing Xu Yi wanted from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was not just something that they could afford, it was even……Chairman Gaza felt that it was so simple that he doubted that he had misheard.

Because Xu Yi only wanted some ores and magic materials that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

These ores and magic materials that Xu Yi wanted were very simple things. Although it wasn’t as commonly found and not valuable like the Magic Crystals, it wasn’t considered a rare resource in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom either, so it could easily be traded.

By trading these resources, Xu Yi promised Gaza that he could provide some household magic machine technology to the Huayue Chamber of Commerce, letting them master some methods of constructing household magic machines.

In order to ensure that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could take root in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom that was five thousand kilometers away, they were planning to build a cement factory and a small scale steel mill to ensure that the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom could establish a preliminary magic machine industry.

Also because of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom’s limited geography, there were few places in the kingdom where they could farm, so food had always been a problem for them. Xu Yi had agreed to Gaza that they could ship large amounts of food from the Stantine Duchy, helping them solve this most important problem.

Before this, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom had basically imported grains from the Candra Empire to solve their basic needs.

But it was very expensive to import grains from the Candra Empire. Take wheat for instance, it cost at least thirty four gold coins per ton and it would be at thirty eight gold coins at a peak.

Although the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was made of thirteen companies, as well as spending quite a bit of money for the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom through other business channels to buy scarce resources like wood and herbs, just in terms of food last year, they had spent one million three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins. It took up more than one fourth of the entire kingdom’s budget.

According to the agreement that Xu Yi had reached with Gaza temporarily, the price of the food from the Stantine Duchy would be much cheaper than from the Candra Empire.

For the same wheat, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only charged twenty eight gold coins per ton. It was actually six gold coins lower than that of the Candra Empire.

Adding in the other lowered prices for food, with it all, if the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom switched to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to import their food, they could save at least three hundred thousand gold coins per year.

Gaza didn’t even consider it as he immediately agreed to this arrangement with Xu Yi.

But he was also very doubtful. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be transporting food from the Stantine Duchy that was over five thousand kilometers away, but their prices were much lower than the neighbouring Candra Empire. If they counted in the transport fees, wouldn’t they be suffering a great loss?

However, Xu YI didn’t explain his reasons to Gaza, he just promised that there would be no problem in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce transporting food over. It would definitely be able to pass the various considerations of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

Gaza still had his suspicions, but he didn’t say anything else.

Anyway, the food deal wasn’t an important part of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom’s cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

If the Frestech Chamber of commerce didn’t have any problems transporting the goods, the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom would save quite a bit from this which was a good thing.

Then again, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had no reason to lie about this, it wasn’t good for anyone.

Gaza believed that Xu Yi definitely wouldn’t do something as brainless as this.

Xu Yi and Gaza had just met, which could only be considered very limited contact.

But the most pressing matter for Gaza or for the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was to build a suitable harbour as soon as possible.

Otherwise, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s large transport Magic Ships couldn’t dock. It would be very hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to have contact with the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, so naturally they wouldn’t be able to cooperate.

As for the idea that Gaza had before to build a road from the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom to the Rudson Kingdom, finally connecting to the Rudson Kingdom’s road network, allowing them to connect to the Stantine Duchy, there was no way of realizing this currently, so they could only put it aside for now.

After they finished their discussions, Xu Yi did a one week inspection of the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom under Gaza’s invitation.

The Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was a bit bigger than the Stantine Duchy, but it couldn’t compare to the Lampuri Kingdom or the Rudson Kingdom. It was considered a small country on the Sines Continent, so it was easy to perform a preliminary inspection.

This was Xu Yi’s first time here, so he didn’t inspect that deeply. He just rode around in the Magic Airship, roughly wandering around in the skies above the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom, getting a basic understanding of the environment in the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom.

After this inspection, the evaluation Xu Yi had for the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom was raised by a bit.