Volume 6 Chapter 21 - Bad impression (1/2)

Volume 6 Chapter 21 Bad impression

Although the Candra Empire’s attitude was strange for Xu Yi, putting aside Autof, the rest of the merchants that Russell brought from Pompeii City were serious about cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

There were several of these merchants who had gone to Rudson Kingdom’s Nissi City before and had seen the prosperity of Nissi Harbour, so they yearned for the same thing.

Pompeii City was one of the Candra Empire’s important naval bases and was a seaside city, so there was a military harbour under the Candra Empire navy, as well as a citizen harbour for Pompeii City. It was like Nissi Harbour, it was named after the city, being called Pompeii Harbour.

These merchants wanted to start cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the first things they wanted were the magic machines for civilians. So in their discussion with Xu Yi, the first step they decided was to develop Pompeii Harbour with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

They were very active in this matter, even before coming here, they worked together to convince Pompeii City’s City Lord to receive his permission in investing and expanding the harbour.

Of course, the Pompeii City’s City Lord didn’t need to invest a single copper coin in this. The merchants would invest in this independently, so that was why the City Lord didn’t have any reason to oppose this.

Xu Yi naturally welcomed their proposal to develop Pompeii Harbour, but they did not accept his proposal of investing with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so that everyone owned a share in the harbour.

No matter how they developed Pompeii Harbour, it was still under the Candra Empire. It wasn’t a problem for these companies that came from Pompeii City, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn’t from the Candra Empire, so there was a big problem.

If the Candra Empire wanted to cause trouble, with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s current strength, they wouldn’t be able to do anything.

But after discussing it, Xu Yi agreed to take out a million gold coins to develop Pompeii Harbour and he would only take a 10% share in the harbour symbolically.

Compared to unreliable controlling rights, what Xu Yi cared about more were the reliable use rights.

Once this Pompeii Harbour was built, it would be an important window for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce into the south of the Candra Empire.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce would send countless transport ships to Pompeii Harbour, it was important to receive the priority rights to use the harbour.

Although the use rights weren’t reliable since the Candra Empire was a giant existence, but comparing it, the use rights didn’t touch on the management of the Candra Empire, so it was more likely that it would be upheld.

Through the discussion with the companies of Pompeii City, Xu Yi found a fact that made him very emotional.

The Candra Empire really was one of the two empires of the continent. Although these companies were only normal companies in a normal city along the coast, they couldn’t be underestimated at all.

In the Pompeii Harbour plan they took out, they would be investing an initial seven million gold coins.

Compared to the Rudson Kingdom’s Nissi Harbour where there were only three million gold coins invested, this was double that.

Moreover, Nissi Harbour was something that the Rudson Kingdom cared greatly about and received King Teruc’s attention, so the Rudson Kingdom had given it such a large budget.

It could be seen that for a super power like the Candra Empire, a small country like the Rudson Kingdom was far from being able to compare.

And this was the reason why Xu Yi had always put importance in developing the markets of the Candra Empire and the Marlow Empire.

But what made Xu Yi depressed was that while the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was smoothly developing in the Marlow Empire, they were hitting a wall in the Candra Empire.

After cooperating with ambassador Hakanin and through him, it made the household magic machines very popular in the Candra Empire’s capital of Wimbledon City.

But after two years now, the request that Xu Yi made to have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce officially enter the Candra Empire market through his relations with ambassador Hakanin had always been rejected.

Xu Yi wasn’t clear on the exact cause, but based on the result, it should be ambassador Hakanin playing hindrance while also the Candra Empire side not caring.

Then there was the Amrit Chamber of Commerce building the road in the southwest province.

They had already been building for a year and the road still wasn’t finished yet.

This was a road that was less than five hundred kilometers and with the abilities of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, if everything went smoothly, they would be able to finish paving it in half a year. However, they kept meeting hindrances which slowed down their speed.

Chairman Cruise had complained to Xu Yi many times because of this and most of his complaints were about the officials in the southwest province.

The Amrit Chamber of Commerce had already paid over a hundred thousand in bribes to those fellows, but the road still received many hindrances. It almost made chairman Cruise so angry that he wanted to give up on paving it.

Anyway, the advantages of the road were easily seen and if the Candra Empire wasn’t willing, they would be the ones suffering.