Volume 6 Chapter 143 - Two Governor Dukes (1/2)

Based on the initial plan, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have invested at least twenty million gold coins on the base on Giant Deer Island and it would take at least three years to construct. It could be considered the first super large project since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been established.

When the sea base was complete, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have a foothold that they could push forward and back on the southern endless seas.

And the location of this base was very well chosen, being able to protect the Stantine Duchy’s southern sea routes.

If anyone wanted to slip through the sea route in the Stantine Duchy, it was impossible to avoid this base. This was equal to setting up a large door in the southern seas, allowing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to not worry about a sudden attack from the sea.

For Xu Yi, this base was only an attempt for him.

As long as they had this experience, when the conditions were right, he would definitely expand from this base into the endless seas. In the end, he would cover each island on the endless seas with small bases, creating a line of bases that would allow them to completely control the endless seas.

The reason for this was actually because of Xu Yi’s suspicion.

With his many years of observations after transmigrating to the Sines Continent, Xu Yi was certain that this world should be similar to earth and not a world in a strange inexplicable space.

Since it was like this, he was certain that this world didn’t just have the Sines Continent.

Moreover, all the races on the continent had legends about another continent, which proved Xu Yi’s guess.

Then since this world wasn’t just a single continent, the seas that everyone considered a mystery and couldn’t be entered, was actually a treasure chest that hid many treasures to Xu Yi.

He believed that with absolute control of the endless seas, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have endless possibilities, no longer being limited to the Sines Continent that had already been carved up.

But to achieve this goal, the price that he had to pay was astonishing.

According to the initial estimates, it would take at least twenty million to complete the base on Giant Deer Island and it would take investments of no less than three million a year to maintain it.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce could easily support a sea base, but if it was ten of them or even several dozen of them, that was a big burden.

So while constructing this sea base, Xu Yi was already considering how to make profit from it.

But he didn’t have any ideas right now…...

This time Xu Yi had stayed for a full week and personally watched the sea base’s foundations being laid. After that, he took a Magic Airship and went northeast to the Candra Empire’s southern ports.

Compared to the Rudson Kingdom that could only ask for guard ships and stop there, the Candra Empire was much more direct.

Even if the relationship between the two sides weren’t as good as they seemed on the surface, so the Candra Empire government didn’t have many negotiations with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were many people from the Candra Empire that secretly contacted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to cooperate with them.

The most active one among them was the Candra Empire navy.

Because they opened the three naval ports with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Candra Empire had earned a shocking tax revenue of over three million gold coins just from marine transport in the last half a year.

Adding in all the products that were shipped in, the cities that were near these three ports were the most prosperous in all of the southern Torea Province. At the same time, it also increased the tax revenue of these places, which enhanced the benefits that the navy received from the places that they controlled.

The first place that the Candra Empire navy benefitted from was disarming themselves…..

That was right, they disarmed themselves.

When the Candra Empire navy announced that they would cut 60% of their personnel while also reducing half their warships, everyone was shocked.

Many people thought that this was because of the strict budget increases to the empire’s army, so in order to guarantee that budget, the navy budget had been greatly slashed and they had to lay off their personnel.

But in reality, this was what the Candra Empire had proposed to the army headquarters and had been approved by them, along with approval from the parliament and the emperor.

The reason for doing this was naturally to reduce the twenty five million gold coin yearly upkeep of the Candra Empire navy.

After disarming themselves, the Candra Empire navy would save ten million gold coins a year. Adding in the income from the three open naval ports and the surrounding cities, the Candra Empire navy would have an extra eighteen million gold coins a year.

The reason why the Candra Empire navy did all this to save money was to buy more guard Magic Ships from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.