Whether Xu Yi was ambitious was hardly a concern to the other members of the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
Quite the opposite, in fact. The guild's senior executives were all the more pleased to know that their president possessed such ambition.
After all, seen from another angle, ambition could also be called lofty aspirations.
Rather than follow a president with little ambition whose goals extended no further than the immediate future, they naturally preferred to follow one with ambition and long-term goals.
Only then could the Xinfei Merchant Guild maintain its current momentum and continue developing rapidly, becoming not merely a Super-League Merchant Guild in the surrounding countries, but one across the entire Sains Continent.
The stronger the Xinfei Merchant Guild became, the greater the benefits its senior executives would naturally gain alongside it.
And even without considering the practical benefits, simply following their president toward the goal of spreading magic machinery throughout the continent was enticing enough in itself, wasn't it?
The final month of Continent Calendar year 3875 soon passed. Once the new year arrived, the Xinfei Merchant Guild once again publicly announced a large-scale recruitment drive.
This was nothing unusual. Over the past two years, the Xinfei Merchant Guild had been recruiting workers relentlessly, and its demand for them had never eased.
This recruitment drive, however, differed slightly from previous ones, focusing primarily on workers for resource extraction.
There was also one particularly striking requirement: applicants had to be willing to leave their hometowns and work more than a thousand, or even two thousand, kilometers away.
The Xinfei Merchant Guild also made it clear that working conditions would be extremely harsh at first, and even a single trip home would be difficult. Applicants had to be able to endure hardship and withstand loneliness.
These requirements attracted considerable attention.