The Xinfei Merchant Guild had certainly not been idle either.
Developing a maritime trade route through the Southern Waters of the Endless Sea to connect the Stantin Duchy and the Candel Empire held great significance for the Xinfei Merchant Guild's future strategic plans, but it was far from the only thing the guild needed to do.
In fact, in Xu Yi's mind, this undertaking did not even rank among his top three priorities.
Even when it came to developing markets within the two great empires, the Malo Empire had done much better in this regard. It had no conflicts with the Xinfei Merchant Guild and few reservations about introducing the magic machinery industry into its territory.
While the Candel Empire was still endlessly debating and hesitating over purchasing farmland magic machinery from the Xinfei Merchant Guild, the Malo Empire had already made its fifth request for a large purchase of farmland magic machinery last month.
In the first half of this year alone, official orders from the Malo Empire's Ministry of Agriculture for various types of farmland magic machinery had reached eighty-five thousand units, with a total value exceeding 5.7 million gold coins.
Meanwhile, there were also large numbers of private orders from the Malo Empire-in other words, from its nobles.
Although their total was still nowhere near the enormous official order from the Malo Empire's Ministry of Agriculture, their rate of growth was astonishing.
Before last year's autumn harvest, orders for farmland magic machinery from the Malo Empire's nobles, including Marquis Southgate, had totaled only a little over two thousand units. After the spring harvest ended in the first half of this year, that figure had suddenly surged to over twenty thousand, with the total value shooting past two million gold coins.
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