<h4>Volume 3 Chapter 112 For the people of the hometown</h4>


    Xu Yi and Great Magician Cami were surprised at the same time.


    Great Magician Cami looked at Great Magician Teli in surprise before he couldn’t help saying with a smile, “Hey, Teli, I always thought that you were the one who cared the least about money among us old fogies, but I never thought that you would change so much and care about money more than me! Ten thousand gold coins a year isn’t enough for you? Then how much do you want?”


    Seeing Great Magician Teli’s embarrassed and ashamed appearance, Xu Yi shook his head at Great Magician Cami. He turned and spoke to Great Magician Teli in a very calm voice, “I’m afraid that I can only say sorry. Ourpany has strict rules on our wages, so it can’t be increased at will. Moreover, you have just joined ourpany, so if your wage is higher than Great Magician Cami’s, we can’t really say anything.”


    Great Magician Teli gave a sigh before nodding, “I understand, I was being too greedy.”


    Great Magician Cami knit his brows and said, “I say, Teli, what problems did you encounter? You need money this badly?”


    “It’s a long story.” Great Magician Teli shook his head and stood up, “Ten thousand a year is far from being enough and since Xu Yi can’t give me a higher wage, I can only think of another solution.”


    Seeing that Great Magician Teli was about to leave, Xu Yin quickly stood up and stopped him.


    “Your excellency Great Magician, if you have a problem that requires arge amount of money to solve, I think that I can help you. How about you tell me what kind of problem you have and let me think about how to solve it for you?” Xu Yi sincerely said.


    “It’s no use.” Great Magician Teli gave a long sigh, “That ce is a bottomless hole, I can’t just keep borrowing money from you, right? Moreover, I might not even be able to repay you.”


    “That isn’t certain. If you’re willing to be a researcher of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and you develop some excellent technology, the bonuses wouldn’t becking.” Xu Yi said with a faint smile.


    “No matter how much the bonus is, it can’t be forty to fifty thousand gold coins a year, right?” Great Magician Teli gave a bitterugh.


    “Forty to fifty thousand?”


    Xu Yi knit his brows. After exchanging a look with Great Magician Cami, he fell into thought before saying to Great Magician Teli with a serious look, “Your excellency Great Magician, if you need forty to fifty thousand in funds each year, I think you should sit down and discuss this matter with me. Perhaps I’m not skilled in other aspects, but when ites to earning money......I think that no other magician in the Lampuri Kingdom canpare to me, right? Even Great Magician Eisenkel can’tpare.”


    “Right, I always said that this kid Xu Yi was talented in magic, butpared to his ability to earn money, his talent for magic is nothing.” Great Magician Cami supported him, “If his power to earn money was simr to his talent in magic, I can guarantee that this kid will be a Great Magician in the future!”


    Great Magician Teli looked at Great Magician Cami before looking at Xu Yi and after considering it, he sat back down.


    “Xu Yi, I suddenly remembered that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce has been investing in different parts of the kingdom during this time, right?”


    “That’s right.” Xu Yi nodded, looking a bit surprised, “I never thought that you would care about this matter.”


    “That’s no other way, I’ve been racking my brain on how to earn money during this time.” Great Magician Teli gave a self deprecatingugh, “Xu Yi, if I invited your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in a location, can you guarantee that you can help the people there earn forty or fifty thousand gold coins a year?”


    Xu Yi knit his brows, “That depends on what ce you’re talking about. If it’s a wild ce without a single thing, even with my abilities, I wouldn’t be able to do anything.”


    Great Magician Teli said with a bitterugh, “That’s right, the ce I’m talking about is no different from the wilderness. Caraska Ind, have you heard of this ce before?”


    “Caraska Ind?” Xu Yi thought about it, “Isn’t it an ind that isn’t far off the west coast of the ck Rice Wastnd? Isn’t it filled with pirates?”


    “Filled with pirates?” Great Magician Teli gave another bitterugh, “Although I want tomend you on your knowledge, actually knowing about Caraska Ind, but to say it is filled with pirates.....Alright, this can’t be considered wrong. Who made living on the ind so hard that they have no way to make a living unless they are a pirate.”


    Xu Yi and Great Magician Cami looked at Great Magician Teli in surprise. Why did he suddenly mention Caraska Ind? Could it be that he was rted to this well known pirate ind?


    “Stop guessing, I was born on Caraska Ind and grew up there.”


    Xu Yi and Great Magician Cami were both surprised.


    They never would have thought that Great Magician Teli would be born on this pirate ind!


    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Cami and he shook his head.


    “Don’t look at me. Although I’m old friends with Teli, I’ve never heard him mention his background.”


    “Being born on Caraska Ind isn’t anything to be proud of, of course I wouldn’t casually mention it.” Great Magician Teli gave a sigh, “If it wasn’t for having hope in Xu Yi, I wouldn’t have told you.”


    “Many thanks for your trust.” Xu Yi thought about it before asking, “Then your excellency Great Magician, you want forty to fifty thousand a year at least, could it be that you want to support the people of your hometown by yourself?”


    Great Magician Teli looked at Xu Yi in surprise, “You can actually guess this?”


    “This isn’t hard to guess. If it wasn’t for this reason, I don’t know why a Great Magician like you would be this worried.” Xu Yi said with a smile.


    “Alright, your guess is right. Caraska Ind is my hometown, but the living conditions are just too bad. I grew up there and by coincidence I learned magic, bing a Great Magician in the end, so I thought that I could rely on my abilities to change the living conditions of the people of my hometown, so I’ve been helping them over the years. But.....I can’t hold on any longer.”


    “No wonder you were always poorer than me.....” Great Magician Cami muttered, “I say, Teli, since the living conditions of Caraska Ind is that bad, why don’t you just move them out? With your identity, it isn’t a problem to request residency from the Royal Parliament, right?”


    “No, it’s a very big problem.” Great Magician Teli’s bitter smile didn’t disappear, “I wanted to make this request of the Royal Parliament, but I was rejected by them. Do you know the reason?”


    “Because of the pirates?” Great Magician Cami guessed.


    “Right.” Great Magician Teli’s smile became more bitter, “Although I refuted the reason they gave, there was no way. Actually, it isn’t wrong to call Caraska Ind an ind of pirates. If I hadn’t left the ind to learn magic in the past, I might have be a pirate......”


    “ A Great Magician level pirate?”


    Xu Yi looked at Great Magician Teli with a strange gaze before returning to normal.


    “Your excellency Great Magician, based on your words, I think that your initial idea is to rely on yourself to provide forty to fifty thousand to the people of the ind to increase their standard of living?”


    “Right, I was nning on doing this. There are close to five thousand people on the ind, so even forty to fifty thousand isn’t enough. But it is barely enough for the ind to obtain some kind of self sufficiency. Actually I want them to have a stable life, so they no longer go pirating. Then in a few years, I can apply to the Royal Parliament again and let them move to our Lampuri Kingdom.”


    Xu Yi was in thought for a bit before giving a sigh and shaking his head, “Your excellency Great Magician, I have to say that your idea is just too.....naive.”


    Great Magician Teli’s eyes popped out, Great Magician Cami also looked at Xu Yi in surprise.


    This kid, he actually dared to call a Great Magician naive? He simply didn’t know the depths of heaven and earth!


    “Your excellency Great Magician, a person’s greed is limitless. I can guarantee that even if you give them that much money, they will also want to live a better life. Even if they receive the money from you, they will keep on being pirates because they can live better lives that way.”


    Great Magician Teli looked a bit dejected, “How could I not know this? But I feel that’s just because I haven’t given them enough help. If they could lead stable lives, who would be willing to risk their lives and reputation to be a pirate?”


    Xu Yi couldn’t help sighing as he shook his head again.


    Perhaps Great Magician Teli wasn’t naive, rather his sentiment towards his home Caraska Ind was too deep.


    Xu Yi was unable to understand the price he paid for this sentiment, but that didn’t affect his understanding of Great Magician Teli’s ideas.


    “Alright, your excellency Great Magician, I understand your meaning, but I must remind you that even if you give them forty to fifty thousand, or even a hundred thousand, it won’t work. For the close to five thousand people of Caraska Ind, this bit of gold coins won’t change anything.” Xu Yi said with a serious look.


    “I just want to help.” Great Magician Teli said with a sigh.


    “There are many methods to help. To be honest with you, the method you chose is the most ineffective method.” Xu Yi said, “If I had a choice, I would definitely use another method.”


    Great Magician Teli’s eyes lit up, “That means that Xu Yi, you have some good method to solve this problem?”


    Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “Of course.”