Chapter 97 Arrogant agricultural department
The next morning, Viscount Leslie who received the news was standing in front of the burned black storage room with a dark look on his face.
“How are the losses?” After a while, Viscount Leslie finally asked a question to Xu Yi beside him.
“I noticed early, so there weren’t that many losses.” After Xu Yi’s reply, he slightly knit his brows and looked a bit confused.
He had personally saw the spark explode before the flames instantly surrounded the entire storage room. It didn’t seem like a simple fire, rather it looked like someone had set the fire on purpose.
But Xu Yi had just arrived in Anvilmar City yesterday and didn’t know that many people. Naturally he didn’t make any enemies, so why would someone suddenly move against the things he brought over?
Hearing Xu Yi’s doubts, Viscount Leslie was silent for a bit. He suddenly waved his hand and signaled to Housekeeper Lahm and the others to move back.
When everyone was far away, Viscount Leslie gave a sigh and said to Xu Yi, “Xu Yi, I’m the one who implicated you.”
Xu Yi was stunned, “Lord Viscount, why do you say that?”
Viscount Leslie looked northeast wall of the yard and a bitter smile flashed across his face.
“Because some people don’t welcome me back and this is a warning for me.”
Xu Yi’s mouth opened wide, but he didn’t ask anything in the end.
Based on Viscount Leslie’s tone, there must be a complicated reason for this. With Xu Yi’s current status, it would be best if he didn’t take the initiative to involve himself.
“It seems like it’s not safe putting this here. How about this, I’ll help you find a safe place to put it?” Viscount Leslie thought about it before saying this.
Xu Yi shook his head, “There is no need. Since it has already been burnt, this means that the other side must think the things are broken and won’t come to make a move again. Not to mention that this is a warning against the Lord Viscount and since the warning has already succeeded, the results are not important. I will have Housekeeper Lahm increase the guard around here, so there should be no problems.”
Viscount Leslie knit his brows, “Xu Yi, these things are important for your audience, why do I feel you aren’t nervous at all?”
Xu Yi laughed, “I was nervous before it burned down, but after seeing the fire from yesterday, I suddenly thought it through. These things are not that important, the most important thing is what these things represent. There would be no problem if these things were destroyed because our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can make them again. Unless those fellows can use a fire to burn down all of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it doesn’t have any significance.”
Viscount Leslie couldn’t help smiling, “You really are unrestrained, but you aren’t afraid that you can’t take anything out when you meet the king?”
“I am.” Xu Yi gave a serious nod, “So Lord Viscount, you must help me with something.”
After sending Viscount Leslie off, Xu Yi returned to the storage room. Seeing everything that had been burned black in front of him, Xu Yi’s relaxed face gradually sunk.
In front of Viscount Leslie, Xu Yi didn’t completely tell the truth.
When the fire appeared last night, Xu Yi clearly felt a trace of magical fluctuations. It could be seen that the person who set the fire last night was a hidden magician.
To send a magician for this small matter, it could be seen that this was very important to the other side and they had made the resolution to succeed.
If it wasn’t for Xu Yi coming along and promptly using Water Attributed Magic to put out the fire, neutralizing the magic destructive might inside the flames, even if the things in the storage room wasn’t destroyed, it would have been damaged still.
After thinking about it, Xu Yi walked to another room in the distance.
This room used to be a guest room, but because the storage room was burned down, Xu Yi had Housekeeper Lahm put the things in here.
Opening the door, he saw six strange looking machines inside. Outside was stained from being burned by the flames and it looked very fierce, really not looking good at all.
The six machines were specially brought here by Xu Yi. They were six agricultural magic machines which included the small Magic Harvester, the small Magic Plowing Machine, and the small Magic Excavator.
Being summoned by the king this time, Xu Yi planned on demonstrating the powerful uses of these machines to the king.
The nobles in Banta City had already been conquered by these machines and had sent their orders to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so he believed the king wouldn’t be different.
If the king was moved and promoted these agricultural magic machines throughout the entire Lampuri Kingdom, now only would it bring large amounts of profits for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it would accomplish the first step of the plan in Xu Yi’s heart.
Xu Yi took a towel and carefully wiped the surface of these six machines.
This work took quite a bit of time, but Xu Yi was not assured in giving these machines to the servants to handle, so he could only personally take care of them.
After spending half an hour, he finally finished wiping the surface of the six machines. He took out a few Magic Crystals and placed them into the six machines before preparing to flick the switch to test them.
As soon as he flicked the switch of the first small Magic Harvester and the plow in front began to turn, there was the sound of footsteps coming from outside the room.
“Chairman Xu, chairman Xu……” Housekeeper Lahm’s shouts came from outside.
Xu Yi turned off the small Magic Harvester and walked out in a confused manner.
When he came out, he saw Housekeeper Lahm leading six people over.
These four were all wearing the same fine work uniform and they seemed like they came from the same organization.
As expected, after Housekeeper Lahm gave introductions, Xu Yi knew that these four came from the agricultural department. After learning that Xu Yi had come to Anvilmar City yesterday, they came to meet Xu Yi early in the morning.
The one leading them was a middle aged man who seemed to be past fifty with greying hair. After hearing Housekeeper Lahm’s introduction, he said with a slight nod, “Chairman Xu, where are the agricultural magic machines you brought? Give them to us to take back.”
Xu Yi knit his brows. This Lord Fisher’s tone seemed very calm, but whether it was his expression or tone, there was a trace of disdain and indifference that wasn’t concealed at all. It was like coming here to see Xu Yi was already giving him quite a bit of face and it was natural for Xu Yi to hand the things over.
Xu Yi thought that the agricultural department coming over the next morning after receiving the news last night meant that they were very serious about the agricultural magic machines, but it didn’t seem like this.
“Lord Fisher, when have I said that I would hand these things over to the agricultural department?” Xu Yi said with a frown.
“You want to keep it?” Lord Fisher’s voice became a bit higher. He looked at Xu Yi and was a bit impatient, “Chairman Xu, since you have reported that you have brought agricultural magic machines over, then of course you have to hand them over to us and let us bring it back to study first. If these really do help improving farming, the agricultural department will give your Frestech Chamber of Commerce a commendation.”
“Commendation?” Xu Yi’s voice instantly became angry.
He had come here this time to promote the agricultural magic machines. He thought that with even the king summoning him, the agricultural department would treat this very seriously. But he never thought that these four agricultural department ministers would have this kind of appearance, not caring about him at all.
Based on their appearance, if Xu Yi really gave them the agricultural magic machines, perhaps they would shelf this matter and not care about it anymore.
“Your excellency, allow me to ask a question. I remember that in my correspondence with the agricultural department, you had me come here this time was to hear my farm transformation plan and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s farmer support plan, it didn’t mention anything about me handing over my magic machines, right? Other than that, I’ve never said that I’ve brought any agricultural magic machines with me, so how do you know about this?” Xu Yi looked right at Lord Fisher as he asked this.
A look flashed in Lord Fisher’s eyes before he looked right at Xu Yi and said in a loud voice, “Chairman Xu, this is not something you should ask. You don’t need to care this much, I am representing the agricultural department to ask you to immediately take out the agricultural magic machines for us to study. Could it be you can’t agree to this?”
Xu Yi looked over the other three ministers with Lord Fisher and found that they had fierce looking faces. It was like if Xu Yi dared to reject them, they would immediately move against them.
Seeing the appearance of the four, Xu Yi paused for a second.
He wasn’t afraid, he just felt that something was fishy.
If the agricultural department didn’t place importance on him, they definitely wouldn’t run here this early in the morning. If they did place importance in him, why would they show this kind of appearance?
Thinking about it, Xu Yi shook his head, “Your excellency, I’m afraid I can’t agree to your request. I have other uses for these machines and if I had them over to you, it will disrupt my plan.”
Lord Fisher’s face instantly sunk as he said with a cold snort, “Disrupt your plans? If you don’t give us these machines, it will disrupt the plans of our agricultural department! Do you think that your plans are more important or our agricultural department’s plans?”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “Your excellency, there doesn’t seem to be anything to compare there? Perhaps your agricultural department’s plans are important, but that does not mean I must give those machines to you.”
“Audacious!” Lord Fisher instantly flew into a rage and pointed a finger in Xu Yi’s nose as he roared out, “Xu Yi, you are just a small merchant, you actually dare go against the request of our agricultural department? Do you know that if it wasn’t for your company’s whatever farmer support plan being a bit of use, you wouldn’t even have the qualifications to talk to us?”
Xu Yi knit his brows and pressed down Lord Fisher’s finger as he maintained his calm voice to say, “Your excellency, if you maintain this kind of attitude, I think our talk can end here.”
Xu Yi’s calm tone enraged the other three agricultural department officials and enraged Lord Fisher even further, but since he was older and more stable, he raised his hand to stop his companions from charging forward. He looked at Xu Yi and said with a serious face, “Chairman Xu, you really are planning to go against our agricultural department’s orders?”
Xu Yi said with a faint smile, “Your excellency, first, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn’t have a superior and subordinate relationship. A word like orders, it doesn’t seem like it’s used here, right? Second, can you really represent the agricultural department?”
Chapter 98 Programmable Magic Array
Seeing Lord Fisher angrily leave with his three companions, Housekeeper Lahm came beside Xu Yi and said in a worried voice, “Chairman Xu, you…...is it good for you to treat agricultural department officials like this? Didn’t the Lord Count give an order that he hoped to see you working together with the agricultural department to promote the things you’ve done in Banta City?”
Xu Yi pointed in the direction of the four people leaving, “Did they seem like they wanted to cooperate?”
Housekeeper Lahm was instantly speechless.
Lord Fisher’s group of four had been arrogant and bossy since the beginning, completely treating Xu Yi as a subordinate. They even ordered Xu Yi to take out the agricultural magic machines. This really didn’t seem like they wanted to cooperate at all.
It had to be known that Count Sean had been filled with praise of Xu Yi in the letter, writing in words filled with courtesy. It could be seen that chairman Xu was not a normal commoner.
Adding in his close relationship to Viscount Leslie, it was very normal for Xu Yi to completely disregard four officials from the agricultural department.
“Housekeeper Lahm, why are you sure those four were agricultural department officials?” Xu Yi suddenly asked.
Housekeeper Lahm was stunned before replying. Even now Xu Yi still doubted the identity of the four of them.
He quickly responded, “Their uniforms are the uniforms of the agricultural department and they even had the agricultural department’s badge. In Anvilmar City, nobody would dare impersonate officials.”
Xu Yi nodded before not saying anything else, rather he returned back into the room to continue examining the six machines.
The examination results were considered optimistic.
These six machines were after all made of iron and they were made with Xu Yi’s strict quality control, as well as the dwarves’ craftsmanship, so these six machines were very firm and hard to damage.
Other than some damage to the Magic Array of the small Magic Excavator causing it unable to start, the other five machines could be considered in perfect condition.
Xu Yi didn’t have the repair materials on hand and there were no suitable materials in the other yards. Xu Yi could only leave after informing Housekeeper Lahm and go out shopping in Anvilmar City.
Compared to yesterday, there were even more magicians in magic robes on the street today. No matter where you looked, there would be groups of magicians that entered your eyes.
If one came to this world during these two days, one would definitely be mistaken that all the people in this world were magicians.
Xu Yi found magic material shop to find some materials to fix the Magic Array, but he had to wait an hour before he finally bought some. One could tell just how busy it was.
When he was about to leave the street specially selling magic related goods, there was a person that staggered out of the small shop in front of him.
“I’ve already said that no one will like this broken toy of yours! You’re not allowed back here it the future!” A young salesman charged out of the store and roared out at him before sending a kick at his butt. Only then did he go back into the store.
Watching the person hobble away, Xu Yi suddenly felt that he was a bit familiar.
After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi finally remembered. This person was the person he had saved when he came to Anvilmar yesterday.
Watching him hobble down the street, Xu Yi suddenly had a thought and followed him.
After that person left the street, he turned into a small alley and found a quiet, remote corner. Without any scruples of how cold the stone tiles were, he directly sat down. He took out a pitch black round thing that looked like a piece of bread from his chest and slowly began to gnaw on it.
He was clearly very hungry, but he ate very slowly. After he finished gnawing a mouthful of black bread, he chewed it several times in his mouth before swallowing. It was like that piece of black bread that no one would care about if it was thrown on the floor was the most hard to obtain delicacy.
Xu Yi watched him from not afar for a while. Thinking about it, he left the little alley and bought some things before walking in front of him.
“Hey, you’ll be very thirsty just eating bread, have some milk.” Xu Yi squatted down in front of that person and gave him the hot milk he had bought from a small shop by the side of the road.
That person was stunned for a bit before looking up at Xu Yi. Xu Yi immediately revealed a gentle smile.
That person looked at the hot milk in Xu Yi’s eyes and a look of desire appeared in his eyes.
Xu Yi put the swayed the milk in front of him, but after a swallowing sound came from him, he lowered his head and didn’t have any intent on taking the hot milk.
Xu Yi was a bit surprised. This person’s appearance, his head was like a crow’s nest and it seemed like it had been many days since he’s eaten his fill. No matter what, he looked no different from a beggar, but he never thought that he would actually reject him.
Thinking about it, Xu Yi said with a smile, “Hey brother, this is not a handout. I am a merchant and I want to do some business with you, so this hot milk is just a greeting gift.”
The person looked up again and a look of doubt appeared on his dirty face.
Xu Yi pointed at his chest, “I saw you walking out of the store a moment ago and heard what that salesman, so you should have been wanting to sell the thing in your chest to the store, right? Oh, that’s right, other than being a merchant, I am also a magician. I can feel that the Magic Array on the thing in your chest is very strange, so I am interested in it. Can you take it out for me to see? If I am satisfied, I can buy it.”
That person hesitated a bit before suddenly reaching his hand out and taking the milk from Xu Yi’s hand. He swallowed it in a single breath.
That hot milk was still quite hot, so his burns weren’t light.
Xu Yi patiently waited for him to recover before taking out the delicacies in his other hand that he had bought earlier.
That person didn’t reject it this time. He took it and swallowed it like a wolf like with the hot milk.
Only when there wasn’t a single drop of milk left and not a single crumb left of the food did that person let out a long breath. He then looked at Xu Yi and finally said, “You…..want to buy it?”
Perhaps it was because he talked very little to others, but just these three words took quite a bit of effort from him.
Xu Yi shook his head, “I don’t dare say that I will buy it. I am a merchant, before seeing a product first, I will not easily make my decision. Of course, if my feeling isn’t wrong, I’ll probably buy it.”
That person nodded and dug in his chest a bit before taking out a round crystal ball.
Xu Yi took the crystal ball and carefully looked it over. He found that the surface of this crystal ball was no different from the toys little children had, but after using magic to check it out, he knew that there should be a Wind Attributed Magic Array attached to the surface of the crystal ball.
“Can I give it a try?” Xu Yi pointed at the foundation of the crystal ball and asked this.
That person nodded. He looked at Xu Yi curiously as if he was wondering what Xu Yi was prepared to do.
Xu Yi focused his mind and sent a trace of magic from his palm into the foundation of the crystal ball.
The Magic Array at the foundation of the crystal ball instantly activated and a light breeze came from it. The debris inside the crystal ball that was supposed to resemble snowflakes began to float and it looked like the crystal ball was filled with snow.
When it started, there wasn’t anything strange about it. The Wind Attributed Magic Array at the bottom kept releasing a stable breeze and it was no different from a normal Magic Array.
But after a while, the wind from the foundation suddenly changed and suddenly blew in an oblique angle.
The debris that had already been blown into the air instantly began to dance. It wildly danced inside the crystal ball, making the scene that was considered stable inside the crystal ball become like a blizzard.
After another while, the Magic Array at the bottom of the crystal ball suddenly stopped blowing wind. Rather it suddenly stopped and the floating debris naturally fell down again.
When the debris had completely fallen down, the Magic Array at the base was activated again. This time it blew out jets of air from the bottom in different places like a fountain, not blowing continuous wind.
So the debris that covered the bottom was suddenly shot up before falling down again.
The jet stream from the bottom was fast and slow, sometimes shooting in a single stream and sometimes blowing from the entire bottom. The debris inside the crystal ball danced in the air, creating a beautiful scene.
This process lasted for two minutes before the base once again blew a small breeze like in the beginning.
Xu Yi took back his magic and the crystal ball became calm again.
“The process will keep repeating, right?” Xu Yi raised the crystal ball as he asked the man.
That person was a bit surprised before nodding while asking, “You can tell?”
Xu Yi revealed a smile. He looked back at the crystal ball in his hand and his gaze gradually began to burn.
This crystal ball didn’t seem all that amazing, but Xu Yi was very clear that the Wind Magic Array at the foundation of the crystal ball would be enough to create a revolution!
Before this, the Magic Arrays that Xu Yi learned and had contact with all had a set effect once the Magic Array was laid out and it was always a single effect, without changing at all.
For example, the Revolving Wind Array in the Magic Fan. When it was set into the foundation of the Magic Fan, the might of the wind was already set. Then it would be used to power the blades, which moved at a determined speed, blowing out wind that was also at a set volume.
As for the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan, that was actually three different Revolving Wind Arrays at the bottom of the Magic Fan of different power.
When one changed the speed of the Magic Fan, they were just changing to another Revolving Wind Array.
But for the Wind Magic Array on the bottom of the crystal ball in Xu Yi’s hand, he had maintained a steady stream of magic, but the effects had actually changed!
Not only did it change wind speed, it also changed the wind direction, the area of release for the wind, the frequency, and many other aspects…...
If one were to describe it, the Wind Magic Array on this crystal ball could even be said to have a taste of programming to it!