Chapter 53 Recruitment
Xu Yi’s worry only lasted a few seconds before he suddenly realized something.
“Oh, I remember now. Today is the day we’re recruiting workers.”
Many days ago, Xu Yi had already told Heinz that in order to increase their production line and their production capacity, they needed to recruit more workers.
But during this time, whether it was the second generation Magic Fans or the miniature Magic Harvester of the magic machine workshop, both workshops had been operating at full. Because of this, Heinz didn’t have time for this matter.
Now that summer was over, the orders for the Magic Fans had greatly decreased, so Heinz had some free time. After a period of preparation, he was finally prepared to officially begin recruiting workers today.
Heinz had reported this matter to Xu Yi yesterday, but because Xu Yi had suddenly achieved his cooperation with Great Magician Camilla and a single word from Great Magician Camilla had opened up his world, he was too excited and had completely forgotten about this matter.
“I never thought that there would be this many people who would come, could it be that this many people in Banta City have nothing to do? But this isn’t right either…..” Xu Yi looked at the sky and found that the sky was already slightly leaning towards the west, “It’s already the afternoon, so why are there still this many people? Could it be that Heinz has been wasting time all morning?”
Xu Yi moved over towards the factory in curiosity, but he found that the entire area in front of the workshop was filled with people. He couldn’t even reach the door of the workshop at all.
Feeling helpless, Xu Yi could only pat the person in front of him. He wanted to let the person move aside, but that person who seemed to be in his early twenties glared right at him.
“What are you doing! Line up properly!”
Xu Yi could only reveal a bitter smile. It was good that Heinz could make these people line up, but why couldn’t he have these people line up in an orderly manner?
Looking around, Xu Yi found Alex who was on site keeping order and quickly walked over.
“Chairman, you’re back?” Seeing Xu Yi suddenly appeared, Alex called out in a pleasantly surprised voice.
Xu Yi knew this was bad immediately.
As soon as they heard Alex call out “chairman”, the surrounding people who came for interviews all looked over.
After those eyes fell onto Xu Yi, there were many of them that were filled with doubt.
Xu Yi looked to be around twenty years old, so how could he be the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman?
While these people were still filled with doubt, Xu Yi took Alex’s arm and moved through the crowd.
Those people recognized Alex and seeing him lead the way, although their hearts were filled with doubt, they still opened a path. In the end, Xu Yi still smoothly made his way into the household magic machine workshop.
The situation inside was better than outside, but it was also filled with people.
Other than the people who worked in the workshop, there were twenty strangers who were currently working on the Magic Fan production line. It seemed like they were currently taking their practical test.
When Xu Yi and Alex came in, they were spotted by Heinz who was watching the test from a corner. He came up in a stunned manner and asked in a low voice, “Why are you here? Didn’t you say that you were running the final test on the Magic Rice Cooker today?”
Xu Yi looked at Heinz and couldn’t help laughing.
Since the Magic Fan stopped production, Heinz had been paying special attention to the new Magic Rice Cooker that Xu Yi promised him. When Xu Yi told him that he would do the final test today, he even said that he would handle the recruitment alone to let Xu Yi focus on his research.
“Relax, the Magic Rice Cooker is a success. It can enter the experimental production phase tomorrow and it’ll be officially produced in less than weak.” Xu Yi patted Heinz’s shoulder and said this with a smile.
As expected, when he heard Xu Yi’s words, Heinz immediately nodded with a smile.
“That’s good, that’s good. I was just thinking that after you made me recruit a hundred workers, what would I do if there was no work for them when the time came.”
Xu Yi helplessly rolled his eyes as he wondered when Heinz would change his mentality of only caring about his own profits.
Of course he knew that a personality problem was very hard to change, so he gave up considering this question. He pointed at the strangers on the production line and asked, “Heinz, it can’t be that you are testing each person on their abilities to see if you hire them or not, right?”
Heinz looked at Xu Yi with a confused look, “I shouldn’t do that? If we don’t let them test it, how could we know that they will be able to do it after they are hired? If they can’t, they still have to resign and that is a waste of time.”
“It can’t be right? This is the simplest kind of work, shouldn’t they be able to learn it as long as they aren’t idiots?” Xu Yi was stunned, “Look at how fast the hundred slaves Viscount Leslie gave me learned how to do it, could it be that these people can’t even compare to those slaves?”
Heinz knit his brows and looked at Xu Yi with a confused look.
“I say, Xu Yi, I feel like you’re looking down on those slaves, aren’t you? Let me tell you, you might not believe it, but although those slaves have low statuses, since they are slaves used by Viscount Leslie, of course they aren’t fools, so they can learn fast. As for these people who come here for the interviews, there are quite a few slaves among them. Just this morning, there were quite a few people who couldn’t learn how to work on the production line and there were even two people who were injured while learning how to use the Magic Thread Rolling Machine. Tell me, compared to the slaves, who are the fools?”
Xu Yi was instantly speechless. He looked at the people operating the incomparably simple magic machines and working at the even simpler assembly line. If this kind of work was placed on earth, even the most common of common workers would be able to grasp this kind of work. Unless that person was a true fool, how could they not understand it?
After a while, he finally reacted.
There was another important difference between the Sines Continent and earth, which was the level of education for normal people.
The continent operated under a slave and feudal society, so their production capacity was low. Normal people already found it hard to fill their stomachs, so there was no need to mention if they had the energy and finances to be educated, so the average education level of normal people was relatively low.
On earth, most countries had implemented a basic education system, so the average person had more chances to be educated than on the Sines Continent.
People who had been educated normally had better learning abilities than people who hadn’t been educated. Once they entered the factory, they could master the foundational skills much easier.
If one used the slang of earth, earth had an advantage over the Sines Continent in terms of human resources.
Something that was very natural for Xu Yi on earth became a different matter when it came to the Sines Continent.
Thinking about the change in ideas he received from Great Magician Camilla, Xu Yi understood. He gave a slight nod and seriously said, “Un, you’re right. I’ll leave this matter to you, everything will be as you say. But Heinz, it’s best if you speed this up, there are still many people waiting outside. Then again, we only need to recruit a hundred people for now, it shouldn’t be that difficult, right?”
“It indeed isn’t hard……” Heinz’s face suddenly became a bit unnatural. After pausing for a second, he lowered his voice as he said to Xu Yi, “This…..Xu Yi, I’ll be honest with you and don’t be angry. Hearing that our factory was recruiting, there are many acquaintances from before who want me to introduce their people in. I have known those acquaintances for a long time and it isn’t good for me to reject them……”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile as he patted Heinz’s shoulder and said, “I’ve forgot to mention this to you, but of the hundred people being recruited this time, ten spots are up to you to decide, I won’t care. Of course, you have to ensure that those people can complete the work and won’t affect the speed of the workshop, understand?”
Heinz’s eyes instantly lit up and he kept nodding, “I understand, I understand! Sir chairman, you are truly…..amazing!”
Xu Yi accepted Heinz’s unskilled flattery. With how stingy Heinz was, if this was a company on earth and with how big a shareholder Heinz was, not to mention a tenth of the quotas, he would have swallowed all the quotas.
Xu Yi didn’t mind this request from Heinz. Interpersonal relationship, whether it was the Sines Continent or earth, it was always very important.
Chapter 54 - Second generation replica
After watching the recruitment process from the side, Xu Yi silently left and went to the magic machine workshop.
Since there needed to be a whole new design for the Magic Plowing Machine, naturally he had to discuss this with the dwarves who were responsible for the forging.
Unlike the household magic machine workshop led by Heinz that was close to closing, the dwarves led by Camby were incomparably busy during this period of time.
After seeing the power of the Magic Harvesters, any noble with territory in Banta City would submit an order to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Although the initial seventeen orders had already been finished, it was quickly followed by thirty one orders that the dwarves needed to finish quickly.
Even if the dwarves slowly increased their production efficiency, to complete this batch of orders, they actually needed to step up their work time.
In the past half a month, with Camby leading them, all the dwarves of the magic machine workshop had been working overtime until late into the night.
Xu Yi proposed overtime pay to these dwarves, but Camby sternly rejected this.
This was because to the dwarves, completing these orders was their work. Even if time was short and they had no choice but to work overtime, work was still work in the end. If they weren’t able to finish it in the allotted time, that would mean their abilities weren’t good enough. Therefore, for the company to specifically pay them overtime, it was an embarrassment to them.
Xu Yi was unable to understand the logic of these dwarves, but with Camby foaming from rage at this idea, he couldn’t keep insisting on it at all. He could only let go of this idea and help them order some fine wine from the Sachi Manor as compensation.
This idea was greatly welcomed by the dwarves, only under Camby’s strict supervision, the dwarves had no choice but to control their desire for wine. Only after finishing the orders could they allow themselves to enjoy the wine.
Thinking of how disappointed the dwarves looked after hearing Camby’s decision, Xu Yi couldn’t help finding this funny.
It had to be said, these dwarves were a bit too honest.
If all dwarves had this kind of disposition, it wasn’t strange at all that they were defeated in the war against humans thousands of years ago.
Of course, as the company’s chairman, Xu Yi mainly had to consider another problem.
Not only did Heinz’s household magic machine workshop need to recruit more workers, the magic machine workshop also needed to recruit some more people.
With the situation of the magic machine workshop, the newly recruited people could only be dwarves.
After these dwarves have lived here longer and the barrier with humans gradually disappeared, it would be possible to recruit humans into the workshop.
While Xu Yi was considering this issue, he had already walked into the magic machine workshop.
When he had just entered the doors to the workshop, he heard Camby’s loud sound booming out.
“Hei, look, this is the new Magic Harvester that we’ve made during this time. Let me tell you, this thing is simply too easy to use! I’ve personally seen it, this thing doesn’t even need an hour to finish harvesting an entire field of wheat. Don’t you think this is fast?”
Xu Yi was curious. Camby was completely correct, but which dwarf in this workshop didn’t participate in building this Magic Harvester? Who was he explaining this to?
Looking up, Xu Yi found that beside Camby short and stocky figure, there was a fat middle aged man that could be described as round standing there.
“Chairman Farsak? When did you get here?” Xu Yi looked over and spoke in a surprised voice.
Hearing Xu Yi’s voice, all the dwarves and chairman Farsak all looked over.
As soon as he saw Xu Yi, chairman Farsak’s round face immediately revealed an exaggerated smile and he stretched out his arms to welcome him.
“Ha, ha, chairman Xu, I was prepared to head to Banta City to look for you, but I never thought that you would be here. This is truly great.”
Xu Yi gave him a hug and after letting go, he looked over chairman Farsak. He found that he had become a bit thinner. He asked in a curious voice, “Chairman Farsak, since you wanted to come, why didn’t you tell me ahead of time? I would have gone outside the city to welcome you.”
Chairman Farsak laughed, “Chairman Xu is too polite. With the current relationship between us, is there a need for such conventions?”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. This chairman Farsak really knew how to pull people in.
Current relationship between us? Strictly speaking, it was just a cooperation relationship.
Last time, Xu Yi sold him five machines and then sent a few skilled people to Saltan City, helping the Farsak Chamber of Commerce set up a production line for the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan. They had had several exchanges during this time, so if one had to talk about their relationship, it was quite harmonious.
But other than this, could it be considered intimate? That was not certain.
When Xu Yi sold those five machines to the Farsak Chamber of Commerce, he had written in the contract that all repair services and part changes need to go through the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, there needed to be a fee that was paid each time and that fee wasn’t cheap.
If it was said that chairman Farsak didn’t see that Xu Yi earned a large amount of profit from this, it was something impossible.
Only right now only the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could perform these services. So even if chairman Farsak knew that Xu Yi was earning large amounts from him, he could only accept it and even try to create a good relationship with Xu Yi.
After all, the Magic Fan was very popular in Saltan City. Just based on the second generation Magic Fan production line, after the Farsak Chamber of Commerce promoted the second generation Magic Fan in Saltan City, it had completely pushed out the first generation Magic Fan. They seized the market in one fell swoop and in less than a month, they had earned a net profit of over five thousand gold coins.
After Xu Yi and chairman Farsak spoke a few polite words, chairman Farsak’s smiling face suddenly became overcast and he said with a soft sigh, “Chairman Xu, actually I have some important matters coming to see you this time.”
“What would you come for no reason?” This thought passed in Xu Yi’s mind, but he said, “Chairman Farsak, you are too polite. With the good relationship between us, is there a need to use the word “request”? Please speak if you need something. As long as it is something I can help with, I will not reject it.”
“Chairman Xu really is straightforward.” Come, let me show you something first.”
Chairman Farsak brought Xu Yi to the corner of the workshop and dug around in a giant bag before taking out a Magic Fan.
“Please take a look.”
Xu Yi took it in a surprised manner. He looked it over before shaking his head, “Isn’t this just a second generation Magic Fan? Chairman Farsak, what do you want me to look at?”
Chairman Farsak pointed at the symbol at the base of the Magic Fan, “Pay attention to this.”
Xu Yi looked over and found that the Magic Fan also had a symbol, but the symbol was a golden glowing lion and not the Frestech Brand.
“Chairman Farsak, if I remember correctly, your Farsak Chamber of Commerce’s symbol should be an eagle, right?”
Chairman Farsak gave a slight nod, “That’s right, so all the Magic Fans that we produce has an eagle symbol on it.”
Xu Yi instantly understood. He raised the second generation Magic Fan in his hand and asked, “This means that this Magic Fan was not produced by your company and is an imitation from someone else?” After that, he knit his brows, “That is strange. In Saltan City, other than your Farsak Chamber of Commerce, there is another company that can produce the second generation Magic Fan?”
“That’s right. This lion mark represents the Leo Chamber of Commerce, which is the largest company in our Saltan City.” Chairman Farsak replied in a deep voice.
Xu Yi thought it over.
There seemed to be no problem with this Magic Fan. It was only a normal second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan and other than the different symbol, it was no different from the Magic Fan the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Farsak Chamber of Commerce produced.
And that was the problem.
The Magic Fan the Farsak Chamber of Commerce produced was the same as the one the Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced. This was because the Farsak Chamber of Commerce used the same production line as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce which they purchased from them and they had the Frestech Chamber of Commerce helping them produce them. It could be considered from the same source, so one would imagine there would be no problems.
But Xu Yi was very clear on the fact that he had never come into contact with any Leo Chamber of Commerce. Naturally he didn’t sell a single production line to the Leo Chamber of Commerce.
Since it was like this, how could this Leo Chamber of Commerce produce a Magic Fan that was exactly the same?