Chapter 41 Larger orders
The representatives of the other companies in the Business Union that came to the banquet had been completely brainwashed. With Xu Yi’s eloquent explanation, these people came to a new understanding of magic machines.
Before they had treated every magic machine from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce as a special invention, the product of a spark of inspiration from Xu Yi.
But after listening to Xu Yi’s detailed explanation, everyone found that these magic machines actually had a point in common. It was that they had a large, complicated, and extremely detailed theoretical system as a base.
Whether it was the household magic machines like the Magic Fan, the Magic Air Conditioner, and the Magic Rice Cooker, the production magic machines, the agricultural magic machines, or the mining magic machines the Falcao Chamber of Commerce used. All these magic machines were established with the same magic machine theory.
Only by studying this set of theory could one truly understand the production process of magic machines.
If they couldn’t do it and wanted to produce magic machines, they could only simply imitate and copy them. If they wanted to arbitrarily make changes to the design like chairman Mitta, they would be seeking their own death.
It was because of Xu Yi’s explanation that everyone understood that they couldn’t look down on this Magic Fan that was only over ten centimeters tall and weighed less than five kilograms. The theory hidden within was very rich and it was far from being simple.
Just with the fan blade, it involved simple physics like aerodynamics and space geometry that Xu Yi mentioned.
The three fan blades of the Frestech Brand Magic Fan seemed like three pieces of iron randomly put in, but actually why it was that shape, why there were three of them, and why they were that size……as well as many other questions. It was all determined after going through countless calculations, it wasn’t just randomly placed.
So after Xu Yi explained all of this, although everyone was dizzy from hearing all those words coming out of his mouth, they understood one fact.
Magic machines were actually very deep and it wasn’t as simple as everyone thought. It definitely wasn’t something that could be easily mastered.
The various large companies had invested large amounts of funds and manpower into this field of research, but not a single company had come up with a magic machine that could compare to the products of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
Back then everyone had thought that it was because they had been studying it for a short period of them. As they kept studying it, results would appear sooner or later.
But after they heard Xu Yi’s explanation, everyone realized that it wasn’t because they hadn’t invested enough money or they hadn’t researched long enough. Rather it was because the difference between them and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was just too big, so big that it filled them with despair, creating this kind of result.
The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already come up with such a complicated set of theory for magic machines, yet they were still stuck at researching the most basic Magic Arrays. They couldn’t even touch the most important magic machine design that Xu Yi talked about.
This large difference made many small companies who understood give up the idea of researching magic machines. It even made the Falcao Chamber of Commerce with their large power give up on wasting more resources in this aspect.
There were a total of twenty eight companies that participated in this Business Union banquet other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce represented by Xu Yi. After this conference was over, there were twenty three companies that directly left the Magic Fan industry, no longer getting involved in the magic machine industry.
Xu Yi was very disappointed about this
He always hoped that all the companies on the Sines Continent would invest into the magic machine industry, establishing a complete industrial system on the continent faster.
But he couldn’t blame these twenty three companies that chose to pull out.
After all, researching magic machines takes a large amount of funds and manpower, so it was quite a burden for any company.
After realizing that the different with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was so big that they couldn’t reverse it, it was normal for them to give up.
Then again, from the angle of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, wasn’t it better to have less companies as competition?
So although Xu Yi was worried that the remaining five companies who didn’t show their attitude would also choose to withdraw, he couldn’t really say anything.
He couldn’t just jump in front of them and say, “Hey, let’s study magic machines together. I’ll sincerely support you, giving you technology, money, and people……”
It would be strange if the others didn’t think he was crazy.
“Ai, I show my heart to the moon, but the moon shines into the ditch.” Xu Yi helplessly looked up as he recited this. He found that it was the next morning and there was a bright sun in the sky, not having a trace of moonlight.
“Chairman Xu seems quite free.” There was a familiar laugh from behind him, “Although I don’t understand what you just said, I feel like the rhythm is quite good. Can you explain it?”
Xu Yi turned back and saw the gentle smile of Seveni.
“Your highness, why are you back again?”
“What? You don’t welcome me?” Seveni revealed a faint smile, “Chairman Xu, I have never heard of the words you’ve said before, but it sounds quite good. Is it the language of your hometown? Can you tell me what these words mean?”
“You’re right, it’s the language of my country. As for its meaning……”
After hearing Xu Yi explain these words, Seveni’s eyes sparkled as she praised, “These words…..It really is elegant. There is such deep meaning hidden in these short words. It seems like the literature of your hometown is quite good. If possible, I ask you to teach me.”
“It’s quite hard learning my hometown’s language, I don’t think you have that much time, your highness.” Xu Yi said with a shrug, “For example, your sudden arrival this time, it definitely isn’t to learn the language of my hometown.”
Seveni revealed a smile, “That’s right, I came this time to give you some good news.”
“Oh? What good news this time?” Xu Yi was suddenly surprised as he asked.
“The first piece of good news is related to the worker cards you talked to me about last time. It’s finally passed in the parliament and if nothing happens, in two months, the kingdom will establish a labour department and then you can get certifications for the dwarves in your company.” Seveni replied.
“Really?” Xu Yi was filled with joy, “This is great! Once the dwarven brothers at the company learn of this good news, they will definitely be filled with joy! Now they can live here without worrying about any inconveniences and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce can openly recruit more dwarves!” 𝙗𝒆𝒅𝙣𝙤𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝙢
“I have to remind you that although I know that you recruit those dwarves to work at your company, if there are too many of them, it will attract some special attention. I hope you will pay attention to this problem.” Seveni said with a serious face.
“Many thanks for your highness’ warning, I will take notice.” Xu Yi quickly replied.
“That’s good.” Seveni paused for a bit before asking, “That’s right, I’ve heard that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce even recruited a female elf called Agnes, right?”
“Right, we already hired her when you came last time. Only she wasn’t willing to reveal herself to other humans, so you didn’t see her.” Xu Yi replied.
“I’ve heard that after she revealed herself in front of many people, so can you invite her out to meet me? To be honest, I have never seen an elf before even with how old I am and I’m quite curious about them.”
“This really is a bad coincidence. She is working at the design department in Banta City, so she’s not at Sandton Manor.” Xu Yi said in an apologetic voice.
“That really is a pity.” Seveni was a bit disappointed.
“It’s fine, you can see her next time. Or you can stay for a few more days and naturally you’ll see her.” Xu Yi said with a smile, “That’s right, you said that the worker cards were the first piece of good news, so is there a second one?”
“Of course.” Seveni nodded, “The second piece of good news is that the agricultural department has received good reactions from the agricultural magic machines all over the kingdom. Almost all the nobles with territory in the kingdom have greatly requested more agricultural magic machines. The less than ten thousand agricultural magic machines that your company has made during this time has already been divided, so you need to quickly make more.”
Xu Yi knit his brows, “How is this good news? Every time you come, you’re clearly here to tell us to rush your order.”
“Let me finish. For this demand for agricultural magic machines, the agricultural department has made some estimates and have come up with a new conclusion. To spread the agricultural magic machines through the kingdom, we need at least seventy thousand agricultural magic machines.”
Xu Yi’s eyes lit up, “That means…...taking away the twenty thousand we haven’t delivered yet, there are still fifty thousand lacking?”
Seveni nodded with a faint smile, “Now do you understand why I call this good news? That’s right, we still need your Frestech Chamber of Commerce to finish these fifty thousand agricultural magic machines. I came this time to represent royal father and the agricultural department to make another order to you.”
Xu Yi thought about it, but he didn’t reveal an excited look, rather he asked with a frown, “Your highness, I have to say something that doesn’t sound good. For fifty thousand agricultural magic machines, that requires a total of three million gold coins! Can his majesty and the agricultural department take out that much money? It can’t be that his majesty is going to sell me another two mines, right?”
“You’re right, royal father can’t take out the money, so he can only keep selling you mines. What? You don’t want them?”
“Of course I do, but your highness, what if the Falcao Chamber of Commerce does something again? A small mine cost me two million gold coins last time, could it be that his majesty wants to use these two small mines to get fifty thousand agricultural magic machines from our company?” Xu Yi asked in a somewhat dissatisfied voice.
Seveni shook her head, “If you want gold coins, we can just do another auction like last time. But Xu Yi, royal father doesn’t want another mine to fall into the Falcao Chamber of Commerce’s hands, so there won’t be an auction and it will directly be given to you at market price. Of course, the price of iron has soared, so the estimates of the mine’s price has increased. I hope you can understand that.”
“This I understand, but what I don’t understand is that could it be that his majesty isn’t afraid of the Jole Family resisting again?” Xu Yi asked in a confused voice.
“They won’t this time.” A hard to see cold look flashed in Seveni’s gentle eyes, “They won’t ever do it again.”
Seeing Seveni’s calm face, a chill ran through Xu Yi’s heart.
Chapter 42 Small company support plan
Seveni stayed in Banta City for two days this time before heading back to Anvilmar City.
Other than signing the order for the fifty thousand agricultural magic machines with Xu Yi and discussing details, she spent most of her time in the City Lord’s Manor and it was unknown what she was discussing with Count Sean.
Only when she left, she sent people to send several large boxes to Xu Yi.
Xu Yi opened them to find that these boxes contained bright armour and weapons commonly used by the army.
The meaning of this was very clear and Xu Yi immediately understood. He immediately threw these boxes to the dwarves led by Camby, having them study them, while he put all his effort into studying another magic machine.
It entered June and the weather began to warm up bit by bit.
But this time, the people of Banta City were surprised to find that the different brands of Magic Fans that could be seen on every street of Banta City had completely disappeared.
Everyone found it strange. There were many different brands of Magic Fans and the price was dropping, almost falling under the one gold coin mark, so why did they all suddenly disappear?
The weather was gradually getting hotter and when families were planning to buy Magic Fans, these fellows had all disappeared before they even earned anything. Where did they all go?
The doubts of everyone didn’t last long because after two days, the Frestech Brand Magic Fan that everyone had looked forward to had finally come out!
Although the Frestech Brand was still at the same price of two gold coins, making everyone ask questions, feeling that the Frestech Brand Magic Fan should decrease their price to one gold coin and fifty silver coins, since every other brand had done the same.
But when Xu Yi took out a Frestech Brand Magic Fan in front of everyone at the product announcement, everyone had shut their mouths and were dumbfounded.
Unexpected to everyone, other than the new generation Magic Fan having a different wooden base, being completely made of iron, and being covered in the same Silver Leaf Alloy as the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker and the Magic Bread Maker, there was an important part made of a material that they had never heard of before, plastic.
Hearing Xu Yi say the word “plastic”, everyone was confused since they knew nothing about this new material.
When everyone saw Xu Yi perform some tests with this new generation Magic Fan, they found that this Magic Fan made of this new material was weaker than the Magic Fan made of iron, it would break if one used a bit of strength. However, it had a clear advantage which was that it was lighter.
Although the Frestech Brand Magic Fan used a wooden base which reduced the weight by a bit, a Magic Fan still weighed around three to four kilograms. For a small thing like this, it was clearly very heavy.
But the new generation Magic Fan that was made from the new plastic material, the weight was only around two kilograms, allowing one to easily hold one in one’s hand. Just based on this, it was greatly superior to the previous Magic Fan.
Other than this, the new generation Magic Fan’s design was countless times better.
With the silver Silver Leaf Alloy and the light green plastic coming together, the entire Magic Fan looked very slick. It was much better looking than the Magic Fan made of pure iron from before.
The reporters that came to this product announcement saw the Magic Fan and couldn’t help shouting “work of art” in their hearts.
There was no need to say it, the design of this Magic Fan came from the hands of the beautiful elf, young miss Agnes.
Just based on this, it would be fine even if this Magic Fan didn’t decrease in price, it was even fine if it increased.
Now to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce held an exchange event that made everyone’s eyes light up.
According to Xu Yi, this exchange event idea was to have everyone bring in their old Magic Fans to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. They would use their old fans to pay for a part of the price and they would receive a new generation Magic Fan from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
If the old Magic Fan was in good shape, then that old Magic Fan could reduce the price by half a gold coin. If it was a Magic Fan from another brand, it could reduce the price by thirty silver coins.
Last year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold a total of twenty units of first generation and second generation Magic Fans in Banta City alone.
According to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s sales strategy, those Magic Fans had service guarantees for three years after sale and adding in the quality of the Magic Fans, it wasn’t likely for something to happen to them. After a year, most of the Frestech Brand Magic Fans could still be used.
In a normal situation, the families that had already purchased a Frestech Brand Magic Fan wouldn’t consider buying a new Magic Fan since they could still use theirs.
But now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was holding this exchange event, they could use their old Frestech Brand Magic Fan to lower the price, so it would cost only around a gold coin to exchange for a new Frestech Brand Magic Fan that used this new material, looked countless times better, and had better performance. For many families, this was something that wasn’t hard to accept.
Of course, to maintain the same explosive sales as last year in the Banta City market that was already saturated was something that was impossible.
Like the last two product announcements, this Frestech Chamber of Commerce product announcement proceeded like normal. It was that after the product announcement, there would be an explosive piece of news.
But it was different from the last two times. For this product announcement, Xu Yi’s explosive piece of news was at least a bit related to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
“The Frestech Chamber of Commerce will soon by launching our small company support plan, supporting small companies who are interested in studying and making magic machines to enter the magic machine industry. The small companies that participate in this plan will receive equipment, funds, and personnel from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, helping the small company develop in this business and quickly grow.”
After Xu Yi said this, the product announcement sight filled with an uproar.
What was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce doing?
The other companies were worried that there were too many competitors, they wanted to monopolize all the business in their industry, but the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was actually raising their own competitors.
Was Xu Yi crazy?
“Chairman Xu, why is your company launching this small company support plan? Is it related to the farmer support plan you launched before?” The ?Karma Times?’ vice editor in chief Rhine raised his hand to ask.
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and took a step back, “This question, it’s better for me to leave it to the first company of this plan, the current chairman of the Ireland Chamber of Commerce, chairman Freeman to reply to.”
“Ireland Chamber of Commerce?” Several reporters of the Banta City thought about it and confirmed that they had never heard of this company in Banta City before. They couldn’t help curiously looking at Freeman who had walked out from behind Xu Yi.
After seeing Freeman’s face, everyone couldn’t help calling out.
Rhine couldn’t help knitting his brows.
Although he didn’t believe that Xu Yi would play a joke in this kind of situation, no matter how he looked at Freeman, he looked like a normal peasant, how did he look like the chairman of a company?
“Freeman…..Mister, let me ask you, what kind of company is your Ireland Chamber of Commerce?” Rhine asked.
This was Freeman’s first time standing on a stage like this, so being watched by all these people, he was already incredibly nervous. Now that he heard Rhine’s question, he couldn’t help breaking out in cold sweat.
He reached out to scratch his head as he turned back to Xu Yi, but seeing Xu Yi giving him an encouraging smile, he calmed his mind. He turned back to Rhine and hesitantly said, “Our…...Our…...Ireland Chamber of Commerce is a partnership formed by me and some people from Ireland Village. Right now we are producing…...mainly screw bolts.”
“Screw bolts? Everyone was stunned.
Rhine hesitated a bit before asking, “May I ask, the Ireland name that your company is using, is it because you and your partners are villagers from Ireland Village?”
“Yes…...Yes. Actually I participated in the Big Stomach King competition last year and after stealing the championship, I met chairman Xu……”
Freeman told everyone about what happened to him this year.
At first his words were rough and unclear, but after a while, the nervousness in his heart gradually disappeared and it became more smooth.
After hearing his experiences, everyone understood the origin of the Ireland Chamber of Commerce. They couldn’t help sighing in their hearts, this Freeman’s luck really was good.
It was just participating in the Big Stomach King competition by coincidence, but he was recognized by Xu Yi because of this. This allowed him to participate in the farmer support plan and receive a small Magic Harvester.
Then this farmer from Ireland Village used this small Magic Harvester to earn a large amount. He then boldly made a request to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce with his companions that they wanted to be involved in the production of magic machines.
What surprised everyone was that Xu Yi actually agreed to their request, even personally helping them choose the business of producing screw bolts which was most suited for them.
Then this small Ireland Chamber of Commerce had relied on this small screw bolt to actually become a small company with a bit of strength.
When Freeman said all this, Xu Yi came up to interrupt him, “Everyone, you mustn’t look down on a small screw bot. I can tell everyone that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce no longer works on screw bolts. All the screw bolts used for magic machines are now being provided by the Ireland Chamber of Commerce. Just with this, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is paying over five thousand gold coins each month!”