Chapter 163 Dwarves also want face
“Chairman.”
“Chairman.”
“Chairman, you’re here……”
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Seeing Xu Yi suddenly appear, the people who had been focused on their discussion all immediately politely greeted Xu Yi. 𝘣𝘦𝘥𝑛𝘰𝘷𝘦𝑙．𝘯𝘦𝘵
Xu Yi waved his hand and stopped Ankhto from getting a chair for him. He toko the tire from the ground and put it standing up, as he pressed down on it.
Feeling the resistance from the tire that didn’t even reach his waist and was less than five centimeters wide, Xu Yi gave a satisfied nod.
“Not bad, it seems like it’s taking shape. Next you just need to take care of some details and this tire will be considered finished.”
Seeing that Xu Yi approved it, the surrounding people let out a sigh of relief.
Bordeau smiled before asking Xu Yi, “Chairman, did you specially come to see this?”
“No, the elite researchers of our company have been gathered for this thing, so there’s nothing to worry about. I just came to take a look since I was passing by.” Xu Yi shook his head before suddenly asking Yldan, “Yldan, if other companies gave you a wage starting at three hundred gold coins a year, would you be willing to go?”
Yldan was stunned, “Three hundred gold coins a year…..That’s just over twenty gold coins a month, which isn’t much higher than what I receive here. With how well I’m treated here, why would I go?”
“Then how about five hundred gold coins a year? That is much more than what you receive here.” Xu Yi asked.
Yldan still shook his head, “No, I wouldn’t go even if it was a thousand gold coins. I’m very good here at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and whether it is humans or dwarves, they all get along with me here. I don’t want to run to an unfamiliar environment and start over again.”
Seeing that Yldan’s answer was firm, Xu Yi couldn’t help giving a sigh.
“It seems like you elves don’t like to change your environment. Although I as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman am happy to hear this from you, I’m afraid elder Illusia wouldn’t be that happy.”
Yldan slightly knit his brows, “Sir chairman, for you to suddenly mention this, is it because something has happened?”
“Un. It’s because there’s another company that also wants to hire elves as workers and has given a wage of three hundred to five hundred gold coins. Before I ask elder Illusia, I wanted to ask you for your opinion.” Xu Yi said, “But based on your attitude, I’m afraid the other elves here aren’t willing?”
Yldan gave a certain nod, “Yes.”
“Then will elder Illusia be moved by this?” Xu Yi asked.
“This……” Yldan thought about it before slowly shaking his head, “I can’t guess what the elder would think. I think it’s best if the sir chairman asks her yourself.”
Xu Yi gave a shrug, “It seems like I can only do this.”
After discussing the new tire with everyone, Xu Yi left the tire factory and headed to the most conspicuous steel mill in the Falling Rain Valley.
In this large area, there were currently two brand new steel smelting furnaces prepared.
As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s business expanded, there was more demand for all kinds of steel.
Adding in the urgent demand of the army’s weapon factory for steel, as well as the other companies in Banta City that needed steel products from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the current steel mill production already couldn’t keep up.
Chief Siluka and chief Monto had already asked Xu Yi to build some more furnaces to increase the production quantity of the steel mill.
Although Xu Yi had already expected this, he didn’t quickly agree. Rather he confirmed the cooperation with the army and then did a strict investigation with the companies of Banta City, especially the ones that produced magic machines to get an accurate analysis of the demand, did he decide to set up two new furnaces at once.
When these two steel smelting furnaces were finished, the steel mill’s monthly production would reach two hundred thousand tons.
According to Xu Yi’s estimate, it should be able to satisfy the army and Banta City’s steel needs for close to two years.
If the produced amount reached two hundred thousand tons, just with a single steel mill, their sales revenue each month would be around eight hundred million gold coins.
Although after deducting the cost, which puts it at around a million gold coins, this was still a terrifying amount.
It had to be known that if the profits of the various household magic machines were added up, it would be a total of around three hundred thousand gold coins a month.
Of course, the reason why the gross profit of the household magic machine department couldn’t compare to this small steel mill was because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s current household magic machine market was centered around Banta City and the surrounding cities.
But as the household magic machines were sold by the Walmart Chamber of Commerce around the Lampuri Kingdom, the market would grow by several dozen times and the profit would also explode.
Just a while ago, the Walmart Chamber of Commerce had made another large order to the magic machine companies of Banta City for three million gold coins.
In this order, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce took the lion’s share of one million and eight hundred thousands. The remaining one million and two hundred thousand was divided by the other companies.
This was still because household magic machines were still being introduced in the other regions and many people hadn’t accepted this new thing yet.
According to what Xu Yi discussed with Hank Wilson last time, the household magic machines had very good responses across the kingdom. This was why the Walmart Chamber of Commerce suddenly decided to submit a large order of over three million gold coins.
According to Xu Yi’s analysis, this three million gold coin order wasn’t enough to satisfy the needs of everyone in the kingdom.
If every family in the Lampuri Kingdom had the same financial power as the people of Banta City, this order might not just be three million in time, it wouldn’t be strange even if it reached thirty million.
So based on this trend, the household magic machine market and the steel market were both very stable markets and the profits wouldn’t differ.
The reason why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s steel mill could have such profits was because the current steel market was being monopolized by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
As for the two hundred thousand tons produced, it wasn’t worth anything if it was placed on earth. It would be considered a very small steel mill and it couldn’t compare to any steel mill on earth.
In short, whether it was the household magic machine market or the steel market, they all had good prospects in Xu Yi’s eyes. So he wasn’t worried about the development of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce at all.
By the newly built steel mill, Xu Yi wasn’t surprised to see chief Siluka and chief Monto.
But after seeing them, Xu YI’s first question wasn’t about any factories in the Falling Rain Valley.
“Chief Siluka, chief Monto, have you prepared the workers?”
Chief Siluka and chief Monto looked at each other before giving nods, signaling to Xu Yi to follow them.
Following the two chiefs, they left the Falling Rain Valley’s industrial sector and headed to the living area that was upriver. Shortly after, they came to an open area that was the size of a soccer field.
This area was something that Xu Yi had the Amrit Chamber of Commerce make when they made the living area, leaving it as an exercise area for the dwarves.
In the field right now, Xu Yi saw rows of strong dwarven men with bare upper bodies, holding giant clubs in their hands as they roared out while sparring with each other.
Hearing the strong thuds of the wooden clubs hitting the dwarven upper bodies, it had to be known that these people didn’t hold back when they were training and each hit was filled with power.
Xu Yi was certain that if he were to go up with his physique, just a single club would knock half his life away.
“These people are the ones you decided on?” Xu Yi pointed at the strong dwarven men in the field as he asked the two chiefs, “There seems to be several hundred of them? Why are there this many of them?”
Chief Siluka and chief Monto looked at each other again as their expressions became strange.
Seeing the hesitant expression on their faces, Xu Yi was very confused.
He hadn’t known these two dwarven chiefs for a short period of time and the dwarves were very straightforward people, they wouldn’t be hesitant over anything. It was like they were embarrassed about something?
“Two chiefs, just tell me if you have something to say. Could it be that you still trust me?” Xu Yi couldn’t help asking with knit brows.
“No, no, no, of course we trust you, but……” Chief Siluka scratched his head and revealed an embarrassed look, “Chairman, we did pick these people out and we guarantee that these dwarven brothers are the strongest in the Falling Rain Valley, they definitely meet your needs. But…..But they aren’t prepared to join the guards…..”
Xu Yi was stunned, “Not prepared to join the guards? What did you bring me here to see them for? I say, chief Siluka, what is wrong with you and chief Monto? Is there something you can’t just say? If the dwarves aren’t willing to sell their lives to humans and don’t want to join the company’s guards, I definitely won’t force them. You can just tell me.”
“No, it isn’t that the brothers aren’t willing. Rather, hearing that the chairman wanted to form company guards, the brothers unexpectedly rushed to register to join the guards.” Seeing that chief Siluka couldn’t keep going, chief Monto continued for him, “There are three hundred dwarven brothers here, they were picked out from a thousand dwarven brothers by me and Siluka. I guarantee that each one can fight ten of your strongest human warriors. There’s no problems even if it’s one against a hundred, I….Ah, sorry, chairman, I wasn’t looking down on you humans……”
Xu Yi waved his hand, “It’s fine, humans are regarded as the weakest in terms of combat strength, this is common knowledge and I won’t deny this. Keep going. Since the dwarven brothers are willing, why did chief Siluka say that they weren’t prepared to join the guards?”
“This…..” Chief Monto also hesitated a bit before nodding like he had made up his mind and he asked Xu Yi, “Chairman, I heard that…..the fifty elven warriors from the Night Song Tribe didn’t join the guards and were just working as mercenaries for the company?”
Xu Yi nodded, “That’s right, elder Illusia clearly told me that the elves weren’t willing to be used by humans, so her sending out the fifty elves was just based on cooperation. The elven warriors were not my subordinates and I didn’t have any rights to command them.”
Thinking of this, a light bulb lit up in Xu Yi’s mind and he suddenly understood.
“Two chiefs, you…..don’t want the dwarven brothers to be inferior to the elves, so you don’t want them to join the guards, right?”
Chief Siluka and chief Monto were both stunned before revealing bitter smiles.
“Chairman, you really are keen.” Chief Siluka said with an awkward look, “That’s right, since the elves didn’t join the guards, if us dwarves join it, I’m afraid our brothers won’t be able to lift their heads in front of the elves. So me and chief Monto have discussed this and can we have the three hundred brothers work as mercenaries? But if the chairman isn’t assured, we won’t be like the elves and just say some nice sounding words. You will have complete control over these three hundred warriors, they can do anything.”
Seeing the somewhat disturbing smile on chief Siluka and chief Monto’s faces, Xu Yi couldn’t help smiling.
These dwarves really were straightforward to the point of being cute.
Didn’t they just want a bit of face in front of the elves, it wasn’t anything that special. Why did they make it seem like it was weighing heavily on their minds?
“Alright, this is simple. Let me think…..How about this, we’ll found a Falling Rain Valley dwarven guard group under the names of you two chiefs. This dwarven guard group will in name protect the dwarven brothers of the Falling Rain Valley from outside invaders, while also keeping the peace in the Falling Rain Valley, but they will also take orders from me. What do you two think of this arrangement?”
Chief Siluka and and chief Monto looked at each other again before nodding at the same time.
Chapter 164 Take the bait
Three days later, when Xu Yi brought a hundred fully equipped elven warriors and two hundred dwarven warriors into Samara Town, there was a stir that instantly filled the town.
On the Sines Continent, this was already considered a very powerful military force.
Not mentioning a small town like Samara, even if it was a city, it was hard to find a force that could stop this kind of attack.
With the shock of this great power, there were many people on the scene who were confused.
In the history of the Sines Continent, the elves and dwarves had never fought together before.
Not to mention that their leader was actually a frail looking human!
“Am I that frail?” Xu Yi turned to look at an elf warrior who although was slender, was still quite strong. He immediately gave up the idea of comparing himself to those strong looking dwarves, as he honestly accepted this appraisal, “Alright, it seems like I am rather weak. But if those fellows knew that I was a Seventh Grade Magician, would they still say that I was weak?”
Seeing Xu Yi who was acting like a kid, chairman Renersa in front of him couldn’t help laughing.
“In front of a hundred elven warriors and two hundred dwarven warriors, even if it is a Seventh Grade Magician, it still wouldn’t be enough.” Chairman Renersa looked at the two groups of elves and dwarves gathered in the distance and he said in an emotional voice, “Not to mention that they have such expensive equipment. Not mentioning the elves who have a tradition of using equipment that they make themselves, but the thick armour that the dwarves are wearing and the equipment they have, what is the deal with all those high quality equipment? Chairman Xu, you wouldn’t be telling me that you gave them that equipment, right?”
“Of course. They are working for our company, so of course I have to give them the appropriate equipment, otherwise wouldn’t I be taking their lives if I let them go out without anything?” Xu Yi said in a natural manner.
Chairman Renersa couldn’t help shaking his head, “Even if you want to provide equipment for them, you didn’t need to pick such high quality equipment, right? I think that you’ve spent at least three hundred gold coins for a single set of equipment, right? For two hundred dwarven warriors, that is sixty thousand gold coins. Don’t you think that is a bit too generous?”
Xu Yi laughed and suddenly approached chairman Renersa. He lowered his voice and said with a mysterious look, “If I told you that a single set didn’t even cost fifty gold coins, would you believe it?”
“How is that possible!” Chairman Renersa couldn’t help raising his voice, but then he suddenly realized his mistake and lowered his voice, “Are you serious? I wouldn’t make a mistake when it comes to equipment and the material itself is already high grade, not to mention the craftsmanship. I’m certain that to make this set of armour, it must be a blacksmith with a high level of skills!”
After saying this, chairman Renersa suddenly thought of something and revealed a look of understanding.
“Of, right, I forgot that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn’t lack dwarven blacksmiths. But the materials for a set shouldn’t be just fifty gold coins, so could it be that your dwarven master blacksmiths are working for free?”
Xu Yi shook his head with a faint smile, “No, you’re completely wrong. The weapons and armours were all made with magic machines. From head to tail, the master blacksmiths were just responsible for making the molds and they didn’t do anything else.”
Chairman Renersa’s eyes suddenly popped out. He wanted to say that it was impossible, but seeing Xu Yi’s confident smile, he couldn’t say a thing.
Thinking about it, he asked Xu Yi, “Chairman Xu, can I give it a try?”
“Please.”
Renersa called a human guard from the Renekton Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi called a dwarven warrior.
Under Xu Yi’s order, the dwarven warrior casually stood in front of the human guard and that human guard hesitantly lifted his sword as he slashed down with all his might at the dwarven warrior’s shoulder.
“Peng!”
A very deep sound rang out as the sword in the human guard’s hand was knocked back by the armour on the dwarven warrior’s shoulder.
Everyone’s gaze fell onto the dwarven warrior’s shoulder and found that other than a white mark left on the armour, there wasn’t any damage to it at all!
Everyone looked back at the sword in the guard’s hand and found that there was a large mark left on the blade of the sword!
Everyone couldn’t help giving surprised gasps.
Even the dwarves had eyes that popped out as their faces were covered in disbelief.
Although they believed that with a human’s strength, it was impossible for them to be hurt while wearing armour, they never would have thought that the quality of the armour would be so strong. Not only did it defend against the human’s attack, it seemed like the other side’s decent quality sword had chipped from hitting it!
All the dwarven soldiers couldn’t help rubbing the armour they were wearing as they looked on with disbelief.
When they set out from the Falling Rain Valley yesterday, Xu Yi had them change into these armours. At first they thought that these armours were a bit light, so the quality must be bad, so they were complaining in their hearts that Xu Yi was a bit too stingy.
But who would have thought that these sets of armours would have such quality, it really surprised them.
Xu Yi on the side wasn’t surprised by this at all.
These sets of armour were made from the new alloy that chief Siluka’s dwarves had developed. Not only was it strong against attacks, it was also wear resistant, so it was very suited for making armour.
Xu Yi had planned on selling this alloy to the military to let them make a new set of armour. After he came up with the idea of recruiting dwarves for the company guards, he had chief Siluka and chief Mont build a bunch of these sets of armour first and now he could use them.
As for the weapons in the hands of the dwarven warriors, that was even more simple.
Before the army built their factory, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had produced fifty thousand sets of armour and weapons, so it was easy for them to make several hundred sets.
“Now try the weapon.” Xu Yi said to chairman Renersa.
Chairman Renersa nodded. He didn’t have a human guard try to take a hit from the dwarves, rather he had him take off his armour and put it on the ground, letting the dwarven warrior try out his weapon.
Even if the dwarven warrior’s weapon was disappointing, just with the strength of the dwarven warrior, they could beat a human guard half to death with just a simple stone.
When the dwarven warrior was about to make a move, Xu Yi suddenly shouted, “Use a bit less strength, otherwise the might of this axe can’t be displayed.”
The dwarven warrior was surprised, but he nodded to show he understood. He gently raised the axe that was even bigger than his head and without using much strength, the axe fell down with gravity.
“Peng!”
With a dull sound and after the dirt dispersed, everyone looked at the ground and found that the armour that the human guard had been wearing had been split in half.
The blade of the axe was even a finger’s length deep into the ground, which showed just how sharp the axe was.
Chairman Renersa looked at the smooth cut on the armour and after being stunned, he suddenly stretched out a finger to Xu Yi as he said with a serious face, “One hundred per set, sell me three hundred sets.”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile.
After fishing for a while, the fish finally took the bait.
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The next day, Xu Yi and chairman Renersa, along with chairman Vincent brought this large assembly of guards, who protected more than thirty horse carriages filled with commodities to the Voller Tribe. From the chief Voller to even the small wolfmen who were only a few years old, they were all shocked by this.
When the three companies decided to build that non-ferrous mine, chief Voller knew that these humans would be sending some guards, but he never thought that these humans would send such an impressive lineup.
Forgetting the few hundred human guards, why were there one hundred elven warriors and two hundred dwarven warriors among the guards?
When did elves and dwarves start cooperating with humans?
Because of how shocked he was, chief Voller didn’t hear what Xu Yi and chairman Renersa said, just following the two of them during the commodity exchange procedure in a daze.
But after the procedure was over, chief Voller watched the small mountain of goods and he slowly came back to his senses.
Seeing the small wolfmen children dig out some small toys from the small mountain and happily playing with them, chief Voller’s wolf face couldn’t help revealing a heartfelt smile.
The beastmen had been living bitter days on the Black Rice Wasteland. These children could barely feed themselves before, so not mentioning toys to play with, even having a single new piece of clothing was good enough.
But after those three human merchants came and saw that strange non-ferrous metal vein, they suddenly gave five hundred thousand gold coins for it. This made chief Voller feel that it was like a large pie that fell from the sky.
The most important thing was that these human merchants had kept their word. They really gave many things that they needed and the price wasn’t that high, so it made chief Voller feel a bit of trust towards them.
Although humans were untrustworthy in the hearts of beastmen, chief Voller was clear that these humans wanted the non-ferrous mine, so that mine was the most important thing to them and there was no need to lie to them about other things.
Thinking of this, chief Voller suddenly thought of another important problem. Thinking about it, he asked Xu Yi, “Chairman Xu, last time you said that our tribesman can go work for your company and you would apply for labour cards for them, letting them receive the same treatment in your human kingdom. Has there been progress in this matter?”
Seeing the expectant look in chief Voller’s eyes, Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. This chief Voller really was a chief, he had some experience. He knew that compared to the five hundred thousand gold coins, the more important thing was solving their long term problem.
“Un, there’s been quite a bit of progress. I have confirmed it with the kingdom’s officials and you beastmen will be treated like the elves and dwarves. Even if you’re from another race, as long as you’re willing to work for our human companies, you can apply for labour cards.” Xu Yi said.
Chief Voller revealed a look of joy and when he wanted to say something, Xu Yi suddenly cut him off.
“But…..”
Xu Yi deliberately paused, making chief Voller’s heart jump to his throat as he looked at Xu Yi with a nervous gaze.
“But the premise of getting a labour card is that you cannot be hostile towards humans. You have to follow the rules of humans if you work in human factories and can’t go against the laws of the human kingdom.”
“Of course, of course.” Chief Voller kept nodding, “Chairman Xu can be assured, our Voller Tribe is very friendly towards humans, we have never attacked humans before. You can ask chairman Renersa if you don’t believe me.”
Chairman Renersa on the side nodded with a faint smile, “Yes, I can guarantee that the Voller Tribe has always been good in cooperating with us, they have never attacked humans before.”
“That’s good.” Xu Yi nodded, “Other than these two important conditions, the kingdom officials have another limitation. It is that for each beastmen household, they can only receive one labour card.”
“Ah?” Chief Voller looked at Xu Yi in surprise as his two big wolf eyes kept blinking in confusion, completely not understanding what this limitation was for.