Chapter 101 Building houses in noble territory
The Vanilla Orchid Suburb’s relocation could be considered the first large action from the Banta City renovation plan. It represented that the renovation plan was officially moving forward, so when the first group of villagers moved in, the City Lord’s Manor specially held a ceremony for this and Count Sean even came personally.
Other than Count Sean, the large companies of the cities sent their representatives.
The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce in charge of this project was focused on by everyone.
When Xu Yi and Kennard arrived, the ceremony hadn’t started yet. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce’s chairman Cruise saw Xu Yi and immediately came forward to greet him.
“How about it? Chairman Xu, isn’t this apartment complex good?” Chairman Cruise asked Xu Yi with a proud look.
Xu Yi looked at him and found it a bit funny, “I’ve already praised you many times, why are you still asking me this? If you want words of admiration, there, the Lord City Lord is over there, you can go look for him.”
“Ha, ha, your Frestech Chamber of Commerce was something that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave to our Amrit Chamber of Commerce, so now that the work is done, I have to report to the one paying first. As for the Lord City Lord, he’s already praised me quite a bit earlier.”
“Since the Lord City Lord is also very satisfied, that is good.” Xu Yi patted chairman Cruise’s shoulder and said with a faint smile, “Chairman Cruise, since the first project is done this well, the Lord City Lord won’t give the other projects to other companies. If this Banta City renovation project is completely given to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, you’ll be rich.”
“That is all because of chairman Xu’s trust in us.” Chairman Cruise gave a laugh before moving in towards Xu Yi and saying in a low voice, “Chairman Xu, can I ask you a few things?”
“What things?” Xu Yi was a bit surprised.
“The first question is, the Vanilla Orchid Suburb was finished by our Amrit Chamber of Commerce, but in front of you, I have to speak the truth. Didn’t we take two hundred thousand from your Frestech Chamber of Commerce for this? Our Amrit Chamber of Commerce spent around one hundred and seventy thousand, so we earned around thirty thousand from this.”
“Un, chairman Cruise, it seems like you gave me some face and didn’t take that much. I have to express my gratitude.” Xu Yi said with a nod.
“I didn’t want to talk about this. The question is that our Amrit Chamber of Commerce has indeed made money on this, but I still can’t see it, how is your Frestech Chamber of Commerce earning money from this? This time you’ve invested over two hundred thousand gold coins, I can’t see how you’ll earn those two hundred thousand gold coins back.” Chairman Cruise asked with a confused expression.
“Could it be that you’ve forgotten that the land the residential area takes is much less than the three villages?” Xu Yi asked back.
“Of course I know this, but this residential area is outside Banta City to begin with and the three villages are quite far away. The closest is Mildan Village is close to five kilometers away from Banta City, based on this distance, the value of these pieces of land aren’t the same at all. I don’t think this is a business worth doing at all.” Chairman Cruise knit his brows as he thought about this and asked in a low voice, “Chairman Xu, we’re close, so if you have some special money making method, let me hear about it.”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and shook his head, “Actually there isn’t anything special. Although the three villages are farther from Banta City, haven’t you ever thought that those three villages are included in the Banta City industrial sector and aren’t that far from Sandton Manor. If nothing unexpected happens, the outer parts of Banta City will be the industrial sectors where all the factories in Banta City will be moved. Adding in the fact that your Amrit Chamber of Commerce is building roads, haven’t you thought that…...would the value of the land still be as low as before?”
Chairman Cruise thought about it and suddenly thought of something, as his eyes lit up. He revealed a smile of understanding towards Xu Yi.
“Chairman Xu, you really have far-sight, I admire you.”
Xu Yi revealed a smile before asking, “Alright, what is your second question?”
“The second question…..” Chairman Cruise turned to point at the countless people who were moving in and out of the Vanilla Orchid Suburb, “This residential area was designed by your company and received the elves’ help, so it looks very pretty after it was completed. Not only is Lord City Lord satisfied, the people who are moving in are satisfied, and even the people visiting seem very satisfied. There are many people who have asked me if they could buy a house to live in, so I wanted to……”
“You want to build another living area and directly sell it?” Xu Yi asked.
Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi in surprise, “Chairman Xu, how do you know what I wanted to say?”
Xu yi revealed a smile. Hearing everything that you said before, it would be strange if I couldn’t guess.
The real estate industry was a very prosperous industry on earth, countless people had become rich in this industry.
Chairman Cruise saw that this residential area’s housing was welcomed, so it would be strange if he didn’t want to earn money with this.
Actually, when Xu Yi discussed the renovation plan with Count Sean, he had considered this problem before.
But whether it was Xu Yi or Count Sean, they didn’t plan on earning money from real estate. They just wanted to renovate Banta City, separating the residential area and the business area.
So if chairman Cruise wanted to use housing like the Vanilla Orchid Suburb to earn money, he only needed to be afraid that Count Sean wouldn’t agree.
“Is that so?” Hearing Xu Yi’s response, chairman Cruise was disappointed, “I thought that with so many people in Banta City, there would be prospects in this industry. Ai, since the Lord City Lord isn’t willing to agree, I can only forget about it.”
Seeing the disappointed chairman Cruise, Xu Yi’s heart was moved as he said, “Actually it doesn’t mean that it is impossible.”
Chairman Cruise immediately revealed an overjoyed look, “How do you think it could be done?”
Xu Yi thought about it and said, “The Lord City Lord hopes that you don’t take land from the living area and hinder the Banta City renovation plan, but domains outside this plan is the loophole you can exploit. For example…..the private territory of nobles.”
Chairman Cruise was surprised, “Noble territory? That is their private territory, how could they agree to me building on them?”
“Whether they agree or not mainly depends on if there are benefits for them or not. Go tell them that they can earn large amounts of money if they cooperate with you, do you think there will be a noble that will reject you?”
Seeing chairman Cruise falling deep into thought, Xu Yi laughed. If chairman Cruise was moved, then he will be able to move most of the nobles.
When there are commercial buildings on the private territory of nobles, those territories won’t really be private. When those buildings are built, it will be a public mark.
Chairman Cruise didn’t have much time to consider this because the ceremony was about to begin.
First it was Count Sean who came up to the stage to give a lengthy speech. He first gave a general introduction to the renovation plan that the City Lord’s Manor was conducting and how the relocation of the three villages was the first step in this plan, before he went on to talk about future steps.
After he finished his introductions, it was Xu Yi and chairman Cruise’s turn to speak.
Of course their speeches weren’t as long as Count Sean’s. They just talked about how the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce supported the decision of the Lord City Lord and they would definitely use everything they had to complete the task the Lord City Lord issued…..
When the speeches were finished, Count Sean announced the start of the move.
With the help of the city guards, the first batch of villagers brought their furniture, cookware, and bedding to their new assigned homes.
During this process, there were countless reporters who had been notified in advance that looked for their targets to interview.
Suddenly the scene became very lively. Including the villagers, everyone had a happy smile on their face, looking very harmonious.
When this scene entered Xu Yi’s eyes, it made him of a popular term from earth, a show.
That’s right, the one who informed these reporters was the City Lord’s Manor. Count Sean wanted to use this to put on a show, letting everyone know that not only was the Banta City renovation plan inevitable, it would definitely succeed.
Although Xu Yi knew that a show was necessary, he wasn’t used to this. After answering a few simple questions from reporters, he sent out his general manager Kennard and had him take their interviews while he secretly snuck out to the magic research facility.
Compared to when there were only Evita and the other researchers, the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s magic research facility had increased by several folds because of the influx of over thirty magicians.
The facility that used to have enough space for Evita and the others to study in while also giving them a place to live was now not even enough to give each researcher a lab, so many researchers were pushed into a single lab.
Of course, compared to the working environment of many magicians, this magic research facility was much better, so there weren’t any complaints from the researchers at all.
Of course, they didn’t dare say it even if they did because Great Magician Camilla was working in the same magic research facility.
Compared to his excellency Great Magician, what did they count for?
But even if no one complained, Xu Yi had considered buying another place outside the city and specially building a research center for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. The personnel responsible for research would all gather here and everyone would coordinate.
But there weren’t many places like that, so all the magicians were gathered here for now.
When Xu Yi had just walked into the research facility, he saw Akali walking over.
Seeing the angry look on Akali’s face, Xu Yi couldn’t help being surprised.
Chapter 102 Security regulations and increasing power
“Hey, Akali, who made you angry?” Xu Yi immediately asked.
Akali looked up at Xu Yi and gave a snort, “It’s that bastard Schoch!”
“What happened with Schoch?” Xu Yi was a bit surprised.
Although Schoch had been cold to Xu Yi and even showed hostility, but he was very proper to other people and even was a gentleman to the girls, so why did Akali suddenly become so angry?
“He thinks he’s so great! I told him that the Sun Flame Array can’t take Wind Crystal Grass Essence because there would be problems with the conflicting attributes, but he wouldn’t listen and said he had to give it a try. In the end, once the Magic Array was activated, it exploded!” Akali angrily said.
Xu Yi was shocked,” Was someone hurt?”
“No one was.” Akali shook her head, “Everyone reacted fast enough and had time to protect themselves, so nothing happened. But the lab is in a mess from the explosion. I say that Schoch should fix his own problem and he dares talk back to me, saying that the lab belongs to everyone! Humph! I’m so angry!”
Hearing that no one was hurt, Xu Yi calmed down and said with a smile, “He’s right, the lab belongs to everyone and it’s normal for accidents to happen, so it’s right that everyone cleans up.”
Akali glared at him, “Sir chairman, then based on what you said, you think that he did nothing wrong?”
“I didn’t say that.” Xu Yi waved his hand, “Because of his mistake, the failed experiment has damaged the lab, so the losses will all fall onto him. According to the rules, the losses will be deducted from his next month’s salary.”
Hearing Xu Yi’s final words, Akali suddenly broke out in laughter.
“Ha, ha, let’s see if he dares act so arrogantly next time. Right, deduct his salary and let him know the seriousness of this matter!”
Seeing Akali’s face covered in schadenfreude, Xu Yi shook his head. When he was about to ask Akali about the research progress, there was a cold snort from behind them.
“Sir chairman, there are normally failures when it comes to magic research. If a researcher has to pay for the losses caused by their failure each time, does that mean that the researchers aren’t allowed to do new experiments and do the safest thing? If it’s like this, is there even a meaning for this research facility to exist?”
Xu Yi turned to see Schoch’s cold face and said with a serious look, “No, it’s the exact opposite. I very much encourage everyone to use their imagination and do all kinds of new experiments. But before this, my number one request is safety.”
“No one was hurt this time, so why are you punishing me?” Schoch wasn’t willing to give up.
“Because you hadn’t considered the consequences of your experiment failing. This time everyone reacted quickly and put up their guard, so nothing happened this time. If some people hadn’t guarded themselves or if the explosion from your experiment failing was a bit too big, without ways to protect themselves, what do you think would happen if people were hurt or even killed?” Xu Yi said with a serious expression.
Schoch didn’t have any words.
He indeed couldn’t guarantee that magic experiments would succeed each time, rather most of them ended in failure.
He also couldn’t guarantee that the destructive might would be in his area of control, so he couldn’t answer Xu Yi’s question at all.
Seeing that Schoch wasn’t speaking, Xu Yi ignored him. He asked Akali and after learning that Evita was in her personal lab, he headed over.
“Establishing security measures?” Evita looked at Xu Yi in surprise, “Chairman, most magic experiments will fail, this isn’t something strange, right?”
“Failure isn’t strange, but I will not permit anyone being hurt or killed by these failures. Each magician, each staff member is precious, so if someone were to be injured or die from a failed experiment, I can’t accept this loss.” Xu Yi had a serious expression, not looking like he was joking at all, “For example, Evita, if you were injured from an experiment failing and it left a scar on your face, that is a loss that can’t be recovered because wouldn’t it ruin your beautiful face?”
Evita’s face was covered in a blush, “Chairman, you think that I’m beautiful?”
Xu Yi was surprised before he naturally responded, “Of course you’re beautiful, isn’t this easily seen?”
Evita’s blush became even darker and she lowered her head as she said in a low voice, “Alright, since it’s the chairman’s request, then we’ll set the security measures. But how should they be set?”
“I don’t care how they are set. Evita, you are the chief of the magic research facility, so you should make that decision. In short, my request is that when a researcher is performing an experiment, they have to pay attention to their own safety first.” Xu Yi said.
Seeing Evita keep her head down, Xu Yi thought it was because she lacked confidence, so he comforted her, “Evita, you are the most careful girl I’ve seen and you always consider every part of the issue. I believe that you will definitely be able to do this.”
Xu Yi didn’t see that Evita’s lowered face turned completely red, he just heard her give a soft un sound.
After he finished talking about the security measures matter, Xu Yi looked at the situation of the lab and asked about the magic research facility’s current progress.
When speaking of research, Evita gradually calmed down and began telling Xu Yi about their progress during this time.
Following Xu Yi’s request, the magic research facility had been recently researching how to increase the power of various magic machines.
Take the small Magic Harvester. Before there was a Third Grade Wind Magic Array drawn inside, the Wild Wind Array.
With the power of this Magic Array, it was enough to satisfy the needs of the small Magic Harvester.
But now that Xu Yi was planning to develop the medium and large Magic Harvesters, the power of this Wild Wind Array wasn’t enough.
So the magic research facility was split into two directions of research.
The first was quite direct, changing to a higher grade Magic Array to increase the power.
Right now, they were set on three Fourth Grade Magic Arrays and a Fifth Grade Magic Array.
According to their research, those Fourth Grade Magic Arrays could be used since each one had a different characteristic.
Xu Yi made a large move after learning of this and had the magic research facility study these four Magic Arrays. It would be best if they could create a proper magic output model for each Magic Array and then work with the magic machine workshop and the design department to make a concrete design.
If it was the past magic research facility, Xu Yi couldn’t have made this request because there was a lack of people.
But now that they had recruited thirty four more magicians, the magic research facility had increased their power and it wasn’t too hard for them to complete this request.
Xu Yi had made this request to make the Magic Harvester more adaptable.
In the Lampuri Kingdom, or on the Sines Continent, it was impossible for the land to be as smooth as it was outside Banta City. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s Magic Harvester would be sold in many different places, so naturally they had to adapt to them.
As for the second direction of research, it was much more complicated.
This is because this direction was not changing Magic Arrays, but rather making adjustments to the Wild Wind Array and changing its output model, making it adapt to different requests.
Moreover, Xu Yi had said that it would be best if they kept the Wild Wind Array and increased the power of this Magic Array, increasing the power output.
When this idea was mentioned, it met the resistance of all the researchers.
This is because the grades of Magic Arrays was the accumulation of research over thousands of years, which included the wisdom of countless magicians.
The Wild Wind Array was set as a Third Grade Magic Array, so there was logic behind it and it couldn’t be easily changed.
But when Great Magician Camilla heard Xu Yi’s suggestion, unexpected to everyone, he said that this idea was feasible.
The reason he gave was that Magic Array was different from magic.
Although each Magic Array had a corresponding magic, with the Wild Wind Array having the Wild Wind Spell, the output of casting a spell depended on a magician’s magic power and their knowledge of the spell, while a Magic Array was determined by the drawing of the array and the materials used.
Just like how a spell’s power could change because of different levels of magic power and understanding, a Magic Array’s might could increase because of differences with the drawing and different kinds of materials.
Since his excellency Great Magician said it was possible, the other researchers didn’t have any arguments.
After around a month of research, the magic research facility had initial results with this project.
The current magic research facility’s Wild Wind Array 3.0 had shown visible increase in might and the output model had been increased by 30%.
According to Xu Yi’s calculation, if this Wild Wind Array was placed on a small Magic Harvester, the efficiency of the small Magic Harvester would increase by at least 10%.
Don’t look down on 10%, in the machine industry, even a 1% increase was quite considerable.
After hearing Evita’s report, Xu Yi was very satisfied.
After recruiting the thirty four magicians, the efficiency of the magic research facility had been increased quite a bit.
The more important thing was that with Great Magician Camilla here, the efficiency and enthusiasm of the researchers had all been greatly increased.
The researchers would have all kinds of different strange thoughts, but it was hard to confirm if their thoughts would be effective.
Before they suppressed all those ideas and didn’t attempt them at all, but with Great Magician Camilla here and with Xu Yi’s endless encouragement, the researchers were willing to disclose those ideas and have everyone discuss them before Great Magician Camilla made his decision.
With Xu Yi’s instructions, other than those ideas that were nothing but wild guesses, Great Magician Camilla accepted all different thoughts and encouraged everyone to experiment.
So in just a short month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s magic research facility had made a jump in terms of Magic Array research.
When Xu Yi was fantasizing about recruiting another Great Magician or two, Evita suddenly said, “Chairman, I think that the magic research facility should close temporarily.”