Chapter 71 Making your own patent law
“Hey, Xu Yi, I’ve only been away for a month, but you actually made such a family ruining decision. Are you planning to anger me to death?” Heinz’s face was red, as he angrily complained to Xu Yi, “You don’t sell anything else, but you choose to sell our technology? Could it be that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is really lacking money?”
Xu Yi looked at Heinz with a smile. Not only did he seem not angry from being scolded by him, rather he felt some inexplicable warm feelings.
It was like Heinz said, Ria took the initiative to bring their child to Karma City, so he stayed there for a month without coming back.
But he came back ahead of time just to find Xu Yi, complaining about the decision he made at the press conference.
“Who says we’re lacking money?” Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, “According to Sebas’ data, the profit of our company last month was even a bit higher than July, reaching a shocking four hundred and eighty thousand gold coins. Adding in the fact that we hadn’t spent much money last month, how could we be lacking money?”
“Then tell me, why are you selling the technology?” Seeing Xu Yi’s uncaring expression, Heinz felt the flames of rage in his heart surge, “Even if you sell technology, why are selling all the technology related to the Magic Kettle?”
“Could it be that you thought a foolish company would buy a part of the technology and wouldn’t be able to make the Magic Kettle even after buying the technology?” Xu Yi asked.
“There’s no one that foolish, but I feel you are the fool this time!” Heinz loudly said, “Didn’t you tell me before that a company is supported by its technology, especially a company that relies on that technology to feed themselves like ours? Now you’re selling the technology for the Magic Kettle, are you planning on not having us make the Magic Kettle?”
“Un, I’m indeed planning on that.”
Heinz thought that Xu Yi would explain himself, but he never thought that he would directly admit. He was immediately choked up by his anger.
After panting a few times, Heinz calmed down his agitated heart and honestly asked Xu Yi, “Honestly tell me, why? I know that no matter what decision you make, you always have your own ideas. But I really can’t think it through, what benefits is there in selling our Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s technology?”
“If I told you that selling our technology isn’t thinking for the best of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce this time, what would you think?” Xu Yi asked back.
“You!” Heinz’s eyes popped out before immediately forcing himself to calm down. He took a deep breath and glared at Xu Yi, “I will be angered to death by you sooner or later. Alright, even if your decision this time wasn’t for the good of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then tell what was it for?”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “Actually I was joking. This decision doesn’t have any benefits to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce now, but in the long term, it is very useful.”
“Where is it useful?”
“To be a bit more straightforward, I am trying to popularize magic machines faster, so I sold all the technology for the Magic Kettle. Like this, all the companies that buy the technology can make their own Magic Kettles. I also promised that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce wouldn’t produce Magic Kettles this time, so they don’t need to worry about our Frestech Brand Magic Kettles being better and they will invest without worry.” Xu Yi said.
“If it’s like this, we can do the same if we just make the Magic Kettle ourselves. So why are you just giving all the profits from the Magic Kettles to other people?” Heinz wasn’t worried at this time, he calmly gave Xu Yi his analysis, “According to my estimates, because of how cheap the Magic Kettle is and how efficient it is, almost every family will use it. Once it is released, the sales would definitely be very high. I don’t believe that I can calculate this, but I’m sure you can.”
“Of course I can.” Xu Yi nodded, “But Heinz, have you calculated how much profit we would receive from each Magic Kettle?”
Heinz thought about it before saying with knit brows, “Although it can’t compare to the Magic Air Conditioner or the Magic Refrigerator, not even being able to compare to the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, I feel that it should be around the same as the Magic Fan. Even if we can’t earn one gold coin per unit, I feel it shouldn’t be a problem to earn seventy or eighty gold coins. Adding in the high sales, the profit should be quite good.”
Xu Yi slowly shook his head, “No, you’re too optimistic. Actually according to my estimates, it would be hard for the price of Magic Kettle’s price to be more than one gold coin, so no matter how high the profit margins are, it won’t reach seventy to eight gold coins.”
Heinz was a bit confused, “Why can’t you set the price a bit higher? As long as you don’t sell the technology, only our company can produce this Magic Kettle. Even if the price is a bit high, I feel that people who would buy it would still buy it.”
“No, it is different this time. We could set the price before because indeed only our company could produce it, but the Magic Kettle was released ahead of time by the Gelert Chamber of Commerce, so everyone already knows about this thing. Without innovation and curiosity, the price will definitely be affected. Moreover, you should be clear that the technological content of the Magic Kettle isn’t high and as long as a company is willing to invest in studying magic machines, they will be able to develop it.”
“But their Magic Kettle can’t compare to our Frestech Brand, what is there to fear?” Heinz said in an unwilling to submit voice.
Xu Yi shook his head, “Our Frestech Brand magic machines are better than the magic machines of other companies because of our outstanding designs. This time the design of the Magic Kettle has already been revealed to everyone, so we don’t have the same unique advantage as before. So the Magic Kettle of our company won’t be much better than the other companies’.
Hearing Xu Yi’s response, Heinz couldn’t help angrily looking at Xu Yi, “If you didn’t reveal all the secrets at that product release, how could other people learn our unique design?”
Xu Yi gave a grin, “What if I told you that I did it on purpose?”
Heinz was stunned, “Could it be that you were already prepared to sell the Magic Kettle technology?”
“Of course, otherwise why do you think that I allowed Evita to let that fellow Rem steal part of the Magic Kettle technology?”
Heinz couldn’t help looking over Xu Yi before saying with a sigh, “Xu Yi, I’ve suddenly found that you’re quite the sinister fellow.”
“Many thanks for your praise.” Xu Yi smiled as he continued, “So, even if I didn’t sell the Magic Kettle technology, it wouldn’t have much meaning to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce anyway. We wouldn’t profit that much from keeping it, so we might as well sell it.”
Heinz looked over Xu Yi, “Isn’t this something you brought on yourself? If you had taken care of the problem as soon as you found the problem with Rem, how could all these things have happened?”
Xu Yi shook his head with a smile, thinking that Heinz’s petty nature would never change.
In his eyes, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had suffered a loss, so he was very dissatisfied. 𝑏𝘦𝑑𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝘰𝘮
But turning his thoughts, he was just thinking based on what he knew.
Xu Yi thought about it before saying to Heinz, “Actually this matter does have benefits to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce and it’s not all long term. Very soon, there will be great benefits.”
Heinz revealed an interested expression, “Really? There are benefits? Tell me.”
“First, we’re not just selling the Magic Kettle technology to a single company and we’re selling it to any company that is willing to buy it at a fixed price with conditions. So in less than a week, there have been over twenty companies that have asked me about buying this technology.”
Heinz was stunned, “How is it? How many are willing to buy? How much are they willing to spend?”
“It’s not clear right now, but based on how enthusiastic they seemed, I estimate that there are fifteen companies that are very interested in buying. The price I’ve given them is ten thousand for the technology and they also have to pay our Frestech Chamber of Commerce one silver coin every time they produce a Magic Kettle.”
“This seems like the cooperation model we had before with the Farsak Chamber of Commerce.” Heinz cut in.
“Un, it’s a bit similar. But this time, I’m planning to use this model for a long time.” Xu Yi said with a smile, “I was hoping that the Royal Parliament would release the patent law, but this has never happened. Since the Royal Parliament doesn’t care, then we have to do it ourselves. As long as there are enough companies buying the technology from us and they sign a contract, that would be equal to buying a patent from our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If this model was gradually accepted by everyone, then this would mean that we’ve made a patent law.”
Heinz thought about it before nodding, “Un, this is indeed quite a good method. But we are only earning a trivial one silver coin from each Magic Kettle, this is a bit too little……”
Seeing Heinz sigh, Xu Yi patted his shoulder and said with a smile, “You might consider this little now, but believe me, you’ll find in the future that being able to get one silver coin from each Magic Kettle without doing a thing is actually quite a lot. This is because not long after, the era of explosive profits for household magic machines will end soon.”
Heinz looked at Xu Yi in a daze.
No matter how unwilling he was to admit it, he had to admit that Xu Yi was completely right.
Although competition would bring progress, this competition would also dilute profits.
This was a logic that was followed in every industry of the Sines Continent. Although the magic machine industry was a new industry, it definitely couldn’t avoid this ironclad rule.
The only thing Heinz could do was pray that this came later than sooner.
Chapter 72 Tire
Three months passed and the current Falling Rain Valley had completely changed from when it had just developed.
Not mentioning the towering factories that were at the entrance or the neat and stylish buildings in the far residence area, just seeing the cement roads crisscrossing in the Falling Rain valley gave people a new feeling and was quite shocking.
But the entire Falling Rain Valley was not just made of ice cold cement roads and stone buildings.
In all the visible gaps, there were all kinds of strange plants growing.
This was because it was early fally and it was the best time for all plants to grow. Wherever one looked, there would be flowers and leaves. There was a sea of green and a sea of flowers along the factories and the road, looking very vibrant, making the Falling Rain Valley not seem ice cold.
These strange plants were brought over by the Night Song Tribe at Xu Yi’s request. To the elves that had lived for thousands of years in the Falling Rain Valley, this was their masterpiece.
They used less than half a month and Xu Yi couldn’t understand what methods the elves used to turn the Falling Rain Valley into this scene.
This was because elves had a rigid and special talent for beauty, so the Falling Rain Valley seemed more like a work of art, rather than the industrial base that Xu Yi had imagined.
Because of these plants, when walking in the Falling Rain Valley, not only could one smell all kinds of scents walking past the factories, one would be surrounded by a soothing fragrance that filled their hearts with comfort.
Chairman Pompeii jumped out from the horse carriage behind Xu Yi and seeing the scene in front of him, he was instantly shocked.
“Chairman Xu, I thought that the industrial base you mentioned would be messy and dirty, but I never thought that it would look so beautiful! I even think that living here would be more comfortable than living in Banta City.”
Xu Yi laughed, “If you’re willing to join our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, then your wish is easy to fulfil. Here, don’t you see those rows of buildings? That is the residence area built for our company’s workers to stay in.”
Chairman Pompeii looked at the houses hidden in the sea of plants and flowers and felt that those buildings had a special style. He couldn’t help giving a sigh, “It really is a pity, I don’t have that luck. Chairman Xu, I suddenly feel that even if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn’t produce magic machines, you can earn quite a lot creating a living area like this. I dare to guarantee that many people want to live in this kind of environment.”
“The problem is, how many people are willing to live fifty kilometers away from Banta City?” Xu Yi asked with a smile.
Chairman Pompeii also laughed, “So that means we must make horse carriages run much faster. As long as this happens, it’ll be more convenient for everyone to ride horse carriages and arrive at their destination faster.”
“You’re right.” Xu Yi smiled before gesturing for chairman Pompeii to come in. He led the way to a factory that wasn’t far from the entrance.
On the way, he saw the steel mill that had already started producing and Xu Yi couldn’t help sigh with emotion. If it wasn’t for the existence of this steel mill, he wouldn’t have decided to sell the Magic Kettle technology.
In fact, Xu Yi didn’t have time to tell Heinz all the benefits that selling the Magic Kettle technology would bring.
For example, the steel mill, they would be able to earn a large profit from it.
Today, it had been half a month since the press conference. In this past half a month, there were a total of twenty seven companies that signed a contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, buying the technology related to the Magic Kettle.
Since these twenty seven companies bought the technology, naturally they wanted to produce the Magic Kettle.
But the Magic Kettle could only use the Silver Leaf Alloy. If they used normal iron, not only would it be not as beautiful, it also wouldn’t be rust proof, not even being able to reach the industrial standard set. So the twenty seven companies that bought the Magic Kettle technology had to use the Silver Leaf Alloy if they wanted to produce Magic Kettles.
As for the Silver Leaf Alloy, currently it could only be produced at this steel mill.
Other than purchasing the Silver Leaf Alloy from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, those twenty seven companies had no other choices.
If they hadn’t set up this steel mill, just with the small steel factories in the Norma and Angola Tribes, it wouldn’t have produced enough Steel Leaf Alloy for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to use. Naturally Xu Yi wouldn’t have considered selling the Magic Kettle technology.
But since this steel mill started producing last month, the sum they produced had surpassed the total of the small steel mills from the Norma and Angola Tribes added together, a shocking amount of fifty thousand tons!
Of the fifty thousand tons of steel products, the Silver Leaf Alloy made up over half of it, a total of thirty thousand tons.
The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had many different magic machine products, so they consumed around ten thousand tons each month.
The current output could not only satisfy the needs of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there was even extra for them to earn from.
This was the main reason why Xu Yi had decided to sell the Magic Kettle technology.
Of course, the Silver Leaf Alloy wasn’t just sold to those twenty seven companies.
Because of how light, beautiful, and most importantly, rust proof the Silver Leaf Alloy was, it had widespread use. After many companies learned that the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker was made using this Silver Leaf Alloy, they all approached Xu Yi to buy this special alloy.
Before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn’t produce enough Silver Leaf Alloy for themselves to use, so Xu Yi didn’t agree to sell it. But now that this large scale factory had been made and the Silver Leaf Alloy production had increased, since last month, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce sold some of the Silver Leaf Alloy produced.
According to the data, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold over ten thousand tons of Silver Leaf Alloy.
According to the price of four hundred gold coins per ton, based on Silver Leaf Alloy alone, the steel mill had made a terrifying revenue of four million gold coins last month.
Of course, this was not all profits.
When giving the price, Xu Yi had tried to raise the price on these fellows who didn’t understand the Silver Leaf Alloys. But these astute fellows didn’t know about Silver Leaf Alloys, but they did understand smelting iron ores.
Especially after the Falcao Chamber of Commerce’s chairman Morgan publicly told everyone that it cost around four hundred gold coins to refine a ton of iron ore. So as long as Xu Yi gave a price of over four hundred gold coins, the companies that wanted to buy the Silver Leaf Alloy all retreated.
In the end, Xu Yi could only helplessly set the price at four hundred gold coins.
To many people, they thought that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn’t earn much profit from selling the Silver Leaf Alloy, so the hesitant companies happily decided to buy.
But what they didn’t know was that this steel mill used cutting edge technology Xu Yi had brought from earth. With the powerful Magic Array refining the ore, the costs were much lower than chairman Morgan’s estimates.
For each ton of Silver Leaf Alloy, the costs of the steel mill were around three hundred and ninety gold coins.
Although there wasn’t much of a difference between four hundred and three hundred and ninety, it was still a profit of around ten gold coins when calculating everything.
The Frestech Chamber of Commerce had sold ten thousand tons of Silver Leaf Alloy last month, so they earned a giant profit of a hundred thousand gold coins from this.
If they were to sell all the alloys the steel mill produced, that would have been a shocking profit of four hundred thousand gold coins!
It wasn’t exaggerated to say that with just a single steel mill, it created profits that were equal to the entire household magic machine workshop and the magic machine workshop combined.
Of course, the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s market was limited to Banta City and the surrounding cities. If they waited until the magic machines had a bigger market, the free market space of the household magic machine workshop and the magic machine workshop was limitless.
The most important function of this steel mill was to meet the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s needs, so naturally not all of the alloys could be sold.
Of the amount demanded, that also included the amount the tire factory in front of Xu Yi and chairman Pompeii needed.
The two walked into the factory and they heard the sound of metal clanging.
Chairman Pompeii looked around the factory and he found that he couldn’t understand what the workers in the factory were doing at all.
He could only see that these workers were using strange magic machines, perfectly combining the rim and frame that didn’t seem strange at all together. Then they took out something that seemed like a wheel based on its appearance, but it was completely made of metal.
Chairman Pompeii lifted up a complete iron tire and found that this frame as wide as his waist weighed at least ten pounds, so he couldn’t help knitting his brows.
“Chairman Xu, this is the tire you mentioned? This is heavier than our wood wheels and isn’t this no different from the iron wheel I mentioned to you before?”
“That is an incomplete piece.” Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, as he led chairman Pompeii and these finished steel wheels to the other side of the factory.
This place had a bunch of steel wheels on one side and the other side had a bunch of black round objects placed in a pile.
On the side of the black unknown objects, there was also a bunch of random things that he didn’t know what use they had.
“What are these things?” Chairman Pompeii pointed at the black things and asked.
“If I just told you what these things are, you wouldn’t understand. So I can only tell you that if these things are put together, that is the real tire.”
Xu Yi and chairman Pompeii went to the end of the production line.
There was a tire that had just been finished. Xu Yi picked it up and placed it in front of himself, firmly standing the tire up.
“What do you think about this tire?” Xu Yi pointed at the tire on the ground as he asked chairman Pompeii.
Chairman Pompeii knit his brows and carefully looked over the tire before shaking his head, “To be honest…..I don’t know. Chairman Xu, I’m not afraid of you making fun of me, but I don’t understand how you made this tire or even what this thing is. So if you ask me what I think…..I really don’t know what to say.”
Xu Yi revealed a smile and pointed at the tire while saying, “Try pressing down on it.”
Chairman Pompeii pressed down on the tire while feeling confused, but he felt a soft feeling coming from his hand. The tire went down slightly when being pressed by him and once he let go, it bounced back to its original shape.
Chairman Pompeii was shocked by this. He looked at the tired and thought for a bit before saying in a pleasantly surprised voice, “Its surface is actually this elastic! This is great! If this thing is used on the road, there’s no problem even if there were a few bumpy places! I dare to guarantee that it’ll be much more comfortable sitting in carriages compared to before!”
Xu Yi laughed, “Chairman Pompeii really is a professional, being able to see the wonders of this tire so quickly. That’s right, with this tire, there will be much less jolting when it comes to sitting in carriages. Moreover, there is much less resistance when it comes to these tires, so it will definitely be much faster running across the roads.”
“I believe! I believe!” Chairman Pompeii excitedly nodded, grabbing Xu Yi’s hand and shaking it, “Chairman Xu, when you said that you wanted to change horse carriages, I thought that you were joking. But seeing this tire now, I finally believe that you weren’t lying at all! Ha, ha, as long as we change to this tire, our horse carriages will greatly change! This is great!”
Xu Yi calmly withdrew his hand and asked, “Chairman Pompeii, are you willing to buy these tires?”
When it came to buying, the excited expression on chairman Pompeii’s face disappeared. He looked at the tire on the ground before tentatively asking, “Chairman Xu, how much are you planning to sell it for?”
Xu Yi raised three fingers with a smile, “Not much, just three gold coins.”
“Three gold coins?” Chairman Pompeii quickly calculated this in his heart before revealing a smile, “Chairman Xu, we can discuss the price later. Right now, can you let me test this tire? After all, without really using it, I’m not certain if it’s suitable or not, don’t you think?”
Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, “Naturally. Not only are we selling tires, we will also take care of all the bearings and all post sale services. We guarantee complete service, you definitely won’t be disappointed.”
Chairman Pompeii laughed, “I’m in full belief of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s reliability.” He reached his hand out to Xu Yi after saying this, “Chairman Xu, to a happy cooperation.”
“To a happy cooperation.”
When shaking hands with chairman Pompeii, Xu Yi suddenly had a naughty idea. He gently pushed the tire when he reached out his hand.
The tire slowly rolled across the smooth concrete floor of the factory, finally hitting the wall on the side before falling to the ground.
Seeing this, the smile on chairman Pompeii’s face became even brighter.