There are indeed many dwarves in Rainfall Valley.
After more than half a year of construction, the new dwarf tribe has basically taken shape.
Now, in addition to most of the dwarves from the Norman tribe and the Angola tribe who have moved here, there are also several dwarf tribes that Chief Xu Yirang Shilui and Chief Mento contacted on their own initiative. They have also moved here.
Now, the number of dwarves in this new tribe has reached an astonishing more than two thousand, almost filling the completed part of the new tribe.
When President Cruz saw the dwarves moving in with his own eyes a month ago, he was so surprised that he could hardly open his mouth from ear to ear, because he had never seen so many dwarves together in his life.
You must know that even if all the dwarves in the Lampali Kingdom are gathered together now, it is very likely that there will not be more than 50,000, and a small settlement here already exceeds 2,000.
No wonder the Lord of Satsuma City specifically told Xu Yi that he must be optimistic about these dwarves and not let them cause trouble just because they live together.
Xu Yi naturally agreed to this, and the way to deal with it was also very simple, that is, to arrange work for all the dwarves.
For a race like dwarves, who have a straightforward and honest personality, they can be satisfied if they can have food to eat and wine to drink. As long as they accept the job assigned to them by Xu Yi, not only will they have enough to eat, but they will also get a salary. , allowing them to use these salaries to buy some good things to improve their lives.
Although due to work, Xu Yi strictly restricted them and did not allow them to drink at will, but this was only a restriction while working. I don't care about my time outside of work.
What's more, every once in a while, Xu Yi would have someone deliver several cars of wine from Sage Manor. Pick a nice night to host the reception. Let them drink to their heart's content.
This kind of life is a perfect life that all dwarves could never dream of hiding in the mountains before!
If that's the case, how could they possibly have any thoughts of causing trouble
On the contrary, I am grateful to Xu Yi for being able to help them achieve such a wonderful life. Whether it is the dwarves of the Norman tribe and the Angora tribe, or the other dwarves who later migrated, they are all grateful when completing the work assigned by Xu Yi. It can be said that he tried his best.
And just as President Cruise commented, the dwarves are very powerful. He has a good physique and has more dexterity than ordinary people, so he is the most perfect worker.
Thanks to the efforts of these dwarves, the development of Falling Rain Valley is progressing very quickly, almost every day.
Before the Luoyu Highway was built and opened to traffic, the dwarves had already leveled the ground in the Luoyu Valley and made preparations to build a factory.
When the Luoyu Highway was completed, a large amount of materials were quickly transported in through the Luoyu Highway. The dwarves and the workers of the Amri Chamber of Commerce who later joined worked together to make the Luoyu Valley vast in just a short period of time. Changed.
Compared to the first time Xu Yi came here to inspect the Luoyu Valley. The current Luoyu Valley has become a large construction site.
In addition to the new phase of the dwarf tribe that is still under construction in the far-end living area, there is a section near Luoyu Highway. Huge factories are rising from the ground.
According to Xu Yi's plan, Luoyu Valley is used as the production base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
In Luoyu Valley, Xu Yi arranged a special production workshop for every household magic machine.
The area of each of these production workshops is several times larger than the current household magic machinery production workshop in Sanqiton Manor, enough to accommodate hundreds of workers working in it at the same time.
When building these production workshops, President Cruz raised questions to Xu Yi face to face.
He felt that even if the scale of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's current factory in Sanqiton Manor was enough to produce household magic machinery that fully met the needs of Bangta City and several surrounding cities, why would it need to be built all at once in the Falling Rain Valley? So many, such large production workshops
Xu Yi repelled his doubts with just one sentence.
"Is the goal of our New Flying Chamber of Commerce just Bangta City and the surrounding cities?"
However, no matter how many new factories are built, no matter how big they are, it is certainly impossible to fill the Luoyu Valley, which is more than ten square kilometers in size.
In addition to the living area and light industrial base, in fact, according to Xu Yi's plan, the largest area in Luoyu Valley should be the heavy industrial base under the name of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
But whether it is for the entire Sainz Continent or the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, the so-called heavy industry is currently only in its embryonic state.
Apart from the mechanical production represented by the Magic Machine Tool Workshop, the only heavy industry currently owned by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is the steelmaking plant of the Norma tribe.
The current monthly output of this steelmaking plant has just exceeded 6,000 tons, which is far away from the smallest steelmaking plant on earth.
As for becoming the large-scale steelmaking plant that Xu Yi envisioned that could support the entire Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the entire Lampali Kingdom, that was still a long way off.
Currently, this steelmaking plant is mainly refining silver leaf steel to meet the needs of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in producing automatic magic rice cookers, magic bread makers and new generation magic air conditioners.
And if the output is maintained at this level, it will undoubtedly not meet the requirements in Xu Yi's mind, and it will even gradually fail to keep up with the demand after the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce expands production.
So after Xu Yi and President Cruise entered the Falling Rain Valley in a carriage, the first thing they saw was a group of dwarves lifting a huge iron furnace more than three meters high and nearly two meters in diameter, and then pointed the iron furnace towards a Push on the tall support.
"This thing is really spectacular." President Cruz couldn't help but admired as it was the first time he saw this thing.
"This is still small, you will see more spectacular ones in the future." Xu Yi despised President Cruz's ignorance in his heart.
Indeed, compared to the large converters in large steel mills on the earth with specifications reaching tens or even hundreds of tons, Xu Yi designed it by himself based on memory, and then worked with the dwarves to study the final converter, which can only smelt at one time. Just over ten tons of raw materials are not at the same level in terms of steelmaking capabilities.
But after all, this is the first real converter on the Sainz continent, which means that this steelmaking plant will gradually get rid of the manual steelmaking of the dwarves in the past. Steelmaking efficiency will be greatly improved.
According to Xu Yi's estimate. If this converter can be successfully put into production with a series of steelmaking equipment designed later. The output of this steelmaking plant will increase several times, and it is very possible to exceed the monthly output of 20,000 tons in one go.
And this is only the first set of experimental equipment. If the entire set of equipment is tested and then improved accordingly, the steelmaking plant can invest in several more sets of the same equipment. At that time, the output of the entire steelmaking plant will definitely increase. There was an explosive leap forward.
Xu Yi couldn't help but get excited when he thought about how this steelmaking plant would continue to produce large amounts of steel in the future.
The so-called machinery, no matter how high its technological level is. The main body is, after all, made of various types of steel.
If sufficient steel supply cannot be guaranteed, then modern industry will actually be a castle in the air with no foundation at all.
If countries on the planet want to evaluate their industrial strength, one of the most important data is steel production.
If a country's steel production is still at an extremely low level, then it is not worthy of discussing industrial strength at all.
Thinking of this, the shadow of the great magician Camilla flashed across Xu Yi's mind.
When researching steel-making equipment, Xu Yi and the dwarves encountered a very important problem, which was how to increase the speed of smelting iron ore.
If you follow the old method of the dwarves and use a shaft furnace to heat and smelt. Not only is it slow, it also takes up a lot of space. It is very detrimental to the planning of the entire steelmaking plant.
So Xu Yi habitually brought up this issue to discuss with the Great Magician Camilla, but was directly despised by the Great Magician Camilla.
It turns out that in the eyes of the great magician Camilla, the dwarves' use of coal to raise the temperature of the fire is simply not good enough.
Among fire magic, there are many advanced magics that produce temperatures that are even much higher than what coal burning can provide.
After further discussions with Xu Yi, the great magician Camilla finally decided to use the ninth-level fire magic - Explosive Flame Technique.
Now in the smelting furnace used by this steelmaking plant, there is an explosion magic circle arranged by the great magician Camilla.
Compared with coal smelting, once the explosion magic circle is activated, the temperature rises extremely fast and the speed of smelting ore is much faster. Therefore, only one or even smaller smelting furnace is needed to match the steel-making speed of the converter. , greatly improving the overall efficiency.
More importantly, using this kind of smelting furnace does not require the consumption of coal, but only the consumption of magic crystals.
Compared with coal, magic crystal is not only countless times cheaper, but also does not cause any pollution.
Thinking that this was even more convenient than the arc smelting furnace on Earth, Xu Yi couldn't help but sigh again.
Even if the technological level of Sainz Continent is much lower than that of Earth, with magic, it is inherently superior to when Earth began to develop industry.
Xu Yi was thinking about the various meanings represented by this steelmaking plant. Over there, President Cruise noticed several used magic fans and magic rice cookers piled up like a hill in the open space next to the steelmaking plant. and magic air conditioning.
"Xu Yi, is your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's trade-in activity aimed at recycling these old magic fans and the like, and then re-smelting them?" President Cruz asked, pointing to the hills.
"Of course, otherwise why take it back?" Xu Yidao.
President Cruz shook his head: "This is too uneconomical. According to your old-for-new program, just an old magic fan can be worth fifty silver coins, but if it is re-smelted, it can only be counted as a few kilograms at most. Scrap iron might not even be worth ten silver coins. If you do this, you might as well just buy the iron ore from Falcao Chamber of Commerce."
"First of all, the price of iron ore has increased a lot now, so this old magic fan can be worth more than thirty silver coins just by selling it for scrap, and we don't lose much." Xu Yi said with a smile. "Secondly, in fact, the magic fans, magic air conditioners, magic rice cookers, etc. produced by our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce last year were all made using old processes and the materials were ordinary pig iron. In fact, the quality was not good. Take advantage of the opportunity to put them now Recycling them and replacing them with our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce’s new generation products can prevent them from having quality problems and affecting the reputation of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.”
"Reputation?" President Cruise glanced at Xu Yi in surprise and sighed: "Although the reputation of a chamber of commerce is indeed very important, no one cares about it as much as you do?"
"You may not understand it well when it comes to reputation. Well, let me tell you, this is called building a brand. Do you understand?"
"I don't even understand this." President Cruz immediately shook his head.
"Okay, to put it simply, if there are two magic fans in front of you now, one of them is a Xinfei brand magic fan produced by our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the other is a magic fan of another brand produced by other guilds. Two magic fans have the same price, which one will you choose?" Xu Yi asked.
"Nonsense, of course I will buy your new Fei brand magic fan. The magic fans produced by other chambers of commerce are not as good as the New Fei brand." President Cruz replied without hesitation.
"So what if the price of other brands of magic fans is lower than that of Xinfei brand? Which one would you choose?" Xu Yi then asked.
"Then it depends on how low it is. If it's just a little lower, I'll definitely choose Xinfei Magic Fan. If it's much lower..." President Cruise hesitated for a moment, then replied: "I'll still choose Xinfei Magic Fan." No matter what, I definitely want to buy something like this if it’s good enough. If it’s not good, it’s just a waste of money.”
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "Now do you understand the role of brand?"
President Cruz was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized.
When he looked at Xu Yishi again, there was a hint of admiration in his eyes. (To be continued...)