After a long day's journey yesterday, and being busy late at night with Steele's affairs, Xu Yi got up very late the next day.
When he opened his eyes, the sun filled the room, and it seemed that it was approaching noon.
"Master, are you awake?" Vivian's timid voice sounded in her ears. "It's almost noon, what would you like to eat for lunch?"
Xu Yi turned over and jumped up, looking left and right, but did not see Steele.
"Sister Steele has gone back. She said Master, if you want to go to the Magic Tower today, you should go find her. She has something to talk to you about."
"Oh? You want to talk to me about something? Why didn't this guy say anything last night?" Xu Yi looked out the window and said to Vivian: "Stop cooking today. Let's go out to eat and save some time."
"Master, I don't need it." Vivian said in surprise. "You go out to eat by yourself, I just need to eat something at home."
"Stop talking nonsense, this is an order." Xu Yi said bluntly.
After spending some time with Vivian, Xu Yi knew that this little girl might have been a slave for too long and was always used to putting herself in a very low position. It would take a long time to change her concept. It will take a while.
"Oh." Sure enough, hearing Xu Yi's tough tone, Vivian agreed obediently.
After taking Vivian away from home, Xu Yi first took her to a clothing store in Bangta City to buy two sets of clothes for Vivian, and then randomly found a restaurant to have lunch.
While eating, Xu Yi was sorting out his thoughts in his mind.
The things before him were very complicated, so he had to prioritize them.
The first important thing is, of course, to ensure the production and sales of magic fans. Otherwise, he will not be able to do anything if he lacks funds.
Although the sales of magic fans are still booming, Xu Yi knows very well that the market in and around Bangta City will soon be saturated, and future sales will quickly decrease and become flat, and it will not be possible to bring the same results as now. Such huge profits.
Xu Yi has two preparations for this. One is to update the magic fan and continuously launch new products.
He believes that when the second version of the variable-speed magic fan is officially put into production, it will inevitably bring another wave of craze, because people are always pursuing new things.
The second is to continuously expand the market.
In addition to Kalma City, merchants from several other cities near Bangta City also came from afar to place a large number of orders.
According to the information they brought, when magic fans were introduced into those cities, a craze immediately set off. The first batch of magic fans brought back by these businessmen to test the waters were all sold out in a short period of time. Once it was empty, when these merchants came for the second time, they directly placed a large order that was several times higher than the first time.
However, since the output of the Magic Fan Factory cannot be increased for the time being, Heinze only agreed to place an order for 5,000 units.
Heinze was very upset about this. If he had known this was the case, he should have been bolder from the beginning, expanded the factory several times, and increased the output several times, so that he could take all the orders.
Xu Yi is not in a hurry. The production process of the second version of the variable speed magic fan has long been finalized in his mind.
As long as everything goes well, the second version of the variable speed magic fan will enter the assembly line operation, and the factory's output will increase exponentially. By then, not to mention a mere 10,000 units, even if it is 20,000 units, 30,000 units or even more , still easy to win.
Of course, there are still many things that need to be prepared in order to implement assembly line operations.
This is what Xu Yi is most concerned about now.
Although Master Ranu has created a magic head-pulling machine and a magic tooth-rolling machine, which enables the mass production of screws and also represents the possibility of assembly line assembly production of variable-speed magic fans, this is not enough.
If you want to upgrade the backward overall casting process of the first version of the magic fan to today's assembly line assembly process, every component of the magic fan must be standardized.
Standardized processing is obviously difficult to complete by relying on manual labor alone.
Even if all of Master Ranu's clan members had the same forging skills as Ranu, they still wouldn't be able to meet this requirement.
To achieve this, the most important thing is actually forging machinery.
For example, if the shell of a magic fan is forged by hand alone, a blacksmith shop in Bangta City can only make no more than thirty pieces per day.
Now, in order to ensure the production of magic fans, Xu Yi has taken over almost all the blacksmith shops in Bangta City.
Although there is always work to be done, which makes the people in the blacksmith shop very happy, this has actually indirectly affected the order in Bangta City and is by no means a long-term solution.
Even so, the output of magic fan casings can only barely meet the factory's production, and it is almost impossible to further increase it.
What's more, Xu Yi has always been dissatisfied with the craftsmanship of these craftsmen. The standards of the fan casings they forged are too inconsistent. If they were placed in the strictly labeled factories on earth, more than half of them could be regarded as defective products.
If you want variable speed magic fans to do high-volume assembly line operations, these fan housings are simply not suitable for use.
"After all, there is still a serious lack of heavy industry foundation." Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn't help but sigh.
The establishment of the industrial system is naturally inseparable from the development and improvement of heavy industry. However, for Sainz Continent, not to mention heavy industry, even light industry is only rare, and the foundation is really poor.
"I hope those dwarves can improve the situation after they arrive."
Xu Yi took out a small notebook and began to make preliminary plans for these things.
According to his agreement with Chief Shluka, in three days, one hundred dwarves with superb forging skills will come to Bangta City and join Xu Yi's command.
In order to protect the lives of these dwarves, Xu Yi had to build a living area near the factory, and then build two additional factories.
One of them is the machine tool casting workshop where the dwarves mainly work, and the other is used as an assembly workshop for variable-speed magic fans.
Since there is only one month left before the end of summer, time is tight, so the two factories will be simple and simple for the time being, and will be built according to the standards of the previous magic fan production workshop.
But the dwarves' living area cannot be dealt with casually. He has made an agreement with Chief Shluka on terms, and he even made a promise by patting his chest in front of Master Lanu.
What's more, these dwarves are the most important machine tool casters in Xu Yi's mind. It is no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the entire Sainz continent's industrial system is in the hands of these dwarves. If we don't treat them better, it will be terrible. It's just too unreasonable.
"There are too many things to do, but the manpower is far from enough." Xu Yi frowned and looked at the densely packed things recorded in the small notebook. "Not to mention anything else, the factory and staff dormitories alone require a lot of manpower. I wonder if Heinze can solve this problem?"
While he was thinking about this, Xu Yi suddenly caught a glimpse of Vivian opposite, engrossed in eating, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Yes!"
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"How many more slaves do you want to buy from me?" Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi in astonishment. He didn't expect this guy to come here at noon and make such a request when they met. "What did you buy it for?"
"Because I need a lot of manpower now." Xu Yidao. "Next, the factory will expand production and will need a large number of workers. I won't be able to hire so many people for a while, so I can only ask you to come up with a solution."
Viscount Leslie's face looked a little ugly: "From your tone, I'm afraid we need a lot of manpower. Tell me, how many people do you want?"
Xu Yi stretched out a finger and said with a smile: "Let's start with a hundred people."
"A hundred?" Viscount Leslie opened his eyes slightly and scolded unceremoniously: "Do you think this is a pig? If you want a hundred, you can get a hundred? Let me tell you, all the slaves under my name add up. It's just about three hundred. What would I do if I gave you one hundred? To tell you the truth, where else would I go to buy some more slaves? You didn't see that the territory under my name is still empty and uncultivated. If I had enough manpower, I wouldn’t have so much space available, and I wouldn’t be able to rent it to you.”
Xu Yi was not moved at all and asked with a smile: "So, Mr. Viscount, you need those slaves just to let them farm?"
"Nonsense, otherwise what else can those guys be used for? They are just slaves." Viscount Leslie scolded, and suddenly glanced at Vivian, who had been standing behind Xu Yi. "By the way, this little girl seems to be the slave you snatched away from Brunei without my consent last time, right? What? You tasted the sweetness from her, so you want to buy some more slaves to use back?"
Catching Viscount Leslie's gaze, Vivian immediately lowered her head in fear.
In her opinion, Viscount Leslie, the former master, was aloof and not someone that a little slave like her could face seriously.
Xu Yi frowned and said sternly: "Master Viscount, first of all, I didn't take it away by force, but negotiated the terms with the Brunei housekeeper, and the two parties reached an agreement before buying Vivian. When you do this, I also signed the document to express my agreement. Secondly, Vivian is my person now. Please be careful with your words and don’t use such insulting language.”
Vivian was shocked when she heard that Xu Yi actually confronted Viscount Leslie for herself. She couldn't help but stretched out her little hand and tugged on Xu Yi's clothes, with a look of horror on her face.
Viscount Leslie was slightly startled, but did not show any anger because of being contradicted. Instead, he glanced at Xu Yi and Vivian and laughed.
"Xu Yi, you are really a strange guy. For the sake of a slave, you actually dare to contradict me. You said that this little girl is yours... But I think she is still a virgin, right? I have been with you for so long and you can still remain a virgin. "Xu Yi, you are actually a good person that is completely beyond my expectation?"
Unexpectedly, Viscount Leslie said so eloquently, Xu Yi and Vivian couldn't help but blush slightly.
"Ahem... Lord Viscount, that's not what I meant, just... Forget it, there is no point in dwelling on this issue. I just want to remind Lord Viscount that you have too low a view of the value of slaves. Although they are slaves, As long as the hands and feet are normal and the mind is normal, they have complete human resource value, but you have not developed them. To tell the truth that you may not like to hear, the more than 300 slaves under your hands, I’m afraid the value produced is far less than leaving them to me.”
Viscount Leslie suddenly became angry.
"Okay, then I want to hear, if they are handed over to you, how will you bring out their value?"