While everyone was eagerly looking forward to the books published by Xu Yi and the academy he founded, Xu Yi quietly came to Anvilmar City again alone.
This time, he did not go to see anyone and went straight to Major McConley at the Military Logistics Department.
"Hey, President Xu, I heard that you went to the Principality of Standing?" Major McConley asked with a smile as soon as he saw Xu Yi. "What do you think of the Principality of Standing? Do you think this Principality is hopeless?"
Hearing this question, Xu Yi suddenly understood that he was not the only one to understand the laziness of the citizens of the Principality of Standing and the greed of the upper class. It seemed that this was the consensus of a group of people.
"It's not necessarily hopeless, but..." Xu Yi shrugged and said with a wry smile: "It's really difficult to do anything over there."
Macconley laughed and patted Xu Yi on the shoulder: "If you want to do something real, you have to do it in our Lampali Kingdom. Especially someone with such strong ability like you shouldn't go to Stan A place like Duke Ding is a waste of time.”
Xu Yi glanced at him and thought that if the Lampali Kingdom was a large empire with vast territory and extremely rich resources like the Malo Empire and the Kandra Empire, he would be willing to develop well in the Lampali Kingdom.
But the Lampali Kingdom is, after all, a small country on the continent of Sainz. Not to mention that the domestic resources are not particularly rich to begin with, most of which have long been divided up by the major nobles in the kingdom. Xu Yi and Xin Fei A new small chamber of commerce like the Chamber of Commerce has no chance of getting involved.
Just like this cooperation between the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Joseph family, if Xu Yi's true wishes are followed, he certainly hopes to control the non-ferrous metal ore sales resources in the Lampali Kingdom in the hands of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. But he knew very well that the Joseph family would never be so generous. Therefore, we can only provide technical cooperation. Obtain priority supply of these resources from Joseph's family.
As a person who traveled from the earth, Xu also knew very well the importance of controlling these resources.
There is no hope for the time being in the Lampali Kingdom, so Xu Yi will of course set his sights elsewhere.
The reason why he would rather choose to mine non-ferrous metal veins in the Black Rice Wasteland under the eyes of the orcs, he even simply ran out of the Lampali Kingdom and went to the Standing Principality to buy three mines, even if he discovered the Standing Principality this time. None of them, including Grand Duke Standing, were very reliable, and Xu Yi still didn't give up. The reason was that as long as the resources in these two places were grasped well. It is very likely that Xu Yi will be completely in his own hands.
Being able to control the core energy issues in your own hands is worth paying some price for.
Of course, if you want to do this, you must first solve a very important problem.
Xu Yi winked at Major McConley. Major McConley immediately understood, looked around, and took Xu Yi to a secret room inside his office.
"You researched it so quickly?" As soon as he closed the door, Major Macconley looked at Xu Yi with excitement and expectancy.
Xu Yi smiled slightly, took out a stack of drawings and documents from his bag and handed them to Major Macconley.
Major Macconley quickly took it over, not even bothering to greet Xu Yi. I started reading directly.
After two glances, Major Macconley's eyes became brighter and brighter. When I saw the end, my face was filled with smiles of joy and excitement.
After finishing the last page, Major Macconley slapped his thigh with force and burst into laughter.
"Great! Great! If we can use this magic trebuchet, the combat effectiveness of our army will be greatly improved!"
Xu Yi smiled and said: "Of course. Although it has not been specifically tested, this magic trebuchet is made of new steel and is powerful enough. Theoretically, the maximum stone throwing weight can even reach one ton! And it does not require the use of traditional wood. It takes a long time to re-adjust every time a trebuchet is launched. According to our current preliminary settings, the re-adjustment time after each launch will not exceed half a minute."
"In other words, as long as the rocks are loaded fast enough, two big rocks can be launched in one minute?" Major McConley asked with wide eyes.
"That's right." Xu Yi nodded slightly. "Besides, this is only the first version of the magic trebuchet. If you hadn't urged me so urgently, I would have wanted to wait until the new version of the continuous magic trebuchet was developed before I got it."
"Continuous-fire magic trebuchet?" Major McConley's already bright eyes became even brighter. "Can it be fired continuously?"
"Almost. Specifically, the magic trebuchet can complete the entire process of loading stones, launching, adjusting, and then loading the stones by itself, and the soldier in charge of the magic trebuchet only needs to put the stones prepared in advance into the ammunition. Just put it in the box.”
"Ammunition box?" Major McConley frowned and thought for a moment before reacting. "Is it a box specially used to store stones?"
"Yeah. The reason why I call this an ammunition box is because in my opinion, the stones of the trebuchet are its ammunition." At this point, Xu Yi paused, and a meaningful smile flashed across his face. . "Actually, if you really want to say it, stones are not ammunition at all..."
Major Macconley glanced at Xu Yi and wanted to ask, but Xu Yi obviously had no intention of discussing this topic in depth. After thinking about it, he continued to ask various questions about this magic trebuchet.
After roughly understanding the basic issues, Major Macconley nodded: "Okay, this magic trebuchet is very good. Although it still needs to be discussed by the generals in the military department before the final decision can be made, I think it will definitely be approved. President Xu "Can I ask how long it will take your chamber of commerce to produce such a magic trebuchet?"
"It has not been officially put into production yet, so I can't give you an accurate time. However, according to the institute's estimates, if it is officially put into production, it may take at least a week to complete one in the initial stage."
"It only takes a week? So fast!" Major McConley looked shocked. "I thought this thing was so complicated that it would take at least several months to make one."
Xu Yi smiled slightly, thinking that you might be underestimating the miracles that industry can create.
This is because the current industrial base on Sainz's continent is too weak. Even the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is far inferior to the industrial production capabilities of those large factories on earth. This results in a magic trebuchet taking a week to complete.
This magic trebuchet seems very complicated to Major Macconley. It shocked him, but from the perspective of a mechanical engineer like Xu Yi, the structure was very simple and not worth mentioning at all.
If it were placed in a country like China with a complete industrial system and a relatively deep industrial foundation on earth, I am afraid that it could be completed within a few days by just handing it over to a factory that produces heavy machinery.
And if you include mass production and assembly line operations, on average one machine may not even be used for a day.
Major Macconley looked at Xu Yi again. His expression was a little hesitant, and he hesitated for a while before asking: "Well... President Xu, do you think our military department can produce this magic trebuchet by ourselves?"
Xu Yi immediately laughed.
As he expected, as long as he handed over the blueprints, the military would definitely want to get this magic trebuchet into his own hands.
But this time was different from last time, Xu Yi shook his head without thinking.
"I'm afraid not." Xu Yi said seriously. "Major Macconley, I think you should know very well that this magic trebuchet is very complicated. Even if our New Aviation Chamber of Commerce wants to produce it, it will take a lot of effort. I don't think the military has such production capabilities now."
"Can't you just leave all the drawings and related technology to us?" Major McConley continued to ask unwillingly.
However, Xu Yi still shook his head firmly.
"No. Major, this is different from the production of armor weapons. The main factor in the production of armor weapons is the magic machine tools provided by our chamber of commerce. Workers only need to know how to operate it. Generally speaking, there is not much technical difficulty. But production The complexity of this magic trebuchet is far beyond the production of armor and weapons. Even if I provide all the relevant technologies, the military department will not be able to master it by itself." At this point, Xu Yi showed a slightly sarcastic smile and continued. : "Besides, it's not impossible for us to provide all the relevant technologies, but what does the military plan to use to compensate accordingly?"
Major Macconley immediately fell silent.
Of course he understood that the military could rely on the official power of the kingdom to ask Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to do something according to its own requirements, and could even force the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to hand over these technologies.
But if you want to get it for free, it is obviously impossible.
Just by looking at the blueprint, you can tell that this magic trebuchet is extremely powerful. If it can be equipped into the army of the Lampali Kingdom, it will definitely greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the army, so the military department is bound to get it.
However, if the attitude of the military department is too tough, it will cause dissatisfaction or even backlash from Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. It will also cause dissatisfaction among some big figures who are concerned about the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Not to mention, it will just lose the opportunity to continue to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. , which is an extremely heavy loss.
To put it bluntly, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is now unique. Apart from them, there is no other chamber of commerce that can develop the magic military machinery required by the military.
Even the concept of "magic military machinery" was first proposed by Xu Yi.
Therefore, despite being the head of the Military Logistics Department, Major Macconley was still very polite to Xu Yi.
Not only because Xu Yi is valued by His Royal Highness Princess Sevigny and His Majesty the King, but also because Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can bring what they urgently need to the military.
After quickly reconsidering these factors in his mind, Major McConley immediately gave up the idea of asking Xu Yi and Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to hand over all their technologies to the military. After thinking about it, he nodded and said: "Okay, then. President Xu, may I ask...how much does your chamber of commerce plan to price a magic trebuchet?"
Xu Yi smiled and stretched out a finger: "One thousand gold coins per unit."
Major Macconley's face immediately turned pale. (To be continued...)