Heinze saw from a distance that Xu Yi was followed by a large group of ragged men and women walking toward the factory, and he was immediately startled.
Is it possible that this guy was targeted by the "Beggars' Gang" in Bangta City
As the crowd approached, Heinze realized something was wrong, because in front of the ragged men and women, besides Xu Yi, there was also a well-dressed old man with a touch of nobility in his every move.
"Brunei Butler? Why are you here?" Heinze asked in shock.
The Brunei housekeeper nodded to Heinze and did not answer his question. He turned to Xu Yida and said, "President Xu, I have delivered the people. From now on, these one hundred slaves are completely yours to use, no matter what you order." They can do whatever they want. However, the Viscount also said that these one hundred slaves are only loaned to you, not given to you, and will not be sold to you, and he hopes to see you fulfill your promise to him. If not, he will take back these one hundred slaves at any time."
Xu Yi smiled and said: "Okay, thank you Brunei housekeeper for sending them here personally."
The Brunei housekeeper turned around and gave a few instructions to the men and women behind him, and those people walked up behind Xu Yi, looking obedient.
"Okay, my mission is completed." The Brunei housekeeper nodded to Heinze again, and then said solemnly to Xu Yi: "Xu Yi, although the viscount did not tell me why he wanted to take these one hundred slaves Leave it to you for your use, but as the Viscount’s butler, I must remind you that these one hundred slaves are also very important to the Viscount. Now that the Viscount has handed them over to you, it represents the Viscount’s love for you. Trust me, I hope you won’t disappoint Lord Viscount.”
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "Don't worry, if Lord Viscount didn't have confidence in me, how could he agree to my request?"
The Brunei housekeeper nodded lightly, said no more, turned and left.
After the Brunei housekeeper got on the carriage in the distance and left, Heinze could no longer hold back his curiosity and asked Xu Yi: "Hey, Xu Yi, what is going on? Are these people slaves? Still... Are they all slaves of Viscount Leslie? Why did he let you use all these slaves? "What terms did you negotiate with him?"
Xu Yi raised his hand to stop Heinze's questioning.
"We'll talk about this later. How about the houses I asked you to build last time? First make arrangements for these slaves and let them live in them."
Heinze glanced at Xu Yi suspiciously, turned around and shouted into the factory. After a while, Heinze's nephew Alex ran out.
After listening to a few instructions from Heinze, Alex immediately called the slaves towards several large wooden houses near the river in the distance.
"Did you call Alex to help?" Xu Yi looked at Alex who was leading a group of slaves and said with some surprise.
"Hey... I'm too busy right now, so I just called him to help." Heinze replied awkwardly. "Although this kid is not that smart, he is quite serious about his work. I asked him to help me manage this place, which saved me a lot of energy."
Xu Yi smiled slightly, patted Heinze on the shoulder and said: "It's my fault for putting all the trouble on you. In fact, there are more and more things happening now. I should have found someone for you a long time ago. The helper will help you. It’s better if you ask Alex to help. At least he is one of your own, so you can rest assured.”
"Well, I think so too. Of course, President, if you have the right person, I will immediately let this kid go back to take care of the grocery store."
"That's not necessary. Since he is already here, let him do his job well. Let's take this opportunity to divide the duties. Now Heinze, you are mainly responsible for managing the production and all major and minor matters here, then you are The salary of the director of this factory... will be set at thirty gold coins per month for the time being."
"Ah? How about that?" Heinze was stunned for a moment and waved his hands repeatedly. "I own shares, and managing things here is what I should do. How can I get additional money?"
"Shares and what you do are two different things. You have to receive the goods if you work hard. You have to spend a lot of time and energy to manage this place. Thirty gold coins per month is actually very little. But now we have just started. We can only settle for this amount temporarily. When things develop in the future, your salary will definitely increase." Xu Yi patted him on the shoulder before Heinze could refute. "Ok, deal!"
"This... that... how good is this..." Heinze rubbed his hands with an embarrassed look on his face, but in the end he didn't say anything against it.
Xu Yi smiled and continued: "As for Alex, let's decide on a position as assistant to the factory director, and the salary..."
"No, no, no, no, it's not possible. This guy can help because he's lucky. How dare he get a salary? You don't need to consider him at all, really!" Heinze said anxiously.
Xu Yi laughed and pointed at Heinze: "You get thirty gold coins every month, but he can't even get a copper coin. Will he be happy? Okay, I've decided on this, just one Yue, please take ten gold coins first. If you do well, you can raise them at any time. What do you think?"
Heinze chuckled twice and did not object.
Seeing the unbearable excitement on his face, Xu Yi felt a little funny.
It is human nature for Heinze to seek some benefits for his nephew, and Xu Yi has no prejudice against this kind of thing.
As he said, Alex is considered one of his own and can be used with confidence.
And in this way, Heinze will be more devoted and attentive to this factory, which is also a good thing.
As for his and Alex's salaries, they are nothing more than trivial matters.
"By the way, Xu Yi, you haven't said what happened to these slaves yet?" After the excitement, Heinze still didn't forget to ask about the slaves.
"Oh, they are the manpower I temporarily borrowed from Viscount Leslie. Soon our factory will increase investment and expand production, and we need a large number of workers. These slaves are obedient and easy to use. Of course they are very suitable candidates. Yes. Well, you contact more construction teams in Bangta City and seize the time to build a few more houses as soon as possible. The dwarf craftsmen I contacted will be arriving in a few days, and we must arrange accommodation for them then. "
"Okay, I've written down these things. Is there anything else?"
"Others..." Xu Yi glanced at Heinze and shook his head. "It's gone for the time being. The main problem now is to solve the living problems of these slaves and dwarves. Heinze, you must not neglect them just because they are slaves and dwarves. They are an important factor in the development and growth of our Chamber of Commerce. "
"I understand this and will definitely do my best to arrange it." Heinze nodded solemnly.
Xu Yi sighed, thinking that his manpower was still too few.
Heinze is nominally the director of the factory, but he is also the director of personnel and logistics. He is in charge of almost all the affairs of the entire factory.
Now that the factory is still small and the production scale is not large, he already needs Alex to help. When there is further development in the future, he will not be able to complete it all by himself.
However, this kind of management talent is often even more difficult to find than research talent, and there is no way to solve it for a while.
After explaining some things to Heinze, Xu Yi entered the workshop.
Because today is a day for classes, the thirty hired students are all attending classes in the college, so the workshop seems a little deserted.
Xu Yi looked at the empty workshop and couldn't help but lament the lack of human resources.
For those students, their studies at Baron Rector Magic Academy are more important after all. Even if they sign a contract, they will not regard the work here as the focus, but only as a means of work-study.
However, for a factory, the stability and continuity of production personnel are extremely important.
Although Xu Yi can recruit a large number of students to complete this work, the students are deeply influenced by the traditional thinking of Sainz continent and feel that becoming a powerful magician is far more important than working here. However, it is difficult to imagine that Xu Yi will Just stick with it for a long time.
"Two solutions, one is to cast a wide net. Magic is extremely prosperous on the continent of Sainz. There are many magicians, and there are always some magicians who are not very successful. In order to live, these guys always need a job. Here The job can be regarded as a professional counterpart, and there must be some people coming. As for the other plan..." Xu Yi pondered, deep in thought.
Another solution is to lower the threshold for drawing magic circles.
Although the current whirlwind array required by the magic fan is a low-level wind array, which can be completed even by students who are still studying in the academy, in Xu Yi's plan, more industrial products will be released in the future. The magic arrays required for those things are probably not limited to low-level magic arrays.
If you want to complete an advanced magic circle, you must have corresponding requirements for the strength of the magician.
At that stage, of course it would be difficult to recruit magicians in large numbers to complete these tasks at will.
What Xu Yi can do is to reduce the magic output requirements of these magic machines as much as possible, reduce the power and level of the magic arrays they require, and reduce the requirements for drawing magic arrays as much as possible.
But this is a very large project that requires an extremely large amount of time and energy to study.
Taking the whirlwind array required for the magic fan alone, it is already very difficult for Xu Yi to improve it now. If he wants to produce any new product in the future, he will face the same problem.
It is absolutely impossible to solve everything by relying on Xu Yi alone.
Xu Yi frowned and paced in the workshop, thinking about how to solve this problem.
When he walked near the workbench where the students were drawing magic circles, a sudden cool breeze hit him, which shocked him.
Looking up, he found that the magic air conditioning test machine on the wall was still on.
"Why is it still on when there is no one here? Isn't it a waste?" Xu Yi muttered, and then remembered that this was what he had told him to do, to use this magic air conditioner more so that he could test the relevant data.
"I don't know if those guys have figured out what problems they have, so I can collect them and find Camilada Magic..." Thinking of this, Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and whispered to himself. "It seems like we have to go talk to the great magician Camilla."