Late at night, the banquet at Viscount Leslie's Manor finally ended. The guests had left, and the manor returned to silence.
In the slightly chaotic hall after the banquet, Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi who was talking to Steele, with unconcealed admiration on his face.
As Steele guessed, this banquet was held by him at Xu Yi's request. The most important purpose was to promote the magic air conditioner developed by Xu Yixin.
Xu Yi positioned the magic air conditioner as a mid-to-high-end product, naturally targeting people with status, status and, most importantly, wealth in Bangta City.
In this banquet, because of Viscount Leslie's deliberate actions, it can be said that all the guests met this requirement.
Xu Yi's request for Viscount Leslie was nothing more, and he was not required to fully participate. Therefore, Viscount Leslie did not know exactly what Xu Yi would do, but he knew that Xu Yi would definitely gain something from this banquet. Quite abundant.
Because during the banquet, when many guests came to chat with Viscount Leslie, they would intentionally or unintentionally mention the two slightly conspicuous magic air conditioners. After learning about the price and daily consumption of magic air conditioners, these guests almost without exception revealed their willingness to buy.
Even the Lord of the City, Earl Sean Summer, was no exception.
So Viscount Leslie was very sure that it wouldn't take long for this magic air conditioner to become popular among the aristocratic circles in Bonta City. And the person who caused this popular trend, in the eyes of those aristocrats, was probably Leslie. Viscount Leigh.
"What would those guys think if they knew that these things were planned by Xu Yi?" Viscount Leslie thought to himself.
At this moment, Xu Yi ended his conversation with Steele and walked over.
"Lord Viscount, tonight's banquet was quite successful. I have to express my gratitude to you." Xu Yi said with a smile.
"There's no need to thank me. After all, I'm also the major shareholder of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce." Viscount Leslie shook his head. "I have a question for you. Xu Yi, there are only so many nobles and rich people in Bangta City. The number of magic air conditioners you can sell is limited. I'm afraid the profit is not as good as the magic fan, right?"
"Don't worry about this." Xu Yi chuckled. "Since the magic air conditioner is positioned as a mid-to-high-end product, the sales plan is naturally different from the magic fan. I have signed an agreement with the Fasak Chamber of Commerce in Saltan City and will open a store in Saltan City in a while. , specially used to sell the products of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, when the time comes, this Xinfei brand magic air conditioner will also enter Saltan City. "
"Saltan City?" Viscount Leslie suddenly thought of something. "By the way, it seems that at today's banquet, there were two young nobles who came from Saltan City to visit relatives. Did you have contact with them too?"
Xu Yi smiled and nodded: "The Viscount responded so quickly."
Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi with a serious look.
This guy, if he had already calculated this, it would be terrible.
But after thinking about it, Viscount Leslie couldn't help but admire his own foresight.
Fortunately, I had already noticed Xu Yi's unusualness from several previous incidents and decided to cooperate with him. Otherwise, if I missed the opportunity, I would have lost many opportunities.
Not to mention anything else, just because of the huge sales of the magic fan, Viscount Leslie had already made a profit of more than a thousand gold coins in less than a month.
Even with Viscount Leslie's net worth, this thousand gold coins is no longer a small amount.
Moreover, Viscount Leslie is convinced that as the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce develops and grows, the income from his 30% stake will gradually increase, and will eventually far exceed one thousand gold coins.
"Lord Viscount, besides the magic air conditioner, there is one more thing I want to discuss with you." Xu Yi said again.
"Oh? What's the matter? Just say it."
Xu Yi pondered for a moment and said: "Lord Viscount, September is about to enter. Is it time for your territory to enter the autumn harvest stage?"
Viscount Leslie was startled, never expecting that Xu Yi would suddenly jump to this topic.
"Ah, yes, it's almost the autumn harvest. Why do you ask?"
Xu Yi chuckled: "Do you still remember the little slave I bought from you last time? The reason why I bought her was because she lost a cattle, which would seriously affect the autumn harvest, so those guards They almost beat her to death."
Of course, Viscount Leslie had heard the Brunei housekeeper report this matter a long time ago. He glanced at Xu Yi and snorted: "What? Do you want to seek justice for that little slave now? I tell you, if you want to successfully cultivate It is very difficult to get a qualified working ox. The value of a working ox is much higher than that of a slave. She actually lost a working ox. It would be easier for her to kill her. "
Xu Yi sighed slightly in his heart, thinking that even though he and Viscount Leslie were very familiar with each other, it was still impossible to change Viscount Leslie's indifference towards slaves.
Of course, Viscount Leslie's attitude towards slaves is also the norm on the Sainz continent. Xu Yi has no ability and no intention to change this social structure. Naturally, he has other motives for mentioning this matter.
"What your Lord Viscount means is that farming cattle are very rare and very important to farmland, so they are extremely valuable, right?" Xu Yi asked.
"Of course it is. Let me tell you, Xu Yi, what do you want to say after talking for a long time?" Viscount Leslie became impatient.
Xu Yi chuckled: "So, Lord Viscount, if I can find a tool that can replace the oxen, how much would you be willing to spend on it?"
Viscount Leslie glanced at Xu Yi suspiciously: "Is it possible that you have invented another magic machine that can work in the fields? I'm afraid this is unrealistic? The work in the farmland is so complicated, what machine can be powerful enough to replace the cattle? effect?"
"Just think of it as an analogy. Lord Viscount, if this machine can replace the work of cattle, and even the work efficiency is far beyond that, what price can you accept?"
Viscount Leslie thought for a while, then opened his hand and said, "Fifty gold coins per unit, I want as many as I want."
Xu Yi's eyes lit up: "Lord Viscount, are you serious about this?"
"Nonsense!" Viscount Leslie said angrily: "It's not like you don't know that most of my territory is deserted. It's because there are not enough manpower to cultivate it and there is no other way. If there is anything you said, then Planting magic machines, of course, I will have as many as I want, and it is best to plant all the territories. In addition, I am sure that it will not only be me, Bangta City, but the entire Lampali Kingdom, and even the entire Sion. Almost all the nobles on the Sri Lankan continent are in great need of this kind of thing. If you can really develop such a magic machine, I can guarantee that it will cause a mad rush."
At this point, Viscount Leslie couldn't help but ask: "Hey, Xu Yi, have you really developed it? This thing is no joke."
Xu Yi smiled slightly and shook his head: "Of course not yet, it is just an idea at the moment. But now that I have received such an exciting answer from the Viscount, I am even more interested in researching this thing."
Seeing the somewhat mysterious smile on Xu Yi's face, Viscount Leslie's heart brightened.
"This kid, maybe he has already developed it."
In fact, Viscount Leslie wrongfully accused Xu Yi.
Although Xu Yi had already made up his mind to research farm machinery when he saw Vivian almost being beaten to death for losing a farm cow, but before that, he not only had no time, but also no He has enough funds and manpower to study these things, so this thing has always only existed in his imagination and has not become a reality at all.
Today is different from the past. Although Xu Yi still doesn't have enough time now, he has a lot more available manpower, the most important of which are the one hundred dwarves from Master Lanu's tribe.
With the support of these dwarves whose forging skills were not inferior to Master Lanu, Xu Yi was able to agree to President Fasak and directly provide him with a series of corresponding manufacturing machinery for the second-generation magic fan.
However, the workload of this batch of machinery was not large, and it didn't take the dwarves much time to complete it. Now, apart from studying some of the mechanical knowledge that Xu Yi gave them, they were still idle most of the time, so Xu Yi I thought of farm machinery.
In fact, in Xu Yi's view, for a world like Sainz Continent where technology and production levels are not yet high, farm machinery is the most urgently needed thing.
As Viscount Leslie said, more than half of his territory alone was in a state of desolation due to lack of manpower.
And if this is extended to the entire Sainz continent, one can imagine how much barren land there is on the entire continent.
However, corresponding to this, the food production of Sainz Continent has always been at an extremely low level, which has directly led to a very low average living standard of people on the entire continent, even in this small Bangta City. Every year there are reports of people dying of starvation.
Xu Yi learned from a chat with Heinze that just eleven years ago, a large-scale famine occurred in Sainz Continent due to abnormal climate. The turmoil on the mainland caused several small countries to perish overnight.
Xu Yi still remembers Heinze's horrified expression when he talked about this incident.
Xu Yi, who traveled from an earth where civilization was already highly developed, had never seen such a scene before.
But just from his imagination, he knew the horror of this scene.
So he became more determined to study farm machinery.
"If it can improve the living standards of people on this continent, maybe it can be regarded as the real meaning of my time traveling to this world."
Xu Yi looked at the starry sky at night and thought silently in his heart.