Chapter 10 Lease

A carriage slowly drove out from the west gate of Bangta City, gradually accelerated, and drove quickly towards the western suburbs of Bangta City.

In the carriage, Xu Yi and Heinze were sitting opposite each other. Heinze was holding a rough map of Bangta City in his hand and was explaining something to Xu Yi.

"Look, this large area is the territory of Viscount Leslie, the total should be close to 1,000 hectares, more than half of which are uncultivated wasteland, Viscount Leslie promised us that we can choose any piece of these wastelands. rent."

Xu Yi just glanced at the map, then stretched out his finger and clicked on the map: "No need to pick, it's here."

"Here?" Heinze observed the place that Xu Yi pointed out, thought for a while, and frowned: "This is not the closest to Bangta City, and there is nothing nearby, I am afraid it is not very convenient for daily life. ."

Xu Yi shrugged and chuckled: "It's better to have nothing, so we can plan well. You know, drawing on a piece of white paper is easier than drawing on a piece of paper covered with patterns. too much."

"But in this way, the cost may be higher than expected." Heinze still frowned.

"Initial investment is necessary." Xu Yi nodded and drew a circle on the map. "In fact, if it is possible, I even want to rent all this large wasteland."

"This large piece of land?" Heinze stuttered: "That can't be done. Just renting one hectare of land will give Viscount Leslie 100 gold coins every year. If we rent such a large piece of land...not for a year. Speaking of tens of thousands of gold coins, a few thousand gold coins are still needed. Besides, we only need a small workshop now, where do we need such a large area?"

Xu Yi smiled slightly: "Heinze, are you satisfied with just running such a small magic fan factory?"

Heinze looked at Xu Yi in amazement. Could it be that this guy has bigger ambitions?

Just yesterday, Xu Yi found Heinze and told him that he didn't have to bother to find a suitable venue to rent in Bangta City, because Xu Yi took a fancy to an open space on the outskirts of the city and planned to build a factory directly on this open space. , to fully produce the magic fan.

During this period of time, Xu Yi asked Heinze's nephew Alex to help him do a small market survey. According to the survey results, Xu Yi preliminarily judged that the demand for magic fans in Bangta City should be between 3,000 and 3,000. Between 5,000 units, and now only less than 500 units have been sold, which means that there is still a huge market of several thousand units.

And this number is only limited to Bangta City. Although the family conditions in the suburbs of Bangta City are not as good as Bangta City, there will inevitably be a certain demand for magic fans.

If the radiation range of Bangta City is included, Xu Yi boldly estimated that the demand for magic fans will even exceed 10,000 units!

It is precisely because of this number that Xu Yi made up his mind to expand production.

To greatly increase production, renting a warehouse in Bangta City is obviously too restrictive, so Xu Yi directly aimed at the outskirts of the city and planned to build a magic fan factory directly.

After research, he finally settled on this piece of territory belonging to Viscount Leslie in Bonta City.

Of course, if you want to expand production, besides the venue, the most important thing is actually people.

Xu Yi looked down at the stack of materials in his hand, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Half of the stack is thirty personal data, and the other half is thirty contracts.

These are the things he got after a trip to Baron Riktor's School of Magic.

After his efforts to persuade, Director Shearer finally allowed Xu Yi to recruit students to work for him at the Baron Rictor Academy of Magic, but Director Shearer also stated that he would not publicly support this, but did not oppose it.

Then Xu Yi went through a lot of hard work in the academy, and finally successfully recruited 30 students who met the requirements.

The magic level of these students themselves is not high, at least none of them can match Xu Yi.

But as students of Baron Riktor's School of Magic, they are very solid in the basic knowledge of magic circles, and have some experience in drawing magic circles.

The wind whirl array engraved on the inside of the magic fan has been specially transformed by Xu Yi, and it is more complicated. After all, it is just a low-level wind array, and it is not particularly difficult to draw.

Xu Yi recruited these students, and the only thing he asked them to do was to complete the work of drawing the magic circle.

Although this is a simple and boring job, it requires a certain amount of magic power.

When Xu Yi asked his colleagues in his laboratory to assist in the production of the 500 magic fans before, but next, he plans to complete the production of up to nearly 10,000 magic fans, so it is obviously impossible to rely on only ten colleagues.

In comparison, hiring these thirty students is far more appropriate than hiring those ten colleagues.

First of all, these thirty students are not as reserved as magicians like the ten colleagues. They signed a contract with Xu Yi without any hesitation, so that they have a clear employment relationship with Xu Yi, which can make Xu Yi Don't worry about it affecting production.

Secondly, after Xu Yi asked the ten colleagues to assist in completing the five hundred magic fans, he paid five gold coins and one magic fan for each colleague, but he discussed with them the thirty students. Well, after each person completes the drawing of the magic circle of a magic fan, they will pay two silver coins for them, and the cost can be said to be greatly reduced.

In fact, when Xu Yi offered this remuneration, he was a little worried that these students would think it was too low, but he did not expect that when the students heard the remuneration, they were all very excited, and even praised Xu Yi. generous.

The last and most important point is that compared to those colleagues in the research room, these students who are still studying in the Magic Academy have not yet formed a mindset, and they do not have so many prejudices about the application of magic.

In them, Xu Yida can instill his mechanical engineering knowledge from the earth and let them learn from scratch.

It would be a valuable asset if there were a few students who were gifted with magical mechanics theory.

If there are more and more such magicians in the future, then Xu Yi's idea of ​​creating a complete industrial system on the Sainz Continent will no longer be just a dream...

The carriage jolted suddenly and jolted Xu Yi up from his seat, interrupting his reverie about the future.

"It's almost here." Heinze reminded.

Xu Yi opened the curtains, looked out, and found that the carriage had left the road extending westward from Bangta City, and walked onto a small rural dirt road that was bumpy and uneven at all.

Feeling the violent tremors brought by the carriage, Xu Yi couldn't help frowning.

"The road conditions are too bad."

Heinze said with a wry smile: "Of course, this place is originally a wasteland that no one has cultivated. It would be very good to have such a path that makes the carriage situation."

"That won't do. Heinze, if I were to build a flat road from the place we delineated to the road just now, how much would it cost?"

"Building the road?" Heinze was stunned, lowered his head and gestured on the map, and replied with a wry smile, "It's not cheap. Even if it's the easiest way to repair the road, I'm afraid it will cost hundreds of gold coins." After a pause, he couldn't help but said, "Actually, although this road is a little bumpy, it's fine to be able to pass a carriage. We don't need to spend money to rebuild the road, right?"

Xu Yi shook his head: "No, this road must be repaired. The craftsmanship of the magic fan itself is not high, and it may not have high requirements for transportation, but our follow-up products will be more and more sophisticated. There was a problem in transit."

Heinze pouted and found that he didn't understand Xu Yi's "technical content", "subsequent leveling", "precision" and so on, so he couldn't continue to persuade him for a while.

But now Xu Yi is in charge of these things, and he has no decision-making power, so he gave up persuasion after thinking about it.

The carriage continued to bump along this lower road for a while, and then came to a slow stop.

Xu Yi and Heinze jumped out of the carriage, looked around, and found that it was indeed a desolate place, and there was almost nothing on the surrounding land except for patches of weeds.

Seeing this desolate appearance, Heinze couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but Xu Yi was not surprised at all.

He has been to countless industrial areas to be developed on the earth, and those industrial areas are even several times desolate than here, and when they are officially developed, it will not take long for them to become a prosperous area.

Although this place is very desolate now, he believes that as long as he can continue to develop and invest, it will become prosperous sooner or later.

"Is it Mr. Xu Yi and Mr. Heinze?" A thin old man appeared out of nowhere.

"Hello, Steward Brunei, I'm Heinze, and this is my partner Xu Yi." Heinze quickly greeted him. "Xu Yi, this is Mr. Brunei, Viscount Leslie's housekeeper."

Xu Yi looked at the unassuming old man and bowed to him.

Brunei rolled a pair of white and black eyes, looked at Xu Yi for a while, nodded and said: "Okay, since you are here, let's take a good look. Lord Viscount said, although this place he does not I don't plan to reclaim it, but since it's his territory, it can't be handed over to others for use. Whatever you want to do on this land in the future, you must inform the Viscount first, understand?"

Looking at Brunei who looks aloof, Xu Yi couldn't help but feel angry and funny.

If it were on Earth, if a developer like himself was willing to pay to rent this wasteland, the land owner would not be happy.

On the Sainz Continent, Viscount Leslie has already collected his own money, and this Brunei butler still looks so arrogant, as if this land was not rented by Xu Yi, but by Leslie. Viscount Sly gave him a normal one.

Xu Yi naturally didn't show any emotion on his face, just nodded to show that he knew, and then went around to investigate.

Xu Yi was very satisfied with the inspection results. This piece of land has good geological conditions and extremely flat terrain, which is very suitable for setting up factories.

More importantly, there is a river with a width of more than ten meters right next to this land, and there is a small forest on the other side. It is very convenient to use materials and water.

The only shortcoming is that the traffic is not very convenient, of course, this is also considered by Xu Yi.

Renovating roads to ensure traffic is the first element of building factories and mines.