Chapter 18 The Birth of the Screw

After sending the last deceived person away, Xu Yi let out a long breath and stretched out.

"Huh, it's finally done, I'm exhausted."

Heinze handed Xu Yi a cup of warm tea just right, and smiled: "Actually, since you expected this situation today, you should have called those students too. If you are alone, of course you will. tired."

Xu Yi shook his head: "That can't be done, their studies in the academy are very important to them, and I can't delay them. Besides, the contract signed with them at that time made it clear that it can't conflict with their class time. Let's talk about magic fans. Production is also closely related to them, if they are exhausted, it will be bad if it affects production.”

Heince rolled his eyes at Xu Yi: "Are you tired?"

"Hey, this bit of intensity is nothing, before..." Xu Yi suddenly stopped.

He originally wanted to say that when he was researching key topics in the research institute, he tried to sleep only four hours for three consecutive days. Compared to then, it's not a big deal now.

But he immediately reacted that he was no longer in the original world, and I was afraid that he would never be able to return to the frenetic research atmosphere before.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn't help but feel a trace of melancholy in his heart.

Seeing that Xu Yi suddenly became silent, and the expression on his face was a little dazed, Heinze was a little unclear, but he knew it was inconvenient to ask more, so he also fell silent.

For a moment, the only sound left in the room was the sound of Alex packing up.

After a while, Xu Yi suddenly shook his head vigorously, showing Heinze a smile.

"Sorry, I lost my mind. By the way, where did I just say?"

"You said you can't wear out those students and affect production."

"Oh, yes. Speaking of which, Heinze, if you have time to go to Baron Riktor's School of Magic, it's best to recruit some more students. Or you can send the students who have already hired to go back and help with the publicity. The effect may be better. I will develop the second version of the magic fan soon, maybe it will start production at the end of this month, and it is estimated that a large number of manpower will be required by then.”

"Well, I see." Heinze casually recorded what Xu Yi said in the small notebook he carried with him.

Seeing his actions, Xu Yi couldn't help laughing, because Heinze's actions were like a competent secretary.

Heinze was inexplicably laughed at by Xu Yi, but when he opened the book, he remembered something else.

"By the way, Xu Yi, I've asked, but there really isn't anything like the kind of newspaper you mentioned in Bangta City. The closest thing is probably the Die Newspaper issued by the City Lord's Mansion every once in a while. But That thing was only sent to the noble grandfathers in the city, and ordinary people couldn't see it at all."

"That's it, then forget it, I'll think of other ways to advertise." Xu Yi waved his hand, indicating that this matter should be put down first. "Speaking of manpower, Heinze, I think we should directly hire a group of blacksmiths."

"Ah?" Heinze was taken aback by Xu Yi's leaping thinking. "Hire a blacksmith? Why? If it's to forge the fan casing, wouldn't it be better to hire a blacksmith in the city?"

"That would be too controlled by others. If there is a problem with the blacksmith shop in the city, it will be difficult for us to properly handle it." Xu Yi shook his head in denial. "Of course, the most important thing is that we need professional manpower. In fact, I have always been dissatisfied with the fan casings made by these blacksmith shops in the city. The quality does not meet my requirements. It is only because I can't find a replacement for the time being. Use it. After today's events, don't you realize that the reason why we easily convince those people that the magic fans they bought are not from us, or because the magic fans we produce are of better quality? So, think To ensure the value of a brand, we must ensure quality.”

Heinze thought about what happened today and found that Xu Yi was right.

If it wasn't for the obvious gap in quality that made those people have to admit that the magic fan they bought was not the same as the Xinfei brand magic fan, I'm afraid this matter would not be so easy to end.

"But where are we going to find a large number of suitable blacksmiths?" Heinze frowned.

"Actually, we don't have to be highly skilled, but rather specialized and suitable blacksmiths. Do you understand what I mean?" Xu Yi asked.

"You mean... we just need to hire some blacksmiths who know a little bit of forging to forge fan casings for us?"

"Yes, that's what it means. Even..." Xu Yi smiled slightly, and a strange light flashed in his eyes. "It has developed to a certain extent in the future, and even these specialized blacksmiths don't need too much."

It was already in the afternoon when he left the Heinze grocery store. Xu Yi looked up at the sky and thought that he had taken another day off today. After all, he had already taken three days off this week, and he did not work at the Magic Tower for nearly half of the time.

"My colleagues in the research lab must have been guessing that I don't want to do it, right? Maybe they would say that I was too stupid and gave up the opportunity to study magic next to the great magician Camilla." Xu Yi laughed at himself. "But speaking of it, the great magician Camilla has never made a statement. In other words, he might have been kicked out of the magic tower by him."

While guessing the true attitude of the great magician Camilla, Xu Yi walked briskly around several street corners and came to the volcano blacksmith shop again.

As usual, as soon as I entered the blacksmith shop, a heat wave hit me.

"Hey, Master Lanu, then." Xu Yi threw the wine bottle in his hand into the smithy without looking at it.

A sturdy arm stretched out from the heat and caught the bottle firmly.

"Stinky boy, didn't you see me at work? What if you get it... eh? Good wine!"

As soon as Master Lanu cursed, he was attracted by the strong aroma of wine swaying from the bottle, and he poured a big mouthful into his mouth without saying a word.

"Huh... that's really good wine!" Master Lanu spit out a sigh of alcohol contentedly, and burped a wine burp by the way, and then looked at Xu Yi. "Hey, boy, this should be the thirty-year-old wine of the Saatchi Manor, right? This bottle costs five gold coins at least. You boy won't have nothing to show affection, come on, what other strange requests are there?"

"What is a strange request?" Xu Yi called out and said: "Master Lanu, are you always dissatisfied with the requests I made before? Don't forget that you agreed to it yourself. After changing according to my requirements, the two Will the effect of the machine be much better?"

"Humph! I said so, but every time you ask me, you have to give me a good toss."

Xu Yiqian laughed twice, looked to the side, his eyes fell on the two strangely shaped machines placed in the corner of the blacksmith shop.

"Wow! Master Ranu, I just didn't come for two days, but you have already finished it?"

Xu Yi rushed over excitedly and made a few laps around the two machines, with an expression like seeing a baby.

"Humph! Who am I, Ranu? It's just two machines, what's the difficulty?" Master Ranu snorted coldly and took another sip of wine.

At this time, Xu Yi had already started to carefully inspect the two machines from head to toe.

One of them is naturally a magic tooth rolling machine that he found Master Lanu some time ago and asked him to help make it, and the other is a magic head machine that was added later.

These two machines are important machines for making screws. As long as these two machines can operate successfully, then the mass production of screws envisioned by Xu Yi will become a reality.

Don't underestimate the screw, this thing looks inconspicuous, but it can be seen everywhere in the industrial system, and it is almost one of the essential materials.

Whether it is big or small, complex or simple, no matter what industrial machinery or industrial products are on the earth, there are almost always screws in them.

Being able to successfully mass-produce screws means that Xu Yi has finally taken a solid step on the industrial road of Sainz Continent!

"Master Lanu, can these two machines be used now?" Xu Yi turned his head and asked.

"Nonsense, I told you it's done, can't it be used?"

"Very good." Xu Yi picked up a small iron pole in the blacksmith shop, put it in the die of the heading machine and worked overtime, and then pressed the switch of the heading machine.

There was no movement.

"Idiot! You didn't put the magic crystal in, how could it move!" Master Ranu's roar sounded behind him.

Xu Yi patted his head, only to realize that because he was too excited, he forgot the most important thing.

Xu Yi quickly pulled out a high-end crystal that had been prepared a long time ago, put it into the power source of the head machine, and pressed the switch again.

The punch inside the heading machine suddenly made a "bang" sound, and the whole punch flew out at a high speed and slammed into the top of the iron pillar in the mold.

"Keng--"

There was a crisp, slightly weird loud noise in the head machine, which caused the head machine to tremble violently, and the ground of the entire blacksmith shop also shook a few times with this loud noise, and the sound was really scary.

Xu also froze.

Isn't it just a screw head, as for making it so earth-shattering?

It took a moment for him to react, and he pressed the control switch again, and the punch was drawn back to the top.

Xu Yi took out the iron pillar from the mold, and was delighted to find that one end of the iron pillar was squeezed into a round head under the huge pressure of the punch, and there was a cross-shaped groove at the top. Exactly a standard screw head.

"Not bad." Xu Yi nodded with satisfaction. "Let's try the toothbrush again."

Compared with the simple and rough heading machine, the operation of the tooth rolling machine is much more complicated.

Although Xu Yi has made many simplifications, as many as four magic circles are still used on this magic tooth rolling machine. The drawing of the magic circles consumes a lot of Xu Yi's energy, not to mention that the four magic circles and the The whole machine fits together perfectly.

However, when he watched the screw quickly engrave circles of threads under the cutting of the tool, Xu Yi completely forgot about the hard work of studying this machine, and he was filled with a sense of accomplishment.

This is in Sainz Continent! This is in a world with no industrial base!

To be able to successfully make a screw in this world is a great achievement!

As the most important participant in completing this great project, Xu Yi has every reason to be proud of it!

Ranu, who was on the side, watched as an ordinary iron pillar turned into a delicate and beautiful screw after being processed by two machines for a moment, and his heart was full of surprises.

At first, I just thought the two machines designed by this kid were very weird, and Ranu helped him make them with the mind of a challenge.

But seeing the magic of these two machines now, Lanu suddenly felt that these two machines might be more important than any iron tool he had built before.

"How did this kid come up with these two machines?" Lanu looked at Xu Yi with curiosity.