Chapter 29 Manpower Gap

Yesterday, after a long day's trek, and because of Steele's troubles, Xu Yi got up very late the next day.

When he opened his eyes, the sun filled the house, and it looked like it was approaching noon.

"Master, are you awake?" Vivian's timid voice sounded beside her ears. "It's almost noon, what do you want for lunch?"

Xu Yi turned over and jumped up, looked left and right, but didn't see Steele.

"Sister Steele has already gone back. She said that if you want to go to the Magic Tower today, Master, go to her. She has something to talk to you about."

"Oh? Talk to me about something? Why didn't this guy talk about it last night?" Xu Yi looked out the window and said to Vivian, "Don't cook today, let's go out to eat and save some time."

"Master, I don't need it anymore." Vivian said in surprise. "You can go out to eat by yourself, I just need to eat something at home."

"Stop talking nonsense, this is an order." Xu Yi said unceremoniously.

After getting along with Vivian for a while, Xu Yi knew that this little girl might have been a slave for too long, and she was always used to putting herself in a very low position. It would take a long time to change her mind. Just a while.

"Oh." Sure enough, hearing Xu Yi's tough tone, Vivian responded obediently.

After leaving home with Vivienne, Xu Yixian took her to the clothing store in Bangta City to buy two sets of clothes for Vivienne, and then just found a restaurant for lunch.

While eating, Xu Yi sorted out his thoughts in his mind.

The things in front of him are very complicated, so he must prioritize these things.

The most important thing, of course, is to ensure the production and sales of the magic fan. Otherwise, if there is a lack of funds, he will not be able to do anything.

Although the sales of magic fans are still hot, Xu also knows very well that the market will be saturated in and near Bangta City soon, and the sales in the future will decrease rapidly and become flat. Such a huge profit.

Xu also has two preparations for this, one is to update the magic fan and continuously launch new products.

He believes that when the second version of the variable-speed magic fan is officially put into production, there will be another craze, because people are always looking for new things.

The second is to continuously expand the market.

In addition to Karma City, there are also merchants from several other cities near Bangta City who have come from afar to place a large number of orders.

According to the information they brought, when the magic fans were introduced into those cities, a frenzy was immediately set off. The first batch of magic fans brought back by these merchants to test the water were all sold in a short period of time. It was empty, so when these merchants came for the second time, they directly placed a large order that was several times higher than the first time.

However, because the output of the magic fan factory could not be increased temporarily, Heinze only agreed to place an order for 5,000 units.

Heinze was very annoyed because of this. If he had known this was the case, he should have been more courageous from the beginning, expanded the factory several times, and increased the output several times, so that he could take all the orders.

Xu Yi is not in a hurry, the production process of the second version of the variable speed magic fan has long been finalized in his mind.

As long as everything goes well, the second version of the variable-speed magic fan will enter the assembly line, and the output of the factory will increase by multiples. At that time, not to mention the order of 10,000 units, even if it is 20,000 units, 30,000 units or even more , still easy to win.

Of course, there are still many things that need to be prepared in order to realize the pipeline operation.

This is what Xu Yi is most concerned about now.

Although Master Lanu has produced a magic heading machine and a magic tooth rolling machine, so that the screws can be mass-produced, which also means that the assembly line of variable-speed magic fans is possible, but this is not enough.

In order to upgrade the backward overall casting process of the first version of the magic fan to the current assembly line process, it is necessary to standardize each part of the magic fan.

And standardized processing, it is obviously difficult to complete by relying on human hands.

Even if all the clansmen of Master Ranu possessed the same forging skills as Ranu, they would not be able to satisfy this requirement.

To achieve this, the most important thing is actually forging machinery.

For example, if the shell of the magic fan is forged by hand, a blacksmith shop in Bangta City can only make no more than 30 pieces per day.

Now, in order to ensure the production of magic fans, Xu Yi has almost wrapped up all the blacksmith shops in the entire Bangta City.

Although it has always been live, making the people at the blacksmith very happy, this has actually indirectly affected the order in Bangta City, and it is definitely not a long-term solution.

Even so, the output of the magic fan casing is barely enough to supply the factory's production, and it is almost impossible to increase it further.

What's more, Xu Yi has always been dissatisfied with the craftsmanship of these craftsmen. The standards of the fan casings they forged are too inconsistent. If they are placed in those strictly marked factories on the earth, more than half of them can be regarded as defective products.

These fan housings are simply not suitable for high volume assembly line jobs with variable speed magic fans.

"In the end, there is still a serious lack of heavy industry foundation." Thinking of this, Xu Yi couldn't help sighing.

The establishment of the industrial system is naturally inseparable from the development and improvement of heavy industry, but for Sainz Continent, let alone heavy industry, even light industry is only rare, and the foundation is too poor.

"I hope the dwarves can improve the situation when they come."

Xu Yi took out a small notebook and began to make preliminary plans for these things.

According to his agreement with Patriarch Shiluka, three days later, a hundred dwarves with superb forging skills will come to Bangta City and join Xu Yi's command.

In order to protect the lives of these dwarves, Xu also had to build a living area near the factory, and then build two other factories.

One is the machine foundry where the dwarves mainly work, and the other is the assembly shop used as a variable-speed magic fan.

Because there is only one month left before the end of summer, the time is tight, so the two workshops are temporarily simple to cope with, and they are built according to the standard of the previous magic fan production workshop.

But the living quarters of the dwarves can’t just deal with things casually. He made an agreement with the Sluka Patriarch, and even made a promise by patting his chest in front of Master Lanu.

What's more, these dwarves are the most important machine tool foundry in Xu Yi's mind. It is no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the entire industrial system of Sainz Continent is in the hands of these dwarves. It's too much to say.

"There are too many things to do, but the manpower is far from enough." Xu Yi frowned and looked at the numerous things recorded in the small notebook. "Let's not say anything else, just the factory building and the staff dormitory need a lot of manpower. I don't know if Heinze can solve this problem?"

While thinking about this, Xu Yi suddenly caught a glimpse of Vivian who was burying her head in the meal, and her eyes lit up.

"Have it!"

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"How many more slaves do you want to buy from me?" Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi in amazement. He didn't expect this guy to come here at noon and make such a request when they met. "What did you buy it for?"

"Because I need a lot of manpower now." Xu Yidao. "Next, the factory will expand production and will need a large number of workers. I can't hire so many people for a while, so I can only ask you to find a way."

Viscount Leslie's face was a little ugly: "According to your tone, I am afraid that you need a lot of people. Tell me, how many people do you want?"

Xu Yi stretched out a finger and smiled, "Let's have a hundred people first."

"One hundred?" Viscount Leslie opened his eyes slightly and scolded unceremoniously: "Do you think this is a pig? If you say one hundred, there is one hundred? Let me tell you, all the slaves under my name add up to the same amount. But it's only three hundred or so. If I give you one hundred, what should I do? To tell you the truth, I still think of where to buy some slaves. You don't see that the territory under my name is still empty and so many wastelands are not cultivated. Is it? If I had enough staff, I wouldn't have so many vacancies at all, and it would be impossible for me to rent you any vacant land."

Xu Yi was unmoved at all, and asked with a smile: "So, Lord Viscount, you need those slaves just to let them farm?"

"Nonsense, what else can those guys be used for? It's just some slaves." Viscount Leslie scolded, and suddenly glanced at Vivian who had been standing behind Xu Yi. "By the way, this little girl seems to be the slave you snatched from Brunei without my consent last time, right? What? After I tasted the sweetness from her, I thought of buying some more slaves to use?"

Swept by Viscount Leslie's gaze, Vivian immediately lowered her head in horror.

From her point of view, Viscount Leslie, the former master, was a high-ranking person, and she was not someone she could face up to as a little slave.

Xu Yi frowned and said sternly: "Lord Viscount, first of all, I didn't take it forcibly, but negotiated terms with Brunei's butler, and the two sides reached an agreement to buy Vivian. I also signed the document to express my consent. Secondly, Vivian is now my person, please pay attention to your words and do not use such insulting language."

Hearing that Xu Yi actually confronted Viscount Leslie head-on for herself, Vivian was startled, she couldn't help but stretched out her little hand and tugged at Xu Yi's clothes, her face full of horror.

Viscount Leslie was stunned for a moment, but he didn't show any anger because he was contradicted. Instead, he glanced at Xu Yi and Vivian and laughed.

"Xu Yi, you are really a strange guy. You dare to contradict me for a slave. You say this little girl is yours... But I think she's still a **? She's been with you for so long. As a virgin, could it be that Xu Yi, you are actually a good person who is completely beyond my expectations?"

Unexpectedly, Viscount Leslie said so **, Xu Yi and Vivian couldn't help blushing.

"Cough... Lord Viscount, that's not what I meant, it's just... Forget it, it's pointless to dwell on this issue. I just want to remind Lord Viscount that you have too low a value on slaves. Although they are slaves , but as long as the hands and feet are normal and the mind is normal, they all have complete human resource value, but you have not developed them. To be honest, you may not like to hear the truth, those more than 300 slaves are placed in your My subordinates, the value generated is probably far inferior to handing them over to me."

Viscount Leslie was instantly exasperated.

"Okay, then I want to hear it. If you give them to you, how will you play their value?"