Chapter 157 The Technical Breakthrough of the Small Chamber of Commerce
After inspecting the village of Koror, Xu Yi went straight to the United Irish Chamber of Commerce in the Sandkeyton Industrial Area by horse-drawn carriage.
Compared with last year when the small chamber of commerce support plan of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was just promulgated, there have been dozens of small mechanical parts processing factories scattered around the Sangqiton Manor, from more than 60 at the beginning. increased to more than 100 now.
Such an increase in less than a year proves that, in addition to further recognition of the magical industry, it also proves that the industry is indeed promising.
Take the United Irish Chamber of Commerce, which originally thought of machining parts.
Last year, Freeman and several villagers from the same village proposed this idea to Xu Yi. When the United Irish Chamber of Commerce was just established, the total assets did not even exceed 200 gold coins.
As for the three most important magic machine tools at the beginning of their chamber of commerce, they were delivered to them by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the form of loans.
In the eyes of many people, a chamber of commerce with such conditions is not qualified to be called a chamber of commerce at all, and it is even reluctant to be called a workshop.
However, with the help of this chamber of commerce, which is not even as large as a small workshop, Freeman and the others earned more than 5,000 gold coins in less than half a year last year!
The current Ailan United Chamber of Commerce has not only paid off the arrears of those magic machine tools, but also purchased several new magic machine tools, and even built a beautiful new factory building, no matter how you look at it, it can be regarded as a A very formal, quite formal chamber of commerce.
And because the United Irish Chamber of Commerce is the earliest group of chambers to enter parts processing, it has also received strong support from Xu Yi, coupled with the serious efforts of Freeman and others. Now the United Irish Chamber of Commerce can be regarded as the leading chamber of commerce in the parts processing industry in Banta City. Not only has it covered almost all parts processing business of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. It also has good and close cooperative relations with several other chambers of commerce in Bangta City.
Last year, the Alan United Chamber of Commerce earned more than 5,000 gold coins in less than half a year, which is quite amazing.
And this year has only been over two months. According to the situation mentioned by Freeman and Xu Yi when they met last time, they have already earned 5,000 gold coins!
So whenever you see Freeman, you will find that he always has a very happy smile on his face and a hearty look.
"Haha, President Xu, can I be unhappy? We just negotiated an order for 100,000 spinning needles with Armani yesterday." Freeman smiled and said to Xu Yi, "I'll tell you the truth. With this order, we can earn hundreds of gold coins."
"Congratulations to you then." Xu Yi nodded and smiled.
"President Xu, don't laugh at me. I know that the Armani Chamber of Commerce will finally hand over this order to us because you mentioned the name of our United Irish Chamber of Commerce to Chairman Vincent of the Armani Chamber of Commerce, right? Right?" Freeman asked earnestly.
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "Who told you?"
Freeman scratched his head: "It was Kovacs who told me. He said that at a banquet in the city last time, he saw you and the chairman of the Armani Chamber of Commerce talking. Then within two days, the Armani Chamber of Commerce took the initiative to send People come and place orders with us, so it must be because you recommended us to the Armani Chamber of Commerce. Otherwise, they may not choose us.”
"Banquet?" Xu Yi recalled. I thought that what Freeman said should be that five days ago, the Lord of the City followed the tradition to celebrate the passing of winter. A banquet for the coming of spring.
At that banquet, he did talk to President Vincent, but the content of the conversation was mainly about the large amount of materials that were about to be sent to the Black Rice Wasteland. As for the name of the United Irish Chamber of Commerce, it was indeed the Vincent Association. When Chang asked him which chamber of commerce is the best for parts processing, he said it.
If this is the case, the United Irish Chamber of Commerce was able to receive this order, it is indeed mainly because of Xu Yi's recommendation.
But of course Xu Yi didn't come to take credit.
The order with a total price of less than 10,000 gold coins may be a very important order for the United Irish Chamber of Commerce, but of course it will not be taken into account by him now.
So Xu Yi just patted Freeman on the shoulder and smiled: "Don't worry, if it weren't for the good quality of the parts processed by your chamber of commerce, I wouldn't recommend you to President Vincente, would I?"
Seeing that Freeman seemed to want to express his gratitude, Xu Yi quickly changed the subject, looked left and right and asked, "Where is the thing I want?"
Freeman's words of thanks were directly blocked by Xu Yi. After a moment of stunned, he immediately brought Xu Yi to a magic machine tool that was working in a corner of their factory.
There are more than hundreds of small round tin bottle caps stacked next to this magic machine, which are the most important parts needed for making canned fruit.
Xu Yi picked one up and took a look at it. He found that the bottle cap felt smooth to the touch, with no flaws in its appearance. When he touched it with his finger on the inside, he could also feel the smooth thread.
After taking a glass bottle from Freeman's hand, Xu Yi closed the bottle cap and twisted it lightly, and the bottle cap snapped and closed completely with the glass bottle, with almost nothing showing.
Xu Yi nodded with satisfaction, and then changed a few bottle caps to test, and found that these bottle caps can tightly cover the glass bottle.
"Very good, it seems that you have found the trick. These bottle caps are very suitable." Xu Yi gave Freeman an admiring smile.
Seeing Xu Yi's approval, Freeman immediately showed a happy smile.
When Xu Yi handed over the production and processing of this fruit canned bottle cap to them, he only gave a few drawings and corresponding specific data, but did not say anything else, nor did he send the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as he did when producing some parts before. technical staff for guidance, so they can only find out on their own.
In the early stage, in order to be able to produce a qualified bottle cap, they experienced numerous failures and numerous waste products appeared.
Although this pile of bottle caps can meet the requirements now, before this pile of bottle caps, there were more than 10,000 failed bottle caps discarded!
But as Xu Yi said to Freeman and Kovacs. A chamber of commerce wants to grow. You have to have something that you really master. Relying on the technical guidance of the new aircraft business associations alone will not help the growth of the United Irish Chamber of Commerce.
Freeman and Kovacs were well aware of this, so neither raised objections, preferring to experiment on their own.
Although the experiment failed more than 10,000 bottle caps and caused a loss of nearly 1,000 gold coins, they still persevered.
The results of persistence are remarkable.
After this "technical breakthrough" in Xu Yi's mouth, Freeman clearly found that the skills of several workers of the United Irish Chamber of Commerce in operating various magic machine tools have been greatly improved.
For example, the guy in front of him who is operating this magic machine. When he first entered the United Irish Chamber of Commerce, he didn't even know what a magic machine was, but now he has become an excellent magic machine operator.
Even Xu Yi's evaluation of him was that he was almost the same as those dwarves in the Magic Machine Tool Workshop of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
You must know that although the dwarves have short hands and thick fingers, they have a very high talent in this regard.
Being on a par with the dwarves in this regard is already the highest compliment.
In addition, the most important thing is that in the process of these failed experiments, UCI found many problems that were not found before, and gained a lot of new insights and understandings for parts processing.
Freeman is very confident that if he has to choose one of the more than 100 small and large parts processing small chambers of commerce in the Sandyton Industrial Zone with the strongest technical strength, then it must be their Irish United Chamber of Commerce!
"President Xu, since you are satisfied with the bottle caps we have produced now. Are we ready for official production? How much do you want for the first batch?" After the diameter of the cap and the thickness of the rim, Freeman asked.
"Don't worry." Xu Yi shook his head. "It will take at least two months for the fruit canning factory to actually start production. Then I will determine the type and quantity of the first batch of canned fruit. It just so happens that you have received a big order from the Amley Chamber of Commerce, hurry up and take good care of it. Just do it."
"Yeah." Freeman nodded and responded readily.
After taking Xu Yi around the factory again, Xu Yi decided to leave.
After sending Xu Yi out of the factory, Freeman suddenly showed an expression of embarrassment and hesitantly opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything.
Xu Yi couldn't help but smile: "If you have something to say, just say it directly, you know I don't like to be around the corner."
Freeman scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly: "That's right. President Xu, there are many small businessmen engaged in parts processing in this industrial area. Although there are many benefits, the competition is too fierce, every time For one order, there are many merchants fighting to the death, and many chambers of commerce even choose to directly reduce the price. We do not make much money in the processing of these parts. If the price is kept so low, everyone will lose money in the future. ."
"So what? Have you come up with any solution?" Xu Yi asked back.
Freeman chuckled: "It's not that I didn't think of it, that's why I want to ask you if there is anything you can do."
Xu Yi glared at him angrily: "Did you not come up with it or didn't want to think about it? Where's Kovacs? He must have come up to ask me this idea, why is it you who asked?"
"He went to Kalmar City to contact other businesses." Freeman said with a deadpan smile: "President Xu, you are the president of the Bonta City Magic Machinery Business Association, our small business associations that process parts and components. It's all because of the small chamber of commerce support plan of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, you can't just ignore it?"
Seeing the pleading expression on Freeman's face, Xu Yi sighed and nodded: "Okay, parts processing is also a part of the magic industry, so I can't ignore it. At the next meeting of the business association, I will propose that every kind of magic be dealt with. Machinery and related products all announce a minimum price, and any chamber of commerce that sells below this price will be defined as vicious competition and will be directly expelled from the industry.”
Freeman immediately became happy and cheered: "Great! As long as there is a word from President Xu, this problem can be easily solved. In this way, everyone will no longer have to kill each other!"
Xu Yi glanced at the delighted Freeman, shook his head gently, and sighed: "Don't be too happy. Within the confines of Bangta City, I can still help you solve this problem. But when you get out Bangta City, facing the whole territory of Lampari Kingdom, and even going out of Lampari Kingdom and facing the whole continent, I can't help you like this."
Freeman laughed and waved his hand slyly: "That's not easy. Now, President Xu, your words will work in Bangta City. When we face the entire kingdom, your words will definitely work in the entire kingdom. And wait. When we face the whole continent, what you say will definitely apply to the whole continent!"
Xu Yi couldn't help but smile.
"Freeman, you really value me..." (To be continued..)