Volume 1 Chapter 10 (1/2)
Renting land
A horse carriage was slowly heading out Banta City’s western gate. It gradually accelerated and quickly headed to Banta City’s western suburbs.
Xu Yi and Heinz were sitting across each other inside the carriage. Heinz was holding a rough map of Banta City in his hands and was explaining something to Xu Yi.
“Look, this is Viscount Leslie’s territory, with a total area of close to a thousand hectares and over half of it is undeveloped land. Viscount Leslie has promised us that we can casually pick a piece of land to rent from this undeveloped land.”
Xu Yi looked over the map and pointed at the map with his finger, “No need to pick, here is fine.”
“This place?” Heinz looked at where Xu Yi was pointing and thought about it . He said with a frown, “This place is not close to Banta City and it isn’t close to anything else, I’m afraid it won’t be convenient living there.”
Xu Yi gave a shrug before saying with a faint smile, “It’s good if there is nothing there, it’s more convenient for us to plan things. It has to be known, it’s easier to draw on an empty piece of paper than a covered piece of paper.”
“But like this, our expenditures will be higher than estimated.” Heinz still had a frown on his face.
“This initial investment is necessary.” Xu Yi nodded before drawing another circle on the map, “If it’s possible, I even want to rent this large part of undeveloped land to use.”
“This large part?” Heinz said in a stunned voice, “We can’t do that. Just to rent a hectare of land, we need to pay Viscount Leslie one hundred gold coins every year. I we rent such a large piece…..It wouldn’t be ten thousand, but it would be several thousand gold coins each year. Then again, we don’t need such a large workshop, why do we need such a large piece of land?”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “Heinz, could it be that you are only satisfied with a little Magic Fan factory?”
Heinz looked at Xu Yi in a daze. Could it be this fellow has even bigger ambitions?
Just yesterday, Xu Yi had found Heinz to tell him not to waste time finding a suitable place in Banta City because Xu Yi wanted to find an empty space outside Banta City. He was planning to build a factory on empty land and focus on producing Magic Fans.
During this time Xu Yi also had Heinz’s nephew Alex perform a small survey of the city. According to their results, Xu Yi could estimate that the consumption for Magic Fans in Banta City was around three to five thousand and right now they had only sold less than five hundred. This meant they had a market of over several thousand people.
Moreover, this number was only limited to Banta City. The living conditions of families in the rural areas outside Banta City was not as good as Banta City, but there was still a certain demand for Magic Fans.
If the area around Banta City was included, Xu Yi could make a bold estimate that the demand for Magic Fans was over ten thousand units!
Because of this number, Xu Yi had made the decision to increase his production line.
If he wanted to greatly increase his production, there were limits to the warehouses he rented in Banta City. So, Xu Yi directly headed outside the city, preparing to build a Magic Fan factory.
After all his research, he finally decided on a piece of land that belonged to Viscount Leslie.
Of course, if he wanted to increase production, other than land, the more important thing was people.
Xu Yi looked at the stack of things in his hand and his lips curled into a smile.
Of this stack, half was information on thirty people and the other half was thirty contracts.
These things were his harvest after his trip to Baron Rickto Magic Academy.
With his hard work at convincing him, Director Shearer finally allowed Xu Yi to recruit Baron Rickto Magic Academy students to work for him. However, Shearer had said that he would not openly support him, he would just not oppose him.
However, after Xu Yi put in effort all around the campus and finally succeeded in recruiting thirty students that met the requirement.
The magic level of the students were not high, at least there wasn’t a single one that could compare to Xu Yi.
But as Baron Rickto Magic Academy students, they had a solid foundation on the basics of Magic Array, as well as some experience drawing Magic Arrays.
Even though the Revolving Wind Magic Array of the Magic Fan had been changed by Xu Yi, making it more complicated, it was still only a low level Wind Magic Array. It wasn’t that difficult to inscribe it.
Xu Yi recruited these students and the only thing they had to do was inscribe the Magic Arrays.
Although this was a very simple task, they needed a certain amount of magical power to do this.
When he was manufacturing the five hundred Magic Fans, Xu Yi had asked his ten coworkers to help him complete them. However, in order to produce over ten thousand Magic Fans, it was impossible just to rely on his ten coworkers.
Compared to this, it was more suitable for him to hire thirty students than to rely on his ten coworkers.
First, these thirty students wouldn’t be as constrained as his ten coworkers, they wouldn’t hesitate to sign a contract with Xu Yi. With them establishing a clear employment relationship with Xu Yi, Xu Yi wouldn’t need to worry about them affecting production.
Next, when Xu Yi invited his ten coworkers to complete the five hundred Magic Fans, he had paid each coworker five gold coins and given them a bonus of a Magic Fan. Compared to this, he had already discussed this with the thirty students and each one would be earning two silver coins per Magic Array drawn, so he could greatly cut down on costs.