Volume 1 Chapter 29 (1/2)

Lack in manpower

Because of the long journey yesterday and adding in the fact he was tossing and turning late into the night because of Still’s matter, Xu Yi woke up quite late the next day.

When he opened his eyes, the sunlight shined in through his window and it seemed like it was around noon.

“Master, are you awake?” Vivian’s timid voice rang in his ears, “It’ll be noon soon, is there anything you want to eat?”

Xu Yi sat up and looked around, not seeing a trace of Still.

“Big sister Still already went back. She said that if master is heading to the Magic Tower today, she wants you to look for her. She has something to discuss with you.”

“Oh? Something to discuss with me? Why didn’t that fellow tell me last night?” Xu Yi looked out the window before asking Vivian, “Don’t make anything today. Let’s go out to eat, it’ll save some time.”

“Master, there’s no need for me.” Vivian said in a surprised voice, “You go and eat, it’s alright for me to casually eat something at home.”

“Stop talking, this is an order.” Xu Yi said without any politeness.

After being with Vivian for some time, Xu Yi knew that because this little girl had been a slave for too long, she was used to putting herself in a very low position. If he wanted to change her views, it would also take a long time.

“Oh.” As expected, hearing the strong tone in Xu Yi’s voice, Vivian obediently agreed.

After bringing Vivian out, Xu Yi brought her to a clothing store to buy two sets of clothes before looking for a restaurant to eat lunch in.

While eating, Xu Yi was organizing his thoughts in his mind.

There were many complicated things in front of him right now, so he had to sort these things into relative importances.

The most important thing was of course guaranteeing the production and sale of Magic Fans. Otherwise, if he lacked money, he couldn’t do anything.

Although the Magic Fan sales had exploded, Xu Yi was very clear that the market of Banta City and the surrounding area would be saturated soon. Their sales in the future quickly fall and plateau, they wouldn’t have the same explosive sales as before.

Xu Yi two methods for this. One was to improve the Magic Fan, constantly releasing new products.

He believed that after the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan was produced, it would inevitably create a swell. This was because people loved new things.

The second was continuously increasing the market.

Other than Karma City, there have been merchants from other cities near Banta City who have made large orders.

According to the information they brought, when the Magic Fans came to their city, it immediately created a wild surge. The first test batch of Magic Fans these merchants brought back were emptied in a short period of time, so when these merchants came a second time, they directly proposed an order that was several times larger than last time.

But because the Magic Fan production capacity couldn’t be increased for now, Heinz had only accepted five thousand fans in orders right now.

Heinz was very annoyed because of this. If he knew about this earlier, he would have been even bolder and built a factory several times bigger, increasing their production capacities by several times to allow them to swallow all these orders.

Xu Yi was not anxious because of this, he had already set his mind on the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan.

As long as everything went smoothly, as long as the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan entered the production line, their output would increase by several times. When the time comes, not to mention a trivial ten thousand fans, even if it was twenty thousand, thirty thousand, or even more, they could handle it easily.

Of course, to actualize this production line, there were many things that needed to be prepared.

This was the thing Xu Yi cared about the most right now.

Although Master Lanus had already built a Magic Thread Rolling Machine and a Magic Capping Machine, allowing the production of screw bolts and allowing the possibility of a Variable Speed Magic Fan production line, it was far from being enough.

In order to upgrade the crude forging of the first generation Magic Fans, he needed to standardize every part of the Magic Fan production.

But to standardize it, it was very hard just based on manpower.

Even if Master Lanus’ tribe members had the same forging skills as Master Lanus, it wouldn’t satisfy his needs.

To achieve this, the most important thing was a forging machine.

Take the Magic Fan cover as an example, if one were to rely on hand forging, a blacksmith shop in Banta City couldn’t produce more than thirty covers.

In order to guarantee the production of Magic Fans, Xu Yi had already made orders in every single blacksmith shop in Banta City.

Although this meant there was always work and it made the blacksmiths very happy, this affected the order in Banta City, so it wasn’t a long term plan.