Volume 1 Chapter 36 (1/2)

A first class company sets the standard

Heinz looked at the fatty looking around the workshop and became curious.

“Hey, Xu Yi, what is this fellow doing? Why are you letting him wander around the workshop? Wouldn’t we lose all our secrets like this?” Seeing the fatty even wanting to try out the Magic Thread Rolling Machine, Heinz finally couldn’t help asking Xu Yi.

“Secret?” Xu Yi looked at Heinz pretending to be surprised, “What secrets?”

“Nonsense, of course it is production line of the Magic Fans, that is the secret of our company!” Heinz anxiously said, “If these things were disclosed to others, wouldn’t people be able to make the same generation Variable Speed Magic Fans as us soon!”

“Heinz, you’re too worried.” Xu Yi patted Heinz’s shoulder and signaled to him to calm down. He pointed at the slaves who were currently busy in the workshop making Magic Fans, “Look, there are so many people in the workshop, do you think there is still any secret?”

“How could that be the same, those are our employees!” Heinz narrowed his eyes, “Then again, they are the slaves from Viscount Leslie. Even if they have ten times their courage, they still wouldn’t dare reveal these inside matters.”

“The problem is that these things will be revealed eventually, isn’t that right?” Xu Yi gave a shrug and said with a relaxed look, “Then again, I never planned on keeping these things secret because they aren’t important at all.”

“How are they not important!” Heinz couldn’t help waving his hands, “Even if they can’t be kept secret in the end, they have to be kept secret for a while. We can earn more profit because we had a bit more opportunity than other people, isn’t that important?”

Xu Yi gave a shrug, as he thought that it was too much effort explaining to a petty fellow like Heinz, he simply would not understand. He went over to chairman Farsak who was preparing to operate the Magic Thread Rolling Machine.

“Hey, chairman Farsak, operating this machine is quite dangerous. I advise you not to attempt it so easily.”

Chairman Farsak looked over and gave Xu Yi a laugh, “Relax, I already observed from the side for quite some time now, there is no problem.”

Seeing how excited he was, Xu Yi couldn’t put a damper on it. He watched from the side and if anything went wrong, he could pull him away.

Although chairman Farsak seemed quite chubby, he was actually quite nimble. After just watching from the side for a while, he became quite good at operating the Magic Thread Rolling Machine. Very soon, he finished making a screw bolt.

After seeing the incomparably fine thread on the finished screw bolt, chairman Farsak couldn’t help sighing in praise.

“Great! This is truly great! Chairman Xu, although this is a small thing, if a blacksmith were to make this, it would take him an entire day just to make this thing! But with this machine, it was made in less than a minute! This is simply incredible!”

Xu Yi laughed. You have never experienced the might of the high tech machines on earth, otherwise your chin would have fallen off in shock already.

“Chairman Farsak, after you have finished observing our workshop, what do you think?” Xu Yi asked with a smile.

Hearing this question, chairman Farsak fell silent for some time. After turning his head to look around the workshop for a while, he finally said with a sigh, “Chairman Xu, I have to say, your workshop has truly broadened my horizons. I thought that building a Magic Fan was a very complicated matter, but after seeing your workshop, I’ve found that making a Magic Fan is actually this simple. They are just some employees without any special skills and they can assemble the Magic Fans with such ease. To be honest, I never thought that a small workshop like yours would have such a high efficiency. Let me guess, your workshop should be able to make around three hundred Magic Fans each day, right?”

Xu Yi gave him a thumbs up, “Chairman Farsak truly has sharp eyes. That’s right, this workshop can produce three hundred Magic Fans each day. Of course, that is for the second generation Variable Speed Magic Fan. As for the first generation Magic Fan, because of problems with its design, the output is not as high.”

Xu Yi didn’t tell him that the workshop’s opening hours were strictly kept to eight hours each day. If they were to work overtime, it wasn’t a problem for them to make five hundred Magic Fans each day.

Only Xu Yi had a high requirement for quality, so Xu Yi strictly controlled productions. He didn’t force them to do empty work to meet numbers.

Chairman Farsak looked at the machines being used at full speed by the slaves and said in a thoughtful voice, “Chairman Xu, if I was to speak the truth, the core of your workshop should be these machines, right?”

Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, “Chairman Farsak, your eyes are truly sharp. How about it? What do you feel about these machines?”

“Feel?” Chairman Farsak suddenly revealed a bitter smile, “Chairman Xu, before coming here, I was very confident in reaching a cooperation with you. I even thought that you would obediently agree because there were only benefits and no downside for you. But after seeing these machines, I’ve found that our positions have suddenly changed. I’ll admit, you have completely taken the initiative now. To be honest, I don’t like this feeling at all.”

Xu Yi laughed, “Chairman Farsak, you are just too modest. Since we have agreed to cooperate, there is no up or down side, there is no initiative. Cooperation is everyone achieving their goal and letting both sides win, don’t you think so?”