Volume 1 Chapter 44 (1/2)

Changing to a new product

Perhaps the deities had finally been paid their wages, but right after high noon, a rainstorm began falling not long after.

Little pinky sized raindrops hurt when they fell onto one’s body. There was the dull sound of raindrops falling onto the thick wooden roof.

“This is the first time there was such a large rainfall, will it leak in?” Xu Yi looked up at the roof with his brows knit in worry.

“It might leak a bit, but it shouldn’t be that much of a problem.” Heinz on the side answered in an uncaring voice.

It was currently completely dark outside because of the rainstorm, one couldn’t see more than ten meters outside the window.

In the workshop right now, the workers had already left. There was only Xu Yi, Heinz, Sebas, and Camby, these four people left. It became incomparably silent in the room.

The sounds of the raindrops falling onto the roof reverberated through the workshop, like it was a drum.

“No, a leak is a big problem.” Xu Yi shook his head, “Heinz, we produce precise machinery here. If it is soaked by the rain and rusts, it will greatly damage the Magic Array inside and ruin the entire machine, so this problem needs to be dealt with seriously.”

Heinz helplessly looked up, “It can’t be right? These things are all made of iron, it shouldn’t be a problem if they get a bit wet.”

The dwarf Camby also looked at Xu Yi with a confused look, not understanding why he was making a fuss over a trivial matter.

As a dwarven master of working with iron, Camby had seen more iron items in his life than Xu Yi. He did not feel that these shiny, black iron fellows would be ruined by a little rain.

Only Sebas was the same as before, not showing any changes on his face.

Xu Yi was also helpless. Not to mention stainless steel, there wasn’t even steel items in this world, so the world’s rust prevention techniques were quite crude. This caused many iron items to be sold at a large discount.

Looking at the pile of finished Magic Fans in the corner of the workshop, Xu Yi shook his head.

There was no choice, he was only a mechanical engineer. Although he knew a bit of researching materials, he wasn’t that skilled at it. He couldn’t take out the formula for plastic, otherwise if the outer casing for the Magic Fan was made of plastic, not only would it be better at resisting rust, it would greatly decrease its weight while also making it prettier. The most important thing was that it would greatly decrease their costs and would also increase their profits.

It was a good thing that when he was designing the Magic Fan, Xu Yi had already considered waterproofing it. The core part was very strictly waterproofed, so it shouldn’t be easily ruined by being soaked with water.

Moreover, the Magic Array was made from special magic material. Once the Magic Array was made, unless the magic related material was broken, it was very hard for the Magic Array itself to be destroyed. There wasn’t a need to worry much about this point.

“Moving aside from the reason that the products might be damaged, this workshop will need to be refurbished in the future. Otherwise once it does leak, it will greatly affect the productivity of the workers.” Xu Yi still insisted on his opinion, “Heinz, arrange this as soon as possible.”

Seeing how firm Xu Yi was, Heinz could only nod his head in agreement.

“Alright, putting this problem aside for now, what were we just talking about?” Xu Yi asked.

As the key members of the company, the four of them had stayed after all the workers left to hold a meeting. Other than summarizing everything that happened to the company in the last month, they would also plan on how to expand the company.

“Camby said that everything in the magic machine workshop is running smoothly, but many dwarves are complaining that it is too boring and they don’t have things to do.” Heinz replied.

“That’s right, many brothers are saying that they aren’t doing much and they are receiving all this money, they are feeling embarrassed.” Camby scratched his head and spoke with a somewhat embarrassed smile.

Xu Yi couldn’t help laughing.

These dwarves really were simply. They weren’t happy that their work was easy and they actually said that their wages were too high.

“Camby, let them be assured that while the work isn’t heavy now, that is only because the fellows outside haven’t realized the importance of magic machines yet. You just need to wait a while and when chairman Farsak builds a factory in Saltan City, I can promise that large amounts of magic machines will fly out. Just don’t blame me for there being too much work at that time.”

Camby grinned and waved his hand in an uncaring manner, “How could that be? We dwarves can endure suffering the best, as long as there is wine to drink, there’s no problem no matter how much work there is.”

“Speaking of wine…..Camby, although I know that you dwarves especially love wine, you mustn’t drink while you are working because the machines you are making need to be very precise. Just a little mistake will cause a large problem, so you need to keep reminding them while working. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is still a small company right now after all, we have to pay attention to our product’s quality while developing.”

Camby nodded, “Alright, I’ll tell them when I head back. They just need to drink after getting off work and not drink while working.”

Xu Yi knit his brows, “Just a warning isn’t enough. How about this, we’ll set a rule. If someone is found drinking while working, the first time they’ll be fined fifty silver coins, the second time they’ll be fined two gold coins, and the third time they’ll be fined their entire month’s wages.”

“Isn’t this too serious?” Camby was stunned, “Chairman, those brothers treat alcohol like their lives. I’m afraid that once this rule is set, quite a few people won’t be able to receive their wages.”

“I know that you treat alcohol like your lives, so it has to be this serious.” Xu YI said with a serious expression, “No matter what, the quality of the product is most important. If there is a problem with the quality because of a personal problem, then one should be punished because of it.”