Volume 1 Chapter 108 (1/2)

I have some very valuable things

“Your majesty, this picture is the scene after a small Magic Harvester harvests the wheat.” Xu Yi spread a picture on the table, enthusiastically explaining this to the Lampuri Kingdom’s King Keynes Lampuri, “Look, the wheat in the field is very rich and if it was harvested with manpower, it would take three days to an entire week before it could be done. Then it would take another two days using a cow turned stone roller to peel it all. Finally it would take about a day to completely extract all the grains. Moreover, once the weather changes, it will greatly affect this process.”

“This entire process together takes around ten days to half a month and the effects aren’t good, therefore it would waste many grains of wheat and wheat that can’t be unshelled in time. But if we use our Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s small Magic Harvester, this wheat field could be finished harvesting in just an hour. Look, after this wheat is taken from the front of this small Magic Harvester, it only takes the blink of an eye for it to turn into wheat grains spat out the back. The person in charge just needs to prepare the bag at the back of the harvester, look how much effort that saves!”

King Keynes Lampuri was forty eight years old this year and was in the prime of his life. He had a rectangular face and a serious expression, without any extra fat on his body. It could be seen that he paid great attention to exercising, clearly having a lot of energy.

Hearing Xu Yi’s eloquent speech, he only sometimes cut in to ask about a few details. Most of the time, he seriously listened to him and only stopped to reveal a thoughtful expression.

After seeing Xu Yi’s introduction of the small Magic Harvester coming to an end, King Heynes thought about it before suddenly asking, “Chairman Xu, you keep saying small. Does that mean that there is a bigger version of the Magic Harvester?”

Xu Yi was a bit surprised. He never thought that after the king listened to him for a while, he would first ask about this.

“Your majesty’s guesses aren’t wrong. Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will soon promote medium Magic Harvesters and then will promote some large Magic Harvesters. Of course, in my plan, there will be many models of the Magic Harvester to deal with different requirements. This will not be limited to the specifications of small, medium, and large.”

King Heynes gave a slight nod, “Not bad, you can think of this which means that you didn’t just come up with the small Magic Harvester based on sudden inspiration. I thought that with your Frestech Chamber of Commerce making all kinds of novel magic machines without stopping, this small Magic Harvester was only a temporary thought for you. I was worried that you didn’t consider everything and was afraid that you were just coming here to sell me these things. Looking at it now, I’ve underestimated you.”

Xu Yi said in surprise, “Your majesty, hearing your tone, you already had a long term plan in place?”

“That’s right.” King Heynes revealed a faint smile, “I understand Count Sean and I didn’t doubt the description of his letter, so I didn’t doubt the powerful ability of the agricultural magic machines that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced. But I couldn’t confirm if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce had even more abilities. Like the different kinds of Magic Harvesters you mentioned earlier, although our Lampuri Kingdom mainly has plains, there are complicated terrain. It is impossible to use a single kind of Magic Harvester on all those different kinds of terrain. Moreover, if your agricultural magic machines could only work on the terrain near Banta City, it would have lost most of its value in being promoted.”

Xu Yi’s eyes lit up, “Your majesty, does this mean you have already agreed?”

King Heynes laughed, “If it can increase the harvest, why wouldn’t I agree? Actually when I decided to summon you, I already made the decision to promote these magic machines. The only problem was how to promote them.”

Aftering saying this, King Heynes stopped and looked at Xu Yi with a ghost of a smile.

Xu Yi immediately understood. The real discussion was coming.

“This……” Xu Yi was silent for a bit before saying with a smile, “Your majesty, I still insist on my basic conditions which is that the technology for the agricultural magic machines won’t be given to the agricultural department. If you must insist, perhaps I won’t be able to reject, but me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce won’t participate in promoting the agricultural magic machines.”

Xu Yi nervously looked at the king after saying this.

He was very clear that in this half slave and half feudal society, there was no doubt of the king’s authority. If the king insisted on Xu Yi giving up the technology, Xu Yi couldn’t resist at all and could only hand it over.

But like this, it was equal to Xu Yi losing out on the large agricultural magic machine market and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce will suffer a large loss from this.

But the more important thing is that this would be a very bad start.

If the king forced Xu Yi to hand over the agricultural magic machine technology and if he took a liking to another magic machine from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, would he force Xu Yi to hand it over again?

In order to avoid any future problem, whether it was in front of Harvey or the king, he had to clearly express his rejection of this idea.

King Heynes looked at Xu Yi for a while before suddenly saying with a smile, “Chairman Xu, do you think I’m such a greedy person? Or do you think I’m a dumb person?”

Xu Yi was surprised before quickly shaking his head, “Of course not. You are the outstanding wise king of our Lampuri Kingdom, how could I feel you are greedy or dumb?”

“Since it is like this, why did you think that I would make you hand over the technology for the agricultural magic machines?” King Heynes then asked.

“This…...Did Viscount Harvey not represent your ideas?” Xu Yi mentioned Harvey’s proposal from the other day.

King Heynes narrowed his eyes before giving a snort and saying while waving his hand, “That is only his proposal, I didn’t have these plans. I can promise you now that no matter what magic machines your Frestech Chamber of Commerce develops, they will all belong to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I am not interested in the technology of your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, I only care about whether your agricultural magic machines can be used on the farmland of our Lampuri Kingdom and whether they can increase our kingdom’s harvest or not. Do you understand what I mean?”