Volume 2 Chapter 32 - Sandton Manor (1/2)

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s two factories in Banta City were the large workshop covering over three thousand square meters and the smaller workshop covering over a thousand square meters. Adding in the office and the store rooms, they took up a total of over five thousand square meters.

Calculating all of this, over half of the hectare of land was already being used, leaving not enough space for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to develop.

So when Xu Yi announced that they were moving, everyone in the company was shocked. But after they listened to Xu Yi analysis, they agreed with his decision.

Of course, there were still some complaints.

Like when Camby heard Baron Belil’s request, he spat out in disdain, “Pei! Humans really don’t keep their words!”

As for the human leaders of the company led by Xu Yi, they could only lower their heads and not say a thing.

Moving an entire factory was a very large and complex task, especially with the various production magic machines of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, where any of them weighed over several hundred kilograms, or even reaching a ton. It wasn’t an easy thing to move them.

It was a good thing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had several hundred dwarves. With the strength of these dwarves that surpassed normal humans, they really lifted these machines that would normally require heavy machinery on earth to lift into the horse carriages.

Otherwise if they relied purely on manpower, it would waste quite a bit of effort to move these magic machines.

For this relocation, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce not only moved all their employees, they also hired all the free labour in Banta City.

But this was far from enough. Count Sean even sent five hundred Banta City guards to help out with this matter.

Watching these dwarves and large men with their shirts off, sweating as they lifted these large machines into the horse carriages, Xu Yi couldn’t help feeling a bit of regret.

If he had invented some heavy magic machinery before this, perhaps it wouldn’t have been this troublesome.

Of course, no one expected Baron Belil’s sudden request. So even if Xu Yi had prepared his heart for this, it was impossible for him to prepare everything.

Right now, he could only urge everyone to pay as much attention as they moved all the large machines to reduce their losses as much as possible.

“Not only will there be losses because of these machines being moved, just your Frestech Chamber of Commerce stopping their production for a few days will cause serious losses.” Chairman Moon Cruise of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce came to watch after hearing this news, but he gave a sigh as he said this in a pitiful voice, “I wanted to urge you to quickly finish those Magic Concrete Mixers, but now it seems like it’ll take some time.”

“There’s no other way, I can’t expect things suddenly happening.” Xu Yi said with a shrug.

Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi and suddenly lowered his voice to mysteriously say, “Hey, chairman Xu, I’ve that your Frestech Chamber of Commerce is suddenly deciding to move because you’re being forced out by Baron Belil?”

Xu Yi looked at him and calmly said, “Chairman Cruise, you can’t speak nonsense. This is a decision that our company made for our own development, it isn’t related to Baron Belil at all.”

Seeing Xu Yi’s expressionless face, chairman Cruise laughed and didn’t ask anything else.

Actually the people of Banta City already knew about this matter in their hearts, but since Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce remained silent, others wouldn’t take the initiative to offend Baron Belil or even the Stagg Family.

If it wasn’t for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce being close to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and chairman Cruise having a good relationship with Xu Yi, he wouldn’t have asked this much.

“That’s right, chairman Xu, I still haven’t asked you, but where are you planning to go?” After a moment of silence, chairman Cruise couldn’t help asking this.

“I’ll be following my original plan and moving to the Falling Rain Valley. Once it is done, I won’t need to worry about the land for the factory at all. But chairman Cruise, has only half the road to the Falling Rain Valley been finished?” Xu Yi asked back.

Chairman Cruise looked at him, “What? You think we’re going slow? This is the fastest speed with me personally supervising, we can’t go any faster. You care too much about quality, so if I raise the speed, we can’t keep the same quality. It would be strange if you didn’t come find me for trouble later.”

Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, “No, no, no, you’re misunderstanding, I don’t find it slow. On the contrary, only a month has passed and you’ve already finished close to half of it, so it is actually quite fast. So fast that I’m worried about the quality of the road. Of course, I believe in chairman Cruise and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, I believe that you won’t be careless with the road’s quality. The reason I asked this was actually to say that I don’t have a way to safely bring everyone to the Falling Rain Valley. You think that on those broken uneven gravel roads, can we transport everyone there safely?”

Chairman Cruise shook his head without any hesitation, “It’s definitely impossible. It is spring and it rains quite a bit in a year, since those roads are made of dirt, if you move onto them, the wheels of the horse carriage will sink in and you won’t be able to move at all.

“That is right. Although we have to move this time, we don’t need to move far. Rather we can go to the Sandton Manor that isn’t that far away.” Xu Yi said.

“Sandton Manor?” Chairman Cruise thought about it before looking at Xu Yi in surprise, “If my memory isn’t wrong, that Sandton Manor was the one you bought three months ago? Could it be that you expected this to happen three months ago?”

“It would be boasting if I said that I predicted this to happen. But…..It isn’t wrong to prepare beforehand.” Xu Yi said with a smile, “There’s a temporary workshop built in that manor and although it is simple, we can maintain our normal production without any problems. So chairman Cruise, you don’t need to worry, your Magic Concrete Mixers will not be delayed. Don’t forget, the river construction project and the road to the Falling Rain Valley needs the help of those Magic Concrete Mixers and these two projects are very important to me.”

Chairman Cruise looked at Xu Yi like it was his first time meeting him.

Sandton Manor was Viscount Sandton’s private manor. Because financial problems occured with the Viscount Sandton’s family, Viscount Sandton held a public auction for this manor three months ago, selling it to Xu Yi for a high price of three hundred and seventy thousand gold coins.