Volume 2 Chapter 44 - Small company???s potential (1/2)

The tempest indeed came to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

But this tempest did not bring trouble, rather a bunch of Banta City residents who wanted to become rich overnight.

After the product announcement, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s small company support plan was reported in the newspaper of several cities. Adding in the fact that the City Lord’s Manor had created a bulletin in the market square, in just a few days, the entirety of Banta City knew about this.

After learning that the farmers of Ireland Village could earn over a hundred gold coins a month from participating in this plan, the people of Banta City instantly became wild.

In a single night, there were countless companies with strange names that appeared in Banta City. Then all these small companies that had suddenly appeared all tried to participate in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s small company support plan.

In just a short three days, there were over a thousand companies that had submitted applications.

Although the majority of them were from new companies that had just been formed in the past few days, there were also some that came from small companies that had long existed in Banta City.

With this large amount of applications, the City Lord’s Manor’s officials sent by Count Sean to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had been worked harder than dogs. They worked from morning to night each day, only getting less than five hours of sleep each day.

It was a good thing that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had already set a list of standards for this plan. They could eliminate any companies that didn’t meet these standards, which saved them quite a bit of time.

The most basic standard was that for companies applying to this small company support plan, they had to have basic proof of funds.

The lower limit of this was temporarily set by Xu Yi at two hundred gold coins.

Just with this, they had cut down half of the thousand companies that applied.

Adding in the other conditions, the companies that had passed the verification for this small company support plan were only over two hundred companies.

However when these two hundred companies learned that while they were a part of this small company support plan, but couldn’t make magic machines like the Magic Fan, the Magic Rice Cooker, or the Magic Bread Maker, rather they had to make components for these magic machines, over half of these companies chose to withdraw from participating.

In the end, the ones that decided to stay in the small company support plan were only eighty seven companies.

“Xu Yi, when you said that you would let Freeman’s group make the screw bolt, I didn’t feel it was that much since the screw bolt isn’t that important. But now that you’re telling me that you want to leave the components to these small companies to make…..Hey, are you planning to get rid of our household magic machine workshop?”

As Xu Yi’s prestige in the company grew, the people who dared to talk to Xu Yi like this in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was only Heinz.

It wasn’t his set day of the month to be back in Banta City yet, but after he saw the report on the small company support plan in the «Karma Times», he couldn’t help rushing back.

It was for no other reason than to question Xu Yi face to face.

“Who says that I want to disband the household magic machine workshop?” Xu Yi looked at him in surprise, “I say, did you specially run back today just for this?”

Heinz pointed at the representatives of the eighty seven small companies being led around the household magic machine workshop by Ankhto and angrily said, “Is it not? This workshop is only in charge of producing and assembling those components, but now you want to give the work of producing components to these small companies I’ve never even heard of. What use is there in keeping this workshop? Do we just spend all day assembling those components?”

“Wait a minute…...Heinz, I feel that there’s a problem with your logic.” Xu Yi said with knit brows, “Even if I give the work of producing components to these small companies, why does that mean that the workshop would have nothing to do?”

“Nonsense! These things should be done by the workers of our household magic machine workshop, so if you give them to others, of course there’s nothing for our workers to do!” Heinz angrily said.

“Who said that…...Oh, I understand.” Xu Yi patted his head before reaching out to grab Heinz’s shoulders as he said with a laugh, “It’s my fault for not telling you clearly. Un…..How to put it, let me just put it clearly for you first. Even if the eighty seven small companies join the component production business, it will not affect the work of our company. I am very certain about this, so you don’t need to worry.”

Although Heinz was angry, he knew that Xu Yi wouldn’t joke about this with him in this situation, so he couldn’t help asking in a confused voice, “What is going on here? Speak clearly.”

“It’s like this. Look, first, you used to be the person in charge of this workshop, so I think you should be very clear that the work capacity of this household magic machine workshop has already reached a bottleneck. The reason for this bottleneck is that our speed in producing components can never match our assembling speed, right?” Xu Yi asked.

Heinz thought about it before nodding, “It is like that, but I adjusted the proportion of workers before I left, so it should be consistent. Could it be that after I left, that kid Ankhto randomly changed things?”