Volume 4 Chapter 149 - Controlling energy (1/2)

Seveni slowly and serious read the book, almost going word for word.

Although the book was thin and there weren’t many words written on it, Seveni had taken half an hour to finally finish reading the final word.

After she finished, Seveni closed her eyes and fell into thought for over ten minutes before speaking.

“Xu Yi, only the benefits that are brought to our Lampuri Kingdom are written here, can you tell me what benefits energy standardization can bring to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce?”

Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “Dear majesty, do you want to hear the truth or a lie?”

Seveni snappily glared at Xu Yi, “Deceiving the queen is a capital crime.”

Xu Yi said with a laugh, “What if it isn’t evil deceiving? At least…..it’s a lie that doesn’t have that much effect?”

“That won’t do.” Seveni said with a serious look, “If I don’t know what benefits this energy standardization will bring to your Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the members of the kingdom’s parliament wouldn’t feel assured following your suggestion and making this reform.”

“Then that means your majesty trusts me?” Xu Yi asked.

“If I didn’t believe you, why would I say all this?” Seveni suddenly gave a sigh, “There’s no one else here, stop calling me your majesty all the time. Let’s just call each other by our names like before, alright?”

Xu Yi hesitated for a bit before slowly nodding, “Alright. Seveni, this energy standardization will gather all of the Lampuri Kingdom’s energy management into one, which can tighten the control, which I’ve clearly written in this report. As for the benefits of this energy standardization for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, if I said that it could save our company quite a bit of effort, would you believe that?”

“Oh?” Seveni was a bit curious, “Save what effort?”

“To give an analogy.” Xu Yi paused before saying, “For a Magic Fan, because of the different quality and sizes of Magic Crystals, when our company is designing the Magic Fan, we have to consider all these different aspects. We have to pay several times more when it comes to the design, which brings unnecessary costs.”

“So you want to let all Magic Fans use the same kind of Magic Crystals?” Seveni immediately asked.

“Yes.” Xu Yi nodded, “Actually our company has always been doing this. For example, the new Magic Crystals refining factory that our company has set up, it is specialized to make the same Magic Crystals. When we produce new magic machines, with the standard that our company has set, the people who use the new household magic machines have to purchase the Magic Crystals that have been refined.”

“Un, this isn’t a bad idea.” Seveni praised, “With your Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s absolute monopoly of the household magic machine industry, you want to use the household magic machines to force people to have no choice but to follow your standard. You’re also forcing them to use the new standardized Magic Crystals.”

“Facts aren’t as good as you think.” Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, “Although our Frestech Brand household magic machines are the most popular household magic machines, and there has been great support after promoting this new standard, but……This approach has caused many of our old customers who don’t want to use the our standardized Magic Crystals to switch to other brands of household magic machines. Because of this, our company’s household magic machines department’s sales has dropped by 13% last month.”

“It actually dropped by this much?” Seveni couldn’t help raising a brow and looking surprised.

In terms of household magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was without a doubt the best and their lead wasn’t just by a small amount compared to the other companies.

Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s household magic machines are a bit more expensive than the other brands, because of the Frestech Brand’s outstanding performance and quality, people always had the Frestech Brand as their first choice when buying household magic machines.

However, in this situation, the Frestech Brand’s sales had dropped by 13%, which really was surprising.

“This isn’t right……” Seveni said in a confused voice, “Using the standardized Magic Crystals can clearly increase the operation time of the household magic machines and can even prolong their service life, why wouldn’t the people be willing to accept this? Could it be that you haven’t advertised the performance of the standardized Magic Crystals?”

“No, to promote this standard, our company has invested at least two hundred thousand gold coins and advertised the benefits of the standardized Magic Crystals. But……For many of the customers that buy household magic machines, what they care most about is whether it is easy to use and how convenient it is. Our company’s magic machines only use standardized Magic Crystals and there aren’t many places to buy them right now. Since they aren’t convenient to use, people have chosen to give up.”

“Impossible.” Seveni suddenly shook her head, “Xu Yi, it’s impossible that you haven’t predicted this, so why did you do this?”

Xu Yi pursed his lips into a smile, “Alright, I have indeed already predicted this, so this is actually an experiment for me. I want to see that with just our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, could we promote this energy standardization.”

“Then you failed, so you came to ask for my help?” Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a ghost of a smile.