A horse-drawn carriage slowly drove out of the west gate of Bonta City, gradually accelerated, and drove quickly towards the western outskirts of Bonta City.

In the carriage, Xu Yi and Heinze sat opposite each other, and Heinze was holding a crude map of Bangta City in his hand, explaining something to Xu Yi.

"You see, this large area is Viscount Leslie's domain, and the total should be close to a thousand hectares, more than half of which is uncultivated wasteland, and Viscount Leslie has promised us that we can choose a piece of this wasteland to rent. ”

Xu Yi just glanced at the map, then stretched out his finger and tapped on the map: "Don't pick, this is it." ”

"Here?" Heinze observed the place Xu Yi pointed out, thought about it, and frowned: "This is not the closest to Bangta City, and there is nothing nearby, I'm afraid it is not very convenient in terms of living and living." ”

Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders and chuckled: "It's better to have nothing, so it's convenient for us to plan well." You know, it's much easier to draw on a blank sheet of paper than it is to draw on a piece of paper covered with patterns. ”

"But in this case, I am afraid that the cost will be higher than expected. Heinze still frowned.

"Initial investment is a must. Xu Yi nodded and drew a circle on the map again. "Actually, if I could, I would even like to rent all this large area of wasteland. ”

"This large area?" Heinze said in a stammered manner, "that is not good, just renting one hectare of land, we will have to give Viscount Leslie a hundred gold coins every year, if we rent such a large area...... Not to mention tens of thousands of gold coins a year, thousands of gold coins are still required. Besides, we only need a small workshop now, so where do we need such a large area?"

Xu Yi smiled slightly: "Heinze, are you satisfied with just opening such a small magic fan factory?"

Heince looked at Xu Yi in astonishment, could it be that this guy has greater ambitions?

Just yesterday, Xu Yi approached Heinze and told him that he no longer had to bother finding a suitable space to rent in Bangta City, because Xu Yi had taken a fancy to a vacant lot on the outskirts of the city, and planned to build a factory directly on this vacant land to produce magic fans.

During this time, Xu also asked Heinze's nephew Alex to help him do a small market research, and according to the results of the investigation, Xu Yi preliminarily judged that the demand for magic fans in Bangta City should be between 3,000 and 5,000 units, and now less than 500 units have been sold, which means that there is a huge market of several thousand units.

And this number is only limited to the city of Bangta, although the family conditions in the villages outside the city of Bangta are not as good as those in Bangta City, there will inevitably be a certain demand for magic fans.

If the radiation range of Bangta City is included, Xu Yi boldly estimated that the demand for magic fans would even exceed 10,000 units!

And it is precisely because of this number that Xu Yi made up his mind to expand production.

In order to greatly increase production, renting a warehouse in Bangta City is obviously too limited, so Xu Yi directly aimed at the outskirts of the city, preparing to directly build a magic fan factory.

After researching, he finally set his sights on this piece of land belonging to Viscount Leslie in Bonta City.

Of course, if you want to expand production, in addition to the site, the most important thing is actually people.

Xu Yi looked down at the stack of materials in his hand, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Half of this stack of materials is thirty personal information, and the other half is thirty contracts.

These were the things he had learned from a trip to Baron Rickato's Academy of Magic.

After his efforts to persuade him, Director Shearer finally allowed Xu Yi to recruit students to work for him at Baron Ryktor's Academy of Magic, but Director Shearer also said that he would not publicly support this, but only did not oppose it.

Then, after some hard work in the college, Xu Yi finally succeeded in recruiting 30 students who met the requirements.

The level of magic of these students themselves is not high, at least none of them can compare to Xu Yi.

However, as students of Baron Ricto's Academy of Magic, they are very solid in the basic knowledge of magic arrays, and they have some experience in drawing magic arrays.

Although the Wind Whirlwind Circle engraved inside the magic fan has been specially modified by Xu and is more complicated, it is only a low-level wind system circle after all, and the difficulty of drawing is not particularly high.

Xu also recruited these students, and the only thing they were asked to do was to complete the work of drawing the magic array.

It's a simple and boring job, but it requires a certain amount of magical prowess.

When he made the 500 magic fans before, Xu also asked his colleagues in his research laboratory to help complete it, but then he was ready to complete the production of nearly 10,000 magic fans at most, so it was obviously impossible to rely on ten colleagues alone.

In comparison, hiring these 30 students is far more appropriate than finding 10 colleagues.

First of all, these thirty students did not have the reserve of a magician like those ten colleagues, and they did not hesitate to sign a contract with Xu Yi, so that there was a clear employment relationship between them and Xu Yi, so that Xu Yi did not have to worry about affecting production.

Secondly, after Xu also asked the ten colleagues to help complete the 500 magic fans, each of them he paid five gold coins and one magic fan, but he discussed with these 30 students that after each completed the magic circle drawing of a magic fan, he would pay them two silver coins, and the cost could be said to be greatly reduced.

In fact, when Xu Yi offered this reward, he was still a little worried about whether these students would feel too low, but he didn't expect that after the students heard this reward, they were all very excited, and even praised Xu Yi's generosity.

Last but not least, compared to their colleagues in the Lab, these students who are still studying at the School of Magic have not yet formed a mindset, and they are not as prejudiced about the use of magic.

In them, Xu Yida can instill his knowledge of mechanical engineering from the earth and let them learn from scratch.

It would be a great asset if there were a few students who were gifted with the theory of magical mechanics.

If there are more and more such magicians in the future, then Xu Yi's idea of creating a complete industrial system on the continent of Sainz is no longer just a dream......

The carriage suddenly jolted, shaking Xu Yi out of his seat, interrupting his reverie about the future.

"It's almost there. Heinze on the side reminded.

Xu Yi opened the curtains and looked out, and saw that the carriage had left the main road that stretched west from Bonta City, and walked onto a small dirt road in the country that was potholed and uneven at all.

Feeling the violent tremors brought by the carriage, Xu Yi couldn't help frowning.

"It's a terrible road. ”

Heinze smiled bitterly: "Of course, this is a wasteland that no one has cultivated, and it would be nice to have such a path that makes a carriage shape." ”

"That's not going to work. Heinze, how much would it cost me to build a flat road from where we had set it off to the road we had just done?"

"Build roads?" Heinze was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and gestured on the map, and replied with a wry smile: "It's not cheap. Even the simplest way to smooth out the road surface will probably cost hundreds of gold coins. After a pause, he couldn't help but say: "Actually, although this road is a little bumpy, it can pass through the carriage, we don't need to spend money to rebuild the road, right?"

Xu Yi shook his head: "No, this road must be repaired." The process content of the magic fan itself is not high, and it may not have high requirements for transportation, but our follow-up products will become more and more sophisticated, and it is easy to have problems during transportation with this road condition. ”

Heinze pursed his lips, and found that he didn't know much about Xu Yi's "process content", "follow-up leveling", "precision" and anything, and he couldn't continue to persuade for a while.

But now these things were originally led by Xu Yi, and he didn't have much decision, so he gave up persuasion after thinking about it.

The carriage continued to jolt along the lower road for a while, and then slowly came to a stop.

Xu Yi and Heinze jumped out of the carriage and looked around, and found that this place was indeed desolate, and there was hardly anything to be seen on the surrounding land except for patches of weeds.

Seeing this desolate appearance, Heinze couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but Xu Yi was not surprised at all.

On Earth, he has visited countless undeveloped industrial areas, which are even several times more desolate than here, and when they are officially developed, it will not be long before they become a prosperous area.

Although this place is very desolate now, he believes that as long as he can continue to develop and invest, it will become prosperous sooner or later.

"May I ask if it's Mr. Xu Yi and Mr. Heinze?" a thin old man came out of nowhere.

"Hello Brunei housekeeper, I'm Heinze, and this is my partner Xu Yi. Heinze quickly greeted him. "Xu Yi, this is Mr. Brunei, the butler of Viscount Leslie. ”

Xu Yi looked at the old man who was not good-looking, and saluted him.

Brunei rolled a pair of white and black eyes, looked at Xu Yi for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, since you are here, let's take a good look." The Viscount said that although he did not plan to reclaim this place, since it was his territory, it could not be handed over to others for use casually. Whatever you want to do on this land in the future, you must inform the Viscount first, understand?"

Looking at Brunei, who looked high, Xu Yi couldn't help but be angry and funny.

If it were on Earth, a developer like himself would be willing to pay to rent this wasteland, and the landowner would not be happy.

On the Sainz continent, Viscount Leslie has already collected his own money, and this Brunei steward still looks so arrogant, as if this land is not rented by Xu Yi, but given to him by Viscount Leslie.

Xu Yi naturally didn't show any expression on his face, just nodded to indicate that he understood, and then looked around on his own.

Xu was also very satisfied with the results of the investigation, and the land was well geologically conditioned and extremely flat, making it very suitable for the establishment of factories.

What's more, there is a river about ten meters wide next to this land, and there is a small forest on the opposite bank, which is very convenient for both materials and water.

The only disadvantage is that the traffic is not very convenient, of course, this is also in Xu Yi's consideration.

Renovating roads to ensure traffic was the first element in the establishment of factories and mines.