Chapter 12: Reaching Out for Money
Akali moved quickly, and in a few moments flew back like a gust of wind.
As soon as she landed, she waved her hand and said, "Okay, the problem is solved." ā
Xu Yi stopped her from pressing her hand to the wooden platform and asked, "What is the problem, have you found out?"
Akali was slightly stunned, as if she was surprised that someone would ask her such a question, and then reacted and replied, "Oh, it was a small mistake in the same frequency setting of the magic array. I didn't take into account that the weather was so hot today, and the materials inlaid with the magic array were slightly deformed, and there was a little error in the magic array. I just checked it out and it's been fixed, so it's okay now. ā
"Well, just know what the problem is. Xu Yi nodded. "But Akali, I heard these team members say just now, you have done this a thousand times, so it shouldn't have been a similar problem before, why didn't you find a way to solve it?"
Akali glanced at Xu Yi, her expression seemed a little hesitant.
Xu Yi frowned: "What's the matter, is there anything you can't say in front of me?"
"President, that's what you told me to say. Akali smiled suddenly.
Xu Yi was a little crying and laughing: "You just said it." I don't think anyone in this chamber of commerce can stop you, right?"
"Not necessarily, like Evita......" Akali said with a grimace.
"Evita?" Xu was puzzled. "What's wrong with Evita, if anything, won't she just tell me?"
"I just can't tell you. Akali shrugged her shoulders and glanced at Xu Yi. He sighed and said, "Okay." It's already been said anyway. Then sue you. President, you guessed it right, I knew about this problem, but because I thought of Ann Evita's instructions, I didn't think of a way to solve it. ā
Xu Yi asked in wonder, "Why?"
"Because Evita said that we should try to save the cost of research. Akali replied helplessly. "Evita said that our Magic Research Institute spent too much money on research last year, so starting this year. She asked every research team and researcher to try to save research costs, and not spend money that should not be spent. In fact, I discovered this material problem a long time ago, but I thought that I would have to change the new material every time, and it would definitely cost a lot of money to re-conduct adaptive research for the material, so I gave up for the time being. ā
"Nonsense!" Xu Yi suddenly shouted, startling Akali and several other researchers. "It's true to save research costs, but it's putting the cart before the horse! You're also a veteran researcher, don't you know if a study can't be perfect in the experimental phase? Maybe a small mistake or omission in the process of practice will cause a huge loss?"
"This ...... I ......"
Akali rarely saw Xu Yi making such a big fire, and she was in a daze for a while.
"What's yours and mine, sue you, as long as it can improve the level of research and make the research results perfect, then no matter how much money you spend, it's worth spending! Have you forgotten that our chamber of commerce last batch of newly developed magic air conditioners, just because of a small mistake in the research and development process, we were forced to recall more than 20,000 magic air conditioners that had been sold?"
Akali stuck out her tongue: "Of course I do. Steele said that the forced recall made our Chamber of Commerce lose at least more than 100,000 gold coins, right?"
"More than 100,000 gold coins!" Xu Yi said in a deep voice. "What's more, this accident has tarnished the reputation of our chamber of commerce, which was previously near-perfect. That's a hundred times worse than the loss of 100,000 gold coins!So I absolutely can't allow another mistake in the R&D process, you know what I mean?"
"I understand, I understand. Akali nodded repeatedly: "But Lord Grown, Evita said that she wanted to save research costs, so she was very strict in giving each research group research funds, you see......"
Xu Yi snorted: "I have discovered this problem." You go and tell her that it's okay to add as much research funding as you want to solve this problem. After a pause, he asked, "100,000 gold coins, it's enough, right?"
Akali immediately cheered: "That's enough!"
After cheering, Akali even hugged Xu Yi excitedly, and laughed: "Lord, I know that you are the most generous, and you will definitely not be like Evita's stingy ghost, who will even pick a gold coin to death." ā
Seeing Akali's excited expression and the excited looks on the faces of several researchers around him, Xu Yi's heart moved, and if he realized, he pointed at Akali and said, "Okay, Akali, you did it on purpose, and you specifically wanted to take this opportunity to apply for additional research funding from me, right?"
Akali grinned, hugged one of Xu Yi's arms and shook it: "Sure enough, you can't hide the elder of the wise and martial arts, but the elder grown, you must not be careful, right?"
Xu Yi snorted coldly: "You guy has a lot of thoughts." If you want to study the fund, I'll just say it, when have I ever been stingy on this. But I warn you, I can give you the 100,000 gold coins, but they must all be used to solve this material problem. In case I find out you're messing around, hum ......"
"No, Lord Grown, how can I mess around, you didn't know me for the first day. Akali laughed.
Xu Yi looked up to the sky and sighed: "It's because I didn't know you on the first day that I fell for you." ā
Seeing that Akali was about to say more, Xu Yi raised his hand and interrupted her.
"Alright, that's the end of it. Let's hurry up and get to the point, if this real yĆ n can't succeed, then no matter how much research funding you have, it will be in vain. ā
"As I said, it can't fail. Confident, Akali walked over to the wooden platform and reached out to press a button on it.
A pale cyan light flashed from the magic array on the platform, and Xu Yi, Akali, and several other researchers turned their heads at the same time, looking in the direction of the high platform.
As magicians, they could clearly sense a wave of wind-based magic elements coming from the high platform in the distance, and instantly came to the wooden platform and threw themselves into the magic array above.
The magic array on the wooden platform suddenly shone brightly, and then everyone felt that the magic element fluctuations that were exactly the same as the previous wind magic element fluctuations spread out from the wooden platform, and through thin lines, they were transmitted to several household magic machines placed next to the wooden platform.
"Buzz ......"
A faint buzz sounded, the magic fan suddenly began to spin, and the magic air conditioner also opened the air outlet, blowing a cool breeze, and the magic stove automatically ignited......
All kinds of household magic machines that were silent just now were actually activated at the same time.
Xu Yi's eyes swept over each household magic machine, and found that the blades of the magic fan rotated slightly faster, and the flame from the magic stove was much higher than normal, while the cool breeze from the outlet of the magic air conditioner was weaker than normal......
In short, the operation of each household magic machine is somewhat different from that of normal operation.
This is also to be expected.
Under normal circumstances, these household magic machines fill themselves with magic crystals as a power source, but this time they use this wooden platform, that is, the magic power provided by the magic transmission terminal as the power to operate, there will definitely be some differences.
Besides, the mana comes from the Mana Supply Station, the hub of the mana transmission network, which is a full two kilometers away, and it's not unusual for some differences to occur over such a long distance.
In order to solve this problem, in addition to conducting more in-depth and detailed research on the magic transmission network, it is more important to determine a unified power supply standard like those household appliances on the earth, so that these household magic machines can be connected to this magic transmission network more smoothly.
The ultimate goal is that, just like on Earth, each family only needs to arrange a magic transmission network terminal like this wooden platform, so that all the household magic machines in the home can be used normally without going out to purchase magic crystals.
This can not only save the time and energy of buying magic crystals for home use, but also save some money.
More importantly, it is possible to include families using household magic machines in this magic transmission network.
And this magic power transmission network is naturally controlled by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the control it can provide is naturally extremely terrifying.
The reason why the people on the continent of Sainz generally do not have a strong concept of the state is not very strong, in addition to the problem of education, but also because for most ordinary people, the so-called state is just a noun, and the difference is only in the amount of taxes.
And once this magic transmission network is built and everyone is included in the network, it will be very difficult for people to get out of the network, and it will also clearly distinguish the people in the network from the people outside the network.
An example of this is the automatic water supply system that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is currently vigorously promoting.
On Xu Yi's private land, the automatic water supply system has been fully laid, and almost every household and building in the territory is connected to the automatic water supply system.
Now, in this private territory, almost like the earth, you can use the convenience of automatic water supply anytime and anywhere.
And just because of this convenience, many people who were not originally in Xu Yi's private territory poured over from other places and settled in Xu Yi's private territory.
Less than a year after Xu Yi began promoting the automatic water supply system, the population of his private estate has grown from about 200,000 to 300,000.
And according to the current trend, once this year passes, Xu Yi's private territory will have more than half of the population of the entire Duchy of Stantin, becoming the absolute core area of the Duchy of Stantin. (To be continued......)