Chapter 7: The Academy of Magical Industries
After Freeman and the other chamber of commerce representatives who were a few days late due to heavy rains that had broken bridges and destroyed roads, arrived at the private domain of the Marquis of Southgate, Xu Yi met with everyone, exchanged a little bit, and then returned directly to the Duchy of Stantin.
Although he did not fully achieve all the intended goals when he came to the Marlo Empire this time, he not only reached a lot of agreements with the Marquis of Southgate, but also made initial contacts with some high-ranking people in the Marlo Empire through the Marquis of Guò Southgate, and also reached some agreements.
Although Duke Macarus, an old friend of the Marquis of Southgate, was still skeptical of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's farmland magic machinery, before Xu Yi left, he suddenly sent someone over and told Xu Yi that he could divide one-third of his private land during the autumn harvest and hand it over to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to assist in harvesting.
He hopes to do a test to verify whether the magical farmland magic machine in Xu Yi's mouth can really achieve that magical effect.
In addition to the more stubborn Duke Macarus, several other noble lords of the Marlo Empire introduced by Marquis Southgate expressed their willingness to try.
Therefore, just this autumn harvest, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce received the task of harvesting farmland with a total area of more than 300,000 hectares from the Maro Empire, which can be said to be a big business.
Moreover, these noble lords also promised that if the Cantona Chamber of Commerce really showed the miraculous and incredible harvesting efficiency that Xu Yi said in the autumn harvest, then they would carefully consider the next sowing and the overall transformation of the farmland to be handed over to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.
Compared to the harvesting, that's the real big business.
As president, Cantona took such an opportunity to enter the farming market of the Maro Empire very seriously. Now he stays in the private domain of the Marquis of Southgate almost every day. He led his subordinates to conduct a comprehensive and detailed investigation and preparation of the farmland on the territory. Be sure to deliver a perfect answer sheet at the time of the autumn harvest.
For this reason, Cantona found Xu Yi, hoping that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce could give priority to providing the Cantona Chamber of Commerce with enough various farmland magic machinery and corresponding engineering magic machinery to ensure that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce could complete this work smoothly.
Xu Yi, of course, expressed his strong support, and he negotiated with him, so that the Duchy of Draco gave up part of the order for the Farmland Magic Machinery to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.
Correspondingly, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce has to pay the price of assisting the Duchy of Draco in the overall farmland improvement project on a priority basis for the next two years.
Of course, the specific negotiations between the two sides have little to do with Xu Yi, and he has priority to do. It is better to return to the main base of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in the Duchy of Stantin first, and prepare in advance for the huge demand that the Maro Empire will usher in.
The production capacity of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has always been a big problem for Xu Yi, although the automation magic machine tools researched by Sancelli are getting better, so that many factories of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have greatly improved the automation process, but the overall production capacity is still limited in many aspects, and it cannot be improved to the level that Xu Yi is satisfied with.
Chief among these constraints is the issue of personnel.
The problem of personnel is not simply a shortage of manpower, but also a shortage of available technicians.
It should be said that after the New Flying Chamber of Commerce vigorously promoted the concept of skills training in the magic industry. There are now more and more people who are able to operate magic machines and participate in the manufacture of magic machines, which makes the problem less serious.
But on the magician side. However, it has been difficult for the new flying chamber to get a real problem solved.
The magicians needed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are not only ordinary magicians, but must have a certain understanding of magic machinery, know the various requirements corresponding to the magic arrays that need to be arranged by various magic machines, and be able to achieve extremely accurate magic values for professional magicians.
In the early days of the establishment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the requirements for this aspect were not so high, after all, at that time, it was already very satisfying for Xu Yi to have a magician willing to work in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
However, as the development momentum of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is getting better and better, Xu Yi is also paying more and more attention to the overall development of the magic industry, and after starting to have extremely high-standard fine requirements for all kinds of magic machinery produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it is not enough to meet Xu Yi's needs as before.
Moreover, as the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce continues to instill the concept of standardization of magic machinery into other magic machinery chambers of commerce, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce must strictly abide by this standard when making all kinds of magic machinery by itself.
In this way, there are stricter and even more demanding requirements for the low-level magicians who are mainly responsible for arranging the magic array in the Chamber of Commerce.
Last time, the Great Magician of Ferguson brought fifty magicians to help the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce solve their livelihood problems, and Xu Yi made it very clear at that time that these magicians would definitely not meet the work requirements of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and this was the reason.
Without the appropriate training and a period of practical work experience, it is impossible for any magician to be easily qualified for the work of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce now.
Therefore, although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has a strong reputation and influence in the surrounding countries in recent years, the magicians in the surrounding countries, especially the low-level magicians, not only no longer have resistance to entering the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but are quite eager to work, but the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has begun to be picky and has strictly screened the magicians who want to enter the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
This leads to the fact that although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has always wanted to expand production and increase production capacity, it has been difficult to really improve significantly because of the restrictions of magicians.
Therefore, the great magician of Ferguson suddenly came to the door on behalf of the headquarters of the Magicians' Guild and proposed to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, even if Xu Yi had some scruples in his heart, he still had great expectations for this, hoping to really improve this problem through the cooperation between Guò and the headquarters of the Magicians' Union.
In the months since the departure of Grand Magician Ferguson, a seminar on the magic industry organized by the Magicians Guild of the Kingdom of Lampari was held.
At the beginning, it was only held once every half a month, but because it was unexpectedly popular with most of the low-level magicians in the Lampari Kingdom, the frequency of the festival gradually increased, and now it is held once a week, and a total of eleven issues have been held so far.
At the seminar, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce sent a lot of magicians working in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to explain their work in detail to other low-level magicians who participated in the seminar, so that these low-level magicians had a deeper understanding and concept of the magic industry.
Eleven seminars were held, and countless low-level magicians became more interested in participating in the magic industry under the guidance of those magician instructors sent by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
It's just that unlike before, when they had no clue, now they have a clear understanding in their hearts after these eleven seminars.
As the conclusion given by the Magic Research Institute of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the magic industry is an incomparably large system, and there are countless kinds of research or practical work that require a large number of magicians to do, they do not need to be proficient in everything, they only need to focus on a certain aspect of research like studying magic, and they can meet the qualification requirements.
So when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce announced that it would open a magical industry academy in the Principality of Stanting, where physiognomy magicians would teach magicians, in just half a month, more than 2,000 junior and second-level low-level magicians came to sign up.
Even some Level 3 or even higher mages expressed their willingness to enter the academy to study some of their knowledge of the magic industry, making the academy immediately the focus of attention of almost all low-level mages in several nearby countries.
And for this magical industrial college, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce also gave a special preferential policy.
As long as you are willing to sign an agreement with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, promising that once you are willing to work in the Chamber of Commerce related to the magic industry, you must give priority to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and you can enjoy the treatment of free tuition.
Even if you are willing to accept some conditions, you can also enjoy the extraordinary treatment of free living expenses.
These two conditions undoubtedly have infinite attraction to those low-level magicians who are not in a good financial situation, so even if several newspapers denounced this behavior of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as a naked gold coin offensive and an insult to the noble magicians, there are still countless low-level magicians who choose to accept the conditions of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce without hesitation.
When Xu Yi returned from the Maro Empire, he received reports that there were as many as 1,316 low-level magicians who were willing to sign an agreement to give the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce preferential employment rights, and as many as half of them, more than 700 were willing to accept the more harsh conditions proposed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
At the same time, there were also a large number of low-level magicians from the Lampari Kingdom and various surrounding countries who came to sign up for the Xinfei Magic Industrial Academy.
If nothing else, these two numbers will continue to increase.
This situation was not surprising to Xu Yi, after all, the magicians in the surrounding countries had long been accustomed to the existence of the magic industry, unlike the first few years, which were full of resistance.
Moreover, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce provided such excellent conditions that those low-level magicians who had neither financial foundation nor other support could refuse at all.
Xu Yi didn't expect these low-level magicians to grow into talents in the magic industry who were qualified to work in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but with a huge base, he believed that at least a lot of suitable people could be selected from them.
The most important thing is that the act of passing guò can make the magicians of the surrounding countries form a concept that they no longer regard the study of magic and becoming a powerful magician as their only way out.
Not every mage has the talent to become a great mage or even a mage, so in addition to focusing on the study of magic itself, there is a complete choice to devote himself to the magic industry.
This is also something that Xu Yi hopes the headquarters of the Magician Guild can understand. (To be continued......)