"Your Majesty, this picture depicts a small magic harvester harvesting wheat. Xu Yi spread out a picture on the table and passionately introduced it to His Majesty Cairns Lampari, the current king of the Lampari Kingdom, on the side: " You see, the wheat in this field grows very luxuriantly, and if you use people to harvest it, it usually takes a whole day to harvest it, then it takes three days or even a week to dry it, and then it takes another one or two days for the oxen to pull the stone mill to dehull, and finally it takes about a day or more to dust and thresh before it is completely harvested. And once the weather is abnormal, it will be greatly affected. ”

"This whole process can take a long time of 10 days to half a month, and it doesn't work very well, so a lot of wheat grains and incompletely husked ears are wasted. But with our small magic harvester, this wheat field can be completed in less than an hour. You see, after the wheat is swept up in the front end of the small magic harvester, it only takes a blink of an eye to turn into wheat grains and spray out from behind, and the person in charge of harvesting only needs to prepare the cloth bag. What a time saver it is!"

His Majesty King John Cairns Lampari is forty-eight years old this year, and he is in the prime of life, with a square face, a majestic appearance, and no excess fat on his body.

Listening to Xu Yi's introduction, he only interrupted occasionally and asked a few detailed questions, most of the time he just listened carefully, and kept showing a thoughtful expression.

See Xu also introduced the small magic harvester. King Keynes thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "President Xu." You've been saying small, that's not saying. Is there a bigger model for this magic harvester?"

Xu Yi was a little stunned, he didn't expect that His Majesty the King had listened to him for a long time, and now he was the first to care about this issue.

"Your Majesty, you guessed right. In the future, we will also launch a slightly larger neutral mana harvester, and even a larger larger mana harvester. Of course, in fact, in my planning, there are many models for the magic harvester to meet different needs, but it is not necessarily strictly limited to the three sizes of small, medium, and large. ”

King Keynes nodded slightly: "Yes, you can have this idea. Prove that you didn't just have to be impulsive and inspired to design this little magic harvester. I thought that your new flying chamber of commerce would keep rolling out all kinds of novel magic machines, this small magic harvester was just your idea for a while, and I was worried that you didn't think it through, this time I'm afraid it's just to come and sell these things to me. Now it seems that he underestimated you too much. ”

Xu Yi was surprised: "Your Majesty, listen to your tone, in fact, you already have a long-term plan?"

"That's right. King Keynes smiled slightly: "I know Earl Satsuma and believe the description in his letter, so I have no doubt that these farmland magic machines produced by your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are indeed powerful. But I'm not sure if your new flying guild has more comprehensive capabilities. For example, the various models of magic harvesters you just mentioned. Although our Lampari Kingdom is mostly plain, the terrain is still very complex, but it is obviously impossible for a magical machine to be used on all terrain. And if your farmland magic machines can only be used in terrain like the one near Bonta City, then it loses the meaning of large-scale promotion. ”

Xu Yi's eyes lit up suddenly: "Your Majesty." So you've agreed?"

King Keynes laughed, "Why don't I agree to increase food production?" The only problem. is how to promote. ”

At this point, King Keynes stopped. looked at Xu Yi with a smile on his face.

Xu Yi immediately understood that negotiations had begun.

"This ......," Xu Yi pondered for a moment. Zhan Yan smiled: "Your Majesty, I still adhere to my basic principle, that is, the technology of these farmland magic machinery cannot be handed over to the Agricultural Department. If you have to insist, maybe I can't refuse, but neither I nor the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will participate in the promotion of these farmland magic machines. ”

After saying that, Xu also looked at His Majesty the King with a little nervousness.

He knew very well that in this world, which was still a semi-slave and semi-feudal, the authority of the king was unquestionable, and if His Majesty the king insisted on Xu Yi handing over the technology, Xu Yi could not disobey the order at all, and could only hand it in.

But in this way, Xu Yi is equivalent to directly losing the huge market of farmland magic machinery, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will lose extremely badly.

And more importantly, it's going to get off to a very bad start.

His Majesty the King can now force Xu Yi to hand over the relevant technology of the farmland magic machine, so what if he takes a fancy to the other aspects of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's technology in the future, and then force Xu Yi to hand it in?

In order to prevent future troubles, Xu Yi must clearly express his rejection in words, whether in front of Harvey or now in front of His Majesty the King.

King Keynes looked at Xu Yi for a while, and then suddenly smiled, "President Xu, do you think I'm a greedy person?"

Xu Yi was stunned for a moment, and quickly shook his head: "Of course not." You are the most brilliant and wise king of our kingdom in Lampari, how can I think you are greedy or stupid?"

"In that case, why do you think I want you to hand in the technology of these Farm Magic Machines?" asked King Keynes again.

"This ...... Didn't Viscount Harvey convey your meaning?" Xu Yi said Harvey's proposal that day.

King Keynes narrowed his eyes slightly, snorted softly, waved his hand, and said, "That's just his proposal, I haven't explained it like that." Now I'm here to assure you. No matter what new magic machinery your New Flying Chamber of Commerce researches, it belongs to your New Flying Chamber of Commerce itself. I don't have any interest in the technology of your New Flying Chamber of Commerce, I only care if these farmland magic machines can work in the fields of our Lampari Kingdom and help increase our Kingdom's food production. Do you see what I mean?"

Xu Yi was immediately overjoyed. His Majesty's words made the stone that had been hanging high in his heart finally fall to the ground.

Got the assurances of His Majesty the King. That would be equivalent to obtaining a talisman, and Xu Yi would no longer have to worry about the technology he had being robbed by virtue of his power.

"That's right. Your Majesty, I would like to take this opportunity to make another comment. Xu Yi decided to strike while the iron was hot, and simply proposed the patent protection law that he had been thinking about.

After listening to Xu Yi's detailed explanation of the patent protection law, King Keynes thought for a while and nodded lightly: "This idea is very good. As you said, with this patent protection law, each chamber of commerce can file a patent for its own unique technology, so they don't have to worry about their unique technology being misappropriated as before. So. Presumably those lazy chambers of commerce will also find their own way to research new technologies, right?"

"Your Majesty, you are so wise. Xu Yi couldn't help but praise.

King Keynes was able to see at a glance the most positive effect of the patent protection law, and he deserved to be the wisest king in the history of the Lampari Kingdom.

In addition to this role, the chamber of commerce that applies for patent protection also has to pay a part of the patent protection fee, so that the kingdom's treasury can also have more income as a result, and the chamber of commerce that applies for it will pay willingly. Xu also added.

King Keynes glanced at Xu Yi: "You mentioned this thing, and you actually took the initiative to ask for patent protection fees?"

Xu Yi straightened up, made a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, and said: "Your Majesty, if you want to have a harvest, of course you have to pay! This is the consciousness that a businessman should have!"

King Keynes laughed. Pointing at Xu Yidao, "Are you reminding me that if you get benefits from your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, you have to pay the corresponding price?"

Xu Yi smiled and didn't answer. But he doesn't deny it.

King Keynes laughed for a while before slowly stopping, nodded and said, "If you want to gain, you have to give." That's not a bad statement. However, President Xu, I do not agree with your previous proposal. So I'm not going to agree to the demands you made earlier. ”

"Why?" Xu Yi frowned. "Your Majesty, I think the proposal that was made last time to Viscount Harvey and Miss Sevigny is very complete. Not only did it take into account the interests of both our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the kingdom, but also took into account the problems that may be encountered in promoting these farmland magic machines. This must be easier for us to accomplish together. ”

"You're right, but I don't want that to be a problem. King Keynes took out a copy of the text from the side and threw it to Xu Yi. "Here are some of my thoughts, you can take a look. ”

Xu Yi took the text in confusion and began to flip through it.

On behalf of the Lampali Kingdom Agricultural Agency, King Cairns submitted a series of orders for farmland magic machinery to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce only needs to complete these orders according to the requirements of the Agricultural Department, and is responsible for all technical training, after-sales service and maintenance of these farm magic machinery.

To put it simply, this proposal is actually a very ordinary commercial contract, except that the buyer is the Royal Agricultural Administration, and there is no official atmosphere.

Or to put it more bluntly, His Majesty the King is now just talking to Xu Yi about a very ordinary business.

Of course, the scale of the business was somewhat large, because His Majesty's first order was for 10,000 small magic harvesters.

Xu Yi carefully flipped through the text several times, but found a problem.

"Your Majesty, the current market price of a small magic harvester is seventy gold coins, and if you order ten thousand units in one go, the total price will be as high as seven hundred thousand gold coins, you ...... Is there so much money?"

This is also unacceptable and unsuspecting, judging from the information that Harvey inadvertently revealed, the tax revenue of the Lampari Kingdom last year was less than one million gold coins, how could it be possible to take out seven hundred thousand gold coins in one go just to buy a small magic harvester.

King Keynes smiled, spread his hands, and said very dryly, "No." ”

Xu Yi couldn't help but sullen for a moment, touched his nose, and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, our Chamber of Commerce is a small business, and we don't owe it on credit." ”

King Keynes was amused by Xu Yi, laughed a few more times, looked at Xu Yi with a playful expression, and said, "Although I don't have any money, I have some things that are very valuable." President Xu, what do you want?"

Xu Yi's eyes lit up suddenly. (To be continued......)