Chapter 39 Farm Machinery
In the middle of the night, the banquet at Viscount Leslie's estate finally ended, and the guests had left at this time, and the manor was quiet again.
In the slightly chaotic hall after the banquet, Viscount Leslie looked at Xu Yi, who was talking to Steele, and his face showed unconcealed appreciation.
As Steele guessed, this banquet was held at Xu Yi's request, and the most important purpose was to promote Xu Yixin's magic air conditioner.
Xu also positioned the magic air conditioner as a mid-to-high-end product, which is naturally aimed at those who have status, status, and most importantly wealth in Bangta City.
And in this banquet, because of Viscount Leslie's deliberateness, it can be said that all the guests met such a requirement.
Xu Yi's request to Viscount Leslie was nothing more than that, and he was not required to be fully involved, so Viscount Leslie didn't know what Xu Yi would do, but he knew that Xu Yi must have gained a lot at this banquet.
Because during the banquet, when many guests came to talk to Viscount Leslie, they would consciously or unintentionally mention the two slightly conspicuous magic air conditioners. After learning about the price and daily consumption of the magic air conditioner, these guests almost without exception revealed their willingness to buy.
Even the lord of the castle, Lord Sean Satsuma, was no exception.
So Viscount Leslie is very sure that it won't be long before this magic air conditioner will become popular in the aristocratic circles of Bonta City, and the one who caused this popular trend is only Viscount Leslie in the eyes of those nobles.
"If those guys knew that these things were all calculated by Xu Yi, I don't know what they would think?" Viscount Leslie thought to himself.
At this moment, Xu Yi ended his conversation with Steele and walked over.
"Lord Viscount, tonight's banquet was quite a success, and I have to thank you. Xu Yi said with a smile.
"Thank you, I don't need it, no matter what, I'm also the majority shareholder of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Viscount Leslie shook his head. "There's a question I'd like to ask you. Xu Yi, there are only so many nobles and rich people in Bangta City, and the number of your magic air conditioners that can be sold is limited, and the profit is probably not as good as the magic fan, right?"
"Don't worry about that. Xu Yi smiled. "Since the magic air conditioner is positioned as a mid-to-high-end product, the sales plan is naturally different from the magic fan. I have already signed an agreement with the Fasak Chamber of Commerce in Saltan City, and after a while, I will open a specialty store in Saltan City, which will be used exclusively to sell the goods of our New Flying Chamber of Commerce, and this new Flying Brand Magic Air Conditioner will also enter Saltan City at that time. ”
"Saltan City?" Viscount Leslie suddenly thought of something. "By the way, it seems that there are two little nobles who came from Saltan City to visit their relatives at today's banquet, you must have also come into contact with them, right?"
Xu Yi smiled and nodded: "Lord Viscount reacted so quickly. ”
Viscount Leslie's gaze at Xu Yi instantly became a little more solemn.
This guy, if even this point has been calculated a long time ago, it is too terrible.
But after thinking about it, Viscount Leslie couldn't help but admire his foresight.
Fortunately, he had already seen Xu Yi's unusualness from several previous incidents, and decided to cooperate with him, otherwise if he missed the opportunity, he would probably lose many opportunities.
Not to mention anything else, just because of the big sale of the magic fan, Viscount Leslie has already made a profit of more than a thousand gold coins in less than a month.
Even with Viscount Leslie's net worth, this thousand gold coins could not be regarded as a small amount.
Moreover, Viscount Leslie is convinced that with the development and growth of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the income brought by his thirty percent shares will gradually increase, and it will inevitably far exceed one thousand gold coins in the end.
"Lord Viscount, in addition to the magic air conditioner, there is another thing I would like to discuss with you. Xu Yi said again.
"Oh, what's the matter? ”
Xu Yi pondered for a moment and said, "Lord Viscount, seeing that it is about to enter September, is it time for your territory to enter the autumn harvest stage?"
Viscount Leslie was stunned, he didn't expect Xu Yi to suddenly jump the topic here.
"Ah, that's right, it's almost autumn harvest, why are you asking this?"
Xu Yi smiled: "Do you remember the little slave I bought from you last time? The reason why I bought her at that time was because she lost a ploughing ox, which would affect the autumn harvest, so those guards almost beat her to death." ”
Viscount Leslie naturally had already heard the Brunei steward report on this matter, glanced at Xu Yi, and snorted coldly: "What? Do you want to seek justice for that little slave now? I sue you, it is very difficult to successfully train a qualified ploughing ox, and the value of a ploughing ox is much higher than that of a slave. She actually lost a ploughing cow, and it was cheaper for her to kill her. ”
Xu Yi sighed slightly in his heart, thinking that even if he and Viscount Leslie were already very familiar with each other, it was still impossible to change Viscount Leslie's indifference to slaves in his mind.
Of course, Viscount Leslie's attitude towards slaves is also the norm on the Sainz continent, and Xu Yi has no ability or intention to change this social form now, so he naturally has other intentions when he mentions this matter.
"What the Viscount means is that ploughing cattle is very rare and very important to farmland, so they are extremely valuable, right?" Xu Yi asked.
"Of course it is. I said Xu Yi, what do you want to say after a long time?" Viscount Leslie became a little impatient.
Xu Yi smiled: "Then Lord Viscount, if I can find a tool to replace the ploughing ox, how much are you willing to spend on it?"
Viscount Leslie glanced at Xu Yi suspiciously: "Could it be that you have invented a magic machine that can work in the field? I'm afraid this is unrealistic, right? The work in the field is so complicated, what machinery can be powerful enough to replace the role of ploughing oxen?"
"Just take me as an analogy. Lord Viscount, if this machine can replace the work of ploughing oxen, or even far more efficiently, what price can you accept?"
Viscount Leslie thought for a moment and opened a slap: "Fifty gold coins a piece, I want as many as I want." ”
Xu Yi's eyes lit up: "Lord Viscount, is this true?"
"Nonsense!" Viscount Leslie said angrily, "You don't know that most of my territory is barren, and that is because there are not enough people to cultivate it, and there is no way to be barren." If there is a magical machine like the one you mentioned, then of course I want as many as I want, and it would be better to plant all the territory. In addition, I'm sure that it's not just me, it's Bunta City, the entire Lampari Kingdom, and even the entire Sainz continent, almost all the nobles are in great need of this kind of thing. If you can really develop such a magic machine, I can guarantee that it will cause a crazy robbery. ”
Speaking of this, Viscount Leslie couldn't help but ask: "Hey, Xu Yi, shouldn't you really have developed it?" This thing is not a joke. ”
Xu Yi smiled slightly and shook his head: "Of course not, it's just an idea at the moment." But now that I've received such an exciting answer from the Viscount, I'm even more interested in researching it. ”
Looking at the somewhat mysterious smile on Xu Yi's face, Viscount Leslie's heart brightened.
"This kid, maybe it's really been developed. ”
In fact, Viscount Leslie was wronged by Xu Yi.
Although Xu Yi had already made up his mind to study farmland machinery when he saw that Vivian was almost killed because he lost a ploughing cow, but before that, he not only did not have the time, but also did not have enough funds and manpower to study these things, so this thing was only stored in his concept, and it did not become a reality at all.
This time is different from the past, although Xu Yi's time is still not very sufficient, but there are a lot more people available to him, the most important of which are the hundred dwarves from Master Lanu's tribe.
With the support of these dwarves whose forging skills were not weaker than those of Master Lanu, Xu Yi was able to agree to President Fasak and directly provide him with a series of corresponding manufacturing machinery for the second-generation magic fan.
However, the workload of this batch of machinery is not large, and those dwarves have not taken much time to complete it, and now they are in a state of leisure in addition to studying some mechanical knowledge given to them by Xu Yi, so Xu Yi thought of the farm machinery.
In fact, in Xu Yi's view, for a world like Sainz Continent, where the level of technology and production is not high, farmland machinery is the most urgently needed thing.
As Viscount Leslie said, his territory alone was in a state of desolation due to lack of manpower.
And if this is extended to the entire Sainz Continent, then you can imagine how much barren land there should be on the entire continent.
However, correspondingly, the grain production of the Sainz continent has always been at a very low level, which directly leads to the average living standard of the people on the entire continent is very low, and even just in this small city of Bangta, there is news of starvation to death every year.
And Xu Yi learned from a casual conversation with Heinze that just eleven years ago, there was a large-scale famine on the Sainz continent due to abnormal climate, which was full of hunger at that time, and even caused turmoil in the entire continent, and several small countries were wiped out overnight.
At that time, Heinze's frightened expression when he talked about this incident is still fresh in Xu Yi's memory.
Xu Yi, who crossed over from the earth where civilization was already highly developed, had never seen such a scene.
But by imagination alone, he knew how terrible the sight was.
So he was even more determined to study the idea of field machinery.
"If I can improve the living standards of the people on this continent because of this, maybe it can be regarded as my time travel to this world with real meaning. ”
Xu Yi looked at the starry sky in the night and thought silently in his heart.