The prerequisite for making woodworking machine tools is to have a stable power.

With this as an excuse, Xia Lin succeeded in temporarily abducting Master Holguin and ten dwarven blacksmiths who were said to be the best in their Crucible Valley to their designated territory.

This is where he used to make paper, and now Xia Lin has the legal title deed of the empire stamped by the Imperial City Hall, but the actual control is still in the hands of the fish tooth who rules the area.

Here, Xia Lin will start the first phase of the construction plan of his industrial park, starting with the construction of a brick factory, a cement factory and a machine tool factory, which he named "two factories and one machine tool".

The ambitious Xia Lin has received an injection of funds from the Greg family and the royal daughter, and currently has a capital of 800 gold lundes.

If it weren't for the establishment of an industrial alliance system and at the same time to share the pressure exerted by the major guilds in the imperial capital, Xia Lin could have done it alone.

However, Xia Lin knew that a single tree could not make a forest, and the establishment of an industrial system involved all aspects of society, and he could not have the energy to develop in all aspects.

It is also for this reason that he has come up with extremely favorable terms for holding 20% of the shares for one year to obtain his technology transfer.

With land and money, the first time is naturally to recruit people to buy raw materials and tools. As last time, Wyatt was sent to buy the tools on the list that Xia Lin had put together.

On the other side, the carpenter's team led by the royal carpenter Master Huce Ferma, who was transferred by the royal daughter, began to build waterwheels according to the drawings provided by Xia Lin.

Charlin himself came to the neighborhood where he used to live, and gathered Roy, Adams, Edmund, and their forty-five and a half children.

"I believe everyone knows in their hearts that I am willing to pay for everyone to learn literacy and arithmetic during this time, and there must be a place for everyone.

Now the time has come for me to build seven factories in the slums of Fishtooth, and you will be the first employees of my factory.

As an employee of the factory, you will be paid 50 pepes a day, but there is one condition, that is, you know 100 commonly used Sassen words and learn addition and subtraction within 50, otherwise you will only be paid 25 pepes.

And Roy, Adams, and Edmund, the three of you, as managers, if you can't even meet such a simple condition, then deduct your salary of two silver mar per month first!

If more than half of my men don't meet my requirements, then two more silver mar's wages will be deducted!

Now, Roy, Adams, and Edmund, the three of you, take these pens and papers, and fill in the names, sexes, ages, parents' names, literacy, and numeracy of the forty-five of them according to the form I have given them.

These will be our employee files from now on, and I will pay my salary based on these files! ”

"Lord Xia Lin, do you have to know a hundred words to get a salary of 50 copper bis?"

Edmund asked with a worried expression, and Adams on the side also looked a little ugly.

"That's right, everyone can't be an exception, and don't call me Lord Xia Lin in the future, just call me boss!"

Xia Lin saw that there were probably a lot of people under them who couldn't meet the requirements, and knocked on it.

To work under him is to establish the idea that knowledge is money and knowledge is status. If these three factory directors who were selected in the early stage do not know how to study hard, it is not impossible to be brushed down by others in the future.

After all, Xia Lin's pace is very fast, and the career he wants to carry out will be a huge change in the form of big waves.

"Boss, I see!"

Roy was the first to sit down at the wooden table that he moved out and began to record his team members, as a smart person, he has always grasped every opportunity he can grasp to climb up, and naturally Xia Lin told him to read and learn arithmetic well.

"That...... What is your name? ”

"Brother Roy, I'm Polly Cizer!"

"Okay, and then there's the age ......"

Seeing that Roy was quickly up to speed, Adams and Edmund had no choice but to start building files for their team members.

After careful observation for a while, Xia Lin found that the three of them actually didn't learn very well, and many words were spelled incorrectly, but it was still the early days, so he turned a blind eye and let them pass.

In the end, only thirteen of the forty-five children met Xia Lin's conditions and received a salary of 50 copper biscus per day.

When the salary was paid, the children who got 25 more copper pestons showed a look of pride on their faces that could not be concealed, and the other children who did not pass the screening and could only get 25 copper pesis were full of envy.

Among them, there are many 16.7-year-old half-grown young people who find that they are not as good as their younger siblings in learning, and they can't help but make less money than their children, and they can't help but show a look of shame on their faces.

And this is the effect that Xia Lin wants to achieve.

Then Charlin recruited five more adult women to take care of everyone's food, and asked Edmund to pick up Wyatt at the edge of the slum, while he took Roy and Adams to the fishtooth territory.

"Little mage, we've been waiting for so long, it's up to you to bring these little points, if the machine tools you said drag on for too long, then I'll win Holguin!"

As soon as he saw Xia Lin, Holguin and the dwarves, who were waiting by the river, gathered around.

They were outliers in the Empire, so they didn't usually go out of the Crucible Valley where they had lived for decades, and this time they had followed Xia Lin to the slums, which was the furthest they had got.

"Don't worry! Master Holguin, when the watermill is built, you will be able to see my machine in no time! ”

Xia Lin smiled and confessed to Master Holguin, and then he frowned at the noise in the group, and nodded to Roy and Adams on the side, motioning for them to deal with it.

"Quiet! You guys! These dwarven masters are the honored guests of our boss, His Excellency Xia Lin, and if you dare to make these pointing noises again, go back to the mud nest and become the original rats! ”

Roy is usually a mild-mannered person, but when he gets angry, he is also very intimidating, and soon the team of thirty people is silent, because being fired by Xia Lin means that they lose this high-paying job that is unique in the slums.

In the face of this terrible fact, even the highest level of curiosity they can control.

Seeing that the team had fallen silent, Xia Lin turned to discuss with the dwarven masters what parts they needed to make.

The waterwheel, an important power machine, had already been drawn and handed over to Hughes Fermat for their skilled carpenters to make.

However, in order to convert the power provided by the watermill into the power that the factory machines can use, it is necessary to make gears and light up the technology of the gearbox.