Coming out of Gwen's office, Kaichi scratched his head.

Just now, Gwen asked him to help draw some illustrations, he didn't think much about it, he agreed at once, and then he reacted and quickly rejected some of them, but he couldn't completely reject them.

Jiayi's sketches are very good, at least very realistic, although there are some original sketches at this time, but there is no concept of perspective, so Jiayi's sketches are particularly prominent.

In order to spread her books, Gwen also wanted to not fall behind in all aspects, so she asked Jia Yilae to help illustrate the botanical words in the book.

Jia Yi thought he was just going to paint a picture by himself.,I didn't think much about it.,I didn't think much about it.,In the end, I thought it was to illustrate calligraphy and painting.,The workload is very different.,Jia Yi finally knew that he was moved by emotion.,But he didn't completely refuse.,I still need to draw about a dozen illustrations in the first three chapters.。

Leaving Gwen's office, they went to find Jancy together.

The paper mill needs their help, although March has already asked them for help, but they don't know how to make paper, so they can't help much, and they go to sell coolies and work as overseers. Although Gwen didn't say anything now, March decided to catch the ducks on the shelves and let them take care more.

After all, there is no one here who is proficient.

However, Jiayi looked for Yangxi, and they actually had other things.

......

With Yangxi, they entered the paper mill, which is now not as dirty as it used to be, and the buildings have been built, but the personnel are not very smooth, everyone seems to be very busy, but they don't know what they are busy with, and the efficiency is not high.

"Yangxi, do you see those machines outside?" asked Yangxi.

They have agreed to let them help the paper mill, because they don't need to do it themselves, so it's quite easy, and the paper mill is not too big, so it is not difficult to manage.

Yanxi glanced at the machinery in the factory, under the power of magic, each machine brought up a big wooden mallet in the four corners of the four directions, rose and fell, and pounded the snow-white fibers below with the hammers, and the fibers were beaten layer by layer, from a ball into a cake.

Each side of each fibre cake must be finely hammered into place before it can be used to make pulp.

"It's really good to use, but it needs magic stones as power, and it's not like yours. Jancy said.

Jiayi glared and said, "What is not in line with my temperament, it depends on the cost and benefit." A magic stone can be used for half a month, and if you use energy storage crystals, you can reuse it, although the cost has gone up, but the efficiency has also increased greatly. ”

In fact, the main reason is that the paper has just begun to sell, and it is not sensitive to the cost market, even if it uses magic stone power, the price of each stack of paper is much cheaper than parchment.

"I'm actually trying to ask, do you have any plans to take over this business?"

"Business?

Yanxi felt a little confused about what Jia Yi said, didn't the paper mill want March to be in charge now? Could it be that he wanted to open another paper mill?

Jia Yi said: "It's the magic machine business, have you seen my gear making machine in the laboratory? I call him a lathe, no, let's call it a machine tool, this thing can process all kinds of workpieces, use it to assemble machines, greatly improve efficiency, I want you to set up a workshop dedicated to making machine tools, make the machine tools I designed, of course, you can also design your own." ”

It should be wrong for the machine made by Jiayi to be called a lathe, in fact, it should be classified as a milling machine, but he was not engaged in industrial manufacturing before, and he was not very clear about these categories.

Yang Xi recalled the machine tool made by Jiayi, he did see it, but he thought the principle was actually quite simple, so he didn't pay much attention to it, it looked like a high-speed rotating knife to cut pieces of metal into the corresponding shape according to the requirements, on the surface, it doesn't seem that the application of magic is not profound, and it is not as high as the level of hoverboard skateboard magic.

He said suspiciously: "Is this any use? Who would buy this, your gear blacksmith made by that machine can be slowly punched, nothing special, right?"

Jiayi was almost by Yangxi, even if he is not optimistic about the machine tool, he should not be compared like this, it is simply an "insult" to the machine tool.

"A blacksmith can make a few gears a day? With our machines, how can we make thousands of gears a day, how can the efficiency be the same? One machine can be worth hundreds of blacksmiths. ”

Yanxi lacks a concept of industrialization, and his brain is a bit trapped in the traditional manual model, and the magic manufacturing requirements are relatively high and more refined, most of them are handmade by one person, and there are few opportunities for multiple people to cooperate.

was told by Jia Yiyi, Yang Xi reacted a little and made a joke himself, but still asked rhetorically: "After making so many pieces, can you sell them?"

"Do you know how popular the chamber of commerce's pendulum clock is right now? ”

The business of pendulum clocks has been growing for many years, and the whole continent is geographically vast, and there are sinking towns and villages, and the market is still promising. The only thing that can restrain the pendulum clock business now is the difference between the income level of the broad masses of the people and the high price of the pendulum clock.

Jia Yi preached to Yangxi the prospect of magic machine tools, what industrialization, assembly line, and then the improvement of production efficiency, etc., his eloquence is average, and there is no system, and now he is particularly envious of those who use PPT to start a business, if Jia Yi goes out to pull investment with his current eloquence, he will definitely not be able to pull back a penny.

However, Yangxi did have some intentions, although Jiayi's eloquence is not good, but the results are rich, and there are real things. If the twist vine says it in front of you, even if it is drunk nonsense, you will most likely think it is a good word.

However, on the one hand, Yang Xi still feels that this machine tool does not have too much magic content, and on the other hand, he has a lot of things to do: "You are all busy now, our magic shop is almost unattended, and now March wants us to deal with the affairs of the paper mill, even if I want to help, I don't have the energy." And I don't find it interesting to simply repeat it. ”

"You don't have to do it yourself, you can hire the students in the college, so that you can also help the students to work-study, and you are only responsible for management. And you can ask someone to help you at home, as long as you find a few reliable stewards to come over, your family has a big business, this little thing shouldn't be a problem, right?"

As soon as Jia looked at Yangxi, he thought about fooling Yangxi to carry out OEM business, originally Valoka couldn't do this, but the main business of the Valoka Chamber of Commerce is not this after all, and it is very likely that it will not focus on this business, so it is better to let Yangxi come.

Jia Yi didn't know the specific family background of Yang Xi, but Yang Xi and March both had family backgrounds, and these things allowed them to use some of their family's power even if there was any problem.

At the very least, there is no problem in sending two reliable stewards from home to take care of the accounts.

And he also took a fancy to the classmates of the academy, these are cheap labor, and certainly not everyone will be interested in the newly opened workshop, but as long as a small number of them are interested, the price of the students is much cheaper than recruiting mages from outside.

At present, the machine tool is only needed by the Valoka Chamber of Commerce, and the demand has not yet gone up.

The mages on this side of the academy are relatively concentrated, and the pressure of competition is also high, and it is not easy to make easy money here without a skill. Because everyone's skills are similar, making magic scrolls, potions, alchemy items, etc., many people who don't have technical advantages can only fight price wars and can't make too much money.

Most of these people's works were bought wholesale, shipped to more remote places and sold at large prices, and if it weren't for these people, it would have been a little difficult for their scroll potions to be sold at the academy.