Volume 1 Chapter 121 (1/2)

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After manager Riley found an excuse to leave, Seveni revealed a smile with some extra meaning to Xu Yi as she said, “Chairman Xu, it seems like your partners in Banta City aren’t too happy with you?”

Xu Yi laughed and acted like he was surprised as she said, “Young miss Seveni, what are you saying? The large companies of our Banta City are good partners from the Business union, how could there be dissatisfaction? You must have mistaken something.”

Seveni smile and didn’t waste time pursuing this topic. She looked at the magic machine workshop she had just toured under Xu Yi’s guidance and thought about it before saying, “Chairman Xu, you just said that you are planning to use around a month to develop some new production magic machines to raise the production of agricultural magic machines. Are you confident in researching and developing these production magic machines?”

“Of course.” Xu Yi said responded in a very certain voice, “Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has large amounts of experience in developing production magic machines. Now that we have a powerful backing like Great Magician Camilla, I am certain it will succeed this time.”

Seveni softly shook her head, “Chairman Xu, you didn’t tell the truth. From the situation in Banta City and the information I’ve gathered in the past few days, the key of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is still you, this chairman. Whether it was the Magic Fan in the beginning or the agricultural magic machines that are important to the agricultural department, these magic machines all came from you and you played the most important part. So I don’t want to ask if your Frestech Chamber of Commerce can do this or not, I just want to ask you, do you have the confidence?”

Xu Yi looked at Seveni and noticed that her expression was very serious, without a trace of lies. It made people unable to not believe her words.

“Young miss Seveni, if I as the chairman didn’t have confidence, our Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have disbanded already, don’t you think?” Xu Yi asked back.

Seveni looked over the smile on Xu Yi’s face for a while before giving a slight nod, “I hope that chairman Xu will always be filled with confidence. Alright, I believe that you will develop the new production magic machines in a month and that the agricultural magic machines will be integrated into mass production. But chairman Xu, I have a question about the mass production you mentioned. According to what you said, if you can change the production line, the agricultural magic machine production rate can be increased by over ten times. But like this, will they be able to maintain the same quality? I feel that for anything, to maintain quality, one needs to be stringent.”

“The idea of being stringent is good, but young miss Seveni, your thoughts are being used in the wrong place. Going from hand building agricultural magic machines to using machines to mass produce is changing to a completely different method. Although the quantity has been increased, that does not mean the quality will be decreased like you said. If we use strict standards to guide it, the produced agricultural magic machines might even be of higher quality than hand produced ones.” Xu Yi pointed at the household magic machine workshop to the side and said, “In that workshops just now, you saw the first batch of Magic Fans and the newest batch of Magic Fans. Which do you think has the higher quality?”

“Of course it’s the newest batch of Magic Fans.” Seveni replied without any hesitation.

“Like you have seen, although the first batch of Magic Fans were made purely by the best craftsmen in Banta City, its quality can’t compare to the newest batch of Magic Fans assembled from the components made from the production magic machines. Although people are more flexible than machines, when it comes to mass production, human power comes far from being able to compare to machines. If his majesty just wants three thousand agricultural magic machines, I could just have the dwarven craftsmen finish them with their hands alone. But his majesty has requested thirty thousand units and even more, so unless we complete this with machine power, there is no other choice.”

Seveni thought about this before giving a slight nod, “Perhaps you’re right, but without seeing the products it produces first, I still have this doubt. I hope chairman Xu will not disappoint me.”

“Relax, I promise you won’t be disappointed.” Xu Yi revealed a smile before pausing and saying, “Young miss Seveni, I think you should know now that the ones making those agricultural magic machines for our company are those dwarves. Can you help me solve a problem?”

“Chairman Xu does not need to be this polite. My main task in coming here is to help the Frestech Chamber of Commerce complete his majesty’s orders. As long as your request will help complete these orders, you can mention them all.” Seveni said with a smile.

“That’s good.” Xu Yi didn’t stay polite as he continued, “Although those dwarves had been working for the company for several months, because they are dwarves in the end, they never received any certification from the kingdom. It makes it quite inconvenient for them to live here. Young miss Seveni, can you help solve this problem?”

“The kingdom has laws pertaining to this. As long as races other than humans fulfill these conditions, they can become citizens of the kingdom. I believe chairman Xu should know about this, right?” Seveni asked back.