Coming to Anvilmar City this time, Xu Yi had many important things to do, but the most important thing was to meet the king.
There was no Sorcerers Guild exam to attend the next day, so Xu Yi canceled all his plans and rejected Erwin, Rooney, and Cooper's invitations. He calmly stayed in the office to prepare.
After eating breakfast, Xu Yi was in a rare daze for a while. Then his thoughts naturally turned to his meeting with Palmes Eren last night.
When he had first met Anke Eren at the Sorcerers Guild registration, Xu Yi had only treated him as a child with magic talent who had become too arrogant. But after chatting with Viscount Leslie and learning that this fellow was the son of the Lampari Kingdom Sorcerers Guild's chairman, Palmes Eren, Xu Yi had some thoughts.
After meeting this fellow in yesterday's exam, Xu Yi had purposely angered him and dug a hole for him to jump in. Then he had mercilessly injured him, all for the sake of having a suitable reason to visit Palmes Eren.
With Xu Yi's current status, even if he had Great Magician Camilla's special recommendation, it was impossible for him to visit the high ranking chairman of the Sorcerers Guild.
After injuring his son, Xu Yi had the right to do so.
After hearing Xu Yi's request, Palmes Eren received Xu Yi without any hesitation.
He had wanted to properly teach Xu Yi a lesson and vent his anger for his son, but Xu Yi had sincerely apologized after coming in. Adding in the fact that Xu Yi's gift was very precious, with the total value being over three hundred gold coins, it made it hard for Palmes Eren to vent his anger.
In the end, this matter was Anke Eren seeking his own humiliation, so he couldn't blame Xu Yi at all.
Xu Yi's attitude was very low, so Palmes Eren could only suppress his anger and seriously talk to Xu Yi.
Obtaining this rare chance to talk to the Sorcerers Guild's chairman, Xu Yi quickly changed the topic to his true goal. He hoped that the Sorcerers Guild could pass the Magic Array patent protection.
Xu Yi had mentioned this request to the Sorcerers Guild through Great Magician Camilla before, but it had been directly rejected.
Now that Xu Yi was mentioning it in front of Palmes Eren, of course he wouldn't be this direct. He cleverly mentioned the Magic Fan's power Magic Array protection and suggested that the New Flyer could pay a fee to the Sorcerers Guild each year, not directly mentioning the patent protection.
Although Palmes Eren didn't explicitly say anything, Xu Yi could tell that the Sorcerers Guild's chairman was very moved by Xu Yi's proposal to pay the patent protection fee.
Seeing this reaction, Xu Yi didn't continue this topic.
This was his first time meeting Palmes Eren, so there was no need to decide on such a long lasting matter in their first meeting.
It was good as long as the chairman was moved. Xu Yi believed that when Palmes Eren and the Sorcerers Guild knew that this patent protection bill would bring large amounts of profit to the Sorcerers Guild, they wouldn't need Xu Yi to do anything and they would think of a way to pass this bill.
This point was actually also applicable to Xu Yi's meeting with the king.
Xu Yi was in the end the chairman of a small company in Banta City and his status as a Primary Grade Magician that had just passed the Primary Grade exam didn't add much to his status. With his status, it was impossible for him to meet the king in a normal situation.
The reason why the king took the initiative to summon him was naturally because the agricultural magic machines produced by the New Flyer could change the farmland and increase the efficiency of the farmers.
Although Banta City had only had one fall harvest, the effects of the agricultural magic machines couldn't be ignored. So the sharp eyed Count Samo quickly reported these changes.
For the Lampari Kingdom, agriculture was without a doubt the most important thing. Anything that could increase the productivity of agriculture would definitely attract the attention of the king. So Xu Yi had the chance to be summoned by the king.
Xu Yi was very clear that this summon by the king would greatly affect his and the New Flyer's future plans.
How much support he could obtain from the king would decide the development plan of the New Flyer for a long time.
But to obtain the support of the king, it was clear that he had to show the king some benefits.
For the king, this benefit was a real increase in agriculture.
"Perhaps I should mention the importance of industrial development to the country?" Xu Yi stroked his chin. He looked at the half written plan in front of him and hesitated.
In the plan that was prepared for the king, it only mentioned using the agricultural magic machines to change the kingdom's farmland, which would greatly increase the efficiency of agriculture. In the end, it would greatly increase the grain yield, but it didn't go any further and mention the effects of liberating agricultural productivity.
As someone who had transmigrated from earth, Xu Yi was very familiar with the history of the industrial revolution on earth, so he could predict and infer these changes. But for the people of the Sines who were still in a half slave and half feudal state, this was a completely new domain.
Industrial revolution?
Large leap in productivity?
Technological innovation?
These words didn't have any corresponding words in the language of the Sines, so of course the people of the continent couldn't understand the meaning of these words.
After seriously considering it, Xu Yi decided to mention a few of these trends.
It was also a good thing to show his foresight in front of His Majesty so that he could gain more attention from His Majesty.
Of course, this foresight couldn't be too far.
There was a saying that went like this: those who were one step ahead were geniuses, and those who were ten steps ahead could only be madmen.
This plan was less than five thousand words, but Xu Yi spent an entire morning to finish it.
During this time, he not only changed the draft three times, but also carefully considered every word in the plan, trying to express his meaning as much as possible, and at the same time, to let His Majesty and his supposed advisors fully understand the meaning behind it.
After finalizing the draft, Xu Yi carefully looked it over. After making sure that he didn't miss anything, he carefully organized the plan.
Looking at the blank space above the plan, Xu Yi thought for a bit before finally writing the title "On the importance of liberating agricultural productivity".
After writing the title, Xu Yi couldn't help smiling.
With the addition of this title, this proposal was clearly like an academic paper.
Although Xu Yi had written a lot of papers since university, the previous papers were all related to mechanical engineering. This was the first time he wrote a sociological paper.
After carefully putting away the plan, Xu Yi looked at the sky outside the window and found that it was close to noon.
There was still some time before lunch. Xu Yi thought for a bit, walked out of his room, and walked to another room not far away.
He pushed open the door of the room that was obviously much smaller and saw Sancheli sitting at a table, looking at a piece of white paper and sighing in distress.
There was a pile of discarded paper next to the table. It seemed that Sancheli had been distressed for a while.
"How is it?
Still can't write it? "Xu Yi asked with a smile.
Hearing Xu Yi's voice, Sancheli suddenly raised his head. After seeing Xu Yi, he immediately cried.
After two days of rest in the courtyard, Sancheli not only changed into a clean set of new clothes, but also cleaned up his whole body. His hair and beard were also treated. He looked completely new. Other than his face being a little pale due to malnutrition, he was no different from an ordinary person.
But now, with this sad face, coupled with his face that was skinny due to starvation for a long time, it was really ugly and even frightening.
"Mr. President, didn't you say that you hired me to study magic?
Why do you want me to write some damn theory?
I don't even know what's going on. "Sancheli sighed.
Xu Yi picked up a few balls of paper from the ground and opened them. He found that some of these balls of paper had a bunch of incoherent words written on them, while others had a few diagrams drawn on them. If one looked at each ball of paper alone, no one would be able to tell what they meant.
After comparing the things on the balls of paper, Xu Yi thought for a while and stared at Sancheli. "It seems that you still don't understand what I mean.
How about this, I'll say it again.
Sancheli, the magic array used in that crystal ball of yours was developed by you, wasn't it? "
Sancheli hurriedly nodded. "Yes, I researched it by myself without anyone's help."
"Since you researched it by yourself, then you should be very familiar with all the details of this magic array, right?" Xu Yi asked again.
Sancheli immediately patted his chest. "Of course, I've studied this magic array over a thousand times. I remember every single line of the array very clearly."
"Then why can't you write it down?" Xu Yi looked at him with a frown.
"My request is only for you to write down the difference between this magic array and ordinary magic arrays. Since you know this magic array like the back of your hand, why can't you write it down?"
In fact, what Xu Yi wanted to get from Sancheli was why the magic array he designed had a trace of pre-programming ability.
If he could study this thoroughly and carry it forward, then it would definitely make the magic machines that Xu Yi hoped for leaps and bounds.