There were indeed many dwarves in the Falling Rain Valley.
After half a year of construction, the new dwarven tribe had basically taken shape.
Now, in addition to the majority of the dwarves from the Norman tribe and the Angola tribe, there were also several dwarven tribes that Xu Yi had Patriarch Siluka and Patriarch Monto take the initiative to contact them.
Now, in this new tribe, the number of dwarves had reached an astonishing two thousand, almost filling up the completed part of the new tribe.
A month ago, when President Cruz saw the scene of the dwarves moving in, he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth. This was because he had never seen so many dwarves together in his life.
One must know that even if all the dwarves in the Lampari Kingdom were gathered together, it was very likely that there would not be more than fifty thousand dwarves. But in this small settlement, there were already more than two thousand dwarves.
It was no wonder that Satsuma City Lord had specially told Xu Yi to look after these dwarves and not let them cause any trouble because of living together.
Regarding this, Xu Yi naturally agreed. As for the way to deal with it, it was very simple. That was to arrange work for these dwarves.
For a straightforward and honest race like the dwarves, being able to eat and drink was already enough to satisfy them. As long as they accepted the work that Xu Yi arranged for them, not only would they be able to eat their fill, they would also be able to get a salary. This allowed them to use their salary to buy some good things to improve their lives.
Although because of work, Xu Yi strictly limited them and didn't allow them to drink as they wished, this was only limited during work and he didn't care when they weren't working.
Not to mention, every once in a while, Xu Yi would have people send a few carts of wine from the Sird Manor. He would choose a beautiful night to hold a wine party for them to drink to their heart's content.
This kind of life, for all the dwarves, was a perfect life that they couldn't even dream of when they were hiding in the mountains!
Since this was the case, how could they have any thoughts of causing trouble?
On the contrary, they were grateful that Xu Yi could help them achieve such a beautiful life. Whether it was the dwarves of the Norman tribe or the Angola tribe, or the other dwarves who moved in later, they could be said to have done their best to complete the work that Xu Yi had given them.
And just like President Cruz's evaluation, the dwarves were strong, had good physiques, and had more dexterous hands than ordinary people. Therefore, they were the most perfect workers.
Under the efforts of these dwarves, the development of the Falling Rain Valley was extremely fast, almost one day after another.
Before the Falling Rain Road was completed, the dwarves had already flattened the ground of the Falling Rain Valley and made preparations for the construction of factories.
When the Falling Rain Road was finished, large amounts of goods were quickly transported through the Falling Rain Road. The dwarves worked together with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce workers who joined later, greatly changing the Falling Rain Valley in just a short period of time.
Compared to the first time Xu Yi came here to inspect the Falling Rain Valley, the current Falling Rain Valley had already become a large construction site.
Other than the new dwarven tribe that was still being built in the living area, in the area close to the Falling Rain Road, there were large factories that were being built.
According to Xu Yi's plan, the Falling Rain Valley would be used as the production base for the New Flyer.
In the Falling Rain Valley, Xu Yi had arranged a special workshop for each household magic machine.
As for these workshops, each one of them was several times bigger than the Sandton Manor's household magic machine workshop. It was enough to hold several hundred workers at the same time.
When building these workshops, chairman Cruz had asked Xu Yi a question.
He felt that with the current scale of the New Flyer's factory in the Sandton Manor, it was enough to produce household magic machines that could satisfy the needs of Banta City and the surrounding cities. Why was there a need to build all these large workshops in the Falling Rain Valley?
Xu Yi repulsed his question with a single sentence.
"Could it be that our New Flyer's goal is only Banta City and the surrounding cities?"
But no matter how many factories were built and how big they were, it was impossible for them to fill up the Falling Rain Valley that was over ten square kilometers.
Other than the living area and the light industrial base, in Xu Yi's plan, the largest area in the Falling Rain Valley should be the heavy industrial base under the name of the New Flyer.
But whether it was for the entire Sines or New Flyer, the heavy industrial base was still in its infancy.
Other than the production magic machine workshop, the only heavy industrial base under the name of the New Flyer was the steel mill in the Norma Tribe.
This steel mill's monthly output had just broken six thousand tons, it was far from being able to compare to the smallest steel mill on earth.
As for becoming the large steel mill that Xu Yi wanted that could support the entire Lampari Kingdom and New Flyer, it was still far from that.
Right now this steel mill was mainly refining Silver Leaf Steel to satisfy the needs of the New Flyer's Automatic Magic Rice Cookers, Magic Bread Makers, and the new generation Magic Air Conditioners.
If they maintained this output, there was no doubt that it wouldn't meet the requirements of Xu Yi's heart. It even gradually couldn't keep up with the demand of the New Flyer.
So when Xu Yi and chairman Cruz entered the Falling Rain Valley in the horse carriage, the first thing they saw was a group of dwarves lifting a three meter tall and close to two meter wide furnace. Then they placed the furnace on a tall support.
"This thing really is spectacular." This was chairman Cruz's first time seeing this thing, so he couldn't help praising it.
"This is just a small one, you'll see something even more spectacular in the future." Xu Yi looked down on chairman Cruz's ignorance in his heart.
Indeed, compared to the large converters on earth that could reach several dozen tons or even over a hundred tons, this converter that Xu Yi had designed based on his memories and researched with the dwarves could only smelt ten tons of raw materials at a time. It wasn't on the same level in terms of steel making ability.
But this was the first real converter on the Sines, so it meant that the steel mill would gradually break away from relying on the dwarves to make steel and their efficiency would greatly increase.
According to Xu Yi's estimates, if this converter could be used with a series of other steel making equipment, the output of the steel mill would increase by several times. It was even possible for it to break through twenty thousand tons a month.
Moreover, this was only the first set of experimental equipment. If they waited until the entire set of equipment was tested and they made corresponding improvements, the steel mill would be able to put in several more sets of the same equipment. At that time, the output of the steel mill would definitely explode.
Thinking of the situation of the steel mill producing large amounts of steel in the future, Xu Yi couldn't help feeling a bit excited.
The so called machine, no matter how high the level of technology it had, it was still made of various kinds of steel.
If they couldn't guarantee a sufficient supply of steel, then modern industry was just a castle in the air, without any foundation to speak of.
For the countries on earth, if they wanted to evaluate their industrial strength, the most important data was their steel production.
If a country's steel production was still at a very low level, then there was no need to talk about their industrial strength.
Thinking of this, the shadow of Great Magician Camilla appeared in Xu Yi's mind.
While researching the steel making equipment, Xu Yi and the dwarves had encountered a very important problem, which was how to increase the speed of smelting iron ore.
If they followed the dwarves' old method and used a shaft furnace to smelt iron, not only would it be slow, it would also take up a lot of space. It would be very bad for the entire steel mill.
So Xu Yi brought up this problem to discuss with Great Magician Camilla, but Great Magician Camilla directly looked down on him.
In Great Magician Camilla's eyes, the dwarves using coal to increase the temperature of the furnace wasn't enough at all.
In terms of Fire Magic, there were many High Level Spells that could produce temperatures that far surpassed the temperature of burning coal.
After discussing it with Xu Yi, Great Magician Camilla finally decided to use the Ninth Grade Fire Spell, the Bursting Flames Spell.
Now that the steel mill was using a furnace, there was a Bursting Flames Spell Array that Great Magician Camilla had personally placed.
Compared to coal smelting, once the Explosive Flame Spell Array was activated, the temperature would rise very quickly, and the speed of smelting ores would also be much faster. Therefore, only a slightly smaller smelting furnace was needed to coordinate with the speed of the converter to greatly increase the overall efficiency.
The most important thing was that this furnace didn't need to consume coal, rather it only needed to consume Magic Crystals.
Compared to coal, not only was the cost of Magic Crystals countless times lower, it also didn't have any pollution.
Thinking of this, it was even more convenient than the Arc Smelting Furnace on earth, Xu Yi couldn't help giving another sigh.
Even if Sines couldn't compare to earth's technology, with something like magic, it was naturally much better than earth's industrial development.
Xu Yi was thinking about the meaning of this steel mill, but chairman Cruz on the other side noticed the small mountains of old Magic Fans, Magic Rice Cookers, and Magic Air Conditioners beside the steel mill.
"Xu Yi, your New Flyer's exchange event, it can't be that you want to take back these old Magic Fans and smelt them again, right?" Chairman Cruz pointed at the small mountains and asked this.
"Of course, otherwise why would we take them back?" Xu Yi said.
Chairman Cruz shook his head, "This isn't worth it.
According to your exchange event, just an old Magic Fan is worth fifty silver coins, but if it's smelted, at most it's just a few pounds of scrap iron. It might not even be worth ten silver coins.
If you do this, you might as well just buy iron ore from the Falcao Chamber of Commerce. "
"First, the price of iron ore has increased by quite a bit, so this old Magic Fan can be sold for thirty silver coins as scrap iron, so we won't lose that much." Xu Yi said with a smile.
"Second, the Magic Fans, Magic Air Conditioners, Magic Rice Cookers, and other products that our New Flyer made last year were all made with old technology and normal pig iron, so the quality isn't that good.
If we take them back now and exchange them for our New Flyer's new generation products, we can avoid problems with their quality and affect our New Flyer's reputation. "
"Reputation?"
Chairman Cruz looked at Xu Yi in surprise before saying with a sigh, "Although a company's reputation is very important, it shouldn't be this important to you, right?"
"You might not understand if we're talking about reputation, but alright, I'll tell you. This is called building a brand, do you understand?"
"I don't understand this at all." Chairman Cruz immediately shook his head.
"Alright, to put it simply, if there were two Magic Fans in front of you and one of them was our New Flyer's Xinfei Brand Magic Fan and the other was another brand of Magic Fan made by another guild, if the two Magic Fans had the same price, which one would you choose?" Xu Yi asked.
"Nonsense, of course I'd buy your Xinfei Brand Magic Fan.
How could the other companies' Magic Fans be as good as the Xinfei Brand? "Chairman Cruz replied without any hesitation.
"Then what if the other brands' Magic Fans had a lower price than the Xinfei Brand?
Which one would you choose? "Xu Yi then asked.
"That depends on how much lower it is.
If it's just a bit lower, I'll definitely choose the Xinfei Brand Magic Fan.
If it's much lower ….. "Chairman Cruz hesitated a bit before replying," I'll still choose the Xinfei Brand Magic Fan.
No matter what, if I buy this thing, I hope it's good enough. If it's bad, I'll just be wasting money. "
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, "Do you understand the use of a brand now?"
Chairman Cruise was stunned for a moment before he realized what was going on.
When he looked at Xu Yi again, there was a trace of admiration in his eyes.