Even if there were many people in Banta City who treated Xu Yi as an existence that could turn stone into gold, he didn't immediately earn money with every investment he made.
For example, the most important project for New Flyer during this time was the non-ferrous metal mine on the Black Rice Wasteland.
Up to this point, New Flyer, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce, and the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce had invested a total of seven hundred thousand gold coins in this project.
And this didn't include the 500,000 gold coins he paid to Patriarch Voller to purchase the ore vein.
Because the non-ferrous metal smelting factory was invested solely by New Flyer, just in this project alone, New Flyer had invested over five hundred thousand gold coins.
And this was just the initial investment. To truly start mining the mine and the non-ferrous metal smelting factory, they still needed to invest a large amount of money.
So even if New Flyer was becoming bigger and bigger, earning more and more profits, the large amount of money invested in this project made Sebas who was the financial manager couldn't help knitting his brows each time.
If it was any other investment, Sebas wouldn't have any opinions. But when it came to investing in this non-ferrous metal mine, because Sebas didn't understand the future prospects of non-ferrous metals, he couldn't predict how much profit there would be in the future. So he would always remind Xu Yi to invest carefully.
Of course, Sebas was only reminding him, he wouldn't really have any opinions or questions about this.
Xu Yi had already used countless correct decisions to prove his outstanding vision. Now even Heinz wouldn't question any of Xu Yi's decisions, so the other people in the company didn't have the right to do so.
Not to mention that according to last month's financial report, although New Flyer's profits in terms of household magic machines didn't explode because they didn't release any new products, it still broke three hundred thousand gold coins.
As for the magic machine workshop, because the first batch of ten thousand agricultural magic machines ordered by the Kingdom of Ruhr was delivered, they earned six hundred and forty thousand gold coins, earning them a profit of over four hundred thousand gold coins.
Adding in the demand for various production magic machines in the Lampari Kingdom, the New Flyer's production magic machine workshop had earned over six hundred thousand gold coins last month.
If the profits from the steel mill, tire factory, and plastic processing factory were also included, the total profit of New Flyer last month was an astonishing 1.54 million gold coins!
Although with the expansion of the company, the fixed expenses each month had increased, with the wages and benefits of the employees being over a hundred thousand gold coins, in the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's net profit last month was over a million gold coins.
With the support of such strong profits, although the investment in this non-ferrous metal vein was huge, it was still within an acceptable range.
Sebas' reminder to Xu Yi was actually in hopes that Xu Yi would place more of his attention on the Chamber of Commerce's various industries, stabilizing these existing industries, and further increasing their output and profits, rather than always thinking about opening up new industries.
"Ha, ha, I understand Sebas' worries, so I came here this time to see if you've developed any new things, allowing us to earn a large amount."
Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile to the researchers of the Academy of Magic led by Evita before taking some reports from her hands.
Since he made that decision because of Stiel's advice, Xu Yi began to withdraw himself from the work of the Academy of Magic. He didn't participate in the research process like before, even explaining every step clearly. Rather he only gave some ideas and let the researchers of the Academy of Magic think about it themselves.
Although this method had the opposite effect in the beginning, causing the research progress of the Academy of Magic to greatly decrease, after some time of adaptation, the researchers of the Academy of Magic began to learn how to solve problems based on Xu Yi's ideas. Because of this, they came up with many ideas that even Xu Yi hadn't thought of before.
For example, Xu Yi had always been worried about the fact that Banta City didn't have street lamps, but because he couldn't find a suitable solution, he could only put it aside for now.
But when he threw this idea to the Academy of Magic, this problem was quickly solved.
According to the research of Akali and the others, the street lamps could be powered by long distance magic transfer technology, ensuring that the high up street lamps would be lit.
The problem that Xu Yi always found troublesome was the long distance control problem, but after Akali's careful research, they finally solved it with a very ingenious Magic Array resonance technology.
The principle of this technology was something that Akali had accidentally discovered during her research.
In that research, Akali had found that if two Magic Arrays were placed together, there would be a phenomenon of synchronization because of the similarities between the two Magic Arrays.
To put it simply, if there were two Magic Arrays that were the same, in a situation where both Magic Arrays were being supplied with magic, if one Magic Array changed, the other Magic Array would have the same change.
After Akali had deeply researched this characteristic, she found that as long as there was a special setting in the Magic Array, this characteristic could be extended to more than one Magic Array.
Based on Evita's research report, Akali could even lay down twenty Magic Arrays that were the same. Then by controlling one Magic Array, she could make the other nineteen Magic Arrays change the same way.
The problem that Xu Yi found troublesome was the long distance control problem of the street lamps. By laying down a Magic Array that was exactly the same as the Magic Arrays of the street lamps and then controlling this Magic Array, it would affect the Magic Arrays of all the street lamps and then affect the switching of all the street lamps.
According to the research report that Evita handed over, Xu Yi found that the Academy of Magic had already solved all the details of this technology during their last experiment.
Seeing the details of the experiment, Xu Yi walked out of the room and looked at the Magic Lamps scattered all over the courtyard. He turned to Akali and said, "Come, demonstrate it for me."
"Understood!"
Akali mischievously bowed and ran to a tree in the courtyard. She pointed at a round plate and introduced it to Xu Yi, "Sir chairman, look, this red button is for off and the green one is for on.
As for this one that can be twisted ….. You'll know what it's used for in a while. "
Xu Yi couldn't help rolling his eyes. This Akali, she still wanted to keep him in suspense at this time.
"Alright, let me see it first."
"Alright."
Akali replied in a clear voice. She reached out a finger to press the green button and the Magic Lamps scattered all over the courtyard lit up at the same time.
These Magic Lamps were carefully chosen by Akali and the others. Not only did each Magic Lamp have a different appearance, the light they released was also different. Adding in the fact that they were carefully placed, now that they were all lit up together, the courtyard was filled with all sorts of colours and it looked very beautiful.
"Alright, now you can twist that turntable for me to see the effect.
If my guess isn't wrong, this should be used to control the brightness of these Magic Lamps, right? "Xu Yi said with a smile.
Akali looked at Xu Yi, "Sir chairman, can't you just let me keep you in suspense, why do you have to expose it?"
Although she said this, Akali still obediently pressed the button. The light of the Magic Lamp in the yard became weaker as she twisted it.
It was very clear that when arranging these Magic Lamps, Akali and the others had used the magic power gradient technology to control the intensity of these Magic Lamps.
After letting Akali twist it two times and watching the Magic Lamps turn from strong to weak and from weak to strong, Xu Yi had Akali press the red button to turn off these Magic Lamps.
When the Magic Lamps were extinguished, Akali immediately jumped in front of Xu Yi and asked with a smile, "Sir chairman, how is it?
Our research this time is very powerful, right? "
"Un, it is indeed very powerful.
I never thought that you would be able to obtain such a large research result. "Xu Yi nodded and couldn't hide his praise.
Receiving Xu Yi's approval, Akali's smile blossomed like a flower. She turned around to look at Bella, Cecilia, and the others who had been researching with her. Then she rubbed her hands and smiled at Xu Yi before asking, "Then ….. Sir chairman, what do you think ….. Is this research enough to give us a bonus?"
"Of course it's enough." Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile.
"If such a great invention isn't enough to give you a bonus, then I think that in the future, there won't be many research results in the Academy of Magic that are worthy of a bonus."
Akali and the others were originally celebrating because Xu Yi had agreed to give them a bonus, but after hearing his words, they were all stunned.
After a while, Akali scratched her head and carefully asked Xu Yi, "Sir chairman, your evaluation of this ….. is that high?"
"Yes." Xu Yi nodded with a serious expression.
"Akali, perhaps you still don't know how important your research is, but I'm very clear that this is a very outstanding invention. It is definitely worthy of being described as great."
Akali hesitated a bit and resisted the urge to reach out her hand to touch Xu Yi's forehead.
It was only a small discovery and the colleagues in the research institute didn't treat it as anything. Why would sir chairman give such a ridiculous evaluation?
Sir chairman ….. wouldn't have a fever, right?