Freeman and the other company representatives who were late because of the storm that broke the bridge and destroyed the road arrived at the Marquess Of Southguard's territory. Xu Yi met with everyone and talked to them for a bit before returning to the Principality of Constantine.
Although he didn't achieve all his goals in the Malor Empire, not only did he reach many agreements with the Marquess Of Southguard, he also made contact with some high level people of the Malor Empire through the Marquess Of Southguard, reaching some agreements.
Although the Marquess Of Southguard's old friend Duke Makaros was still doubtful about the agricultural magic machines in the New Flyer, before Xu Yi left, he had suddenly sent someone over. He told Xu Yi that he could give a third of the farmland on his territory to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce during the fall harvest.
He wanted to use this as an experiment to see if the amazing agricultural magic machines that Xu Yi mentioned could really achieve this amazing effect.
Other than the stubborn Duke Makaros, the other nobles of the Malor Empire that the Marquess Of Southguard introduced were all willing to give it a try.
So in just this fall harvest, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce had received the task of harvesting over three hundred thousand hectares of farmland from the Malor Empire, which could be considered a large business deal.
Moreover, these nobles had promised that if the Cantona Chamber of Commerce really showed the amazing and incredible harvesting efficiency that Xu Yi mentioned, they would seriously consider giving the Cantona Chamber of Commerce the responsibility of replanting the fields.
Compared to harvesting, this was truly a large business deal.
As the chairman, Cantona attached great importance to this chance to enter the Malor Empire's agricultural market. He stayed on the Marquess Of Southguard's territory almost all day, leading his subordinates to carefully inspect the farmland on his territory. He had to give them a perfect answer during the fall harvest.
For this, Cantona found Xu Yi, hoping that the New Flyer could provide the Cantona Chamber of Commerce with agricultural magic machines and construction magic machines, ensuring that the Cantona Chamber of Commerce could smoothly complete this task.
Xu Yi of course strongly supported this. Through his negotiations, the Drake Duchy gave up a part of the agricultural magic machine order to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.
Accordingly, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce had to pay the price of helping the Drake Duchy reconstruct their farmland in the next two years.
Of course, the negotiations between the two sides weren't related to Xu Yi. What he needed to do first was to return to the New Flight Commerce Main Base in the Principality of Constantine, preparing for the large demand that the Malor Empire was about to receive.
The production capacity of the New Flyer had always been a large problem for Xu Yi. Even if Sancheli's research on the automatic production magic machines was progressing, greatly increasing the automation of the New Flyer factories, there were many restrictions on the increase in production capacity. It couldn't be increased to a level that satisfied Xu Yi.
Among these restrictions, the most important was the problem of manpower.
The problem of manpower wasn't just a simple lack of manpower, the decisive factor was the lack of technicians.
It should be said that after the New Flyer promoted the concept of magic machine training, there were more and more people who could operate the production magic machines, so this problem wasn't that serious.
But in terms of magicians, it was very hard for the New Flyer to solve this real problem.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce didn't just need normal magicians, they had to have a certain understanding of magic machines. They had to know the requirements of the Magic Arrays that each magic machine needed and they had to be professional magicians who could set up the Magic Arrays.
In the early days of the New Flyer, the requirements weren't that high. After all, if there were magicians willing to work for the New Flyer, Xu Yi was already very satisfied, so how could he dare be picky.
But as the New Flyer's development became better, Xu Yi placed more importance on the development of the magic machine industry. He began to have high requirements for the various magic machines that the New Flyer made, so it wasn't enough to satisfy Xu Yi's needs like before.
Moreover, as the New Flyer kept instilling the concept of magic machine standardization into the other magic machine companies, the New Flyer had to strictly follow this standard when making their own magic machines.
Like this, there were even stricter requirements for the low grade magicians in charge of setting up the Magic Arrays.
Last time Sir Alex Ferguson brought fifty magicians to the New Flyer to solve their livelihood problem, but Xu Yi had clearly stated that these magicians couldn't meet the requirements of the New Flyer and the reason was this.
If they didn't receive the corresponding training and work experience, there wasn't a single magician that could easily do the work of the New Flyer.
So even if the New Flyer had a strong reputation and influence in the surrounding countries, making the magicians of the surrounding countries, especially the low grade magicians, not only did they no longer resist working for the New Flyer, they even rushed to work for the New Flyer. However, the New Flyer was very picky and strictly screened the magicians that wanted to work for the New Flyer.
As a result, even though the New Flyer had always wanted to expand its production and increase its capacity, it had been very difficult for it to do so due to the limitations of the magicians.
So when Sir Alex Ferguson suddenly came to the door on behalf of the Magician's Union Headquarters and proposed to work with the New Flyer, even if Xu Yi had some misgivings in his heart, he still had great expectations. He hoped that the cooperation with the Magician's Union Headquarters could truly solve this problem.
In the few months that Sir Alex Ferguson had left, the Lampari Kingdom Sorcerers Guild organized a magic machine industry conference smoothly held.
In the beginning, it was only held once every half a month, but because it was unexpectedly popular with most of the low grade magicians in the Lampari Kingdom, the frequency of the conference gradually increased. Now, it was held once every week, and a total of eleven conferences had been held so far.
In the conferences, the New Flyer sent out many of the magicians that worked for the New Flyer to speak and explain their work in the New Flyer in detail to the other low grade magicians who participated in the conferences. This allowed the low grade magicians to have a deeper understanding and concept of the magic machine industry.
After eleven conferences were held, countless low grade magicians became more interested in participating in the magic machine industry under the influence of the magician lecturers sent by the New Flyer.
However, they were different from before when they had no clue. Now, after eleven conferences, they had a clear understanding of the industry in their hearts.
Just like the conclusion given by the Magic Research Institute of New Flying Chamber of Commerce, the magic machine industry was an incomparably large system. There were countless types of research and practical work that required a large number of magicians to do. They didn't need to be proficient in everything. They only needed to focus on one aspect like magic to meet the requirements of being qualified.
Therefore, when the New Flyer announced that it would be opening a magic machine industry college in the Principality of Constantine to teach the knowledge related to the magic machine industry, in just half a month, there were more than two thousand beginner and second rank magicians who came to sign up.
Even some third rank and higher magicians expressed their willingness to enter the college to further their knowledge related to the magic machine industry. This made the college immediately become the focus of attention of all the low grade magicians in the nearby countries.
Moreover, the New Flyer also gave special preferential treatment to this magic machine industry college.
As long as one was willing to sign an agreement with the New Flyer, promising that once one was willing to work for a chamber of commerce related to the magic machine industry, they would have priority in choosing the New Flyer, and they would be able to enjoy free tuition.
If one was willing to accept some of the conditions, they could even enjoy free living expenses.
These two conditions were undoubtedly infinitely attractive to the low grade magicians who were not in good financial situations. Therefore, even if a few newspapers criticized the New Flyer's actions as a naked attack of money and an insult to the noble magicians, there were still countless low grade magicians who chose to accept the New Flyer's conditions without hesitation.
When Xu Yi returned from the Malor Empire, he received a report that the number of low grade magicians who were willing to sign the agreement to give the New Flyer priority employment rights had already reached 1316. Moreover, more than half of them, more than seven hundred, were willing to accept the harsher conditions proposed by the New Flyer.
At the same time, there were also large numbers of low grade magicians from the Lampari Kingdom and the surrounding countries who came to sign up for the Xinfei Magic Machine Industry College.
If nothing unexpected happened, these two numbers would continue to increase.
This situation was not out of Xu Yi's expectations. After all, the magicians in the surrounding countries had long been used to the existence of the magic machine industry, and were not as opposed to it as they were in the beginning.
Furthermore, the New Flyer had offered such excellent conditions that the low grade magicians who had no financial foundation or other support had no possibility of rejecting.
Xu Yi did not expect these low grade magicians to grow into talents in the magic machine industry who were qualified to work for the New Flyer, but he believed that with the large number of people, he could at least pick out a few suitable people.
Most importantly, through this action, the magicians in the surrounding countries would form a concept that studying magic and becoming a powerful magician would no longer be their only way out.
Not every magician had the talent to become a great magician or even an archmage. Therefore, other than focusing on the study of magic, they could choose to devote themselves to the magic machine industry.
This was something that Xu Yi hoped that the Magician's Union Headquarters could understand.