Just last week, Sir Alex Ferguson once again represented the Magician's Union Headquarters in the Principality of Constantine to meet with Xu Yi.
This time, Sir Alex Ferguson brought the final decision of the Magician's Union Headquarters.
According to the decision of the Magician's Union Headquarters, they approved and supported New Flyer's proposal to set up a magic machine industry academy to train low-level mages to grasp the theoretical basis of magic archery.
The Magicians Guild headquarters said that in the name of the Sines Continent's Magicians Guild, they would officially recognize the existence of the magic machine industry to all the magicians on the continent.
Obtaining the official recognition of the Magician's Union Headquarters also meant that the magic machine industry represented by New Flyer was officially recognized by the Sorcerers Guild. It would be clearly different from the other commercial industries on the continent.
The mages on the continent more or less despised merchants, but they were limited by their personal livelihood and had to force themselves to deal with merchants.
Now that the Magician's Union Headquarters had specifically mentioned the magic machine industry and specially recognized it, it gave many mages a reason to officially set foot in the magic machine industry.
For Xu Yi, this was already enough.
The reason why New Flyer had such a hard time recruiting mages was actually because of the issue of face.
For high-grade magic casters, joining a merchant guild was already lowering their status. Joining a merchant guild as a researcher was even more unacceptable.
The reason why the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could recruit all these magicians, other than the good treatment the Frestech Chamber of Commerce gave, the main reason was because of the golden signboard of Arch Magus Camilla.
Now that the magic machine industry had been officially recognized by the Magician's Union Headquarters, coupled with the Magician's Union Headquarters' announcement that they would announce New Flyer as one of the merchants that the Magician's Union Headquarters cooperated with, there was no psychological barrier for mages to join New Flyer.
As for the Magic Industry Academy set up by the Xinfei Union, it was even more of a blessing for those low level magicians.
According to New Flyer, they didn't even need to pay tuition fees to join this school. At the same time, after graduation, they had a great chance of joining New Flyer and getting a good job.
For most of the low-level mages who were not in a good financial situation, not to mention being able to support the research of magic, even leveling up was a problem. This was undoubtedly a great thing that had fallen from the sky.
For New Flyer, the official support of the Magician's Union Headquarters would not only allow New Flyer to recruit a large number of magicians to work for the Chamber of Commerce, but it would also allow Xinfei Magic Machine Industry Academy to recruit a large number of low-level magicians as a reserve for future talents. This was extremely beneficial for New Flyer's current and long-term development.
Therefore, at the beginning, his conversation with Sir Alex Ferguson was extremely pleasant. Xu Yi also seized the opportunity to raise another new proposal to Sir Alex Ferguson.
Xu Yi proposed that the Magician's Union Headquarters approve New Flyer's sponsorship of the Lampari Kingdom's annual Sorcerers Guild qualification test. For this, New Flyer could pay 100,000 gold coins to the Lampari Kingdom's Sorcerers Guild every year as a sponsorship fee.
Although Sir Alex Ferguson was very puzzled by Xu Yi's proposal of "sponsorship" and "sponsorship fee", it was very easy to understand after Xu Yi's explanation.
From Sir Alex Ferguson's personal point of view, this was undoubtedly a good thing.
This was because each country's Sorcerers Guild didn't actually have any means of income. The funds to maintain operations were almost all allocated by the Magician's Union Headquarters and the special funds of the country.
Because the Lampari Kingdom's national strength had always been weak, they didn't have much money themselves. Therefore, the special funds allocated to the Lampari Kingdom's Sorcerers Guild were even less.
According to Sir Alex Ferguson's memories, the Lampari Kingdom's Sorcerers Guild used to report to the Magician's Union Headquarters every year that they had financial difficulties. This was because the special funds they received from the Lampari Kingdom were only 50,000 gold coins a year.
Even if the annual allocation of 30,000 gold coins from the Magician's Union Headquarters was added, the total funds for the Lampari Kingdom's Sorcerers Guild's activities were only 80,000 gold coins a year.
With such a small amount of funds, it was already difficult to maintain the basic operations of the Lampari Kingdom's Magician's Union Headquarters, not to mention the various activities of the Sorcerers Guild. Naturally, it was even more difficult to make ends meet.
Now that New Flyer was willing to support the Lampari Kingdom's Sorcerers Guild with 100,000 gold coins a year, this would greatly improve the financial situation of the Lampari Kingdom's Sorcerers Guild. This was undoubtedly a good thing.
However, Sir Alex Ferguson didn't immediately agree.
First of all, this matter was related to the Lampari Kingdom's Sorcerers Guild. He didn't have the authority to make this decision alone. Secondly, it was too novel for a Chamber of Commerce to be the "sponsor" of a country's Sorcerers Guild's qualification test. Of course, a decision had to be made after a good discussion.
Of course, Sir Alex Ferguson was full of praise for Xu Yi's proposal. He expressed that as the chairman of a special Chamber of Commerce that had a close relationship with Mages, Xu Yi was indeed very willing to consider the Mages. The Magician's Union Headquarters had made the right decision to list New Flyer as an official Chamber of Commerce partner …
However, after Xu Yi made this proposal, the atmosphere of the conversation between the two of them instantly changed.
The reason was because of a request that Sir Alex Ferguson made on behalf of the Magician's Union Headquarters.
Previously, New Flyer had already reached an agreement with the Magician's Union Headquarters. New Flyer would transfer a piece of magic machine-related technology to the Magician's Union Headquarters every year. This was considered a condition in exchange for the support that New Flyer received from the Magician's Union Headquarters.
Originally, this wasn't a big deal. Xu Yi also knew that the Sorcerers Guild wanted to take a share of the profits from the magic machine industry. This was understandable.
However, the request that Sir Alex Ferguson made on behalf of the Magician's Union Headquarters this time made Xu Yi shocked and enraged.
The Magician's Union Headquarters said that because there were changes to the various magic patents that New Flyer had applied to the Magician's Union Headquarters, they needed to be re-examined.
In order to ensure that the examination was strict and fair, the Magician's Union Headquarters requested that New Flyer submit all the information related to these patents.
When Sir Alex Ferguson made this request, his expression was very casual and his tone was very natural, like it was natural.
However, Xu Yi was so angry that he almost cursed out.
Could he be even more shameless!
Submit all the information related to these patents?
Wasn't that equal to giving away all the technology related to these patents!
Sir Alex Ferguson's casual words had a heavy weight behind them.
The reason why Xu Yi spent so much effort to have the Lampuri Sorcerers Guild propose this innovation to the Magician's Union Headquarters was because he wanted to imitate the patent laws on earth and protect New Flyer's patents.
But he never thought that the Magician's Union Headquarters would actually steal what they were guarding!
If it wasn't for Xu Yi's calm personality and adding in the fact that he had been the New Flyer's chairman for many years, he wouldn't have been able to stop himself from angrily cursing Sir Alex Ferguson and the Magician's Union Headquarters he represented.
Sir Alex Ferguson who sensed Xu Yi's emotions coldly threw down a few words.
"If New Flyer can't provide all the information, then the patents won't be able to pass the examination of the Magician's Union Headquarters and will be declared invalid, no longer receiving the protection of the Magician's Union Headquarters.
Chairman Xu, please think about the consequences. "
Xu Yi resisted the urge to kick him. He had told Sir Alex Ferguson that the company needed to discuss this before making a decision, so he had ended the meeting between the two of them.
However, it had been a week since that meeting, and Xu Yi still hadn't called for an internal meeting to discuss this matter.
This was because in his opinion, there was no need to discuss this matter at all. He would never agree to it.
However, Sir Alex Ferguson had already made the consequences of not agreeing to it very clear.
The Magician's Union Headquarters would no longer provide protection for these patents, which meant that anyone could freely borrow and copy the designs of New Flyer without bearing any responsibility.
Xu Yi was even certain that the person who wanted to do this was the Magician's Union Headquarters themselves.
Therefore, Xu Yi was now faced with a very serious problem.
Without the protection of the Magician's Union Headquarters, this meant that the various magic research of the New Flyer Research Institute could be freely used by other magicians.
In fact, although magic played an important role in the various magic machines produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the magic designs were usually very low level and rarely involved high level magic.
If an advanced magician were to focus on research, it wasn't impossible to completely crack the secrets of the magic arrays used in these magic machines.
Moreover, the design of these magic machines wasn't particularly complicated, so it wasn't particularly difficult to copy them. Therefore, Xu Yi was almost certain that as long as the Magician's Union Headquarters announced that the various magic patents registered by New Flyer in the Magician's Union Headquarters were invalid, then there would be a lot of fake magic machines all over the place.
Although Xu Yi believed that the manufacturing of magic machines wasn't something that could be solved by copying, Xu Yi was worried that the magic machines that New Flyer had painstakingly built would represent a kind of novel, exquisite, and infinitely convenient image that would be damaged if there were too many fake products.
Most importantly, the loss of such an important restriction like patent protection would cause chaos in the industry.
Without order and rules, it would be very harmful to the development of the magic machine industry.
This was the point that Xu Yi was worried about because of the request from the Magician's Union Headquarters.
As for the solution ….. It wasn't that Xu Yi didn't have one, but the hidden dangers of this solution made him unable to make a decision.
However, after receiving the letter from Seveni today, thinking about how the Lampari Kingdom and the Kingdom of Ruhr had already started building the magic machine industry according to his plan, if nothing unexpected happened, the Kandla Empire and the Malor Empire would also start building the magic machine industry. Xu Yi felt that he couldn't hesitate any longer.
After thinking about it, Xu Yi stood up and headed to Teacher Carmilla's private laboratory.