This was indeed good news.
After considering Xu Yi's request to lease land, His Majesty the King had actually given his preliminary approval!
As for the specifics, His Majesty the King would only give the matter serious consideration after Xu Yi submitted a detailed proposal explaining his purpose for leasing the land and how he intended to use it.
Even that consideration was contingent on the Xinfei Merchant Guild completing the first batch of Farmland Magic Machinery by the deadline. Otherwise, there would be nothing to discuss.
Of course, for the Xinfei Merchant Guild, which had already successfully developed a series of Magic Power Forging Machine Tools, that condition posed no difficulty at all.
Compared with production at the Magic Machine Tool Workshop, which was already running smoothly, Xu Yi always cared more about technological research and development.
The workers from the Magic Machine Tool Workshop had all moved into the new workshop, so Xu Yi had converted the old workshop into a dedicated Magic Machine Tool Research Workshop.
Thirteen of the most technically experienced dwarf craftsmen, including Canby and Potteru, now worked there exclusively on developing magic machine tools.
Although the Magic Power Forging Machine Tools were ready for use, this was only an initial success. Both Xu Yi and the dwarves, including Canby, felt these magic machine tools still had plenty of room for improvement.
In fact, if the deadlines for the orders from His Majesty the King and the Agriculture Bureau had not been so tight, Canby and the other dwarves would have preferred another three months before considering these magic machine tools essentially complete.
But as a renowned mechanical engineer on Earth, Xu Yi knew perfectly well that developing a machine tool should never take only a single month, nor would adding another three months suffice.