Xu Yi had to admit that he had underestimated the people of the Sains Continent.
He had originally thought that magic machinery was something new to the Sains Continent, and that people would need a great deal of time just to accept it, let alone begin researching it themselves. He had therefore always believed that his dream of establishing a complete industrial system on this continent would take an extremely long time to realize. He might not even live to see it happen.
Reality, however, had mercilessly proved him wrong.
Not only had the people of Bunta City accepted magic machinery very shortly after its introduction, but after His Majesty the King and the Agriculture Bureau announced their plans to cooperate with the Xinfei Merchant Guild, countless merchant guilds dealing in magic machinery had sprung up throughout the Lampari Kingdom practically overnight.
Although none of these merchant guilds could yet compare to the Xinfei Merchant Guild in scale, and most of their magic machinery imitated its early products, they could still make a handsome profit in regions its sales network had yet to reach.
What truly surprised and astonished Xu Yi, however, was that Freeman and these other ordinary farmers from Bunta City had actually drawn on their experience using Small Magic Harvesters and come up with the idea of manufacturing parts for them under contract!
Xu Yi could not help admiring their business sense.
He gladly agreed to Freeman's idea, first sending them to tour the factory before personally giving them some guidance.
Xu Yi endorsed their proposal to buy a few Magic Machine Tools to manufacture components, but he did not agree to let them take on contracts for large components.
Given their current technical skills and shallow understanding of magic machinery, rushing into the production of large