Riff, the deputy of President Lanke of the Salank Merchant Guild, was riding in the first carriage. He had met Xu Yi at several Commercial Association meetings, and when he saw him suddenly appear, he hurriedly had the carriage stop.
"President Xu, how come you have time to stroll around the city today?" Riff was in his early forties, with a slightly plump face. His smile looked a little like President Morgan's of the Falkor Merchant Guild, but he seemed far more approachable.
"No, I just finished discussing something with the city lord and came out for a walk," Xu Yi replied casually. He looked at the carriages behind him. "Looks like this trip went well for you. Did you sell all those Magic Fans?"
Riff smiled broadly. "Thanks to your suggestion, President Xu, we've sold every Magic Fan we had in stock. To tell you the truth, demand for Magic Fans is still very strong in other parts of the kingdom."
Xu Yi nodded slightly, thinking that this was obvious.
Last year, when the Xinfei Merchant Guild had only just been established, its Magic Fans had sparked a craze in Bunta City and several neighboring cities as soon as they went on sale. That was ample proof of the impact this novel Magic Machinery had on the people of the Sains Continent.
There was no reason people in Bunta City and its neighboring cities would need them while people elsewhere in the Lampari Kingdom would not.
Still, Riff was right. The Salank Merchant Guild had indeed begun selling the Magic Fans it produced in other parts of the kingdom because of Xu Yi's suggestion.
At that joint meeting of the Commercial Association, Xu Yi had demonstrated one fact to the presidents of the Federation's other merchant guilds: their technology