"President Xu, are these streetlights difficult to install?" Princess Caroline asked Xu Yi, pointing at the streetlights lining the roads in Falling Rain Valley.
"From my perspective, not particularly," Xu Yi replied with a smile.
"Meaning they're very difficult from mine?"
Xu Yi smiled. "Exactly. The technology behind the streetlights isn't complicated, but right now, only our Xinfei Merchant Guild has mastered it. Naturally, it's difficult for anyone else."
"I've heard that your Xinfei Merchant Guild has sold several fairly important technologies before, so clearly you aren't someone who insists on keeping everything in his own hands. In that case, I'd like to ask: what terms would we have to meet to purchase the technology for installing these streetlights?" Princess Caroline asked.
Seeing Princess Caroline deliberately adopt another seductive expression and pose, Xu Yi smiled and shook his head. "I'm sorry, but we have no plans to sell this technology at present. It actually incorporates many of the most advanced magic array technologies our guild is researching, so we can't disclose it."
Princess Caroline did not seem disappointed. She continued, "Then what about other technologies you can disclose? The manufacturing technology for farmland magic machinery, for instance. I imagine that isn't anything particularly sensitive?"
"Unfortunately, although the manufacturing technology for farmland magic machinery isn't something we absolutely cannot disclose, the most important requirement for making it isn't the technical specifications. It's skilled workers with extensive practical experience. I suspect... you won't find qualified workers anywhere outside our Xinfei Merchant Guild."
"Is that so?" Princess Caroline recalled what she had seen while touring Falling Rain Valley over the past few days and realized that Xu Yi was not deliberately lying to put her off.
The dwarf workers and the handful of human workers producing the various magic machine tools clearly possessed