Chapter 1294: Imy Textile Factory
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
The negotiation with Scheer was much smoother than expected, and an angel investment was obtained. Mag left the bank after signing the contract.
Mag wasn’t unreasonable to ask for 10,000,000 copper coins and 10 steam engines for 10% of shares.
The textile industry had a huge market. Although Mag was only trying to find something for the Night Elves to do so they wouldn’t get themselves into trouble, once the textile factory powered by the steam engines started running, it would be a place that could continue to generate revenue for the Night Elves.
Mag could fork out 10,000,000 copper coins himself, but he understood that he couldn’t be earning all the money by himself. Giving a little interest to Scheer would be beneficial to creating new sales routes and capital flow.
“Young Mistress, he took 10,000,000 copper coins after saying a few empty words. Isn’t this a bit rushed…” the assistant said to Scheer who was inspecting the bills.
“Perhaps Mr. Mag is thinking about how much interest he has given me right now,” Scheer said smilingly without raising her head. “If he wanted to be a businessman, no one would be better at earning money than him on the entire Norland Continent.
The assistant fell silent after hearing that. Young Mistress was a great judge of character, and was rarely wrong.
Mag went to the construction workshop in the east of the city, and got an extremely skilled team of dwarven craftsmen. He signed a construction contract with them to build the dormitory for the workers and renovate the factory for 5,000,000 copper coins.
The dwarf contractor read through the blueprint thoroughly, and then followed Mag to the worksite. After listening to Mag’s requests, he nodded. “The blueprint is a little complicated. We will need two days to complete the work according to the blueprint’s requirements. You can pay us the rest of the sum then.”
“Let’s look forward to a fruitful cooperation.” Mag shook his hand.
He could always get a cheaper construction team, but only this construction team could promise to complete the construction work in two days.
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Mag returned to the restaurant, and saw Irina sitting behind the counter and squeezing Ugly Duckling’s face in boredom.
The round face became squarish and then triangular under that pair of slender hands. Ugly Duckling could only roll its eyes listlessly; it didn’t dare to complain at all.
Irina released Ugly Duckling’s round face, and asked Mag, “How was it? Did everything go smoothly?”
“Mm-hm. I already found the construction team, and they will start today. They promised to complete the job within two days, so the Night Elves will have a place to stay when they reach Chaos City. The machines are already being custom-made, and we can put them to use very soon.” Mag nodded with a smile.
“What is this factory going to make?” Irina asked.
Mag suddenly remembered that he hadn’t told Irina about that yet, and quickly explained, “It’ll be a textile factory, which is a factory that turns cotton wool into cotton fabric. But we have upgraded the production from manual to machines to increase the output.”
“Okay.” Irina nodded after pondering for some time. She still couldn’t understand what kinds of machines could replace manual operation. She only pretended to understand and nod before continuing to curiously ask, “What’s the name of this factory?”
“Erm…” Mag was caught. His mind was only occupied with buying the factory building and machines, so he hadn’t thought about the name at all. He asked Irina, “Do you have any ideas?”
“Since the restaurant is called Mamy Restaurant, then the factory will be called Imy Textile Factory?” Irina said after some thoughts.
“What about me?” Mag said weakly.
“Did you think about me when you named the restaurant then?” Irina countered, staring into Mag’s eyes.
“Er…” Mag opened his mouth, feeling speechless. He could only nod in agreement. “Okay, let’s call it Imy.”
What else could he do? He couldn’t overpower her.
After confirming the company’s name, Mag continued, “I have thought about this on the way home. The news of the Night Elves settling in Chaos City will spread very soon, and many people will be targeting the factory. To prevent certain troubles, we need to sever the ties between the restaurant and the factory temporarily.”
“It will indeed be very troublesome if those fellows target the restaurant now.” Irina nodded. Although Chaos City was a relatively safe place, Amy was still young, and Mag had not recovered his power fully. They could be placed in a very unfavorable situation if the enemies came looking for them and secretly schemed to harm them.
“In this case, I will wash my hands off the restaurant and be the boss of the factory, while you be the boss of the restaurant. We are both bosses,” Irina said after a moment of thought.
“That will do too. I will say publicly that I had invested in the company. I chose to accept all the Night Elves because the Night Elves are a relatively cheap labor force, and I have recruited you as the boss of the company.” Mag nodded. Although the traces were a little obvious, this excuse could still work relatively well.
“What do you think about the peace renegotiation one month later?” Irina asked Mag again.
Mag gravely said, “Judging from the current situation, it’s highly likely that the renegotiation will fail. Apart from a few weaker species, all the powerful species are very keen to redistribute the territories. They want to restart the racial war and redistribute the territories with might again.”
“If we only have a month’s time, the Night Elves will not be able to overthrow the Wind Forest’s rule.” Irina shook her head with worry in her eyes. How the elf species was going to defend itself when the racial war started would be a huge problem.
“The racial war would sweep across every single species and bring endless chaos and destruction, so we must do our best to prevent the resumption of the war.” Mag walked to the map of the Norland Continent and gazed at the territories of all the tribes. A storm was going to sweep across the continent, and black fog began to appear secretly in places where they couldn’t see. Mag still had no idea what they could do.
“What can we do?”
“After 100 years of development, the original balance between the species has long been broken. What we should do now is to restore the balance, and buy more time for the integration of the continent’s races.” Mag used his finger to draw a circle around Chaos City in the center of the map. “Just like Chaos City. Since all the species could get along peacefully in a city, why can’t they make Norland Continent a bigger city like that? As long as they break down the boundaries and interact with one another, they can get along peacefully.”
“This is interesting,” Irina said thoughtfully. She tilted her head and looked at Mag, suddenly realizing the way he thought about problems had changed. He began to consider more other matters apart from the sword.
Mag retrieved his gaze from the map, and told Irina, “We only have one month’s time to make all the species forget about restarting the war. I’ve already made some plans, but I am not sure if they are feasible. Do you want to have a look?”
“Not now.” Irina shook her head and got closer to Mag. Her lips curled. “Little Amy told me last night that she wants a little sister…”