Chapter 43 The Day of the Paycheck

The hot days continued, and it was already mid-August in the blink of an eye.

On this day, the workshops of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce were full of joy, and almost everyone had a sincere smile on their faces.

As for why? Simply because today is pay day.

According to the rules set by Xu Yi when he founded the factory, the 15th day of each month is a fixed pay day, and this time it was just one month after the factory was established. Be extra formal, maybe even grand.

Sebas came to the factory early and handed over the last month's financial situation that he had calculated to Xu Yi and Heinze.

Xu Yi has always believed that people are not suspicious, and people don't need to be suspicious. He just glanced over the financial statements and didn't pay much attention to it, but Heinze carefully reviewed it several times from beginning to end, and almost any number must be in Saiba. Sri Lanka will only let it go if he gets a confirmation.

Xu Yi was a little helpless about Heinze's behavior, but he didn't object.

As the third largest shareholder in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce after himself and Viscount Leslie, Heinze had sufficient qualifications and reasons to do so. Moreover, having him supervise and inspect for himself also saved Xu Yi a lot of time. less energy.

The tense and exciting morning passed, and it was noon in the blink of an eye. All the employees in the two production workshops gathered together and began to line up to receive their own salary one by one.

The first to step forward was the dwarf Camby.

As the workshop director of the magic machine tool production and research workshop, Camby's salary is of course a little more than that of other dwarves.

The next person who stepped forward was Alex.

As Heinze's assistant, Alex's salary was ten gold coins, slightly more than the average worker.

Then there are the other dwarves except Camby.

Aside from a few dwarves who were affected by trivial matters or illness, the remaining dwarves received a monthly salary of eight gold coins in full.

When he opened the purse handed over by Sebas and found eight golden coins inside, all the dwarves laughed, and even some dwarves danced excitedly on the spot.

As Master Ranu sighed, the current life of the dwarves is very difficult. When these dwarves lived in the tribe before, although they were not hungry, except for the wine, which can be brewed and enjoyed at will, any other living materials are very good. poor.

After coming to this factory and starting work, not only did the factory arrange their room and board, so that they don't have to worry about life at all, but now they can get a full eight gold coins every month!

Although eight gold coins are not too many, they can buy a lot of urgently needed materials. If they are brought back to the tribe, it will be enough to make the lives of their parents, wives and children better.

Thinking of the happy faces of their family members when they got those things, the hearts of these rectal dwarves are also filled with happiness.

Thinking that the current life is exactly what they can enjoy after joining this factory, the dwarves look at Xu Yi with more gratitude and respect.

Compared with the dwarves, the salaries of the students hired from the Baron Riktor School of Magic are even lower, only five to six gold coins.

The reason for such a salary is because they are still students, so their working hours are limited every day, and naturally they are not as good as the dwarves who work in the magic machine tool workshop every day.

The second is because their job is simply to draw a magic circle. Although it is related to magic, to put it bluntly, it is just a simple repetitive work, the technical content is not high, and the natural salary is not too high.

At first, Xu Yi was a little worried that these students would feel unbalanced when they saw that other people's salaries were higher than their own, but after these students got their salaries, they all looked extremely happy, and they were not dissatisfied at all. expression.

Even Olin, a kid from a noble family, took his salary of six gold coins and laughed until his mouth was crooked, as if it was not six gold coins, but six hundred gold coins.

Xu Yi thought for a while and couldn't help but laugh.

In fact, the students' reaction is also correct. After all, they are only students who are still studying in the college. It is enough to surprise them that they can get a salary through their own labor.

What's more, five or six gold coins are actually quite a lot for them. You must know that the tuition fee for one semester of Baron Rictor's School of Magic is only twenty-five gold coins.

This means that these students can even cover tuition fees entirely on their own as long as they keep doing it.

For these students, who are mostly children from ordinary or even poor families, it will reduce a great burden on their families. Presumably, their parents will be very satisfied when they know about it.

After the salaries to the students were paid, there was actually a part of the workers who were not paid, and that was the 100 slaves.

However, the payment of the salaries of these 100 slaves really troubled Xu Yi for a while.

Generally speaking, since these slaves worked in the factory, they should be paid salaries as a matter of course, but slaves are slaves after all, no matter how unwilling Xu Yi is to accept this fact, he has to admit, Slaves do not have the slightest status on the Sainz Continent. Normally, no one would agree to pay salaries to slaves.

The more important reason is that the current ownership of these slaves is still in the hands of Viscount Leslie, and Xu Yi is only borrowing them.

Even if Xu Yi paid them salaries, they should have been handed over to Viscount Leslie. As for whether Viscount Leslie was willing to pay them to these slaves, it would depend on whether he was happy or not.

So Xu Yi and Heinze discussed in front of Sebas for a long time, and finally decided not to give money to these slaves, but to give welfare subsidies instead.

Given that it was still in the hot summer, Xu Yi distributed a second-generation variable-speed magic fan to each slave, and also issued a clothing coupon to the Metagen tailor shop in Bangta City. , with this garment coupon, these slaves can make a set of clothes at the Metagan tailor shop for a total price of no more than one gold coin.

In addition, there are some meat and fruits, and some messy daily necessities.

If all the welfare subsidies add up, it is worth about four gold coins.

Originally, according to Xu Yi's actual thinking, the work of these slaves should have a monthly salary of at least six gold coins, so the welfare subsidy should be more, but this idea was stopped by Heinze.

In any case, these slaves belonged to Viscount Leslie. If Xu Yi gave them too many benefits, Viscount Leslie would inevitably have some special thoughts in his heart.

Even if only these welfare subsidies, which Xu Yi thinks are very simple, are actually quite taboo.

These slaves watched the dwarves and the students receive their salaries. Although they were very envious, they knew that as their slaves, it was impossible to get salaries like them, so they just watched honestly and said There is no indication.

In fact, they are very satisfied with their current life.

Since coming to this factory, not only will they not be scolded and beaten again every day, but they can also enjoy three hearty meals normally, and they don't even need to worry about starvation.

Although there is work to be done every day, it is much easier and easier than the heavy work under Viscount Leslie.

What's more, the working time is only eight hours a day, and there is no extra work for them.

Even the last time when Xu Yi asked them to help because of the lack of manpower to build the road, he also gave each slave an extra pound of meat as compensation.

It can be said that the current life has only been dreamed by these slaves when they dreamed before, and they never thought that one day they would be able to live such a comfortable and comfortable life.

If possible, they really want Viscount Leslie to sell himself to Xu Yi.

Following the master's name, I am afraid it is the best destination for every slave's heart.

So when Sebas announced that these slaves would come up to receive welfare subsidies, the slaves were all stunned.

Welfare allowance? What it is? Is it for us?

It wasn't until Sebas raised his voice and repeated it, and called a slave's name, that the slaves confirmed that they had heard it right.

The named slave came tremblingly in front of Sebas, and Heinze smiled and stuffed a magic fan, clothing coupons, and other benefits such as meat into his hand.

The slave stared blankly at the thing in his hand for a while, then suddenly opened his mouth and laughed loudly, but two lines of tears were left in his eyes involuntarily, and he sobbed, for a while he didn't know how to express it.

Seeing this situation, Xu Yi couldn't help sighing slightly.

This damn slave system should have been eliminated sooner.

After finally distributing the welfare subsidies for the 100 slaves, Xu Yi loudly announced that the holiday was tentatively scheduled this afternoon, which immediately caused a burst of cheers.

Now that the salary is in hand, whether it is the dwarves or the students present, which one is not eager to go out and show off, of course, they are a little impatient.

Xu Yi announced the holiday at this time, and he aimed at their itch at once, and instantly his prestige in their minds exploded.

Seeing that dozens of students rushed out in a crowd cheering, and even Olin was caught in the middle without the slightest exception, Xu Yi couldn't help laughing.

This situation reminded him of the crazy days when he ran outside the school with the classmates in the dormitory when he was in college.

Looking back, the dwarves also retreated in groups, leaving only the slaves who seemed a little overwhelmed. Xu Yi pondered for a moment, and pulled Heinze to a corner.

"Heinze, start recruiting."