Chapter 90 Attitude Towards Slaves

(Really? Chapter 90 is coming ^-^)

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After sailing into the southern waters of the Candela Empire for about four hours, the escort fleet stopped near an island with an area of ​​about five to six square kilometers. ∮,

There are no mineral resources on this small island, and there are no other resources worth mentioning. It was originally not within the original goal of the escort fleet.

However, just two months ago, Xu Yi changed the maritime strategy of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, intending to build an island chain in the endless sea, linking all the islands with resources, and completely bringing them under control, so there is nothing like this resources, but islands whose terrain and size are very suitable for establishing bases have also been included in the scope of investigation.

There are countless islands like this in the vast sea area south of the Candela Empire. It is of course impossible to build bases on all the islands.

After many investigations and comparisons, Xu Yi finally determined this one and two islands about 100 kilometers away and 200 kilometers away from here as the first construction target according to Leslie's report.

Although the escort fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was already extremely active in the southern waters of the Candela Empire, strictly speaking, the establishment of bases on these three islands is the real entry of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce into the waters of the Candela Empire.

Although all countries on this continent do not have a very clear concept of their own sea areas, after all, the shortest straight-line distance from the coastline of the Candela Empire is only less than a hundred kilometers, and it can actually be regarded as within the control of the Candela Empire Navy.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce established bases on these three islands without notifying the Candela Empire. How would the Candela Empire react. It's really unpredictable.

After the escort fleet stopped near the island. It's not that they are doing nothing, but they put down dozens of small magic assault boats, carried hundreds of sailors, and transported some of the building materials purchased from Nissi Port to the island first, and built a simple settlement on the coast .

About two hours later, before the simple living quarters were fully built, a huge magic ship, shining silver in the sun, came quickly from the west sea area.

Leslie led the escort fleet to meet him, and met Neval, the chief of the transport fleet of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, on the "Tuoyuan" large cargo magic ship that was built and launched last month.

The two didn't exchange much pleasantries. After a brief work handover, all the small magic assault boats were put down at the same time, and a large number of personnel and follow-up construction materials that came with the "Tuoyuan" were transported to the island.

This group of personnel is not only the personnel of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but also includes a large number of construction and engineering personnel of the Amley Chamber of Commerce.

The sole purpose of these people coming here is to first build a port on this island.

Only by building the port first, can the follow-up materials be sent to the island more conveniently and quickly, and facilitate the construction of the entire island base.

Seven similar island bases have been built in the southern waters of the Luerson Kingdom, so there is no need for Neval and Leslie to do more command, whether it is the entourage of the Amly Chamber of Commerce or the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. They all started the initial construction very skillfully.

A row of simple houses was quickly built along the coast at a speed almost visible to the naked eye, and then the first batch of construction workers from the Amley Chamber of Commerce moved in with a set of living supplies.

According to the plan. Starting tomorrow, they will spend a minimum of three months on this island until the initial construction of the port and island base is successfully built, and then enter the next stage according to the specific situation.

After staying on an uninhabited island for such a long time, and with high work intensity every day, the living environment is naturally extremely harsh.

However, no matter whether it was the construction workers of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce or the personnel sent by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, none of them showed any resentment, but each of them smiled and showed great enthusiasm.

It's a bit hard to work here, but you can get at least a basic salary of 30 gold coins every month.

And because of the rush to work, there is a lot of overtime. If you add overtime pay, you can even get as much as 50 gold coins a month.

This alone is already a lot of money, not to mention that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has also offered various subsidies with various names.

For example, because the weather in the southern sea area has always been very hot, a high temperature subsidy worth three gold coins will be given every month.

At the same time, because the living conditions here are not good and the work intensity is high, nutritional subsidies worth five gold coins will be given every month.

Coupled with some messy subsidies, if converted into money every month, this part would at least exceed ten gold coins.

Under such astonishing conditions of remuneration, no matter how hard the work is, what is it?

"Hey, Neval, I see, this is the benefit of being rich." Leslie looked at the workers on the island who were working hard, shrugged and said to Neval beside him. "As long as enough money is given, I think these workers are willing to sell their lives to the chamber of commerce."

"It's not difficult to buy your life with money." Neval glanced at Leslie. "On Karaska Island five years ago, you could buy a life on the island with ten gold coins."

Leslie glanced at Neval, speechless.

He knew that Neval was born on Karaska Island, and that Karaska Island used to be known as the island of pirates. The island was full of desperadoes, and it was not uncommon for ten gold coins to buy a life.

But it still feels very weird to hear Neval say this sentence himself.

"If President Xu and Xinfei Chamber of Commerce hadn't changed the life on the island, the current Karaska Island would not be any different from before." Neval suddenly sighed softly, quite emotionally. "In fact, let alone Karaska Island five years ago, even now, if you take ten gold coins to other countries on this continent, you can easily buy a life."

Leslie was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly.

After staying in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for a long time, he always had an illusion. I think the lives of people around me have become very good. All have nothing to worry about. The world is far better than before.

But in fact, apart from the places affected by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, even in the surrounding countries, there are still some places where people can't even solve the most basic food and clothing problems.

As for the entire Sainz continent? There are countless places where countless people are still starving and living in hardship.

When Leslie had persuaded Xu Yi before, telling him not to work so hard, but to learn to enjoy himself, Xu Yi shook his head and refused.

Leslie felt that Xu Yi was simply a workaholic. Don't know how to enjoy life at all.

After chatting with Neval now, he suddenly discovered that the reason why Xu Yi is a workaholic is probably because the goal in his heart is too ambitious.

He works so hard in the hope that everyone on this continent can enjoy a better life as soon as possible...

Thinking of this, Leslie couldn't help but feel ashamed.

For the first time in his thirty-five years of life, he felt ashamed.

"Actually, I once persuaded the chairman that we can buy some slaves from other countries and let them do these jobs, which can save a lot of money. Now this base is really going to be built. At least It will also cost 300,000 gold coins. And if all slaves are used, tens of thousands of gold coins can be saved in wages alone." Neval said again.

"He can't say yes." Leslie shook his head. "What Xu Yi hates the most is the existence of slaves. He has told me many times. If he has enough money, he must buy all the slaves on this continent and restore their freedom. Now you Come and tell him to buy slaves, it’s no wonder he doesn’t scold you.”

"Hmm... Although the chairman didn't scold me directly, I can see that he is very angry, so I will never mention this in front of him again." Neval nodded. "But Lord Leslie, I've been thinking about a question..."

"what is the problem?"

"It's okay that our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce does not use slaves as workers, but if other chambers of commerce use slaves as workers in large numbers in the future, their cost of probationary workers will be much lower than ours, and their things can be sold much cheaper than us. .Now because the quality and performance of our chamber of commerce are much better than those of other chambers of commerce, so this is no problem. But in the future...if the quality and performance of the products of other chambers of commerce are not bad, then our chamber of commerce may face serious problems. Big problem..."

Leslie was slightly taken aback, as if meeting Neval for the first time, and scanned him up and down.

"How did you come up with this question?"

"When I was in Port Nissi, I met the president of a Magical Machinery Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Rulson. His Chamber of Commerce hired and bought some slaves as workers, and he once boasted in front of me. Later I I have been thinking about this problem, and the more I think about it, the more I feel that this problem is very serious. Mr. Leslie, you have a very good relationship with Mr. President, can you remind him to pay attention?"

Leslie frowned, thought for a while, and shook his head slowly.

"I'm afraid it's useless. Xu Yi is a person who sticks to his principles. I remember that when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was first established, I sent him a group of slaves under my command to work in his factory. The attitude he showed was different from other people. I think if he hadn’t known that he was not strong enough at that time, he would have bought all those slaves from me and set them free.”

This was the first time Neval heard about the establishment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. He couldn't help but widen his eyes and stare at Leslie intently, for fear of missing a word.

"Then you look at the present, the entire Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is up and down, and all the employees add up to nearly 100,000 people, but there is not even a single slave among them. Even the two slaves and maids around him have been restored by him. Free status. Even now he is still promoting the bill in the Duchy of Standing, intending to abolish slavery in the Duchy of Standing. Do you think... is it possible for him to accept hired slaves as workers?"

Neval pondered for a moment, smiled wryly and shook his head.

"Then what should we do? If the chairman refuses to use the words of slaves, our chamber of commerce will definitely be at a disadvantage against other chambers of commerce in this regard. How to solve this problem?"

Leslie paused for a moment, then burst out laughing. He patted Neval's shoulder vigorously and said, "Okay, you can think of this question, can't Xu Yi still think of it? The two of us have been discussing here for a long time, worrying for a long time Well, maybe Xu Yi already has a solution in his heart. I have known this guy for six years, and I have never seen him really stumped by any problem. So let's stop worrying here. "

Neval tilted his head and thought for a while, then nodded with a smile.

"That's right. The president doesn't need us to worry, we just need to trust him and do what he says." (To be continued...)