Chapter 241 Elsewhere
Jurasil trembled.
She originally turned into a wind chime and hung it on the wall, just for a rare rest time, but who knew... the war that was about to break out was actually a super war involving Digital Level 9. Although it ended soon, the King of Monsters
He also ran away with the fire djinn. Xinyue and Kara chased the ghost in the mirror and left, leaving only Urathil alone in Anluo.
She was really the only one here, everyone else had run away, and she was the only one left who was immersed in the lingering power of a bunch of level 9s and dared not move.
After waiting for a while, she found that no one came back, so she simply changed back and escaped carefully.
After walking for a while, I found that the surrounding desert had turned into magma and molten glass, with only one piece intact. Urathil was convinced that this meant that someone was still protecting this place.
She quickly turned into an energy body and jumped over. The first thing she saw was three chirping Activation Spells chatting about riddles and decryption. They glanced at Urahil and let them go. They didn't care about it and were minding their own business.
As he continued to talk, from time to time an interesting mystery was revealed, and the three little ones laughed together and rolled on the ground.
The ground is covered with magma that has not yet solidified, as well as the ley lines that Kara received from Duke Walder's thunder blow.
She finally understood the situation of the King of Monsters. This Anluo was like a broken house, with wind leaking from all sides. If the wind was strong, the house would fall down, and if the wind was small, the heart would be scattered.
He wanted to control the wind so that the people in the house would not think about leaving the house, and the wind would not blow down the dilapidated house.
Therefore, he took every step cautiously, and his several attempts seemed aggrieved, but that was the best choice. It would not cause too much suspicion, nor would it cause more pressure, and it could also be easily broken up.
Some hostility and harm that the people below cannot bear, such as the Gray Lady.
If you want to have fun, of course you can have fun. He has a level 9 magic dragon under his command. If he has no scruples, where will the whole world go? Who in the world can stop a level 9 ancient dragon who is close to him?
Protective Magic 9? When it comes to running away, Magic 9 is second. No one dares to say that he is the first, so he will definitely be treated politely everywhere. The empire that is now aggressive towards him will definitely regard him as its leader.
Guest of honor, because I really can’t afford to offend him.
Suddenly, a big magic bomb exploded a street in the imperial capital, and then immediately teleported away and disappeared. How to prevent this? Even if there are immortals in the imperial capital, it is impossible to stop it, unless the immortals do nothing and maintain a sword energy wholeheartedly.
The cage remains unchanged for thousands of years, but that is unacceptable to the empire.
The immortals account for half of the empire's reputation abroad. Doing this will only make the enemies of the empire laugh out loud.
With the information you have now, looking at what the King of Monsters has done, you can only feel that it is a mess. God knows what interlocking secret plans he is doing, such as letting Sid come over this time, and deliberately
What is the purpose of falling out with Duke Walder?
Just thinking about it made her feel frightened.
Could it be that... he wants to overthrow the empire?
She dismissed this idea as soon as it came up. How could it be possible? The empire has stood for thousands of years, and its strength, financial resources, and manpower are tens of thousands of times that of the King of Monsters. It is impossible for any sane person to do this.
Perhaps, it is to find a way for the monster to survive, even though the way forward is destined to be death.
This road cannot see the end, cannot see the light, cannot even see the road.
Walking further into the safe area, Yura Hill's legs went weak because she saw a blonde beauty with big breasts, who was leading some young students. When Yu La Hill came over, she glanced at her sideways.
, but did not stop her.
Of course she didn't dare to talk and walked inside quickly.
Holy Dragon Elaine.
The apostles in the heaven were frightened, and the purpose of the King of Monsters became more and more confusing, and they even saw Elaine. Then can she... still go out? Will the church not take action to suppress counterrevolutionaries? Or is it that the King of Monsters is actually standing behind him?
Church, is this double act? He is from the church? Has he fallen into a trap?
Not daring to think too much, as she walked further inside, she suddenly heard someone calling her.
Subconsciously, she didn't even react. She suddenly quickened her pace and walked to a deserted place as if there was no one else around. There was a big stone standing in the magma, but kept at normal temperature. A person sat on it, and then the magma
The fire boils water.
Boil a pot of water. He looks ordinary, but he looks very young. He wears a red vest and long pants and leather shoes. He looks like a steward at a nightclub.
He looked at Urathil with a smile: "Little Light Spirit, how are you? Do you still remember me?"
It was as if Urathil had woken up from a dream. All the previous confusion had disappeared, like a basin of cold water poured on his head. He was next to the magma, but he was not warm at all. He only felt that his hands and feet were cold, as if he had fallen into an ice cave. His heart was worried and he did not dare.
Talk too much.
The Night Familia - "Elders".
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The Principality of Oran is a principality located in the inland mountainous area. It is the territory of the Grand Duke of Oran. It is surrounded by other kingdoms. It is regarded as an overseas enclave of the empire. However, similar to other kingdoms, it has long been separated from the empire.
A sect of its own.
Orlando is mountainous, with many mineral veins and water, and is rich in all kinds of magical medicines. In the past, it was difficult to develop because there were many mountains and few roads. Even if the resources were rich, it was difficult to mine. However, hundreds of years ago, the Great Master Daedalus promoted the
The gradual development of magic technology has greatly reduced the cost of digging mountains, building roads, and collecting and planting. The originally rich products can be mined explosively, allowing many forces here to make a lot of money.
For example, a mineral vein under the Hall of Glow is located at the foot of a mountain called Iron Mountain. There is also a city here, leaning against the Iron Mountain, so it is called Iron Mountain City. The ownership of the mineral vein is Olang at the headquarters of the Hall of Glow.
A subsidiary of the Tieshan City branch of the branch is a chamber of commerce called Golden Bell.
This chamber of commerce is not small in scale, with hundreds of employees, more than a dozen managers, and the mining rights to three mineral veins, two iron mines and one copper mine.
Most of the employees are miners, a few are transport carriage masters, and the management staff are sent by the Hall of Glow.
This kind of dependent chamber of commerce is more like a subsidiary company, and is actually quite common. Yuracil originally had at least one or two hundred such small chambers of commerce, and they were involved in all aspects of Larante's people's livelihood operations, so that he could control half of Larante.
Rand business operations.
But now, the miners in this small chamber of commerce are not working.
In the past, this was impossible. Miners worked all year round, and it was impossible to take a break except when they were sick or in emergencies. But it is different now.
Because there was a new leader named Kesto. He was a new wealthy businessman who came from a far away place with some gold and manpower. I heard he was from Xingfeng.
He built a workshop as soon as he came, and he had several professional craftsmen under him, and the others were also good craftsmen. He also mastered a very efficient stove, which made iron very fast, and he started a business as soon as he came. .
Because there are many ores in Tieshan City, many of them can only be sold at low prices. Because there are too many, the price will of course be much lower, and Tieshan City’s own smelting workshop cannot keep up with the production capacity of the ore. Instead of piling up, it is better to sell them at low prices. Give it to the caravans of those chambers of commerce and transport it to other places for sale.
Therefore, when this group of professional craftsmen came here, their business quickly flourished and they made a lot of money.
Then, they used the money they earned and the money they brought in to buy a small chamber of commerce. The price quoted by Glorious Hall was quite a premium. It took Kestor a lot of time to lower the price, but fortunately, Finally bought it.
After buying it, the first thing the wealthy businessman named Kesto did was to improve the welfare.
The working hours of miners have been greatly reduced. They only need to work for a whole day. They don't even need to mine at night, but can have a good sleep.
And there is no need to bring your own food, it is provided at the mine, there is fresh bread and meat every day! It can make these tired workers who mine every day full, let them feel full, and their bodies will no longer weak.
Immediately afterwards, Kestor adjusted the salary system, replacing the original daily salary with a piece-rate system, paying 6 copper plates per kilogram of high-quality iron ore.
They even take one day to rest every five days, and during their rest time, they go to the same place.
There is no specific name there. If I have to name it, they all call themselves the Federation. Here, they organize all workers to learn cultural knowledge and even organize them to do physical exercises. They spend one day a week reading, reading newspapers, learning to play ball, and playing games. Spiritual life is also about food for the day!
They don't need anything else, just one day's meal is enough for them all to flock here.
Moreover, there are also a group of wounded and disabled people here. The federation under Kesto also serves as part of the hospital. People who are injured in mining or iron smelting can rest here. There are no doctors or nurses here, because There is not that much money, but there are bright windows, clean beds, as well as some common medicines and clean water, which can prevent wounds from being infected as much as possible, greatly reducing the mortality rate of workers.
In the past, one or two people in the mine would die from exhaustion or illness every week, but now this situation has disappeared.
Of course, this has increased a lot of costs, not only the cost, but all kinds of expenses have also increased a lot, but Kesto can still operate smoothly and even started to expand!
After sleeping well, eating enough, and having a place to rest even if they were injured, they also worked more and took more. At this time, the miners under my command were all fired up.
In the past, no matter how little or how much they worked, they could only get a small amount of pay. They were tired and hungry, and couldn't speed up the work even if they wanted to. They could only rely on the whips of the supervisors to keep from slowing down the work.
But now, they have enough food and sleep, and are more energetic when working. It just so happens that they have switched to piece-rate wages. The more they work, the more they will be paid!
This method directly increases the output from 9 tons to 70 tons to 80 tons per day! For other mineral veins, the standard daily quota is about ten tons. According to the current market price, the selling price of 100 tons is about 20 emperor gold coins, and the cost The cost, including management costs and various types of food, is only 580 orange silver coins for one day, which is about 11 emperor gold coins! The rest is profit!
That’s one day’s output! One day’s profit! A miner can get three to four Orang silver coins in one day!
In fact, the average weekly salary of miners in the Minno mining area is only about 10 silver coins, and the output is far from enough. This shows that the output of Kesto's mines in a short period of time far exceeds what other ordinary miners can complete in one day.
Yield!
This is not counting the real profit, that is, after the iron ore was mined, Kesto did not sell it, but took it back to his own workshop, where those craftsmen would process the ore into refined iron!
The price of refined iron is much higher than that of iron ore!
He has already made a lot of money just by selling this refined iron. Iron ore is a raw material, and refined iron is a high value-added product, which is much more valuable than selling ore. Others know this as well, but they can
There is no energy-producing thing like a blast furnace that can replace professionals.
And all this is not known to the public. Other chambers of commerce and mine owners are secretly laughing at this Kestor. He doesn’t have much money, but he has a big heart. He wants to improve the living standards of those poor people. Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, with this money,
Isn't it good to buy two pieces of clothes for yourself? It will cost hundreds of silver coins in a day, which is not a small amount in a year!
Kesto didn't make any excuses, because he knew there was no need. He had learned enough in Larante's workshop and the workshop in Star Maple King City.
Just like what the King of Monsters once said to them, to the miners, and to the craftsmen.
The king of monsters who established this workshop said that they used to be cattle and horses, but now they want to be humans.
In the eyes of others, Kesto is a fool, using his own money to help those workers live a better life. It is extremely stupid, but Kesto still remembers that the King of Monsters also said——
The money earned by those businessmen and nobles was not their own money, they just stole the money of working people.
So he doesn't think that the money is his own money, he just has a different division of labor. Except for necessary savings and necessary interpersonal interactions for business, he spends all the money he earns on the workers themselves and for them.
Improve food, medical care, and accommodation.
That's all.
Kesto still feels that resigning from the bookstore and working as a clerk in that workshop was the most correct thing he ever did.
There, he finally understood why the poor worked so hard and were so miserable.
Before, whether he read books or listened to what nobles and rich people said, there was only one answer. Poor people are stupid and lazy, so they should be poor.
And the money of the rich is earned by the rich themselves through hard work and wisdom. Whoever feels unconvinced can go and earn it himself!
He had felt something was wrong before, but in that workshop, he knew the answer and how shameless and vicious the rich man who said such words was!
Now, Kesto also wants to spread this answer to these workers, just like others taught it to him.
Chapter completed!