<h4>Volume 5 Chapter 90 Attitude towards ves</h4>
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After navigating around the Candra Empire’s southern seas for four hours, the guard fleet stopped at an ind that was around five to six kilometers wide.
This ind didn’t have any mineral resources and didn’t have any resources worth mentioning, it wasn’t the goal of the guard fleet at all.
But two months ago, Xu Yi had changed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s n on the sea. He nned to build a chain of inds on the sea, linking all the inds with resources together to control the area. So even this ind that didn’t have any resources, but was suited for having a base built on it was also included in the range of consideration.
There were countless inds like this on the southern seas of the Candra Empire, so it was impossible to build bases on all of these inds.
Through inspecting them, Xu Yi finally through Leslie’s reports had decided that this ind and two inds that were around one to two hundred kilometers away were the first sites of construction.
Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guard fleet had been active in the seas of the Candra Empire before, strictly speaking, after building bases on these three inds, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would officially be entering the Candra Empire’s seas.
Although the countries of the continent didn’t really have an urate concept of sea area, this ind was only a hundred kilometers away from the Candra Empire’s shore. This was considered in the area of control for the Candra Empire navy.
The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn’t inform the Candra Empire and built bases on these three inds, it was hard to predict what kind of reaction the Candra Empire would have.
After the guard fleet stopped near the ind, they didn’t stay idle. They put down several dozen small Magic Speed Boats and carried over a hundred sailors with building materials that they had brought over from Nissi Harbour to the ind, building some simple dwellings near the coast.
After around two hours, before the simple dwellings had been finished, there was a giant silver glowing Magic Ship that wasing from the west.
Leslie brought the guard fleet over and on the “Far Towing”rge transport Magic Ship that was just finishedst month, he saw the head of the transport fleet Narvil.
The two didn’t exchange greetings and after giving a simple report, they both sent out small magic Speed Boats, bringingrge amounts of personnel and construction materials from the “Far Towing” Ship to the ind.
These people didn’t juste from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, a lot of them came from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.
These people were only here with one goal which was to first build a harbour on this ind.
Only after constructing a harbour could they deliver goods to this ind more easily, making it easier to build the base.
This ind base construction had been done on seven inds in the southern Rudson Kingdom seas, so there was no need for Narvil or Leslie to lead them. Whether it was the workers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, they were very skilled with the construction.
There were several simple dwellings that were quickly built by the sea and then the Amrit Chamber of Commerce’s construction workers brought their living needs into the buildings.
ording to the n, starting tomorrow, they would be spending three months on this ind to build the harbour and the ind base. Then they would follow the n for the next steps.
To stay on this uninhabited ind for this long and having to work quite a bit each day, their lives were naturally not good.
But whether it was the workers from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not a single person wasining. Rather they were all smiling as they worked.
This work was back breaking, but they would receive at least thirty gold coins a month.
And because of rush work which led to overtime, they could even receive fifty gold coins a month adding in the overtime pay.
This was already arge amount of money, not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided them with various other benefits.
For example, because the weather in the southern seas were very hot, they would be receiving a subsidy worth three gold coins a month for working in the high temperatures.
At the same time, because the living conditions here weren’t good and the work was hard, they would receive a nutrition subsidy worth five gold coins a month.
Adding in the various subsidies, if it was converted to gold coins, it would be a total of over ten gold coins a month.
With this kind of shocking working conditions, even if the work was hard, so what?
“Hey, Narvil, do you see this? This is the benefit of having money.” Leslie looked at the workers working hard on the ind and gave a shrug as he said to Narvil beside him, “As long as they receive enough money, I think that these people might even sell their lives to ourpany.”
“Using money to buy lives isn’t that hard.” Narvil looked at Leslie, “On Caraska Ind five years ago, as long as you took out ten gold coins, you could buy a life.”
Leslie looked at Narvil and had nothing to say in response.
He knew that Narvil came from Caraska Ind and knew that the previous Caraska Ind was called the ind of pirates. The living conditions on the ind were bad and it wasn’t considered strange to buy a life for ten gold coins.
But now that he heard Narvil say these words, he felt it was very strange.
“If it wasn’t for chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce changing the living conditions on the ind, Caraska Ind wouldn’t be that much different from before.,” Narvil suddenly gave a sigh before saying in an emotional voice, “Actually, not to mention Caraska ind from five years ago, even if you went to other countries on the continent right now, you can also easily buy a life for ten gold coins.”
Leslie was silent for a bit before nodding.
After being in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a while, he hade up with a misconception. The lives of the people around him were very good, everyone didn’t need to worry about food or lodging, this world had be much better.
But in fact, other than the ces the Frestech Chamber of Commerce influenced, even in the surrounding countries, there were people that still couldn’t solve the basic problems of food and clothing.
As for the entire Sines Continent? There were even more countless ces and countless people living poverty filled lives.
Leslie had urged Xu Yi not to work so hard and enjoy some rxation, but Xu Yi had firmly rejected this.
Leslie had thought that Xu Yi was just crazy for working, he didn’t know how to enjoy life at all.
Now that he had talked to Narvil, he found that Xu Yi was this crazy about working because there was a lofty goal in his heart.
He was working hard to give everyone on the continent a better life as quickly as possible.....
Thinking of this, Leslie couldn’t help feeling shame in his heart.
In his over thirty five years of life, this was his first time feeling this ashamed.
“Actually, I told sir chairman that we could just buy some ves from another country and let those ves do this, which would save us quite a bit of money. It costs at least three hundred thousand gold coins to build this base and if we use ves, we could save several tens of thousands of gold coins.” Narvil said.
“He wouldn’t agree.” Leslie shook his head, “Xu Yi hates the existence of ves the most, he’s told this many times. If he had enough money, he would buy all the ves on the continent and give them back their freedom. If you tell him to buy ves now, it would be strange if he didn’t scold you.”
“Un.....Although sir chairman didn’t directly scold me, I could tell that he was very angry, so I never mentioned this matter again.” Narvil nodded, “But sir Leslie, I have always considered a problem.....”
“What problem?”
“There’s no problem if our Frestech Chamber of Commerce doesn’t use ves, but if otherpanies use arge number of ves, their cost would be much lower than ours and they can sell for a much lower price. Because of ourpany’s high quality right now, there’s no problem now, but in the future.....If the quality of the goods from otherpanies are the same as ours, ourpany will face arge problem.....”
Leslie was stunned. It was like it was his first time meeting Narvil as he looked him over.
“How did you think of this problem?”
“When I was in Nissi Harbour, I met the chairman of a Rudson Kingdom magic machinepany. Hispany had bought a few ves and he had boasted about this in front of me, so then I thought of this problem. The more I thought about it, the more I felt this problem was serious. Sir Leslie, you have a close rtionship with sir chairman, can you mention this to him?”
Leslie knit his brows to think before slowly shaking his head.
“I’m afraid it’s no use, Xu Yi is someone who sticks to his principles. I remember when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just been formed, I sent a group of ves to work in his factory. At that time, he showed a different attitude to those vespared to others. I think that if it wasn’t for him not being strong enough, he might have bought those ves from me at that time and would have freed them.”
This was Narvil’s first time hearing about when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had just been formed. His eyes couldn’t help opening wide as he focused on listening to Leslie, afraid that he would miss a single word.
“You can see what happened next, in the entire Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there are over a hundred thousand workers, but there isn’t a single ve. Even his two ve maids have had their freedom given back to them. He’s even promoting a bill in the Stantine Duchy now to have them abolish very. Do you think.....he is someone who can ept ve workers?”
Narvil hesitated a bit before shaking his head with a bitter smile.
“What do we do then? If sir chairman isn’t willing to use ves, ourpany will be at a disadvantagepared to otherpanies. How should we solve this problem?”
Leslie paused for a bit before suddenly breaking out inughter and patting Narvil’s shoulder, “Alright, if you can think of this problem, how could Xu Yi not think of it? We have discussed this for a bit, but perhaps Xu Yi might have alreadye up with a solution. I’ve known this fellow for six years now and I’ve never seen him truly baffled by anything, so there’s no need for us to blindly worry.”
Narvil tilted his head to think before nodding with a faint smile.
“That’s right, how could sir chairman need us to worry about him? We just need to believe in him and follow what he says.”