Gold is Justice

After hearing what Viscount Norris said, Ariel nodded and said: "If this is the case, then Viscount Norris is really troubled. Obviously, this is a relationship that can make money for each other. project, do you need our Mermaid Song to send a special person to negotiate together?"

Norris smiled and said: "That's natural. If there is royal endorsement, then I believe that the matter of the patent agreement can be expanded better. President Ariel, I will contact those city lords, and then I will return Please come and discuss together."

Having said that, this problem can be regarded as solved.

Ariel let out a long breath, and now looking at Viscount Norris in front of her, she suddenly felt that this guy wasn't so hateful anymore?

No, no, calm down, just calm down.You know, this guy is the helper who cheated me several times with that sugar-coated wine Qiaoguo old man!Even if they are now able to make money together, they still cannot relax their guard.

Well, that's right, we still have to take a good look at the patent agreement when the time comes, and we must not miss it all by itself, otherwise it will cause a catastrophe.

Now that the main topic was out of the way, the servants opened the door of the meeting room and served a well-cooked steak in front of everyone.

Looking at the plate of steak that was still exuding the fragrance of oil and flowers, Ariel smiled, picked up the knife and fork in hand, and said with a smile: "It's really troublesome Viscount Rich, who even took care of our dinner what."

Rich laughed, waved his hand, and said indifferently: "Where is it! Today's meeting has been going on for such a long time, and it's already evening, of course I want to entertain you two for dinner! Your Excellency Norris, today It's too late, why don't you just stay in my Swan Castle for one night and return to Lagoon City tomorrow?"

Norris nodded, inserted the fork into the steak, began to cut it with the knife, and said with a smile: "Then I really need to trouble Mr. Rich. After all, President Ariel's current factory should also be shut down, right?"

Ariel cut a piece of steak and put it in her mouth. The juicy meat melted in her mouth, and said with a smile: "Now? Well... it should be almost the same. Their working hours are from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm. You should be off work now."

Viscount Rich also cut off a large piece of beef and put it in his mouth, chewing and saying, "President Ariel, I'm a little strange."

Ariel was taken aback: "What's so strange?"

Viscount Rich smiled and swallowed the beef in his mouth, and continued: "It's strange why you choose the time period from 15:45 am to [-]:[-] pm? Excluding the [-]-minute meal time at noon, their real working time is only nine hours and [-] minutes. ? Isn’t that too wasteful?”

Speaking of this topic, Norris on the other side also frowned, looked at Ariel with an expression as if looking at a fool, and said, "I think so too. President Ariel, you are really wasting your time. "

He cut off a small piece of meat, put the meat into his mouth with a very elegant posture, and said slowly——

"Although I have heard that you seem to use that terrible monster to work at night? But that monster only works for nine hours and 45 minutes. Adding up, 24 hours a day, you actually only let your workers work for ten hours. Nine hours plus three 10 minutes? Even less than twenty hours! This is really a huge waste."

From the tone of the words, Ariel could tell that the two viscounts were not mocking themselves, but really had a sense of waste.At the moment, she just smiled dryly and didn't speak.

Viscount Rich immediately turned his head to look at Norris, and said, "Your Excellency Norris, the farms and slaughterhouses in Tianhe City, how many hours do those workers work every day?"

Norris smiled and said: "The work of the farm is relatively simple, so twelve hours a day is enough. The slaughterhouse depends on the season, after all, it is not suitable for any time. But if I get busy, I will need them It works 24 hours a day. But this is good, I don’t have to pay the butchers when they are not working, and the cost is relatively controllable.”

Viscount Rich laughed, and said: "The farming industry should be like this. But my Wald fishery can't be like this. My men need to go fishing, and there is no time at sea. No rest or no rest, you must be on call anytime, anywhere. But our kind of work is a simple job, and it also depends on the time, unlike President Ariel’s textile factory, the output is fixed, and there are not so many seasonal ones. limit."



Chapter 180 Racial Issues

With that said, Rich turned his head to Ariel and said, "President Ariel, you really can't do this anymore. You see, we will also open a textile factory after we get the design drawing of the elemental machine from you. I would never just let my workers get off work after ten hours. They have to get off work sixteen hours."

Ariel was taken aback, laughed dryly, and said, "Sixteen hours? Viscount Rich, maybe sixteen hours can't do it? Workers always need time to eat, sleep, go to the toilet, and study and rest, right? "

Regarding Ariel's remarks, Viscount Rich seemed to have heard some strange words, and looked at Ariel with wide eyes: "Study? Why do you need to learn? What can workers learn? I think In your textile factory, they only need to put raw materials on the machine according to a fixed method, what else needs to be learned?"

Ariel's mouth twitched.

Rich didn't realize it, but turned his head and said to Norris next to him: "I don't have vampires to use like President Ariel, so sixteen hours is already my limit. I will let My workers work sixteen hours a day, and then use piecework. That is to say, I do not pay wages, but how much they finish. Mr. Norris, this is what I learned from my fishing industry After all, how many fish my Siren Queen can bring back determines how much income I can earn for that fish catch.”

Norris also smiled, nodded and said, "Yes, yes, why didn't I think of this? Piece-rate system, this is good! Alas, that idiot lord of Tianhe City used to pay wages to those breeders and butchers." , but if they are paid, they will be the same if they do more or less, and they have no passion for work at all! Sure enough, they still have to adopt the piecework system, and only by doing more can they get more money. Give them money, so that they will be motivated to work, and they will be able to make money! Yes, yes, piecework system, I will change their salary calculation method when I go back."

Seeing that his proposal was accepted, Viscount Rich turned his head proudly, looked at Ariel, and said, "President Ariel, I think you should also change your strategy. Those hired workers, You also adopt the piecework system. Otherwise, you see that you have few raw materials recently, and the factory has not been open for a long time. You still have to pay so much wages. Isn’t it a big loss? Also, since it is a guild, the members of the guild The members just let them get the commission of the task, I heard that you also pay your members? If so..."

As he said that, Viscount Rich glanced at Brad who was standing next to him, thinking that this soldier is usually silly, he simply smiled and said—"Be careful, there is no doubt that you are doing this Being 'blood-sucked' by your employees and guild members~~~ Although you have found a group of vampires, don't be sucked dry by those vampires, that is the worst situation. If you One day in the future, if the business fails and is compared to our two textile factories, don’t regret it.”

Ariel smiled and said, "You guys are thinking too much, right? They're just my employees, and this won't happen."

Seeing that Ariel still doesn't care about it, Rich immediately said with a helpful attitude: "Many problems must be paid attention to at the beginning, but don't wait until things get out of hand." It’s too late to think about it later.”

Norris over there also said with a hint of concern: "President Ariel, I know that you may still have some sympathy for those workers. But you must also know that your current status and status are no longer comparable to those of the workers." Those hirelings are nothing like your guild members."

"You are no longer a commoner, but an aristocrat. You can even be said to be a non-staff member of the royal family. Even if you had to try to maintain an image of being close to the people before and fought with those inferior people, then It doesn't mean that you will still do this in the future. You have to consider your identity and keep a certain distance from them. Otherwise, you will lose your identity."

Ariel got a little impatient, but now it's not easy to get angry directly, so she can only put down the knife and fork in her hand, take out the pocket watch to check the time, and said: "Thank you for your care, I will pay attention. Ah, I don't know I feel that it is so late now. Sorry, I still have some work to do at night, so please allow me to excuse me now."

Saying that, Ariel picked up the napkin and wiped her mouth, smiled at the two viscounts, and then took Brad to say goodbye and left.

Watching Ariel walk out of the room, Rich and Norris glanced at each other again.In response, Rich shook his head helplessly, while Norris snorted softly, as if disgusted by something.

"You said, did the baroness lose her mind after becoming a nobleman?"

Norris cut a piece of steak into his mouth, chewed a couple of bites, and said—

"In my impression, she is a woman who can come up with any idea to make money. But now, she has done so many ridiculous things."

Rich nodded, with a little worry on his face, and said: "I think so too... When she was just a guild leader before, it really gave people a very strong sense of oppression... But now after becoming a mistress, she seems a little timid."

Norris snorted: "Did you know? She even arranged activities for those hired workers during their breaks! She also organized those blood-sucking worms who boarded on us to play cards, play ball, chat and sing! I really don't know where she came from So much time? Shouldn’t all the time be spent trying to make money?”

Seeing that Norris was getting more and more angry now, Rich quickly raised his hand to comfort him, and said, "Okay, okay, you have to think about his current status. Although he is still a guild leader on the surface, but he Now she is the mistress of the royal family. To put it bluntly, the reason why she treats those hired workers so much is simply to promote the greatness of the royal family. Don’t you think it’s understandable when you think about it?”

Norris licked the gravy from the corner of his mouth, nodded, gritted his teeth and said, "Of course I understand, and of course I understand... She is willing to pay those hired workers such high wages, and is willing to give them such a long rest. I really can't think of anything other than giving face to the royal family. However, Your Excellency Rich, she wants to play the role of a gentle woman, but it doesn't mean we have to do it with her."

Rich smiled and said, "Don't worry! Of course I can't really be like her. I spent all the money, so my workers must work hard for me in the future. By the way, just now The dumping method she mentioned... This method is very good. How about we go and do it when our production materials come up in the future?"

For Rich's proposal, Norris's eyes lit up immediately!He nodded vigorously, ate up the steak in front of him, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and said with a smile: "Okay! Let's do it this way! I really don't understand that woman. There is such a convenient and quick way to make money." Why, you still want to produce clothes to make money? We can't be as stupid as her. Your Excellency Rich, the goods trade in the entire border province will be hosted by the two of us in the future. I believe we can make a lot of money in the future of!"

For a moment, Rich smiled.

Likewise, Norris smiled.

The two viscounts smiled brilliantly, as if they had found their best friends in life, they laughed so freely and comfortably...

As for Ariel on the other side, she returned to the guild, and now she can only let out a long breath.

Forget it, it's useless to think so much now, let's do what we can do first.

Ariel took out the account book and work log from behind the counter and began to look through them.Seeing that he had returned to the guild, Brad went upstairs to find Buffy.

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After a while, Suta began to serve food from the kitchen.Looking at the sky outside, it was completely dark. After everyone came back, we could start eating dinner.

But at this time...

bump--!

Suddenly, the guild door was slammed open!

Ariel, Brad, Suta, Coco, and Margot who were still in the guild all poked their heads out from their rooms or behind the desk, looking in the direction of the guild gate.

But it wasn't some troublemaker who rushed in, but Duck.

"No... not good!"

It's just that Dak's expression now doesn't look like anything good is going to happen.

"President! Things... are not good! Something happened!"

It was the first time for Ariel to see this berserker become so flustered now.She froze for a moment, got up from the sofa at the same time as other guild members came downstairs, and immediately walked to the door and said, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Dak gritted his teeth, stretched his finger out of the guild, and said nervously: "President! Cheese and I went to catch the thief, but... it turned out to be a big mess! Oh, I don't understand now, hurry up! We Walk and talk!"

To catch a thief?

Ariel was slightly taken aback, but seeing Darke's expression now, she knew it was not the time to ask in detail.Immediately, she nodded immediately and followed Dake out of the guild gate.

"what happened?"

At the same time, Napa also jumped off the roof of the guild and landed firmly on the hat on Ariel's head.

Ariel turned her head and watched the other members lock the gate of the guild with their backhands and ran towards the old town of Pelican City together with Dak, and said, "I don't know exactly what happened. Let's talk as we walk, Dak , don't worry, what's going on? Is the cheese injured? "

The members of Song of the Mermaid hurried on their way, hearing the possibility that Cheese might be injured, made the others nervous involuntarily.

You know, in Pelican City, Cheese can be injured, and Dak, a berserker, can run back so out of breath... How strong is that? !

While running, Duck shook his head, frowned and said: "No, no, it's not that Cheese was injured! Oh, let me start from the beginning. Let's hurry up! They should have caught the thief to the central square, we hurry up!"

While running towards the central square, Darke finally told the whole story——

"The thing is like this. Yesterday evening, when you, President, were having a meeting with the mayor of Round Cheese, a citizen came to us and asked for help."

"They are a farm family. They said that the poultry in their yard suddenly lost one last night. It is believed that there are thieves in Pelican City."

Napa lay on Ariel's head, patted Ariel's forehead lightly with her meat pad, and said, "It's not surprising, Pelican City currently has more than 500 residents, and one or two thieves are not a problem. No surprise."

Dak waved his hand, and after running two steps, he turned his head and saw that the other members of Mermaid Song obviously couldn't keep up with him, so he had to stop for a while.

After Ariel followed, he continued: "At that time, I was the one who received that farmhouse, so I don't think it's a big deal. Besides, the only armed force in Pelican City is our mermaid song, our mermaid Zhige also has the responsibility to act as the security force in the city. And a thief, I don’t think it’s a big deal, so I didn’t tell the president.”

Ariel nodded: "What happened next?"

Dake let out a breath, and continued running, saying, "Because I received the report yesterday evening, I went to inspect the farmhouse where the theft happened last night, but nothing happened all night. Afterwards, It's today."

"Today, the cheese asked me why I went out last night, and I told him about the thief. He was very interested, so he said that he would patrol with me today to see if he could catch the thief .”

"And when it got dark today, I thought I'd go around the city before eating dinner, and continue patrolling after dinner. So I set off with Cheese."

"But I never expected... that thief was so bold. The genius just got dark, and the streets were still full of pedestrians. That guy jumped out again and attacked the farmer. In the end, it was me and Cheese The two collided head-on."

Ariel asked: "Is the thief very strong? He escaped?"

But just as this question was blurted out, Ariel suddenly felt a slight movement in the air.

As it turned out, it wasn't that she was thinking too much.Because when she raised her head and looked around, she saw that the pedestrians around her were also raising their heads, looking at the roofs of those houses with horror on their faces!

All the members of the guild raised their heads now, watching those ghostly shadows passing across the entire street, and quickly rushed towards the central square not far away.

Seeing these shadows, Ariel immediately had an ominous premonition in her heart, and she didn't care to listen to Duck's report on the situation, and immediately shouted: "Brad, take me away!"

After finishing speaking, she turned around and raised her feet, and Brad immediately stretched out his palm to hold his president, and rushed towards the central square together with everyone.

After arriving at the central square, Ariel immediately understood why Dak was so flustered now.Now, the entire central square seemed to be cut apart abruptly by some powerful force, and the crowd gathered here were naturally divided into two factions.

On one side are ordinary citizens living in Pelican City.Among these people, there is the pudding tailor, the small spirits owner, and even the mayor of the round cheese.

And on the other side...they are those...strigoi who are constantly gathering.

Obviously, it is the situation on the human side of the square that caused the two parties to show such a clear sense of separation.

A blood race...

A vampire with bright red eyes shining, he is now with his hands tied behind his back, and he is pressed heavily on the ground by the palm of the cheese.But while this vampire was suppressed, his face was full of disdain, he kept roaring, cursing loudly in languages ​​that humans couldn't understand.

So what's going on here... I'm sure it's pretty obvious.