"What do you think of this matter?" Sui Xiong recounted the cause and effect of the matter, frowning and said, "Don't blame me for talking too much, you should also unify your thoughts for your believers. We don't pursue unity from top to bottom, internally It’s not surprising that there are factions, but we can’t get to the point where the two major factions resort to violence!”
Mannis, the goddess of wealth who was always confident, looked a little less confident at the moment. She was silent for a long time before sighing deeply and still said nothing.
"What's wrong with you?" Sui Xiong was puzzled, "Wasn't it fine some time ago?"
"At that time, I thought I could suppress this matter." The goddess of wealth finally spoke, her voice full of bitterness, "Now I find that I can't suppress it. Not only can't I suppress it, but... I'm about to get out of it." event."
Sui Xiong was shocked. Although he had somewhat expected the seriousness of the situation, he never expected that it would be so serious that even the goddess of wealth could do nothing.
"How could this happen? Do you think you can't even control the church?" he asked worriedly.
"The church can still be controlled, but now... the only thing I can control is the church." The goddess of wealth sighed, looking very tired, "The aristocracy and the merchants have become incompatible. Although the church is currently We are still trying our best to reconcile the conflicts between the two parties, but it seems that we can’t suppress it this time.”
"What will happen if we can't suppress it? Will there really be a civil war?"
"It should be." The Goddess of Wealth smiled bitterly and said, "I have learned about it in detail. There is really no way to mediate between the noble faction and the merchant faction this time."
"Why?"
"Probably because of 'assembly operation'." said the goddess of wealth. "Assembly operation method can greatly reduce the time for training workers, and can break down the original complex processes, greatly increasing the content that can be produced. At present, businessmen send This production process is being fully promoted, so more manpower is needed. But they do not have enough workers on hand and must recruit... "
Sui Xiong understood.
For commoners, although the skills that can be learned through assembly line work are very limited, the wages in the workshop are obviously higher than the income from farming - mainly because the nobles collect taxes too much, and farming is completely insufficient to support their families. In contrast, the workmanship can at least satisfy a family.
This world has not yet entered the so-called industrial revolution era that is "covered with blood and filth". Although the wages in the workshops are not high, they are at least much higher than those in farming... At least in the Gold Coin Federation.
Under such circumstances, it is naturally not difficult for businessmen to recruit workers.
However, this encountered a problem.
Most of the civilians in this world are not "free citizens". As subjects of their lord, they were not free to accept employment.
And will the lords allow a large number of laborers in their territories to become workers
Sui Xiong recalled it and thought of Geerten Leader.
The Gerten Territory was once a region where agriculture was the main source of income, but now it is a world-famous stationery and medicinal material producing area. How does Orian Gerten allocate human resources
So he contacted Orian and asked about it.
"Of course we have to put down the farming." Orian replied, "Just buy food and stuff."
Sui Xiong nodded, this was similar to his guess.
But it is obvious that most of the lords of the Gold Coin Federation cannot accept this kind of thing, because those workshops do not belong to them, but belong to the merchant faction.
"Is it okay if the merchants let the lords take shares in the workshops?" Thinking of this, he made a suggestion.
The goddess of wealth shook her head: "This is impossible. Behind the workshops is technology, and technology is the foundation for the survival of the workshop owners. Even if the lords claim to only invest in shares and not participate in the operation, they cannot give up the work. The equity of the company.”
"In fact... in order to avoid the risk of technology leakage, most workshop owners with relatively strong capital will not hire local workers, but would rather pay more to hire non-local workers, in order to prevent the lords from having a reason to intervene."
Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but be a little surprised.
After being surprised, he couldn't help but feel distressed.
The lords in this world are much more dominant than those on Earth, and the merchants in this world are also much stronger than those on Earth. If the strong forces join forces, they can naturally have the effect of one plus one being greater than two. But now it is a collision between strong forces. Everyone refused to give in to each other.
If workers are hired away, it will hinder the production of the territory and harm the interests of the lord. But businessmen, especially big businessmen, urgently need a large number of workers for production, and at the same time they are unwilling to give up the profits of their workshops.
If we were on Earth, the two sides could probably achieve a compromise in their interests by joining forces and squeezing workers to death. But in this world, there are also kind gods behind the common people. Although they usually don't care much, if there really is a lord and a businessman jointly squeezing workers and frantically squeezing out the last bit of profit, I'm afraid the paladins will roar in a few days. Came to the door.
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that conflicts between noble lords and workshop merchants would intensify.
"Can't we let the businessmen take a step back?" Sui Xiong thought for a while and said, "You can't make enough money, so it doesn't matter if you make less."
"It has always been the businessmen who have been making concessions." The goddess of wealth sighed and said.
Sui Xiong was speechless.
It can be seen that the merchant faction has been enduring it for a long time, and now it has really reached the point where it can't be tolerated anymore.
It is said that "Destroying someone's wealth is like killing one's parents", and it is also said that "as long as there is 300% profit, the capitalists are not even afraid of the gallows". The businessmen's ability to endure until now is entirely because of the face of the goddess of wealth. superior. Now they finally couldn't help but break out, and the goddess of wealth was naturally losing face.
What's more, once the businessmen make up their mind to break up with the noble lords, the goddess of wealth should be on their side.
In any case, businessmen are the core believers of the goddess of wealth.
Sui Xiong thought about it and asked about it.
"I really... don't know what to do." The Goddess of Wealth smiled bitterly and shook her head, "Although the merchants are my core believers, most of the nobles of the Gold Coin Federation have also been my believers for generations!"
"Now my priests are also very worried. Some of them are from noble families, some are from merchant families, and the pressure from their families makes them uncomfortable... Now, as we speak, there are hundreds of them. The priest is praying to me, begging me to resolve the conflict between the two factions and restore peace to the Gold Coin Federation."
Sui Xiong looked at the bitter look on the goddess of wealth's face and couldn't help but sigh.
Obviously, He couldn't do it.
At this time, he suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but ask: "By the way, I think I invented the assembly line method. I didn't let anyone expand the business to the Gold Coin Federation. How could this technology be passed on? of?"
The goddess of wealth suddenly looked embarrassed, as if she had been caught red-handed after doing something bad.
Then Sui Xiong understood.
Looking at the appearance of the goddess of wealth, he remembered a famous saying.
If you do evil by God, you can still forgive it; if you do evil by yourself, you will not live!