Perhaps because they had witnessed the changes in the Noma tribe, Chief Mento and the two elders were full of hope in cooperating with Xu Yi, so the entire negotiation... Oh no, it could be regarded as an ordinary negotiation and it went very smoothly.
It only took a short day for Xu Yi to discuss almost all the details with Chief Mento.
For the one hundred dwarf craftsmen provided by the Angora tribe, Xu Yi gave the same salary of eight gold coins per month as the dwarves in Canby.
However, in terms of other benefits, it is a bit worse.
This is because Canby and other dwarves have been working at the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for more than two months and are now skilled workers. However, these dwarves from the Angola tribe have just arrived, so naturally they cannot have exactly the same treatment.
Chief Mento and the two elders had no objections to this. After all, just the monthly salary of eight gold coins for each clan member was enough to satisfy them.
What's more, Xu Yi also agreed to build a materials laboratory in the Angola tribe. Not only will they provide a fixed research fund of one hundred gold coins every month, but as long as they produce the same results and are finally adopted by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, they will also Therefore, he was rewarded with five hundred gold coins.
For the Angolan tribe, which has been impoverished for a long time, whether it is the fixed monthly salary of eight gold coins that the tribesmen receive from working at the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, or the 500 gold coins they can receive after producing research results, it is like rain after a long drought. Generally, they only feel extremely satisfied, so why would they make more demands at this time
The dwarves were originally honest and straightforward, but now they felt that Xu Yi had put forward these conditions just to save them.
So Patriarch Mengtuo and the two elders said they wanted to bring Xu Yi to the Angola tribe as a guest to express their gratitude.
Xu Yi couldn't resist their enthusiasm, so in the end he could only follow them, and came to the Angola tribe accompanied by Chief Shluka and Kanby.
Probably because the population is twice as large as that of the Noma tribe, the living conditions of the dwarves of the Angola tribe are slightly better than those of the previous Noma tribe, but they are still limited and they are still only barely able to survive starvation. stage.
But compared with the current Noma tribe, it is in the sky and on the ground.
After walking around the Angola tribe, Xu Yi watched a little dwarf boy grab a piece of candy he brought and eat it happily. Finally he couldn't help but asked the leader of Shluka: "I'm very surprised, why do the dwarves Why is life so difficult? Dwarves are obviously so hard-working, able to endure hardships, and possess powerful forging skills. Logically speaking, they shouldn’t live like this all the time.”
Chief Shluka and Chief Mento looked at each other and smiled bitterly at the same time.
After a while, Chief Shluka sighed and said, "President Xu, this question should actually be asked to you humans."
"Oh?" Xu Yi looked at Chief Shluka curiously. "Why?"
"It's very simple. Since the race war thousands of years ago, humans have won a great victory, and then they have occupied all the good places on the entire Sainz continent. Whether it is us dwarves, orcs, or There are races such as dwarfs and goblins that have not been seen for a long time. They can only live on barren land and cannot get enough food at all. If you want to get food from humans, you have to pay a lot. The price is high. President Xu, you are from Bangta City. Let me ask you, how much does a pound of wheat cost in Bangta City?”
Xu Yi was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and replied: "If I remember correctly, the current price should be fourteen silver coins per pound."
"Look, you can buy a pound for only fourteen silver coins!" Chief Shluka snorted, his tone full of dissatisfaction. "Do you know how much it costs for you humans to sell us a pound of wheat?"
Xu Yi frowned. He knew that the price must be outrageous without even asking.
Sure enough, Chief Shluka stretched out a thick finger.
"A whole gold coin! You can only buy one pound of wheat! President Xu, did you know? We dwarves have much larger appetites than you humans. One person can eat half a pound of wheat in one meal. In other words, One gold coin is only enough for one of us dwarves to eat for one day!" After saying this, Chief Shluka's tone already showed a trace of anger. It was obvious that he had been angered by the high price of wheat sold by humans. "The only hobby of us dwarves is wine, but brewing wine requires more wheat. In order to save the wheat that was finally exchanged from humans, our Noma tribe has banned wine making for a long time. President Xu, do you know You know, the last time you came to our tribe was the first time I drank in two years? "
Xu Yi couldn't help but smile bitterly, thinking that for the dwarves who were addicted to alcohol, being unable to drink for two years was indeed a very painful thing.
No wonder when Xu Yi promised Canby to provide the dwarf craftsmen with fine wine from Sage Manor as a reward, the dwarves' enthusiasm for work immediately became extremely high.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi felt a little strange.
"This is wrong, Chief Shluka. According to what you said, what do you use to earn gold coins, or what do you use to exchange for the food necessary for life?"
"It's very simple. Use ore in exchange." Chief Shluka pointed to the high mountain outside the Angola tribe. "There are a lot of iron ores and magic crystal mines in that mountain. Human beings thought this place was too far away and it was not cost-effective to mine, so they never took care of it. So we dwarves relied on collecting these iron ores and magic crystals to sell to Humans in exchange for food.”
"If I guessed correctly, the price they paid for iron ore and magic crystal must be very low, right?" Xu Yi asked in a deep voice.
"It's very low, but what can we do?" Chief Shluka sighed. "This is also because humans think it is not cost-effective to mine these mines and ignore them. If humans one day take a fancy to these mines and send troops to drive us away, then we really don't know how to continue to survive. Now it is We have to thank humans for at least leaving us a way to survive." At this point, Chief Shluka smiled mockingly.
Xu Yi looked speechlessly at the Mengtu clan leader next to him. The Mengtu clan leader also had a wry smile on his face, nodded to Xu Yi and said: "Although the situation of our tribe was a little better than that of the Norma tribe, in general it is almost the same. . In the final analysis, we are not human beings, and human beings are the rulers of Sainz Continent.”
Seeing the expressions on the faces of the two clan leaders, Xu Yi couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
As a human being, he was discussing with two dwarves the oppression of the dwarves by humans, which really made him feel a little uncomfortable.
However, the information revealed in Chief Shluka's words just caught his attention. He raised his head and stared at the mountain for a while, and Xu Yi suddenly asked: "Chief Shluka, are you dwarves not only good at forging, but also good at forging?" Good at mining?”
"Well, that's right. We dwarves have no other specialties, but we are indeed very talented in clearing wasteland and smelting ore. The ore that you humans can mine in one day may not be as much as us dwarves can mine in one meal. " Chief Shluka replied.
"That's still something wrong. Since the dwarves are so capable, why don't any human merchants hire you dwarves to mine?" Xu Yi asked again.
"It has happened before. But the salaries offered by those human merchants to our dwarf brothers were very low. Of course, the most important thing is that humans always discriminate against us. We are easily bullied when we work in human mines. It is better to come back and do it ourselves. After a long time, no dwarf brothers are willing to go out to work for humans." Chief Shluka glanced at Xu Yi and continued: "To be honest, President Xu, if it hadn't been for last time, I wouldn't have done it. No way, I won’t agree to Ranu and let you take away a hundred of my brothers.”
Xu Yi nodded. Master Ranu had already mentioned this to him last time.
"Of course, later Canby and the brothers said that they lived well in your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. President Xu not only allowed the brothers to eat well and sleep well, but also let them have wine, so I gradually felt relieved. Yes." Patriarch Shluka changed his tone of appreciation again. "I have to say, President Xu, you are different from other humans. You have no prejudice against us dwarves."
Xu Yi shrugged: "To tell you something that you may not like to hear, I am a purely human businessman. I only care about whether the other party will bring benefits to me, and I will not care about the other party's race."
Chief Shluka and Chief Mento burst out laughing at the same time. Chief Shluka even stood up on tiptoes and patted Xu Yi on the shoulder with difficulty and said: "If all humans were as straightforward as you, President Xu, how could our dwarves live longer?" It would be much better.”
Xu Yi couldn't help but roll his eyes. He didn't expect that what he said would actually get a straightforward comment.
Looking at the mountain in the distance again, Xu Yi said: "Chief Shluka, since you are not a dwarf and are very good at mining, then you must be very good at exploring mineral veins, right?"
"Well, when it comes to exploring mineral veins, we dwarves are second. No race in the entire Sainz continent dares to say that we are first!" Chief Shluka said proudly.
"That's good. I just have an idea, and I need your help to find a few experts in exploring mineral veins." Xu Yidao.
"No problem." Chief Mento on the side patted his chest vigorously before Chief Shluka. "When it comes to experts in prospecting for mineral veins, our Angola tribe has many experts. Not to mention others, I am the expert."
Xu Yi smiled and shook his head: "Of course I don't need you, Chief Mento, to take action in person. I hope that Chief Shluka and Chief Mento will each select five people from the tribe, and then follow my requirements to punish all the people in the Lampali Kingdom." For exploration, it would be best to explore all the mineral veins. Do you think this is feasible?”
"All the places in the Lampali Kingdom?" The two clan leaders looked at each other and frowned at the same time. "I'm afraid this is a bit difficult, but it's not impossible, it just takes a little long."
"Can you estimate how long it will take?" Xu Yi asked.
"If we only explore for iron ore and magic crystal mine, our tribesmen are all experienced. If there are ten people in total, I think it will only take less than half a year to complete it." Chief Mento said. "But if it includes other mineral veins, it's hard to say..."
Xu Yi was immediately overjoyed: "It won't be used for half a year? That's great! Very good, it's settled. Chief Shluka, Chief Mento, you two each select five people from your tribe who are most suitable for exploring mineral veins." Experienced dwarves, tell them that our New Flying Chamber of Commerce will not only provide them with sufficient supplies, but also pay each of them a hundred gold coins as a reward after the exploration is completed."
"One hundred gold coins? That's too much!" As soon as Xu Yi finished speaking, the two clan leaders waved their hands. "This is just a trivial matter, and I don't need any reward, let alone a hundred gold coins."
"Dwarf brothers have worked hard and of course they need to be paid."
"That one hundred gold coins is too much..."
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Just as the three of them were arguing, a dwarf from the Angola tribe hurriedly came to the leader of the Montuo tribe and said loudly: "Chief, the elf guest is here again!"