Chapter 40 I Don't Treat Them As Official Workers
"What's going on?" Xu Yi looked at Cantona with a conspicuous scratch on his face and the bruised corners of his eyes, and asked with some amusement: "Do you two think that the work here is too boring and you have nothing to do and have a fight with each other?"
Cantona smiled awkwardly, while Director Riley smiled bitterly and shook his head: "President Xu, don't make fun of us, I don't believe you don't know what happened. You need to give a handling opinion on this matter."
Seeing the distressed expressions on the faces of the two, Xu Yi put away the thought of making fun of them and pondered for a while, thinking that this matter was indeed a bit tricky. No wonder neither of them immediately dealt with it, but waited for a few more days and then handed it over to him after he came.
Four days ago, on this 100,000 hectares of land leased by the New Air Chamber of Commerce from the Wiron patriarch, a serious group conflict broke out between more than 1,000 farmers from the Lampari Kingdom, which came from Bonta City and the 5,000 local farmers hired by the New Air Chamber of Commerce.
According to the aftermath statistics, there were about 300 Bonta City farmers and more than 500 local farmers involved in the conflict and took action. Although there was no serious accident like the death, nearly 100 people were seriously injured, and more than 400 people were slightly injured. Even Cantona, who is currently mainly responsible for the work of this farm, and Riley, who had no connection at all, were implicated and suffered minor injuries.
Because of this serious accident, all work at Xinfei Farm has temporarily stopped. Cantona and his subordinates have been busy dealing with the follow-up work and have not had a good sleep for several days.
"There is nothing difficult to deal with about this matter itself." Xu Yi thought for a while and said to Cantona: "For our farmers in Bonta City, Cantona, you go and make adjustments in private. For the farmers hired locally, I will go to the Virgin Clan leader to come forward. I believe that as long as a certain punishment is given, no one will dare to make trouble again."
Cantona hesitated: "Although no one dares to make trouble again, but... President Xu, I think the farmers in our Bonta City are right this time. The farmers hired by the Principality of Stantin are obviously too lazy to die and are not willing to do anything all day long. But they still have to pay similar salary to their own. I wouldn't be happy if they were. What's more, those guys are not satisfied and actually came over to accuse the farmers in our Bonta City of for having too high salaries, which is unfair. Humph, I don't know who is really unfair to."
Xu Yi stared at Cantona and asked seriously: "Is this your true thought?"
Cantona was stunned, faced Xu Yi's gaze, hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and nodded vigorously.
"Yes, this is my true thought. President Xu. I have been in charge of this place for more than half a month, but I saw with my own eyes how lazy the guys from the Principality of Stantin are. From my perspective, the farmers in our Bonta City do even the five of them every day, but each of them can still get enough hardware coins. However, we farmers who come from Bonta City can only get one hundred gold coins a year, and on average, there is not even ten gold coins in one month, less than twice theirs."
"But in fact, they do get much higher salaries than the people in the Principality of Stantin, right?" Xu Yi asked back. "So from the perspective of the workers in the Principality of Stantin, their dissatisfaction is also very reasonable."
"Bah! Do they have the ability to do more work? According to what I said, we should follow the rules of our Bangta City, pay according to how much work we work, give more money, and give less work. If we don't do anything, we won't even think of a copper coin!"
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "This idea is good, but unfortunately, the situation here in the Principality of Stantin is different, so it cannot be implemented."
"Why can't it be implemented?" Cantona asked dissatisfied.
"Because I think you know very well that most of the salary these workers received ended up in the pocket of the Wiron patriarch."
Cantona was slightly stunned, and suddenly woke up. He glanced left and right, and asked in a low voice: "President Xu, according to what you said, this matter was actually caused by the patriarch of Wiron? No wonder these guys from the Principality of Stantin have always been quite honest, but they suddenly made trouble in the past two days before you came. After a long time of work, I just wanted to give you conditions."
Director Riley, who was standing beside him, angrily snorted: "Hmph! This fat pig, he has been constantly praising you in front of us these days. I didn't expect that he was using such dirty methods behind his back, which is simply damn!"
As the person involved, Xu Yi didn't care much and waved his hand with a smile: "You don't have to react so strongly. I'm just guessing about this matter, and there is no evidence. We will continue to cooperate with the leader of Weilun in the future, so the relationship between each other cannot be too stiff."
"Then what you mean is to accept his threat this time?" Cantona said unconvincedly. "President Xu, this fat man is insatiable. If you promise him once, I'm sure he will continue to do this in the future."
"Yes, this is definitely the mind of such a person. As long as he surrenders to him once, he will become more severe. President Xu, I don't think he should succeed this time, otherwise he will be in trouble." Manager Riley also said.
"Don't worry, I know what I know." Xu Yi smiled and shook his head. "If it's just a money requirement, I'm the least worried. Besides, even if he can have enough money, it's still a question whether he has the life to spend it..."
Director Cantona and Riley were stunned at the same time, and looked at each other and saw a hint of awe in each other's eyes.
From Xu Yi's words, they actually smelled a hint of coldness.
"Okay, the work of appeaseing the farmers from our Bonta City is mainly to Cantona. Supervisor Riley, we are old friends, so I will also help with this matter. I would like to thank you first."
"President Xu, you are polite." Director Riley waved his hands repeatedly. "In terms of our relationship, this is just a trivial matter. But I think it would be better if you come forward to comfort me personally. To be honest, so many farmers in our Bangta City are willing to leave Bangta City and come here to farm from all over the place, but it is all based on the signs of you and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce."
"Well, of course I will come forward, but I won't stay here for a long time, and there are many other things to do, so you still have to complete the subsequent work." Xu Yi nodded and reminded Cantona again: "Remember, we must stabilize the emotions of the farmers from Bonta City, and don't let them have doubts about continuing to reclaim the farm here."
"Okay, I will do my best." Cantona nodded and replied, thinking for a while, and asked again: "President Xu, do you think... give them some compensation to make them feel at ease?"
"No." Xu Yi shook his head and rejected the proposal. "Seriously, they are wrong with this matter. If it is handled properly, they will even need to be punished."
"I still need punishment?" Cantona said in surprise: "Then I'm worried that they will quit."
"So this is just a superficial way of dealing with it. On the surface, we have to severely punish this behavior to avoid similar conflicts next time. But we privately tell them the actual attitude of our New Air Chamber of Commerce. It will be inconvenient for me to come forward, so Cantona will communicate."
Cantona nodded to show understanding.
"In addition, the farm model needs to be changed. Since these local farmers in the Principality of Stantin are not easy to use, don't let them work with the farmers from our Bonta City in the future. Anyway, with the help of so many farmland magic machinery, the people from our Bonta City alone are enough to reclaim this farm." Xu Yi said again.
"What should we do with these five thousand people?"
"There are many things to do. For example, responsible for the infrastructure around the farm, repairing roads, building houses, etc."
Director Riley immediately looked bitter: "President Xu, you, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, don't want to stay these people, and we, the Amley Chamber of Commerce, don't want to use them. But I know how lazy these guys are. Will send them here drag us down?"
"Their salary is paid by our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. What are you afraid of?" Xu Yi said. "If you are worried that they will drag you down, don't let them do those technical work. There are so many simple tasks that only require physical strength to repair roads and docks. You can leave them to do it. Although they are lazy enough, there are still 5,000 people, and it's a little bit to be able to do it."
Director Riley frowned and asked in confusion: "President Xu, why do I feel... you don't take these five thousand people seriously at all, and you don't really treat them as workers in your chamber of commerce."
Xu Yi shrugged: "When did these guys change their laziness, I will treat them as real workers in our chamber of commerce. Didn't you find that except for getting five gold coins a month, there is no benefit that our employees of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce enjoy?"
"Then won't your monthly salary of more than 20,000 gold coins be in vain?" Manager Riley said astonished.
"There is no way, this is a price that must be paid." Xu Yi stood up. "Supervisor Riley, please help Cantona discuss what should be done. I have to talk to the leader of Weilun first."
A hint of surprise flashed across the two of them, and Cantona asked with some concern: "President Xu, why don't you... want to show off with that fat man, right?"
"It's not the time now." Xu Yi smiled slightly. "I'm just... going to make a deal with him." (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!