Volume 1 Chapter 30 (1/2)

Plant manager and assistant plant manager

Heinz saw the large group of ragged men and women far behind Xu Yi, surging as a wave towards the factory and was terrified.

Could it be that this fellow was locked onto by all the “beggars” inside Banta City?

When the crowd came closer, Heinz noticed that he wasn’t right because in front of the men and women in rags, there was a brightly dressed old man with a noble aura around him with Xu Yi.

“Butler Brunei? Why are you here?” Heinz asked in a stunned voice.

Butler Brunei nodded at Heinz and didn’t respond to his question. He turned to Xu Yi and said, “Chairman Xu, I have already sent the people over. From now on, these hundred slaves will be for your use, you can do whatever you want with them. But the Lord Viscount has said that these hundred slaves are only being lent to you and they aren’t being given or sold to you. He hopes that you will fulfill your promise to him and if not, he will immediately take back the hundred slaves.”

Xu Yi said with a smile, “Alright, many thanks to Butler Brunei for personally sending them over.”

Butler Brunei turned to give those men and women a few orders before those people walked behind Xu Yi, revealing looks of obedience.

“Alright, I have finished my task.” Butler Brunei gave another nod to Heinz before saying seriously to Xu Yi, “Xu Yi, although the Lord Viscount didn’t tell me why he gave you these hundred slaves, as the Lord Viscount’s butler, I must warn you that these hundred slaves are very important to the Lord Viscount. Now that the Lord Viscount has given them to you, that represents the Lord Viscount’s trust in you. I hope you will not disappoint the Lord Viscount.”

Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “Be assured, if the Lord Viscount didn’t trust me, how could he accept my request?”

Butler Brunei gave a slight nod before saying nothing else and turning to leave.

After Butler Brunei entered his horse carriage and left, Heinz couldn’t contain the curiosity in his heart anymore as he asked, “Hey, Xu Yi, what is going on here? These people are all slaves? And they are all Viscount Leslie’s slaves? Why would he give you these slaves to use? What condition did you discuss with him?”

Xu Yi raised his hand to stop Heinz from asking his questions.

“I’ll talk about this later, what about the houses I asked you to build last time? Let’s set up the slaves first and let them settle down.”

Heinz doubtfully looked at Xu Yi looked at Xu Yi before turning to shout at the workshop. After a while, Heinz’s nephew Alex ran out.

After listening to a few words from Heinz, Alex waved his hand to bring the slaves to the distant large wooden cabins near the river.

“You called Alex over to help?” Xu Yi looked at Alex leading the slaves and asked this with a bit of a surprise.

“Hei…..I was just too busy, so I directly called him over to help.” Heinz somewhat awkwardly said, “Although this kid isn’t that smart, at least he’s serious when he works. I had him help me manage several things and it’s saved me quite a bit of effort.”

Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and patted Heinz’s shoulder as he said, “This is my fault, I’ve put everything onto you. Actually now that there are more and more things, I should have found you a helper to share this a long time ago. You having Alex help is also good. At least he’s one of us, so we can be assured.”

“Un, I also thought the same. Of course, if the chairman has someone more suited for this, I’ll immediately send this kid back to manage the general store.”

“No need for that. Since he is already here, then let him work properly. We’ll do this, I’ll use this chance to divide the work. Heinz, you’ll now be in charge of managing the production line and all the large and small matters here. You’ll be the plant manager. As for the salary…...let’s just set it for thirty gold coins per month for now.”

“Ah? How could that be?” Heinz was stunned before he quickly waved his hands, “I have stock already, managing things here is what I should do. How could I also receive a salary?”

“Stock and you doing things are two completely different things. Putting effort in means receiving a reward. You spend a large amount of time and effort to manage things here, so actually thirty gold coins is already very little. But we are just beginning and can only afford this much for now. When we develop further, your salary will definitely become bigger.” Without waiting for Heinz to refute this, Xu Yi forcefully slapped his shoulder, “We’ll just set it like this!”

“This…..That…...That isn’t good…..” Heinz rubbed his hands and had a look of embarrassment, but in the end he didn’t refuse this.

Xu Yi smiled before continuing, “As for Alex, he’ll be the assistant plant manager. His salary will be..,....”

“No, no, no, no, no! It’s already his luck for that kid to help, how could he dare take a salary. You don’t need to consider him at all, really!” Heinz quickly said.

Xu Yi laughed as he pointed at Heinz, “You’re getting thirty gold coins each month and he’s not getting a single copper coin, how could he be happy? Alright, I’m setting this matter and it’ll be ten gold coins for a month for now. If he does well, it can be raised at any time. What do you think?”

Heinz gave two laughs and didn’t refute him.

Seeing the excitement that couldn’t be hidden on his face, Xu Yi found it a bit funny.

Heinz seeking benefits for his nephew, this could be considered a normal thing for people. Xu Yi didn’t have anything against this.

It was just like he said, Alex was considered one of them, so he could be assured in using him.