Volume 1 Chapter 43 (1/2)

Payday

The burning hot weather continued and it was already the middle of August in the blink of an eye.

On this day, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s workshops were all filled with joy. Almost every person had a smile on their faces that was filled to the brim.

As for the reason? It’s very simple, it was because today was payday.

According to the rules Xu Yi set, the fifteenth of each month was the set payday. This time, the factory had been set up for a month, so this was the first official payday, so naturally it had to be official and could even be considered grand.

Sebas had arrived at the factory early and had given the financial report for last month he had made to Xu Yi and Heinz to look over.

Xu Yi believe that there was no need to doubt useful people and don’t use doubtful people. He only simply swept over the financial report and didn’t care about it at all. Heinz on the other hand carefully looked it over several times, only letting Sebas off after ensuring that every number was correct.

Xu Yi was helpless towards Heinz’s actions, but he didn’t stop him.

As the third largest shareholder of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce after himself and Viscount Leslie, Heinz had enough qualification and reason to do this. Moreover, with him carefully looking it over, it saved Xu Yi quite a bit of effort.

The nervous and exciting morning passed and it was the afternoon in the blink of an eye. All the workers in both workshops gathered and they began lining up to receive their pay.

The first to come up was the dwarf Camby.

As the manager of the magic machine workshop, Camby’s wage was naturally higher than the other dwarves. He was on almost the same level as Heinz’ receiving twenty gold coins per month.

The next one to come forward was Alex.

As Heinz’s assistant, Alex’s wage was ten gold coins, it was a bit higher than the normal worker.

Then came the dwarves excluding Camby.

Other than the dwarves that had been affected by trivial matters or health issues, the other dwarves all received eight gold coins a month as a wage.

When they opened the purses Sebas handed them and found eight gold coins shining inside, the dwarves all had smiles bloom on their faces. There were even some dwarves who began excitedly dancing.

It was like Master Lanus said, these dwarves had very poor living conditions before. When these dwarves had been living back in the tribe, although they didn’t starve, other than wine that they could brew themselves, they were lacking in other materials they needed.

After they came to work at the factory, not only did the factory take care of their meals, not letting them worry about their daily necessities, they also received eight gold coins per month!

Even if eight gold coins was not considered much, they could buy some needed items and bring them back to the tribe, letting their parents, wives, and children have better lives.

Thinking of the happy smiles their family members would have when receiving these things, these frank and straightforward dwarves were filled with joy.

When remembering that they could only enjoy this kind of life after coming to the factory, the dwarves all looked at Xu Yi with gazes filled with excitement and respect.

Compared to the dwarves, the wages of the students from the Baron Rickto Magic Academy was a bit lower. It was only around five-six gold coins.

They had this kind of wage because they were only still students, so the time they had each day to work was limited. Naturally they couldn’t compare to the dwarves who worked in the magic machine workshop all day.

The second reason was because they only had simple Magic Array making work. Although it was work on the magic side, it was a very simple and repetitive kind of work. It didn’t have a high requirement in terms of technique, so naturally their wages weren’t that high.

Xu Yi was a bit worried at first that the students wouldn’t be satisfied seeing that other people’s wages were higher than theirs, but after the students received their wages, every single one of them was filled with incomparable joy. There wasn’t a single bit of dissatisfaction at all.

Even a kid from a noble family like Orin, his mouth was crooked from smiling at just a trivial six gold coins. It was like he wasn’t holding six gold coins, but rather six hundred gold coins.

Xu Yi thought about it and couldn’t help but smile.

Actually the reactions of the other students were normal. They were only student still in school right now, being able to earn a wage with their own work was already enough to make them happy.

Not to mention that five-six gold coins to them was already quite a bit. It had to be known that the fee for each semester at the Baron Rickto Magic Academy was twenty five gold coins.

This meant that as long as they kept this job, these students could rely on their own hard work to pay their own school fees.

For most of the students from normal or poor families, this saved quite a bit of burden for their families. Once their parents found out about this, they would be very satisfied with this.

After they finished giving the students their wages, there was a portion of workers that didn’t receive wages, which was the hundred slaves.

When it was time to give these hundred slaves their wages, Xu Yi was actually troubled.