Volume 2 Chapter 61 - What qualifications do you have to be arrogant (2/2)

Because the elves created more work for them and affected the efficiency of the workshop, those human workers naturally felt dissatisfied.  Finally because of a mistake, a human worker finally couldn’t help insulting the elves.

The elves had a proud personality, how could they take the crude insults of human workers?  So the conflict between both sides erupted.

If Xu Yi hadn’t come in time, the first armed conflict would have happened in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and it would have been a conflict between races.

When Xu Yi came and heard the entire story, he ruthlessly scolded both sides that caused trouble.

Xu Yi was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman, so he had a high position in the minds of the workers.  After being scolded by him, the human workers naturally could only take it and couldn’t refute him.

But when had the elves ever been scolded like this?  Not to mention that it was a human scolding them.

Even if elder Illusia had strictly ordered them to listen to Xu Yi before they left the Night Song Tribe, in this kind of situation, the elves couldn’t take it and refuted Xu Yi’s scolding.

But a few simple words made them completely speechless.

“Everyone is doing the same work, but the human workers are faster and better than you, so what qualifications do you have to look down on them?  What qualifications do you have to scream in front of me?  Could it be the pride of you elves is acting shamelessly after making mistakes?”

After that conflict, the hundred elves changed their sloppy attitude and began to work seriously like the human workers, strictly following the rules.

Once they became serious, the elves’ personality of chasing perfection and innate talents came out.  The work they finished was much more beautiful compared to the ones made by the human workers.

“Although this is a good thing, it isn’t good that there are antagonistic feelings between the elven workers and our human workers.  If it stays like this, it will go against the intentions of elder Illusia.”  Xu Yi thought about it before saying to Ankhto, “Pay attention to this in the future and defuse as much tension as you can.  For example, you can go and hold a banquet when there is free time, let the human and elven workers have contact with each other so they can understand each other better.”

Ankhto nodded in response.

After telling them this, Xu Yi began talking about business.

“According to the plan, our company will be making a tire factory after a period of time.  This factory will be divided into three parts, making the bearing, casting the steel frames, and making the cover for the tire.  This should split the work between three to five workshops.”

“Tires?”  Ankhto was a bit confused, “What is that?”

“You don’t need to understand what it is now, I just need to you pick from among the current workers, some that are familiar with controlling the production magic machines and the Magic Punch Presses.  I need to rely on these people to develop and make the first batch of tires.  In the future, they will be the foundation for the tire factory.”  Xu Yi said.

“Alright, around what time do you need them by?”  Ankhto asked.

“If nothing unexpected happens, I need them by the end of the month.  Also I need a group of these people to be elven workers.  You should pick some elven workers who have a decent sense of discipline, I need them to make the cover of the tire.”

Ankhto nodded to show he understood.

Xu Yi said a few more things to him before leaving the household magic machine workshop, heading to the magic machine development workshop.

Compared to the household magic machine workshop that only manufactured developed magic machines, the magic machine development workshop had the important role of studying magic machines.  Their importance surpassed the magic research facility, so Xu Yi had always placed the most importance on this place.

Naturally, he gave Camby, Bordeau, and the other dwarves in charge the best treatment.

Not mentioning Camby, because Bordeau was an outstanding talent and had played a very important role in the research of the last few months, Xu Yi had raised his wage from fifteen gold coins a month to twenty five gold coins a month.

But Xu Yi still felt that this wage was just too low.

If the other companies know how important Bordeau was to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they would still be very happy even if they had to start by doubling the wage of twenty five gold coins a month.

It had to be known, on earth, some important high level research staff in some companies had yearly salaries of at least a million.

Changing that into gold coins on the Sines Continent, that was equal to ten thousand gold coins!

That meant a monthly salary of close to a thousand gold coins!