Volume 2 Chapter 138 - Worker issue (1/2)

By noon of the next day, the caravan finally reached the Voller wolfmen tribe.

Not knowing if it was a mistake, Xu YI felt that chief Leiming Voller was treating him much more seriously this time.

Especially when facing Xu Yi, his attitude had clearly changed.

Last time chief Voller looked at Xu YI with disdain, but this time, he actually revealed a smile.

Although his wolf head smile was very ugly and even scary looking, it was enough to show his friendliness towards Xu Yi.

Of course, this was probably because he had received five hundred thousand gold coins from Xu Yi.

Even beastmen also had to live their lives.

With five hundred thousand gold coins, the Voller tribe could buy many goods they needed from humans and improve the lives of their clansmen. It would also consolidate his position as the tribe chief, so of course he was much more friendly to Xu Yi’s group.

The caravan rested at the Voller Tribe for a bit and after eating lunch, the guards and the caravans headed to the non-ferrous lodes by the Voller Tribe.

Opening a mine was not something that could be done in a day or two. According to their plans, the three companies would be building a living area by this mine and letting the workers live there.

Later when the equipment and people were transported over, the mine would be able to start operating.

According to their estimates, this would take around three to four months.

But compared to opening the mine, the real problem was with the logistics.

This mine was in the Black Rice Wasteland after all, even the Samara Town was quite a distance away. It would be difficult to send all kinds of supplies over.

For this, the three of them had come to a decision. First the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would send out a construction team who would create a road leading to the Voller Tribe from Samara Town.

Like this, they could reduce the transport time from Samara Town to the Voller tribe by half a day, avoiding the robbery attempts of the beastmen.

As for the transport of supplies, the three companies would first store them in Samara Town and transport them when they needed them.

To solve this initial problem, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would quickly build a road between Banta City and Samara Town.

When they reached this suggestion, Xu Yi said that it was better to build a road from the Falling Rain Valley’s road to Samara Town instead.

Although it would still be quite a bit of a detour, with the total distance being increased by over ten kilometers, with the existence of the Falling Rain Road, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce wouldn’t have to build a road that was over a hundred kilometers long at once. They just needed to build a sixty to seventy kilometer road between the Falling Rain Road and Samara Town, which would without a doubt save quite a bit of money and time.

Other than supplies, the other thing troubling them was the problem with workers.

The Black Rice Wasteland was the territory of the beastmen and to most humans, beastmen were repulsive and fierce, as well they weren’t friendly to humans. So if there wasn’t a need, there would be no humans who would go to beastmen territory.

To mine this lode, they had to send many workers in the end.

But to request humans to work in beastmen territory for a long period of time, this really was forcing people.

When the three companies were recruiting workers, they even promised a high wage that was close to thirty gold coins a month.

Even like this, there were far from enough human workers who were willing to come.

The three discussed this issue and each time they discussed it, they felt like there was no way forward.

The three of them could only take their time and under the enticement of the high wages, recruit enough human workers.

But arriving at the Voller Tribe and seeing the change in attitude of chief Leiming Voller, Xu Yi immediately thought of a new possibility.

After having lunch, Xu Yi met with chief Voller and gave him his request.

“You want our clansmen to work for you?” Chief Voller’s wolf eyes opened wide as he looked at Xu Yi in surprise. Could it be that this human was crazy?