Volume 2 Chapter 139 - Moon Shadow Tribe (1/2)
“You want to hire beastmen workers?” Chairman Renersa looked at Xu Yi with a frown. He thought for a bit before slowly shaking his head, “Chairman Xu, I have to say, this might not be a good idea.”
Xu Yi had already expected this reaction from chairman Renersa, so he wasn’t that surprised. He just smiled as he asked, “Why?”
“The beastmen, dwarves, and elves are all different. They will not keep their promises like the dwarves and elves, properly doing their work. I have done business with the beastmen on the Black Rice Wasteland for a long time and I’ve realized that beastmen are no different from beasts. They are all savage by nature, they have no law at all. If you hire them as workers, I’m afraid that consequences will be hard to predict.”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “I feel that this isn’t a problem. Even if they are savage as beasts, they can still live with humans after being domesticated and accept human management. No matter how much beastmen are like beasts, they are still an intelligent race. Before coming here, I’ve studied the history of the continent and feel on the contrary that the reason why they are so savage is completely because they don’t have a proper living environment. At the same time, they don’t have any special survival capabilities, so in order to keep living, they have to steal from other races, seeming like savages.”
“You think that as long as you give these beastmen a peaceful living environment, they will be able to live together with humans?” Chairman Renersa shook his head, “Chairman Xu, your ideas are a bit too…..naive. Savageness is the nature of beastmen, just like beasts. Even if they are domesticated, you can’t get rid of their nature.”
“Then I’ll give you an example.” Xu Yi pointed at the Voller Tribe behind the two and asked, “Chairman Renersa, how long have you done business with this wolfmen tribe?”
Chairman Renersa never thought that Xu Yi would bring the topic here. After being surprised, he thought about it and responded, “Around…..twenty years.”
“Then in these twenty years, has the Voller Tribe done anything to humans?” Xu Yi asked.
Chairman Renersa gave a cold snort, “Like he would dare! This tribe is the closest beastmen tribe to Samara Town, so if they dare do anything too excessive, they would have been flattened by the royal army. Even if the royal army doesn’t cause trouble for them, as long as there are no human merchants that don’t do business with them, they can’t survive another day!”
“It’s because everything they need for daily life is provided to them by human merchants, right?”
“Un, not mentioning something like salt which they definitely don’t lack, whether it is oil, vinegar, tea, or even the clothes they wear, it is all provided by us human merchants. Now that the beastmen of their tribe are used to living like humans, to have them go back to eating raw meat and relying on stealing to feed themselves, they definitely wouldn’t be willing.” Chairman Renersa replied.
“Then can they steal what they need?”
“Steal?” Chairman Renersa laughed, “Although there are still beastmen who dare steal from us human merchants on this Black Rice Wasteland, there are fewer and fewer each year. The Beastmen Independence Regiment that we met yesterday is unique. Those beastmen aren’t fools, since they can live better than before just by honestly doing business with us human merchants, why would they risk offending us and going back to their previous wretched lives…..”
After saying this, chairman Renersa suddenly stopped. After looking at Xu Yi for a while, he suddenly revealed a look of understanding.
“I understand. Chairman Xu, you want to say that as long as we provide those beastmen with stable work and let them obtain lives similar to us humans, they wouldn’t be dumb enough to destroy this new life?”
Xu Yi nodded with a smile, “That’s right, this is what I wanted to say. You just said it, the beastmen aren’t fools, they also want a good life. They didn’t have a choice before, so they had to steal from humans to satisfy their needs. But now that their strength is far below humans and they fear retaliation from stealing, don’t you think that they would agree to a good life where they didn’t need to steal?”
Chairman Renersa thought about it before slowly nodding, “I think I understand your meaning. But chairman Xu, there is still a problem you didn’t consider.”
“Oh?”
“I’ve said it before, the beastmen aren’t strong enough, so they are accepting the option that we’re providing them. But if you let them live a good life and they gradually increase their strength again, I feel that their nature will come out in the end and there will be big trouble.”
“Un, I admit that your worries are reasonable, but why do we need to let them increase their strength?” Xu Yi revealed a smile of deep meaning, “Although after increasing the quality of life for the beastmen, there is the chance of increasing their numbers and that poses a threat to us humans, but there is a very simple method to reduce this threat.”
“What method?” Chairman Renersa asked in a curious voice.
“This method is related to the “labour cards” that chief Voller longs to obtain. As long as it’s like this…..”
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Three days later, Xu Yi left the Voller Tribe and returned to Samara Town, arriving to see Anklo who was here to welcome Xu Yi.
When he saw Xu Yi, Anklo immediately opened his arms and tightly hugged him. He said with a very exaggerated sigh, “Chairman Xu, I really was anxious waiting for you.”