Volume 2 Chapter 189 - Freeman’s decision (1/2)

The Sandton industrial district has been a bit cold recently.

Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce received orders from the City Lord’s Manor, the remaining bit of workers and magic production machines in Sandton Manor had been moved out and the factory inside had been demolished. Sandton Manor was restored as a manor and it was like the entire Sandton industrial district lost their energy, becoming much more peaceful.

If it was before, the Sandton industrial district every morning would be filled with the sounds of magic production machines, creating noise that filled the entire Sandton industrial district.

But since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce left, although there were still lingering sounds, people felt that it lacked any energy and these sounds sounded like they had no strength.

“Chairman, this is the finished product. Take a look.” A worker had handed a polished component to Freeman who was at the entrance of the factory, waking him up from his daze.

Looking over the component and then touching it a few times, Freeman immediately knit his brows and handed the component back to the worker.

“No, the surface isn’t smooth enough. The connecting joint needs to be polished again. Also, you should measure the length, I’m certain it’s too long.”

The worker took a Vernier Scale to measure it and he found that this component really was a millimeter too long. He looked at Freeman with a face covered in admiration, “Chairman, you really are a god! You can actually see how long it is just by touching and looking at it. But it’s less than a millimeter too long, isn’t this nothing special?”

Hearing this, Freeman’s body trembled as he knit his brows. He looked over the worker and suddenly gave a cold snort. He pointed at him and said, “Just based on this, you’ve lost your bonus this month.”

“Ah?” The worker was surprised, “Chairman, it can’t be? Why did you deduct a month’s bonus just based on these words?”

Seeing that the worker dared talk back, Freeman angrily said, “Humph! You actually dare say that it’s ‘less than a millimeter’ too long? Don’t you know that we are working in a very refined industry? Not mentioning one millimeter, we can’t even have a deviation of a tenth of a millimeter! Do you understand?”

The worker wanted to say a few things, but he was pulled away by the workers by him.

One of them said in a low voice while dragging him away, “You idiot, can’t you see the chairman is in a bad mood recently? If you annoy him at this time, isn’t that seeking death?”

The worker wouldn’t give up as he said, “So what if his mood isn’t good? Can’t I give my opinion? I just said a single thing and he wants to take away my bonus for this month? Damn, he really annoys me! I won’t work here anymore!”

“You won’t work here anymore?” Another worker said with a cold laugh, “I say, Rayleigh, the Ireland Chamber of Commerce has the highest wage and bonus in this industrial district and it has the least amount of overtime. Where would you go if not here? Then again, you did make a mistake just now. Let me tell you, for our component factory, it’s good to be very precise. Do you know why our Ireland Chamber of Commerce’s business is the best? It’s because we make the best quality items! If you don’t even understand that, you might as well not work here anymore.”

“That’s right, Rayleigh, your words were wrong just now. Do you know, the chairman is so strict with components because he was taught by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman Xu like this. Chairman Xu is the person who our chairman admires the most, so if you dare look down on his words, it isn’t strange for the chairman to scold you.”

“Humph, that Xu Yi isn’t the king, why are his words absolute?”

Rayleigh still wasn’t convinced, but since he was being dragged away, he didn’t keep acting stubborn. After the other whispered a few more things to him, he began to honestly do his work.

Freeman who was still standing at the entrance had clearly heard their conversation and only after seeing Rayleigh working properly did his cold gaze relax a bit. He leaned against the door again and looked over in the direction of Sandton Manor as he tightly knit his brows.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce moving from here, first not mentioning how it affected the Ireland Chamber of Commerce, it made Freeman as an individual very depressed.

Freeman had been a farmer from Ireland Village and he was so poor that he couldn’t even feed his family.

Since winning the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s eating competition and then meeting Xu Yi, his life had completely changed.

When he first obtained the Magic Harvester from Xu Yi, Freeman had made several dozen gold coins from a single short harvest season. This greatly improved the living conditions of his family.

Then after that, following Kovac’s advice and setting up the Ireland Chamber of Commerce with villagers from the same village, Xu Yi had not just helped him very much, giving them not only the machines, but also manpower and technology. Even the first order after the company was established was given to them by Xu Yi.

It could be said that the Ireland Chamber of Commerce developing to this scale and becoming the leader of Banta City’s component processing industry, earning a profit of over ten thousand gold coins a year that Freeman never dreamed of was all because of Xu Yi.

So Freeman’s heart was always filled with gratitude and admiration towards Xu Yi.

For Freeman, Xu Yi was even on the same level as his parents.