Volume 5 Chapter 90 - Attitude towards slaves (1/2)

After navigating around the Candra Empire’s southern seas for four hours, the guard fleet stopped at an island that was around five to six kilometers wide.

This island didn’t have any mineral resources and didn’t have any resources worth mentioning, it wasn’t the goal of the guard fleet at all.

But two months ago, Xu Yi had changed the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s plan on the sea. He planned to build a chain of islands on the sea, linking all the islands with resources together to control the area. So even this island that didn’t have any resources, but was suited for having a base built on it was also included in the range of consideration.

There were countless islands like this on the southern seas of the Candra Empire, so it was impossible to build bases on all of these islands.

Through inspecting them, Xu Yi finally through Leslie’s reports had decided that this island and two islands that were around one to two hundred kilometers away were the first sites of construction.

Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guard fleet had been active in the seas of the Candra Empire before, strictly speaking, after building bases on these three islands, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would officially be entering the Candra Empire’s seas.

Although the countries of the continent didn’t really have an accurate concept of sea area, this island was only a hundred kilometers away from the Candra Empire’s shore. This was considered in the area of control for the Candra Empire navy.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn’t inform the Candra Empire and built bases on these three islands, it was hard to predict what kind of reaction the Candra Empire would have.

After the guard fleet stopped near the island, they didn’t stay idle. They put down several dozen small Magic Speed Boats and carried over a hundred sailors with building materials that they had brought over from Nissi Harbour to the island, building some simple dwellings near the coast.

After around two hours, before the simple dwellings had been finished, there was a giant silver glowing Magic Ship that was coming from the west.

Leslie brought the guard fleet over and on the “Far Towing” large transport Magic Ship that was just finished last month, he saw the head of the transport fleet Narvil.

The two didn’t exchange greetings and after giving a simple report, they both sent out small magic Speed Boats, bringing large amounts of personnel and construction materials from the “Far Towing” Ship to the island.

These people didn’t just come from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, a lot of them came from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce.

These people were only here with one goal which was to first build a harbour on this island.

Only after constructing a harbour could they deliver goods to this island more easily, making it easier to build the base.

This island base construction had been done on seven islands in the southern Rudson Kingdom seas, so there was no need for Narvil or Leslie to lead them. Whether it was the workers from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce or the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, they were very skilled with the construction.

There were several simple dwellings that were quickly built by the sea and then the Amrit Chamber of Commerce’s construction workers brought their living needs into the buildings.

According to the plan, starting tomorrow, they would be spending three months on this island to build the harbour and the island base. Then they would follow the plan for the next steps.

To stay on this uninhabited island for this long and having to work quite a bit each day, their lives were naturally not good.

But whether it was the workers from the Amrit Chamber of Commerce or the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, not a single person was complaining. Rather they were all smiling as they worked.

This work was back breaking, but they would receive at least thirty gold coins a month.

And because of rush work which led to overtime, they could even receive fifty gold coins a month adding in the overtime pay.

This was already a large amount of money, not to mention that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce provided them with various other benefits.

For example, because the weather in the southern seas were very hot, they would be receiving a subsidy worth three gold coins a month for working in the high temperatures.

At the same time, because the living conditions here weren’t good and the work was hard, they would receive a nutrition subsidy worth five gold coins a month.

Adding in the various subsidies, if it was converted to gold coins, it would be a total of over ten gold coins a month.

With this kind of shocking working conditions, even if the work was hard, so what?

“Hey, Narvil, do you see this? This is the benefit of having money.” Leslie looked at the workers working hard on the island and gave a shrug as he said to Narvil beside him, “As long as they receive enough money, I think that these people might even sell their lives to our company.”

“Using money to buy lives isn’t that hard.” Narvil looked at Leslie, “On Caraska Island five years ago, as long as you took out ten gold coins, you could buy a life.”

Leslie looked at Narvil and had nothing to say in response.