"Mr. Roland! Mr. Roland! Please wait a moment! ”

"What's the matter, Vigraf, it's rare to see a panicked look on your face. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Uh, Mr. Roland, the weather isn't good today, I suggest going somewhere else first, such as the Cord Sanctuary or the Martyr's Tower, and then going to the Great Arena another day?"

Roland glanced up at the sky, but didn't say anything.

Vigraf looked at the sky with a blank heart, and the sky was as clear as white clouds, and the bright sun made his face flush and embarrassed.

"Viglaf, my friend, have you ever been told not to blush when lying, and not to look around."

Vigraf's head froze as he looked around, and his face grew redder.

Roland shook his head amusedly, "Let's be honest, what the hell is going on. ”

"Well, I feel very humiliated about the Grand Arena as a Kitlander...... See for yourself and see. ”

Ten minutes later, Roland stood on the last row of the arena with his hands on his hips, the highest seat on the ground, looking at the arena, the marble structure of the building is magnificent and elegant, quite like the atmosphere of the ancient Roman arena on the earth, for tourists from afar, sitting here to enjoy a thrilling and bloody duel, it is definitely worth the ticket price.

Then Roland turned to look out of the field, and the admiration on his face immediately turned to sarcasm.

"Tsk! Viglaf, my dear Viglaf, no wonder you kid was reluctant to take me to visit Kitland's landmarks, it turns out that the arena is a ruined project! ”

"Please...... Wiglaf was embarrassed. No matter how much he loved his hometown, it was impossible for him to say in good conscience that the expansion of the Great Arena was going well.

Looking at the dirty and messy construction site in front of him, the discarded building materials, and the independent scaffolding in the wind, Roland couldn't help but laugh.

"The tournament is just a week away, what's going on with this messy construction site?"

"The opening ceremony of the conference has been postponed to May 7, and everything will be fine until then."

"A one-week delay can finish this unfinished project? Do you believe this yourself? ”

"I'm afraid it'......," Wiglaf rubbed his hands in frustration, "well, I'll admit it's a bit of a tight schedule. ”

"Vigraf, tell me from the beginning, how did a good big arena turn into such a ghost?"

It's not that complicated.

To celebrate the centenary of the independence of the Kitlanders, Beowulf and Natasha planned to hold an unprecedented tournament as a festival dedicated to Kode, the "god of strength and competition."

Given its unprecedented grandeur, the existing 20,000 seats are too shabby to meet the needs of the tourists.

In order to show the prosperity of Kitland City, and also to earn more money from tickets, the lords and their wife decided to expand the number of auditoriums to 30,000.

"The project went well at first, but then there were some problems and it had to be delayed."

"What's the problem?" Roland already had a hunch.

"The budget for the tournament was too optimistic, and the renovation project was ...... halfway through Just ......"

"Out of money?"

"Well, there's no money...... Vigraf nodded gloomily.

"I knew it." Roland smiled wryly and shook his head. From the moment he walked into the city, he had a premonition that there would be financial problems, and sure enough, it happened.

"Actually, things didn't get to this point, the planning department of the city hall calculated the ticket revenue of the tournament, enough to pay for the cost of building materials and arrears of wages, and had already negotiated with the workers, but just yesterday, those guys who promised to continue the construction suddenly reversed themselves and demanded that the wages must be paid first, otherwise they would strike." "So as you can see now, there's nothing missing on the construction site, except for the people who do the work. ”

"To be honest, I'm more sympathetic to the workers in this matter, and if your municipal bureaucrats get the construction budget wrong, the promise of deferred wages is enough to choke on."

"Alas, don't talk about it! In fact, similar things have happened before, and they were all properly resolved in the end, but the reason why the trouble is big this time is that someone is making trouble behind their backs, deliberately making the lord and his wife ugly. Vigraf said angrily.

Roland smiled slightly: "This is normal, most of it is inseparable from the ambitious General Sergei." ”

Conflicts between labor and management are not uncommon, and if both employers and employees are private institutions, they are relatively easy to resolve and are nothing more than a matter of litigation.

If it is a government department as the manager, it will be more complicated, and if it is not handled well, it will evolve into a mass incident and cause a public crisis.

Speaking from experience on Earth, Roland believes that the credibility of government is an important factor in dealing with unpaid wages. If the government is not trustworthy for a long time, then the labor will naturally be suspicious of its promises, and they will have the money in hand before they can be motivated to work.

So is this the case in Kitland?

Not.

Roland had traveled all the way from the surrounding towns and conducted preliminary investigations in the city, and it was almost certain that the heads of government, led by Beowulf and Natasha, were very popular, and that most of the Kitlanders trusted and admired their lords, and affirmed their efforts to defend their homes and build cities.

The credibility of such a government can be scored very high.

So why did the already compromised labor dispute suddenly turn around?

Obviously, someone wants to make a big deal out of it, and they want to take the opportunity to smear the Beowulf couple in the face and tear down the wall of security in people's hearts, which is based on the credibility of the government.

This kind of thing Roland had seen too much before the crossing, and it was not new at all.

"Vigraf, in fact, it is not difficult to solve this hot potato, only Beowulf and his wife need to come forward to hold a fundraising activity, calling on all citizens to carry forward the patriotic spirit, and there is no problem in raising funds and donations to make up for the shortfall of the project, I believe that the lord and his wife have this appeal."

"You said this too late, just yesterday morning, Sergei accused Lord Natasha at the city council of trying to increase the tax burden to fill the hole in the project, and he was greedy for vanity, and Lord Natasha refuted it in public and promised that the project of the Great Arena would never reach out to the citizens for a copper coin." Vigraf said with a sigh.

"Tsk, this is really ......" Roland shook his head, embarrassed to say that the lord's wife was too impulsive and fell for Sergei's agitation, "Since you can't raise donations from the people, there is only one way left." ”

"That's true, so you see that His Royal Highness Victoria of the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce was invited by our lord's wife, and Miss Natasha, who is in charge of the Twilight Foundation of the Naro Order, was also invited, after all, to borrow money." Vigraf sees this quite well.

"It's easy to borrow money, but it's hard to repay it, and if the tournament doesn't work well, it's a big hole, and you'll have a headache in the future...... Hey, what are those people doing? Let's go and see. (To be continued.) )