In those days, child labour was a common occurrence in Vares. The hired people do not think that they are oppressed, but are excited about the opportunity to earn money, especially these survivors from Akron, they are very happy to survive, and if they have the opportunity to work for Roland and repay him for saving his life, how can they have half a complaint.

However, there are always exceptions, and just as the children were scrambling to sign up for the "work-study" program, a discordant voice came from the crowd.

"Big brother, I have a problem!" Jessica raised her hand high, her little face very serious.

"Huh? Jessica, what's your problem? ”

"I don't think it's fair to calculate the remuneration according to the number of hours worked, for example, one person can produce 10 pounds of star quality per hour, and another person can produce 20 pounds per hour, according to the rules you just said, two people get an hourly wage of 1 gold thaler, isn't this a hint that if you do more and do less, then the person who produces 20 pounds of magic crystals will feel that they have suffered a loss, and they would rather be lazy than do more in the future!"

Jessica's choice of words and sentences is still a bit childish, and the description is not precise enough, but the meaning is already clear. After thinking about it, the children felt that the question she pointed out was indeed reasonable, and their eyes were once again focused on the face of His Royal Highness the Prince, expecting him to give a reasonable answer.

"Well...... Roland laughed and scratched his head, blaming himself for being too careless and being caught by a clever little girl, "Jessica makes a lot of sense, the big brother humbly accepted the criticism, and corrected his mistakes, and changed the hourly wage of work-study to piecework, and paid 1 silver thaler for every 100 pounds of star quality drawn, now it's no problem, right?" ”

The children all nodded their heads in agreement, except for Jessica, who raised her hand again.

"I still have questions!"

The corners of Roland's mouth twitched slightly, and he said with a wry smile: "Okay, what other questions do you have?" ”

"Can we work at home? It's so noisy in the factory, I like to lie in bed and meditate. Jessica's eyes were a little evasive, and she could see that she knew that this was a bit excessive.

Ghost girl, it's just you!

Roland was speechless, and reluctantly squeezed out a smile and replied: "Yes, you can, but you have to send the extracted star quality to the factory yourself!" Now it's all right, right? ”

Jessica sat cross-legged and shook her head with a grin, like a cute tumbler, "Thank you, big brother!" I don't have a problem for the time being! When do you think of a new question, I will come back to you! ”

"Okay, okay, no problem!" When Roland heard this, he was pardoned and decisively announced that he would leave class!

One hundred and eighty-three children with psychic abilities, including Jessica, registered on the work-study list and ran out of the classroom to play.

Roland sorted out the roster and turned around to complain to Eltaran.

"Jessica, this girl is so naughty, I've never seen such a bear bear child, it's strange to say, she wasn't so naughty before, does it usually give you a headache?"

Eltaran shook his head and chuckled: "You guessed wrong, in fact, Jessica is the most well-behaved and sensible of all children, she takes the initiative to help me do things every day, she just deliberately mischievous to you, because she was so happy to see you, excited that she didn't know what to do, and tried to get your attention naughtyly." ”

"I see...... It seems that I misunderstood her," Roland was amused and moved, "Don't look at her young age, this girl has a lot of ghost thoughts." ”

"Don't talk about Jessica, you have a lot of ghosts of your own," Eltaran looked strange, "When you sent Jessica and them to the Silver Sky and asked me to take care of them, did you think that one day you would send them to the factory to work as child labor?" ”

"You think you're writing, and you're preset with foreshadowing!" Roland retorted angrily, "When I rescued Jessica and them, I didn't even know what 'familiar star quality' was, how could it have been premeditated!" ”

Instead of continuing to cling to his "conspiracy theory" speculation, Eltaran shrugged and turned to mocking Roland and Eugene as a pair of "goofy geese" from a technical point of view.

"It's too troublesome to manually extract star quality, and it relies heavily on psychic abilities, so you can't think of any other idea than this stupid method?"

"I don't think this is a stupid solution, in fact, we have calculated that with Jessica's help, even if they only work two hours a day, the annual output of star quality can reach 30,000 tons, which can basically meet the needs of highway traffic in the Far East, so that the cost of cooked star tires produced is much lower than that of enchanted wheels." Roland argued.

"The annual output of 30,000 tons of star quality is not bad, but the increase rate of manual extraction of star quality cannot catch up with the expansion rate of vehicles, and in a few years you will find that the supply of star quality exceeds demand, and the price will rise in a straight line." Eltaran prophesied with certainty.

Roland was slightly stunned, and after thinking about it, she had to admit that her prediction was not untargeted. The current application field of Xingzhi is mainly to manufacture carriage tires, and it is not difficult to meet the needs of the current carriage industry in the Far East, but with the improvement of road traffic and wheel technology, travel by car will become more comfortable and convenient, and people's demand for horse-drawn carriages will also usher in a big explosion. What's more, as a substitute for rubber, the use of star quality will not be limited to the manufacture of tires, with the expansion of the application field, the market demand for star quality will also increase day by day, and the manual extraction of star quality will inevitably face the dilemma of "natural rubber" on the earth - no matter how to expand the planting area of rubber forests, it cannot keep up with the pace of industrial expansion.

On Earth, Roland remembers to make up for the shortage of natural rubber by chemically synthesized rubber, and in Vares, what can be done to make up for the gap in artificial star quality? This is not an urgent issue at the moment, but it will have to be resolved sooner or later.

Seeing him frowning and pondering, Eltaran smiled slightly, and whispered: "In the past, when we corresponded, you always tirelessly talked about industrial technology in your letters, fantasizing that one day you would be able to use machines to make products that could only be processed with the help of magic, didn't you think that this idea could also be applied to the production of astral quality?" ”

Roland's eyes lit up: "You mean to create a magic guide that can automatically extract star quality to replace manual labor?" ”

Eltaran pouted in displeasure, "This device works for psychic psychic superpowers, and has nothing to do with magic!" ”

Roland hurriedly changed his words: "It's not a magic guide, it's a spirit weapon!" Maybe I should talk to Eugene about this, after all, he is the highest-level and most experienced 'Shaper' in the Silver Sky, and no one is better at inventing spiritual artifacts than him......" Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a heavy cough from Eltaran.