Chapter 131: Depressed Quarrying
Silk's reputation has not yet spread throughout the world, however, the people of the Stormwind branch of the Mercenary Guild seem to have sensed that something is wrong.
The quarry is in Huangsha Town, so it is natural to recruit quarrymen locally. This is normal, originally there was a group of quarrymen under Meng Han, but now that the quarry has been transferred, these people are equivalent to being unemployed, and the mercenary guild has taken over, which seems to be justified.
However, after only seeing a few people, the person in charge discovered the problem. The workers here ask for at least twice as much as they do elsewhere. How could the Mercenary Guild agree to such a price? However, after rejecting a few people, the person in charge of the quarry soon found out that he couldn't find anyone willing to work in his quarry in Huangsha Town.
After careful inquiry, I found that Meng Han directly increased the salaries of these people to twice that of the outside world at the very beginning, and now Meng Han's other industries are maintaining this level.
The person in charge who stayed here was still the middle-aged man Bruce who dealt with Meng Han last time, and after sending the son of that important person in the guild back to Stormwind City and sending a report from above, Bruce rushed to Huangsha Town and began to plan to run the quarry, but unexpectedly, he found such trouble as soon as he started recruiting workers.
"This can't be helped, have you forgotten what kind of place this is?Didn't Lord Adrian remind you?" Meng Han looked at Bruce who was depressed and asked him for advice in front of him with some joy in his heart, but his face did not express the slightest bit of schadenfreude, but frowned like Bruce, and vomited bitterness: "This is a cursed place, if it weren't for making more money, who would want to come to this place where birds don't lay eggs?"
Bruce listened helplessly to Meng Han's explanation, and the original plan to discuss with Meng Han and let him lower his salary had already disappeared with Meng Han's words. The guild only saw the boom in the bathroom business and the money making from the flush toilet, but no one thought that this was the famous cursed place. Or have thought of it, but choose to ignore the surname. Everyone is so confused by the prospect that they forget the huge costs behind it.
What Meng Han said is very reasonable, if normal people are not here to make money, who would come here to suffer? In this way, Bruce had to take the initiative to increase his salary by two times, so he could barely recruit enough people. Of course, those core staff under Meng Han like Daniel and Dennis will definitely not appear, those people want to carve toilets, and slowly learn from scratch!
The manpower is already in place, and they are all the original skilled workers. Bruce was satisfied, and then, just as Bruce saw that everything was in place, just waiting to unearth the great wealth, he realized that those people were so inefficient.
Furious, Bruce didn't care if they were journeymen or not, instinctively thought they were passive and slacking off, and whipped a few of the guys he thought were lazy.
The next thing can be imagined, when Meng Han was running the quarry, he was not so rude. Immediately, the workers quit their jobs, and no matter how coercive and tempting Bruce was, they would never start working.
Bruce, who was so big-headed, reluctantly appeared in front of Meng Han again and asked Meng Han for advice. He can now see that Meng Han is in this Huangsha Town, and he is simply saying the same, and if he wants those people to start work, it seems that only Meng Han has opened his mouth.
"Passive slacking?" Meng Han's eyes widened and he looked at Bruce opposite in surprise: "Don't you know? Or did that Adrian guy not tell you?"
"What?" Bruce heard Meng Han say this, and immediately realized that there seemed to be something in it that he didn't know, and hurriedly asked.
"Although these white yaojing ores are very high-grade, their hardness is also very strong. Meng Han opened his eyes widely, forced the smile in his stomach, and said innocently: "Ordinary tools, there is no way to mine at all, only tools made of steel." Even then, mining is not so easy. ”
"Is there such a thing?" Bruce's face was full of disbelief, and immediately, the facts quickly broke his suspicions, Meng Han gave him a wall tile of Bai Yaojing that had been processed, and after a few tests, Bruce immediately knew the characteristics of this hardness of this precious stone. I also realized that I might be wrong for the quarrymen.
Meng Han only told him this, and did not say anything else. But Bruce had to bow to Meng Han again the next day, hoping that Meng Han would persuade the quarrymen to continue working.
"At least there has to be a guarantee, right?" Meng Han was not so unkind in Bruce's eyes, and even helped out. However, his request is beyond doubt. Because of the slow speed of quarrying, it is impossible to beat and scold the workers.
Bruce knew that he had made a mistake, so he admitted his mistake very shamefully, and compensated each of the workers who had been whipped by him with a gold coin, so that under Meng Han's intervention, those quarrymen were put on duty again.
"You'd better prepare an earth mage. Listening to Meng Han's mindless words, Bruce couldn't understand why Meng Han said that. But soon he knew what Meng Han meant.
"Jingle bell", the sound of the quarrymen beating the hammer was very pleasant, but within half a day, someone came to Bruce with those damaged and unsightly tools, asking for a replacement.
Meng Han reminded that ordinary tools are not good, only steel tools can be used. However, Bruce didn't have that many tools, so he had no choice but to buy them in Meng Han's hands. didn't even wait for Meng Han to make a price, he directly gave Meng Han a very good price. After Meng Han heard this price, he threw all the original tools to Bruce without saying a word. Those things are also kept, and it is better to exchange them for a dozen gold coins.
Before he could see a single stone mined, Bruce had already spent almost twenty gold coins. And it was at this time that he heard the legend of the fortune of silk. If silk had been sold from Meng Han, the twenty gold coins might have become a hundred by now. The thought of this made Bruce very depressed. However, at this point, Bruce could not be allowed to back down, so he could only continue to operate.
This time, Bruce learned to be good and treated the workers well, and then learned from a worker why the mining speed was so fast when the lord ran it in the past. That's because lords use magic to help with mining.
Now Bruce finally understood why Meng Han said that he wanted him to prepare an earth magician, but after knowing it, Bruce became more and more depressed. Where can I find an earth-based magician and let him come here to mine? Not to mention whether the magician is willing or not, even if the magician is willing, what kind of price must be used to get a proud magician to come to the quarry to do hard labor?
"Didn't Lord Adrian tell you?" every time Meng Han asked Bruce with such a surprised rhetorical question, after a few times, no matter how good-tempered and shrewd a person was, Bruce couldn't help but think about it after encountering these endless troubles, was he and the guild really being used by this Adrian City Lord?
Of course, Bruce isn't completely stupid either, and he's going to look into it too. When he learned that Meng Han had personally mined the stone, he quickly asked the union for support. Meng Han is just a magic apprentice, he has not become a magician, the magician can't find it, and the magic apprentice may be able to find some.
The efficiency of the mercenary guild was very high, and soon two magic apprentices were sent to Huangsha Town, and then, Bruce was stunned to see that the two magic apprentices didn't know what to do at all, and they stood there helpless, helpless. There was no choice but to ask Meng Han for advice again.
"Didn't Lord Adrian tell you?" After starting with this familiar sentence, Meng Han didn't hide it, he didn't plan to hide it at all: "Just use the simplest first-level magic earth stabbing technique!"
Bruce was depressed and wanted to vomit blood, but he couldn't help but humbly ask the lord for advice on how to let the magic apprentice release the ground thorn.
"Who told you that I'm still an apprentice in magic, it's Adrian, right?" Meng Han asked with a look of surprise, "I have already recovered my magic power, and I am planning to go back to the magic academy to apply for official magician qualifications when I am not busy!"
"My lord, are you an official magician?" After Bruce got the news, he immediately remembered the time when he was taught by Meng Han before, and Meng Han did release magic to stab out. I always thought that Meng Han was a magic apprentice, but when he thought that he actually led someone to show off his might on a magician's territory, Bruce was in a cold sweat, and he scolded that Adrian City Lord in his heart.
After reporting the news urgently, Bruce also had to start thinking carefully about whether the cooperation between the guild and the Stormwind Lord was correct this time. At the same time, Meng Han's silk business was already in full swing, and the news was also reported by Bruce to the upper echelons of the Mercenary Guild.
Finally took down a few stones by tedious hand, and Bruce finally looked forward to the time when he could polish the toilet, but was told that these workers were usually just quarrying, and what the toilet looked like, they didn't know, and if they wanted to polish it, at least give it a look first.
"Poof", a series of blows finally had an effect, and Mr. Bruce sprayed a mouthful of blood directly on the white white spar, shining brightly.
(To be continued)