Volume 9: Home Chapter 278 A Gentleman Loves Money
The Fire Tribe does not need to brag about how broad-minded and tolerant they are. Anyone who has had the slightest contact with the Fire Tribe will know how inclusive this multi-ethnic tribe is - snow werewolves, green dragons, cats, humans, gray dwarves, centaurs, and goblins live in harmony, and such a scene can only be seen anywhere else.
At the beginning, Xiao Yun used Thrall as the signboard of the Fire Tribe. Now, the gray dwarves and goblins are the best signs of the Fire Tribe... Even the goblins can get jobs distributed according to work and respected positions in the Fire Tribe. The income is not only more than enough to support themselves, but also can save a lot of money (the income of goblins is only higher than that of humans, but they eat less and are not picky about food, so they are very good at saving money...). Would any race with a little bit of ambition think that they are more useless and incompetent than the goblins?
Obviously, cats, who generally suffer from excessive self-confidence, will not feel that they are less useful than goblins.
In addition, the so-called gap is revealed through comparison. The big cats in the Sunny Sky Tribe have accumulated more and more resentment in recent years, but after all, their lives are much better than before. If you don’t compare them with others, in fact, these big cats will not have any big problems if they endure for a few more years or even decades.
However, the big cats of the No. 11 New Farm Production Team successfully rebelled against the chief of their tribe. They not only kept their legal income, but also completely took back the power of tribal property distribution from the chief. The big cats of the Sunny Sky Tribe looked at them and then looked at themselves, and the gap was huge...
Looking at the results of other big cats' struggles, and thinking about the rosy-faced and confident gray dwarves and goblins who came from the hilly new area to help maintain and troubleshoot farm machinery during the busy farming season, it is not surprising that the big cats of the Sunny Sky Tribe decided to overturn the table.
Faced with the request made by the big cats of the Sunny Sky Tribe... Chief Arthur tried his best to put on a serious face and advised them like an old lady from the neighborhood committee. He repeated the same meaningless words several times, such as "Don't be too impulsive" and "Think about it carefully". Before these big cats got emotional, he said in time: "This is a big deal. I can't respond to you irresponsibly. If everyone strongly demands it, I have the responsibility to submit your demands to the Fire Department Working Conference and ask the Working Conference to send someone to understand the situation... Everyone knows that the bigger the matter, the more rigorous our attitude should be. We can't make decisions on impulse. We must consider the consequences and the long-term, balabalabalabala..."
Well... Chief Arthur couldn't be as cunning as A Li or Xiao Yun after all, and in her excitement she accidentally revealed her true feelings - she was basically hinting to these big cats that once they made a choice, they couldn't back down~!
The leading soldier had not taken the second-term political course, and could not understand the hidden meaning of Chief Arthur's words. He said impulsively: "This is the common wish of all of us. We can be responsible for our own actions!"
After all this, could Chief Arthur still be so timid? Of course he would follow their wishes and report to the Fire Department.
The Fire Tribe reacted quickly and sent an investigation team during the summer harvest. Of course, the purpose of the investigation was not to assess the sincerity of the big cats of the Sunny Sky Tribe in surrendering, but to investigate the work style of the Sunny Sky tribe leader.
The Fire Department has formulated various codes, principles, and rules, but after all, they have no intention of "claiming the throne" so quickly, so naturally they will not openly formulate any laws and regulations... It's not the right time yet!
In order to deal with the issue of punishment for those who seriously violated the rules and were not within the system, Xiao Yun lazily came up with a pocket crime of "work style issues"... All the informal staff who had committed serious dereliction of duty and caused strong dissatisfaction among the masses, but did not meet the red line of "killing people and injuring people should be punished", were all stuffed into his pocket.
Chief Sunny Sky, who was troubled by his tribesmen, thought that the Fire Tribe had finally revealed its true colors and was going to seize his tribe. He quickly and secretly contacted several other chiefs and prepared for the arrival of the investigation team.
Being able to hold his people tightly in his hands for more than three years, Chief Qingtian naturally has a certain amount of wisdom as a wild politician. He knows that the Fire Tribe has a large business and must be careful about their manners. As long as the investigation team dares to reveal their purpose of plundering his people and tribal property, he will definitely make all the cat chiefs feel sorry for their own kind and spontaneously unite to fight against the Fire Tribe!
Having been dealing with the Fire and Flame Tribe for more than three years, almost four years, how could Chief Qingtian not see the Fire and Flame Tribe's urgent desire for stability and peaceful and stable development? The Fire and Flame Tribe was afraid of turmoil, but he was not afraid of it anyway. If he couldn't make life easy for him, he would make life difficult for thousands of people in the entire No. 1 Farm!
Chief Sunny Sky was thinking about how to make the incident so big that the Fire Tribe wouldn't dare to touch him, but he never expected that... after the investigation team arrived, they didn't confront him head-on, but appeared in the fields, dormitories, and corners of the cafeteria, visiting the local big cats one by one.
Chief Sunny asked the warriors who were still willing to stick with him to eavesdrop a few times, and they were very confused - the investigation team composed of cats, gray dwarves and snow werewolves were actually chatting with the local cats? !
"There is a conspiracy! There must be a conspiracy!" Beads of sweat appeared on the forehead of Chief Qingtian. Although he had never been in the officialdom of the human world, he instinctively felt the crisis.
But before Chief Neng Qingtian could figure out what tricks the Fire Tribe was playing, the more well-prepared investigation team had already sharpened their knives...
That evening, the heads of the production teams and the tribal chiefs who had been busy harvesting sweet potatoes all day were summoned to the square in front of the conference room. The leader of the investigation team, Chief Ali, calmly took out an investigation report and began to read it to the big cats in the square:
"Due to reports from the masses, the Fire Department's work conference, the Discipline Inspection Group, the Production Promotion Association, the Fire Department's Financial Headquarters...coordinated to form an investigation team to investigate the work style of the Sunny Sky Tribe's chief. The results of the investigation are as follows: Over the years, the Sunny Sky chief has illegally seized the public property of the Sunny Sky Tribe through coercion, inducement, and manipulation of power, and has embezzled a number of public materials of the tribe, such as blankets, cashmere coats, thick-soled leather shoes, and white sugar..."
The expression of Chief Qingtian, who was sitting below, was a little grim, but he was not panicked. Instead, he showed a confident expression and looked at the other chiefs implicitly.
The cats from other places were fine, but the local cat leaders and some close managers became increasingly solemn, and their resistance was particularly obvious.
Chief Sunny Sky secretly sneered, if eating and taking more than what one can take as a chief can be considered a crime, then this Snow Wolf Man just doesn't want to see Farm No. 1 continue to be peaceful!
Chief A Li ignored the looks from the audience and continued to read with a fair face: "With the cooperation of an insider, we took out a bag of gold coins from the end of the kang in Chief Qingtian's dormitory. After counting, there were 3,162 gold coins in total. It can be confirmed that they are the tribal property that Chief Qingtian obtained through illegal means..."
"Hiss--" The whole audience gasped in unison. Countless local and foreign cats looked at Chief Sunny Sky in horror and without any concealment, with all kinds of expressions on their faces.
The big cats that originally belonged to the Sunny Sky Tribe were extremely shocked. When they looked at their leader, murderous intent was about to burst out of their bodies.
The Sunny Clan leader was struck by lightning...
After being stunned for a few seconds, Chief Qingtian suddenly turned his head and looked at the only warrior who continued to depend on him.
The soldier was also looking at him, his face indifferent, his eyes filled with hatred and a hint of pleasure.
The Chinese people on the earth are extremely "politically wise". The corrupt officials in the feudal era knew that they could not eat alone, but had to make arrangements with people at all levels and share the profits. The smarter ones would put on a show from time to time, try to be more friendly to the people, and use some money to build bridges and roads. In this way, their positions would be stable and the dirty money would flow in steadily.
Chief Qingtian can be said to have the "wisdom of a politician", but having been in his own powerful, semi-closed tribe for many years, it is really a bit of a stretch to ask him to know how to manage a "safety circle for corrupt officials" and to form alliances with accomplices to protect himself... Thirty cats are squeezed into one dormitory while he occupies one room without any hesitation. Even with this, can we still expect him to know what superficial work on face-saving is?
It’s good enough that he is willing to share his bones with others!
Chief Ali calmly glanced at the big cats' reactions, waved his hand, and Chief Arthur came up with a muddy, heavy leather bag.
Under the gaze of the cats, Chief Arthur walked to an open area and poured out all the gold coins in the leather bag...
What does more than 3,000 gold coins mean? That's a full 30 kilograms of gold.
A gold coin weighing ten grams, made of thirty kilograms of gold, would form a small mountain of gold coins if spread out.
There are more than 300 big cats in the Sunny Sky Tribe. In the first two and a half years of running the farm, the weather was good and there were no natural disasters. Even without the use of pesticides, the annual yield of sweet potatoes per mu can be about 5,000 kilograms. Coupled with a small amount of economic crops such as soybeans, peppers, and Sichuan peppers, the income cannot be low. There are no luxury goods or gambling activities on the semi-enclosed grassland to consume the big cats' coins. In theory, these big cats can grow crops for three years (last year's floods destroyed the second half of the year, but the output of the first half was preserved). After deducting the share and the debt repayment of the Fire Tribe, the remaining money can be divided equally among them. After deducting the living expenses, it is not a problem for each person to save a dozen gold coins.
Under the environment of unified marketing and purchase and clear policies, the money earned by this large-scale farm model of centralized planting is higher than the salary and bonus of regular factory workers (the tiger tribe is a special case) - in the environment where agricultural production needs to be expanded and the number of agricultural practitioners needs to be increased, Xiao Yun will not be stupid enough to create a class stratification of workers being superior to farmers... The Fire Department still needs to wield the food stick to continue to beat people! In this world where the general food self-sufficiency rate is low, there is no problem of unsalable agricultural products!
Anyway, Xiao Yun has plenty of ways to get back the money these big cats earned from the Fire Tribe through hard work in farming...
With ten gold coins, you can apply for construction support from the Fire Department to build a personal family house. With twenty gold coins, you can build an additional dormitory.
If everyone pools their money, then there would be no problem for the Sunny Sky Tribe to jointly build a batch of steel-framed glass-roofed greenhouses that only the Fire Tribe has.
Even if they were all indulging in pleasure and had no plans to build infrastructure, with so much disposable money on hand, the big cats, who had been farming for three years and had two and a half years of disposable harvest, should have been relatively well off. At least they would not have to calculate the expenses for adding more food and purchasing convenience products from the Welfare Department.
But obviously, although the local cats have more money than cats from other places, the difference is not that big... Local cats still have to calculate whether they have enough money before buying pudding.
What's the problem?
The managers and clan leaders of the square understood everything when they saw the small pile of gold coins poured out by Clan Leader Arthur.
Chief Sunny Sky looked pale and shaky, and the faces of several other local cat chiefs were not much better than his; especially those who came to the farm to open up wasteland in the first year of the Sunny Sky tribe. The managers turned their eyes to their own chiefs, and there was indifference, suspicion, and anger in their eyes, but no warmth.
Chief A Li gave everyone some time to accept the reality and said in a deep voice: "Based on the above investigation conclusions, our investigation team members unanimously believe that Chief Qingtian has extremely serious personal problems and is not a qualified chief who can lead the tribe members to live a good life. Regarding the request of the original Qingtian tribe members to 'leave the original tribe and join the Fire Tribe', we have carefully considered and believe that it can be accepted."
The big cats of the former Sunny Sky Tribe immediately cheered.
Chief Qingtian's shoulders suddenly slumped, his face turned blue and his lips turned white. He had clearly prepared countless words to fight back and to rally the other chiefs to join his side, but he simply couldn't utter a single word.
Chief A Li ignored him and continued, "Regarding the public property illegally embezzled by Chief Qingtian during his tenure as chief, the investigation team believes that it should be returned to the original Qingtian tribe workers. Please ask the original Qingtian tribe production team managers to come to the management office to discuss the handling of this batch of gold coins and come up with a charter to ensure that the property is returned to the original owner."
The big cats of the Sunny Sky Tribe hugged each other excitedly and cheered loudly.
The faces of the other local cat managers became increasingly gloomy, and the looks they gave their family head became increasingly unfriendly.
After a pause, Chief A Li continued, "Chief Qingtian himself is not a member of the Fire Department system, and the Fire Department has no right to punish him for his serious work style problems. But we believe that someone like Chief Qingtian who has committed serious mistakes is not suitable for the management position of the production team, so our investigation team will submit a petition report to the Fire Department work meeting, requesting the Fire Department to agree to revoke Chief Qingtian's management position in the production team."
There was a pause in the cheers from the audience, and many big cats looked confused.
Chief A Li turned sideways and looked at Chief Arthur: "Based on the principle of guaranteeing the most basic right to survival shared by the people of the grassland, our investigation team requests Farm No. 1 not to choose to expel Chief Sunny Sky."
The big cats in the audience, especially those from the former Sunny Sky Tribe, showed their strong opposition without any concealment.
Chief Arthur nodded in a serious manner: "Of course our farm will not cut off a person's livelihood. We will organize a meeting later to arrange work for Chief Sunny Sky within his ability and ensure that Chief Sunny Sky can get the minimum living security in the future."
Chief Qingtian's body shook and he fell backwards.
The big cat sitting in the back seat quickly moved out of the way, with a look of disgust on its face, and didn't even bother to help him.
The big cats of the original Sunny Sky tribe had mixed feelings about this outcome. Given the cat tribe's nature of "loving those they want to live and hating those they want to die", they felt that the investigation team and the farm were quite disgusted by the "appeasement" towards Chief Sunny Sky... But Chief Ali had already brought up the "Basic Principles of the Right of Survival of Grassland People", and as the beneficiaries of this principle, they really couldn't ask for more.
Chief Arthur adjourned the meeting and asked the managers of the original Sunny Sky Tribe to go to the management office for a meeting. The new cats just watched the excitement and left in surprise, confusion, or sweat. The local cats, such as the Amber Tribe, all sat still.
Chief Amber stood up and wanted to leave, then glanced at his tribesmen. His lips trembled and cold sweat flowed down his temples.
Although Chief Amber was not considered to be very hardworking and fair before he came to Farm No. 1, at least he was fair in a general sense, so as not to let the tribe members become too dissatisfied with him.
When he first arrived at Farm No. 1, Chief Amber also went through a period of diligent work. He went to the fields early every day to open up wasteland and was particularly concerned about the sweet potatoes and potatoes he planted.
But unfortunately, as the saying goes, it is not easy to learn good things, but it is only a thin layer of window paper to learn bad things; after adapting to the stable living environment of the farm, Amber Chief began to envy the relaxed and enjoyable lifestyle of Sunny Chief, and also learned from Sunny Chief to sleep in the dormitory and bask in the sun while the tribesmen were working...
When Chief Qingtian laughed at Chief Kong for not knowing how to be a good leader of the clan, Chief Amber nodded in agreement. Why bother working so hard? There are young and strong tribesmen to do the work anyway, so why not enjoy yourself?
At this moment, Chief Amber was standing alone, looking at his tribesmen who were sitting there, refusing to move or look at him, and felt waves of darkness coming over him.
"...What on earth have I been doing these past few years?!" In a trance, Chief Amber looked down at his hands. The wounds from his youth as a warrior had long since healed, but his calloused palms had become tender, white and soft without him noticing.
After standing there blankly for dozens of seconds, the Amber tribe leader let out a long breath, looked up at the tribesmen who were sitting still and expressing their attitude in silence, and pleaded in his tone: "Let's go back and talk... Let's all go back and talk it out, okay?"
One of the tribesmen raised his eyelids and looked at him with hatred.
Chief Amber felt a chill in his heart and said with a bitter smile: "Don't you know me? I'm not like Sunny Sky... I, I only took a few hundred gold coins! What you eat and wear are much better than those of the Sunny Sky tribe. Don't you know that?"
Two days later, Fire Department.
"The Amber Tribe has also surrendered?" Xiao Yun was invigorated and continued to look through the report sent back by Chief A Li. "Oh, it's not just the Amber Tribe. Chief Xiu has also gone down... Even those from the central region have taken the initiative to surrender. Chief Arthur has done a great job~!"
Mr. Sean, who was drinking tea, looked at him with amusement and shook his head, saying, "Come on, don't say you don't know what's going on. I thought you would have the patience to wait for a few years this time, but I didn't expect you to be so impatient that you started during the summer harvest."
"Who said we didn't have to wait a few years? Can the negative example of the Sunny Sky Tribe be nurtured in one or two years?" Xiao Yun chuckled and shamelessly admitted, "I think the internal struggle awareness of the cat tribe is still not enough, and the flame of revolution is not burning strong enough. After the summer harvest, we have to expand the second batch of students again, and strive to transform more than 70% of the cat tribe into qualified workers before the end of the year, so that we can worry less in the future."
Next to him, Hodgson, who was studying the borrowed lab report carefully, slowly raised his head and cast a dark gaze over.
After hesitating for a while, the straightforward Moon of Vengeance could not help but say, "I think there is no need for you to let 'J' and Isaac Robbins to mess around in Kroning. If you go there yourself, you can seize the Kroning royal regime within ten years."
Mr. Sean sprayed it out with a "puff".
Xiao Yun also sprayed.
"Mr. Hodgson, you think too highly of me..." Xiao Yun wiped the tea that had splashed onto the report with his sleeve, frowning. "Being a vassal of the elves is easier than being under the control of human nobles, but how many humans have actively become vassals of the elves over the past thousands of years ? If I were a human, it would be fine. But since I'm from the Snow Wolf tribe, I don't have the ability to seize power from the human kingdom."
"Is this the only thing you disagree with?!" Mr. Sean shouted.
"Besides... no one has unlimited energy. If you want to do one thing well, you can't take care of other things." Xiao Yun said, "I want to unite all the races on the grassland to create a home for all the grassland people. I want all the grassland people to accept and support unity, and let the grassland gain a relatively stable space for sustainable development. Such a thing cannot be achieved without investing 20 years of energy. Where would I get the energy to take care of other things?"
Hodgson stared at him for a few seconds, nodded, and continued to read Evelyn's test report.
Xiao Yun immediately turned his gaze to Mr. Sean. "Can you tell what he meant by that? Is he testing me?"
Mr. Sean had a blank expression on his face and said, "Don't make me laugh. I don't have the ability to see through Hodgson's thoughts."
Xiao Yun blinked. At least he wouldn't be disgusted or afraid of me because I let "J" and Isaac cause trouble in Kroning, right? He is not from Kroning.
Mr. Sean still had a blank expression on his face. I’m sorry, I’m from Kroning, okay?
Xiao Yun: “…”
Xiao Yun: "Well... let's take a look at Primo's letter." He opened the thick envelope that the bard had passed on. "Not bad. The Lion Tribe's wonderful juice has been sold to the White Bear's territory. The Wing Tribe and the Elephant Tribe have reached an agreement on sharing agricultural machinery technology... The Tea Bear is very satisfied with the high-quality white sugar we provided..."
Mr. Sean shook his head: "The freight is too expensive. All the profits are spent on the freight. This batch of sugar is a complete loss-making business."
Xiao Yun didn't really care about this. "There's nothing we can do about it. Lamia won't rent shipping capacity to us. We can only send our own fleet along the southern coast of the grassland to the foot of the York Mountains, and then ask the tauren from the Harold tribe to help us contact adventurers and cross the York Mountains. This route is a bit expensive and time-consuming, but it's feasible. When Lamia had a coast patrol on the grassland before, it was even more difficult to get there."
The Tiger King's Court was in decline, and the Fire Tribe supplied the Tauren Tribe with large quantities of cheaper and better quality supplies every year, which were then distributed by the Tauren. Lamia had no money to make, so naturally it had to abandon the port on the grassland.
Mr. Sean stared at Xiao Yun for a few seconds and slowly said, "This is what I find most strange... Not to mention the high land freight, in order to prevent Lamia's fleet from running into our inland fleet, you have also sent Isaac a large amount of gold coins for two consecutive years, asking him to find a way to obtain Lamia's offshore fleet movements... Even when you drink tea, you only buy the cheapest old tea foam, so how come you don't feel any pain after spending this money?"
"Hey, this is your prejudice against me, Mr. Sean." Xiao Yun said immediately, "We should find a way to send sugar to the Far East, firstly to open up trade routes, and secondly to pave the way for long-term strategic planning. As long as we can afford this kind of money spent on the cutting edge, every penny will be worth it."
Taking a sip of the milk tea made with tea foam, Xiao Yun said contentedly: "On the contrary, if you just filter the tea foam twice more, the taste will be only slightly different from that of new tea. Why waste the money you can save?"
Mr. Sean: “…”
The problem is that you can only save one or two gold coins at most in a year, which is too far from your annual income of thousands of gold coins from dividends.
You even reinvest your dividends every year! You alone own 30% of the private shares in the sugar factory! (Public enterprises of the Fire Department also accept private investment, but the shareholding cannot be higher than the public shares. Private shareholders have no right to interfere in the operation of the enterprise. The higher the income, the higher the personal income tax. These are also set)
Mr. Sean gulped down half the cup of milk tea in one gulp and suppressed the roar in his heart.
"Oh, that's not how you drink milk tea—" Xiao Yun looked heartbroken.
"Stop talking nonsense, I just want to drink your tea!" Mr. Sean picked up the teapot and poured himself a full cup without saying a word. He also stood up and searched Xiao Yun's bedside table. While Xiao Yun's face turned pale, he took out the snacks that Xiao Yun had collected.
Xiao Yun: “…” I finally understood Balke’s feelings.
