"What do you think of this?" Sui Xiong told her the whole story and frowned. "Don't blame me for talking too much. You should help your believers unify their thinking. We don't pursue unity, and it's not strange for there to be internal factions. But we can't let the two factions fight! "
The Goddess of Wealth Manissy, who was always confident, now looked like she lacked confidence. She was silent for a long time before sighing deeply. She still didn't say anything.
"What's wrong with you?" Sui Xiong was confused. "Weren't you fine a while ago?"
"At that time, I still thought that I could suppress this matter." The Goddess of Wealth finally spoke. Her voice was full of bitterness. "Now I realize that I can't suppress it. Not only can I not suppress it, but … something big is going to happen. "
Sui Xiong was shocked. Although he had expected the severity of the situation, he didn't expect it to be so serious that even the Goddess of Wealth couldn't do anything about it.
"How can this be? Can you not even control the church? "he asked worriedly.
"The church can still be controlled, but now … the only thing I can control is the church." The Goddess of Wealth sighed, looking very tired. "The aristocratic party and the merchant party are already like fire and water. Although the church is still trying to mediate the conflict between the two parties, it seems that this time it can't be suppressed. "
"What will happen if it can't be suppressed? Will there really be a civil war? "
"Should be." The Goddess of Wealth smiled bitterly and said, "I have understood in detail that there is really no way to mediate between the aristocratic party and the merchant party this time."
"Why?"
"Probably because of the 'assembly line' method," the Goddess of Wealth said. "The assembly line method can greatly reduce the time of training workers, and it can separate the originally complicated process, greatly increasing the content that can be produced. Currently, the merchant party is fully promoting this set of production processes, so they need more manpower. But they don't have enough workers on hand, so they have to recruit … "
Sui Xiong understood.
For the commoners, although the skills that could be learned from the assembly line method were very limited, the wages in the workshop were obviously higher than the income from farming. This was mainly because the aristocrats collected too much taxes, and farming was not enough to feed their families. In comparison, working could at least feed his family.
This world had yet to enter the so-called Industrial Revolution era where people were "covered in blood and filth." Although the wages of a workshop were not high, it was at least much higher than farming … at least this was the case in the Commonwealth of Gold Coins.
Under such circumstances, it was naturally not difficult for merchants to recruit workers.
However, there was a problem.
Most of the civilians in this world were not "free people". As subjects of the lord, they did not have the right to freely accept employment.
On the other hand, would the feudal lords allow a large number of people in their territories to work as laborers?
Sui Xiong recalled the Geerteng Territory.
The Geerteng Territory used to be an area with agriculture as its main source of income, but now it had become a world-famous producer of stationery and medicinal herbs. How did Olian Geerteng allocate human resources?
So he contacted Olian and asked her about it.
"Of course, I'll put aside farming," Olian replied. "As for food, we can just buy it."
Sui Xiong nodded. This was similar to what he had guessed.
But obviously, most of the feudal lords in the Commonwealth of Gold Coins could not accept this kind of thing, because those workshops did not belong to them, but to the merchants.
"If the merchants let the feudal lords buy shares in the workshops, will it work?" Thinking of this, he made a suggestion.
The Goddess of Wealth shook her head. "This is impossible. Behind the workshops is the technology, and technology is the foundation of the survival of the workshop owners. Even if the feudal lords claim that they only buy shares and do not participate in the operation, they will not give up the shares of the workshop. "
"In fact … in order to avoid the risk of technology leakage, most of the workshop owners with more capital will not hire local workers. They would rather pay more to hire foreign workers, so that the feudal lords will not have a reason to intervene."
Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment and could not help but feel a little surprised.
After the surprise, he could not help but feel distressed.
The feudal lords of this world were much more powerful than those on the earth, and the merchants of this world were also much more powerful than those on the earth. If the strong joined forces, the effect of one plus one would be greater than two. But now, the strong collided, and no one gave way to the other.
If the workers were hired away, it would hinder the production of the territory and harm the interests of the feudal lords. But the merchants, especially the big merchants, urgently needed a large number of workers to carry out production, and at the same time, they were not willing to give up the profits of the workshops.
If it were on the earth, the two sides could probably get a compromise of interests by joining forces and squeezing the workers to death. But in this world, the civilians also had the good gods behind them. Although they usually did not care much, if there was really a situation where the feudal lords and the merchants jointly squeezed the workers and squeezed the last bit of profit out of them, the Saint Samurai would probably come roaring at the door in a few days.
In this case, it was not surprising that the conflict between the aristocratic feudal lords and the workshop merchants would intensify.
"Can't you let the merchants retreat a little?" Sui Xiong thought for a while and said, "There is no end to the money, it is okay to earn a little less."
"It has always been the merchants who have been giving in," the Goddess of Wealth said with a sigh.
Sui Xiong was speechless.
It could be seen that the merchant party had been tolerating for a long time, and now they really could not bear it anymore.
As the saying went, "Cutting off one's source of wealth is like killing one's parents," and "As long as there is a 300% profit, the capitalists are not even afraid of the gallows." The merchant party could tolerate until now completely because of the Goddess of Wealth. Now that they finally could not bear it anymore and wanted to explode, the Goddess of Wealth's face was naturally no longer useful.
Moreover, once the merchants decided to shed all pretense of cordiality with the aristocratic feudal lords, the Goddess of Wealth should be on their side.
No matter what, the merchants were the core believers of the Goddess of Wealth.
Sui Xiong thought for a while and asked about this matter.
"I really … don't know what to do." The Goddess of Wealth smiled bitterly and shook her head. "Although the merchant party is my core believer, most of the aristocrats of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins have been my believers for generations!"
"Now my clergymen are also very worried. Some of them are born in aristocratic families, and some are born in merchant families. The pressure from their families makes them very uncomfortable … Now, as we speak, there are hundreds of clergymen praying to me, begging me to resolve the conflict between the two parties and restore peace to the Commonwealth of Gold Coins."
Sui Xiong looked at the bitter look on the Goddess of Wealth and could not help but sigh.
Obviously, she could not do it.
At this time, he suddenly thought of something and could not help but ask, "Oh yes, the assembly line method, I remember that I was the one who invented it. I did not let anyone expand the business to the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, so how did this technology get passed on?"
The Goddess of Wealth suddenly looked embarrassed, as if she had done something wrong and was caught red-handed on the spot.
So Sui Xiong understood.
Looking at the Goddess of Wealth's expression, he thought of a famous saying.
A sin committed by heaven can be forgiven, but a sin committed by oneself cannot be forgiven!
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