How to make money, make quick money?

Everyone, including Li Wei, was almost driven crazy by this question.

"Why don't you go rob a bank?" Someone actually suggested that.

"Or become a pirate?" Someone went further: "Just rob Noxus' colonial gold ship. Once we succeed, we will give it away!"

"Yes!" Everyone actually thought this was a good idea: "Janna can control the storm, wouldn't it be a good idea to be a pirate?"

Janna: "."

The blue bird flapped its wings wildly to express its objection.

She is a goddess born for protection, so how can she use her divine power for robbery?

"Okay, okay." Levi interrupted everyone helplessly: "Let's think of something serious."

There are two ways to solve financial problems: increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

Open source won't be possible for a while, so we can only think about cutting costs.

"I decided to close the brothels, casinos and Glimmer Shops. The strategy remains unchanged, but we still have to continue the business of bonded workers in a short period of time."

Levi sighed and decided to compromise with reality.

He originally planned to liberate all the slave slaves controlled by the Iron Fist Gang in one fell swoop after defeating the Iron Fist Gang.

That's more than 4,000 people. If they don't work as bonded workers in factories, they will have no jobs.

Leaders simply cannot provide that many jobs at the moment, nor do they have that much money to support idle people.

"That's good. Let's destroy all the debts and slave contracts of the bonded workers as originally planned, and let them regain their status as free people."

"If they are still willing to work in the factory, they can work in the factory just like before."

"We don't charge any fees from the process, we just provide them with an opportunity to be hired and work in the factory."

"This can at least temporarily solve the employment and survival problems of more than 4,000 people."

Levi said his thoughts. Victor couldn't help but frown:

"But this will only have limited improvement in the living conditions of bonded workers, right?"

Yes, after the arrival of the leader, the bonded workers are free.

But free people also have to eat.

And these bonded workers happened to be undercover people with no legal status in Piltover.

After they become free, they have no food to eat, so they have no choice but to work in factories?

The factory where workers are hired is not a factory managed and renovated by a leader, but a factory owned by private business owners in Piltover.

Their treatment in those private factories is not much better than that of pigs.

According to Levi's method, compared with the previous life of a bonded worker, he no longer has to hand over his income to the Iron Fist Gang.

But their income is still very meager and their lives will still be difficult.

"We can come forward and try our best to get the benefits from the manufacturers."

"But" all the leaders can do now is "try their best".

In order not to attract the attention of the Piltover Council, Levi could not use force to coerce those business owners into making greater concessions.

The best way to do this is to adopt the method of "non-violent non-cooperation" and use the force of the leader as a deterrent to get business owners to stop beating, scolding and abusing bonded workers and forcing them to pay them a little more salary.

"In a short period of time, we really cannot provide better employment opportunities and better treatment for bonded workers."

"There is no other way." Levi still made this difficult decision.

Victor and others reluctantly agreed.

But Erwin felt that he had not done enough:

"You only introduce jobs and don't charge commissions. You are equivalent to working as a labor agency for those contracted workers for free, and you can't make a dime."

"Although it has the effect of alleviating employment pressure and financial pressure, don't forget that we are taking over an entire Zaun community, and there are still many places to spend money."

"What do you mean?" Levi didn't know what this old business owner had to say.

Sure enough, I heard Erwin say: "Salary cut!"

There was a reason for him to say this: "You and Victor were slapping your heads and making random decisions, and you increased the salary of the apprentices in the Hex Audio Workshop tenfold in one go."

"We can hold on now, but what about later?"

"If the Hex Audio Workshop expands its production to 1,000 people in the future, will the apprentices we recruit later also have to be given such a high salary?"

"Have you ever calculated how high the labor cost is?"

The labor cost is still a small matter.

The point is: "You give such high wages to the apprentices of Hex Audio Workshop, but let the more than 4,000 bonded workers live a terrible life that is not much better than before."

“Isn’t this equivalent to artificially creating a group of ‘aristocrats’ among workers?”

Don’t worry about scarcity, but worry about inequality.

The 148 apprentices in the audio workshop have already received salaries equivalent to those of locals in Piltover.

However, the more than 4,000 newly liberated bonded workers can only live a life slightly worse than ordinary apprentice workers.

If the two sides look up but don't see each other, they will have disagreements sooner or later.

"Either we mention the benefits, or we don't mention them at all."

"If we do this now, it will be equivalent to splitting another twin city."

Erwin's words instantly woke everyone up.

"Indeed." Levi sighed deeply.

Only now did he understand that it was easy to conquer a country but difficult to maintain it.

At first he thought that when he arrived, the sky would appear.

But reality told him that money will not fall from the sky, and the cake will not grow bigger on its own.

In fact, because he destroyed the black industrial chain of the Iron Fist Gang, the "cake" that Levi took over was even made smaller.

No matter how fair he divides the cake, everyone will still be hungry together.

"Okay." Li Wei solemnly decided: "Salary reduction - but not only for apprentices, but also for our leaders!"

"Including me, my salary will be paid at one-third of the previous salary. Let's suffer for everyone first, and I will bear the blame!"

This decision did not arouse opposition from everyone.

Because the people sitting here are all devotees of Janna and are pure idealists.

They are willing to work for nothing without getting paid, let alone follow the workers in reducing their wages and benefits.

"But...it seems like it's still not enough." Erwin quickly made calculations in his mind: "The Walkman project has not yet started to make a profit, and our money has almost reached the bottom."

"In order to survive this crisis, we must find another way to make money and get a quick buck."

"This" Li Wei's head is as big as a bucket.

You don't really want him to rob a bank, do you?

"That." Finally, Levi looked at Caitlin with some embarrassment.

Caitlin is not yet a permanent director of the Leaders Association.

She will appear at this meeting entirely because she is the current leader's major sponsor.

"Miss Caitlin, can your family provide any more support?"

Caitlin was also helpless: "Sorry, I really can't ask for more."

Her mother is not a wild monster that refreshes automatically. She can explode a bag of gold coins every once in a while.

In Mrs. Gillaman's opinion, she had given her daughter enough money to "practice".

If this shrewd businesswoman found out that her daughter had lost this huge sum of money in less than two weeks, she would probably not only not invest more, but also withdraw her capital decisively.

"However." Caitlin hesitated for a long time and said, "Besides my mother, there are people who are willing to invest in us. She contacted me through my mother and hoped that I would convey her request for cooperation."

"Who?" Levi asked.

"Mel, Mel Myrdalda."

"Mildda?" Everyone was wary: "That senator from Noxus?"

What does Piltover Congressman do to invest in Leaders?

That is their biggest enemy!

"It doesn't matter so much." Levi didn't hesitate.

The leaders are almost going crazy with poverty. If someone wants to come to deliver money, of course they can't stop them.

Regardless of whether it's fishy or smelly, it's all meat when it comes to your mouth.

"How much does she want to invest?" Levi asked straight to the point.

"I don't know." Caitlin said hesitantly: "Congressman Mel has a request——"

"She wants to visit our territory and factory in person, and meet you, Mr. Levi."
Chapter completed!