Demon Lord 3

Chapter 1844

After listening to them, I also tried to persuade the migrant workers to be alright. Actually, we didn't recommend them coming here for free meals. The reason we asked them to register wasn't to show them, but simply to gather data, to let them know how many people we'd won over and how we were slowly losing public support. Unless they paid a large sum to get the migrant workers to come back for meals, they wouldn't return. They were also in a neutral position, with many people watching. It wouldn't be easy for them to join either side. If they murdered the migrant workers, we could make a big fuss. Thinking of this, I finally understood the extent of their dilemma. Besides that, we'd prepared plenty of food. Since so many people were coming to eat, we'd let them have as much as they wanted. However, this method left us running low on seeds. Every time we planted, many people wanted to check the fields, fearing there might be rotten seeds. They couldn't eat them, but they couldn't waste them either. What should we do? We can only turn these into fertilizer, but once the land absorbs the elixir as fertilizer, other fertilizers are useless. Zuo Chenwei asked me what to do about this. Suddenly, an idea struck me. Since we have a specific fertilizer, why not use this one? Those leftovers can't be reused anyway. When there are more alchemists, we can have them make more elixirs, and the remaining waste and leftovers can be added to the land to make fertilizer. Everyone agrees with this idea. If the other party wants to cultivate our land, it's almost impossible. After all, without fertilizer, the land is worthless and nothing can grow. If they want fertilizer, they must use the leftovers of the elixir, and it seems that only we have them, and no one else has them. If they want to make them, they can also buy them from us at a high price. We will become rich again. We don't want money, but the materials to make these elixirs. Many people will ask, if they have the materials, why would they buy the leftovers from us? What I'm trying to say is that while those people have the ingredients, they lack an alchemist, so they can't make elixirs. Those scraps are the leftovers from refining elixirs, just like some elixirs can only produce a few truly useful pills, and the rest are thrown away. Some are wasted because the fire wasn't properly controlled, while others are necessary consumables. These elixirs also undergo a process of survival of the fittest, and those that are eliminated cannot be eaten and can only be treated as waste. But after a few days, I felt that there were many ways, and we were not thoughtful enough. The main problem was that those people came to eat for free, not to really work here. It was not very likely to get those people to work. After all, they had the job over there. I hoped that the other party would compete with us for people, rather than let us support these people. After all, these people were old, and it was unrealistic to ask them to fight for us. They were not professional soldiers. It would be better to let those beggars practice than to ask them to practice. So we are sure that this problem can be solved. Then there is the thing we mentioned before. Letting the workers come here is actually just to increase our popularity and let the other party know that we have won the hearts of the people. But just letting them come to eat can show that we have won the hearts of the people. It is better to cook the food worse and think about it. If the food is not cooked well, everyone will definitely make comments. If the food is not cooked well only for the workers, the workers will go back to eat. After all, they are paid over there. All we can do here is to make the food well. With this in mind, we will never withhold any food from the workers. The fight is about who has money and who can have a protracted war. The point is, giving the workers free meals isn't really free. After all, there's no such thing as a free lunch. They're coming for lunch for a reason. Since they're being treated badly over there, let's have them write something negative about them, at least to let them know. But will the workers be willing to write? What if they leave? Unfortunately, I was wrong. People don't think about that at all. They're happy to be paid over there and eat whatever they want. There's no pressure from over there to stop them from writing about it, nor is there any pressure to stay over there and not come to eat with us. The war has been pretty much over lately, so a break is a good time to rest, right?