Chapter 41 [Luring them with benefits, showing them with power]

Author: Tianjibai

Chapter 41 [Luring them with benefits, showing them with power]

As a steward in this cold iron mine, your monthly sect contribution income is 500 points.

If he only takes the guaranteed Mengong, Lin Lin, who owes 35,000 sect contribution points, will need seventy months and nearly six years to pay off the sect contributions he owes.

Six years is not a long time for many elite disciples. They can practice martial arts leisurely while paying off these tributes.

After paying off these tributes, if they can practice the superior martial arts they have learned to a superb level, they will be considered to be gifted.

There is even extra time to accumulate more tributes to prepare for the subsequent promotion to a true disciple or even to a deacon and elder to learn the secret skills of the Zhen sect.

For many Baihua Valley disciples, what restricts them from learning the sect's martial arts is not conditions such as status and tribute, but their own martial arts talent and martial arts advancement.

Take Lin Lin's parents, for example. They are thirty-five years old this year, and their status and contribution to the sect have already enabled them to learn the secret skills of Baihua Valley.

However, due to his talent, his own strength has not yet met the hard conditions for learning Zhenpai martial arts.

However, judging from the speed of Lin Lin's progress in martial arts practice, it would probably take less than a few years for all of the superior martial arts he has learned to reach the pinnacle of Dacheng.

His situation is the opposite of that of his parents. He is talented in martial arts, but his status and contribution to the sect are not sufficient.

If six years later we were to think about how to earn more contributions to the sect and learn the sect's secret skills in preparation for promotion to true disciples and even deacons and elders, then the day lily would be cold.

Therefore, on the first day of working here, Lin Lin began to think about how to earn more contributions to the sect without delaying his own cultivation progress.

And finding a way to increase the output of Han Iron Mine on the existing basis is a very good direction for our efforts.

"Really only two hundred taels?"

Facing Lin Lin's rhetorical question, Chi Benzheng and Shi You looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes.

They didn't expect that the young senior brother in front of them would be so aggressive when they first arrived.

Isn't the other party afraid of really self-defeating?

Not only did he not get more benefits, but it actually made it impossible for the Han Iron Mine to maintain normal operation, causing the output of the Han Iron Mine to decrease, which in turn caused the sect to punish him?

Is it because I have already considered it in my mind, or is it because young people are not mentally mature enough?

However, even though Lin Lin was so aggressive, Chi Benzheng and Shi You had no intention of getting angry.

After all, they couldn't beat Lin Lin.

I also don’t want to get into too much of a quarrel with Lin Lin, causing no one to make any money.

So at this time, facing Lin Lin's questioning, the two of them could only explain patiently.

Chi Benzheng said: "Senior Brother Lin, the sect gives us five thousand taels of silver every month to purchase materials from the Han Iron Mine. Four thousand taels of this silver will be used to purchase food and fodder for the miners and make mining hoes.

Production tools cannot be saved."

"Otherwise, the miners will not have enough food to eat and have no strength, they will not have enough tools to mine, and the mining efficiency will be low. The animals will not have fodder to pull the goods, and they will not be able to maintain the full monthly output of the Han Iron Mine."

"I'll give you one hundred taels of the saved one thousand taels of silver. We, more than thirty supervisors, will share the rest. Each of us can only get thirty taels."

"Senior brother, you also know that we outer disciples not only have average talents, but also have poor family backgrounds. We all rely on this little extra income to maintain our martial arts practice."

"If you are really dissatisfied with this one hundred taels, senior brother, I will honor you with the extra one thousand taels saved. How about we, the supervisors, only get twenty-five taels each?"

On the side, Shi You also complained: "Senior Brother Lin, the amount of silver distributed by the sect for miners' salaries is six thousand taels."

"Among the many miners, only five to six hundred are slaves and sinners. The salary of the rest of the normal miners is indispensable."

"Otherwise, their riot is a trivial matter. We and other supervisors can easily suppress it with our martial arts skills. But I am afraid that all these people will go on strike and leave the mine. By then, the output of Han Iron Mine will not be at full capacity. We can take heavy action against some of the miners who are causing trouble.

But it’s impossible to hit all miners hard.”

"If Ruohan collects insufficient iron gold stones during the introduction period, not only our senior fellow apprentices but we will also be punished by the sect."

"There is about one thousand two hundred taels in salary. If senior brother is not satisfied with one hundred taels, he can take away three hundred taels and distribute the rest among us supervisors."

While the two complained, they divided some of their benefits to Lin Lin.

For them, it was appropriate to give a portion of their silver to the elite disciples in charge. If Lin Lin didn't mention it at the moment, they would find an opportunity to talk to Lin Lin later.

Everyone has money to make, so that no one has any money to make.

However, the two hundred taels he offered at the beginning was purely because Lin Lin was young and could fool him.

But now that Lin Lin is aggressive and feels that two hundred taels a month is not enough, then he should be satisfied with five hundred taels a month, and this is the limit they can accept.

Lin Lin, the senior supervisor, eats meat, and they, the junior supervisors, also have to drink soup.

Otherwise, if Lin Lin continues to be aggressive and wants to eat alone without even giving them a mouthful of soup, then don't blame them for not giving senior brother Lin Lin face.

Lin Lin watched the two people perform with a calm expression.

As expected of a veteran who has been involved in the world for many years, he is very skillful in using this method of coercion and inducement.

Offering to give him 500 taels a month to appease his mood is an inducement for profit.

He also pointed out overtly and covertly that if Lin Lin was still not satisfied after taking five hundred taels, then don't blame them for secretly causing trouble to stop the production of Han Iron Mine and making Lin Lin suffer punishment from the sect. Even if they were punished, they would still do this.

This is a show of authority.

After this combination of punches, anyone with a normal mind will stop making trouble and integrate into their circle with peace of mind to earn stable profits.

It would probably be the same if Lin Lin didn't pursue more contributions to the sect.

But now that Lin Lin needs the sect's contribution, the situation is completely different.

Facing the two people's eyes looking forward to the answer, Lin Lin asked an unexpected question:

"You two junior deacons know that the sect's reward for the cold iron mine is determined based on the output. If the output can be doubled by the end of the year, the sect's contribution will not only be doubled, but also the cold iron mine will be used for a year.

About half of the operating expenses, which is about one hundred thousand taels of silver, will be used as a reward."

"In other words, if we can double the output of cold iron in the next year, then the sect will reward us with an additional one hundred thousand taels of silver. If we can double it, it will be a reward of two hundred thousand taels of silver.

If it is higher, the reward will be even higher."
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