Magic Industry Empire - 544. Chapter 544

The private domain of Her Royal Highness Severini is located in the northeastern province of the Kingdom of Lampari, which is closer to the eastern border of the kingdom, about 700 kilometers away from Bangta City.

So far apart, and in order to clearly show his attitude, Sevigny basically only asked about things outside the territory, so naturally he didn’t know anything about what happened in Bangta City.

However, on the first day of the new year in 3784 in the mainland Chinese calendar, Servigny was in the same mood as the people in Bangta, not so good.

Since about half a month ago, some refugees have poured into her private realm from the west and northwest one after another.

At the beginning, seeing these ragged, skinny refugees, apparently extremely poor refugees, Severini immediately asked his stewards to take them in and make proper arrangements.

However, as time went by, more and more refugees poured into the territory.

As of today, according to some rough statistics, in the past half month, the number of people who have entered the territory has exceeded two hundred.

This surprised Servigny’s heart very much.

In recent years, with the large-scale promotion of the farmland magic machinery of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Lampari, the grain output in all parts of the kingdom has increased significantly.

And because of the use of chemical fertilizers, the grain produced every year in the kingdom has long been able to fully meet the needs of everyone in the kingdom, and there are even surplus grains that can be sold to neighboring countries.

It stands to reason that even if there is a natural disaster, there should be enough food in the kingdom to prevent refugees from appearing.

What’s more, the whole year of this year in the Lampari Kingdom can be regarded as smooth and rainy, and no natural disasters have occurred at all.

However, the refugees in front of him were hard facts, so Severini was very puzzled.

On the first day of the new year, after paying homage to the deceased Lampari XIII, Servigny thought of his father’s instructions to him during his lifetime, and couldn’t help but personally come to a place for refugees in the territory and found several refugees to inquire.

After a simple question, Servigny got an answer that she didn’t expect.

These refugees did not flee because they did not have food to eat, but to escape from military service.

“Serving?” Servigny frowned slightly. “Apart from mandatory military service in the kingdom, there has never been any compulsory service. What are you at large?”

“No, no, my Royal Highness, you misunderstood.” The one who answered her was a middle-aged man who had fled from the northwestern province. He shook his head vigorously and said: “We are not trying to escape the kingdom’s service, but the local The service stipulated by the Lord Lord and the City Lord’s Mansion.”

Servigny was taken aback: “The service stipulated by the lord and the city lord’s mansion? What do they let you serve?”

“Just let us work in the factory. If we don’t work, we won’t give us farms or food.” The middle-aged man sighed. “But if you go to work in the factory, you have to go at dawn every day, and you can only come back after dark. It’s like this every day. I insist on working for a few months and I can’t stand it at all.”

“Yeah, it’s the same with us. Sometimes let us work for one night, and then we only have to go back to sleep for a few hours before we have to come back to work. Two people in our village were exhausted last month.” A thin man with sunken eye circles next to him, looking at the skeleton, should be young, but looking like a man in his 30s or 40s, he echoed.

“Yeah, yeah, a lot of people on our side are also exhausted. We are afraid that we are also exhausted. Only then did we find a chance to escape.” This time it was a middle-aged woman who echoed. “Our whole family ran together this time. Otherwise, if we stay, we will definitely get caught. If we continue to work, our whole family will probably be exhausted.”

Seeing the extremely haggard refugees around him agreeing, Severini was surprised.

“What kind of work do you want to do? You are so tired?”

“It’s just doing some work in the factory, what kind of magic machinery you are doing, right?”

“Yes, it’s the magic machine. This damn magic machine, I dream of it every night when I have nightmares!”

“Well, what kind of magic kettle I made before? It seems like that. It’s just such a simple thing. It’s not difficult to make, but I have to work there all day long. I really can’t stand it.”

“Oh, we are doing magic air conditioning over there.”

“We are making a magic furnace…”

…

Listening to the refugees’ comments, Severini’s face was a little weird.

If you heard it right, these refugees were previously forcibly captured by the noble lords and the local city lord’s mansion to serve in labor, so they were actually asked to make magic machinery in the magic machinery factory?

But in Sevigny’s impression, shouldn’t the work of the Magic Machinery Factory be very simple, compared to farming and other things, it is much easier?

“His Royal Highness, you have never done it before. I tell you that the job is simple and simple. But the same action is repeated all day long, and no one can bear it. . And in the middle, I can only rest for a while while eating, and at all other times, I can’t stop at all.” A refugee explained to Severini.

Servigny asked in amazement, “No? Isn’t it just eight hours a day? You will be paid for overtime for the extra working hours, right?”

“Overtime pay?” The refugees were all stunned this time. “What is overtime pay?”

Servigny was speechless, and it seemed that this group of refugees had no concept of overtime pay.

“What about the salary? You work for so long every day, should you give you a lot of salary? Is there 20 every month… Oh no, that’s unlikely. Is there ten gold coins?”

“Ten gold coins?” A group of refugees all stared at Servigny, as if they had heard something incredible.

Seeing their expressions, Severini immediately understood that he had said the wrong thing.

Perhaps for Bangta City, the monthly salary of ten gold coins may not even meet the ordinary standard, but for the rest of the Lampari Kingdom, this is already a very high salary standard.

“His Royal Highness, to you, ten gold coins are certainly nothing, but we… have never seen ten gold coins in this life.” A refugee couldn’t help but say.

“Yes. I’ve seen gold coins once in my life. They were given to me by the man in our village who came to work in Bangta City after he came back. He said that he can get 13 gold coins a month for his work in Bangta City. .”

“So high? Then why don’t you also go to Bangta City?”

“I originally planned to go, but my parents were getting older at the time and I didn’t dare to go too far away.”

“What about now? I remember you said on the road that your parents were beaten to death by Lord Lord before. You don’t have this burden anymore, right?”

There was a trace of sadness across the face of the young man who was talking, lowered his head slightly, and sighed: “Now I can’t go even if I want to. The Chamber of Commerce is completely under control. When they ran over, they were caught by them and sent back to the original place.”

Having said that, the young man suddenly raised his head and pleaded with Severini: “His Royal Highness, you have mercy on us and don’t send us back. If I go back, I will be killed by Lord Lord sooner or later!”

Servigny was stunned for a moment, and hadn’t answered yet. The other refugees seemed to have just reacted, begging Servigny together.

“Your Royal Highness, I heard that you are the most merciful, please forgive us for escaping from the territory! We just want to live a few more days.”

“Yes, your Royal Highness, we don’t really want to escape, but we don’t want to be exhausted.”

“His Royal Highness, please forgive us…”

…

Looking across the eager faces around him, Severini sighed slightly, stood up, and told the stewards next to them to take good care of these refugees and left this temporary refugee camp.

The refugees behind her were still begging, but she had no choice but to ignore it.

It is not that she is unwilling to agree to the demands of these refugees, but that according to the answers of these refugees just now, they are obviously the subjects of the private realm of the nobles in the kingdom. According to the rules of the noble council, even if she is the Royal Highness, she has no rights. Intervene in other aristocratic territories.

These refugees are the subjects of those nobles, so how to deal with them is the business of those lords.

Although she can accommodate them temporarily, she does not have the power to dispose of them at will.

The only thing that can be done is to temporarily put them down and pretend that they don’t know about it. It’s just a period of time to be able to hide it for a while.

If the lord of these refugees came to the door, according to the rules of the noble council and the unwritten rules among the nobles, Servigny could not force them to stay.

Walking on a newly built road in the territory that is not particularly spacious, Servigny thought about the conversation with the refugees just now, and his heart was full of bitterness.

She thought that the kingdom’s food problem had been solved, even if it had improved the lives of the people of the kingdom by more than half.

Unexpectedly, the people of the kingdom would still suffer this kind of suffering.

Although she didn’t ask clearly just now, judging from the reaction of the refugees, when they were forced to work in those magic machinery factories, not to mention overtime pay, maybe they didn’t even have a salary.

Because they all call this service, and service is naturally voluntary work.

Thinking of this, Severini couldn’t help laughing wryly.

When she saw Xu Yi’s personal working standards for workers in the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, she also expressed amazement and felt that Xu Yi was totally unnecessary.

Because she feels that since these workers are employed by the New Flying Business Association, they should work according to the New Flying Business Association’s arrangements. There is no need to formulate so many additional rules for them to comply with, and also limit working hours, which seems so rigid.

At that time Xu also commented on this, saying that Severini’s idea represented the oppression of the civilian class by the nobles, and Severini was still not convinced.

It now appears that Xu Yi is actually right at all.

The experience of these refugees perfectly embodies this point.

Thinking that the work these refugees were engaged in was actually related to the production of magic machinery, Servigny was deeply moved.

Although this also means that the magic industry has flourished in the Lampari Kingdom, but this is probably not the kind of development Xu Yi hopes to see, right?

Thinking of this, Severini’s heart suddenly felt resentment and strong miss for Xu Yi.

What was this guy who cruelly abandoned the kingdom of Lampari and Bangta city on the first day of the new year? How much do you know about the current situation in the Kingdom of Lampari?