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"What do you think of this?" Sui Xiong explained the cause and effect of the incident, frowning and saying, "Don't blame me for being nosy, you should unify the thoughts of your believers. We don't pursue unity from top to bottom, and it's not surprising that there are factions within, but it can't be to the point where the two factions fight each other!"

The usually confident goddess of wealth Mannis seemed a little lacking in confidence at this moment. She was silent for a long time before she sighed deeply and still said nothing.

"What's wrong with you?" Sui Xiong was puzzled, "Wasn't it fine some time ago?"

"At that time, I thought I could suppress this matter." The goddess of wealth finally spoke, her voice full of bitterness, "Now I find 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 some expectations about the severity of the situation, he never thought that it had become so serious that the goddess of wealth could do nothing about it.

"How could this happen? Could it be that you can't even control the church?" He asked worriedly.

"The church can still control it, but now... I can only control the church." The goddess of wealth sighed, looking very tired, "The nobles and the merchants are already at loggerheads. Although the church is still trying its best to reconcile the conflict between the two sides, it seems that it can't be suppressed this time."

"What will happen if it can't be suppressed? Will there really be a civil war?"

"It should be." The goddess of wealth smiled bitterly and said, "I have learned about it in detail. There is really no way to mediate between the nobles and the merchants this time."

"Why?"

"It's probably because of the 'assembly line operation'." The goddess of wealth said, "The assembly line operation method can greatly reduce the time for training workers, and can split the originally complex processes and greatly increase the content that can be produced. At present, the merchant faction is fully promoting this production process, so more manpower is needed. But they don't have enough workers on hand, so they have to recruit..."

Sui Xiong understood.

For civilians, although the skills that can be learned from assembly line operation are very limited, the wages in the workshop are obviously higher than the income from farming - mainly because the nobles collect too much taxes, and farming is not enough to support the family. In contrast, working can at least feed the whole family.

This world has not yet entered the so-called "bloody and dirty" industrial revolution era. Although the wages in the workshop are not high, they are at least much higher than farming... at least in the Gold Coin Federation.

In this case, it is not difficult for merchants to recruit workers.

However, this encounters a problem.

Most of the civilians in this world are not "free people". As subjects of the lord, they do not have the power to accept employment freely.

And will the lords allow a large number of laborers in their territories to run to work as workers?

Sui Xiong recalled and thought of Gelten Territory.

Gelten Territory was once a region with agriculture as the main source of income, but now it is a world-famous stationery and medicinal materials production area. How does Orian Gelten allocate human resources?

So he contacted Orian and asked about this matter.

"Of course, put down farming." Orian replied, "Food and so on, just buy it."

Sui Xiong nodded, which was similar to his guess.

But it is obvious that most of the lords in the Gold Coin Federation cannot accept this kind of thing, because those workshops do not belong to them, but to the merchant faction.

"If the merchants let the lords invest 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 technology, and technology is the foundation for the survival of the workshop owners. Even if the lords claim that they only invest and do not participate in the management, they will not give up the equity of the workshops."

"In fact... In order to avoid the risk of technology leakage, most workshop owners with relatively strong capital will not hire local workers, but would rather pay more to hire foreign workers, just to prevent the lords from having a reason to intervene."

Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment and could not help but be a little surprised.

After being surprised, he could not help but feel distressed.

The ruling power of the lords in this world is much stronger than that on Earth, and the merchants in this world are also much stronger than those on Earth. If the strong join forces, it will naturally produce the effect of one plus one greater than two, but now it is a strong collision, and everyone is unwilling to give in.

If the workers are hired away, it will hinder the production of the territory and damage the interests of the lords. But merchants, especially big merchants, urgently need a large number of workers to produce, and at the same time they are unwilling to give up the profits of the workshop.

If it were on Earth, the two sides could probably compromise on interests by uniting and squeezing the workers to death. But in this world, there are kind gods behind the civilians. Although they don't usually care about things, if the lords and merchants really join forces to squeeze the workers and squeeze the last bit of profit, I'm afraid the holy warriors will come to the door in a few days.

In this case, it is not surprising that the contradiction between the noble lords and the workshop merchants will intensify.

"Can't the merchants give in a little?" Sui Xiong thought for a while and said, "There is no end to making money, and it's okay to make less."

"It has always been the merchants who make concessions." The goddess of wealth sighed and said.

Sui Xiong was speechless.

It can be seen that the business faction has been patient for a long time, and now it has really reached the point where it can no longer be tolerated.

As the saying goes, "cutting off someone's wealth is like killing their parents", and "as long as there is a 300% profit, capitalists are not afraid of even going to the gallows", the business faction can endure until now, entirely for the face of the goddess of wealth. Now they can finally bear it and want to explode, and the face of the goddess of wealth is naturally no longer useful.

What's more, once the businessmen have made up their minds to tear their faces with the noble lords, the goddess of wealth should stand on their side.

In any case, businessmen are the most core believers of the goddess of wealth.

Sui Xiong thought about it and asked about this matter.

"I really... don't know what to do." The Goddess of Wealth smiled bitterly and shook her head. "The Merchants are my core believers, but most of the nobles of the Gold Coin Federation have been my believers for generations!"

"Now my clergy are also very worried. Some of them come from noble families, and some come from merchant families. The pressure from their families makes them very uncomfortable... Now, as we speak, hundreds of clergy are praying to me, begging me to resolve the conflict between the two factions and restore peace to the Gold Coin Federation."

Sui Xiong looked at the bitter face of the Goddess of Wealth and couldn't help but sigh.

Obviously, He couldn't do it.

At this time, he suddenly thought of something and couldn't help asking: "By the way, the assembly line method, I remember it should be invented by me, I didn't let anyone expand the business to the Gold Coin Federation, how could this technology be passed on?"

The Goddess of Wealth suddenly showed an embarrassed expression, as if she had done something bad and was caught on the spot.

So Sui Xiong understood.

Looking at the look of the Goddess of Wealth, he remembered a famous saying in his heart.

Misfortunes sent by heaven can be forgiven, but misfortunes brought upon oneself cannot be forgiven!