New Gods of North America

Arriving at the so-called "station" towns, it was much easier to deal with the loot.

Wayne visited several pawn shops and also inquired at the police station about whether they would recycle firearms. After completely selling everything at one store,

The final total income was 1736 US dollars.

Although the partners did not directly take action when attacking the “ stronghold”, collective collaboration was obviously not a case of “whoever kills it gets it”.

Like the doctors in some bounty hunter teams, even if they don't go to the front lines, as long as they “ participate in the action”, they get a share.

So, after authorizing Doug and Ryan, two potential “ on-site management” to preside over the distribution, the detective agency took 30% as usual, and then the partners and agents split the remaining amount “ 30/70 split”, followed by the so-called “ split per capita”.

Converted, excluding the detective agency's 30% cut, each partner received approximately 121 US dollars and 52 cents. The agents, divided by “ head count”, received approximately 114 US dollars and 95 cents per “ head count”.

However, apart from Doug, who now counts as “1个人头(1个人头: 1 headcount)”, the remaining trainee agents are “0.8个人头(0.8个人头: 0.8 headcount)”, which is approximately 91 US dollars and 96 cents.

Wayne discussed it with Ineisha and Lina for a while, and finally chose a method that would better incentivize the agents' subjective initiative.

And when distributing the bounties to everyone, he directly announced:

“After unanimous discussion among the partners, if our detective agency establishes ‘ offices’ in various locations in the future, then in principle, apart from the detective agency's 30% total commission, the partners will no longer share from the remaining funds as long as they do not participate in the action.

“Of the remaining 70% income, 10% will be used as the office's operating expenses, managed and used by the person in charge of the office for the overall daily expenses of the office, and the remaining 60% will be distributed to the agents who participate in the action according to ‘ headcount’.

“Considering that some rewards will be directly paid to the detective agency by the employers, that part of the rewards will still be distributed according to this principle. After the periodic settlement is completed, it will be directly remitted to the agent's personal account in the local bank, or transferred to the office for distribution.”

People who can be bounty hunters usually have basic arithmetic skills. Those who are not smart enough usually don't live long.

So the agents quickly realized that this was a considerable concession, and the scene suddenly cheered up.

One by one, they imitated Wayne's previous appearance, slapping the table and shouting “ Wuhu——”

Wayne let them make noise for a while, raised his hand slightly, and the agents immediately quieted down.

Then Wayne continued to add:

“This distribution method is equivalent to a disguised subsidy, and the purpose is to allow agents stationed outside to obtain relatively higher income. Considering the possible problems, the detective agency must also first clarify some requirements.

“First of all, the office is still a part of the detective agency. The detective agency has the right to decide the establishment or cancellation of the office, or conduct other management. Agents who do not obey the detective agency's decision will be regarded as ‘ automatic resignation’ or ‘ betrayal’; secondly, the person in charge of the office will be decided by the detective agency, or elected jointly by the agents of the office and take effect after being approved by the detective agency; third, the agents working in the office have the right to ‘ impeach’ the person in charge, and then the detective agency will arrange someone to conduct an ‘ internal investigation’ and make a decision.

“Finally, if the person in charge of the office dies unexpectedly, the office has a major casualty accident, or other situations occur that the detective agency deems necessary to conduct an ‘ internal investigation’, the agents of the office must stay in the local area to gather or report their true whereabouts to the detective agency, otherwise it will be regarded as ‘ betrayal’ in principle. Does everyone have any questions?”

Doug was very concerned about the establishment of the office and was the first to express his desire to speak.

After Wayne nodded in agreement, Doug began to ask:

“If the office is short of staff, will the detective agency provide support?”

The partners had already considered this aspect and just copied other organizations.

Wayne did not think much about it:

“As long as the office reports the situation in a timely manner, the detective agency will make personnel arrangements according to the situation. However, ‘ ability status’, ‘ casualty status’ and ‘ income and expenditure status’ will be included in the office's assessment indicators to determine whether the detective agency will cancel the office or replace the person in charge.

“Considering that there may be special or emergency situations, the office can recruit people locally on its own. Those who are approved by the detective agency will become agents of the detective agency and enjoy the same treatment. Those who have not been approved by the detective agency will be regarded as the so-called ‘ peripheral members’, and the expenses will be paid from the office's retained funds, up to the limit of the funds used.

“In special circumstances, if the detective agency can approve it afterwards, then the detective agency will also bear the overspending part. However, before the detective agency approves it, the agents must not make promises in the name of the detective agency without authorization, otherwise the detective agency has the right to disapprove it and pursue the matter.”

After that, everyone had no objections for a while, and the scene reached the easy money distribution link.

The agents walked to Ineisha one by one, took the divided cash from her hand, and then went to enjoy their free time happily.

Wayne's gathering time was the evening of the day after tomorrow, and then they would leave on the morning of the third day. They could have fun as they pleased during this period, just don't have fun too much.

Anyway, Wayne had said in advance that if something strange happened because of personal reasons, the detective agency might not only not help “ clean up the mess”, but might even actively participate in the arrest.

After the agents left the room one after another,

Lina looked at the re-emptied money bag and still seemed a little empty, and slumped on the seat all of a sudden, “I feel like the money I can get will get less and less if this continues…”

Wayne was speechless, “Didn't you agree before?”

“Agree is agree, but I still feel bad…” Lina's face was stuck on the table, “Just thinking about it is so many dollars…”

Wayne could only reassure her again, “The main reason is that the steam train lines are too far. Look, now that Mr. Russell's company has issued a reward for this line, it takes almost a month to run from start to finish. If we all have to watch over it, we won't be able to handle it all year round.”

Lina was even more listless, “I don't want to hear this. Can you change it to the part that sounds more pleasant?”

Wayne was always amenable to suggestions in this regard:

“Then the main problem of our detective agency now is that we don't have enough people. If the office model is successful, we can continue to promote it.

“There are still many steam train lines in the American Federation. There are still many in Virginia. At the very least, if we return to Kansas, I am confident that we can take down some of the security commissions for the steam train lines. As long as we can establish enough security commissions, the 30% total commission from each office alone will be far more than the income we get from participating every time now.”

Lina's vitality came back a bit, but she was still slumped there, “Isn't there more?”

Wayne shrugged and brought out the pie in the sky he had drawn before to coax the partners again:

“Just like the steam train lines, as long as we can connect the various ‘ stations’ into a network, then what we can get may be far more than just the security commissions income. By then, no matter which direction some wanted criminals run, they may not be able to run out of the detective agency's ‘ territory’. Even the gangs within the range may have to respect our opinions.

“Facts have proved that in some industries, ‘ scale’ is income.”

Lina then sat up slightly:

“I hope we won't be attacked by the church first. But if things go smoothly, if those guys from the Tribunal or the Windsor Kingdom dare to come to me again, then I will arrest them as criminals.

“Anyway, they have no law enforcement power in America.”