Path of light

Chapter 684 685. Rejection

In the lobby of the Plateau City City Hall, the three leaders of the Silver Moon Elf Guard Corps were waiting in the rest area with depressed expressions.

All the civil servants in the city hall are mixed elves, and they have been complaining about this in private for a long time...

Now the three of them came to visit Captain Roy of the Mine Guard Group. The front desk made them sit in the rest area and wait for a while, which made them even more dissatisfied.

"What do you mean, Captain Roy! He's obviously at the same level as us, but he's still putting on airs with us. No wonder the Silver Moon elves in the Royal City of Buenos who denounced him almost filled the entire music square!"

Captain Talista said sarcastically impatiently.

"Keep your voice down. If you don't want us to become more embarrassed, just endure it... at least don't lose your temper here, because your bad temper will not only not help us in this trip, but will even affect us." Captain Ross patted his old friend on the shoulder and whispered.

He had known Talista for a long time and knew that his old friend had a bad temper and was a proud Silver Moon Elf noble.

"Why do you have to keep your voice down? There's nothing you can't say!"

Captain Talista said bluntly with his eyes widened.

The three Silver Moon Elf leaders waited in the rest area for a while before being brought into a living room by a mixed elf adjutant. Roy was waiting in the living room and saw the three Silver Moon Elf leaders coming from outside. Walk in and immediately smile politely.

Roy heard from Mu Lin that as early as a year ago, the 17th Silver Pegasus Military Headquarters sent three leaders of the Elf Guard Group to develop the silver mines in the Kaltim Mountains.

These three leaders of the Silver Moon Elf Guard Group learned from the last failure, and they brought over three Silver Moon Elf Guard Groups to take charge of the safety of the mine.

As for the miners, they did not hire mixed-blood elves from the local area. Instead, they transferred nearly two thousand gray dwarf prisoners of war from the Parlam Island Prison. The Silver Moon Elf leaders arranged a large number of elf supervisors in the mines. Follow the gray dwarf prisoners of war with shackled feet into the mine tunnel. First, the collapsed mine tunnel is cleaned up, and then the silver ore is continued to be mined along the veins.

This time, the Silver Moon Elf leaders did not hire a mixed-blood elf. I heard that the three silver mines in the Kaldeum Mountains were developing very smoothly.

But since there is no mixed-blood elf miner in the three mines, Mu Lin doesn’t know what the situation is in the mines...

I heard that the profits of the three mines are still very good. The magic metal ingots continuously smelted from the three mines are often transported to Padstow City on the magic airship of the mine guard group.

"You three, you came to the city hall so early. What do you need me to do for you?" Roy asked tentatively while making tea for the three of them.

The Silver Moon Elf leaders simultaneously forced out an awkward smile...

"Captain Roy, we came to you this time because we want to talk to you about the Kartim Mine!" Captain Carlos forced out an unnatural smile and said to Roy.

"Please continue..."

Roy made a gesture to Captain Carlos.

"We operate three silver mines in the Castim Mountains of the Pagisto Plateau. After more than a year of operation, the three silver mines are already operating normally and have become profitable, but after all, we We are not very good at running mines, so after some struggle, the three of us unanimously decided that professional matters should be left to professional elves..." Captain Carlos said very tactfully.

"So we rushed to the Plateau City from the Castletown Mountains. We hope that Captain Roy can acquire these three sites and allow the three silver mines to continue to operate normally."

"As for us... we can return to the Queen Egwene Islands, because the gray dwarf fleet has appeared again in the outer waters of the Queen Egwene Islands recently."

Captain Carlos said to Roy very sincerely.

"Captain Roy, we are giving you three silver mines, so we hope that the income from the mines can be divided into three parts in the future. First of all, the income from the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion cannot be changed under any circumstances. I think we can share the remaining half of the income equally. After all, we invested a lot of manpower and material resources in restoring the abandoned mine to normal operation in the early stage..."

Captain Carlos spoke a lot eloquently, and Roy listened very carefully.

It wasn't until Captain Carlos finished speaking that Roy smiled and nodded at him and said:

"This is indeed a very interesting proposal. Two years ago, at your strong request, I gave up the three silver mines in the Kardim Mountains and handed them over to you to operate. Two years later, the three silver mines were The mine can operate normally. You will return the mine to me, but offer me a 25% dividend..."

"I have to say, this proposal is very good..."

When Roy said this, his words suddenly stopped:

"...But at present, the size of my mine guard group is limited after all. I don't have that many manpower to manage so many mines. The three of you may also know that I just came back from Golfito and I don't know much about Pagisto yet. The situation on the plateau.”

"Next, I have to restore more than a dozen mines of various sizes in the Nicobar Mountains to normal operations, so I have no ability to take over the silver mines held by the three of them."

"Since the silver mine in the hands of the three of them has achieved profitability, I believe that there must be many captains of the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion who are interested in this. It would be better for the three of them to ask the military department to arrange some more manpower. !”

When Roy said this, he stopped talking...

The three Silver Moon Elf captains looked at each other in surprise when they heard what Roy said.

They had never expected that Roy would not accept the three silver mines.

In fact, although the three mines were profitable, the miners were all free gray dwarf prisoners of war, and it was too strenuous to run the mines. Every day, some Silver Moon Elf warriors had to be sent into the mines as supervisors, which the Silver Moon Elf guards disagreed with.

These Silver Moon Elf warriors had protested countless times in the past six months.

The three captains also wanted to hand over the silver mines while Roy was there, and then withdraw.

They thought that Roy would be happy to accept it when they said "give up the silver mines", after all, the mines dug out were silver ores and associated ores, which were also very valuable when smelted into silver ingots...

But they didn't expect Roy to politely refuse.

After the three Silver Moon Elf leaders left the reception room with disappointment, Roy pondered for a while before saying to the adjutant guarding the door:

"Go and invite Mulin over!"

The adjutant quickly agreed and turned to walk to a room across the corridor.

Roy took out a quill from the ink bottle and began to write a notice carefully on a large piece of parchment on the table.