NOVEL NEXT Chapter 71 - Teaching Mia! Bunny Girl's Ability!
The slave trader left with over ten carts of potatoes. Their group was quite large, with two or three dozen guards.
However, if they were unlucky, encountering a large group of bandits would also be dangerous.
Richard had already received the gold coins, so naturally, he wouldn’t care about the slave trader’s fate.
Mia and the others had already brought the bunny girl into the small castle.
This bunny girl’s body was even smaller.
In fact, her body was similar to Mia and Miwei’s, and the difference between her and human girls lay only in her two furry ears and short tail.
Well, the tail of the bunny girl is even shorter.
“Master, she’s still unconscious, it seems she fainted from hunger.” Miwei said.
Richard replied, “Give her some warm milk and water, don’t feed her too much at once.”
“Yes, master.”
After some thought, Richard took out a glucose tablet and handed it to Miwei, saying, “Give her this to eat as well.”
“Yes, master!” Miwei took the glucose tablet and, along with a few fox girls, carefully fed the bunny girl with glucose and milk.
Meanwhile, Richard went to the study in the castle and picked up a ledger to look through.
“Master, the total wage expenditure for this week is 15 gold coins. Additionally, the food consumed this week will cost about twenty gold coins,” Mia came in and reported.
Richard flipped through the ledger and asked, “How did you calculate the food?”
Mia replied, “I calculated it based on rice being 5 copper coins per catty, and meat being 15 copper coins per catty.”
Richard nodded.
With more and more people in the territory, the expenditure on food was increasing. Currently, there was no food production in the territory, so all the food was bought by Richard online.
Of course, a significant portion of the food consumption was due to the over one hundred minotaurs. If it were another noble, even a viscount wouldn’t be able to sustain the full appetite of over a hundred minotaurs.
Mia hesitated but eventually approached Richard and said, “Master, after investigating for a while, I realized that the wages you are offering to the citizens of the territory are too high.”
Richard looked at her.
Mia continued, “Ordinary people in other territories usually earn only five to six copper coins a day, but here, they are getting at least seven copper coins, and on top of that, you provide food. The food you provide would actually cost them most of their wages to buy.”
Richard glanced at the cat-eared girl, realizing that this cute cat girl was more suited to be a capitalist than he was.
However, Richard had his own considerations for setting these wages.
In this world, one copper coin was equivalent to a yuan before his transmigration. But the living standards in this world were equivalent to several decades ago…
Before Richard arrived, the average person working for someone else earned only a little over a hundred copper coins a month, which is to say, a little over a hundred yuan a month.
Such wage levels were due to the low living standards and productivity.
Of course, it was also because most people in this world cultivated their own one-acre plots and were self-sufficient in many ways.
As material wealth increases in a world, living standards and productivity levels naturally rise, leading to overall improvements.
Just like before Richard crossed, earning ten thousand yuan a month wasn’t considered a high wage.
That wasn’t purely due to inflation, but also because living standards had improved and resources had become more abundant. Naturally, everything would improve.
If Richard wanted his territory to prosper, he naturally needed more gold coins. However, the territory would only truly prosper if the people in it became prosperous.
Obviously, this prosperity wouldn’t come from simply giving out money.
It would come from developing and building the territory, allowing the people there to earn money through their own labor.
With some extra money, Richard could sell some cheap trinkets from the online marketplace to them, take the money back, and then redistribute it through wages, ensuring that these people would continuously work for Richard and contribute to the development of the territory.
In this way, Richard’s territory would become more and more prosperous, and people would have more money in their hands. They would also have more goods, such as clothes and daily necessities.
Everyone would benefit from this arrangement.
Richard would be the biggest beneficiary.
So, he slowly explained these principles to Mia, the cat girl.
Mia tilted her head and listened, her expression turning into a frown as she struggled to grasp the profound concepts Richard was explaining.
It was quite adorable.
“Alright, you can think about it slowly. Oh, and today, distribute the wages, and then announce that from now on, wages will be paid monthly.”
Richard looked at Mia’s adorable appearance and ruffled her hair.
This rather affectionate gesture immediately made Mia, this somewhat resilient cat girl, blush.
She couldn’t help but let out a soft murmur in protest.
Then…
Richard heard her whimper and ruffled her hair again.
Just as Mia was about to protest again, she heard Richard’s voice, “By the way, does the bunny girl have any special skills?”
“Special skills of the bunny girl?”
As soon as Mia heard this question, she forgot about Richard ruffling her hair just now.
After thinking for a moment, she said, “In the Beast Kingdom, rabbit people are the best at farming.”
“Good at farming?”
Mia said, “Yes, they are good at planting, especially rabbit girls. They can observe the different states of crops, and it seems they also know some special methods to drive away pests. However, rabbit people are not strong in combat, much inferior to us. So, rabbit tribes generally attach themselves to other powerful tribes. I don’t know how this rabbit girl ended up alone and got captured by goblins.”
If she’s good at farming, this bunny girl could be quite useful.
Richard’s grand agricultural plan could now be implemented.