Chapter 177: Qinglong Gang Yellow Hair (already revised)

Lu Yuan knew that the Fire Crystal Mine was valuable, but he did not expect that the Feilong City Fire Crystal Mine given to him by Emperor Qian could make so much money.

20,000 gas-refining miners can earn 2.2 million spirit stones a day.

It’s almost 800 million spirit stones a year, and this is only when the lowest-level gas-refining miners are used.

The mining ability of cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage is too poor and the speed is too slow.

Mining fire crystal ore also requires speed. If more miners are recruited to mine, or higher-level monks are found to mine, the speed will be much faster.

Zhou Qing said: "Lord City Lord, you don't know that it is not easy to find miners now."

Lu Yuan: "Oh? Why?"

“Miners have hard work but their income is not high. Moreover, they have almost no time to practice after mining every day. Many Qi-refining cultivators who have other ways to make money or think they have a bright future are not willing to do this.

The miners working in the mines now are either short of money at home or they come to mine because they know there is no hope for their future. Even so, they have to be coaxed every day, and some of them are often dissatisfied and go on strike.

Moreover, many of the more than 2,200 miners are ordinary people, so the mining speed is not that fast. "

Lu Yuan remembered that he had just asked Zhou Qing how many workers there were in the mine. Manager Zhou Qing said it was difficult to count and told him that there were probably more than 2,200 people.

Lu Yuan was just thinking about a mine, but he couldn't even count the number of miners? He thought Zhou Qing was negligent, but he didn't expect there was such a factor involved.

But it is true that miners either stay underground or in the mountains every day. The working environment is harsh, the workload is heavy, and the salary is not high.

Who among the cultivators with a little potential would be willing to do this? Those who have the ability have gone to cultivate, and those who don't have the ability can do something better than mining.

This makes it difficult to recruit miners, and there are often disturbances in the mines.

Zhou Qing was chatting with Lu Yuan when a foundation-building manager came riding on a sword.

"Manager Zhou, something bad has happened!"

Zhou Qing looked at it and his face darkened. He scolded, "What are you doing? You are so flustered. Can't you see that I am reporting to the city lord?"

Zhou Qing's face darkened.

The city lord has just taken office and is here to inspect the mines for the first time. Please stop it! Do I still want to be the general manager?

The foundation-building manager also looked innocent: "Lord City Lord, Manager Zhou, I am not disturbing you two, there is indeed trouble at the mine again."

Zhou Qing: "Making trouble again? Why?"

Zhou Qing was angry.

The news that came down just two days ago informed Zhou Qing that during this sensitive period, a new city lord was airdropped to Feilong City, and the mine was also given to the city lord by Emperor Qian.

Zhou Qing spent a lot of money to get the information from his acquaintances above. The city lord who was airdropped was unfathomable and had a very high level of cultivation. It was said that he was someone that Emperor Qian also wanted to curry favor with, which was why he handed over the Feilong City Fire Crystal Mine to this big shot.

Zhou Qing immediately knew that the new owner of the mine was not someone to be trifled with, and that he would be dead if he offended him.

So Zhou Qing must have wanted to leave a good impression during the first meeting, so he had actually greeted the miners in advance.

They were told not to cause trouble in the next half month and that they could discuss any issues. For this, Zhou Qing gave each of them an extra spiritual stone as a bribe as their monthly salary.

Zhou Qing was furious at this moment.

These bastards have already received the benefits, why are they still causing trouble?

Are you treating your words as farts?

Zhou Qing asked with a dark face: "What's going on?"

The mine manager who came to report said, "It's Liu Yuan and his gang. They are clamoring for a pay raise! Otherwise they won't work."

Zhou Qing finally understood. It seemed that he had told them two days ago that an important person from above would be coming in the next few days and had increased their wages. Not only were these guys not satisfied, but it aroused their greed. They wanted to take advantage of the important person's inspection to extort more money from them.

They calculated that Zhou Qing didn't want to cause trouble and was here to blackmail them.

Lu Yuan asked what was going on.

Zhou Qing said: "Sir, Liu Yuan is the leader of the Qinglong Gang in Feilong City. He is 772 years old this year and a cultivator at the first level of foundation building. This person has average strength, but he likes to gather his own small group in the local area and established a Qinglong Gang. Half a year ago, he brought a group of Qi-refining cultivators to work in the mine.

I saw that they were all quite capable, so I accepted them. But after they came in, they gathered a lot of people. They started making trouble two months ago, and I have raised their wages several times. But no matter how much I feed them, they are still not satisfied.”

The lifespan of a foundation-building monk is a thousand years.

772 years old is already middle-aged or elderly, and this guy has just broken through the first level of foundation building, which means he doesn’t have much potential in the future. It is normal for him to go into the mine to work.

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As for the Qinglong Gang, it is called a gang, but in fact it is just a group of hooligans, no different from the yellow-haired people on Earth.

These guys are united together and come here to blackmail the mine every now and then, right? Are they crazy about making more money?

Lu Yuan didn't say anything, he just asked Zhou Qing.

"Why wasn't this obvious extortion kicked out?"

Zhou Qing said bitterly: "This guy is good at inciting people. I wanted to get rid of him before, but once he left, more people followed him. I couldn't handle it."

A mine needs people to work to operate, and Liu Yuan is equivalent to the leader of a small group. If he is kicked out, more people will follow him and the losses will be huge. This is a large interest group, which is why Liu Yuan dared to blackmail so blatantly.

Lu Yuan understood. No wonder this guy had entered the mine half a year ago. He wanted to blackmail people but didn't do it directly. Instead, his true nature was gradually exposed a month ago. It turned out that he had been winning people's hearts and forming a group in the past few months.

The leader of this kind of group is the most troublesome. Zhou Qing has been troubled by this for a long time.

He had discussed this with Liu Yuan before, and even gave him an extra 10 spirit stones a month to ask him not to cause trouble. He didn't expect this guy to turn his back on him. With his cultivation level, the amount of spirit stones he gets in a month is almost equal to the monthly salary of a foundation-building disciple from a large sect, and he's still not satisfied? Too greedy.

Lu Yuan said: "In that case, let's go and take a look."

Lu Yuan wanted to see how greedy this yellow-haired leader could be. He didn't really think that the mine couldn't work without you, did he? Zhou Qing nodded. Although he was so negligent in his first meeting with the city lord, the incident had already happened, so he had to solve it.

Zhou Qing then took Lu Yuan to the area where the trouble occurred.

The group led by Liu Yuan worked in the south of the mine and soon arrived at the mine.

Sure enough, I saw a large group of Qi Refining stage miners making trouble.

Lu Yuan took a look and saw that Liu Yuan, the leader of the Qinglong Gang who led the trouble, was really a yellow-haired man? He stood in front of everyone with a big yellow-haired mane, holding a foundation-building sword in his hand and confronting the manager of the Fire Crystal Mine.

The yellow-haired Liu Yuan was extremely arrogant: "Come on, come on, if you have the guts, chop me to death, chop me to death?"

(End of this chapter)