Lan Ling looked at Li Yinguang who was back in the office and saw the old man there, and couldn't help but ask.
Li Yinguang looked at her and said with a smile: "What should I be anxious about?"
"Someone has already hired refugees to dig for sweetgrass vine roots outside the town." Lan Ling frowned, and even she felt that she should step in to stop them. At least they shouldn't let the other party go out and seize the sweetgrass vine resources so easily.
The problem is that Li Yinguang, the company boss, doesn't seem to have the slightest intention to stop it. I really don't know what he thinks.
Li Yinguang said: "I know!"
Lan Ling said speechlessly: "You know, then you shouldn't be in a hurry, right?"
Li Yinguang smiled and shook his head: "Why should I be anxious? Then again, what's the point of being anxious? Can people be moved or can they be afraid?"
Of course he knows what Lan Ling is thinking. The key to the problem is that it is of no use. This kind of thing cannot be stopped. The outside of the town is a wilderness and unclaimed land, let alone 'Sweet Grass Vine'. Even if there is a gem mine, there is no Manbach.
Until the lord confirms the rights and makes it clear that it belongs to the "Manbach Town Property", anyone can dig and mine.
"But you can stop it!" Lan Ling frowned.
Li Yinguang shrugged, spread his hands and smiled bitterly: "Please, how can we stop this kind of thing? Can we prevent them from leaving the city, or can we stop them from looking for sweet grass vines?"
Lan Ling gritted his teeth and said: "It can stop them from recruiting refugees to do coolies in the slums!"
Li Yinguang put away the smile on his face, raised his head and looked directly at her and asked: "What next?"
Then?
Lan Ling: "..."
Seeing that she was silent, Li Yinguang said calmly and calmly: "Those poor refugees in the slums also want to live. Maybe others can provide them with cotton-padded clothes and three meals a day to survive this cold winter. They are
People are not animals, nor things. They just hire refugees to go out of the city to dig sweetgrass vines. We are going to stop them?
Interests seduce people's hearts, but you also need to know that there is conscience above interests.
Did we recruit these refugees for profit?
No, it was to provide them with an environment where they could sell their labor in exchange for value, and survive the cold winter on their own without freezing to death or starving to death.
The starting point was to help more people and enable them to survive. The idea of digging up sweet grass vines was such that the subsequent establishment of a sugar company was more or less an unintentional move.
Let's go back and talk about it. Is there any fundamental difference between those people outside recruiting coolies to dig sweetgrass vines outside the town and us recruiting coolies to dig sweetgrass vines outside the town?
There are hundreds of thousands of people in the slums, most of whom have not eaten enough and are on the verge of freezing to death and starving to death.
We can't save everyone, but for the sake of the small benefits in front of us, should we wipe out our conscience and prevent others from helping people in these slums? Regardless of whether they are direct or indirect, what is the starting point, one thing is certain,
Because of their recruitment, the people in the slums may survive this winter!"
Li Yinguang shook his head and sighed. Between money and human life, he felt that the latter was more important.
He cannot ask others to be kind, nor can he share his kindness infinitely with everyone, but he never wants to take away other people's opportunities because of the immediate benefits.
"Isn't it competition? Any business activity is indispensable for competition. Without competition, there will be no progress. So there is no need to worry, and it is not necessarily a bad thing!"
Lan Ling, Sophia and Gu Liyan, who was sitting on the chair opposite, fell into silence. They really didn't expect so much. Gu Liyan, included, was more concerned about their interests than the refugees in the slums.
Li Yinguang just let it go. For this kind of thing, there is no need to go up and down the line. No one is a god, everyone is a mortal, and it is inevitable that there will be selfish thoughts.
He smiled and said: "Look, this is the first one. Next, there will be a steady stream of employers coming to the slums to recruit refugees. Maybe the people in the slums will also become popular by then."
Lan Ling frowned and thought for a while and said: "Can't we recruit more refugees and occupy all the sweet grass vine digging sites outside the town? It can not only save more refugees, but also dig more sweet grass vines, isn't it?
Is it better?"
"The more people there are, the more materials are needed. Do you think that the cold-proof materials, food, weapons and equipment all fall from the sky? We can recruit hundreds of thousands of people in the slums?"
Li Yinguang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Survival of the fittest, if we are the only ones recruiting refugees from the slums, it may not be a good thing for ourselves or the people in the slums."
Money can never be earned in full. If you only think about money, then you will become a slave to money.
“In addition to being brewed into ‘sugar water’, what else can brown sugar do?”
Listening to Li Yinguang's questions, everyone in the room shook their heads.
Li Yinguang smiled and said: "This is what we should think about. Products can solve many problems, especially the products that we control the core level. Sugar is just a basic food raw material, and the production technology is not high, so it will never
We can’t keep it in our hands forever!”
After a pause, he said softly: "Besides, the sugar company is not only ours. No matter how much money it makes, it must be divided among the major shareholders. How much can we have left? Only one-tenth!"
Sophia couldn't help but said: "What the city lord means is that the Castle Sugar Company is not very important?"
"No, it is very important, at least it is important to us at the moment, but no matter how important it is, it is not all ours, so there is no need for us to get angry in a hurry and wait and see what happens!" Li Yinguang said with a smile.
The sugar company is now large enough, with more than 3,000 people, hundreds of mechanical vehicles, a large number of excavation and mining equipment, and a sizable armored city. There is no need to expand wildly again, at least for now.
This scale is enough.
We are not afraid that competitors will appear, but we are afraid that someone will come in and mess around. Healthy competition in business is a good thing. Without competition, if one company dominates, it will more easily arouse everyone's suspicion.
If the Castle Sugar Company can earn five million silver cattle coins every year, and there are no competitors in Manbach Town, will the Lord's Palace be happy that such a company that can generate huge benefits is completely controlled by Li Yinguang?
I’m afraid not!
People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries. Things like interests should be collected when they should be received, and they should be given up when they should be given up.
"The reason for brewing 'sugar water' with brown sugar is because there is no substitute product and the technical content is too low. If we only rely on this, Gubao Sugar Company's future profits will be extremely limited!"
Li Yinguang's eyes flickered. He didn't want the sugar company to be killed, nor did he want it to be a dominant one, because most of the company's profits had been "given" to others, leaving him with only a small head.