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They had a mine... Oh, it was Zi Ji's character who had a mine. Ren Ziling knew that. And all of this was something she had obtained after blowing a strange horn.
Aunt Ren, who treated the game as nothing more than a game, did not feel that anything was wrong.
But she did not remember ever telling Qian Fugui that she wanted to purchase miners. Of course, since she had a mine, it was only natural that she would need people to dig it. But miners were not hired—they were bought... That was what she found difficult to understand.
"...In other words, the several mines under my name all use human slaves?" Aunt Ren could not help widening her eyes as she asked instinctively, "Then... how many miners are there in total?"
Qian Fugui said solemnly, "The Young Lady has three high-grade mines and ten medium-sized mines. As for the small mines, there are fewer—only four. At present, the human slave miners owned by our Four Seasons Trading Company number approximately one hundred and sixty thousand."
Aunt Ren immediately sucked in a breath of cold air.
She had originally thought that her role as Miss Zi Ji was that of a landlord... She had even prepared to charge headlong down the road to becoming a great landlord. But she had never expected her true identity to be that of a great slave owner. Clearly, she was still too young!
"...Since there are already more than a hundred thousand miners, why do we need to add more?" she asked instinctively.
Qian Fugui said, "Several mines have sent word that the ore has recently become more difficult to extract. There was also a mining accident, and one of the high-grade mines lost quite a few miners. If we do not