Little T: Do I Still Have a Chance of Getting a Full-Time Position in This Lifetime? / How to Use Money to Corrupt a Knight Who Can Dismantle Mechs?
Twenty thousand gold coins would be equivalent to about 130 million in Master Huang's previous life.
It's worth noting that the Shapeshifter worked for these pink-haired one siblings for half a century.
If we perform simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on the above data, the monthly salary for a thousand Shapeshifter would only be a little over 200.
If we include other uncounted Shapeshifter and those with even more extreme work intensity, the average monthly wage for this race is actually estimated to be just over 100.
Kazdel, though poor, was once a wealthy nation and is not entirely unknown internationally.
So this wage level is about right. It might have been considered high fifty years ago in Kazdel, but now it's really low.
Especially after receiving billions in subsidies from Master Huang, this salary level would be comparable to what Kazdel is today.
It's already a sign of his good temper that these vicious Sarkaz didn't stab their boss.
In the previous world of Master Huang, this salary level would have been enough to put a table with the unpaid probationary workers who were scapegoats.
Not to mention that they haven't raised salaries or even paid wages for half a century!
Not to mention that most of the time, the number of Shapeshifter involved in the work is not just a thousand.
This is a debt owed to this race for a full fifty years.
Teresis listened to the almost tearful accusations of the Shapeshifter Collective, she involuntarily took a step back.
This step is called shame.
Even Dukare couldn't help but express his disdain, saying that the brother and sister were simply inhuman.
It's fortunate that the Shapeshifter is single-minded, otherwise he would have already sided with Master Huang.
Actually, the Shapeshifter wanted to experience the joy of building a country, which is why she had been working so hard without complaint, but now she's tired of it.
She wanted to get her money back and then have a good time.
However, 20,000 gold coins is no small sum, Teresis had to ask her sister for permission.
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Chapter 196 Little Te: Do I still have a chance to become a full-fledged employee in this lifetime?
Sometimes feelings are like Seed that have reached their developmental stage. With the nourishment of fertilizer and rain, they grow rapidly and eventually bear fruit.
Theresia has started writing to the Speaker again because she has been challenging the Speaker far too many times.
From the original two months to one month, and then to half a month, she was always the one who was defeated.
Although she was defeated every time, Theresia had no complaints.
This situation is similar to that of a certain cat; it's hard to say who actually benefited.
"But why does the Speaker smell exactly the same as Kal'tsit's scent?"
Theresia was becoming increasingly suspicious, but Kal'tsit had previously told her that the nobleman she served was not the Speaker.
Or perhaps it's just some kind of strange coincidence.
Because even now, Theresia doesn't know what race the Speaker is.
All we know is that it is extremely powerful, and can even split itself...
"Perhaps I'll never have the chance in my entire life."
"After all, he is the high and mighty Speaker of Victoria, while I am just a Demon King of a small country whose former glory has vanished."
Theresia looked at her stunning face in the mirror, and she knew that even if the Speaker had feelings for her... no...
Perhaps the Speaker is just such a gentle and kind person; otherwise, even if I hadn't gotten this opportunity, someone else would have.
Everyone is the same; it's just that some people seem more pitiful than others.
If her the Speaker were merely a matter of money, Theresia wouldn't have any ulterior motives; in fact, she would feel ashamed and embarrassed.
However, she could feel the Speaker's gentleness towards her, a gentleness that could not be faked, and his teachings were particularly practical.
The country has become better as a result, that's a fact.
Their relationship isn't exactly normal right now, but Theresia doesn't feel any dissatisfaction.
Even if she had a tiny bit of hope in her heart, the difference in their status was like a chasm.
As the leader of a country, although his actions were all worthy of his people, if judged on a case-by-case basis, his behavior was ultimately subpar.
Unless she can be officially recognized as a member of the family in the future, there is absolutely no way she will expose this relationship to the public.
Therefore, this joy and pain could only be borne by the girl alone, but fortunately, the inner struggle had almost completely disappeared.
Because the Speaker was very kind to him and had done Kazdel a favor, unlike the foreigners who always wanted to take advantage of the country.
Foreigners would never offer any benefits, but the Speaker is different; he has almost completely reorganized the Kazdel economy, making it even better.
Like a great father, he led the country's economy to new heights in recent centuries.
"But I'm really unwilling... What if the Speaker doesn't need me anymore? Do I really have no choice but to give up?"
Theresia touched her lower abdomen and couldn't help but feel a sense of sorrow.
Relationships built on desire are always very fragile and cannot withstand the test of time.
Fantasizing about a pheasant turning into a phoenix—will this world really produce such a great wish-fulfillment story?
At this point, Theresia could no longer distinguish between interests and emotions.
Reason tells this Demon King that all of this should just be a transaction of interests, without any emotion involved.
But her body and actual feelings told her that there was more to it than just profit...
The speaker, played by Huang Cao, has completely integrated into Theresia's spirit.
Only sincerity can be reciprocated with sincerity. Everything that Huang Cao did was truly for the development of Kazdel; he completely treated this country as his second base.
In just one year, the Speaker's resource support for Kazdel was comparable to Theresia's nearly fifty years of development of the country.
After all, this is a subsidy of tens of billions!
How much money could Kazdel earn before?
It's been over seventy years since Theresia took office, and it's questionable whether the country's total GDP even reaches one million gold coins.
Now that Master Huang has launched a 10 billion yuan subsidy project, he doesn't need to worry about future development at all.
In every respect, this subsidy opened the door to new opportunities.
One knocked on Theresia's door, the other on Kazdel's.
And the actual owners of both doors are quite happy.
However, the trade-off is that Master Huang has been under a lot of work pressure lately.
Kazdel's environment is far more complex than that of other countries. Although the whole nation is united, idealism is one thing, and the real predicament will not be completely changed by unity.
Do you really think that the administrative policies that were previously told to the pink-haired one were just something that Master Huang came up with on a whim?
At the time, Master Huang was enjoying the game and didn't have time to think about these things; he had planned them all in advance.
He worked tirelessly through the night to devise a strategy that would truly be useful to the country.
However, Huang Cao completed the entire plan for Kazdel's future over the next hundred years in just one month, a level of insight and wisdom that is extremely rare.
At least for now, no monarch on this land can compare to him.
They've truly planned out all the Sarkaz's escape routes; as long as things move quickly in the future, something as foolish as a civil war won't happen.
The Sarkaz's millennia-long grudge could finally be fully vented under Master Huang's arrangement.
Hatred is not necessarily evil; it can also be a form of justice.
If we can transform the hatred of the Sarkaz into the glory of victory, we can avoid a massacre.
It's a very simple thing, but it's also the most difficult. The downside is that you can't lose any battles along the way; if you lose one, the national hatred will explode completely.
Theresia understood this, but she was unwilling to do it because it conflicted with her ideals.
But even she didn't expect that her relationship with the Speaker would last for a very long time.
Until she was betrayed and the truth shattered.
Meanwhile, Huang Cao was still playing with Młynar, who was an infant, inside the room.
Consider it a good way to get used to life with a baby, but good times are always short-lived.
After Huang Cao has dealt with the future of Kazdel, he needs to turn his attention to other countries that he has not yet conquered.
He was determined to pick the softest persimmon, and his next move was to set his sights on Kazimierz, which was in the nascent stage of capitalism.
At this time, Knight's Glory had not yet been put on the market by capital.
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Chapter 197: On how to use money to corrupt a knight who can dismantle a mech?
In the future, the knightly class of Kazimierz will be reduced to mere playthings for people to laugh at.
Glory has been turned into money, and only the Campaign Knight still remember their former glory.
There are advantages and disadvantages. At least in terms of its system, Kazimierz is indeed far ahead of other countries, and the lives of ordinary people are also very colorful.
Of course, class conflict remains prominent. If Kazimierz were truly a land of plenty, this country wouldn't appear in the story.
Infected individuals were placed under unified management, and they were responsible for almost all the dirty and strenuous work.
The development of Originium Arts continues to create more infected individuals, and due to the rampant development of capitalism, many professional knights who belong to capital have not received protection.
Take, for example, the Farmland in the story.
Her parents died on the battlefield, but their children did not receive social security in Kazimierz and eventually fell to the bottom of society.
What a tragedy this is!
That's why Huang Cao called this kind of capitalism barbaric. No matter what the governing philosophy is, it will eventually improve and change.
Even a country across the ocean in my previous life, no matter how wealthy, would usually provide for the soldiers' escape routes, although most of the time, due to Commissioner Smith, a lot of money was not distributed to where it should have been distributed.
But it's disheartening that Kazimierz isn't even willing to do paper data.
Kazimierz's prosperity was hidden beneath a crisis; it was merely a transfer of one contradiction to another.
Moreover, it's not that advanced. The ancient feudal knights and nobles still exist. These classes, relying on their bloodline and resource advantages, can quickly accumulate wealth that ordinary people can't imagine, even if they are thrown into the cruel arena.
But the present is the present, and the future is the future.
Kazimierz is currently experiencing a period of rapid capital development, and both its economic and military systems are continuations of previous ones.
The only difference is that this country currently does not have an emperor; it is a federal state, with the affairs of the country being managed by the Great Knight Families and merchants.
Social conflicts weren't particularly acute, since, given their privileged family backgrounds, knights preferred to use spiritual means to demonstrate their nobility.
This is naturally a good thing for the people below. After all, compared to other countries, who would hate Noble Lord who occasionally waives their rent?
But what is the cost of all this?
The cost is that the current Kazimierz knightly class is rapidly declining, and a vast and chaotic barbaric capitalism is gradually spreading throughout the country.
Noble knights are often easily defeated and rendered helpless when facing evil.
The evil knight, who never treated serfs as human beings, colluded with a powerful capitalist group.
The knights who upheld their principles were squeezed out and eventually had to hand over their land under various influences.
The nobility here refers to the nobility that is appropriate for the knightly class. They are not really great philanthropists. After all, every high-ranking knight in Kazimierz owns a piece of land, and there are serfs cultivating the land.
Without the support of these serfs, it would be impossible for knights to be noble and elegant.
At the same time, the fate of the serfs living on this land was also surrendered.
They used to be doing alright, but now they've completely become tools for others to make money.
The primitive accumulation of capital can never escape the word "bloodshed".
In particular, various countries are developing the Originium industry, and in Kazimierz, some people have even moved their castles to the moving landmass.
Mobile land parcels are the prototype of Mobile City.