While the seven representatives were still in a daze, Lin Qi continued speaking.
"I, the State Government, have never said that we were unwilling to raise wages. Some people deliberately twisted what we meant."
"And the reason they did that was so they could gain more for themselves!"
"Benefits squeezed out of you!"
The young men finally came to their senses. If they still couldn't understand plain speech at a time like this, they would never have been chosen as representatives.
Who was smart and who was foolish—the people outside knew that perfectly well. They would only choose intelligent people to represent them, not fools.
The changes in their expressions also proved that Lin Qi's words had reached their hearts.
One of them, who appeared to be the youngest, immediately asked, "Sir, I don't quite understand what you mean."
Lin Qi shook his head. "No, you understand. You're just unwilling to admit it."
"I told the people from the Labor Union before that we would satisfy reasonable demands."
"You think wages are too low and want them raised. Within a reasonable range, we have no reason to refuse."
"For ordinary laborers, there's no problem raising the wage from one sol and sixty cents to one sol and seventy-five cents. But if you want three sols or five sols, that's obviously impossible."
"Besides, we all know that even if we agreed to those people's demands and raised wages to three or five sols, would you really be able to get that money?"
That soul-searching question caused the expressions of all seven men to change even more.
In fact, their current wage was one sol and fifty cents—ten cents less than what Lin Qi had said.
Ten cents might not seem like much. Over a month, it amounted to only three sols,